Originally Posted by TheOracle
are you suggesting that what origin characters do while under the control of the player should be considered canon or something to that effect?

Wanting poly romance is one of choices afforded to the player when RPing as the origins that can become that game's canon, yeah of course.

Gale falling in love with Astarion, then propositioning Halsin too, and negotiating between the three of them is completely in-character for Gale. Because for a person who selects Gale in the character creation screen and then plays this poly route with him, Gale is poly.

The sexuality of being monogamous or polyamorous is not coded into the origins, they have all of the options available to them so the player decides. The studio could have coded it so they weren't playersexual, right? If they guided the romance options, then certain paths wouldn't be open.

When we as fans write about the characters, I just have been keeping in mind that to say something like, this origin is obviously monogamous, or to say, that origin is clearly not able to consent to wanting poly, remember all the other fans who are experiencing the characters from the inner world of playing as them and making decisions with that character to want poly. Playing the origin stories to experience them is just as valid a type of gameplay as staying on the outside as a Tav and only seeing the origins through the perspective of their companion stories. Fans, in the case of origins, can't say that any origin is hard-coded with one static sexuality, and that that is the only correct way to interpret them, because other fans are being the characters and choosing different paths romantically, and experiencing the character in love in all the ways the game allows. I hope that helps elucidate the point I'm trying to make.