Those people share a partner after all - you'd hope they get along.

The relationships in poly culture I witnessed are playful enough to have your metamours flirt with each other, or have some banter. His story outside of the ha ha I was a submissive sex slave of a drow matriarch and I like bear sex consists of - Healer in prison, tells you about Moonrise towers, Thaniels quest and nothing else unless I missed something or it bugged out. I don't want to go through a romance with Halsin where he talks about respecting boundaries, opening his heart to my character and his love for her, even the break up scene (what does he say? I don't want my heart being toyed with) only for him to start making moves on other companions/npc in front of my PC and doing the same shit he claims he doesn't like.Īnd again I want his character fleshed out. Sure he has conversation where he establishes his boundaries but then he proceeds to act like the main character in some cheap erotic visual novel.

Its obvious that being poly is a big part of Halsins character and I don't want that to be taken away from people that enjoy it but unlike you said in your other post where you see him as 'sex positive/having a healthy poly outlook' I only see a guy that hits on everything that walks, talks and baaas. Only one issue remains and that is the party banter one, both character have one party banter during their romances where Halsin makes a move ('Can I join?' I'm honestly starting to hate that) and instead of rejecting him they end up flirting with him (and this goes back to my statement that Halsin feels like the writers pet - character changing and doing things that they would never do but suddenly its okay because its Halsin) Even now you can ignore/reject the drow twins/sudden poly/Mizora scenes and nothing will change and no contradictory statements will be made. We will disagree on this but to be honest, my perfect outcome for this whole kerfuffle would be the removal of poly options from Astarion/Shadoheart. Majority of people in the EU are monogamous and unless I missed the memo about those 2pm group sex meetings at the town square where we call Americans puritans I don't think much has changed.Įither way I was never someone who discriminated or cared about other peoples private/sex lives as long as those relationships were between consenting adults. This part makes me smile because I've seen this argument/observation recently and as a European I would have to disagree. From an Anglo-American, non queer, very much not poly standpoint. Because I feel like a lot of this criticism is very.

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