No and as far as we know at the very least incest is off the table...which I'm glad about personally.
Agreed.
Maybe it's just me, but as someone that doesn't shy away from the tag, I hate seeing it shoveled into otherwise good eVNs. I don't know which would be worse - Edwin having a 'landlady' or schtupping his mother in a completely out-of-character lapse in perspective. It works in games like Ripples because of plot device (i predict!), Chasing Sunsets in their relational conflict, and Desert Stalker's world-building. It's baked in to each of them.
Here, Edwin has rebalanced himself. He's not at odds with anything until he's confronted with his past. Yet he is solid in his belief that his mother is not just a sexual object. Yes, it might be fun to think about a corruption storyline or something, but it can't really make sense if there's no real expectation developed in the story. Victoria wears a towel, and we know she's a little lonely. But that's not enough to paint her as a sexually charged deviant that just needs one whiff of Kathy's hawt bewbs to lose control on her son. (
Ian's Mom, however, is getting face-fucked by MC or I riot.) And I think the only real reason anyone with an inkling of desire to see the incest tag applied is because we've seen her naked during her pornographic exploits. It's just a fantasy. It doesn't really belong in this eVN without rewriting the relationships built before we pick up with our hero at the start.
I feel like Victoria's past has been woven into the narrative for the benefit of the reader. I think she's there as an instrument for our own self-reflection. What would we do for our children? What would you feel if you found out that's what a parent did for you? She's in the plot to remind Edwin that his mother is not who he sees when he watches her videos. She is a human being who has also been a sex worker and not the opposite. We see him have the option to treat the ladies at the club like human beings
rather than sex workers through dialogue, and the story seems to favor doing that. Maybe Edwin doesn't do this if Killian became a greater influence on him than her.
Incest is not on the table for Edwin, but it's obvious that the oedipal conversation is part of dealing with simply having parents and realizing at some point they are also sexual beings. I think about what it would take to have a taboo relationship feel normal, and short of a zombie apocalypse or the
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, there's not many situations where it could really be rationalized (and be interesting, too).
kinda situation for him.
