You keep going on about a Seymour father/daughter branch, as if it's going to happen. There's no evidence whatsoever that any such storyline is likely. That's just your theory and nothing more. If there's any kind of father/daughter storyline, it's far more likely to revolve around her existing stepfather. In fact, that's what Eva has suggested in the past.
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..
You say it's path dependant but it isn't. He doesn't blackmail her, but he does blackmail the people who would have employed her otherwise. Danny pretty much admits this, if Lena questions him more thoroughly. And that shows he is willing to blackmail her on both paths, if necessary. If she agrees to his proposal, then he doesn't need to do it. But that doesn't mean that he's somehow a better person on that route than the other.
Emma is one of the nicest characters in this game. If you don't get that, you really are missing the point. She is a really good person, and Seymour is really bad one. And it doesn't matter what route you follow, he's still going to be the game's main villain.
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.
