tl;cr meme

[marriagebroker]

post your character, people reply, give them the deets. you know how this goes.

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[phenomerom]

i will also wait two months

[nrangel]

You will also not have to wait a full two months!

So as sad as it is to say, I will confess that Serpilia was actually pretty unimpressed when Rom at first sight. He has very intentionally crafted this image of himself as an odd, seedy conman (the weird uncle vibes), and the initial vibes he puts down were not ones that Serpilia was picking up. She likes her men very beefy and strong looking, a little rugged like they've been roughing it a bit, and Rom looks a little rough in a very different kind of way.

However, despite how he looks at a glance, Rom is actually a very courteous man, and Serpilia started to realize that pretty quickly. When he came over to kiss her during spin the bottle he was very polite and clearly trying to be careful and not cross boundaries with her. If anything, she crossed boundaries with him instead by being a lot bolder, and seemed just a little cuter after that by being somewhat flusterable. That was when Serpilia started to like him as a person just a little, and started to put the goth aesthetic of his that she found strange aside.

Unfortunately time is hard to balance, so they never got to have the full conversations we had planned, but they did still get to know each other a little better on their first date, and every conversation Serpilia had with Rom did make her like him a little more. She did want to murder him just a little when trying to decide who to pick for the second matching ceremony when Edamura had just pulled a "let's talk for a moment" number on her, and Rom IMMEDIATELY DID THE SAME THING, but she was quickly able to appreciate why he was pulling her aside for that.

Rom was really upfront with her quickly about how he was approaching this whole thing, and while he wasn't exactly keeping it a secret from anyone, she did still appreciate his candor of what he wanted out of this experience, and also appreciated that he trusted her enough to work with him in making it happen. It did mean that even when he tried to be sweet to her later that she entirely misunderstood him, and assumed he was playing a role to move on to business.

Despite the fact that she did realize Rom was a very polite man and had a more genuine side to him, I think Serpilia never quite understood the depths of some of that genuineness because the veneer still stayed present in her mind, and she assumed he was perhaps a tad more business than he was.

Her impression of him overall was that he was a well meaning guy who came in with a specific goal in mind, and maybe wasn't all that acclimated to things like romance and dating. Because he puts up a front to protect himself, she found him harder to read and took some of his behavior more at face value than she might have if she'd had more time to get to know him. She did know there was definitely some degree of a front there though just based on how poorly he handled the ghost situation, and how quickly he turned to alcohol as a way of trying to deal with what was going on there. Though she didn't want to pry into people's business, I think that was her one time of really seeing right past the calm front that he puts on and seeing the obvious hurt that was there.

While she doesn't know his full story or everything he's gone through, she did get to know Edamura too during her time, and really likes the guy. He seems to be pretty grounded and willing to accept blame when he is at fault, and she's hoping that he will be a good person to help Rom with whatever baggage (literally) haunts him. The seem like a good mix to her from Rom's very even keel demeanor, and Edamura's big, loud feelings, and she ended up being really happy for them when something started between them despite the fact that neither man came there really looking for romance.

And she will absolutely do a guest appearance on Rom's youtube channel if he ever asks her.