What a dedicated post.
Ian/Lena/Holly:
my OTP. I get dopamine hits from seeing the three of them in the cafe. but to actually get this scenario... Does Ian need to be merely 'dating' Lena, or madly in love with her? What choices involving Holly opening up in various ways affect this? Do Ian and Lena need to be bigdick successful artists? Is poly even an end-game option??? It seems like it would be, as Holly is the character both Ian and Lena are interested in, like a knot tying the red string... but you never know...
Hard to tell at this point. Eva has made comments previously that hint towards the trio outcome very possibly being an option but she also added that it would take specific choices. Before the beta change my assumption was that "kiss Holly / No Ian sex" was the way to go for that outcome, now I am not so sure.
Ian/Holly, Lena/Holly:
also good. sweeter than i ever thought i'd find from a game I downloaded for porn. Think I prefer Ian/Holly more because Lena/Holly give 'gal pal' vibes sometimes but at the same time I liked a lot of their scenes in a romantic light too. I'm currently remaking a file with no Ian/Lena so I can do a guilt-free Ian/Holly and copy that for a guilt-free Lena/Holly.
Not to diss you or anything, but be careful about your wording. "Gal pals" are a bit of a meme in the wlw community about people, who aren't women who're attracted to women, dismissing obvious romance between those that are.
Funnily, my initial otp's (going from the character roster, before getting to know the characters and story) was actually Ian/Holly and Lena/Cindy. Lena/Cindy seems far from possible at this point but Holly having a
cute lil' crush on Ian from the start really destroyed my interest in their pairing.
When Holly and Lena started having scenes together my romantic senses started to tingle right away and Lena has very consistently been able to desire Holly at least.
Ian/Lena:
Eh.... probably like them as friends more. So far they're both sweet and mostly reasonable adults to each other and can easily be romantic with each other with the only complication being my chaotic hand of god forcing them away from each other by making them horny. No really, once these two went on a date early in my games, i just can't break them up lol. I put off sex repeatedly but then they did it automatically. I can only go far back and make Ian not ask her out to the music store.
I actually do like them as a couple, I just dislike the dual-protag setup alongside the red-string-concept. I think I'd have enjoyed their pairing more if I were only playing from one of their perspectives, but they also have by far the most content together.
Lena/Axel+Seymour:
Obviously very suspicious, but their scenes are surprisingly sexy despite them being a capitalist and a manipulative psycho-chad, but there's a slowly growing taboo being broken that will lead to good drama. Also it'll make me able to have runs where Lena makes money without StalkFap (literally called 'Stalk'fap there's no way I'm touching that on my first runs,) or god forbid, the restaurant with Robert. How this would effect my OTP remains to be seen. My hope is like, a path to go back to a normal life and a path to being a model-sugarbaby-submissive.
I'm actually hoping that some kind of middle-of-the-road options will be available in regards to Seymour, that it doesn't necessarily have to be about agreeing or opposing everything about him.
Ian/Cindy:
Alluring. If Lena and Seymour is my ideal 'corruptive' path for her, than Ian and Cindy is my ideal 'corruptive' path for him. Cindy just has that 'spark' that makes scenes between them very appealing like playing pool or seeing her photoshoot. Her being high-maintenance doesn't really annoy me. For the most part she just doesn't want to be stuck in a rut with her friends that are really Wade's friends. Heh, playing the bad guy is oddly funny whilst my Ian is a sensitive art man.
I think Cindy is the character that Ian has the most chemistry with actually. If there were a path where you could navigate her break-up with Wade
and then go for her, they might have been my otp. I'm still curious as to where her story will lead and am still hopeful she will encounter Lena again and be swept off her feet.
Ian/Allison:
Yeah... I played the game my blind at first having Ian pick up chicks and then I couldn't shake off Allison. She slowly became one of my least favorite characters in the game. Despite her 'thing' as an uptight office lady looking to go wild I just find her so.... boring. Much more than Ian/Lena. The true dangers of casual sex.
I actually find aspects of her interesting, I actually like the raw sexual nature of how her and Ian's relationship comes across. I wouldn't mind some sexual options though, so far Alison really does seem like, and I hate having to say this, a bitch in heat. She is a tall busty goddess, I'd have loved for her to take more of a dominant role to Ian.
Lena/Louise:
I WOULD bc I genuinely like Louise more than some other players. she reminds me of someone with borderline personality disorder... but it just seemed too awkward and sudden after the Jeremy situation. And I learned when my main characters have sex with their friend you're not gonna shake them off for a while. I'll at least see what her scenes are like.
Agreed, the main thing that actually keeps me from Louise is that I feel like Lena is exploiting her. I do hope their pairing will have a more romantic option too, even though I actually love dom/sub themes.
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