February Themed Poll - General - Tie Breaker Blitz (Patreon)

Final Tally w/ Serpent Tier second votes counted:

Scenario 1: 16 (Tie)

Scenario 2: 15

Scenario 3: 16 (Tie)

Update:

Tie Breaker Tally w/ Serpent Tier second votes counted:

Scenario 1: 22 (Winner)

Scenario 3: 17

Combo!: 5

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Scenario 1 and 3 have come to a tie. I was actually quite surprised by how divisive this poll was. With just one more vote it could've even been a three-way tie.

This poll will be to settle how the tie will be broken. Theoretically, scenario 1 and 3 can be combined. I'm not convinced that's a good idea. I explain my own reasoning and the scenarios themselves in more detail below. However, I will still provide the option in case that's what most people want. 

This poll will end within the day because I want to start this already and have ample time to get the key end piece and some sketches of the preceding sequence done before the end of the month (this is evolving into something a little bigger, since I'm getting invested).

Here are my thoughts:

Scenario 1 was to be about Emilia being transformed into a fatty purely on a whim of Echidna's, and when she finds herself incapable of exercising the weight off, she gives into gluttony and laziness and gets fatter, her personality changing to fit the shape that Echidna bestowed upon her. She'd then resort to straight up asking Echidna to turn her back, thoroughly having lost the will to work it off with her own effort. Echidna then of course denies her any assistance and berates and teases her. The scenario takes something that was out of her control (the weight swap) and twists it into her own personal failing (giving up on losing weight).

Scenario 3 is more about Emilia's naivete being exploited, and maybe enjoying the extra indulgence at first, then putting her down a path that culminates into a kind of 'force-feeding-through-peer-pressure' type situation that she can't dig herself out of. My idea was to not degrade her to raw gluttony, like Scenario 2 and 1, but to have Emilia keep her common sense while having to eat like a pig and watching her figure expand before her eyes. It's the inverse of Scenario 1, where it starts with a character flaw and lapse of judgment leading to her gaining weight while the end result is her having to obey the lesser spirits to stay in their favor, no longer having control over her own diet.

A combination of the two would simply be that, post weight swap, the lesser spirits are entertained by Emilia's new rotund form and push her to gain more. She obliges, maybe trying to work off the weight first before giving up, and that's that. It works on a technical level, but I think it muddies the pointed direction and uniqueness that 1 and 3 would have on their own.