#the vace romance

[thewarinourstarwars]

It took me two attempts to romance Vace successfully, but I learned a lot from my first attempt!

As a part of this run, I was also going to be an astronaut, and I was going to be besties with Nemmie and Rex, since I'd heard that those relationships were key to getting the most out of a Vace run and feeling less awful about it!

Things I found out from this first attempt:

You actually DO NOT have to break up Nemmie and Vace to have a good ending for both

I failed to have enough Persuasion the first time to do this, so they did not break up and I did not succeed in convincing Nemmie.

The epilogues change for Nemmie, Vace, and Rex if you are friends with all three of them!

Nemmie still becomes a stay-at-home mom, and Vace does relapse into old patterns, but because all three of you are friends, they do overcome it, and Nemmie avoids dying young (I failed to get peace in either of these endings oops or even meet Sym)

Rex and Vace also make up in the epilogue later on when they both mellow out as adults!

If you are an Astronaut and you fail to negotiate peace, you and Vace die together trying to find a new place to go because Vertumna isn't working out and you get unique death text!

What's most interesting, though, is that these epilogues are unique to you NOT breaking up Nemmie and Vace and NOT reconciling Rex with Vace in the game, but still getting Vace through his therapy arc!

That said, his Friendship 100 event will not appear if you do not break him and Nemmie up! How do I know? Because on the second run, instead of doing the Level 90 event and starting the therapy arc as soon as I could, I waited and got some Humanities classes and bought some gear to boost my Persuasion to level 32.

Here's what happened:

I broke him and Nemmie up (and learned from save-scumming that I did not want to flirt with him in the moment) and mentioned Rex (but did not have Level 50 persuasion to get him to agree to make up)

A few months later, we got Vace's friendship 100 event where I was able to successfully flirt and get into a healthy relationship with him.

I also told him he messed up with Rex, and he of course talked about Nemmie

We promised to leave for space together <3

And when you get together with him at this point, his dialogue is honestly so sweet, about how he isn't sure he can be a good partner with what he did with Nemmie, but he's willing to try and be better, I really liked this and it gave a lot of depth to the choice, was honestly worth everything you had to do to get to this point

I then raised Rex's friendship to 80 and opened a bunch of options to talk to him about Vace, and because I hit Friendship 100 with Vace, it right after had Vace and Rex reconcile

Failed to get peace again, became an Astronaut again

Nemmie and Rex's epilogues go back to their defaults with the usual mention of hating Vace for Nemmie and her dying young on the battlefield because I failed to negotiate peace

AND VACE'S EPILOGUE JUST DIDN'T SHOW?!?

I heard the astronaut ending is super glitchy and I'm wondering if that has something to do with it???

Either way, I'm disappointed, especially as it was hard to do this route, making my polycule was easier

And with the other epilogues, I honestly prefer the first astronaut ending

And that's the latest of Grace's Adventures on Vertumna! The Vace routes can be really rewarding, but man is there a lot of self-betrayal along the way.

[junoskelton]

not enough people in the world understand me nor the loves of my life marz and rex in i was a teenage exocolonist.

they mean the world to me and not enough people know about them.

i would do anything for the both of them there's not anything i wouldn't do for them.

please play this game it's so good i promise you, i so desperately want nothing more than to fill their tags on tumblr with posts and stuff because more people should know about them.

Less than 5k reviews on Steam, i want this shit to be so popular that everyone knows about it so help me god.

[alienglowgarden]

My personal exo Sexuality headcanons:

Theyre all poly queers who grew up in an equally queer hippie anarchist space colony and making certain characters straight when theyre not in-game because they give off "that vibe" is just bias.

I do wish there was some option where u basically just shack up with all of them and continue the hippie commune spirit. give these bitches a blockhouse of their own and let them have messy poly queerplatonicwhatever relationships that rotate with the seasons <3 (imagine.... the polycule from hell but It Works. Mostly)

[lavandulalurker]

Hey wanted to ask who you romanced (if any at all) the most? I think me for it was nomi I did their romance the most at like 3 times lol.

Oooh that’s a really good question! I think the character I’ve romanced the most is dys? I’ve romanced (almost) every character at least once and then I remember romancing dys and sym more than once.

I was interested in the dys/sym poly route so I’m pretty sure I did that more than once just to see the variations in the ending

[daydreamdoodles]

I formally apologize if I ever said a mean thing about Rex. He is a bit of a fuckboy, but he such an extremely well natured and kindhearted fuckboy

[flamingdiva]

Me: okay this time I'm going to romance vace and resist the gravitational pull that Dys has on me

Me after reaching no more than 25 friendship points:

[automatisma]

To make a slightly more serious post about I Was A Teenage Exocolonist, I really like how certain romances (almost) never work out. Tang breaks it off no matter what, Marz drifts off after a while and most of the time Vace is too abrasive to put the proper effort to make the partnership work. Even more interesting, some partners leave you because they wanted children while you didn't or vice versa, which is a pretty nuanced portrait of adult relationships for VN standards.

[leastdatablebracket]

Here's the bracket for round 1! I intend to start posting matches tomorrow.

Group 1 (Matches 1-16)

Sam Wayne (Scarlet Hollow) VS Penny (Stardew Valley)

Joy Johnson-Johjima (Monster Prom) VS Vladamir (Moonlight Lovers)

P.S. Elle (Romancelvania) VS Saint Germain (Code: Realize)

Bram Galeborn (Tales of the Wild) VS Jumin Han (Mystic Messenger)

Edgar Morton (To Love & Protect) VS Zen (Mystic Messenger)

Nowi (Fire Emblem Awakening) VS Elise (Fire Emblem Fates)

Maison Talo (House Hunted) VS Sam (Stardew Valley)

Akihiko Sanada (Persona 3 Portable) VS Sam Dalton (Choices - The Nanny Affair)

Ota Kisaki (Kissed by the Baddest Bidder) VS Casavir (Neverwinter Nights 2)

Anna (Fire Emblem Engage) VS Yang (Piofiore Fated Memories)

Isabela (Dragon Age 2) VS Shuu Iwamine (Hatoful Boyfriend)

Liam de Lioncourt (Monster Prom) VS Sunder (Boyfriend Dungeon)

Cassandra Pentaghast (Dragon Age Inquisition) VS Curie (Fallout 4)

Cliff (Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town) VS Sylvain Jose Gautier (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)

Hanatsubaki Gorō (Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s First Love) VS Leliana (Dragon Age Origins)

Barbatos (Obey Me) VS Solas (Dragon Age Inquisition)

Group 2 (Matches 17-32)

Nightowl (Blooming Panic: Full Bloom Edition) VS Isako Toriumi (Persona 3)

Adam/Ava du Mortain (Wayhaven Chronicles) VS Drake Walker (Choices - The Royal Romance)

Taro Majima (Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side 2nd Season) VS Vace (I Was a Teenage Exocolonist)

Yoosung Kim (Mystic Messenger) VS Siren Head (Siren Head Dating Sim)

Rick (Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town) VS V (Mystic Messenger)

Ken Amada (Persona 3 Portable) VS Lorenz Hellman Gloucester (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)

Bigfoot (Dialtown) VS Damien Ramsey (Magical Diary)

Merrill (Dragon Age 2) VS Landon (High School Dreams Best Friends Forever)

Vyn Richter (Tears of Themis) VS Sumire Yoshizawa (Persona 5 Royal)

Sebastian (Stardew Valley) VS Triss Merigold (Witcher 3)

Rock (Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life) VS Morrigan (Dragon Age Origins)

Gray (Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town) VS Calculester Hewlett-Packard (Monster Prom)

Harry Choi (The Ssum) VS Ichiko Ohya (Persona 5)

Sadayo Kawakami (Persona 5) VS Randy Jade (Dialtown)

Kevan (Long Live the Queen) VS Camellia (Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous)

Ace (Heart no Kuni no Alice) VS Rhea (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)

Group 3 (Matches 33-48)

Ilessa (Romancelvania) VS Dolce (Rune Factory 4)

Sothis (Fire Emblem: Three Houses) VS Laito Sakamaki (Diabolik Lovers)

Cameron Conner (Wylde Flowers) VS Sera (Dragon Age Inquisition)

Elliott (Stardew Valley) VS Shane (Stardew Valley)

Mikah Hudson (Save Me, Sherlock) VS Harvey (Stardew Valley)

Towa Wakasa (Sweet Fuse: At Your Side) VS Shiloh Fields (XOXO Droplets)

Arsene Lupin (Code: Realize) VS Blackwall (Dragon Age Inquisition)

Vere (Touchstarved) VS Shiki (Togainu no Chi)

Sebastian Vael (Dragon Age 2) VS Toma (Amnesia: Memories)

Sakura (Fire Emblem Fates) VS Ethan Ramsey (Choices - Open Heart)

Warren (Life is Strange) VS Ryoma (Fire Emblem Fates)

Katherine (Catherine) VS Jonah (Boyfriend Dungeon)

Anders (Dragon Age 2) VS Dorian Grey (OZMAFIA!!)

Skye (Harvest Moon DS Cute) VS Tammy (I Was a Teenage Exocolonist)

Fenris (Dragon Age 2) VS Dys (I Was a Teenage Exocolonist)

Peter King (Your Boyfriend Game) VS Eisuke Ichinomiya (Kissed by the Baddest Bidder)

Group 4 (Matches 49-64)

Tharja (Fire Emblem Awakening) VS Jacob Taylor (Mass Effect 2)

Elanee (Neverwinter Nights 2) VS Megaricus (Kaichu - The Kaiju Dating Sim)

Joseph Christiansen (Dream Daddy) VS Naoto Shirogane (Persona 4)

Mr. Pages (Mask of the Rose) VS Soleil (Fire Emblem Fates)

Baxter Ward (Our Life: Beginnings & Always) VS Ryouta Kazama (Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side 4)

Colonel Sanders (I Love You, Colonel Sanders!) VS Kappa (Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town)

Andy (Romance Club) VS Micah Yujin (Error143)

Anomen Delryn (Baldur’s Gate 2) VS Koolie Sterling (Tentador Leches)

Canus Espada (Cafe Enchante) VS Nah (Fire Emblem Awakening)

Doctor (Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town) VS Lucy (Your Boyfriend Game)

Amber (Rune Factory 4) VS Marco (Lovelink)

Alfani (OZMAFIA!!) VS Makoto Niijima (Persona 5)

Haley (Stardew Valley) VS Azura (Fire Emblem Fates)

Zevran Arainai (Dragon Age Origins) VS Kai (Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town)

Yuri (Doki Doki Literature Club) VS The Red Prince (Divinity: Original Sin 2)

Lucio Morgasson (The Arcana) VS Cullen Rutherford (Dragon Age Inquisition)

[greenvertumna]

Replayed the “disabled the array” ending again this time romancing vace. In that ending you grow old with him i’m crying. Fave ending

[witnessprotectionprogramurl]

i know i'm biased but i genuinely think every single character in exocolonist is some flavor of aspec except for cal. like. hear me out.

dys is gray aroace gay, tangent is aroallo lesbian, marz is aroallo pan, rex is also aroallo pan, nomi-nomi is aroace (i'm aware of the rex thing and the fact that theyre romanceable but i will die on this hill), vace is. actually vace might just be alloallo straight. i have yet to get prophetic visions abt that man's sexuality. anyways. anemone is bi aroace, tammy is bi demiromantic, and sym. sym is playing 4d chess with sexuality. his sexuality is only perceptible to shrimp. cal is the only one who is not queer at all in any way shape or form and this includes vace i will also die on this hill thanks for coming to my teddy talk

[thewarinourstarwars]

Kiss of Death Run

Or that time when Sol's lovers would not stop dying

So I don't have this save anymore, but this was when I was trying to befriend Vace, the third time, and failed to have enough empathy to get his good ending, so I ended up going after first Dys, who is my favorite romance as I was sick of the person Sol had become to get that far with Vace. Felt like nature was healing, y'know?

Problem was, I forgot about the bomb. oops. I hadn't gotten the Gardener ending for Dys, though, so decided to see it through (I hate it so much, btw) and with Dys gone, I decide to throw myself into the arms of Sym.

I didn't get enough reasoning, so Sym died to save humanity in the end negotiations.

My end card? I somehow got Utopia to romance me, with a string of dead lovers behind my Sol.

Never change, girl.

[three-of-swords]

I really adore I Was A Teenage Exocolonist but fuck if I don't wish literally any of the male romance options weren't just a tad fucked. Wanna date Dys? He'll pretty much be miserable forever because he's a changeling child. Wanna date Cal? Tammy better be dead, otherwise you're a monster. Wanna date Vace? First of all, why. Second of all, too bad, your relationship doesn't work out regardless of whether you do everything right or not. Wanna date Rex? You better be willing to share him with anyone who asks. Wanna date Sym? You better hope Dys doesn't show up at your doorstep and force you into a three-way poly. In the epilogue. Where you have no agency in the matter.

Cal is the option with the most normal, healthy dynamic, but even THEN you either need to let Tammy die or break up a completely healthy relationship.

(But Julian why not date Anenome or Tang or Marz) bitch I'm gay, and the only reason I'm not going for Nomi-Nomi is that I'm PRETTY sure they're not on the market for one way or another.

The Dys/Sym/Sol relationship wouldn't bug me if it wasn't so obvious it wasn't an equal relationship (Dys obviously loves Sym more and his xenophilia makes it more obvious).

Sol goes through so much shit in the game, ESPECIALLY if he's forcefully medicated (or as my partner calls it, "psychically lobotomized). The least I can do is get the poor guy some dick that isn't attached to a fuckpuppy or a guy whose personality revolves around said dick.

[lavandulalurker]

Besides nem are there any endings where sol has kids? I know in nomi’s you don’t, Tammy’s you raise the kid she has with her, I know you don’t with tang or I can’t remember for the life of me her name but the one you need to work at admin for, don’t know about vace or Rex or cal. Sorry if this is nonsense.

So for Sol to have kids, you need to choose one of the options where you say Sol wants kids in either Tammy or Rex's event. The options for if you want kids are either "I want a lot of them" or "one or two." Also having children with a character also depends on what ending you get and if the character stays with you. (I'm going to use 'you' and Sol interchangeably)

As far as I'm aware these are the variations in peace endings: (Major spoilers haha)

Prolific parent ending: Sol has many kids regardless of who you romance

Anemone: If you want a lot of children, she breaks up with you but has your first child. If you want one or two, she agrees to have two children with you.

Cal: Will break up if you don't want any children. Has children with Sol if they want any amount children.

Tangent: Tangent breaks up with you no matter the ending.

Dys: You can only have kids with Dys if you get the prolific parent ending, but there's some very sweet dialogue about it

Marz: Marz breaks up with you no matter the ending.

Tammy: If you don't want children, Tammy becomes a surrogate mother and you help raise Echinacea. In endings where you want children, you have them with Tammy.

Rex: If you get the prolific parent ending but pressure Rex into monogamy, you have children together but break up. Otherwise, as long as you want children, you have children together.

Nomi: If you get the prolific parent ending, Nomi will still support you and will stay with you even if you don't have children together. Otherwise you don't have children.

Vace: I think in every ending you break up, except the astronaut ending but it never mentions any kids.

[creepyfruit]

Favorite Exocolonist characters? And maybe least favorites if you have any?

I'll give you my character tier list (I decided to include only the kids idk maybe I'll make a separate one for adults)

Answer under the cut ↓

My least fav is obviously Vace. I don't think I need to elaborate but to make it clear l, I haven't ever tried to befriend him so I don't know much about him other than his obsession with killing things, being abusive and a bully.

Next I'll have to put Nomi Nomi not because I don't like them but simply because I've never went out of my way to befriend them so I don't really have an opinion.

Cal was my best friend in my first play through so it hurts me to put him so low but he deserves it. Listen mate I love animals as much as the average gal but you're doing too much. The victim blaming as well?? I'm sorry that I was born on a spaceship set to colonize an alien planet, what did you want me to do? Swim through space and go back to earth? Also your girlfriend's dad died a horrid death and that's still all you have to say? Pacifism isn't a good look on an environment like this one.

Rex is a great dude, there's nothing I dislike about him, he's just simply not as interesting as the others.

Tammy is also kind of on the same boat. I did have a lot of hearts with her on my second play through and helping her be more confident was a very enjoyable journey, she is obviously very kind and empathetic and that makes her incredibly likable. I wish she had some flaws to make a bit more realistic.

This is where things get tough because all the next characters are kinda close but Nem will have to take this one. I romanced her in my most recent play through and she really is just the cutest... until Kom dies and she adopts the whole Helio package. She did become slightly annoying even though I understand her trauma. It's good that you can help her grow out of it, that gives her bonus points. A fun character with some nice character development.

And here comes everyone's fav boy Dys. It took a lot of trying to befriend him, he made it very hard for me and I liked that. I liked how they made him weird and antisocial, he wasn't the misunderstood boy that no one likes but rather it's actually the opposite. His relationship with Tang is so beautifully complex I love every part of it although I still haven't gotten them to reconcile (that damn bar will be the death of me). I would have put him much lower if it wasn't for the exploration buddies relationship that he had with Sol because the most unlikable thing about him (that I honestly never understood) is his obsession with the gardeners. Maybe it's my lack of understanding or the fact that I never really went down that road (making him a gardener/befriending Sym) because it creeps me out but I just don't like his views on the subject. And also I hate his relationship with Sym, nothing cute about a 100+ yo alien praying on a 16 yo boy.

Marz is a character that I thought I was going to hate straight from my first play through. She seemed like the typical mean girl character, who's very pretty has a lot of money is obsessed with clothes and stuff and also bullies every one just because but she's not exactly like that. Sure she has kudos and status and loves her fashion but she has genuinely kind intentions behind her "bullying". She doesn't understand how words can hurt because due to her augument they can't hurt her, she thinks she's helping Dys fit in with her comments and she doesn't want him to be lonely. She's naturally a very commanding person and a true leader but she isn't looking for mindless sheep, she wants you to have self respect and a backbone and I love her for that. Also bonus points to our girl for helping us overthrow the government. I have to say though, all the above doesn't excuse the fact that she can be seriously mean sometimes, but we love her regardless.

My favourite girl, my sweet baby Tangent, who's gone through so much but no matter what you do she doesn't really get a happy ending. I had my eye on her the moment I saw her (her child sprite reminded me of Ino from Naruto that's why) and she was my first romance. Obviously that didn't end well cause my first ending turned out to be tangent's cure (I thought I was just helping my gf bro) and now I'm scared to even talk to her thinking I'll trigger it again but I love her non the less. She's such a complex character I could talk about her for days (special thanks to the person with the multiple tangent discussion posts) her relationship with Dys, the obviously toxic and abusive relationship with Instance, her importance to a whole colony at such a young age, the fact that she's held to adult standards which results in self harming habits and her loneliness, her struggle with mental illness and the death of her mother. I'm writing everything down in a synopsis pretty much because if I start I won't stop. I also love how this abusive relationship was handled compared to Nem and Vace. No matter what you say she won't see how bad Instance is for her and the product of all this abuse is ultimately horrible for her. It adds a realism that hurts to death but is necessary. I also adore her character because it gives us a reminder that not everyone gets a happy ending in life, sometimes the things people go through never really leave them, although admittedly I would kill to see my baby happy, she deserves it.

[rpgchoices]

I failed all the romances btw. I got so close to Anemone and then Dys and Sym in my first playthrough but I got distracted with Vace, I was all over the place.

I'm gonna try to do one playthrough for every romance for this one (maybe not Tang tho)

[flamingdiva]

How do you befriend and romance vace to get certain endings when your reaction to anything he says is