Great story, though I don't particularly like how sort of dominating and manipulative Bliss feels and how it going to play out with her pushing other girls to be sexual. I also do hope the MC becomes the more dominating type as he should instead of Bliss or any other girl. Having Bliss take down Topher instead of the MC is incredibly humiliating. Overall in my opinion lay off the dominating manipulative side of Bliss and let the MC man up and be dom.
I feel like you're missing a few important things, damnmalic. Bliss is a Dom, and she's teaching the MC to be more dominant. It's not manipulation, it's encouragement. If you played A Petal Among Thorns, you'll notice that the MC is a lot more outgoing and forward about what he wants now. Character growth is important to a story.
MC is not a brawler or a fighter. He's a family man. Punching a kid in the face would be out of character for him. The entire point of the Topher scene was to showcase Bliss's weakness: her over-protective nature.
The reason Bliss is encouraging MC to fool around with other women will be revealed more in the upcoming release. And then from there, she'll explain more in the release after next. I'll give you a hint though. Men are cursed. We will always want more sex than we'll ever get. Bliss is heavily invested in learning human behavior, so she understands this. She wants the MC to be satisfied, so she's seducing other women for him. This is a level of love you will never see in reality.
I get that this kind of story might not be your preferred flavor. That's fine, and there's plenty of AVNs out there that showcase men you might be more interested in following in their journey. I might write a story about a more dominant MC one day, like Cassian from Penny for Your Thoughts. Chester will also be more dominant later, but he'll never be a fighter. It's simply not his character.
Thanks for playing.
As disappointing as it is since I really enjoyed A Petal Among Thorns having a MC that’s less dominant and I guess less “traditionally masculine” isn’t my kind of thing and neither is girl on girl so I guess I’ll be sitting this story out. I also completely understand the whole character growth but I wish it happened more on its own rather than being pushed/encouraged by Bliss and in my opinion even if it isn’t in someone’s nature as a “landlord” it’s your job to protect and stand up to people like Topher. I didn't mean any harm with my comments and I thank you for the reply.
I don't know how you think things happen "on their own". We change and grow because of the influences in our lives, whether they come from circumstances or other individuals. We get into a comfortable routine and do not change. A rudimentary understanding of psychology shows us this. It is only when we become uncomfortable, or someone enters our lives and changes our routine, that we are forced to renegotiate our habits. Growing through outside influences by interacting with others who exhibit the kind of personality traits that we value does not conflict with organic change, rather its necessary for it. We all like what we like, but I think your aversion is due to misguided notions about the relationship we have with our own psychological progression. No hate, all love. I hope you find what you're looking for.
You were born from a test tube in an artificial womb? You have no father or mother or both, and no siblings? You never went to school? You never had any friends, no acquaintances, no interactions with others? You never had a job requiring you to interact with people? You have never left your house and observed any other human in their habitat? You have never watched the news, watched youtube videos, you've never written in comments on visual novel pages? You never read any books, newspapers, magazine articles? You never listened to music? I don't know you, but I doubt you live in profound and absolute isolation from human contact. Even if you did you have millennia of human biological electronics and energetic waveforms in constant play within you that did not originate at the point of your birth. Despite your presumptions, you have never been on your own, and I doubt you're different. You're one more human living one more human experience. You interact with thoughts, feelings, ideas, and concepts beyond yourself, are affected by them, and in conjunction with, acceptance of, and resistance to those things, you grow. You're not alone, and don't grow on your own.