So, could someone enlighten me what the "parallel/phantom inc*st" track of this game is?
I had a look at the Christmas Special of the game over the weekend - wow, amazing and astoundingly elaborate work, just for a Christmas edition! - and once again, the MC refers to Linda as "mom". Hey, what's going on? Has crept in a couple of times during the game (also "aunt" for Liza at a couple of points), even though it's generally "landlady" and "landlady's (former?) best friend".
So, was - like DfD - the game originally conceived with the main house as a family unit - Linda birth mother, Bob birth father, Sara little sis, ... what next, Caroline as older sis, Liza as aunt ... and ... what, Celia, Violet, Judy as ... older cousins? aunts? The school principal ("Headmaster") as ... uncle? stepdad? All the girls in the school as ... younger cousins? Dwayne and Charles as ... uncles too?
Or was all the blood intertwining just conceived as an option, and (mostly, not completely) phased out of the game unless you found a "patch"? As with DfD, was there some warning issued from somewhere?
It would account for the odd household, for sure.
Personally, I don't much see the point of (the) inc*st. It's not visceral revulsion, just: why would you particularly want to keep it in the family, roll your own, etc., when there are bigger fields out there to plow and sow? But hey, there you go.
Personally (also), I don't know why all the legal hurdles (for a start) are not leapt by having the MC not as a kid at school but as a freshman at college (19 y o?), too introverted and shy to go out into the big wide college world, and so attracted to the individuals at the private home where he's lodging.
Then the inconsistencies in the storyline/plot would all fall into place.
BUT, I know, the school would then have to be a college set-up, lecturers and principals not teachers, fellow-students not pupils, etc. So that would be too radical an overhaul for this game.
I digress. What's the history of the game, as regards relations & relationships, anyone? Is it all one big extended Simpsons-dysfunctional family? Is Yazmin the MC's blood granny, or sumpn?