LOL, and here I thought I was having a conversation with a grown ass 30+ woman and not a reddit user.

Throwing insults and implying people are incels because someone disagreed with you, come now. wink

Maybe its the poly outlook that you are used to/hold that doesn't allow you to see this but the problem doesn't come from people flirting with others, it doesn't even come from people flirting and experimenting in open relationships. It comes from companions flirting while in established mono relationships and mono mindsets. Both Astarion and Shadowheart don't talk or mention any of their willingness to share outside of those Halsin/Mizora scenes.

It is as if there are two version of those characters. One that exists in the main timeline where you are doing their story/romance and the other that rears its head when the game needs a spicy poly option despite that other version clashing with the already established story.

Again if a character isn't willing to open their relationship with anyone and are fully against it suddenly change their mind for this one character I'm going to point out that its contradictory, poorly written and full of implications that this character is a writers pet (OC please do not steal - look how cool and better my character is)

edit. To make my stance even more clear and my irritation as to how it was written. What is your opinion on this - You ask a character about their opinion on sharing and they say they are against it, you ask this character about opening you relationship and they say no they are not into it, you flirt and become intimate with someone else and this character immediately starts a conversation how they don't like it and that the relationship cant continue because they are not into opening the relationship but then a scene that is no way, shape or form connected to their story and your characters relationship with them shows up they say they are down with it and they were always a fan of poly relationships. Because to me that is a bit contradictory is it not?

And no, Halsin and his writer have leaned deeply into the degeneracy (not polyamory) during this games marketing and writing. He's not an romance anarchist he's just a poorly written character that people had hoped would have more depth than just being a thirst trap.

As someone who has experienced the hook up culture and had my fair share of partners I can say without a doubt that I have many issues when it comes to poly people and their dogma of repeating the same lies of respecting others boundaries despite being selfish and emotional abusers most of the time. (maybe you are different and that makes you unique)

I understand being emotionally tied to a character (everyone has been at some point) that offers you something that other games don't and the criticism of others has maybe made you combinative. If we could continue this discussion somewhere else I would love to (preferably without it turning into a insult fest - I'm okay with disagreements) but I think at this point the Red Queen is going to jettison our asses out of this thread.

Last edited by Rotsen; 02/09/23 03:17 PM.