It's true, people who practice the kind of free love Halsin says he likes are in the minority. People like me who find him to be good rep of what it's like being ethically nonmonogamous without the option to agree to monogamy, we are in the minority in pretty much every context we step into. Monogamy is by far the norm. I wonder if it's jarring for Halsin coming from a polynormative society instead of a mononormative one? In my mononormative society, most people want monogamy, and monogamy is what's supported when I look at important stuff in my real life, from legal stuff like marriage and kids and to cultural stuff like propositioning people for romance and dates.

Of the people who like what Halsin likes in intimacy, players of video games are a smaller portion, people playing BG3 a smaller number, and people romancing Halsin a much smaller number. There will definitely be many more monogamous people interacting with Halsin's romance than nonmonogamous people. There will then within that small percentage of people who are nonmonogamous (or RPing nonmonogamous characters) be people who like and want structured polyamory, like a closed triad or long-term partnership commitment. Of players who romance Halsin who are alike to him in terms of nonmonogamy, those who chat online are an even smaller, smaller number. So I don't doubt at all that the majority of players will hear Halsin's, "This is how I am, I hope you like that," and will answer, "No I do not like that." And I don't doubt at all that the majority of comments online will be coming from people who are not like him and would prefer he be changed by his writer.

I'm realizing, this might be the only time monogamous players have a conversation with a nonmonogamous character who declines monogamy like this. Is it a totally unique story to Halsin? Has any romance in a video game had this type of character before?

It seems like it's been really jarring for a lot of players to run into a character like this. It's a bummer that not receiving the open-to-monogamy character that was expected by early access players has created feelings of discomfort and disappointment. It's a bummer that there are comments like the ones that say or imply Halsin has a disgusting fetish and is immature for how he practices nonmonogamy in this thread on a site where real people who live like he lives can read it. What you like is not what I like. And that's okay. Nothing to be done about that.

If a Halsin who accepts monogamy gets patched in, I'll be curious how it's something the character released to us handles it. It would be sad to see his current characterization go away. At the very least, having all his wonderful field voice lines trigger when I click on him would be really really nice for players like me who always have him in the party as soon and as often as I can. I want to hear him reminisce about the chimera. Love this dude.