Nah i think youre not really right here... i have several playthroughs, and my favorite is just a "boring" lovestory between Lena and Ian, both faithful. They both have mental scars from her previous relationships and how those ended.My bigger issue is the contrast in dialogue between different playstyles; if you play Ian as a supposed "Chad player", he still has these whiny insecure introspectives, like "Well, I probably should come clean about my other relationship to her" whereas Lena has the exact opposite in the same situation, stuff like "He'll never know how much I think about Axel/Mike". In other words, you CAN play the game as an Ian player and Lena faithful, but everything feels off in the dialogue, and it's pretty obvious what the "canon" is meant to be.
In my optinion this AVN is one of those where you have to make a "plan" before you play it an stick to it. You want Lena and Ian to be nice people, no whores and faithful to each other? Play like that and they are. Every little choice counts here. Some Lust, Posh or Chad Points to many and both start to getting thaughts they shouldnt get if they would be faithful and not slutty. Especially Lena, Ian not sooo much.
Basically, avoid being with Ivy too much as Lena, of course no Seymour and no flirting with others. Keep the Photoshoots modest, and you have a Lena without any slutty thaughts, tenndencies or behaivior. Around chapter 9 after the Ian/Lena Relationship got serious she more than once has the thaughts that this is the real thing for her and she is finally healing from Axel and such.
But its kinda too easy to trigger some sluttyness for Lena i have to admit. Sometimes just being a too good friend for Ivy is already enough to get her going, or simply to masturbate instead of practicing on playing the guitar. More often than not those things trigger behaivior or just thaughts, and i think there should have be done some adjustments in that regard. But nontheless if you always stick to the "two goody shoes" choices in every regard, all slutty thaughts are gone after a while.
Its clear to me that she was a corrupted sex slave for Axel in the whole relatiionship. And it seems that she did enjoy many things there. Like being dominated or even choked ect. But if you go the other way with her now, avoiding all this, she kinda realised that this is the way she wants things to be.
Of course if you go the slutty path or let her be dominated ect... she enjoys this too most of the time and this is her way.
ITs in the players hand to shape Lena. And if you play her the complete faithful role without anything slutty, it works perfectly.
For Ian though... the "chad" or "manwhore" things doesnt work well i think. I agree, more than once he has regrets and such. Its obvious to me that this is "out of character" for him. I played a playthrough like that until the end of chp 11. But i dropped it now. Even in chp 11 he still is a little whiney here and there which doesnt fit the route i was playing at all.
Lena instead works perfectly as a faithful kinda "innocent" girl with many baggage from her previous realtionship, or the entirely oppostite "whore" works as well, though its not my thing (bla yeah iam a snowflake)