Nah it's going to also be Seymour. With Minerva Ian can either dominate her, start a relationship, fall in line or get a new job. Seymour is the one with enough influence to screw with the writing competition either for or against him. Minerva can also become an ally to help him for the competition.
Most likely Ivy.
Exactly! He is desperate for attention(his nature) and Photographer is his job. Cindy sees him a photographer who is good at his job and can help her professionally, who apparently is doing good for himself.
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You like to put your finger in the wound, you're going to cause our deaths when he returns.
Chief among them for me being the annoying logic issue it causes with Lena.
I agree. Seymour will enjoy playing with two sexual puppets instead of one. But before that happens, Seymour will have Lena exhibit herself in a series of increasingly debauched and humiliating performances before audiences of his choosing. We can, of course, expect to see many of the sex shop toys that Lena had no option to purchase. It is quite possible, however, that by the time Ian enters the stage, Agnes will be in charge of the actual choreography. I think EK will be pulled in deeply by her own dark fantasies.
This is another reason I dislike the revamped opening. Instead of a random meeting in the Cafe now it's Ian being some shining knight for the damsel in distress. Also she's supposed to remember that the 2 met when she was at a difficult point emotionally. Their introduction was so forced that it wasn't interesting. Their story could have been interesting if things were allowed to develop a bit slower. Why is Lena not allowed to open up to Axel unless she kisses Ian on the 2nd date? Why do they automatically kiss on the 3rd date even if Lena says she's not interested in Ian that way? There really should have been a just friends path that still allowed them to help each other get over their respective heartbreak. I think either Ivy's bd or Lena's concert would have been a good opportunity to have them realize that they liked each other if that was something the player wanted. Really seems like the branching paths are way too difficult for the dev to handle with a 2 protagonist game.
Not saying that won't eventually be the case, but entering chapter 12 out of allegedly 20 something chapters, Seymour's been more antagonistic towards Lena and almost not at all towards Ian. There hardly seems to be any development between Ian and Seymour.
If you choose the path in which Lena is titillated enough to willingly accept Seymour's proposal, in my view, it is not really antagonistic; rather he is feeding Lena's own desires; desires which scare her. (I curiously did a speed run of Lena truly being forced into it and found the resulting antagonistic dialogue to be very unappealing.)
Like I said in a previous post. Seymour is a relativistic villain archetype. We have to see from more than one POV to understand him. Helping Lena in his twisted way feels normal to Seymour, he thinks his aggressive guidance will fast-track Lena to the right path of excellence and the topic of closing doors for Lena is never discussed if she willingly worked for Seymour. Lena dismissing him causes us to see that Seymour was behind all those aggressive guidance which is harassing in simple terms.
I just hope being neutral is enough for Ian to be successful in the book competition. I really don't wanna encourage Seymour's perverted behavior.
I really don't know how EK will manage Seymour/Ian/Lena. The build-up is so slow that it would need more than 3+ chapters to tie up with that pace.
The tingling is sadly for the ladies. For males, it's the opposite. Most of us don't find older men with perverted desires making a woman submit to lust that desirable. If it were a younger Seymour the tune of the threads would be really different. Dare I say people would actually root for him against Axel, on who would be a better dom to Lena.
Normally a full mod is released at the end of a completed chapter on Android. Chapter 12 is not finished. Use
Seymour is an intriguing character for me. I had Lena go along with the contract because I felt their back and forth was interesting. Like Seymour is so used to things going his way and I had Lena say she was more than a mere object so I'd like to see how that dynamic is developed. I hope the revamp scene didn't change that dynamic.
I agree with much of what you say. Except....I only find the possibility of Ian entering the interaction interesting...not the interaction with others. (Or remotely...the possibility of Holly)
