It would have been a much shorter post for you to just say you haven't played the game but have watched commentary on it and seen some of the fandom slop.
Face it, Mouthwashing is a male-centric game where the only female character is barely developed, used for shock value and the only reason why she even suffered that fate to begin with is because she was too close with the captain guy, the actually important character.
The reason Anya is under-developed is because the story is told from the POV of Curly and Jimmy, two people who don't care about her at all and one of which doesn't even see her as human. This is something called an "
unreliable narrator," something that most people learn about in high school, but it's possible you missed that lesson. There's a reason that in the "hallway of shame" sequence near the end of the game, when Jimmy is realizing that the fates of the crew are his fault, Anya's face cannot be seen anywhere.
I hate the term "media illiterate" but this is exactly what it means. Do you also complain that all the women in American Psycho are vapid, dumb whores; or that all the businessmen look and act alike?
If half of the audience is missing the fact that Anya was raped and also that she's pregnant, then it can't have been used for shock value. Kind of undermines the entire point of doing something for shock value. Anya's unwilling pregnancy is the reason Jimmy tries to wreck the ship with no survivors. She will have a baby and everyone will know one of the men on board did it, and they'll be able to DNA test the baby. It is necessary to move the plot from point A to point B. Jimmy would not be in the same predicament if he had just copped a feel, or beaten Anya. When something is necessary for the plot, it can't be done for shock value.
Also she's not close with the captain, at all, lmao. Captain Curly doesn't pick up on the fact that she's been raped (probably repeatedly) and, later, is suicidal until she flat out tells him, and each time Curly's foremost concern is how to spare Jimmy's feelings in that scenario.
I wouldn't call Curly the least important character because Daisuke takes that spot imo. But Curly's right behind him. He ignores Jimmy's dangerous and damaging behavior at the beginning of the story (if we're going in chronological order), but apart from that he is a silent and passive observer. An utterly blank canvas for Jimmy to project his own delusions onto.
The MC's motives revolve around the guy, he spends most of his time with him, and their weird codependent "relationship" at the end of the game is basically the main quirk of the story.
No, Jimmy's motives revolve around Jimmy. All he cares about is feeding his own ego and keeping his own hide safe, at the expense of everyone around him. Curly gets Jimmy a job on the ship, putting his career and reputation on the line for his felon friend, and what does Jimmy do? Rapes Anya and then tries to kill everyone on board.
They don't have a codependent relationship either. That would imply they need or rely on each other. Jimmy projects his own feelings onto Curly because he's jealous of Curly's career. It has nothing to do with Curly himself. At the end of the game Jimmy "saves" Curly (a.k.a. dooming him to starve to death in space) because he, master of self-delusion, has convinced himself that it's the noble path and he's atoning for his sins, when in reality he's blowing his brains out to avoid the consequences of his actions and doesn't have the guts to end Curly's suffering
Do I need to go on? Are you unaware of just how loud and popular that ship is as a result?
"This ship is popular so that must mean the creators intended for the two men to secretly be in love" are you fucking retarded? Fandoms will ship ANYTHING, regardless of if it makes sense or not.
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