[SPOILER] What absurd story situation had you run into?

[angel]

I'll go first because I encountered this and couldn't stop laughing when it happened the other day.

I was trying to go for Tammy so I spent a lot of times grinding her affection, but Cal was also my buddy. When it came down to their 4-5th year, Cal went to my MC about whether my MC has feeling for Tammy or not. Naturally, I said yes.

Then, he turned really determined and said he won't back down. Since I had high relationship with Cal then, I decided to tell him that "Tammy and I are meant to be together, bub, back off" which resulted in him crying. Very sad.

I did feel bad for Cal, but oh well, I was only trying to see all of the outcomes. I also found his reaction if you decide to tell him you like him instead very endearing, which made me a bit interested in his romance.

Fast-forward to next year where MC got a "secret admirer" by default. And I decided to ask every girls in the colony... by that I mean Nem and Tammy because they were the two I have high relationship with. Then, when Tammy shut down my dream and Nem gave me the most brutal dish ever, I turned to other people.

Nomi said no, in the kindest way possible.

And it when it was the boys left. I tried my luck, Rex said no, not him, but it was only natural, we were friends but not close. Then I spared myself the trouble with Vace and Dys because... yeah, not this lifetime. And then my brain was like... what about Cal? You know, the Cal you unceremoniously threatened a year ago and made him cry?

Can't be him, yeah? There's absolutely no way-

(Cal looks away, his smile turning a little embarrassed. "Is that okay?")

It absolutely can be him.

On god.

Cal, I'm so sorry.

So of course, with what conscience I had left in me, I told him I like him, too and gave him a little cheek kiss because this boy's life had been hard enough. He didn't need to fall in love with his love rival, too.

It was a twist of irony that made me consider that maybe I have been going into this wrong, maybe I should've gone for Cal instead of Tammy, but Tammy was far more my type, I didn't even look at his direction.

Maybe Cal was the better outcome here, at least narratively.

Everything was clear then, I made up my mind in the end.

And went for Nem.

[WinterSachi]

I was a terrible person. At least to most of my romantic partners.

Initially I wanted to romance Sym but had high relationship with Dys. Dys became my secret admirer and I found it out. It wasn't that much of a surprise because by that time I had high relationships only with him and Sym. My friends were Tangent, Anem and Cal.
Dys became my boyfriend, and I also flirted a LOT with Rex plus a tiny bit with Tang. I also broke up Anem and Vace just because I hate Vace and want Anemone to be free of toxic relationship.
Then Sym romantic event started, and I couldn't romance him because my character was in a relationship with Dys. So I reloaded the save, broke up with him and started a romance with Sym... then I also started a romance with Tang. Just because. I also convinced Dys to not use a bomb and not become a Gardener which is super awkward considering what crap I did to him before that.

Then I spectacularly failed to form a pact between humans and Gardeners. Everyone left me - both Tang and Sym. Dys just walked away and never returned. Anemone married Cal... and then died. And Dad died. And Cal died. And Tang. Everyone freaking died. Except Sym. I don't know how he managed to do that, but Overseer told me they would deactivate and reabsorb Sym if the pact fails. Well, it did. And Sym wasn't killed. Amazing, Sym is a true chad of this walkthrough. He not only played reverse Uno on me for ditching Dys but also managed to outlive everyone.

Though serves me right, I guess...

[LemonHero]

A very funny thing happened to me last night.

Okay so I let Dys blow up the wall and found him in the ridge then managed make him come back to the colony. One month after that I triggered finding out about the genocide plague Tang was making. Okay so I could just use my high friendship to make Tang not go through with it but hey I do have high enough friendship with Dys to make him go talk with his sister about not killing everything so lets do that instead! I haven't fixed their bond yet but im sure everything will work out just fine! ...Yeah turns out Dys's idea of talking with his sister is blowing up the entire engineering building. So I reloaded my save. God d*mmit Dys.

[Texus]

I....won a challlange and had Sym... die....That made me believe I had no reason to go back on a trip to soon.

[angel]

Originally posted by WinterSachi:

Then I spectacularly failed to form a pact between humans and Gardeners. Everyone left me - both Tang and Sym. Dys just walked away and never returned. Anemone married Cal... and then died. And Dad died. And Cal died. And Tang. Everyone freaking died. Except Sym. I don't know how he managed to do that, but Overseer told me they would deactivate and reabsorb Sym if the pact fails. Well, it did. And Sym wasn't killed. Amazing, Sym is a true chad of this walkthrough. He not only played reverse Uno on me for ditching Dys but also managed to outlive everyone.

I feel like every time I do something while out there exploring... Sym is always in the background, laughing at every mistake I made. It seems like you had met the same unfortunate fate as I do... it's okay, I did have the last laugh during the Array ending, but only then...

...I also romance Dys whenever I don't romance Sym or at least stop Dys from leaving so Sym can never experience the taste of human's love. Yes, I'm petty.

Originally posted by LemonHero:

A very funny thing happened to me last night.

Okay so I let Dys blow up the wall and found him in the ridge then managed make him come back to the colony. One month after that I triggered finding out about the genocide plague Tang was making. Okay so I could just use my high friendship to make Tang not go through with it but hey I do have high enough friendship with Dys to make him go talk with his sister about not killing everything so lets do that instead! I haven't fixed their bond yet but im sure everything will work out just fine! ...Yeah turns out Dhys's idea of talking with his sister is blowing up the entire engineering building. So I reloaded my save. God d*mmit Dhys.

LOL this happened to me the first time. I convinced Dys to not even blow up the wall the previous year and then I got the confrontation with Tang about genocide. I decided to go tell Dys because he's my MC's boyfriend at the time and I wanted him to talk to his sister, maybe they'll even make up somehow.

Nope. No talking. Just a lot of explosion.

Originally posted by Texus:

I....won a challlange and had Sym... die....That made me believe I had no reason to go back on a trip to soon.

Ah yes, Sym's "death". I do wonder why we don't get a timeloop option to be completely not surprised when Sym "dies" again and "is alive" again.

[WinterSachi]

Originally posted by an:

Originally posted by WinterSachi:

Then I spectacularly failed to form a pact between humans and Gardeners. Everyone left me - both Tang and Sym. Dys just walked away and never returned. Anemone married Cal... and then died. And Dad died. And Cal died. And Tang. Everyone freaking died. Except Sym. I don't know how he managed to do that, but Overseer told me they would deactivate and reabsorb Sym if the pact fails. Well, it did. And Sym wasn't killed. Amazing, Sym is a true chad of this walkthrough. He not only played reverse Uno on me for ditching Dys but also managed to outlive everyone.

I feel like every time I do something while out there exploring... Sym is always in the background, laughing at every mistake I made. It seems like you had met the same unfortunate fate as I do... it's okay, I did have the last laugh during the Array ending, but only then...

...I also romance Dys whenever I don't romance Sym or at least stop Dys from leaving so Sym can never experience the taste of human's love. Yes, I'm petty.

Sol (probably): "No human sausage for you, Sym!"

Well, technically, he does lurk at the background and smile when you're exploring. I had event with MC, Dys and him when Sym was teasing them about how close they are to truth but he still wouldn't tell them anything. It's on Ridge map, boss event with ruins.

Actually my first ending was a cure one, so Sym kinda kicked the bucket (or got stuck as data without a body; I dunno whether the virus affected their servers), lol. No wonder he decided to not tempt his fate the second time when I reloaded and canceled Cure ending.

[Vorpal Da Wondercat]

I somehow ended up with Sym, Rex AND Dys at the end, so you could have retitled the game "I Was In A Teenage Space Polycule" on that particular run-through for me.
That's also the ending where I unlocked the peaceful ending, so I apparently did a lot of things right (but I barely paid attention to Vace and Anemonae so I got nothing of their endings...)