Originally Posted by Tharrow
It's important to remember, all of the origins are playersexual: how they act in their companion romance is not reflective of the canon the player creates for them when playing as them. It is not a clear conclusion that any of the origins are monogamous: because any time the player plays them, they can pursue the poly arrangement.
I'm not sure to what extent you were responding to me here, but regardless I want to be clear about what I was saying before. I wasn't making any claim on the basis of how the player RPs when they are playing as a particular origin. As you say, how an origin character behaves as the PC is not canon for how they behave when they are a companion. As a PC, you can make them all do things that the companion version would never do.

However, when any of the origin characters are played by the player, any of the origin companions can fall in love with them - or so I understand. So, for example, Wyll and Karlach won't get together if you're playing Tav or Durge, but they can get together if you are playing as either of them. If you like, you can choose to interpret this as simply an extension of the playersexual writing. I don't think that's an unfair interpretation. Most days, that's how I view it myself. But today, reading back over people's comments, I found myself looking at it differently. Maybe the fact that all origin companions can romance all origin PCs means that they all have a certain romantic compatibility with each other. If Companion Karlach would romance Tav or Wyll when either of them is the PC, but would not romance Tav plus Wyll, maybe that points towards her being written as having a strong monogamous preference. The same seems to apply to all the origin companions. Given that they can be read this way, it honestly seems difficult to see how they (as companions, not PCs) could be written as cool with having a poly relationship with Halsin. They have already refused poly relationships with the other origin companions, who they'd arguably be romantically compatible with, so why would they make a special exception for Halsin?

I do think this "problem" disappears if you simply choose to say "every origin companion is playersexual, and that's the only reason they all seem compatible with each other." I just don't feel 100% confident that this is the only reason.