#polybells

[sparring-spirals]

You know, I really respect that not only is their solution to issues "spooky shit" and "polyamory" but their ALIBIS are also exclusively "we saw spooky shit but it wasnt us" and "we were all too busy dating".

[maluspumilaa]

this is so messy but i just found the marker brush and went ham

[tinylilemrys]

no shipping wars in campaign 3. this is very obviously a polycule and i'm so here for it

[malaismere]

if you have the time it would be really interesting to see the c3 ship stats with ot3s included, especially because i feel like dorian/orym/fearne is fairly popular, or at least when dorian was around it was (and maybe also imogen/laudna/fearne?) i’m also not sure if there’s a tag like “poly bells” or “poly hells” but that would be interesting too!

So...Fearne/Orym/Dorian is the only polyship in any way popular, with 26 fics making it actually #6 overall; Orym/Ashton/Dorian is sitting pretty at 10, and Laudna/Fearne/Imogen at 7, everything else is a one or two use - polybells (well, Bells Hells/Bells Hells is the official ship tag on ao3) does have one use - you can't see it, because it's e15, for a single fic that has a lot of different poly tags on it.

I didn't include because I find the graphs to be messy and not add much (beyond the fact that Fearne/Dorian is basically 100% Fearne/Orym/Dorian, which I noted in commentary), but the images for everyone but Chetney (who's unchanged) are included below the cut. I'm not adding image descriptions or commentary to these.

[sparring-spirals]

The Other Bells @ Orym and Fearne: Oh no, you all are so used to snuggling with Dorian, it must have been so hard without him there?

Fearne/Orym: 🥺 yeah

Imogen, F.C.G, and Laudna, with 0 hesitation: SO if you want to cuddle with us, you know, bed open, would be absolutely THRILLED to cuddle with you two-

[sparring-spirals]

"It was a good night!" Ah, with one sentence, they've inducted Eshteross into their polycule-

"He's very spry for his age" JUST KIDDING, TWO SENTENCES