You don't need devotion or education to simply not want demon cock in your orifice, especially if you happen to despise that person. It's just a matter of personal preference.
Nuns are easy prey for demons because they have limited if any experience with sex, so any sort of contact is a big deal they don't know how to handle. In contrast this isn't Alexia's first rodeo.
The issue is that Andras was often depicted as the polar opposite of self-controled, calculating, and rational. Guy often makes the absolute brashest and most impulsive decisions just to paint himself as some kind of "big man" (daddy issues like you said). And obviously a lot of his insecurities are targetted at Rowan, the guy who was involved with killing his dad. In Andras' mind humiliating Rowan is simultaneously a way of protecting his own ego (as in, avenging his father) but also asserting himself as "bigger" than his old man (overcoming Rowan is a way of indirectly overcoming his own father).
I just want to preface that I'm not asking the game to change on that rule. If you don't want to explicitly depict rape on your story then power to you (but with the overwhelming amount of otherwise brutal and extremely dubious consent nature of so many scenes in the game, it comes across like the strict cut around direct rape is more a matter of optics/censorship than any kind of moral stance by the developers, even if the intention was genuine).
"Oh yeah... Don't forget two things, one she is there for "x" months before Rowan's entering Bloodmeen and after all... both (Rowan and Alexia) have been in Bloodmeen over the course of a year... Enough time to develop Stockholm Syndrome. Have a nice day.
You know Stockholm Syndrome is made up thing that doesn't really exist, and even presuming for the sake of argument that it does, it requires crucial component that is both the hostage and the terrorist to have common, external threat/enemy to bond over... i.e. something which does not exist here? Have a nice day indeed.
Delane is a side character the twins (and writers) can punish with impunity. She's not Alexia who is the sole reason Rowan is doing their bidding rather than show them middle finger.Also Rein weren't you the one bragging a couple pages back about how you were the one who came up with the Delane content at the end of Werden's route? About how there "had to be consequences" for the player disobeying the twins and trying to be good? Feels a bit funny for you to go from that to "oh Alexia honey, all you have to do is just say 'no' to unwanted sexual advances, nothing bad will happen from that
Ehm, exactly what?
It is really not an all or nothing thing. Would Andras doing something like pushing Alexia up against a wall and groping her against her consent really be the breaking point where Rowan goes like "yeah you have gone too far, now me and Alexia will commit to a suicide pact"? Or do you think that's what would finally make Rowan stop trusting the Twins from taking things farther than what they had agreed to, when they often break their word with him on several other matters and could still threaten to do much worse things to both him and Alexia?
I just want to preface that I'm not asking the game to change on that rule. If you don't want to explicitly depict rape on your story then power to you (but with the overwhelming amount of otherwise brutal and extremely dubious consent nature of so many scenes in the game, it comes across like the strict cut around direct rape is more a matter of optics/censorship than any kind of moral stance by the developers, even if the intention was genuine).
The issue is only that if you're gonna make an adult game with a heavy focus on sexual content and strongly imoral themes, omitting/censoring rape as a story-element leaves a narrative gap. It is not an unworkable problem and you can absolutely craft a great story while skirting around it, but it takes careful work to make it so the absence of rape or other forms of non-concensual content doesn't stick out.
I'm sure eventually you can write some piece of backstory content that will explain why Andras might be secretly against rape even if he threatens it (something something his mom was raped by his father and he witnessed it and was traumatized by it/he believes a "real" man wins by getting a woman without resorting to rape) or whatever other explanation for why he is a massive bastard except in this one thing. But until then it will just feel a bit out of place with the rest of the game's universe.
Also Rein weren't you the one bragging a couple pages back about how you were the one who came up with the Delane content at the end of Werden's route? About how there "had to be consequences" for the player disobeying the twins and trying to be good? Feels a bit funny for you to go from that to "oh Alexia honey, all you have to do is just say 'no' to unwanted sexual advances, nothing bad will happen from that
I'm pretty sure it is mostly a legal statement for the purposes of publicly stating that they are complying with Patreon's terms of service.
Oh hecking heck! I should've guessed! That thing strikes again! Censorship!
It might. The thing is, the twins don't know that and it's not really worth it to check that. It's a game of chicken and the twins would rather swerve than risk it for what's ultimately just one pussy out of millions, attached to not even all that attractive woman in late 30s. You don't even need to be all that rational to make the correct choice in such situation.
The perceived threat to survival, the belief that the captor is willing to end the life of the hostage, the perception in captivity of some small kindness on the part of the kidnapper within a context of terror, the isolation and the conviction that it is impossible to escape could explain this "syndrome"... Some Psychologist have the theory that this condition may appear in stressful situation when the victim have too much contact with their captors, but at the same time cognitive biases do their work in this traumatic situations allowing understanding and empathic with the captors... This kind of condition may appear in sexual abuse, sect members, couple violence, war prisoners and so on...
They couldn't and they will not be... That option was left behind since the beginning, specially for Rowan, his only one true good option was to not work for them, whatever happened to Alexia is just a blackmail to do a greater evil with his help and self damnation, his self subjugation for the sake of the story of 3 Acts (that only the first is in a practical sense done) is in essence the beginning of the corruption of the Hero, who in his selfish thought to save someone precious to him, he will condemn himself and the world in the process. The twins wants Rowan because they acknowledge his success during the War against their Father, making him a valuable asset for their plans, but they aren't too dumb nor less too desperate to push Rowan in comply their objectives if Rowan fail them, he'll be death (yes you can have a perfect game over if you don't reach main goals).
yes the game has definitely rape and it's laughable to state otherwise.
