Once she comes back in this update, if you were on her route so far, you can't stop the route.
Nothing to do with the tattoos, no. There is a choice when she returns at the start of this episode (6) and is pleading with you to forgive her. You can comfort and hug her, or choose not to. That choice has no bearing that I can tell on the rest of the chapter. Even though I wasn't even willing to give her a hug, the next day we go on a date and have sex.
No need to investigate, found the issue.
That is really weird. I will look into it. I can't do much right now because I'm moving on Saturday and I packed up my PC today. I'm using my mobile right now.No need to investigate, found the issue.
It seems that if you press "New game" immediately after "end credits", it keeps all affection levels. Strange as fuck, but there you have it.
So I played game with Skylar route, finished it, pressed new game immediately at ending and that loaded new game with high affection scores. Knew something was strange when I checked phone and saw character bios reference events that didn't happen yet in that playthrough.
For reference, no mods involved so it was just bizarre case
P.S. Love the game and thank you very much for making it!
So, which year did Skylar get them done in and how much time did she actually spend there?
While yeah the tattoo part kind of made the MC seem a bit dumb. I just chalked up to the MC guessing she had something to do with going back into the past. Since she sent those weird text as well as 2 full sleeves in 4-7 days that are healed.The elden ring dream must have done permanent damage to MC's brain......I would understand him ignoring the idea that someone got 2 full sleeves, a doulbe shoulder blade wide, and 2 tats the full legnth of their sides and somehow had them fully heal in 4 days (even if they are all black) but for him to be just be like "huh tattoos" then let over a day pass took me stright out of it. I mean he is even friends with someone who has sleeves so tats shouldnt be a foreign concept to him
I understand her feeling like she needs to lie even though its pretty cunty to be "coming clean and apologizing" while lying directly and indirectly (she lies about the sos text and she isnt truthful about how/when she got the tats)
My souring on Skylar previously and only doing forced interactions/no trust with quirky qrazy Riley really colored my perception of this update vs the previous one
I mean the time from her leaving the house with her mom without sleeves to her coming back at night with them is a few days i just said 4 to give them the benefit of the doubtBut...was it 4 days...hmmm...?
I assume 1999 and I wont speculate because didnt even finish this update I was too aoured by the obvious direction things were going (and it looks like I was right lol)
but he does not say anything like that at the time he literally just notices they exist and then goes straight into "im tryna smash" mode
very true I just chalked it up to him making a guess like that to justify the MC being dumb about 2 sleeves of tattoo's in that short amount of time tbh lol.but he does not say anything like that at the time he literally just notices they exist and then goes straight into "im tryna smash" mode
but that would change the entire dynamic of the scenes following because MC doesnt question her or anything like that where if MC had thought that there is no way the date and aftermath would have played out the same. Unfortunately its just a case of MC being a coomer and thinking with his dick first
Now do you understand my post....
I'm more curious about if with Skylar's trip to the past if somehow how much times passes between future / past got changed. As from what I recall the first time the MC went to the past and came back to the present the same amount of time went by. Skylar would need more than a week in the past for 2 sets of sleeves to heal unless that is future Skylar maybe.
That is the case yes MC was "missing" for a bit in the present and your family/darci freaked out about it the same thing happened the second time he went but it was done quickly enough that nobody noticed he was "missing". Regardless of Skylar spending time in the past or being from the future she proves there is more time travel than the "go back exactly 20 years" that MC has done.
Skylar's tattoos are unironically the smoking gun that will solve time travel 
