#polymance

[iwrite-sinsandtragedies]

OC x Canon Week 2025 Day 6 — Hug from Behind + Floral/Animal Print & ("Jealous much?")

Anyways! Here's the next piece for @theocxcanonweek

Game: Our Life: Beginnings & Always Characters: China Schuyler x Cove Holden (ft. Baxter Ward}

tfw your new girlfrend's boyfriend is still salty with you for your past transgressions...

Ngl, sometimes I feel like Cove is just a soundboard for all my strongest impulses 🤣 I love him so dearly and I get a very distinct joy from watching Baxter's struggle to get on his good side.

He's definitely going to have to work harder this time around for that approval rating, though. After Step 3, Baxter's popularity score plummeted into the negatives amongst Ai's family and friends 😂 I'm sure he appreciates that she's still got a positive opinion of him, but I'm also sure he probably thinks her regard is severely misplaced!

What can she do 🤷‍♂️ the girl just loves who she loves, okay?

Anyways, I imagine this moment is not too long after the Step 4 confession. Terry and Miranda may have saved Baxter from a bruised jaw, sure, but certainly not a bruised ego LOL

A/N: If you look closely, you can see that Baxter isn't too impressed with Cove right now either! 🤣

[my-god606]

|Sidestep — Old vs New|

[lingering-nomad]

I'd really like to see more poly Astarion headcanons, but 90% of the posts mentioning poly Astarion are mono-shippers going "no shade if you ship this, but I just think it's abusive and icky and not true love and kind of pervy and not really god-honouring and jealousy is so sexy and..."

If you have poly Astarion headcanons, please share them 🙏🥲 You will be improving my mental health

[modernwitchcoven]

do u know if any of the other characters besides the already established polymance would work well 2gether?

basically:

peter and yasmin

angela and jade

angela and noor

jackson and clyde

clyde and.... jackson... haha..

emil and peter

emil and g

emil and noor

yasmin and jade maybe?

[iwrite-sinsandtragedies]

Day 4 — AU ₊˚✧ ﾟ

Submission for @minthe-drawings #BaxterMCWeek!

MC: Ai/Sky

[lingering-nomad]

I've never talked about monogamous Astarion, cos it's not a dynamic that interests me. I've made a couple of posts about poly Astarion because that's the dynamic I like and am invested in. I'm just amazed by the amount of people who claim to be invested in him being monogamous and "don't care what other ppl do," yet they're spending all their time and energy screeching about how shipping him in a polycule is "not canon" even though it's an option offered in the game with the same level of validity and impact as any other romantic route 🤷‍♀️

Companions who aren't poly tell you that in no uncertain terms. Astarion is canonically fine with being in a polycule according to the canonical dialogue between him and tav and tav and Halsin, who expressly says that he hopes to include Astarion in the sexual part of their relationship "once [Astarion] feels ready." Like... Halsin isn't "a bit on the side" for tav. This is an equal dynamic between all parties involved and that's how it's understood if you choose the poly route.

Anyway, what I do in my game, is canon for me. That's the point of RPGs. I don't care what you do in yours. Every choice the devs included in the game is canon for someone. Stick to yours and shut up about what other people do.

[iwrite-sinsandtragedies]

@organized-chaotic-disaster I totally see what you mean 😭 (tho I haven’t played the Derek or Baxter DLCs myself). Tbh I think the main reason you can’t be poly is the fact that it would be hard to implement in an already complex game with high customization of your experience, especially since it’s written by one person— idk how they’d do that tbh. And I know GB has gone on record to say that Cove wouldn’t be down for a poly relationship, but it still sucks to not have the option. I understand why poly relationships aren’t really a thing in games— a combination of monogamy being the norm irl and the difficulty in implementing the mechanic itself —but I hope one day those barriers can be broken down so it becomes an option 😭 And sorry if any of this comes across as me coming for you or something, that’s not my intention!!! I just had some thoughts I wanted to share. Overall I definitely agree that things like this could and should be handled better, and hopefully will be with future games with dateable NPCs— I’d love to explore that myself, and I wish I could with OL.

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Mm, It's certainly not impossible to add in those features [the FH series, for example, is a single writer and they've added in poly options upon fan requests] but, I can understand not wanting to put the extra work in yeah, especially since the creator has been saying for a while now that "this is the last thing I'll do for olba" like, they seem to be really trying to move on to the next project, so I get it.

It's also why I don't expect to ever get any resolution for this😔but it still does make me very sad because I really do love this game so much, it's one of the few forms of media out there that make me feel comfortable/understood/safe with myself and the lack of a poly option really takes away from that feeling quite a bit.

My main gripe though is that there isn't any conversation at all about it. Like, that just takes away from the experience of the game.

Once you choose to date Baxter, everyone just goes 'Error 404' on you and seems to outright forget that you were basically setting up to and expected to marry Cove. That, to me, reads like a failing of writing.

Like, there should be some dialogue, y'know? Cove should be able to question your relationship, even in a round-about and self-concious/self-serving way, there should be some tension there where he has to tackle his very real feelings for you and you can possibly do the same for him but, there's just none. Like, if you flirt with him in Step 2, have that romantic tension carry over to Step 3 he shouldn't be able to just shrug off all his feelings instantly. Feelings don't work that way, bro😂It just bugs me that it's so inorganic and unable to be explored. Cove and MC have a lot of history, they should be able to talk about it in every aspect, y'know?

Also! Not ranting at you specifically, lmao! I'm just sharing my feelings. Thank you so much for replying to me, I really enjoyed reading your thoughts! It's also just nice to see that someone out there also wants the poly options like me🥺we got too much love in our wee little hearts for this single romance bs lmaooo

I lowkey wish there was a mod community for games like these😂ngl, it'd be nice to just have a mod that ignored certain flags or something so that you could at least have the romantic tension still there with Cove while you romance someone else. It doesn't fix the lack of dialogue option but it'd be better than the clear and noticable lack of what was clearly there before. At least then it'd be easier to pretend there was something to bite into lol