perfectmatch | tl;cr meme

yes good hit me

places mine paw upon yours

i have returned a month later for yaps

i appear when you least expect it

ANYWAY, ROMMMMM!!

Ringo sincerely liked Rom from the start, honestly. She loves con man type personalities; he reminded her of her crew back home from the start, especially Saizo. And the thing about Mr. Saizo Soul Hackers is that he's the one who's most flippant about his feelings, emotions and attachments, and yet she learned quickly that he was also the one who felt the strongest about all of them. Saizo is a soft boy, and she rapidly began to suspect that Rom was similar.

Of course, she couldn't just overlay someone from back home over top Rom and expect it to go well. She had to get to know him better!

And as she got to know him, she realized how much of a softie he was. He was playing a role that was expected of him because he was on TV, or something like that; it wasn't something she personally understood, but she felt like it was both a very human thing to do, and also a very selfless one. He was willing to be whatever the show needed him to be, even if it meant not putting his own desires first.

She also thought it was a very stupid option, which is why she wanted to go on that date and talk some sense into him. The show didn't need their help, after all. Its ratings were none of their concern. What they needed to do was follow their hearts and have fun and find something they wanted--love, or the wish, or just something worth being there for.

She fiddled with the math a little when they had that talk. Like, nothing she told him was a lie, but she excluded a couple of things just because she was so confident he and Edamura had something. There were a few options that were equally viable iirc, and she kind of shoved those under the rug while they were chatting. Ringo's a little bit of a chaos gremlin when she wants something, and numbers seemed to be the way to convince Rom, so numbers were what she used to do it. [misinformation dolphin sticker]

Anyway, all of that aside, she was sincere happy for him when he and Edamura finally took those steps together! He deserved that happiness, and they were good for each other. They saw things in each other that most people didn't and wouldn't, after all, and that makes for a solid bond no matter what might come.

SO ALL OF THAT SAID, overall, Ringo really liked Rom! He was one of her favorite people on the show, and she's rooting for his happiness. She will gladly be his bodyguard on his travel show or show up to be on his streams, because he is her Buddy.

reaches for. . . come to me ringo!!

hello

ANYWAY, EDAMURA!!!

Ringo really liked Edamura from day one because Ringo likes humanity!! And Edamura was incredibly human. Perhaps one of the most human people here, and that made him a good guy in her book. She's kind of easy that way. She was an AI created to save humanity, after all.

Of course, he was also kind of shady, which was something that made her like him even more, even tho it took some time for that side of him to come out. Ringo's crew is shady, as you well know, so those are the sorts of people she feels most comfortable around! She honestly didn't peg him for that sort until pretty late on, because she bought into his wide-eyed "looking for pure love" facade he was trying to sell everyone (and himself). Because of that, it took time for the rest to sink in, which is a shame bc she would've just liked him even faster, even more.

But it's fine, because she still did, and they bonded nonetheless.

Teasing him still felt very much like being around her crew in the best of ways. His reactions reminded her of Arrow, which she liked because Arrow is the most earnest of her crew, which meant that she felt like she could trust Edamura about the things that mattered. And it turned out... she could! He truly did want the best for everyone on the show.

She started pushing pretty hard for him and Rom as soon as she saw something there. She actually saw it on Rom's side first, and started pushing for it even before she knew it was mutual. She just... really wanted both of them to be happy, and it felt like they were both holding back. So imagine her relief when Edamura also seemed very receptive to Rom, and then their romance blossomed. Whew! She really dodged a bullet there! If he hadn't been interested, she would've been doing some oopsies.

But point is! She's happy for him, and happy for Rom. She knows she can trust someone as earnest as Edamura with Rom's heart, and she knows that the reverse is also true. They compliment each other well, and that's what matters. She likes Edamura a lot, considers him a good friend, and wants to be there for him when he needs a shoulder or someone to talk to or a JRPG protagonist to have beers with.

Just ring her up and she'll be there!

Hehehe. One Yuri thought please

my yuris... i return belatedly full of thoughts of yuri

SERPILIA... MY BELOVED...!!!

As you said in yours, Serpilia and Ringo honestly clicked right away. Their attitudes are really similar, they both know how to chill and have a good time, and they both knew that they needed to not take the show too seriously too quickly. It was a reality TV show, after all, and they're both savvy enough to keep that in mind while they're experiencing things.

I think the difference between them, then, is that even knowing this, Ringo was willing to go into things with wide-eyed naivete and excitement for trying new things, whereas Serpilia was very aware of herself and the others, and what was going on. It led to a really good, light amount of push and pull between them. Ringo felt like Serpilia was a blast to be around, while also feeling like Serpilia reminded her of a few important things to keep in mind while she "played" this game, which she honestly and sincerely tried to commit to memory.

ANYWAY!! Ringo clicked very quickly with two people, and those two people were, ofc, Furina and Serpilia. She honestly felt like she could've been matched by the algorithm with either of them; she felt like she had good balance with both, enjoyed being in the company of both, and would have had a blast with both. But Serpilia was more naturally cautious than Furina was (which was something Ringo had no problem with, honestly, given Ringo's used to cautious people like that), which means that in the end, she pitched testing her compatibility with Furina first. There was the math as well, of course, though at that point, it was honestly just that Ringo saw a lot of possibilities for Serpilia, so she wasn't very confident that it was her. She would not have been surprised to see Serpilia end up with half the cast, since she was so flexible and fun to be around.

So! She and Furina, perfect match. They talked about it, of course--that the both of them really liked Serpilia, and just because they found their perfect match didn't mean they had to just... give up on that. So there was the attempt to smuggle Serpilia into the honeymoon suite, because they wanted to be able to share that with her. And then there was the ot3 moment in the bbr which i failed to keep up with because i was fizzling out hard from mathing too much BUT. I'm sure they had an absolute blast, and it just cemented what Ringo was already coming to realize.

That Serpilia brought something to the table that neither she nor Furina could, and that there was no need to limit all of them if they were happy with what they had. Serpilia makes Ringo happy. Serpilia makes Furina happy. That's enough for Ringo; why complicate it?

Of course, Serpilia is very much a busy woman with her fingers in a lot of pies. I think Ringo understands that better than anyone, given she's a jrpg protag who likes to stick her fingers into many pies. So. She's happy to wait for when Serpilia has time for her and for Furina. Distance just makes the heart grow fonder, right? Though Ringo's not really sure her heart can grow much fonder, given how much she already likes Serpilia. But it's fine, that's another new adventure in feelings for her, which is something she's all about.

ONE YURI THOUGHT DELIVERED!!!

meows

slides in here forever late

LUKA!!!!

Ringo truly never knew what to make of Luka from day one onward. He seemed like the sort to be pretty volatile but also kind of mysterious and cagey. This meant that it was her jrpg protag duty to befriend him. And honestly, at first there were definite sparks! That kiss dazzled her as someone who had never experienced anything like it, and he definitely had her attention.

It was pretty clear when she started to lose his attention though. She wasn't offended by this, honestly; it seemed kind of natural, because they didn't have that kind of immediate chemistry that he seemed to have with both Maya and Yingying. But it didn't change the fact that she still wanted to be his friend and figure out what his deal was! Even if they weren't a match on the show, she still felt like making that bond was worth the effort.

And she does consider him a friend! She's aware he might not see her the same way, which also doesn't bother her. Ringo kind of lives life at her own pace, and that includes befriending people as she pleases. She's happy to encourage him to live his happier life with Maya now, and is pleased that it worked out the way it did even if she still kind of doesn't really Get Him, honestly.

She also never really figured out how close he was to a crash out in the show. hilarious. protag of the year over here

powerpuffs...

POWERPUFFS!!!

OOOHHH RINGO WAS ROOTING FOR POPPY SOOO HAAAARD.

To Ringo, Poppy was everything she was created to protect--humanity at its best and most normal, a human just trying to make the most of things and living life as best she could. Poppy was the brave one, putting herself out there like this. Poppy was the one who has to contend with so much just to get to this point. So. Ringo was in her corner from the start, really, just for that alone.

Of course, she also came to like Poppy as a person really, really quickly! Poppy is the likeable sort, and on top of that, they do have some things in common--enough so that Ringo did consider that they could've been a match solely because of the programmer-AI connection. But in the end, what Ringo wanted for Poppy the most was happiness and that love connection, and Ringo's personality and life were a bit too fantastical for that to make sense to her.

So! As Poppy started to get brave and branch out, Ringo was so ready to be a wingwoman for her in every single way. She was here to support her! She was 150% in Poppy's corner!! Hilariously, she didn't really need to; Poppy had it covered herself. By the time Ringo realized there was something there between Poppy and Shoko, it had already pretty much happened.

Protag of the year over here.

BUT YEAH BASICALLY... FRIENDSHIP!!! RINGO LOVES POPPY (PLATONIC)!!! She'll absolutely stay in touch and absolutely help Poppy make a contract with a demon. Good idea? Absolutely. What could go wrong.

Hewwo . . .

hewwo.......

God. Yi Sang was probably the person Ringo had the hardest time getting a read on in this game. She could not tell what his deal was. Him and Luka, man... confusing. Of course it ended up the way it did with the matches. She should've figured it out from that alone--

But. Anyway!

From the start, Yi Sang was a bit of an anomaly. He truly felt like he just accidentally showed up and felt too awkward to leave. She couldn't tell if he really wanted to be there, or if he just couldn't find an escape route. And as someone who only just was able to live life for the first time, she didn't really get it. There are so many experiences she's excited to have, and he didn't really seem excited for anything.

Which! Is why she got so excited when he finally started to show his opinions! When he started to care about things! It was all she could've asked for, and Ringo was delighted to start to see it.

I think to some extent, she was aware she wasn't really the right person to nudge him along on that path. Yingying was much better at it, and Ringo was just too... aggressively Ringo to be very helpful.

But! She was rooting for him from afar this whole time!! Even if to the very end she really never came to understand him. It's fine, probably. She still likes him anyway.

ringochannnn 🥰

SHOKOOOOO

I feel like Shoko and Ringo vibes from day one, honestly. They were both here for a vacation and to have a good time. They'd both gone through the Horrors and now had come out the other side. And for that reason, I feel like they tended to keep things pretty light between them. The kissing, the games, the dates--they always just were kind of vibing.

And that worked for them! Ringo realized pretty early on that Shoko's been through it and also is the coolest person ever. She vibes with people like Shoko easily, because her crew is also kind of Like This--they've been through it, they've come out the other side, and now they're just making the best of what they've got left. Shoko is admittedly more fun than any of Ringo's crew, though.

ANYWAY even with all of that said, there was a definite spark there for Ringo! Shoko was a damn good kisser, was self-assured and able to show Ringo a good time, and those were all things Ringo was drawn to. But I think Shoko needed someone who could bring more normalcy to her life than Ringo could, and once Ringo realized how well things were going for Shoko and Poppy, she was honestly overjoyed. Those were her friends! Her buddies! Living life and enjoying themselves! As far as she was concerned, that was a perfect outcome, regardless of the math of the show.

SO YEAH!!! Ringo definitely vibes with Shoko so well and she'd show up in a heartbeat to help out if things got hairy again in jjk-world. She's here for you, Shoko, they are Friends now and Ringo is ride or die for her friends.

hits you!!!! (affectionately)

HITS YOU BACK

like almost two months later

dish best served cold, etc etc etc

AVENTURINEEEE. Poor Aventurine. Ringo had him clocked immediately. I mean look at this clown who's a part of her part. A freelance demon summoner who's secretly soft and squishy on the inside, will often gamble his life on things if he feels he can win, and tries to pretend he's unaffected? Yeah. She felt like she'd seen this before.

Which is why I think she went in so hard on Aventurine. She just felt like she'd read this book before--helped along by the fact that she saw Saizo's memories when she saved his life--and it meant she wanted to skip the boring cagey parts to get to know Aventurine as he actually was. Because Ringo does know that he's his own person, even if the AI part of her (which is all of her) wanted to naturally Categorize Him.

But things did get a little more natural after that, when she eased up a little and as Aventurine opened up. She really liked him! Being his friend felt very natural for her as someone who is involved in wild things often like he is, and who approaches things with a similarly casual air.

There wasn't ever any real romantic tension or interest between them, which was fine with Ringo. Aventurine struck her as the sort of guy who was working really hard to open up for the few people he was able to really start to fall for, and she didn't want to get in the way of that. She was perfectly happy to be his friend, and was rooting for him and his romantic endeavors from start to finish.

So in the end! They're friends! She likes Aventurine a lot! He's invited to freelance demon summoner work with her at any time. She feels like he'd take to it like a duck to water, honestly HAHA.

tiny wife

i left tiny wife for last... but now here i am, taking a deep breath and taking the plunge

OKAY!!!

So of course, Furina caught Ringo's attention immediately, even though we were trying to be good and you didn't even tag her kiss prompt. We were TRYING to be GOOD!!!

Anyway. Furina caught Ringo's attention because she was already in full director mode right away. She had the sort of busy energy of someone who had a vision and wanted to see it come to fruition, and Ringo likes people who know what they want and chase it. So she was, of course, so on board to help Furina with anything she might need to make it happen. It would be fun, and they'd be killing two birds with one stone in that way. It helped that Furina's ideas were all really good ones!

But of course, it'd be remiss to not immediately mention the music thread. Furina setting Ringo a challenge to overcome in order to earn her time was something Ringo was all about; she does love proving herself, she loves sidequests (finally. it took her a long time to come around to them), and she was intrigued by Furina. But what Furina asked for was something Ringo had absolutely zero experience in. And even more than that, she had no way of... really parsing out music in a way that she thought would be satisfying for Furina. So she went to the library, dug out every aria she could find, and took them to wwx to help her understand them.

In truth! Ringo is human enough at this point that she could have understood the music to some extent, at least a little bit. But she was so convinced that she was too much of an AI, like she is at the beginning of her game, to be able to do so. But she didn't want to let Furina down already. Hence, calling in a lifeline. But she just asked wwx for what he thought the music meant; she picked the actual aria out herself. The one she picked was wistful; she was already thinking about Figue, her lost love, and what love meant to Figue. They were on a romance game, but when it came to something meaningful... that was the first thing that came to mind, and that's why Ringo picked what she did.

And she was deeply relieved that Furina liked her choice. I feel like hearing Furina sing it was one of the first moments that Ringo realized she could understand music--she could understand the emotions behind it, because wwx may have guided her to it, but hearing Furina sing it, she understood it for herself.

ANYWAY. Point is! That was the beginning of Furina's humanity truly guiding Ringo away from being purely data and AI, and more of what Ringo's always wanted--which is to be Ringo, and more human, and live her life on her own terms. She wasn't aware of it just yet, but with each date, and with each moment spent with Furina, that's what Ringo felt more and more. Furina wanted to write her own story for herself. It was such a lovely sentiment that it stuck with Ringo for the rest of the game, and still has, honestly.

Because she wants that for herself, but also, as she came to understand Furina and what she's been through more, she realized that she wanted that for Furina even more than she wanted it for herself. That she'd set aside her personal fun seeking, or enjoyment, if it meant helping support Furina's right to write her own story. And I think that was Ringo's first true glimmer that she was starting to fall in love. Emotions are complicated, especially for an AI, but... Figue was willing to give up everything for the person she loved. Ringo was starting to understand exactly what that might feel like, and how it might happen.

Of course, Ringo is the more logical of the two of them. Figue is the more emotional one. So Ringo, despite having those feelings, was aware she shouldn't just let herself fall headfirst into them. First and foremost, they were on a dating game show. They might not have even been a match. Furina was popular for good reason, and might have found someone else for her. And secondly, of course, Ringo couldn't risk making the same mistakes Figue did. That would be Dangerous.

And then... they were a perfect match!! In a lot of ways, that kind of made Ringo's life so much easier. She wanted to focus on Furina, because she liked the way Furina made her feel. Now she had a very good excuse to do exactly that.

So Ringo's attention kind of shifted at that point in the game to a) learning as much as she could about Furina and spending time with her and in her space and b) helping out with the math of the game. She wanted everyone else to get their happy endings, their wishes, and everything too. She just also wanted to do it while cuddling Furina on the couch. She really did get to live that life for like two weeks, too. Damn. Ringo was thriving and winning.

LET'S SEE....... of course we've talked together about how great it is that Ringo's learning about humanity from Furina, who was chosen to do what she did because she was so perfectly human, which is still so fistclench. Ringo also loves Furina's sometimes bossy nature, her flamboyance, her teasing. She's always been attracted most to that which is out of the ordinary, and that is exactly what she would say Furina is: she's incredibly, completely human, and yet entirely extraordinary.

So of course, with her job done back home, Ringo went home with Furina to tour Teyvat... of course she did. Aside from popping home every now and then to see Figue and also to introduce Furina to Figue and to the fancy food they have back home, she probably mostly stays with Furina.

AND ON SERPLIA: it helped that they both very much liked Serpilia, of course, but I think Ringo wanted to encourage Furina to chase her bliss no matter what. The more she learned about what Furina had been through, the more certain of that she was. She didn't even really consider it "sharing" so much as just supporting Furina on that journey of writing her own story, just like she said she wanted to do. But. It absolutely helped that Ringo also liked Serpilia a hell of a lot LMFAOOO. I'm sure they all get together when Serpilia's job(s) allow and it's very fun and spicy when they do.

okay i think i need to wrap it here for my sanity rip to me over furingos

ringo my love

surprise

Anyway! Ringo liked wwx! She liked him a lot from first meeting onwards, but she also very quickly got the idea that he had no idea what he was doing and that just carried on further and further as the show went on.

She also considered herself more of a leader and protagonist than him, rip. That's why their talking heads became more and more of Ringo actually therapizing him, rather than vice versa.

It's how she would've wanted it.

Anyway! She pegged that he was a gremlin, but she likes gremlins so that didn't bother her. Like I said, from start to finish she liked him, thought he was earnest about them finding love, and felt like he was a trustworthy enough host! He's a good guy in her book even if she's tired of hearing about his husband already.

No more, please.

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