FoolishFool0

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Ok, I've finally finished the game, or at least what there is to it, so a couple more point:

1) Writing is as mentioned top notch, the game takes an incredibly simple premise and manages to deliver it in a witty and quite interesting way.

2) Is there a reason why the whole thing is based on the MC's Italian ancestry? Like, as an Italian myself, it kinda blindsided me, not that it's unwelcome.

3) I am assuming the game takes place in Rhode Island? He does mention how it's not illegal in his state for relatives of age to fuck, and the one state I found with that on Wikipedia is, again, Rhode Island. It is relatively close to the Canadian Border too.

4) I was originally worried about the way the game was going to treat Drew or trans people in general, especially when Peyton showed up, but after reading Drew's whole speech about the realities of trans people in modern society, and the fact you get cucked if you act transphobic for jokes instead of act caring and shit during that interaction actually does let me catch a breath of relief. The game's humour, while kinda edgy at times, is also surprisingly... all opportunities when it comes to jokes? Which hey, it's better than I feared honestly, I didn't have to cringe to hard at anything, and even the ONE attack helicopter joke is A) Done to make fun of how unfunny that joke is and B) Leads to a Kobe Bryant joke, which is so in poor taste it completely erases the first joke poor taste in a way, like, crossing the line twice and shit.

Like, I don't even care if she becomes the villain of her own body modification porn game or some shit, now more than ever I don't want her to become a full villain in this game, she is a victim of Hunter and his actions as much as the MC and the women in the family are, they need to team up, she needs to go full Astronema I fucking say.

5) Now, other than Nnenna, we have Nurse Rashilda as another female character with a model from an AU/Bad Ending that should be added to the game proper. I've seen people with a "vote for penny" signature in this very thread, is there, like, a poll for future stable characters or... Because don't get me wrong, I like Rebecca, she's a buff farmgirl, what's not to like outside of her raging homophobia the MC keeps trying to fuck out of her, but I feel like she is kinda of a wasted spot given how, as Catherine mentions, she pretty much fits most of her archetype already.

6) Ok, theory time since this game is really great at foreshadowing. The whole Dio del Sesso thing is tied to the Feet thing. Hunter is both sexist and homophobic, so his understanding of the whole thing is extremely limited, he can't comprehend anything outside of simple man conquers woman binary shit, instead I say it's a malleable concept tied to genetics and magic shit, specifically the feet thing being tied to their sexual organs. This to say, both Ophelia and Catherine could also become Dee del Sesso, as they've been shown some times, and like Ophelia will show in What If 8, like she foreshadowed in chapter 10 in her desire to cuck her son by fucking his fuck buddies. Following this logic, Drew didn't have the feet thing, hence not becoming a Dea del Sesso, and only went along with her father's shit because she was trying to earn his approval in a "masculine" enviroment, just like Payton was with her own father, and just like Aliza was while she was overweight (Ophelia mentions how she was starved for her father's love as a kid).

(Also, You know, small suggestion, given how the MC has Priapism, wouldn't it be simpler to claim he's being possessed by the Roman God Priapus? The God of Cocks? Whose winged cock form impregnated the mother of Servius Tullius, the servant who became King after first fucking the Queen, a witch and a sorceress who used her powers to empower him and kill her husband and later have him fuck her daughter to marry her and become the sixth king of Rome (And who was also killed by his heir, husband of one of his two daughters, not the good one the evil one)? You know, to be in line with the whole ancient lineage of sex gods thing? Like, it basically fits and shit, and it would make sense for them to be related to the Tarquinian Royal Line and shit).

EDIT: Hey, dumb question, can anyone tell me how did, like, the extremely trite concept of "Brenna has to room with Hunter" win over Amazon Futa Island and some fresh character porn with Penny? Like, you'd expect this kind of out of nowhere what if side content to be about, like, either impossible scenarios or new/barely used characters, like, no offence and all, but that just seems like a waste to me when we have already plenty of Hunter x Brenna content in the main game.
 
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2) Is there a reason why the whole thing is based on the MC's Italian ancestry? Like, as an Italian myself, it kinda blindsided me, not that it's unwelcome.
There are well-known stereotypes about Italy being among the top countries when it comes to lovers. Additionally there's the (implied?) mafia connections that Hunter has.

3) I am assuming the game takes place in Rhode Island? He does mention how it's not illegal in his state for relatives of age to fuck, and the one state I found with that on Wikipedia is, again, Rhode Island. It is relatively close to the Canadian Border too.
You use "relatively close" very generously, but this sounds plausible.

Like, I don't even care if she becomes the villain of her own body modification porn game or some shit, now more than ever I don't want her to become a full villain in this game, she is a victim of Hunter and his actions as much as the MC and the women in the family are, they need to team up, she needs to go full Astronema I fucking say.
I'm still not sure Drew is a victim, based on her suspicious behavior described in David's journal. Either way, she's an interesting character and I look forward to learning more about her.

6) Ok, theory time since this game is really great at foreshadowing. The whole Dio del Sesso thing is tied to the Feet thing. Hunter is both sexist and homophobic, so his understanding of the whole thing is extremely limited, he can't comprehend anything outside of simple man conquers woman binary shit, instead I say it's a malleable concept tied to genetics and magic shit, specifically the feet thing being tied to their sexual organs. This to say, both Ophelia and Catherine could also become Dee del Sesso, as they've been shown some times, and like Ophelia will show in What If 8, like she foreshadowed in chapter 10 in her desire to cuck her son by fucking his fuck buddies. Following this logic, Drew didn't have the feet thing, hence not becoming a Dea del Sesso, and only went along with her father's shit because she was trying to earn his approval in a "masculine" enviroment, just like Payton was with her own father, and just like Aliza was while she was overweight (Ophelia mentions how she was starved for her father's love as a kid).
You might be onto something with the foot thing. However, I would doubt that there's a female version of a "dio del sesso" simply because that's not how sexual power dynamics work. Attractive women are already able to easily obtain sex, it wouldn't be that special of a power. Regarding Drew's feet, and status as a "dio del sesso", I don't think we have enough information to be sure.

(Also, You know, small suggestion, given how the MC has Priapism, wouldn't it be simpler to claim he's being possessed by the Roman God Priapus? The God of Cocks? Whose winged cock form impregnated the mother of Servius Tullius, the servant who became King after first fucking the Queen, a witch and a sorceress who used her powers to empower him and kill her husband and later have him fuck her daughter to marry her and become the sixth king of Rome (And who was also killed by his heir, husband of one of his two daughters, not the good one the evil one)? You know, to be in line with the whole ancient lineage of sex gods thing? Like, it basically fits and shit, and it would make sense for them to be related to the Tarquinian Royal Line and shit).
Personally I'd prefer if Power Vacuum doesn't incorporate supernatural elements, but this is a fascinating theory.

EDIT: Hey, dumb question, can anyone tell me how did, like, the extremely trite concept of "Brenna has to room with Hunter" win over Amazon Futa Island and some fresh character porn with Penny? Like, you'd expect this kind of out of nowhere what if side content to be about, like, either impossible scenarios or new/barely used characters, like, no offence and all, but that just seems like a waste to me when we have already plenty of Hunter x Brenna content in the main game.
Brenna was the favorite in What Ifs for a while because 1) she's one of the most popular characters in the game and 2) What If content was restricted to characters doing sexual things we'd already seen in the main story, or that we'd never see in the case of some characters.
 

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Drew may be a victim of Hunter's bullshit. But that doesn't have to mean, she is a "good guy" or just a "victim of the circumstanses." I like that she is an enemy at least in this game.
She can help take down Hunter at the end, i can see it happening. After that she can leave the MC and his girls alone. But it's just means she go back to her business and get other girls.
Now that i said it, it could be a good sequel to this game. (Or just a shorter side story.) Where Drew can be the protagonist and we see what she is doing. Maybe find true love? (Ok, I am getting side-tracked.)
 

FoolishFool0

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Personally I'd prefer if Power Vacuum doesn't incorporate supernatural elements, but this is a fascinating theory.
I mean, Hunter is using "potions" already for the sex, and it doesn't even have to be magic shit, it was mostly topical since they mention how the MC has a long lineage of sex gods, and Priapism the malady Is named after the God Priapus, which as mentioned is tied to a guy fucking a mother and her daughter before being slain by a younger man who fucked both of his daughters to usurp his throne and become the last king of Rome.

And yeah, Italy does have some pretty great lovers, historically or not, and also some pretty great erotic poet/writers, Ovid liked so much eating pussy he was known as the most heterosexual Roman poet in history, Boccaccio wrote one of the first ever House Games/Harem story by making a story about a gardener working in a convent of horny, sexually neglected nuns who pass him around like their used Boytoy and it ends with him dying of old age a drained husk of a man surrounded by family while the convent was blessed for all the "Immaculate Conceptions" it did, and the list goes on honestly.
 

FoolishFool0

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Drew may be a victim of Hunter's bullshit. But that doesn't have to mean, she is a "good guy" or just a "victim of the circumstanses." I like that she is an enemy at least in this game.
She can help take down Hunter at the end, i can see it happening. After that she can leave the MC and his girls alone. But it's just means she go back to her business and get other girls.
Now that i said it, it could be a good sequel to this game. (Or just a shorter side story.) Where Drew can be the protagonist and we see what she is doing. Maybe find true love? (Ok, I am getting side-tracked.)
That's the thing tho, at least regarding what we've seen till today, I don't even think she's that malicious either.

Like, in chapter 10 she does mostly 4 things, first is help the family with chores, second is the Tiff Peyton thing, third is comment on the MC stealing her panties, and fourth is the final reveal about David.

As the MC notices himself, there is nothing overtly sexual in her helping the family, she might just be actually trying to reconnect with her sister and by extension her children, much like the MC was in chapter 1.

The Tiff thing is also ultimately non malicious. Like, she is legitimately trying to have Tiff mend bridges with her best friend, while also being an impartial voice, the only reason why it all goes tits up was due to the air conditioning, something which she might even be unaware about given how shocked she looks while Tiff fucks the MC at first.

You could argue her fucking Tiff in the bad ending shows how it was all a ploy to get her alone and vulnerable, but at the same time you could argue she's doing everything to cheer her up after putting her in such a difficult position to begin with, and given her upbringing she associates orgasms with feeling better, especially after getting oogled by Tiff to begin with (especially if Drew is, again, unaware of the sex air conditioning) and even her comments about "stealing" her from the MC are mostly afterthought, and you could argue are warranted due to the MC Transphobic jokes leading to the bad ending.

The panty thing? She herself mentions how that's something she also used to do. Think about it, here we have a third generation Dio del Sesso, living in the same house as her homophobic father, who was clearly put through male growth hormones and shit, being on edge while around her while also sporting a shirt with hearts on it.

She probably thought he was also a trans woman trapped in the same cycle of abuse as she was, hence her proposing to help him shop for clothes, hence her "joking" about it just like he does, she's seeing herself in him, and she's probably also seeing his father in him.

Which leads to the 4th thing. We know next to nothing about David and Drew's relationship. My best guess? David, an extremely stressed out, neurotic man who can't sexually satisfy his domineering wife, and who is being an abusive piece of shit to his only son, breaks down after meeting with Drew during a business trip, the woman who fucked both his mother and sister, who, as a trained psychologist as well as someone who was conditioned, again, to equate sex with good feelings, simply returns the favour to him.

Remember, David might have threatened Drew as a teen, but what he did? Probably gave her the means to distance herself from her father and become her own woman. If David doesn't threaten them, Hunter doesn't do his eat pray love shit, which allows Drew to meet lots of new people and culture outside of her father's toxic mentality, allowing her to transition.

(Which also explains why Hunter isn't around while Drew is here. Dude is trying not to say a slur worse than he's an actor on the CW).

(In fact, that might be what's Gona get Hunter in the end. Drew rebels, Hunter snaps and says something extremely fucked up in the earshot of the MC and some other member of the family, the MC comes to Drew's defense because he realizes she's as much of a victim as he or the others is, and while Hunter gloats about how he doesn't care what he thinks or what Drew thinks, they're both but pawns in his sick games, we have Catherine breaking the limits of her current Sayan stage due to someone being an asshole to her aunt (call back to when she got angry at Mallory being an asshole to Aliza) and One Punch Woman Hunter in cold fury).
 
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