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I'm pretty sure Amber and Liz are primarily there for the swimming scholarship. Maybe not Amber on paper, but what else is she going to do? It's not that she HAS to do swimming, it's that it's ludicrous NOT to give an opportunity to her AND her sister to be in a special situation for a POTENTIAL swimming career. Like I said, they could quite anytime. While most other sponsors would probably require a quota.Hmm Amber didn't get in the school for the super-gifted-best-in-the-world people on swimming scholarship. She made it on her regular grades that were good enough the school wanted her in and offered her full scholarship to have her in. So i believe you're pretty much shitting on all her hard work and actual talents when you focus on swimming as her potential future.
Swimming isn't a career route even for Liz -- her mother acknowledges it in the epilogue where you do spare Erik, saying she'll need to have an actual, real work in a few years when she is no longer in her physical prime. It's not potential future for either of them, and so you aren't destroying anything if you reduce it back to what it was originally -- just something they enjoy casually in their free time, without any sponsors. They still get to do it together, which is all they've ever cared about.
(also, and this is just a sidenote, are we seriously supposed to believe that no other sponsor in the world would be eager to sign up two top-tier swimmers, and Erik is their only such option, ever? Please. If it doesn't happen it's because Liz has no actual interest in pursuing this)
Erik didn't pay for the cancer treatment of Lucy's daughter either. I don't see any evidence in the game to think he'd pay her anything other than a salary, and there's no reason to believe the next boss will suddenly stop paying it.
And like i said, i don't feel especially inclined to feel much sympathy for Lucy. She's made her choices and thus made her bed. While it's perfectly understandable why she'd choose well-being of her daughter over literal lives of girls who were strangers to her, i trust it's also understandable why i might feel it's quite natural for MC to not like very much someone who'd made such choice at expense of MC's close friend and prioritize her plight. Put it brutally, Lucy's daughter is just as much of a stranger to MC as Liz (and other girls she might've thrown under the bus) was to Lucy. Or even more of a stranger, given Lucy actually interacts with Liz face to face.
It's tempting to try to dismiss Lucy's actions as "ohh she's doing it to save her poor sick daughter" but we only have Lucy's word that she needs this particular job; and rely on big presumptions that there's absolutely no way she could keep her salary with her rapist-slash-murderer boss gone, and no other ways for her to make money otherwise. But what if these presumptions are false (because honestly, they aren't all that believable) and it was just more convenient for Lucy to turn blind eye to what's been going on? Would you still say that putting her own convenience over the lives of young girls wasn't "doing the wrong thing"?
I feel there is a reason our first individual meeting with Liz is when she's swimming, lazy as she, if there is one thing she can "tolerate" it's swimming. And Amber towards the end of their arc was very happy competing against Liz in a friendly manner, why not do that swimming rather than flipping burgers at a fast food chain?
In sparing Erik, you aren't so much FORCING them to do swimming, they could quit anytime. But it's blackmail bro, we aren't getting a better sponsorship without Erik. We can get another, but even Liz says that's easier said then done when you literally ask her that. I'm sure she knows the business better than us.
Erik was paying for Lucy's dadaughter it may not have been directly, but the job itself made up for it, I don't know what you're on. I literally quoted it, he reacts says you know about that? And with the way Lucy didn't want to lose the job when she met us as our Hero Form; you REALLY think she made up a sob story to defend E.R.I.K? We see the abuse the entire route...what...? Not to mention we touch her, we EVEN look through her memories, you really think they wouldn't mention that she's lying? If they were these robinhoods in kahoot with each other, then it would be an actual partnership, and not her acting like a reluctant goddamned dog whenever we see her alone with Erik. I think it's safe to say they are both telling the truth, but, tell yourself what you want.
And I feel like you didn't even read what I said about the cancer treatment. Give everything I literally just said, he was paying for it, that's how blackmail works. You don't suck dicks you don't like for no goddamned reason. And NO! What universe are you living on, where even INSURANCE let alone a secretary position pays for cancer medical treatment in one of the most expensive regions? Unless she's working for Elon Musk personally, or shining Jeff Bezos's shoes, even then she's not going to have the pay to upkeep on cancer treatment, that's not how secretary pay works.