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As you say it is down to looks, and there's nothing wrong with that. If for example you had the choice of three girls who all behaved the same way towards you then of course you'd dismiss the girl who looked the worse, why should it be any different for the girl choosing? The beach event does appear to be canon, and again I have no problem with that, if an MC is playing the field then the NPCs have the right to do that too. The question is how far Val will go if the MC is being faithful to her. While I appreciate the realism this brings it is treading a fine line that Nyx will have to be careful with. As frustrating as it is to say I feel she'll be given less leeway on this because of the race of the characters she's chosen. If Darryl was white she'd have more room to develop this route than she'll have at this point.Why would she be interested in Darryl then? They are both creeps, same with MC if you play him that way, hence my snide at 'sexual harassment only when ugly'
So far on her route she still goes to the beach with Darryl and co, the player just doesn't see it. And taking the discord comments into consideration, I feel its fair to assume that the beach event is cannon, since Valeria is supposedly playing the field.
Not sure if she has the balls to go through with it, at least not the way first impressions would lead us to believe. She had chickened out of controversial content before. Even if we are to assume that that is the endgame for Valeria, in case you don't pick her, Darryl has to make a 180, or Valeria has to sunk even lower until it makes sense for them to be together by the end.
Layla route gives a bit more depth to Darryl, but I feel its too little, to late.
Judging by the discord comments Nyx is trying to wind up certain types of players, it would be easy to go too far with that and alienate other players too, for that reason I think she'll pull back from this route in the next episode and have Val tell Darryl to fuck off if you're on her route and have all interactions between them off-screen if not on Val's route.