I'd say in an ideal world it would be the neutral ending. Actually, in an ideal world, the ideal MT would have four endings for Octavia, all depending on MC's actions and decisions:
Yep! I always felt that the second "Mask" scene (the one with anal sex) is way too hasty like we've skipped some scenes between the first scene and that one. It's like in the first scene she's reluctant and shy but in the next scene she's already completely corrupted and is a perfect sex slave already. And the entire corruption happened somewhere behind the scenes by the hands of some "Maria" we didn't even happen to see. It's like ordering yourself a pizza delivered to home instead of making something by yourself for yourself. I mean, the whole fun (however questionable it might be) of corruption routes is that you gradually make a sex slave or a slut out of a nice girl, not just wait a few days while other people do it.
I do not think that she leaves in the "good" ending because she does not love the MC. More like she does not love herself, quite the contrary in fact. She is broken. It is indeed far from a good ending. But still better than the other outcome in my book.
Well, she certainly feels something for MC, but she's not head over heels passionate about him, so she's able to make a very rational decision to leave the town and MC. You make it sound almost like she punishes herself by leaving MC, but I chose to interpret her ending like that - she's scarred but not completely broken, and so she wisely chooses to leave the whole ordeal behind and start a new page in life. "Time will heal" and all that. As for MC, IIRC she once said to him something along the lines of "I'm too old for you, you should have your freedom and get a lot of different girlfriends and fun" etc., so I think her rationalization of leaving MC is giving him freedom to live his life to the fullest (which failed, as we can see, since he still can't forget her even after several relationships). And so she leaves, but have one last passionate lovemaking before that - to end the relationship on an upbeat note, so to say, so that both of them would have something wonderful to remember.
Go to the game folder and find two files (script_day22.rpy & script_day22_OctaviaVanilla.rpy). This is only for the final Octavia good ending. The Day22 file, line 1631 is the start of the in car dialog then cuts to the final scene. Octavia Vanilla file is the scene after she drops you off at the house. Just note, I ran into problems when I entered new dialog because I used the tab key. I got it to work, but I'm a noob at this. I suggest you just replace the dialog you don't like & not try to enter new ones; of course, save these originals files somewhere in case you need to start over. Good luck!
Thanks for your kind words, I'm definitely not better than Milky Touch's writer though. English isn't my native language so I only know basic vocabularies and some, whereas in Milky Touch there are lot of words used to narrate that I found very "poetic" and "novel", with elements of theatricality. Words that you'd expect to be found in professional literature and not in normal conversations, but the writers didn't abuse them to flex their vocab skills and made a sentence or paragraph overly complicated for the average readers like some writers I've seen and it's perfect.
Wow. Wholesomeness overdose.
Sorry, man. But you know, I think the old saying fits like never before: don't hate the players, hate the game. The one game ending, to be precise.
Yeah, think so too. IIRC there can be even more ridiculous situation were you could do nothing sexual with Claudia and yet get her ending. I'm not 100% sure, would need to recheck, but I think I got this result once and it was hilarious. There are quite a lot of loose ends left unanswered - like what's the "Guild", what happened with Marcello (although at Discord devs said he just run away), what's going on with Chang's racket, would Tombs become Karen's and Leon's bull and so on. And not a single scene with Evelyn, ugh!
Haha she's supposed to be a good friend of Octavia at her new place and cares a lot about Octavia, a little nosey as a consequence. But yeah she's there for minor comedic relief.
Yeah, I just checked - loaded one of my Octavia route saves (so nothing with Claudia) at Day 18, kissed Octavia instead of asking her out, got locked on taking Claudia to Mossland (happened automatically with no choice), refused to kiss her, refused to have sex with Karen, refused to go to Katelyn's party - and landed on Claudia's ending and made myself a little brother. MFW
