VN Ren'Py Love & Jealousy [Act 3] [Professor Amethyst Games]

[DeviantFun]

I also wondered this question.
and here two very interesting topic for thought

Spoiler: ketamine

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Which category does Lacey fall into?

and the second question follows from the first,

Where did she get the money for the medicine, although I probably don’t want to know

None, she is fictional and her damage is fictional, to reach the damage you described you need high quantities constantly assumed for the whole period of time, last time I checked it was between 2 and 3 grams.
Even though the author probably wanted to paint the first case 1-2 year usage.

With 1 gram I can assure you, you're properly fucked up.
K is not like coke, where "it calls for more" constantly, the "satisfaction" can last quite a bit.
(forgive my english skills here, I really don't know how to explain it better).

I've decided to drop any sort of search of realism in that, also for the monetary part.
Ok, I know my information are severely outdated and the price would change by country/area, but it would still be huge amount of money for a college student.

It is a shame tho, one of the collateral effect on long term use is poor bladder control which is obviously not a fetish of mine.

I honestly don't analyse the game too much... it's kinda unique in a way, you rarely see someone approach stuff like this. At this point it's clear he isn't planning to get rich off of these. And that's fine. But I still "like" it. Not in the traditional sense. But it's kinda refreshing to play something like that after the nth typical ntr/corruption game. Is it weird, sure, but kinda awesome at the same time. I don't think the dev wants to accomplish anything per se, he is a small fish in AVNs, I think he just has a really fucked way of thinking and he lets it out by making the stories he tells. All good by me. They are far from perfect, but they are entertaining.

Hey I never said I didn't like it, I like it a lot, have you seen how much I post about it?
I agree with your points. it is just the feeling of missed potential that irks me a bit.

EDIT:
Just to clarify more about what I mean by missed potential, in act 2 I almost don't care about the plotline, sure big bads, lets guess the monster etc.
What I am looking at is Lacey, I am self inserting almost, I see how much she fucked up and how she isn't able to give ANYTHING to MC outside of BJs, some roleplay and the occasional bottle of wine in the bum.

Not even a quiet week, a small party for his promotion or a happy memory of hanging out with some friends.
Nothing, her love is great but bare, it is always the same thing MC is happy to be there for her, but she can't be there for him, she never was.

Not when they were kids, not when they were growing into young adults making their first experiences in the world and not now.
She tries, she scrapes but she fucked up her life, herself and the man she loves (the jury is still out on that I know) so much that every attempt, no matter how outlandish or tame, ends in a failure that damages the situation even more.

But everything that happens to her is deserved, there is no Manzonian Divine providence to come and solve the situation, just her endless struggle to try and be the best version of herself, which at this point could still be a toxic, useless and damaged person that can draw very well.

THAT is what I am interested about, THAT is the plot point that could keep on giving and it is why Lacey in Act 2 speaks to me.

MC is already a simple witness in this story, he doesn't take action, he struggles sometimes but always too little and too late.
Those 1460 days are on Lacey, sure 100%, but he didn't grab her at the subway station, he did nothing to avoid her leaving.
To me MC is a cardbaord character whose only trait is PTSD and victimhood (he is a victim, not denying that).

The fucking pimp has more characterization than him and acts more than him.

So, the point I am making here is: there are a lot of ingredients to explore emotions and reactions, we don't need the constant shock value or underhanded tactics, sure some spice is fine here and there.
It keeps the game interesting.

But notice on how much more interested people are on uncovering the lies, the real intentions, the real emotions compared to what Will is fucking doing.
THAT is the missed potential.

 

[Chaoticjustice]

I have no idea how art degree works, especially in another country. I guess being really good at art stuff helps. And its been said that Lacey is really good. Besides, was she drugged for years ? Mia started corrupting her in 3rd year. Later is very vague, she cleaned up her act somewhat before her last hurrah. I got the impression that majority of debauchery was on weekends. Anyway if author said she graduated then she graduated idc

I've actually been thinking about the art degree well her art/job , after such a heavy addiction to both k and booze , surely she would have the most unsteady hands going

That with the memory loss and everything else tied to the brain damage it has me thinking how the fuck is she so good at her job then

Now I would imagine it's likely to be an oversight in the story , but if it isn't it doesn't add up

Because at face value it only seems to affect her when it's beneficial to her

 

[Elduriel]

I've actually been thinking about the art degree well her art/job , after such a heavy addiction to both k and booze , surely she would have the most unsteady hands going

That with the memory loss and everything else tied to the brain damage it has me thinking how the fuck is she so good at her job then

Now I would imagine it's likely to be an oversight in the story , but if it isn't it doesn't add up

Because at face value it only seems to affect her when it's beneficial to her

addiction is a bitch... but when you are on shit that's your default, and you aren't getting the shakes or whatever... that comes with withdrawal. There are functioning addicts. And memory loss doesn't equal to losing your artistic skills (I think)

 

[anongamer1983]

I agree with what you are saying. We only disagree on one thing. I believe Lacey discovered "the reset" much earlier. And I want to know what the hell really happened on that day.

Not to be that guy, but I did specifically state in my comment that I thought it was possible that Lacey had discovered it earlier. I mentioned the dry heaving with Christine/MC in it because that could explain her dry heaving during the phone call.

I'm not saying that she did discover the reset on that day, just that it's still possible she did.

However, I will die on the hill that she wasn't under the full influence of ketamine during the call. The dry heaving/throwing up may not have been due to withdrawals (as mentioned with how characters throw up a lot when they are disgusted with themselves). The reason I will die on the hill is that we say how loopy and completely unaware she was the 2 times that MC saw her on ketamine. The phone call didn't resemble that at all

 

[anongamer1983]

I will say that this story is already like a top 3 AVN for me. I don't think I've ever been this intrigued by a game on here. To be fair, I think I've only been on this site for like a year or something like that, but still.

And for a lot of people who call this game standard NTR, I don't think it's like many others. Most NTR games are a path to corruption where MC loses it all by the end (there are many with happy paths, but then the focus is usually on the MC actively preventing NTR, and there's nowhere near the level of characterization in them). In most NTR games I've played, there's always an escalation of "oh, I can't believe they did this" -> "Oh, that actually feels good" -> "It might be better than my love's" -> "I've never felt so good" -> "put a baby in me now and I'll leave my love!". Like, traditional NTR is Love Interest's Love for MC gradually drops

In this game, Lacey never seems like she's falling out of love with MC. In fact, the severity of her decisions drives her to try to do better and go to therapy. If anything, it's like she seems to love the MC more and more (which is backed up by that her love for you doesn't decrease, only your good guy points if you are playing the bad ending route).

Does it have NTR? Yes. Is Lacey falling out of love with MC? No. Do I believe that Lacey will do more NTR actions in the future? I don't know, but if it was a standard NTR game, then it'd be a definite yes

 

[Badboll]

Actually MC would know Lacey's dad's voice. The father already has a motive, perhaps and pardon my French; He's been using Lacey to make porn since she was a kid and therefore would see the benefit of working with a sleazebag like Will to make this happen again.

I don't remember there being dialogue about the dad actually doing anything sexual to her, but I don't really remember much about what happened to her in her childhood.
Was there really dialogue in the game that said the dad made kid pron with her or did anything with her at all?
Given what I do remember he did stuff to her for sure and the mom was abusive but I don't really remember any specifics.
Not that the dev could show any of it anyway. Also think patreon would have issues with it even being talked about snowflakes that they are..

 

[Badboll]

But notice on how much more interested people are on uncovering the lies, the real intentions, the real emotions compared to what Will is fucking doing.
THAT is the missed potential.

True, I have zero interest in will, he's an even dumber character than Jared and that cuck stuff with Jared was not good.
I mean it was satisfying that he had a small cock and he found out the MC is bigger and better than him.
But he shouldn't like it. He should have been broken by it instead.
Will on the other hand he's a loser, he looks like a loser, he acts like a loser and his GF is weird for staying with him.
He's just a pawn in someone elses game. And so is the landlord most likely, this whole film studio porn thing with the 3 main girls is an absurd idea at best.

 

[EumenestheGood]

I will say that this story is already like a top 3 AVN for me. I don't think I've ever been this intrigued by a game on here. To be fair, I think I've only been on this site for like a year or something like that, but still.

And for a lot of people who call this game standard NTR, I don't think it's like many others. Most NTR games are a path to corruption where MC loses it all by the end (there are many with happy paths, but then the focus is usually on the MC actively preventing NTR, and there's nowhere near the level of characterization in them). In most NTR games I've played, there's always an escalation of "oh, I can't believe they did this" -> "Oh, that actually feels good" -> "It might be better than my love's" -> "I've never felt so good" -> "put a baby in me now and I'll leave my love!". Like, traditional NTR is Love Interest's Love for MC gradually drops

In this game, Lacey never seems like she's falling out of love with MC. In fact, the severity of her decisions drives her to try to do better and go to therapy. If anything, it's like she seems to love the MC more and more (which is backed up by that her love for you doesn't decrease, only your good guy points if you are playing the bad ending route).

Does it have NTR? Yes. Is Lacey falling out of love with MC? No. Do I believe that Lacey will do more NTR actions in the future? I don't know, but if it was a standard NTR game, then it'd be a definite yes

Very well said. I've noticed that there are some pretty cynical takes on charactars and the story in this thread. And well this game is an NTR story, I think at its heart it is a deeply optimistic love story about how people can come together. truly see and support one another through hard times, and overcome their trauma.

Lacey, the Mc, Mia, and Isaac among others have all grown and become better people over the course of the story. And they have done so not only by reflecting internally and confronting how their trauma, pain, and mistakes have not only hurt themselves but those around them as well. But also by being brave enough to communicate openly, and trust others enough to lean on them.

You can drown alone in an ocean of oil and rust. But if you trust others enough to be open with them no matter how painful it might be then friends, lovers, and even former enemies can help you swim.

 

[unknowncutie]

This game needs a gallery option

This is needed badly.

 

[cesc432]

god i almost cried at the start of act 2 in the hot tub.
i do have PTSD as well and i'm struggling a lot with abandonment issues and i don't know if i should delete the game right now or keep playing with it because it feels "real" what he is feeling.

its so hard to watch and feel these things and weirdly getting turned on by it

 

[cesc432]

Very well said. I've noticed that there are some pretty cynical takes on charactars and the story in this thread. And well this game is an NTR story, I think at its heart it is a deeply optimistic love story about how people can come together. truly see and support one another through hard times, and overcome their trauma.

Lacey, the Mc, Mia, and Isaac among others have all grown and become better people over the course of the story. And they have done so not only by reflecting internally and confronting how their trauma, pain, and mistakes have not only hurt themselves but those around them as well. But also by being brave enough to communicate openly, and trust others enough to lean on them.

You can drown alone in an ocean of oil and rust. But if you trust others enough to be open with them no matter how painful it might be then friends, lovers, and even former enemies can help you swim.

And every time i read about their problems in the game i'm baffled how just one of them goes to therapy. every single one of them needs therapy.

 

[DeviantFun]

True, I have zero interest in will, he's an even dumber character than Jared and that cuck stuff with Jared was not good.
I mean it was satisfying that he had a small cock and he found out the MC is bigger and better than him.
But he shouldn't like it. He should have been broken by it instead.
Will on the other hand he's a loser, he looks like a loser, he acts like a loser and his GF is weird for staying with him.
He's just a pawn in someone elses game. And so is the landlord most likely, this whole film studio porn thing with the 3 main girls is an absurd idea at best.

I realized I might have sounded very harsh in my comment.
In the end it is the Author story and he needs to make his idea come to life, not mine or whatever the "audience" want.
Yet, I still hope it will be taken as constructive input, as this is my favourite game on here by far and my passion for it drips in my comments I guess.

I used Will as a scapegoat.
Will, Barty the evil landlord from hell, *insert any big villain*, none of them will be more interesting to me than the whole "facing your mistakes" angle.
Between all the outlandish stuff, such as "Jared is now a cuck" which in the end is fine, I didn't like it completely but it was the happy ending to a grueling storyline, it is fine to have some lightness here and there, the most outllandish thing and it is really the thing I truly dislike about the story, like really dislike, is the treatment of the pimp.

In no crazy or sane world she woulld be kept around and forgiven like that.
Here Lacey is doing probably one of the most selfish things she could ever have done, keeping her past and her abuser around no matter how much it hurts MC.
I hope that in the future it will be explored more and we can see a bit more than "omg I feel so guilty" without any repercussions.
Look, it is fine, Lacey might not even be angry at her but she should be mindful of what she represents and simply cut contact, due to her past but also considering all she has done until now.
In act 2 the dialogues touch way more in that direction compared to act 1, still I don't see action behind it, just some croc tears and some fake guilt thrown around.
Why do I say it is fake guilt? If you think you ruined a person life (actually 2 people's life), if you had ANY morals or integrity, would you keep being around them? Or try to interfere with their life? The answer is no, you would shut the fuck up and leave them space.

I really want the past explored, if you want to become clean, you need to be thorough and go for the hard reaching spots.
I am not hoping that we find a magical reason for what Lacey has done, we already know the reason, she wanted to.
And that is final, it is deafening there is no coming back or nice explanation.
No matter the trauma, no matter the abuse, no matter the inflluence from the pimp she wanted to do her stuff and by association hurt MC, she knew what her behaviour entailed, she just did it.

You can't come back from that.

 

[mariorossi69cm]

I realized I might have sounded very harsh in my comment.
In the end it is the Author story and he needs to make his idea come to life, not mine or whatever the "audience" want.
Yet, I still hope it will be taken as constructive input, as this is my favourite game on here by far and my passion for it drips in my comments I guess.

I used Will as a scapegoat.
Will, Barty the evil landlord from hell, *insert any big villain*, none of them will be more interesting to me than the whole "facing your mistakes" angle.
Between all the outlandish stuff, such as "Jared is now a cuck" which in the end is fine, I didn't like it completely but it was the happy ending to a grueling storyline, it is fine to have some lightness here and there, the most outllandish thing and it is really the thing I truly dislike about the story, like really dislike, is the treatment of the pimp.

In no crazy or sane world she woulld be kept around and forgiven like that.
Here Lacey is doing probably one of the most selfish things she could ever have done, keeping her past and her abuser around no matter how much it hurts MC.
I hope that in the future it will be explored more and we can see a bit more than "omg I feel so guilty" without any repercussions.
Look, it is fine, Lacey might not even be angry at her but she should be mindful of what she represents and simply cut contact, due to her past but also considering all she has done until now.
In act 2 the dialogues touch way more in that direction compared to act 1, still I don't see action behind it, just some croc tears and some fake guilt thrown around.
Why do I say it is fake guilt? If you think you ruined a person life (actually 2 people's life), if you had ANY morals or integrity, would you keep being around them? Or try to interfere with their life? The answer is no, you would shut the fuck up and leave them space.

I really want the past explored, if you want to become clean, you need to be thorough and go for the hard reaching spots.
I am not hoping that we find a magical reason for what Lacey has done, we already know the reason, she wanted to.
And that is final, it is deafening there is no coming back or nice explanation.
No matter the trauma, no matter the abuse, no matter the inflluence from the pimp she wanted to do her stuff and by association hurt MC, she knew what her behaviour entailed, she just did it.

You can't come back from that.

Don't forget that lacey forgive mia after she tryed to take mc away from her. Something completly impossible for lacey to do, and MC is at least surprised about that. So maybe there's also between mia and lacey in the background that we don't know yet.

 

[DeviantFun]

Don't forget that lacey forgive mia after she tryed to take mc away from her. Something completly impossible for lacey to do, and MC is at least surprised about that. So maybe there's also between mia and lacey in the background that we don't know yet.

I don't think so, Lacey, just like MC, is shown to be compassionate and forgiving.
They both forgave Veronica in a heartbeat as well.

Lacey might not even consider the pimp as an actual pimp as she is taking full on responsability for her past, which is the right thing to do but you should recognize who hurt you and who you should keep at bay.

It doesn't make much sense, but we have a story with MC helping Isaac and where repercussions for any female character is absolutely impossible, this has to be accepted I guess.

If we look at it from Lacey's eyes:
The pimp tried to separate her and MC during the whole college run.
She hated MC and Lacey sided with her, realizing too late that it was the case.
Then she tried to break up their marriage and treated MC extremely poorly, way worse than Isaac did, FOR MONTHS.
Then tried to break her marriage by bringing Kelly in.
Then tried to break her marriage again by hurting MC again and trying to remove her own guilt (look look Lacey liked it, I am not a monster)
Then she tried to make Lacey relapse on K.

Ok let's assume Lacey is too far gone to even do a simple operation like 1+1, but MC saw the K part happening yet he does nothing.
Not a warning, not even a stern talk, just a whimpy "ohhh I won't agry at you forever".
FUCK. YOU.

What if Lacey relapsed for real? What if her brain damage got worse? Do you love this woman or not? Or maybe it is fine if she's damaged as long as she dresses slutty and sucks dick? Where is the protective instinct he is so famous about (still M.I.A. in the game btw)?
MC is very capable of hate and resentment, but the pimp, being of the opposite gender cannot be a target of such emotions.

 

[mariorossi69cm]

I don't think so, Lacey, just like MC, is shown to be compassionate and forgiving.
They both forgave Veronica in a heartbeat as well.

Lacey might not even consider the pimp as an actual pimp as she is taking full on responsability for her past, which is the right thing to do but you should recognize who hurt you and who you should keep at bay.

It doesn't make much sense, but we have a story with MC helping Isaac and where repercussions for any woman character is absolutely impossible, this has to be accepted I guess.

If we look at it from Lacey's eyes:
The pimp tried to separate her and MC during the whole college run.
She hated MC and Lacey sided with her, realizing too late that it was the case.
Then she tried to break up their marriage and treated MC extremely poorly, why worse than Isaac did, FOR MONTHS.
Then tried to break her marriage by bringing Kelly in.
Then tried to break her marriage again by hurting MC again and trying to remove her own guilt (look look Lacey liked it, I am not a monster)
Then she tried to make Lacey relapse on K.

Ok let's assume Lacey is too far gone to even do a simple operation like 1+1, but MC saw the K part happening yet he does nothing.
Not a warning, not even a stern talk, just a whimpy "ohhh I won't agry at you forever".
FUCK. YOU.

What if Lacey relapsed for real? What if her brain damage got worse? Do you love this woman or not? Or maybe it is fine if she's damaged as long as she dresses slutty and sucks dick? Where is the protective instinct he is so famous about (still M.I.A. in the game btw)?
MC is very capable of hate and resentment, but the pimp, being of the opposite gender cannot be a target of such emotions.

Yeah maybe they (mc and lacey) are both so submissive and forgiving to mia that they're not realising how sick she is.

 

[AL.d]

I will say that this story is already like a top 3 AVN for me. I don't think I've ever been this intrigued by a game on here. To be fair, I think I've only been on this site for like a year or something like that, but still.

And for a lot of people who call this game standard NTR, I don't think it's like many others. Most NTR games are a path to corruption where MC loses it all by the end (there are many with happy paths, but then the focus is usually on the MC actively preventing NTR, and there's nowhere near the level of characterization in them). In most NTR games I've played, there's always an escalation of "oh, I can't believe they did this" -> "Oh, that actually feels good" -> "It might be better than my love's" -> "I've never felt so good" -> "put a baby in me now and I'll leave my love!". Like, traditional NTR is Love Interest's Love for MC gradually drops

In this game, Lacey never seems like she's falling out of love with MC. In fact, the severity of her decisions drives her to try to do better and go to therapy. If anything, it's like she seems to love the MC more and more (which is backed up by that her love for you doesn't decrease, only your good guy points if you are playing the bad ending route).

Does it have NTR? Yes. Is Lacey falling out of love with MC? No. Do I believe that Lacey will do more NTR actions in the future? I don't know, but if it was a standard NTR game, then it'd be a definite yes

Good points and it's pretty much why I find this one much more interesting that all the usual ntr shit.

NTR games are usually kinetic with just illusion of choice. Most choices are just scene selectors and you are just picking which way MC will end pathetically cucked and alone. MC has no agency and is often doomed to ignore what's happening right in front of his eyes, to keep the story going. No confrontations, rage outbursts, relationship drama like in this one, only a blind and braindead MC ignoring everything.

Also they are not really male MC games. They are FMC slutmaker games in disguise, with male MC just there as a prop. Many of them have FMC POV for very large portions of the game even. This one avoids all that.

Only thing I disagree is that Lacey is never out of love for MC. You can easily make a case for that. Or more accurately, that for periods of time, her love for MC is of a much lesser priority to her than her desire for other things. And I would argue that she doesn't really know what love is yet, her childhood fucked her perception of it. Which is why her version of it is pretty much abuse.

 

[DeviantFun]

Very well said. I've noticed that there are some pretty cynical takes on charactars and the story in this thread. And well this game is an NTR story, I think at its heart it is a deeply optimistic love story about how people can come together. truly see and support one another through hard times, and overcome their trauma.

Lacey, the Mc, Mia, and Isaac among others have all grown and become better people over the course of the story. And they have done so not only by reflecting internally and confronting how their trauma, pain, and mistakes have not only hurt themselves but those around them as well. But also by being brave enough to communicate openly, and trust others enough to lean on them.

You can drown alone in an ocean of oil and rust. But if you trust others enough to be open with them no matter how painful it might be then friends, lovers, and even former enemies can help you swim.

MC has not grown or became a better person, unless you think that a kind and caring person is worse than a kind and caring person with PTSD and no self worth.
He is a very damaged version of what he was before, it is stated constantly, it is seen constantly, I don't know where this fairytale vision is coming from.
Addled by nightmares, puking his guts out, crumbling like a card pyramid...is this the growth?
The main plot point for MC is that he is getting worse and worse.

The Pimp has also been shown to be a horrible person then and a horrible person now.
Throwing literally two hugs to the person you hurt doesn't make you a better or grown person.

In reality she got even worse and we discover that she abused Lacey and blames her for it.
Where did she improve? When she decided to bring a lot of drugs to an addict fighting the addiction?
When she decided that the person you damaged so much doesn't deserve her husband?
Not even for the sake of the husband, mind you, but because you want more of him for yourself?

She gave MC a PTSD episode at the beginning of act 2 at his celebration, she keeps on trying during his special weekend and tries to do it even in public during a lunch date.
How is this an improved person? She is arguably worse than Act 1, and I say arguably because it would be hard to find a worse character in the game universe.
Even Evan respected Lacey more than she does.

Where did the pimp EVER communicated openly or confronted the pain she caused to others? All we see is her doing is gaslight and mistreat MC, betray Lacey TWICE (great open communication) and then shift the blame to Lacey about college.

Seriously, I don't want to sound rude and you're definitely entitled to your opinion, but that was the hottest take I have ever seen in this thread and we had people justifying leaving people to die if that interfered with a work meeting.

 

[Badboll]

Where did the pimp EVER communicated openly or confronted the pain she caused to others? All we see is her doing is gaslight and mistreat MC, betray Lacey TWICE (great open communication) and then shift the blame to Lacey about college.

The thing with Mia(pimp) is that she's also broken because of what happened to her. First she got raped, then when she came home her brother did it to her as well. Someone who was supposed to be family after she already had something horrible happen to her. That's way worse than just being raped by some random guy.
I don't remember if anyone else knows what happened to her or if she just told the MC, maybe she's just lying to make him feel sorry for her. Maybe she's the monster(she definitely is a monster though) and wanted him to stop her, unlikely but it's the devs story as you said, what he unltimetely decides to do and what he's decided to do might not actually make sense.

 

[DeviantFun]

The thing with Mia(pimp) is that she's also broken because of what happened to her. First she got raped, then when she came home her brother did it to her as well. Someone who was supposed to be family after she already had something horrible happen to her. That's way worse than just being raped by some random guy.
I don't remember if anyone else knows what happened to her or if she just told the MC, maybe she's just lying to make him feel sorry for her. Maybe she's the monster(she definitely is a monster though) and wanted him to stop her, unlikely but it's the devs story as you said, what he unltimetely decides to do and what he's decided to do might not actually make sense.

MC is the only person that knows, not even Lacey knows.

I am not discounting what happened to her but it does not justify how she acted nor how she is acting.
Shall we remind ourselves ONCE AGAIN that Mia was happy that Lacey got SA?
Lets also remind ourselves that she tried to help her own trauma under the disguise of helping Lacey?
And last but not least, she doesn't know anything about Lacey's childhood and doesn't even know what kind of person Lacey is.
Do you want to know why? Because she didn't care enough to ask.

But wait there is MORE! She admits she understood at some point that she was dealing with a broken girl, do you think that stopped her? Nah she upped the ante! When Lacey tried to clean herself up what did she do? Throw her back into it to the point where she almost died. I mean it was the last hurrah, right? Too bad Lacey had nothing to celebrate about, but who cares.
It was such a good plan, that she tried it twice now.

I cannot think of a single redeeming quality, I honestly can't, nothing she has done during the story has a positive impact.
Zero, zilch, nil.

 

[Fitharia]

The thing with Mia(pimp) is that she's also broken because of what happened to her. First she got raped, then when she came home her brother did it to her as well. Someone who was supposed to be family after she already had something horrible happen to her. That's way worse than just being raped by some random guy.
I don't remember if anyone else knows what happened to her or if she just told the MC, maybe she's just lying to make him feel sorry for her. Maybe she's the monster(she definitely is a monster though) and wanted him to stop her, unlikely but it's the devs story as you said, what he unltimetely decides to do and what he's decided to do might not actually make sense.

I don't think she lied to the mc, it a normal reaction from someone who is raped, some become after sluts, other make people who love someone, their life miserable. Mia was a bad option as friend for Lacey, hence why Lacey did all that what Mia encouraged her to do, people who are broken need help from someone who isn't broken, in this story almost all girls have something bad happened to them and the mc is also broken but mainly his own doing by hoping Lacey would be his gf, but 4 years long waiting in fear and repeat of rules was bad for him.

Also broken people are constant in danger for predatory people, people who only want bad from them.