Pr0GamerJohnny
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Could just be me but Nate has never really given me the impression that he is up for sharing Kath with Luke. He seems more like a Mr. Steal your girl type, who wants Kath for himself. Someone up for sharing would surely make more of an effort to befriend Luke, certainly not blackmail him.
I can see the game making more of a shift towards NTR if I'm honest. Or at least there being a split depending on player choices, but the fact that Luke feels some guilt for cheating at the end of the last update even if he hasn't doesn't give me much hope.
Disagree on Nate - that's assigning f95 player logic to him. I feel like a normal skeezebag in the real world - if he thinks a girl is hot, he'll have no hangups on banging her if the boyfriend tags him in. That's not at all mutually exclusive with the 'mr steal yo girl' type; what starts as a amicable threesome could end with him trying to hog her. Putting the whole "sharing" thing in its own category is an f95 construct, no more.I'm thinking the most likely thing (depending on previous choices with Claire at least), is a coerced sharing. Nate pressures Luke into letting him do stuff with Kathryn, or pressures him into pushing Kathryn to do stuff with Nate (same outcome, slightly different steps) on the threat of exposing Luke's cheating if he doesn't. (And I mean sharing as in letting someone else fool around with your girl, not sharing as in threesome, because I also don't think Nate wants Luke involved.)
Alternatively, Nate will suggest playing spin the bottle, since we've not had that in this game yet...
Furthermore, is Clem even on a gossip-talking basis with Nate? It wouldn't surprise me - but that's implicit in the scenario TonyMurray listed, which isn't necessarily a given in game. Clem has clearly tried to hide and downplay her relationship/proximity to Santini and the others; so if Nate did go this blackmail route it'd pretty much break things wide open. Keep in mind - the only concrete leverage Nate has over them was catching Luke and Claire spying in the closet, the cheating stuff is all theory.
It's definitely danced the line at many points between more of an ntr focus and not, on one hand Luke is almost always aware much to the frustration of ntr purists, on the other hand there's simply too many sneering old men and lechers to make it feel like an amicable swinging game.