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Liked this new update for the most part and I don't want to be rude but it did have a very uncomfortable and consent violating  section that you try to play off as cute.

Spoilers..

The scene in question is the bath scene and there are a lot of problems with it. First, you reveal Cyrus is asexual but then you use his asexuality as a "Strip and let me touch you naked, I'm asex so it doesn't mean anything lol" type of moment. Not only does this feel like a rather creepy excuse to touch someone naked, but you even go out of your way to show Cooper's hesitancy. 

Cooper repeatedly tries to make excuses to get out of this scenario, even wanting to change away from Cyrus's sight, but you make Cyrus keep insisting on it. If this scenario was about Cooper refusing to eat his vegetables that would be fine, but Cyrus incessantly demanding that Cooper get naked right in front of him? 

No, that isn't cute. At no point during the conversation does Cyrus realize that even if he is asexual, that doesn't mean everyone around him is ok with him seeing their genitals. It comes off that you don't really care about Cooper's consent and clear discomfort with the situation, and then you try to fix it in the end by having Cooper act like nothing was wrong and he is ok with this when not even 10 seconds ago he was giving any excuse to avoid this and not change naked in front of Cyrus.

Even if Cooper were fine with the situation from the beginning, why would you have Cyrus trying to spring this situation as a "surprise" in the bathroom. 

Again, I still like this project but that scene really rubbed me the wrong way. Perhaps instead the scene could play out as:

Cyrus notices smell -> Tells Cooper to take a shower -> Cooper throws a fuss, says he has trouble reaching certain areas -> Cyrus politely offers to help, doesn't act pushy -> Cooper considers it, then accepts of his own will -> Rest of scene plays normally.

That way you can still have the cute bath picture  moment without making the scene feel uncomfortable.

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I didn't know Cyrus could preform mitosis!

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I think you're reading a bit too into this, when I first read this, I hadn't played through the scene yet and it got me really worked up. For one, Cooper only asked Cyrus to turn around because he felt uncomfortable changing in front of someone he didn't know (given kind of weird that you don't mind being naked in front of someone you don't know but honestly, people be weird like that, as in they are comfortable with their own body enough to not care). For two, from the transition we can extrapolate that a conversation was had about it, we just got to see the tail end of it, so Copper had plenty of opportunities to flat out say no to Cyrus's assistance. For three, his 'reluctance' is more like a kid begrudgingly doing the homework that isn't graded, he doesn't see the point to a bath because it doesn't bother him.

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I agree with you, I liked the update very much, but that specific part felt really wrong

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Maybe i don't remember it exactly but my problem with that scene was different. It felt too robotic. Like "Oh btw idc about your junk, i'm ace", "oh ok". 

Like in real life that's not what happens.. Something like cooper joking he's just lying because he wants to see him naked is way more realistic.


It also confuses the audience a bit. In the same minute, we are told the mc is asexual, meaning we probably won't get lewd scenes because asexuality usually means you don't like sex, but in the same second we see cooper's junk.

So like.. a bit confusing.

"asexuality usually means you don't like sex"

It doesn't. Asexuality means you don't experience sexual attraction. Meaning, you don't get involuntary neurochemical signals labelled as sexual desire in response to stimuli. Some asexual people absolutely do enjoy sex, others don't. And some allosexual people don't enjoy sex.

So you're saying he could find coop attractive and have sex with him for the purpose of uhh.. bodily pleasure. Without any horniness that people feel?

I think i can somewhat grasp the idea..

Well yes, but there are several kinds of attraction, sexual attraction being the kind that asexual people don't experience. And he doesn't even necessarily need to find Cooper attractive to enjoy sex with him.