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[marriagebroker]

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[fireball]

also powerpuffs...

[nrangel]

Powerpuffs!!

Honestly, Poppy was pretty sweet and fun from the get-go with Serpilia, though with getting to know a pretty large number of people, I don't think Serpilia had given her a ton of thought other than she way preferred Poppy's reaction to learning about the existence of Sankta as someone who apparently didn't have them in her world to the way that Edamura reacted to her, and she appreciated how well Poppy seemed to accept things after a little explanation.

And when talking to Ringo Poppy... well popped up out of nowhere to get in on the literal numbers game they were playing. That early conversation was so cute, and Poppy's genuine excitement over making friends who had some of the same nerdy interests that she did, and getting excited to form a little trio with them endeared her to both Serpilia and me, Leigh, personally.

I think from that point on Poppy with from cute and kind of quirky girl to friend very solidly in Serpilia's mind. Because she hadn't technically come there with the goal in mind to find her match or get a wish, the idea of just making good friends with like-minded people really appealed to her, and Poppy was just genuinely a lot of fun to be around. She definitely came from a world very different from Serpilia's own, and telling even the most basic kind of stories about things from her world and having Poppy just kind of :O at them made that clear, but she was a delight on the show, and had great and enthusiastic energy.

Also she never turned her ire on Serpilia, so Serpilia was willing to just kind of look away and let Poppy glower and whoever she wanted to otherwise, even while Serpilia got along with pretty much everyone.

The one difficulty was that early on WWX mentioned having read her file, and mentioned thinking she needed someone who could be steady for her when things got rocky in her world. Initially she took his insight more seriously than time proved it probably should have been taken, but even after that it was still in the back of her mind that the file that WWX had read on her would have been the one that anyone making these matches would have read too. It made her pretty certain that she and Poppy were not a match.

Well... actually... her strong belief in Soppy made her believe that they weren't a match at first, and then it turned out Soppy couldn't be a perfect match, it was the whole thinking Poppy was not well equipped to handle the shit on Terra.

I think it's a little funny when the gender breakdown of the perfect matches were given that Odile quickly started to steer Poppy towards Serpilia, because it was at that moment that Serpilia almost immediately realized that it was likely her and Shoko, and doubled down on her thoughts that it wasn't her and Poppy. She liked Poppy so much though, and trying to discourage her away from a course that she thought was likely to result in another loss of a light was hard, because she didn't want to feel like she was rejecting her. She wouldn't have minded at all if Poppy was her perfect match, because Poppy was such a sweet and fun friend, but she had convinced herself (accurately, as it turns out) that it wasn't going to be the two of them.

She also admittedly was kind of hoping for her and Shoko, because she knew that she wasn't really there for romance, and the two women she was the most interested in were already together, so it made things easier for the two of them if one of their matches was happy to step aside for them. I said it before, but I'll say it again, Soppy was Serpilia's from week one OTP, and she was happy whenever she got to see them being cute together.

It also broke her heart a little when Poppy was certain she was going to be the girl paired with a man, because Poppy had her own queer awakening on the show, and seemed to be thriving and so much happier for it, and Serpilia was genuinely kind of worried that might have been the case (ie Poppy getting stuck with a boy), and hated that idea for her, so when she ended up with Yangyang Serpilia was happy AGAIN, because Poppy deserves to be paired with an incredibly beautiful woman in a wonderful sapphic way, while running into the arms of another beautiful woman in an even more wonderfully sapphic way.

And despite me dropping the ball on old threads, I like to think that they will still chat often as time goes on, and girlfriend gossip with maybe a little more detail than Serpilia was willing to give when she was teasing Poppy with admitting she had gotten together with Ringo and Furina.