Originally Posted by Gray Ghost
I haven't followed this discussion super closely recently so pardon me if I get something wrong, but there's an aspect of this whole situation that I do find pretty weird. I don't know polyamory super well personally, but I have known one or two people who are polyamorous, and I've seen discussions of it with moderate frequency elsewhere, so I'm not speaking in total ignorane when I say that in general, a polyamorous relationship doesn't strictly mean that the people within it are seeing other people at that exact moment. Two poly people don't stop being poly if they're only in a relationship with each other for a while. Halsin saying that you have to be actively pursuing someone else to be with him seems strange to me in light of that. It doesn't seem crazy to me that he would just be with Tav and be fine with only Tav for like, the week or two that the final part of the game seemingly takes place in? It's not like prior to that he's expressed strong emotional connections to any other companions that he'd feel compelled to pursue, and it's not like he'll have a lot of time to meet new folks while he's busy saving the world with us.

I get what you mean and I agree with you, that a person doesn't necessarily become monogamous just because they date just one person, that's right.

Still this would give enough room to even have more or less three different endings:

A) Halsin is in a polyship with the Tav, but not dating anyone else right now
B) Halsin is in a monoship with the Tav
C) Halsin is in a polyship with the Tav and is dating someone else too

Right now Halsin is written inconsistenly, so there is enough room for some improvement. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Halsin is not poly, he is mostly written like that and he should stay like that for everyone who wants him to be this way, but still same could be possible for a monoship.
I never asked for removal of his poly side, I always asked more for adding additional paths.

EDIT:
Personally I would like to see Halsin dating others just to see the difference between mono and poly.

EDIT 2:
Well he has enough time to whittle, to get engaged with the drow twins, getting known to 9 wagons full of kids, having sex with us and so on, so I think time is a 50/50 point. Also he still could date another companion and if Larian really wanted to come up with it, they could find ideas. It's not like their are not bending lots of stuff already for stuff to work (and I'm not even talking about all the plotholes).
If anything, it feels more like they have some kind of vacation in Baldur's Gate, it's not like we have a brain eating thing in our head or there are still two guys who are up to some bad stuff, nope. Moonrise and the dungeons below it has been the climax and from then on it went downwards.

Last edited by Filia; 01/03/24 06:20 PM.
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