What I think is crazy, is how many of the guys playing this game are against NTR (me included) There was a definite time in the game that I was just going to delete it because of Lacey's BS. But I found myself pushing through this because of the long and drawn-out Mia story. How was she always there to get these pictures anyway.
This is one of the situations where you need to activate your porn logic emergency button.
The Mia documentary is...lets say a plot device, pretty crude tbh but it does the job.
Mia - Why is a practical virgin pushing Lacey into all of these sexual situations and F-ing her up more - some BFF - This is the one thing that I have the most issues with, no one actually helped Lacey, just pushed her further and further into it.
Absolutely even if we accept the fact that Mia was helping her to try the things that Lacey "missed out on", gangbangs are usually not in the "let's help this traumatized girl" handbook.
Plus Lacey describes most of the sex as abusive and hard on her.
Mia is literaly a monster, that used Lacey as a toy for 2 years, but hey she's 'funny' right? Lets keep her around.
She admits that Lacey came back desperate and crying every time and Lacey admits that she wanted to please Mia, her only friend, so she went through with her suggestions.
Even when Mia says she understood Lacey was a broken shell of a girl she still pimps her out to Isaac.
Because that is what it was, pimping a naive brain damaged trauma filled girl.
The author dropped the ball on this, or at least on the Mia redemption arc, but it seems he has a big issue with making his female characters face consequences.
If you want I can bash Mia for hours, just let me know.
Lacey - I like the MC have forgiven her many times in my mind. I certainly hope if she is cheating or pushing for the open relationship just so she can be with other guys, the MC can leave her. UUMMM, I'm not opposed to MC having a harem.
Look, at the cost of repeating myself for the 1 millionth time, Lacey fucks up and is VERY self centered and selfish in her actions.
She does the thing that at the moment brings her the most satisfaction, no matter the consequences.
Honestly, her brain damage is written in a bit of cartoonish way, but it is not completely unbelievalbe, granted how a person like this can actually keep a job is very weird.
She never misses a day or a deadline even if from what we are told she shouldn't be able to deal with the pressure or the commitment.
Why is she obedient and non confrontational to the point of submission with everyone except MC?
But I have to say that she cares about MC deeply and will allow him to have said harem and to have all sorts of fun.
MC will be able to choose between some LIs (I don't know if all of them will be available at the same time) and share Lacey and those LIs, probably in threesomes (maybe Lacey in some shitty cuck scenarios idk people are sick).
MC - Man up man, but he does realize the her college life happened and they were not together or ever promised to be together during that time. But the cheating thing is practically unforgivable. Not into being Cucked.
I just went through one of the last discussions that MC has with Mia.
Mia keeps on pointing out that the problem is that Lacey had pleasurable sex with other men during college.
BZZZZT WRONG.
The actual problem MC had was being abandoned, come on we are not at elementary school where to have a relationship you need to write on a piece of paper "want to be my gf yes or no?" .
You can have relationships without telling each other that you are bf and gf.
In fact, Lacey disagrees with you, I don't know at what part of the game you are, so I won't spoil, but she definitely disagrees with your statement.
She makes some BIG statements towards the end that actually put a lot of blame on herself and clears this part about whether they where in a relationship or not.
And there, we have to assume she is telling the truth, first of all because she doesn't gain anything from the conversation and on a close second because it is a very emotional moment for the couple, none of them has anything to lose anymore.
The big elephant in the room is the fact that Lacey selfishly abandoned MC to go and 'find herself' without a word or an explanation that would allow MC to get closure and move on.
He got ghosted for four years, from a girl he knew (rightfully so, as we discover later) needed him like fish need water, a girl he dedicated his life to protect and nurture.
He stayed faithful to the relationship they had because without closure it never ended.
Was he harming himself in doing so? sure!
Should he have moved on and forget about her? yep, that would have been for the best.
Some things tho, really stay with you, I still think of the kids I helped when I was volunteering in the balkans after the war and that was for a few months, I cannot imagine how it would be for someone spending every waking hour for 13 years.
And even after all this, Mia paints him as the bad guy and the reason why Lacey lies constantly or why her brain damage is flaring.
The worst part is that MC drinks that up like it is milk in the morning and starts blaming himself for everything while bouncing his ass on a traffic cone sized butt plug.
That is where he should have a spine and understand that his feelings have value and need to be validated by the people around him, his friends and wife.
Not all of them are correct, he is wrong in being jealous of Anna and Mia, understandable for a man that made loneliness his trademark, stil wrong and unhealthy
Wedding Night - I had guessed at that time during the events that something was up and her being so good at sex "for the first time". But not what came about
I mean the first few lines in the game already give it away don't they?
Jealousy - She loves him getting jealous over her actions during the jealousy date because she now has someone who really cares for her. My thoughts anyway
Yes you are right, she says so herself, but she is also a bit of a drama queen, she enjoys all the strong emotions that she can suck off MC.
It coud actually be a nice dynamic if the author doesn't force his hand.
I really hope that this game does not go to NTR because i see it heading that way with the jealousy date, if you take the "let them continue thing", oh and why would she actually continue with what happened if you continued, during that jealousy date if she really wanted to fix things. That really was a huge step backwards in my book. I know she was trying to get MC to stop her because she was getting worked up by him getting jealous.
Yes the last scene was an abysmal blunder.
The jealousy date is written as an emotional growth for MC and it couldn't be more deadpan.
MC does this for Lacey but magically starts to enjoy it because we need to keep a cuck path open I guess.
This supposedly shows us that sex is just sex for Lacey (she actually complains to Mc that she doesn't want to be shared with other men) but then she is super into it to the point that she brings a webcam to have her private show.
This should also show that MC is the one that will be in control but then control is taken away from him.
Honestly the only 'reasonable' outcome is the kiss and stop, especially because they agree that Lacey is disusting for doing the deed with Morty.
I will try and remove your fears about the NTR, the whole lot of NTR here is always tied to misunderstandings.
The biggest mistake (Damian) is also a new addition, there were some scrapped paths where it wouldn't happen.
Lacey in her own fucked up way wil do what MC will make her do and doesn't want to leave MC at any cost, her life is on the line.
In one of the paths MC plans to manipulate Lacey and her brain damage, referring to Jared and Evan as amateurs.
I like both the punish and slut/bimbo path, but the best one for content and actual emotional growth is the slut/bimbo.
Again not knowing where you are in the game I won't spoil why.