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danb35, I will try to answer you point by point.
Skylar :
Regarding Skylar, we don’t have all the information, but here’s what we know about her father : he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for illegal drug possession and selling weed, apparently after being set up by someone. According to Sky, her father is a recreational user, not a dealer. Someone framed him by hiding a large quantity of weed at his place, along with a ledger and a scale, to make him look like a big-time dealer, and then reported him to the police.
Skylar is doing her best to make ends meet by working while continuing her studies, as her mother, Luna, is burdened with debt since her father’s incarceration. The MC mentions that weed was legalized in 2018, which provides a vague time reference but suggests her father may have been sentenced a few years before that.
Skylar and her mother are also trying to get signatures for a petition to free or reduce the sentences of those convicted of non-violent marijuana-related crimes. Later, in a other conversation, we learn that her father’s sentence was extended, probably due to an altercation in prison. Skylar drives us in a car during her break from the pizzeria where she works and mentions that this car belongs to her father. His assets were frozen after his arrest, and the car was registered under Luna’s name as a precaution, so they could keep it.
Nothing in their conversations with the MC suggests that Skylar didn’t know her father. She seems well aware of what happened to him and the reasons for his incarceration, and she believes in his innocence. Unfortunately, the game or the storyline doesn’t provide enough information about the characters’ lives or their close circles. Skylar only shares a few fragmented details, which, overall, are quite ordinary (aside from her disappearance or her peculiar mother, I mean) regarding her own life. We don’t spend enough time, I would say, with all the characters to fully understand each of their lives, personalities, etc.
I would say that, for now, there is nothing to indicate or make me believe that the MC could be Skylar's father. Patreon isn’t really an obstacle to this kind of relationship in a game (you just have to change a few lines in both versions and add the "step" suffix to their relationship, or a similar lie (like landlady/roomates in many other games, to make it work for the Patreon version). With a bit of imagination and suspension of disbelief, it's not so difficult. ^^
Edit : As for the other hypotheses, like Luna lying about Skylar's father being in prison, or if the man exists but he’s not her real father, or any other variations along those lines, I already mentioned them in my post on the previous page. I won’t repeat them here, as at this stage, there’s nothing suggesting that this could be the case for me.
Scarlett and the Twins :
Although I grant you that the dates don’t seem to align at the moment, there’s nothing to suggest that the main character will be exclusively limited to jumps to the past for the year 1999. Furthermore, in a game where the plot revolves around time travel, time loops, and manipulating time to shape the present or future to get different outcomes, it’s not hard to imagine that the main character could, in the future, make time jumps spanning several months, or even far beyond the year 1999, both into the past and the future.
I’m not taking a stance on the other girls, nothing point the MC as a potential father for them. I’ve also mentioned that I don’t believe the main character could be the father of all the girls he knows in 2019 among people from his generation, just as I don’t subscribe to the theory that the main character is his own father.
I don’t see where you’re going with Darci, the "supposed" shit-ninja (even though I initially thought it could be Riley before "Darci 2" revealed her face); I mean, it’s definitely her since we see her take off her mask and she’s wearing that ninja outfit we saw in the school hallway in 2019. I’m not sure what the age of this Darci double is, though; it seems hard to determine. Is she older ? If so, by how much ? Anyway, it’s hard to say.
Overall, I mostly pointed out that I was a bit more open to this hypothesis, in the sense that it doesn’t seem completely impossible, even though the dates don’t align at the moment. For now, it’s just a hypothesis. In the end, I don’t think the protagonist is or could be the biological father of all or many of the girls around him in 2019. However, I lean towards the idea that he might be the potential father of one of them in the storyline. It would seem strange to me if the story didn’t explore this narrative thread (too tempting from the drama perspective and sex of course !).
Time travel and jumps in increments :
Thank you for replying and confirming what I initially suspected. I don’t think time travel is really limited to this 20-year window, give or take, into the past or future. I don’t see why such a restriction would exist in the storyline. I think the main character was sent to 1999 because it was necessary for him to be there to accomplish certain things (like saving Tiffany and Jessica). It was probably something planned as part of the storyline and his "hero's journey/time traveler quest."
As for the rest, I mentioned in my previous post (towards the bottom of the post, on this same page) what I think about time travel, such as the means (machines or other methods to undertake it), and the fact that other possibilities and methods will likely be revealed to us in the future through the storyline. I won’t repeat myself here.
The other time travelers :
I have nothing else to add about Skylar and the idea that she could be a time traveler; we share the same opinion, and I’ve already developed this hypothesis quite extensively in another post (see the previous page, my very long post).
We’ve seen that this Darci ninja alter ego is indeed capable of time travel, at least if we believe the fact that she was seen in both 2019 and 1999, which is pretty strong evidence.
For April, we need to refer to the conversation she has with the MC following his sexual encounter with Scarlett at her apartment in 1999: She knows about the incident at the nuclear power plant (I think it’s a nuclear power plant) in 2009, is aware of the existence of time travel, works for the mysterious man in the mask, and, more importantly, she has traveled to 2019.
She mentions having seen an older and more mature version of her own sister Scarlett, as well as having seen her two nieces, Alyssa and Alice. We don’t know exactly what will happen to April, but Alyssa tells the MC in her room that her aunt is no longer with them (implying that she has passed away) and doesn’t want to discuss it further, as it seems to affect her emotionally to talk about it.
She probably traveled by the same means, the same machine as the MC, likely configured to work in both directions (2019 to 1999, and 1999 to 2019) in the same way. I think this journey happened either by chance or accident—she was probably curious about the power plant, the machine, the MC, and/or the masked man.
P.S : I should clarify that I’ve re-read the conversations with April (the one where she reveals having traveled through time) and Skylar (the beginning, their meeting at the park where she talks about her father).
