to be fair to Ian, he already had to go through all the slow burn and development in previous chapters. the various coffee dates with holly, the art gallery date and photoshoot with cindy were all building up to this. hence the payoff for him in chapter 7.
Lena on the other hand is still slowly building up her lusty side with her stalkfap and what not. her payoff will be massive for sure. I can see that her lack of "romantic" options can be lamentable for some but I don't think Eva should introduce anymore new characters as romantic options for Lena this late into the game. instead maybe she can redeem Axel or go for Ian's friend Wade, similar to how Ashley can be interested in Dave.
I don't think Eva should introduce new characters either, at least not at this point. It's just a pity that the characters available to Lena so far are all triggered in the same fashion: Immediate sex or nothing at all.
Robert and Mike you have to accept right away, Roberts advances and Mike's one night stand, if you don't give into Robert on the first scene with him, you don't get anything at all. Mike could still be a wild card, but he's a rather dull character if you don't fuck him right away too.
As I mentioned, Louise is in a emotionally charged state when you can trigger her, if you wanted something more romantic of her it's not unreasonable to reject her initially. Now though, after the
bottle game scene I'm hoping there will be an alternate entrypoint into her path.
That leaves Ian. He's fine but I just personally dislike the narrative insistence upon him and Lena, so I rejected that path.
Ian on his own have had options to have a lot of sex, casual Alison, Emma, Cherry. While the slow build has been going on he's had plenty of opportunity to be just as lustful as Lena has.
I'm hoping something comes of Lena/Holly.
