Skandranon
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I think you're misunderstanding something here: I'm not talking about sharing content, I'm talking about the nature and expectations of the relationships themselves.CoC1 generally associated sex with corruption. Previously, you gave examples of CoC1 characters that had sharing content, and most of them were corrupt. Over time, CoC1 did add more sharing content in. And, Savin wrote for CoC1, and the characters he puts the most work into tend to have a similar theme (Helia, Anno, Cait). TiTs is much more of a power fantasy because Fen as the lead wanted it that way. Savin doesn't like power fantasies, so he dialed it back in CoC2 since he was the lead.
Characters aren't polyamorous because the PC is polyamorous. Characters are polyamorous because the writers either like that content, and/or prefer writing two characters interacting because they have a concrete visualization of the character, while the PC is a transformation blob that requires accounting for parsers. That also leads to threesomes which should be about all three of the characters, but at times the PC gets sidelined over the two NPCs.
If the writers didn't like poly content, then the character wouldn't have it written. Brienne has a strict rule on that, even though Savin wants to write threesome content for her. This isn't even because Wsan dislikes poly content. I think he knows Brienne would drop in popularity if it happened.
Every relationship and every character in this game is an open relationship, including Kiyoko and Brienne and all the Champ-centric characters. They don't expect your character to be exclusive to them, and your character also does not have any expectations of exclusivity from them. The fact that said characters only bang your champ is simply from lack of interest, not from the restrictions of the relationship itself. You have a conversation with both Kiyoko and Brienne about this exact thing.
That's what I mean, and that's what's been the same in all three games. No jealousy, and no in universe expectation of monogamy either way in the relationship, even if monogamy is enforced on the writer's side.
I don't think that's what those polls say...at all. Just that group sex isn't very high on the fetish list, not that they prefer monogamous relationships. It's a couple of leaps to extrapolate that.At least the subset of CoC2 patreon supporters appear to prefer monogamy.
Not really. I can buy basically an open relationship. A relationship that's only open one way is a much harder sell.Does polyamory hurt the plot? It's also widely illogical, and very rarely works in real life.
Nothing to do with time, just the dilution of affection. And "one-sided", meaning a relationship where one side is clearly more invested than the other.Spread out, like in game time, or out of game real life time? Also, what do you mean by one-sided?
Of course it would be in the part of the game I've never done.Yes. One example of it affecting the ingame story directly (not just game mechanics) is Kinu. She's an extremely fast learner, so fast that her mother teaches her the wrong thing in an event because she's jealous. Kinu gets frustrated when she has difficulting learning how to use her first weapon because she's never before had difficulty learning something quickly. This is because she inherited her father's ability to learn things quickly.