... if it was done correctly. Honestly, Pray's arrival into their relationship felt more like the author needed another character (like wtf for?) to give Jan the emotional awakening he needed to grow up. Honestly, we didn't need another character to do that by overturning the whole bonding thing; Jan had Kurtz who was already bonded to a Hugo to do that for him, but of course, we needed an excuse for a 3p DP. It would have been okay, had Jan and Jamil had the on-screen conversation they needed as opposed to Pray getting all those. It's not like we needed further deliniation between those two since they were visually polar opposites, but the fact that the author made it SO obvious that the human ~connection~ between Hugo and bondmate is only possible because of the jmperfection in Pray's creation made the whole Pray conflict about Jamil being well-made as opposed to hum who wasn't moot. Like, there were whole ass chapters dedicated to Pray ripping Jamil apart for ~pretending~ to be human and then Jamil wasn't even given a chance to show what that was like? No mention of it at all between Jan and Jamil. It felt like Jamil was the character development trope and Pray was the Mr. Right, except Jan just hadn't been able to move on (and the author was kinky) so they decided to all stay together. I was expecting at least half a chapter of Jan and Jamil, just the two of them, talking about why Jan broke up with Jamil in the first place, but it was just... nada. Lol ranting but akfhskfnefnjd this is NOT a well-established poly and I am Sad.
Overall rating, 3 stars, for the thought experiment. Seokie out.
... if it was done correctly. Honestly, Pray's arrival into their relationship felt more like the author needed another character (like wtf for?) to give Jan the emotional awakening he needed to grow up. Honestly, we didn't need another character to do that by overturning the whole bonding thing; Jan had Kurtz who was already bonded to a Hugo to do that for him, but of course, we needed an excuse for a 3p DP. It would have been okay, had Jan and Jamil had the on-screen conversation they needed as opposed to Pray getting all those. It's not like we needed further deliniation between those two since they were visually polar opposites, but the fact that the author made it SO obvious that the human ~connection~ between Hugo and bondmate is only possible because of the jmperfection in Pray's creation made the whole Pray conflict about Jamil being well-made as opposed to hum who wasn't moot. Like, there were whole ass chapters dedicated to Pray ripping Jamil apart for ~pretending~ to be human and then Jamil wasn't even given a chance to show what that was like? No mention of it at all between Jan and Jamil. It felt like Jamil was the character development trope and Pray was the Mr. Right, except Jan just hadn't been able to move on (and the author was kinky) so they decided to all stay together. I was expecting at least half a chapter of Jan and Jamil, just the two of them, talking about why Jan broke up with Jamil in the first place, but it was just... nada. Lol ranting but akfhskfnefnjd this is NOT a well-established poly and I am Sad.
Overall rating, 3 stars, for the thought experiment. Seokie out.