Why Was There No Truck?! - Poll Results! (Patreon)

First, don't miss the August Extra (Misfit System) that came out yesterday. I released it at a bit of an odd time, and don't want it to get buried by this and the next Stripper Update tomorrow :-p.

Now, with that out of the way, I wanted to do a hopefully-quick post about the Poll Results for the Why Was There No Truck?! relationship poll. Since I'm starting writing for the next release of it tonight, I closed it the poll down. The victory was clear (48% for Dinah and Talia both), but the comments were divisive enough that I wanted to talk about the results a smidge.

First and foremost since, between the Dinah only and Dinah+Talia options, Black Canary/Dinah had 78% support, I'm definitively adding her to the pairing. The setup for doing so is right there, so I'm not going to delay adding her. The first minor lemon featuring her and Alyssa will be in the upcoming update on the 20th. That much is set in stone.

Secondly, however...with the rather vocal pushback I got on the Talia/Dinah option being a bit at odds with the actual results of the poll, what I'm planning to do there is a little less direct. I'm going to escalate Talia's interest and make use of the fact she's a bit of a Voyeur, to build up the option of adding her a bit farther, while also giving me time to introduce a few more characters. Once I get some interaction with Barbara, Ghost Spider, and a few other women from various teams 'on screen' as it were, I'll revisit the Talia addition with a straight Yes/No vote on adding her.

Honestly, I'm not going to be surprised if she still gets added, the pair joining did walk away with a near-majority support. (Honestly, if it had hit 50% I'd have just locked it in and not bothered with this). There was enough pushback, though, that I want to make a clearer, cleaner poll adding her. It honestly won't affect much, as Talia was always going to take a bit longer to fold in, since Alyssa will need to work through to herself whether trying a polycule is even a good idea or not.

In the future, I'll likely no longer include pairs as poll options. It apparently caused issues this time, and I sort of regret having done it with Padmé/Sabé in Displaced Hero too, since it pushed the total pairing size in that fic higher than I was actually comfortable writing.

Anyway, that's all for now, folks!