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Chapter 9 weekly status report (6)
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I've been trying to write deep and interactive conversations and sex scenes that offer more than a simple yes/no, right/wrong choice, and maybe I'm making things more complicated than they should (what a surprise), especially in how the events are timed and linked together depending on your choices.
These focus points are obviously similar to every other chapter, but I'm looking forward to see if the structure of the events is even more complex in this chapter. Characters like Axel, Holly, Jeremy and Seymour are about to or have just recently become sexual options for the protagonists, and they're different to i.e. Mike and Alison in the sense that they're involved in both Lena's and Ian's side of the story to a much bigger extent. That definitely makes things more complex and the stories even more intertwined.
Taking Axel as an example, and assuming both Lena and Ian could meet him in this chapter (and that Lena and Ian are involved with each other), I'd be curious to see which scene she puts first and how she ties them together. If Axel meets Ian before Lena, he could tell Ian that he's photographing her soon, which he can use to get an upper hand in their "rivalry" over Lena. It will also in turn be coloured by whether Lena has told Ian about it herself. Or, if the scene between Axel and Ian leads to them becoming closer friends, it will obviously affect the implications if the later photoshoot leads to a sex scene between Axel and Lena.
If Lena and Axel's photoshoot happens
before Ian and Axel meets, Axel could either have recently been turned down by Lena or have slept with her before the two guys meet. In the first scenario he could reluctantly accept defeat in his attempts to get Lena back (if he respects Ian enough), or he could be even more frustrated and angry at Ian's involvement with her. In the second scenario he could either keep quiet about it or be a smug asshole. Either way: Which scene Eva puts first in the story, will hugely affect how they'll play out.
Maybe Ian and Axel won't even meet in this chapter, and nothing close to this scenario will play out. But I suspect there'll generally be more of this kind of scenes, where the structure is vital to how they impact the overall story. Eva's been doing choices like this in the other chapters as well, it's just difficult to notice when the story flows so smoothly. But in this and the later episodes they'll probably be even more important, so I think it's more than OK that she's taking some extra time making sure everything's structured and tied together in the best possible way.