week two | dates

[marriagebroker]

Kiss the girl~!

Or guy.

Or person.

Or Messmer's snake.

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verso and luka

[marriagebroker]

Verso and Luka are taken on a ferris wheel date. It's late at night and quite idyllic.

Highlights

• There is a fair surrounding the ferris wheel, so please enjoy it.
• The boardwalk is super pretty as well.
• People WILL assume these two are on a romantic date.

[reverso]

[This is precisely what he had in mind. Something to light up the night sky — and he's never seen a Ferris Wheel like this one before.

They have to wait their turn for their car to come around before they can hop on, but it's nearly time.]

Oh, this is even better than I imagined.

[colorful!!]

[beatmatching]

[ the color and the neons sure are a sight. ]

In what way?

[reverso]

I think it’s beautiful. Sure, a bit eye-burningly bright, but what good things in life aren’t?

[Joking.]

Mostly looking forward to the view, though.

[beatmatching]

Like me? [ sorry he's still himself. ]

[reverso]

Like you.

[He knows when to flatter.]

But up high.

[beatmatching]

I could have been a bit taller.

[ not that he's short but!

said with a smile, of course. ]

[reverso]

[Despite everything, he had to quirk a wry smile at that.]

No, I think I like you at this height. I'm supposed to be the tall one, after all.

[don't look at Messmer]

Anyway, nothing will beat the view up there — or at least I'm hoping. Let's hop on.

[Because their car is slowing to a stop, swaying gently as it awaits them to get on now.]

[beatmatching]

[ a huff with a slight smile of his own. ]

Yes, let's. [ he'll step onboard without hesitation once the door opens for them. ]

[reverso]

[In the go. And then, after seated, up they go.

And up, and up, and up. Higher up, and the nighttime life below provides a colorful view, aglow in the night.]

Peaceful, being so departed from life below.

[beatmatching]

[ with a wry smile. ]

Not so far as space. But maybe it's more peaceful.

[reverso]

With the sort of life you lead, I imagine so.

[Verso leans back and crosses his arms, looking out to appreciate the view.]

So, you remember I said I wanted to talk with you? Before.

[beatmatching]

[ hmmmmm. ]

I do. [ he waves an arm, go ahead. ]

[reverso]

...I had just wanted to talk about match potentials. If this game is sorting us by similarities, it had made sense for me to pick Nico. But you had been a consideration, too.

[For music, initially. For a performer's heart. For a mask that was hard to read, or see through.]

After our talk, I only feel like it's more possible. ...I wanted to hear your honest opinion on the matter.

[beatmatching]

If it was fully similarities, I would have matched with Yingying.

[ that he's sure of, even if he would be hard pressed to describe how he lines up with her beyond the surface. ]

How are you and Nico similar? How do you see him? I'll answer after.

[reverso]

[Verso doesn't think it's based fully on similarities, that's the thing. He suspects that it must run beyond the surface level, but with a dynamic that gets along well enough to start, so that the chemistry might at least have a decent chance.

But he answers Luka's questions all the same.]

A love of music. An appreciation for the arts, though I think he's more devoted to painting than I am, anymore. Long-lived and familiar with loss. [He doesn't explain, but he isn't sure Luka would ask, anyway.] But he is so much brighter, so much more full of optimism. That, I can't lay claim to.

[beatmatching]

[ ...that does catch his attention, actually. ]

The Segyein are long lived. I won't be. [ ... ]

Besides that, you're thinking of music and our roles. It's closer than most others.

[ logically, he doesn't disagree on surface. ]

[reverso]

Well. Neither will I.

[He doesn't expound, though. Luka can take from that what he will.]

But...? I feel like there's a "but", there.

[beatmatching]

[ hmmm. ]

You genuinely like others, don't you? I don't.

[reverso]

You mean you don't like... people in general?

[beatmatching]

We compete against one another and the loser is killed. Why would I bother to get close to anyone?

[ he doesn't say this with a hint of emotion in his voice, because as much as verso will see luka's actual emotions this weekend, they don't come into play here.

you win, or you die. there's no room for anything else. ]

[reverso]

...That's different, Luka. That's not disliking people, that's choosing not to get close so you won't get hurt.

[beatmatching]

[ petutlantly: ]

I don't really get hurt.

[reverso]

[He really sounds like a child with a reply like that, forced to grow up to soon.]

Because you won't allow it. But at least give yourself that chance here. Just for a little while.

[beatmatching]

[ he smiles, picture perfect. ]

For what end? I don't need that to figure out my match when it can be done with simple arithmetic.