Mouthwashing if it was a
GOOD game:
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Edit: before someone quotes me for "making fun of rape", I'm making fun of the inclusion of rape as a story element in the game. Writers agree if you can write anything else in than rape, you should. It's a cheap narrative tactic to shock the audience. The games story would still be good if instead of rape you wrote in literally anything else.
I can't fathom playing/watching a playthrough of Mouthwashing and thinking the rape was a "cheap narrative tactic to shock the audience."
1) The assault is only vaguely alluded to (we never learn the details of how she was assaulted or if it was repeated), so much so that a lot of players (predominantly men) didn't even pick up on it and had to go to the internet for answers when the game first released
2) The timeline of Anya's pregnancy means she will have to give birth on the ship, which will not only humiliate her in front of the entire crew as they will all know she is either a rape victim or in a relationship with one of the other men, but will also be very dangerous because the med bay has such limited resources
3) Anya's pregnancy is evidence of Jim's assault and is what catalyzes him into trying to destroy the ship and everyone on board
4) Anya's assault is an indicator of how dangerous Jim is and how much Curly will bend over backward to enable him, which turns out tragically for the whole crew
5) Anya's pregnancy haunts Jim as it is evidence of the assault that will last to the end of their voyage and will force him to take responsibility/accountability (something he spends the whole game running from)
It is Anya's assault, not the crash, that is really the catalyst for all the events of Mouthwashing. You don't get the same effect if Jim simply beat her, or even if he killed another member of the crew. It is vital to the story that someone (Anya) be raising the alarm about Jim and that Curly not believe her. It is vital that some evidence of this later appears (the pregnancy) that Jim can't escape from. It is vital to the story that Jim doesn't see Anya as a person. This is basic
media literacy.
The fanbase is such fucking cancer, though.