The quality of Delilah's story is leagues ahead of any other character in the game. There's just so many emotional layers to her and so much going on beneath the surface.
We have this silent and unapproachable "pool girl" for YEARS when ICSTOR slacked off. Then Onyxdime swoops in and breathes life into her.
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There is something captivating about her story. When you first meet her she is little more than a two dimensional bully. Her story opens with you confronting her and it seems like you are going to get a BDSM relationship similar to Celia. At this point the genre of her story is heroic tale of you sticking up for the little people getting bullied by her and her shadow figure friends. I will come back to those shadow figures later on.
As the second act of her story begins the genre abruptly changes into a comedy. The forth wall is repeatedly broken again and again for jokes. This mirrors you breaking through Delilah's own walls that she puts up. Delilah even seems to begin enjoying both winning and losing the playful bets you make with her.
At this point you are expecting the story to continue on this trajectory from hate to comedy to love. Except it doesn't. The third act of her tale sees her softer side emerge. The fourth wall breaking stops. She doesn't want to dominate you or you to dominate her. She wants a genuine relationship. A real connection.
You don't get to enjoy your time with Delilah though. Those shadowy faceless figures of her bitchy clique are monitoring her love life with you through her phone.
Now that her walls are down she is naked and vulnerable. She isn't afraid of you seeing her vulnerability though. It is the dark spectres of her bitchy clique that have trapped her.
When you see this picture it is easy to think that Delilah is the leader of this bullying gang. It isn't until we pierce the third act of her story that we realise she is no leader. She is their captive. Captive to their social elitism.
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It is probably lazy graphic design but I believe the shadow figures serve a purpose. Shadow figures in Milfy City are usually kept for background characters who do not matter in the story. The shadow figures in Delilah's story DO matter though. Her fellow bullies are continually present as faceless black silhouettes. They are ominous spectres. The only words they utter in her story are bullying chides and demands.
Even when they aren't physically present in a scene they continue to haunt Delilah over her phone. Interrupting the most private and intimate moments of her life. Dictating what she should do.
In the end Delilah finds herself trapped.
The rapidly changing genres of her story mirrors Delilah's own changing mental state and instability. She was comfortable in her bully group of bad bitches. But when you finally get through to the real Delilah and see who she is without the influence of these shadow figures she begins to find herself torn. I don't believe Deliah is a bully. I don't think she is a bad person. She's a good person who has forgotten how to be good under semester after semester of torment from these shadowy demons she believed were her friends.
In some ways Delilah is a metaphor for Milfy City itself. Pregnant with potential but a heartbreaking disappointing conclusion.
She tells you to leave. Tells you to go. Tells you she doesn't want you. And a part of you believes her enough to give up and walk away.
In the final seconds of her story the screen turns as black as the silhouettes that haunt her. Delilah's final thoughts are four white words barely visible against the overwhelming darkness. Words she cannot bring herself to speak aloud.
She silently begs you not to leave her. Begs you to save her.
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And with that final sentence we realise Delilah's story was never about a BDSM relationship or a comedy or a romance.
It was a story of a damsel in distress who did not realise she was trapped until her knight in shining armour was walking away.
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I want to see Dee's story continue.
I want to know she escapes the hell she has found herself in.
I want her to have a happy ending.
Caroline aside, there isn't another character in the game who is more deserving of a happy ending.