No it won't. Yeah the narrative is skewed towards them but it's entirely possible to avoid anything romantic between them. Just choose to not ask Lena out as Ian or let Lena not be interested after the first hang-out.
If Ian and Lena are being 'experimental' in their relationship why would Ian remain possessive towards Lena, since that is a contradictory position to the whole concept of being 'experimental'? That idea just doesn't make any sense, particularly if Ian has already had a threesome with Lena involving Louise, and knows full well that Lena has a similar fantasy involving two guys. Him refusing to countenance such a scenario, would be counter-productive, since the entire basis of this relationship is predicated on the two of them 'experimenting' with other people.
It's far from universal and largely depends on how you choose to play Lena. E.g. Wits-oriented Lena is very much a nerd who gets excited over meeting her idol Holly, had something like two relationships in her life total, and can have completely monogamous relationship with Ian.
True. It's incredible how Eva manages to do this, there are so many choices about literally everything and they are meaningful. It's so complex. I like that you can't get all characters in one play though, characters will show jealousy... The worst games are those that have choices that aren't doing jack shit(illusion of a choice) and is forcing you to play as it meant to be.
I really don't envy all the work that must entail, both for Eva and MrBuBu that does the incredible PDF walkthrough. I do appreciate it, though.
Yeah but doesn't this apply to Ian as well when Handling Jeremy. Sure Ian is always going to have some reservations about his bro banging the girl he loves. But YOU can choose to be okay about it as well as Lena having fun with other girls (still weird but not cheating if Ian agrees to it). I don't agree that experimenting with others should always lead to an open relationship though cause that is an extreme.
She may have only had two relationships, but it's clear from her dialogues with Ivy, that she's had no shortage of sex partners. The way the two of them talk to Holly, it's almost like she's joining the Slut Club. So regardless of whether she has a momogamous relationship with Ian, she's still had a lot more sex than him, with many more sexual partners (which she makes very clear to Ian on the cuck route). And it doesn't matter whether she's faithful to him or not. Because she's still a nude model, still potentially on Stalkfap or involved with Seymour. Whatever she does, there's potentially temptation at every turn, and Ian knows that and has to learn to cope with it.
The way Lena talks to Holly is, again, decided by the player's choices. Lena can encourage Holly to have sex, but she also has numerous options to (literally) "protect Holly" where she does the opposite and actively counters Ivy's ideas and influence. In fact, using these options Lena can form a monogamous relationship with Holly that's presented all like innocent unicorns and rainbows for both of them, including the supposed all-out-slut Lena.
I don't think anyone is saying that. I'm simply noting that the idea of Lena as "wild, adventurous girl with plenty of sex and someone Ian has no choice but to enter open relationship with and strive all the time to match her slutty attitude" is very much misguided and perhaps based more on how you've played your particular Lena, than anything else. She can be like that, yes, but she can also be nothing like that.
Yeah, it's peculiar that Ivy don't have much content yet, nor Lena's FMM threesome. Either Eva will include something in the next chapter or at the end of the game. Will there even be a gangbang, an orgy, who knows...
Yeah, it is starting too late. Nothing but some flirting. I also feel Louise started a bit too late, but she at least it getting a little bit of a speedrun though her path. Feels like Eva should of started both of these paths a bit sooner, now we are close to the end, so not much left for them.
In chapter 11 when Lena gives Ian a footjob, if Ian asks how she learnt to do it, she says she used to sleep with her professor that was into feet. I believe this to be cannon to every Lena since she says this regardless of which version of Lena you're playing. Is this perhaps an oversight when it comes to wits Lena?
Unless I'm misremembering, that has more to do with a Cuck Ian changing her background than it being some sort of cannon event in her life.
Wits Lena talks how she's been keeping to herself and interested only in reading books, writing her music and staying away from her peers she viewed as immature. She wasn't really a party girl, and she basically fell under Axel's influence after Ivy has introduced them, for her modeling work. It's not unlike default Ashe from GGGB getting involved with Jack and/or party scene in the game.
Yeah but even though you don't pick the cuck option, if you pick the lust option she still says she use to be with a guy that was into feet stuff. And on every playthrough that Lena is with Ian she gives him the footjob. It's on Ian to say whether he likes it or not.
The feet guy was her college professor, one of her two canon relationships* no matter Lena's background:
l "I used to date a guy who was into foot stuff. He always asked me to do it, so I ended up becoming pretty good at it..."
menu v11feetcuck:
"{image=icon_sad.webp}Tell me more...":
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i "Who was he? An ex-boyfriend?"
l "Not quite... We saw each other for several months, but we never got into a serious relationship... I was barely nineteen at the time, and he was quite a bit older than me..."
"Lena began caressing her pussy while she kept stroking my cock between her beautiful feet. This situation made me feel incredibly lewd..."
i "Really...? How much older?"
l "About twenty years or so... He was a college professor, very smart, but quite weird. He loved to lick and use my feet... and he even asked me to pee on him." l "He was one of those silver foxes... A bit old, but with a very elegant presence and demeanor. And I loved the cologne he wore..."
l "I signed up for his tutoring sessions, partly for academic interest, partly because I was really into him. And apparently, he felt the same way about me."
l "We went on a few dates, but he was married, and we both knew we just wanted to satisfy our mutual curiosity and desire." e "How many years older was your first boyfriend?"
l "Not that many I was sixteen and he was... twenty-one or twenty-two."
l "He was still really a kid, but in the eyes of my teen self, he was so mature..."
l "It wasn't until I realized that, that I matured myself. In the end, he taught me a lot, even if it was painful."