This is a bit OT, but I've mentioned before that Desmond reminds me of a young Milo Yiannopolous. Milo's having a small meltdown on twitter now after his father had died and he's been talking about his mom and how her behaviour enabled what he eventually became.
I'm not gonna discuss whether there is some truth on that, because it's a bit irrelevant, but here are some highlights to consider:
He's said before that after his parents left him, he lived among gay people since he was a kid with his grandma. He's mentioning that he truly dislikes now his mother because he blames her for the things that he did:
I know that a lot are saying "it's not their fault, it's your own decisions", but Milo had a similar childhood to Desmond's, a mother (and a grandma?) enabling certain behaviours that they thought were normal and funny rather than dangerous for a young boy still in development. And we know he was indeed sexually abused when he was a teen. So, yes, there is some similarity between these two aside from the physical similarities. Why they both have the ability to choose, when you're so fucked up in childhood, you take bad decisions in your older years.
Even if Desmond wasn't actually sexually abused, all the exposure to sexual degeneracy and the loose parenting of his mom (and the father's implicit absence) is gonna make him become another Milo, a sexual degenerate that's gonna be an easy target for older predators and become associate with other people who are as lost as he is. I really don't think that Desmond's not getting more than 2000 dudes by the time he reaches 20 as well. I hope he doesn't, but I think this is what's gonna happen to him.