Hey, look! Another Poll! (Halfway Broken) (Patreon)

So...sick of polls yet? I'm not! I like the feedback ;-). More to the point, this one is sort of important, and I've put it off way too long. In fact, I was originally intending to run it last month. Last month, unfortunately, was super busy and it kept slipping my mind. Plus, of course, I was running extra polls anyway for A Very Confused Pokémon Adventure. This poll, on the other hand, is for One Piece: Halfway Broken. It's the poll a lot of you have, I think, been waiting for! Specifically, it's time to determine the rest of the pairing for Halfway Broken.

Now, having said that, part of the reason I haven't put this up before is because it's going to be a bit complicated. Specifically, there are three things you need to be aware of.

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1) Nami and Robin are already locked in and aren't going anywhere. They will be part of the pairing regardless. Don't ask me to change that fact. Robin is my favorite character in the entire series, and Nami is...well...already riding the Luffy train.

2) There is one option on this list that will cause me to close the pairing down to just three girls. Specifically, Boa Hancock is way too high maintenance for me to consider adding any girls after her. If she wins, the pairing with be Nami/Robin/Boa and that's it. If anyone else on the list wins, I will at least consider adding a fourth girl. I don't guarantee I will, but there are a few combinations I can see working. Yamato and Vivi, for example, I think would play out as remarkably compatible with the Nami and Robin combination. Other combinations, like Hina and Vivi, I don't think would work out all that well. On the other hand, I could see Hina and Perona working out, oddly enough. Four girls is the absolute, hard limit I will go to, period. Note, I also won't be doing one-night-stands or side girls. This isn't a smut fic, and it's hard enough to build a realistic(ish) multi-ship without that sort of massive complication. Don't ask for it, I will ignore you and your arguments in favor of that sort of thing.

*Edit For clarity: Boa isn't 'high maintenance' purely because of her personality. While that's part of it (she's very much a Dramatic Diva), it's only half of what I meant. The other half is the fact she's not really capable of joining the Straw Hats. She has her own crew, in addition to being an actual ruler instead of just an heir like Vivi. Her 'maintenance requirements' to take part in the story are extremely high, as I have to arrange for her to balance those needs with spending time with Luffy and his crew. The point of limiting the number of girls is to make sure the romance doesn't bog down the storytelling. Boa adds more complications than any of the other girls.*

3) You will notice an absence of most of the Post-Timeskip girls. The reason for this is that I'm not very familiar with them. I apologize to anyone that was really hoping for a post-timeskip girl, like the various mink and such. But I have almost no knowledge of them, and I'm not willing to blindly say I'll add a character I know nothing about. While I've seen a bit more of One Piece than 'Alex' had, and I've read a lot of summaries and such of later content, I haven't watched/read most of the more recent One Piece material. Mostly, it has to be said, because it didn't exist yet when I first hit the 'end' of the available series. Yamato is the only exception, and even her I'm mostly familiar with due to the number of fanfictions and such that popped up after she was introduced. She's also one who I'd be blatantly modifying a little bit, because I am not dealing with the 'I am Oden' thing she has going on. It's simply too much of a minefield for me to want to touch it with the relationship stick.

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Okay, with that out of the way, time to vote! Who do you want to be the Third girl in the story's pairing?