In a poly-Tac scenario I like to imagine you're flipping through photo albums of the guys and you discover things that fill in the blanks.
Like König? The first few pages of him as a teen/young man are of him all shy and flustered and sweet, a photo of his graduation, him with a study group (head ducked, trying to hide behind his curls), multiple photos of him and his mother...
And then you get to the photos of him after a few years of service.
Confidence practically oozes off the pages. Photos of him going out drinking, playing pool or a drinking games. Then you flip a page and– well.
Turns out König went to both gay and kink bars. Photos of him wearing leather straps across his bare chest as he makes out with past flings, him progressively getting older in them, more confident, self-assured, until you're staring at your colonel, just a few years before he settled and calmed down with all of you.
Horangi finds you gaping at the book, chuckling and passing you his photo album.
Now he started off wild. His graduation photo is literally placed next to one of him sitting in– presumably– a strip club, two girls kissing him, lipstick smears all over his face, looking like he won the lottery; an after party for him and his then-friends, most likely.
The next few pages carry the same air. Young, free, always dressed well and enjoying himself. Then there's a jump, going from pre military to a few years into his career. He looks calmer in these, more settled. Plenty of him in nature, or at a cat cafe, or printed out selfies of him in different environments. A complete contrast to that party boy of his youth.
Mace joins you on the couch, passing you his.
Photos of him as a kid to his teen years, it's funny seeing how similar yet different these versions of him are. Him skateboarding with friends, him clearly doing a cool move while breakdancing (form slightly blurred at the edges as he spun on his palm), a few of him with his family...
It doesn't change much as he enters the military. Still candid, him existing, a slight smile when he catches sight of the camera. While he has changed over the years, it's mostly been in small ways compared to the other two, like Mace has always known who he was and hasn't seen a need to change.
Nikto's is... sad. Childhood photos, him as a teenager, young adult– and then abruptly, it stops. The last photo is of him before his torture, the scarring. These are all of Andre, not Nikto.
(Nikto is caught off guard when you suddenly begin taking more photos of him, pulling him into frame and snapping shot after shot, printing them out and adding them to the album.
Just because he was different didn't mean he wasn't living a life anymore, didn't mean there shouldn't be proof of it.)
Krueger settles in with you, passing his album over. Again, it starts off with his early life, but the older he gets, the more scenic photos are mixed in. He's always had an eye for photography, so it's no surprise when his photo album includes more environmental shots and shots of all of you instead. He'd captured many a moment between his lovers, printing them out and adding them all neat inside the book. Most of these you didn't even know he'd taken! But it was nice, knowing these moments were eternalised like this.
You were still going to get more photos of him, though.
