Sam is 41 and Norah is 45, but I can understand your point here. Norah's designed to look younger than her age.
I didn't want that look to feel dirty, more like surprised/angry/cheated. If it felt dirty, it's my failure as an artist.
I'm usually with you on this, but not in this game. I've already said the story is loosely based on a short (non-adult) sci-fi story I wrote 1,000 years ago (have I already said I'm an old man?
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). In that story, most of the characters were not related to what would be the MC (since it was a tale, there wasn't really an MC). When I started tinkering with the idea of porting that story to AVN format, I had to make a lot of choices. One of them was about family relationships. The tale had "a Martha" (real "MC's" mom), "an Emma" (real sister), "a Daphne" (unrelated nerd, with Jamaal's computer skills), "a Scarlett" (unrelated waiter in love with the "MC"), etc. It was easy to decide to do two versions with slight differences to make "everyone" related or everyone unrelated.
For me, there isn't
one canon version, since that would mean that the one I don't consider canon is a second thought. I thought of two versions since My Dorm's first days of development. So for me, there are two canon versions.