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perfectmatch2025-05-31 10:51 am
marriagebroker) wrote in perfectmatch2025-05-31 10:51 am
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the truth booth
In keeping with the #aesthetic, the Truth Booth looks like a plain but quaint wooden gazebo up a hill, not too far away from the house. It's all out in the open too for everyone to see and snoop on if they so desire.
The only thing inside the gazebo is a large TV screen that will proclaim you and your "match's" fate, and two panels for each character to stand on.
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I could imagine thou carest little for the opinions of outsiders.
[ this is delivered somewhat dryly; it might be, like, 20% of a joke, whatever that might mean for Messmer. ]
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[ ... Neither of them are touchy people. He had offered a hand because it was polite, and in return she reaches to gently take his other one. Just for the moment, to show him that it isn't a matter of their forceful togetherness that she stands tall beside him. ]
You would not do it again. That means more than you think, Messmer, because I have no reason to doubt your words.
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Thy words would attest to mine own. I have spoken no lies - neither previous nor at present. Fair Odile, thou art no consort of the Impaler. Let it be known.
[ if she lets him, he'll carefully untangle their hands, then step aside so that they can take their places in the booth. ]
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... Briefly, she wonders how the rest of the group is doing... Surely she won't be coming back to some kind of mess... ]
1/?
Just like that we cut to commercial! What's the commercial for this week?
A retirement home. It's luxurious! It's well-maintained! It's affordable! You should definitely put your parents here. That's just going to play for a little while until — ]
2/?
The screen fzzts to life again, leaving them in the quiet of the afternoon. The camera is intensely focused on the two of them. One of the camera guys is trying to Messmer's snake to look at the camera the way you would get a dog to look when you're taking a picture. It's fine.
Images of the two of them appear on the screen and now... the moment of truth! ]
3/3
Well... ]
[ It did. Doves come bursting out of nowhere again, swirling around the gazebo. Confetti spills from the ceiling. Cheers are heard again. Butterflies flutter past them.
It truly seems like this is a perfect match. ]
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Whoo. Hip hip hooray. Yippee.
[ Please all these theatrics if Messmer's snakes eat a dove live on television then it's what they get-- ]
As I expected, however. Our backgrounds are different, but... there is a single similarity between them, something that I confess I had realized sooner than this past week, Messmer. That is what made me so very confident in our match.
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Well, then the difficult part begins. But Messmer takes comfort in knowing it can't be harder than anything that's come before.
Odile's comment draws his attention back to her - sort of. The snake near his shoulder is very clearly distracted by those doves, so his eye is looking somewhere over her shoulder rather than at her. He's got the right direction!! ]
... Another who would claim similarity yet utter no word of it.
[ first Rom, now Odile. What is with you people??
The snake lunges at a dove and grabs it easily in its mouth while he says this, by the way. ]
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I don't know how much you would appreciate it, is all, but -- well, I suppose this week was a tell-all anyway.
[ And she did said she'd explain herself, so she intends to. ]
My mother abandoned my father and I before I was even named. [ This, she had said at that horrid reveal party. ] I have resented her ever since. Nonetheless... I was drawn to chase her shadow, even as she'd saw fit to cut both of us off without a single regret to her name. And so I traveled to Vaugarde to find remnants of her, and in turn of myself.
[ Perhaps he can see the single nugget between them, then. ]
It is a small thing, yes. But you are honest in your words and direct, uncaring of the others' opinions, and those, too, are things that I know of myself. We are more alike than expected -- including in our own privacy, and our dislike of things being spoken for us. I am rather happy with how things have turned out.
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just kidding, it's her saying she's happy about this that actually surprises him. Yes, she's repeatedly said she doesn't care, but there's a vast gulf between indifference and rather happy. His eye widens a little bit, if only for a moment, and he has no response at the ready, silence stretching for a scant few seconds. ]
... Then in thy satisfaction, I will mine own take.
[ if Odile is pleased, then he has nothing to be displeased about. His part in this game is over. ]
How did thy quest conclude?
[ the poor dove is still cooing and shedding feathers everywhere as the snake wraps it up on its coils and continues working on swallowing it... ]
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[ A comfort she would not trade the world away for, and her fond tone can speak as much to that. ]
I hope you have found something the same here, among those who have been othered as we. Against all odds, I have again been saddled myself with them.
[ Though again, it doesn't seem she hates that. No, these are her little guys (gender neutral) now. It's unfortunate but true. ]