Talk:San Francisco Lovers/Archive

Polycule

I'm no one of any "authority", as much as anyone could have any in a collaborative writing/fanon environment, not in the Discord or anything. But given the nature of the Lovers implied in the second paragraph (the roster is made up of Knight Urlacher's partners), I just want to note that it seems like a thorny situation when the potential for roster trades exist. As I'm writing this, the end of Season 3 is approaching, and that means blessings and decrees may shake up the team. In writing in reaction to this, I'm just hoping that people are careful with the pitfall of declaring "Because <player> is now on the team, they must be in a relationship with Knight" and the reason that's horrifying should be self-evident. Same for the inverse - "Kennedy Meh is now a Shoe Thief and Knight can no longer love them."

Most of what I've seen so far is chill and good, but I dread the possibility of The Discourse ending up being about this possibility.

Delayed response to this, but I think we've been pretty chill about this still... although there haven't been huge switch ups. I'm also not an expert on polycules or poly relationships but it's my understanding that we COULD reword that somehow if it makes people feel like there's some "forced relationship aspect". I think the way it's intended is that the polycule extends in many different directions and while maybe not all roads lead to Urlacher, Urlacher is found at the "heart" of this polycule and tying all these different personalities together, etc.

I do think this does bring up a valid point though that someday we'll get someone who isn't a character we can just go "Oh, they're dating a Lover now." without rustling feathers. So maybe it's worth discussing or having a plan in place?MEMANIAsama (talk) 02:03, 5 October 2020 (UTC)