tl;cr meme

[marriagebroker]

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

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[poans]

I shall receive it happily two months from now.

[nrangel]

Let's make it a month and some change instead.

Yi Sang... poor, sweet, doing his best Yi Sang.

So here's the truth, from the get-go I think Yi Sang was pretty far down on Serpilia's lists of potential matches. He's CUTE TO ME, but he does look like he needs to catch up on sleep, has kind of an unkempt vibe despite being perfectly kempt, and isn't particularly impressive in the build department (his one navy man AU aside), so he definitely isn't Serpilia's type at all who likes pretty faces and built bodies. That being said, just because he was barely on her radar from a glance at the profiles didn't mean she wasn't interested in making friends with him, especially given she wasn't actually there for trying to find true love in one month's time.

The funny thing too is that he definitely came across as more charming than he meant to in their first meeting. Given his own history with Sang Yi and his fascination with her wings, as well as his unusual way of speaking, Serpilia was given the false impression that his interest in her was attraction based, as in finding her hot instead of attracted to the idea of flight that her wings represented. She completely misread his intentions given the nature of the show, and her own struggle understanding him sometimes, so his firm denial of that made her feel a little odd.

I think she got a slightly better understanding of him with just a little more time, when he showed that he didn't have much in the way of strong opinions on the people he was supposed to be matched up for in this love competition. Even if Serpilia herself was skeptical of the idea of it panning out into much, and didn't mind not finding any connection of that sort, the idea of coming onto a show like this and not caring at all who you end up with was baffling to her. Yi Sang found new ways to be confusing to her, though she could at least start to guess that he seemed like the kind of guy to take the path of least resistance.

And that's exactly why she told him not to pick her at the ceremony. She didn't know if he actually would, since she didn't feel that had any particularly strong connection at that point, but since she also didn't know who might pick her, she had a feeling if there were some leftovers and he was last, he might if that seemed like the easier thing to do, and the idea of that ruffled her metaphorical feathers something fierce.

After that conversation also Serpilia became determined to force him to make some choices, not realizing that not all choices were the same to Yi Sang, and he could very easily make ones like the ones that occurred in the escape room. She'd been expecting a lot of hemming and hawing from him, and to have to carry them through the game while working just as hard to make him make decisions, but he impressed her by getting into it right away. She had no idea she'd accidentally led him into his element, and was genuinely impressed by the change in character she was seeing from him.

I think this is also when the hotness meter was introduced in OOC chat LMAO it was the first time he did anything at all to even earn him a single hotness point.

From there a guy that she had frankly kind of poor opinions on early on started to shift into someone she found still baffling and confusing, but charming in a way that was pretty strictly platonic. I don't think Serpilia even once considered Yi Sang romantically, though she did consider choosing him for her round when she was trying to think of who to pick who didn't seem to have a likely candidate already lined up. She also appreciated that despite her telling him not to pick her last round, he wasn't the grudge holding type, and was so willing to accept her potentially picking him for the matching ceremony, more brownie points won.

There were other things he did that she found both weird and charming, like the way he spoke about the robots in the robot match, which Serpilia did appreciate since she was also team "let's not be cruel to robots", and him just immediately trying to take her advice at the onsen to the detriment of their own conversation, and by and large just kind of made him creep higher in her esteem.

I think she never fully understood him, but she did like him a lot by the end, and found his insight and way of viewing the world fascinating, which is why she was also happy to have conversations with him like the hot or not game that really veered off the tracks when playing with him. She hopes he and Yangyang can make each other happy, because she likes the Yi Sang they had at the end of the show when he was a lot more cheerful in his own quirky way than the very dower Yi Sang that they had for awhile at the beginning, and wants him to be able to keep that strange charm of his going.