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I kind of have the feeling that this event is significant enough to send the game spinning in a whole other direction. Not only is the MC bound to be unable to continue protecting the family because he is likely going to be spending some quality time in handcuffs, but there isn't going to be any way to continue to pretend that they aren't all in danger, in deep shit, and completely fucked all at once. The basic plot setup (MC is getting close to the family as they struggle against him to go about their normal day while he surreptitiously keeps an eye out for a lone stalker) is completely shattered and was built on a lie in the first place. So some other plot is going to take its place. My thought is that it might be a bit of a legal thriller for a spell. The MC may ultimately be exonerated, but he will probably be arrested and may be remanded to custody for some time. In the tender care of crooked cops, he may be the recipient of some not-so-subtle attempts at intimidation and abuse. In short, it may be a pretty rough update. In addition, the girls will have to interrogate their relationship with the MC in terms of him suddenly and unexpectedly becoming a negative space in their life and their ensuing vulnerability because of it. All of this might not serve to result in sex scenes with hard anal unless the prison scenes go horribly awry, but I do think that there is a possibility to push all the relationships forward in a dramatic fashion.I think in the next update there will be a lot of progress in the story, thanks to the avalanche this update set in motion. No more fangirling about that douchebag, finally. (and slowly but surely we get a bit closer to show Suzy hard anal sex.
I think there will be a Deus Ex Machina part, in a way it is a nor brainer thanks to the introduction of the FBI chick.
It would be a tremendous missed opportunity storywise, but sometimes you gotta dance with who brung ya.
I mean it wasnt a boring story at all, its just everything but a porngame lmao
For the reasons I've explained in my half dozen comments since this update dropped, your expectations of handcuffs, while not impossible, is premature. Unless Charlotte abandons him, the MC isn't going to spend more that a night in jail if that. I hate to be pedantic, but killing a psychopathic murderer who's targeting you and those you're hired to protect and you're trying to subdue is self defense, cop or not. Pure and simple. If Charlotte throws her support behind the MC in terms of legal representation and the press he walks as a hero.
While I find your naive optimism adorable I do think that we are gonna have to agree to disagree at some point because thus far your arguments have left me unmoved. I will hold to my pessimism and my distrust of the corrupt people in power in this fictional world where there hasn't been any justice so far and I frankly don't see any on the horizon.
"Blood for the blood God, skulls for the skull throne"
I am probably a minority saying this, but I really hope Charlotte doesn't "fuck the shit out of him", but they make love to each other.
You believe that people in power, whether from wealth, celebrity, or political power, or any combination of the three enjoy special access and privilege when dealing with the legal system, and those without that access get screwed. I happen to agree. What we disagree on is whether or not Charlotte is in one or more of those groups and will extend that access to the MC. I've made the case that Charlotte is, pretty much by definition a member of the privileged class.
I would like to be on your side in this, and, in fact, I have been on your side on this. But I just remembered what happened with Charlotte's last interaction with the powers in Hillside. You remember, a few years? ago that Charlotte got the crap beat out of her on a public street here. She almost died. And what happened to the attacker? Essentially nothing. He disappeared from town and stopped his acting career. I'm afraid that we can't count on Charlotte's star value in this town.
Points well made. However, there are a couple of differences. Charlotte never pursued justice for what happened to her. In fact she largely hid what happened to her. This event didn't just happen to her. It happened to her daughter and her in a more peripheral fashion. No one knows what would have happened if Charlotte had gone public with her beating and the details of who was involved. She chose not to confront those forces, but she felt that she only needed to be concerned with the threat to herself. Now she has to be concerned with the threat to Emma, herself, and the MC and possibly to Lucy and Suzi. Plus we've seen Charlotte BEGIN to toughen up. She doesn't feel as alone, with only Lucy for limited support. She's getting support from the MC. Plus she feels the commitment that the MC had to protect the "other" Emma. A commitment she shared and a desire for the MC and her to finally get justice for that murdered woman.
Your real-life analysis is correct. There would be no charges. It's a clear-cut case of self-defense and/or defense of another. Even in the most restrictive jurisdictions (e.g., those that require a relationship between the parties, satisfied here by the bodyguard relationship), defense of another would apply. Assuming Emma will testify she was in fear for her life, there will be no charges.
It really doesn't matter how deep the corruption goes unless it is so deep that they are willing to kill both Emma and Charlotte. Given the eyewitness testimony in this case -- i.e., Emma describing Carter's knife to her throat and express murderous intent -- no DA would be willing to go to trial. It would be irrational to do so, and to the extent the DA is corrupt, doing so would raise red flags. It would be far more likely that the DA, even if corrupt, would look at their own self-preservation and decide Carter had it coming for screwing up. The DA's office and the police are closely related, but they aren't the same thing.
