I did not originally expect the poly path.
I was looking forward to either a Jaye ending or a Mallory ending based on my choices, which I got.
I don't think it is strange for Jaye to be the catalyst for a polyamory relationship with Mallory and the MC.
Who is more likely to persuade Mallory to share the MC?
- the MC, with a guy's motivations for sex
or
- Jaye, who wants all three of them to be happy together and build a new family around the three of them.
Jaye can persuade Mallory that this is okay - and something worth pursuing - because she is the one willing to give up dedicated time with the MC so that Mallory and the MC can also build their relationship.
She can also appeal to the friendship that she and Mallory have been building and that Jaye sees polyamory as a way to make their relationship even stronger.
I don't know what differences the devs assign to a polyamorous versus throuple relationship - if any (I want to say it is more than mere semantics but that is just my conjecture for now).
I think we need to wait for the final release with all the epilogue moments to get clarity here.
IMO - still a great story with characters that resonate with me, and I would have been fine with just the two solo endings - Jaye and Mallory.
Was the polyamory ending or the throuple commentary/ending? (whether they are effectively the same or different) a bridge too far?
I won't know until we have the end of the story, and I am still looking forward to seeing what happens in those epilogue moments.
Cheers!!
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