Ottoeight
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Victoria just went to bed. She's sleeping now.I do wonder why Edwin and Ian have the big talk about secrets right on the doorstep of Victoria's house. Like, guys, get in the fucking car, or something! Poor OpSec.
You expect me to believe that Chuck would give two shits aboutVictoriasome whore? Or that Chuck would do anything to hurt his beloved sister (who he himself brought up so she's basically his daughter)? I think you're greatly overestimating Edwin's value to Chuck. If not for Ian's brother-love for Edwin Chuck wouldn't even think about Edwin, he explicitly said that the only reason he offered this job to him is because Ian is his weakness, if not for him they would be practically strangers (as much as you are strangers with your teacher).
If anything I can see Ian doing something to hurt Grace (although nothing really nasty, Ian is too god for that hopefully and as far as we can tell Grace had never done anything to hurt Ian before because she loves him) and Chuck reprimanding Ian. I might be wrong but the way I see it for Chuck
Grace > Ian >> Edwin > shit >> Victoria.
My 2 cents?And I think you're doing the same regarding how much Chuck is doting on Grace & willing to forgive her regardless even if she messes something up or even crosses the line.
Not to mention dismissing how much Edwin & Victoria matters to Ian.
Also, lol you are aware of "discipline", right?
Yes, Chuck raised Grace like a father as you said, but even parents discipline kids when they do something wrong/bad.
Just doting on the children gives them bad habits thinking they can get away with anything.
What makes you be so sure that Chuck won't discipline (reprimand or punish) Grace for what she did?
Grace basically;
1) Told Vicky that she was aware of her porn work past
2) Told Vicky that Chuck has taken MC under his wing like with Ian
3) Blackmailed Vicky into forcing Ian to do what her (Grace) and her husband wants.
To look through them one by one;
1) From how Grace & Vicky's convo went in their meet, it can be said without a doubt that Chuck told this secret long ago when they were young (i.e. when both MC & Ian were much younger I think).
Given Grace has kept the secret this long, it's more likely than not Chuck has told his sister to keep it quiet.
And Grace, out of her desperation to keep Ian in line with what she wants (i.e. send him to college), pulls out the "porn work secret" card thinking it will push Vicky to do what she wants.
And while nothing's been shown yet as to what were Chuck's instructions for his sister, do you really think he would not care whether this gets out?
2) Next, she literally blurts out Chuck has taken MC under his wing.
Now, while it doesn't specifically show that Chuck wanted to keep this a secret from Victoria (from my memories), Vicky finding out that her son is working under Chuck causes nothing but trouble for Chuck's end, given it's unlikely she will have a favorable view of her son working in such environment; especially given how Vicky herself is ashamed of that part of her past.
and.....
3) Blackmail
Grace could have done anything. Literally anything else to try and persuade her son to go to college.
But first she tried to manipulate MC into persuading Ian to go to college (which I obviously didn't do of course, Ian's way too much of a bro for my MC to betray his trust), and when that didn't work tried to manipulate Vicky to do it for her.
Despite Vicky's suggestions of "start things small and slowly move up to persuade" she basically ignored it and brought up the unplesant past and ending with blackmail to force Vicky's hand.
You said, "why would Chuck would give two shits about Victoria?"
lol let me flip that question for ya; "Why wouldn't he?"
I'll give you 3 reasons why he would give two shits;
1) IAN
2) IAN
3) IAN
You placed Grace > Ian, but I see that order is only relevant when only Grace is in the right and nothing detrimental happened to whatever Chuck himself has planned or values.
I can see that order be very much flipped to Ian > Grace if the actions Grace had taken doesn't benefit Chuck in any way or simply put, Grace is in the wrong - and she 100% is in this case.
To add further, no way will Chuck risk antagonizing his nephew that he loves.
That time Ian shuts his mother out (if player's MC told Ian about how his mother wanted to convince him to go to college), all Grace did was just try to manipulate MC. No antagonistic actions were taken, no permanent damage.
Hence, Chuck tried to calm his nephew down with that phone call with "Please talk to your mother for my sake" etc etc.
This situation with Victoria is completely different from that.
Besides, you really think someone like Chuck wouldn't be aware that Victoria was more of a mother figure to Ian, much much moreso than his own sister ever was?
Lastly, you said Chuck and MC are literally strangers.
In terms of biology lol, yes they are, and as you said Chuck only gave that job at the club due to Ian's insistence.
But you're dismissing how much closer MC and Chuck gets over the course of the game.
Sure, it started off as nepotism due to Ian, but the interactions the two of them have become more like a family.
Come to think of it, he even gives a stern warning to Mrs. Pulman saying "I now think of Edwin like a family, so you will NOT push him over to the edge with your antics" (or something very similar to those words) and Mrs. Pulman relents a bit saying "I understand."
Noone would say that about MC if he thought MC was just a stranger to him.
Hence taking everything I said till now into account, to your question yes Chuck would literally give two shits about Vicky.
He may have raised his sister like a daughter, but even taking that into account I'd say there are limits to what his sister should have been allowed to do.
And Grace crossed the line here.
Ignoring it without at least a repirmand or punishment, Chuck would literally be throwing the whole relationship he had been building with Ian & MC away.
I have a strong feeling he won't do that.
But who knows. Only TD1900 would know given he's the creator.
We're just throwing theories around here at this point.
Ian and Grace will have a conversation along the lines of the conversation they had after Edwin told Ian about Grace's request.
Chuck? IF Ian tells him, he will simply have a phone conversation with Grace where he calmly tells her to stop because there is no point.
But it is as you said: who knows?
Oh man, Beduin123 vs The World once again.That's what I also find unrealistic. I guess that's how porn logic works, but IRL it's hard to imagine highly intelligent and determined woman, who Felicia is, enjoying to be degraded to such low level. I mean there is no physical pleasure for a woman to be spunk on by a dozen of old dirty men or being degraded in other ways. So, either she is totally fucked up in the head, and I mean totally (you can call it a kink or whatever), or she does it for money (which is clearly not Felicia's case).
So, again I agree, by the pure porn logic it may be OK. But in this case Felicia loses a large part of her appeal to me as I don't enjoy smart and beautiful women being completely degraded to the dirt. It means they don't have self respect which means I, in turn, have no respect for them.
In the beginning of the game she appeared as a mysterious, smart, manipulative and extremely beautiful woman, but her present image is rather a mentally troubled, unstable and broken person. I think in its core it is this change of her character that I find hard to accommodate.
That's why I think some patrons and August are going to be displeased if Elias shows up at the exhibition: 1) it would spoil the fun of "this giant cuck has no idea"; 2) his realisation might jeopardise the Club secrecy.The pleasure of exhibitionism isn't physical (or, okay, not only physical), it's psychological. Some people just get off on being watched. As for the degrading, some people get off on that, too. Especially rich and powerful people. Felicia gets off on both.
Sure, a lot of rich people are into domination, but a lot of them are also into submission. As someone else said a bunch of pages ago, rich people spend their entire lives bossing others around and being obeyed in every little thing. It's a complete role reversal for them to be humiliated and dominated, and some of them find that extremely arousing.
Also, I think there are three big things you're discounting:
1. You're right, Felicia absolutely, 100%, is fucked in the head. There is not a single character in this story that isn't fucked up in one way or another (or several). EDIT: You know what, I think I have to add an asterisk to this one. Mina actually seems relatively normal and mostly sane. Sure, she's got that naughty checklist, but that's more about exploring her own sexuality than anything else, and nothing so far has been too far out there.
2. As you yourself have said a bunch of times, Felicia is gorgeous, smart, single-minded, manipulative, and incredibly motivated. Do you really think that goes away just because she lets men jizz all over her? Do you really think she isn't using this entire competition as more manipulation of the men around her? She herself says (I think, anyway) that she's absolutely willing to use her good looks and the expectations of everyone around her as weapons. Why do you think that isn't exactly what she's doing?
3. You've mentioned a few times the danger to her social standing if her peers among the rich and powerful should find out what she's doing, and you've also mentioned that she's debasing herself in front of some of the most powerful men in the city. Those things are both true, as far as they go. But there is no way the men who see these things are going to go telling everyone all about it. Not only because of the aspect everyone else has mentioned, that the super smug and self-satisfied Elias is getting gigacucked and has no idea about it. Consider: what are they gonna do, casually drop in conversation at the country club that they saw the craziest thing at their secret illegal brothel club last weekend? The members of the club have just as much to lose socially and reputationally as Felicia does. In fact, they're probably even more at risk if word gets out to the wrong people. And that doesn't even consider the potential for August sending an "associate" to do very bad things to them and/or their families if they open their mouths where they shouldn't.
Just an observation: every main character - Edwin, Ian, Kathleen, the Carnations, Mina, Hana, Chuck, Victoria, August, most house girls, Warren, the club patrons - is fucked in the head in their own way.
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