week three | mingle

[marriagebroker]

No outright changes this week either. Week three rolls around, braced for impact as ever. The estate is still intact, the contestants are still motivated, things are looking good.

Well, aside from the fact you all had a blackout this weekend. That wasn't so good.

Either way, when Monday rolls around, Wei Wuxian seems to be in a cheery mood as he greets everyone Monday morning.

"Everyone, come here, come here. I have an announcement!"

Better go see what that's about, huh?

Boom Boom Room | Dates | Property Damage
Truth Booth Voting | Match Ceremony Voting

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[fireball]

[ pushing candies around. she has no opinions on countertops, ]

Alright, so we've got two confirmed pairs. [ A green and a blue candy are pushed off to the side for Furingo, and...

Poppy's acquired licorice from somewhere, one black and one red, for Verco. Niso? ]

So we know for sure that we have two yaois, two yuris, and two hets between the rest of us. Everyone seems convinced that Aventurine and Maya are one of the hets, so... [ pushes a pink and a blue candy beside the other pairings. ]

I guess we can go into the match ceremony assuming it's those two, so as long as Aventurine picks Maya, then we've still got me, Edamura, Rom, Odile, and Yi Sang picking.

[ Pushes another five candies off to the side. I don't know what colours they are that can come later. ]

We could try to find two gay combos and one het between us, but we don't have to. Still, that leaves Shoko, Serpilia, Yingying, Luka, and Messmer between the rest of us.

[ oh. pulls a face. the dude options are dire. ]

We know for a fact that Shoko and I aren't matched, and neither are Yingying and Yi Sang, nor Yingying and Luka. So Yingying's chances of being with one of the other women are pretty good. Meanwhile, Shoko and I both have better chances of being with one of the guys —

[ pulls a face again. jesus christ — ]

So I'd bet it's one of the two of us who's with one of... them.

[ ...

pulls out yet another candy and just eats it ]

[researcherstory]

[ SHE CONFESSED HER DISCOMFORTING FLAWS IN FRONT OF A GROUP OF PEOPLE SHE VAUGELY CONSIDERS FOND COMPANIONS AND YOU'RE OUT HERE WITH SHIPPING SQUARES?????????????????????????



sorry, ]

Can you kindly not use genres to describe people?

[fireball]

How would you have me describe them?

[ huffs. Nobody made you be brutally honest in public grandma! ]

[researcherstory]

[ If It Helps The Group She Will Be.

... ... ... ]

Just don't overexplain the terms should someone ask. It'll derail us.

[fireball]

Oh, I'm sure it'll be fine.

[ waggles eyebrows ]

[beatmatching]

[ chewing on a gummy cherry oh so slowly before he speaks up. ]

I told Yingying yesterday, but assuming I'm paired with another male my guess would be Makoto and Yi Sang, in that order.

[ no he does not explain, but he does put a gummy grape into his mouth. yummy. ]

[fireball]

... Really.

[ Just gives Luka a blank stare. Had not expected that from him. ]

Well, your odds are a little better for being with a guy. Just... really?

[ Trying to picture it. ]

[beatmatching]

[ he finishes the gummy and smiles. ]

What are you ideas about my match then?

[fireball]

[ Shrugs and reaches for yet another candy. ]

For all I know I'm cursed with you.

[poans]

[Yi Sang has a muffin in hand from earlier when they were watching the booth. What has his attention right now isn't food, however.]

Might I hear the reason, Luka?

[beatmatching]

[ luka is... somewhat surprised that yi sang asked. ]

In private. [ put that muffin down.

luka offers his hand.

away from the group not actually private, yike will not sail today. ]

[poans]

[His muffin . . . He sets it down after one last look at it and takes Luka's hand.]

[phenomerom]

[ ... yaois, yuris and hets. He's heard these terms in passing enough that he's not going to get into it. Moving on -- ]

If you feel so strongly against being paired with a man, the algorithm hopefully should have taken that into account.

[fireball]

Oh, I don't feel strongly against being paired with a man.

But when you look at the men we have here...

[ Raises her eyebrows expectantly. Surely Rom gets it, right? Of course he does. ]

[phenomerom]

[ .... only sort of???? But he also knows that he's an anomaly himself; he's sure his standards are different from what someone like Poppy would have. So.

Noncommittal: ] Mmhm.

Well, if you're unfortunately plagued with the fate, then perhaps you could just consider it an unpleasant work task -- something to be endured, then forgotten afterwards.

[hexensabbat]

Math tracks.

[Casually, from where she's at.]

But assuming Maya and Aventurine--which, we really need a short term for them if we're gonna be throwing their names around all the time--anyway, assuming them, only one of you can be with a guy anyway.

Both Serpilia and Odile have had two matches with men disproven, but... that doesn't necessarily mean it isn't them, either, so we should be careful of falling into that trap. Just ups their percentages with the other guys instead. For example: we know Odile isn't with Edamura or Rom. Therefore, her chances of being with... Messmer, Yi Sang or Luka are much higher. Narrows the options, so to speak.

I agree though that mathematically, Yingying is probably with a woman.

[fireball]

Myventurine... Myspace.

[ Poppy nods, decisively. Moving on. ]

Hmm. If we're assuming Myspace, then Serpilia and Odile have sliiiightly better odds of being with a woman. It's probably not each other, but if Yingying is matched to one of them, then really we could draw straws between Shoko and myself for being with the other... Maybe we should think about who could be the odd woman out of that quartet.

[hexensabbat]

... Myspace?

[... whatever, it's fine. SHRUG.]

Works for me! But yeah, I'm with you. Nailing down Yingying's match is really pivotal. Figure we should aim for one more yuri match for the ceremony, and then yeah...

[Apologetically:]

One of you has to draw straws and do the het thing.

[gamboler]

...why did I become space?

[ He gets his name is a mouthful, but please!! ]

[embellwish]

If Shoko, Odile, and you all have a higher chance of being with guys...

[ yingying.exe is working.... ]

That leaves me and Serpilia, right? And Maya, if she isn't matched with Aventurine.

[hexensabbat]

If it's you and Serpilia... that could work out really well, actually. We know it can't be Shoko and Poppy, but also that we're still missing too yuri pairs.

So.

Likelihood is high that if not that, we'll be getting closer. We really should be shooting for at least two yuri pairs this Match Ceremony.

[embellwish]

To guarantee ending up with two... both Poppy and Odile would need to pick women, [ She raises two fingers, ] Or, the remaining four women on our team need to not be picked by anyone.

[ Maya, Serpilia, Shoko, and herself.... four absolute beauties who in any other circumstance would not be bottom of the barrel, in her mind. The opposite, really! ]

We already know Aventurine is likely to pick Maya, so either Poppy or Odile must pick a woman at this ceremony, if that's the outcome we'd like.

[ ... ]

It sounds like I'll be left off the board this time, hmm...

[ she's going to play at wilting on her fainting couch.... woe is her, please play a song on the tiniest violin..... ]

[irreversal]

[ the doomed shoko yuris..... ): ]

Given all of that, then, who are you considering for tomorrow?

[fireball]

[ a little smile for her. ]

I'm... not sure. If I am matched with a woman then it's probably Serpilia? But if not then... maybe Edamura or Rom. They're two of the better ones.

[irreversal]

Hmmm...

Not that my opinion matters here, but you do get along with those three, right? They seem like solid picks to me.

[ sorry serpilia, wherever she is, ]