That part has its drawbacks. These VNs take a lot of "TV liberties". We can’t assume that the same rules as in the real world apply, because the plot simply wouldn’t work. We can only infer the plot based on the premises Circle provides and how its world works. As for what would be an edited photo, it hasn’t shown us that Vi have any editing skills (and even if she did, it wouldn’t make sense to crop out exactly the most explicit parts when they’ve already shown “blonde Vi” almost completely. If Ari or VI wanted to create a scene with a fake Vi, they would have cropped the others too to maintain the deception). And the reason it doesn’t add up is because it was Vi who sent the message saying she was waiting for him at Ari's house and that she’d done “something naughty”. Why deceive him when he’s already shown he has no problem with it and even loves the idea? And especially Vi, whose fetishes include being more sexually open with others and pleasing Eric’s tastes like a good slut.
We already know that Ari is a whole other story because she does whatever she wants. And she already did it when she cropped the photo with Eric's sister, but using that tactic twice for the same thing feels repetitive, especially since Ari has already done her part: convincing both Eric and Vi to take the next step in this new kind of relationship. She doesn’t need to resort to any more deception or half-truths for that.
For me, those cuts are more Circle’s intervention than Ari’s or Vi’s (which is bad for the narrative offered). It could be an attempt by Circle to leave everything hanging so they can expand on it in an upcoming DLC or update from Vi’s POV; that’s probably the case. He’ll already be thinking about how to make use of those narrative resources, or whether he’ll simply waste them.
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