"Yeah, like - the paragraph uttered when we had our non-monogamy conversation started with the words 'unless you object', and to me that made a big, big difference," says Juliet. "I don't think that's what you're looking at with a Joker. I think the closest you're going to get is 'unless you want me to ineffectually pit myself against a fundamental part of my identity till I wind up breaking your heart anyway', which, you know, not a grand start to a relationship. Also our non-monogamy conversation happened while Sunshine's Tony was being dead and we were having a visit from another one, and I would have felt like a tremendous heel interposing myself there."
"So I recall," says Sherlock. "And I do think I would've had some trouble if you'd objected to Tony, but you did not, and here we are."
"Utterly. I'm not even trying Aegis because she met hers when they were six. Amariah has unique parental example. Angela was particularly motivated. Cam was, until he started reading Jellybean's mind ten minutes ago, 'not as serious as the others', which whatever it means going forward means that he has as part of his basic equipments a capacity for less than serious relationships. Rose and Beast spent months with no company besides each other. Stella was apparently closest to feeling like I feel and she wound up doing something creepy that I would not and possibly cannot duplicate. I'm not even touching the question of Sarion because her circumstances are so blisteringly special that she was ninety percent braindead when the peal found her and we still don't know what's going to happen in the longer term."