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marriage broker ([personal profile] marriagebroker) wrote in [community profile] perfectmatch2025-06-23 09:44 am
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week four | mingle

Final week at the estate! Final week with your friends. Final week with your beaus. Time to make the most of it, everyone!

In fact, to celebrate this fact, today there is a cake. It's nothing special, just a nice little cake to enjoy with your morning coffee or throughout the day. Yay, cake!

And when Wei Wuxian arrives that morning, he is going to call out once again for everyone to join him, near the cake.

"Everyone, I have another announcement!"

Hell yeah, announcements.

Boom Boom Room | Dates | Property Damage
Truth Booth Voting | Match Ceremony Voting
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[personal profile] gamboler 2025-06-28 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ He's been lighting off more than a few fireworks himself — call it healing his inner child or whatever, but there's something undeniably charming in the simplicity of lighting a sparkler. Waving it idly through the air, he approaches Edamura, offering a nod in greeting. It seems he's gotten over whatever he was upset about at the Truth Booth viewing. ]

"None" seems like a pretty bold declaration...but I'm a bold sort of person. So yes, no regrets. And yourself?

[ It seems like for the most part...things have worked out remarkably well. ]
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[personal profile] ordimame 2025-06-28 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Edamura cannot deny this fact! the fireworks are. . . comfortably nostalgic. the perfect sendoff to what has been a very emotionally challenging (pos. . .?) four weeks]

[he stands up a bit straighter when he sees Aventurine approaching, halfway prepared for another brief-but-awkward moment. . . but relaxes when he is greeted with nothing but a cheerful wave of sparks]

[a tiny smile]


For once in my life. . . none at all.
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[personal profile] gamboler 2025-06-28 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ Yeah...yeah. That's something he can relate too all too well, but it's refreshing, isn't it? To feel like...things are finally on track.

It's...a little terrifying, too, but mostly refreshing. ]


So, where are you headed from here? Back to business as usual, or do you have a new path in mind for yourself?

[ is your boyf coming home with u bro ]
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[personal profile] ordimame 2025-06-28 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
[his sparkler dances in the air, drawing idle patterns with the smoke. one of them looks like a cat!!]

A little bit of both.

[WHAT IF NEITHER OF THEM ARE GOING HOME TO EACH OTHER THEY'RE JUST GOING TO MEET ACROSS WORLDS???]

. . . I have a job waiting for me back home. I promised to help Rom with his business, too. So. . . we'll need to talk about that.

[. . . and other things that have been on his mind since his last conversation with Wei Wuxian, but that's another story]
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[personal profile] gamboler 2025-06-28 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ Hey, that's valid. From the sound of it, none of them will be locked to one place going forward, so as long as that holds true, a little bit of both and then some seems fitting. ]

Help him with his "business", eh? Is that what the young people are calling it these days?

[ they're literally the same age help ]
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[personal profile] ordimame 2025-06-28 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[STARES AT HIM]




Aventurine, aren't we the same age?

[IS HE HELPING NICO WITH "BUSINESS," TOO?]
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[personal profile] gamboler 2025-06-29 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ Well yes!

Anyway, ignoring that question— ]


Surely, you can find a more romantic way to put it, even if business is a part of it.

[ It's impossible to tell if he's teasing right now. ]
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[personal profile] ordimame 2025-06-29 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
[my god. whether he is or not doesn't matter, because Edamura does let out a breathless laugh. not an ounce of fluster!! not a hint of a flush! which may be surprising for one as dramatic as him. . . though it's true that Aventurine has seen his more calm and composed side than not]

I'm not very good at putting things in a-- [air quotes] -- "romantic way."

[neither is Rom, he thinks. maybe that's why it works]

But I think that suits the two of us just fine. Don't you?
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[personal profile] gamboler 2025-06-29 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ A coy, little sidelong glance, before he chuckles, an irrepressible smile on his lips. ]

I think so long as whatever you decide to call it works for you, then that's all that matters. [ A beat, before he adds: ] It wasn't too different for me, you know. Finding the words to express to Nico how I felt wasn't the easiest thing I've ever done.

[ And he thinks that Edamura might be able to appreciate that, too. They're both the type of people who know their way around words, and the effect that how they're said can have on someone. And yet when it comes to speaking from the heart, it's a lot more difficult to pull off. ]
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[personal profile] ordimame 2025-06-29 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[there is a slight pause as Edamura watches his sparkler slowly flicker and then die, leaving nothing but a few trails of smoke in its wake. Aventurine is right; he does get it. he gets it in such a way that he can't help but ask, slow and curious]

. . . how did you manage?

[because there may be a few more things he'd like to say to Rom before the final match ceremony. but he's still. . . trying to figure out how]
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[personal profile] gamboler 2025-06-29 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
...I'll spare you the more salacious details, but suffice it to say I've found I'm better at expressing those sentiments in a more...physical way.

[ And that in turn had lent itself to his heart finding the right words to say. Leaning into what felt right, the rest came more easily afterwards. ]

Then it was just a matter of...saying what came from the heart. Not the kind of words I practice and rehearse to leave just the right impression on someone, and so they often felt messy on my tongue. But truthfully, if feelings like this didn't feel rather messy from time to time, I'd think I was doing it wrong.

[ People like himself and Edamura tend to do things tidily, don't they? But that's when it's fixed, when it's manufactured, and feelings that are so authentic and intense are anything but. ]
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[personal profile] ordimame 2025-06-29 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[. . . . . . . . . . . .]

[a small laugh. it's a bit wry, and tinged with a smile that matches its tone]


. . . I can't really remember the last time I spoke from the heart.
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[personal profile] gamboler 2025-06-29 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
...I couldn't either, before I came here.

[ The time that the Harmony forced him to confront himself hardly seems to count, and even then, it was more the manifestation of his future self telling him the contents of his heart. That may have given him guidance in the right direction, but even still vulnerability doesn't come easy to him. ]

People like us...we have to learn to shed our vulnerability to survive. But it's still there, isn't it? We wouldn't be here talking about this, if it weren't.