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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[ordimame]

[khhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]







I kind of feel like you're judging me right now.

[because he should USE HIS WORDS instead of just talking around it. but directly addressing it feels a bit. . . it's a bit scary, when he doesn't really understand where he stands. it's why he had stepped outside! to think about what he wants to do tomorrow, free and clear of anyone else's math or suppositions about what their official matches are]

[irreversal]

[ Maybe a little bit, but. ]

So? I'm still waiting on an explanation. But take your time.

[ She'll just. Look out at the garden again and keep smoking, ]

1/?? sorry. so sorry

[ordimame]

[she's so kind to him. . . he draws his arm away from her shoulders so he can gesticulate when he talks, the smoke from his smoldering cigarette trailing after each movement]

So it's like. . . ! We should all be thinking about our perfect matches tomorrow, right? The people the producers paired us with? I have a few thoughts on mine, and with Nico and Verso being confirmed, it's pretty safe for me to play around with my matches. See what happens! Get us some information! That's. . . logical. Isn't it?

[ordimame]

[. . .]

But then there's a part of me who kind of wants to pick just based on-- [. . . how he is feeling? what he wants to say? what he wants to use this final choice to convey?] -- just based on this.

[thumps a hand right over his heart]

And I don't really know how likely it is for this person to be my match. I have logic and reasoning for every single person I've picked for mine thus far, but I can't. . . think of any. For them.

[ordimame]

[quickly]

. . . n-- not that there isn't any! I'm sure if I really thought about it, I could--

[waves his hands at her]

But for some reason, that doesn't--

[. . .]

[ordimame]

[hhhhhhrrrrrrrggggghhh]

[a helpless little laugh]

I don't really care to try, I guess. I don't really want it to be logical! I don't want to justify it. I don't want to list of a billion reasons why the show would have paired us together.

I just-- [. . .]

[ordimame]

I think I just. . . want it to be.

Just to be, you know?

[for no other reason than that. not because the math says it might be right. not because they might be a balanced pair. not because they both have something to offer each other in the grand scheme of life and everything that comes after this show]

[he just. . . wants it to be. to exist without reason. that feels. . . meaningful, doesn't it?]

[ordimame]

[. . .]

DONE

[ordimame]

[he finishes with an exasperated puff of his cigarette, entire body slouching against the railing as he mutters]






. . . anyway. I think I like-like. . . Shindou. A-a little bit. Maybe more than that?

[a pause]

And don't tell anyone I used Luka's words!

[p-points at her. please help him preserve some of his dignity]

[irreversal]

[ Mame-chan.......... to Shoko's credit, she listens attentively, without giving any signal for him to hurry up, because he needs to think out loud like this. So she'll let him do just that. And when he finally confesses his affection for Rom, she turns her head to gaze in his direction, her smile sympathetic, but fond.

Picking from the heart, huh..? ]

Then you should pick Shindou tomorrow. Who knows? Maybe it'll work out better for you two.

[ Than it did for her, she means. ]

[ordimame]

[she understands him far too well. . . his need to ramble for a few quick, disjointed, inelegant moments while his mind slots the pieces together. her answer to his conundrum takes him by surprise, and the grousing fades as his features slacken]

-- you really think so?

[that may have not been the option he was leaning towards]

[irreversal]

[ She nods, giving him a wider smile as she musses his hair. ]

Yeah. It lines up with the math anyway, doesn't it? As long as I'm one of the ones left over in the end, it'll probably work out.

[ probably ]

[ordimame]

[ducking his head as his hair is mussed, a complaining noise buzzing on his lips]

. . . I don't know if it lines up with the math.

[it does, but he has yet to hear it. NOT A MATH GUY!!]

But even if it does. . . [. . . does he actually care]

[. . .]

. . . I'll think about it, all right?

[irreversal]

Yeah, yeah.

[ She lets go of him, shoving her hands back in her pockets as she gives a very fake, put-upon sigh. ]

Just do whatever you want. Guys who are in love never listen to reason, anyway.~

[ordimame]

[. . . SHOVES HER BY THE ARM!! gently]

Don't push it!! I didn't use that word! I said "like-like."

[. . .]

[exasperated GROAN, Luka this is YOUR fault]