Displaced Hero - Relationship Poll Results (Patreon)
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Alright, everyone! I closed down the sort-of-final relationship poll for Displaced Hero a day early so I could separate this announcement from the results of the monthly poll. This one needs enough discussion that I felt it would be better not to cram them together and, frankly, there had been all of two additional votes added to it after the latest Displaced Hero release. Since there were a total of 263 votes, the additions were negligible, and I didn't see that changing. Everyone who wanted to vote seems to have done so. So...let us peek at the results first!
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OC Sith Girl: 39%
No More Girls: 22%
Light Side Asajj Ventress: 15%
Asora Tuzm: 14%
Luxum - The Iron Knight: 9%
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Well, that's a pretty clear victory. Not quite an outright majority, but more than double the next contender, which was just to not add another girl at all. I admit, I'm a little baffled. I never expected an original character who is, for all intents and purposes, just a sight-unseen idea, to pull a victory in a relationship poll. I've never even done an established OC in a relationship before, since I tend to assume people prefer to see canon characters involved in them :-p.
The people have spoken, however!
You lot want Hot Sith Girl goodness, so we're getting Hot Sith Girl goodness!
That said, there is a reason I called the poll out as 'sort of final' at the start of the post. Our nebulous Sith Girl is locked in to the harem/polycule now. Buuuuutttt she's a bit of a nebulous existence! We know what species she's going to be! Awesome! We also know that she's going to be a bit more of a Grey/Neutral Force User (though not an outright Darksider). However, that's all the definition I put into the idea of her for the voting.
As a result, I've been toying with possible options. It was pretty clear she was winning for the last couple of weeks, so I've had time to consider how I wanted to do this. I want to create an OC that is going to fit with what people were voting for, despite the nebulousness of the concept provided, while I also being something I feel I can write. To the end, I've been brainstorming a bit, both about how to run a follow up poll and about the character herself. I've even gone so far as booting up SWTOR, which I hadn't played in years, and running through the only one of the core stories that I've never played (Sith Inquisitor, for the curious). Which has been moderately fun, I have to admit. Even if I'm not a big fan of the story in that path so far (and hate every single one of it's companions so far), it's still been good for getting into the mindset for brainstorming a bit.
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The result of all of this is that I've drawn up concepts for four possible variants of the Sith Girl character. I don't want the poll to be too spoiler heavy, so what I'm currently doing is working on creating general 'profiles' for each variant. There will be slight spoilers, since I'll be doing a brief background blurb to explain where each one would come from. Aside from that, however, I'll also be including some general details for each one. Such as their skill sets (Force and Otherwise), general personality traits, and...well...kinks and switch/sub orientation. I'm not blind to the fact you lot are perverts, you know. It's okay, I obvious am too ;-).
Anyway, all of that massive wall of text to say: Within the next few days, hopefully on the 26th or 27th, there will be a new poll up. It will include the profiles I'm working on and allow people to vote on which variant sounds the most interesting. Hopefully, this will work to refine the idea into something that actually matches what people were hoping for.
One final note, just since I mentioned playing SWTOR for ideas. No, none of the ideas will be either of the Sith playable characters from SWTOR. Frankly, both of them get far too hideously powerful for that. There may be some story tie-ins related to them with a couple of the options though ;-).