Not having seen them, that could be some meta narrative thing in the next chapter.
How Hunter used to be a "Good" House Game protagonist before Illness and Age took away his young roguish scoundrel looks and turned him into a ugly bastard Archetype, and how that could be Sterling's future too.
Maybe Hunter didn't just clone his wife but himself too 19 years ago, maybe he switched his brain with his younger self clone, and now that he's actually attractive and young he's "culturally" more acceptable as a "house game protagonist" than he was before as a ugly old man, how despite his personality being a lie and trash it wouldn't matter because
A) Most House Game Protagonists except for, like, this one Sexbot and a couple others do do the same shit Hunter does with Impunity between the drugs the molesting and the hidden cameras (What If 8 even makes fun of it during one of the crossovers) but since they are the self inserts people don't really care, and most importantly
B) The ultimate messaging these sort of Harem stories ultimately rely on is that the protagonist is the, as the name of the game implies, is the ultimate male authority figure within the predominantly female household, therefore provider and protector, father and worker and nurturer and business associate, and that therefore anyone could fulfil that role regardless of who they even are, as long as, again, they are acceptable to the audience as such.
The Kevin and the Drew Good Endings even push for that very notion, when is Drew getting a good ending? When he's conventionally attractive and slimmed down, and Drew herself is already a pretty inoffensive character to the eyes, she's an extremely attractive trans woman who passes, and to top that she also seems to genuinely love her daughter and her daughter's mom.
The Amber Family Orgy is ALSO part of that, since the main character is essentially using drugs in order to destroy an household and fuck every woman in it, but we cheer for it because he's the protagonist and the dad is a old rich British man who is into Cuckold porn. It's all coming together, it's all converging into one final confrontation, I can see the threads, I can see the parallels, I can see forever, I know how this story is structured and I know how this whole thing is set up to be.
Anyway sorry for the rambling I'm just constantly amazed by the probably all in my head metanarrative analysis of this game and its role as a perfect satire of the House Game Harem Genre. Like I sincerely wish for some real Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Shenanigans this final chapter to, like, tie off all the metanarratives.
