Maxim has changed my life, now I'm the alpha of my acquaintances, and I broke free from the shackles of my omeganess (which makes me wonder of looksmaxxing in the omegaverse now........).
And overall, yes, everything you mention is right! I wanted to tackle the theme, and indeed, the mention of a possible son is quite important! At first, I wrote the line with the neutral "they" pronoun but then I thought "as if a guy like hi is going to use the gender-neutral 'they'"! And you're right for the ending: I wanted him to feel human, to feel that somehow he isn't exactly at the right place, that he can feel it, but the toxic mentality of the manosphere is alas so ingrained into his mind that it wouldn't have felt in character for him to have his big moment; and yet, I still wanted to include him to make of this game something other than mockery and disdain, because in the end, I do pity those people blinded by the vanities of life and trapped into such horrible mindsets 😭😭
Regarding the art, I won't lie, I didn't necessarily try to make him look like a man in his 40s LOL (I guess Lazare is a good reference for how I'd approach a 40-yo man), but indeed, he does look like older than 22 — he loses his youth, somehow, to his toxic undertaking. And in the end, yes, I fail to see how this path doesn't lead to more and more problems as you age...
Thanks for playing the game and sharing your very interesting thoughts (as usual!), I'm glad you appreciated it (especially since it's so different from my previous O2A2 entries LOL)!