I didn't say it applied to anyone in the game. There's no "real" cuck content in the game yet, but it seems to be headed in that direction.
Cuckolding isn't always consensual either or always enjoyed by the person being cucked. The original term was actually used to denote a man whose wife was cheating on him, assumingly without his consent. It's all the linguistics of constantly evolving words meaning different things to different people. Most using your definition are people into NTR in that circle of the internet. Others not generally familiar with the term NTR wouldn't mostly define it like that. Honestly, most of these definitions are in flux, especially with the catalyst of the internet, with the majority of people using them just making things up as they go along, based on how they became familiar with the terms. Linguistics be crazy like that.
Technical: Simply a man whose s/o is cheating on him or sleeps with other men, with or without his consent. Fetish term: Constantly changing & a pretty large umbrella. But being that it's a fetish, that would mean the person with the fetish gets some sexual gratification from the idea of an s/o (real or imagined) either cheating on them or openly getting railed by other guys - though usually not leaving them for those other guys, which is more on the NTR end. Ironically, current plot points in ORS more align with the technical definition (Ian/Cindy can cuck Wade, for instance). But the Jeremy/Alison/Ian cellphone situation more spiritually aligns with the second term. Even if the situation isn't a 100% match, it does have a set-up in that theme. Considering the amount of work it takes to make any scene in the game & based on the decisions it takes to get to those scenes, I can only imagine they were included at least partially to please those fetishists, even if you can play it off as a dude-bros swapping photos thing too, depending on your path. Not sure if Eva will ever go full on cuck with this one like she did with GGGB though, since as you can see from many of these forum posts, some people would flip the fuck out, even if they could just avoid that path. Even in a choice-based game, "preferences for me, but not for thee".
Cucking and NTR are the same, it's just they come from different cultures. NTR originating from Japanese, Cuckold being an English term, but BOTH referring to the same thing... usually when a husband likes his wife cheating on him. But I see people applying the terms to all sorts of ridiculous scenarios.
My Ian is also watching on the phone as Jeremy bangs Alison, only this is not a cuckold but a voyeuristic fetish. And he doesn't like Alison, he immediately threw it off for Jeremy, preferring Cherry. So very far from cuckolding.
Someone cried about cucking in this when there was none. Someone else felt that Ian was a cuck to Jeremy which is completely false and required the definitions to be posted and the ignorance exploded from there... I really need to learn to avoid these discussions as facts don't seem to matter and people love to argue them.
I think its the thing of will you wait for the finished product or will you keep engaging with it patiently. While I feel that the finished version of the story is gonna play excellent and even better than GGGB because of the ORS is comparatively more grounded than GGGB but considering the scope it wouldn't be done until maybe 2-3 years later. Which is why sometimes I feel one can opt for the wait for the game to finish before starting option like I did with Fleeting Iris where I didn't touch the game for years until it was more or less done.
Your Ian is a Chuck
He's the Chad of Cucks.
I can tell that your Ian is an ordinary guy, well successful with girls and he has his own tastes, he doesn't try to fuck everything that moves. How Jeremy does it. You steal Cindy from a friend, which makes him a Trickster. (a cunning sigma-male character, like my Ian).
