week four | dates

[marriagebroker]

Get dressed up, go on the town, this is your last week for romance!

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[embellwish]

Aren't there enough sad endings in the real world...

[ ...Too many to count, really. She really doesn't have the taste for tragedies or sorrowful tales — not even in fiction. Though, her opinion's been swayed a lot over the last few years, having spent a lot of time with someone who only likes sad endings. ]

Some sad tales can be so cliché, too. Forbidden love and eternal curses... where's the fun in that?

[gamboler]

[ ...Well. He can't argue with that. Reality is rarely as kind as stories are, though he wonders which is better in the long run; the honesty of a tragic tale, or the hope of a happy one? ]

Oh, come now, you don't find something even a little bit romantic about forbidden lovers? Even curses have their place, so long as they can be lifted.

[ maybe if he finds a nice prince to kiss his luck curse away — hol up ]

[embellwish]

[ Maybe she's just seen and heard too many tales... ]

So long as there's a happy end, maybe... if I imagine myself in a tale like that, even if it were forbidden, it wouldn't stop me from getting my arms around the person I love.

[ She'd rewrite their story, keep pushing against the forces that kept them apart, until they were at last together. That's just her philosophy, unwilling to be tugged around by the whims of fate and destiny. It's more romantic to break out of the confines of tradition, even when that tradition is the common beats of star-crossed lovers' tales. ]

I guess I just don't understand the anguish in those tales...~

[gamboler]

[ A light hum, as Ariel enters the stage, now blowing bubbles with a bubble gun out into the crowd. One lands right on the crown of Yingying's head. ]

You're the type to go right for what you want, huh? [ Well. That tracks with her pursuit of Yi Sang. Hopefully they're a little closer to figuring that out, even if the conversation Aventurine had with him is a blur, now. ] I see the appeal of a little mutual pining, but in the end...I guess I would agree with you. No happy ending in a tale like that would just be a waste of time.

[ His answer to this might have been very different a few weeks ago, but he's...had a change of heart, to say the least. ]