#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.

[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

[manaquartz]

I saw this and immediately thought of him

[yukirandom]

I'm so mad Cal and Tammy are monogamous, especially that you have to be mean to them to romance either.

Romancing Marz + Rez: the power throuple, the biggest hoes of this planet

Romancing Dys + Sym: the emo throuple, the mysterious non-humans

Romancing Cal + Tammy: the cutest throuple, wholesome and kind

Why is this game robbing this from me? 😭

[digirainebow]

wow dating vace really is.............like that

[redrocketpanda]

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist - Playthrough 2 Military run Romance: Vace Ending: Disabled the Array

This time: there were no days spent communing with the soil, with the planet, with each other; no warm cuddles beneath coloured skies; no seeking to understand or nurture.

When we were younger, we filled our time with laughter and games. But as we grew older, there were less smiles. Less friends. Days were filled with exhaustion as we ran drill, after drill, after drill, after drill. The only games we played now were mind games and ones of war.

The skies lit up with fire and the air echoed with the crack of discharged weapons. Total destruction of all perceived threats to make space for ourselves was the agenda. No talk, no compromise. Aliens were a threat, and so was anyone who failed to support our mission: human lives, human futures, human supremacy.

Waaaaaaaaahhhh. I recently completed my 2nd playthrough of Exocolonist and DAMN. What. An. TIME. I wanted to have an experience that was very different from my 1st playthrough to experience Vertumna + the Exocolonist story and characters in very different ways. This run certainly delivered.

It was a really difficult run for me because it meant shunning the very characters that I fell so deeply in love with last time (like my best boys *sob*), making decisions that felt horrendous to me, and cozying up to Vace who does a great job of making himself highly unlikeable. I made a joke post about hooking up with Vace after finding out his augment, but real talk: I found romancing Vace very difficult even though I got his soft ending. I think that he is a well-written character who has an interesting friendship/romance arc, but I think I love my boys too much for Vace to ever be redeemable in my eyes. It was also hard not being with Cal and Rex :'(

I discovered so much through this run though in terms of different sides to characters I felt like I already knew quite well and how other character relationships develop when you don't romance them, what happens when you're not friends with certain characters (yea I'm looking at you Dys) versus others (like Vace), access to regions I didn't have before (like Subaqueous Swamps) and the story options that gives you! I did also find out that if you get a "story ending" (like disabling the array) you don't get the character montage like you do otherwise, and so felt a little disappointed my ending was like "this is what happens, Vace continues to become a bit less of an asshole, you love him more each day. The end". Like... excuse me, I wanna know more about my spacehusband and our kids, what happened to Nem, etc.

Each playthrough, each life builds towards my understanding of the world and the game. Who we are, where we came from, where we find ourselves, who we make ourselves to be, who we are allowed to be. It gives me so much to think about in relation to futures, human/non-human relations, time/space, morals, worlds, colonisation, extraction, identity, and so much more. I'm excited to keep running through time and uncovering all that there is to find (I also want all the start menu characters and achievementsssssss). My next playthrough I wanted to focus on a high charisma/governor run with a Rex romance bc I need Best Boy to heal my soul once again.

[orcelito]

What is it about I Was a Teenage Exocolonist that's getting to me so much, you may ask?

Well I just like playing the specialest little guy/girl/whatever (canonically) and running around being stupid as hell in nature (while being saved from surefire death by my mysterious alien boyfriend), flirting with anything that moves And/Or participating in the slowest burn sweetest childhood friends to lovers situationship (but also It's Complicated bc he's an emo boy with uhhhh a concerningly low amount of care for most people in the colony), and also fucking everything up beyond redemption! But it's ok! Bc now I have time memories and I can prevent bad things from happening again. Teehee!

[imakemywings]

Aw Nemmie romance...she's so cute <3

[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

[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.

[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:

[alienglowgarden]

I shouldve been asleep HOURS ago, instead I did the exo tierlist....

[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.

[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)

[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.