What are you talking about? I always said Seymour being Lena´s dad is a possibility, not a certainty! As for Eva saying that it would revolve around her stepdad: We all have learned over the years of development of ORS, that Eva says much when the day is long, meaning that she has changed quite a bit, like closing off paths, opening others and sometimes suddenly as well. If a path will revolve around Lena´s Dad, be it Seymour or her Stepdad, this path has to come in the future and who knows in what way, if it does at all..
Emma and Seymour are like they are because EK paints them at times really blatantly. I know that Emma is meant to be nice and Seymour as the main antagonist.
But you miss the point in that I had the distinct displeasure to see what activists in the vein of Emma are like in real life! If such activists gain a measure of power, e.g. in a city council, up to half of them get mostly interested grabbing as much perks as they can, with unabashed glee, but still preaching water and drinking wine themselves. (At least with these bigots you sometimes can make compromises to get something done), the other half are realityblind boneheads, completely useless, because these stupid fucks cannot accept realitiy. A tiny minority of activists, the size of a rounding error, are those who are true to their ideals, but also savvy enough to see that you have to work and compromise with others to get something done.
With this real life experience in the back of memories, it totally scratched me the wrong way when we learned that Emma went by gutfeeling only(!) and has no evidence, but e.g. threw beer on Seymour. While Emma´s feeling might be right with Seymour (since EK decided to make him the main antagonist), a person is never always right going by gutfeeling alone.
In another case some day Emma could be seriously wrong, but still will treat that person like she does Seymour, since "gutfeeling". No thanks! But since I am a nice guy, my Ian tries to couple Emma and Perry up, they deserve each other.
Yeah, it may never happen. If it doesn't, it's not gonna bother me, because I've never been heavily invested in incest storylines. In fact, the one in GGGB was probably one of the routes I was least interested in. I'm not offended by the possibility of incest at all, it just doesn't hold any real interest for me, even though I may sometimes discuss these routes at length, in the some of the games I play. I'm always going to be most interested in the female protagonist being a complete slut and sleeping around with as many people as possible. That's just my kink, and I recognise there are certain people that hate that or think it's been done to death on numerous games. But I love it and I never get bored of it.
Yes Eva may change her mind and not include Lena's stepdad or even her estranged brother, in a possible future incest storyline. But at least she's suggested this possibility, which is far more than she's done for your theory. Which has never been alluded to ever, either in the game or in her posts outside. That is purely yours and others fantasy or theory, and until she suggests otherwise, that's all it ever will be. And thus it can't be used as any realistic indicator of which way the storyline with Seymour is likely to go, as you appeared to suggest before.
And it doesn't matter what some activists are like in real life. Yes some of them allow their idealism and youth to get the better of them, and demand stuff that is unrealistic and impossible to deliver. And maybe they don't fully recognise the consequences for themselves, if it ever was. Personally, I just believe most activists are people who want to make the world better, but are often too young and inexperienced, and overly idealistic to recognise the difficulties, that achieving that usually requires. Change often requires compromise, which a lot of activists may view as a surrender. I felt much the same way, when I was a student, but over time my opinion has changed. And my worldview, is no longer so simplistic.
In this particular instance though, it really is quite simple. Seymour and his cronies, are ripping off most of the people in Baluart, and are prepared to do anything to enrich themselves. Everything Emma says about him is true, and if you believe otherwise, then you're just as naive as Ian is.
Now, I think we've discussed this particular topic to destruction. I've certainly said all I want to say on the matter, and it's pretty obvious we hold opposing opinions, that will only be resolved by whatever path Eva decides to follow or not follow in the future. So I suggest we give it a break, because certain people are starting to get a bit antsy. And frankly I'm starting to get bored repeating myself.
