Avistew

I was confused for the same reason. I didn't read "child-like" as "looking like a child" but "childish". I was confused why Pandora thought he meant "looking like a child" at first.

She is not actually being reasonable as she is being really annoyed. I actually recognise this -- I, too, have been IRRITATED into doing the right thing.

I failed to recognize Pandora. I thought it was a new character, or maybe Grace. I'm terrible at recognizing characters >.>
At least there are commentaries to help me with that.

I got the impression that she cared about him not getting hurt because she had started to like him, not because she cared that much about everyone.
 
Either way, I'm rooting for them. They're already cute together. I hope Adrian's father is going to fall in love with her too and not something darker, but with this comic things don't usually get very dark, they mostly get very cute, so I'm not too worried.

Avistew! I didn't notice you were back! <3

Hello there, Old Hack  I've just barely come back. I've been wanting to and then polyamory got mentioned in the comic and I figured I just had to  It's nice seeing you again <3

That sounds like a weird way for me to say it. I'm part of a triad, but that triad is made of three relationships, two of which include me. I'm also married, which is another relationship. So, three relationships for me, out of a network that includes 4 different relationships at the moment.
Saying the triad is a single relationship because it has its own name sounds to me a bit like saying a class is a single relationship or something. You can have a word that describes a group of people without meaning it's all one relationship. Anyway. I understand the idea that some people will consider that if a bunch of people are all in a relationship with everyone else, then it's one big relationship. Let's say that's true (although I think some people would phrase it that way and some would not).
But the most common configurations in polyamory are Vs and Ns and the like. So it's exactly "one person having two separate partners" in a lot of cases.
Dan probably thought that only a subcategory of polyamory was called polyamory, which happens. Triads are represented extremely often in the media despite being comparatively rarer as a configuration (again, one big reason is that if there are more than two people involved, the maximum number of straight people when everyone is involved with everyone is 1. But heterosexuality is the more common orientation.)
What I meant was that I couldn't say with certainty it never happens, because I've seen weirder. Not that the two things are exactly the same.
No, I'm part of three relationships. My network, taken in its entirety, is what I call a P. You have to imagine the loop of the P is actually a triangle, though, rather than a half circle. It's kind of traditional to use letters but there wasn't one perfectly suited to this dynamic, so I improvised.
I have three male partners. I'm married to one of them and the other two are married to each other. My husband currently has no other partners, but he used to have a girlfriend. My boyfriends have two partners each (me and each other) and nobody else. So it's a relatively small network.
Anyway, as I was saying above, it's not that I have a problem with people saying a triad is a single relationship, it's that it's pretty common for people not to all date one another. The reason people use the word "polycule" is because usually, the network takes weird shapes with branches everywhere, like a family tree of sorts, with people who don't all know each other (because you're not going to spend that much time with the partner of a partner of a partner of a partner) and so it's unlikely that they would consider themselves to be in a relationship with each other.