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[nrangel]

Beautiful Miss Ringo, where to start...

Well, might as well start at the beginning! Even before meeting Ringo in person, I think she left a bigger impression on Serpilia than most of the other cast members because of how unique her profile was in a sea of already fairly unique profiles. She assumed that the claims made about her were jokes, or ways of trying to catch attention early on, rather than real facts about her, and didn't put too much thought into things like the age listed on her profile. She could see her picture, she could see the woman herself milling about the manor. Obviously she wasn't a literal baby?

Ringo's actual first meeting with Serpilia also left the strongest impression because of how bold she was with her approach. Even though Serpilia herself was very flirty from the get-go, she wasn't so upfront as to ask people to kiss right off the bat, so Ringo's strategy of just going for it impressed her. Serpilia likes upfront people who are honest about themselves and what they want, so she liked what she saw of Ringo, and the kiss was pretty nice too.

That's when she immediately after learned that Ringo's profile wasn't just made up nonsense intended to grab attention, and her interest grew, because Ringo was a fascinating person with very unique circumstances. I think very quickly she took the "well yeah obviously Ringo is a full person" stance, but she also knows robots with very advance capabilities, personalities, and AI systems, so it was easier for her to do that than it might be for most people, even if none of the robots she knows are at Ringo's level.

They ended up going on a date, and Serpilia had a blast too. Ringo was fun, up for just about anything, and seemed enthusiastic about learning about the world in a way that Serpilia found charming. She was actually Serpilia's very first pick on the first week, but of course she was not picking that week, and she'd also had a pretty good impression of Furina, so she was happy to see that Ringo did get picked by another cutie.

Ringo also showed she and Serpilia had a lot of the same interests. The whole powerpuff girls thread with Poppy was extremely charming to me but also to Serpilia herself, who genuinely had a lot of fun joking and talking about using the power of MATH to figure this out with the other two women. She felt an ease and a comfort with Ringo that she enjoyed a lot, and wanted to explore a little more.

Though she was also happy to see that Ringo and Furina continued to hit it off well enough that people wanted to take a chance on them being their second truth booth match. Serpilia herself voted for them, because she thought their chemistry seemed good, and the chance seemed likely, but by the end of week two I think that's also when Serpilia started to realize that Furina and Ringo both were the two women she was the most interested in the show (Shoko ironically being the third, but she also saw that Shoko and Poppy seemed to be hitting it off well). Since Serpilia hadn't actually come to form a romantic connection she logically didn't think of this as a bad thing.

But logic and feelings don't always go hand in hand, and she did feel just a little melancholy about the whole thing. When Furina asked her to pick the outfits for them since they had gone shopping together, Serpilia agreed, thinking it might be nice to be able to leave just a little part of herself in their relationship when they ended up matched, because she was becoming more and more convinced they were going to be a match, and picked outfits for them that she thought suited the other's aesthetic a little more (thank you both for finding such neat outfits for that ceremony based on my vague descriptions also). Seeing them up there in the fits she picked and looking so happy together again made her very happy, but also just a little sad. Very bittersweet moment for her.

One that Edamura called her out on later, and that was the first time she said out loud to anyone that she had started to develop some feelings for both Ringo and Furina, and she wasn't sure what to do about it. Mostly she just wanted to let it go and be their friend who could support them, but it's hard to kill a crush, even one that should have died the minute it started budding since they got together so quickly. Going to places like the spa with them though where they were all practically naked together was definitely hard for her big gay feelings, and she wanted to take her chance to spend time with them for the limited time they had, while also not getting in the way of their romance, and that put her in a hard spot.

So... smash cut to the rager where Furina and Ringo planned to try and sneak Aventurine and Serpilia back with them to their honeymoon suite, and Serpilia drunkenly stumbled across them in the middle of their plans. She was in an already vulnerable space, unable to stop herself from spilling her feelings a little with her inhibitions a little lowered there, but not so drunk that she couldn't very quickly catch on to what they were laying down. It felt like a dream to her, like there was no way this could actually happen. Sure, the reason the feelings developed at all was because the chemistry was good between her and both of the women in the already existing couple, but she had assumed they were looking for something a little more monogamous with each other.

So while she was happy, she also got just a little teary eyed while she got a chance to kiss both of them again, and realize she was being brought in on something she wanted to be in on, but hadn't been willing to put into words for most people.

And then when their plans to actually get back to suite was foiled by TV and also probably literal magic, they had their chance together in the bbr. ADMITTEDLY we didn't end up rping out the bang, but I imagine it probably went a little something like Ringo and Serpilia having a great time being teases, and Furina suffering the most for it. Serpilia I think was in the middle of extremes between Ringo and Furina in a lot of ways, but in terms of boldness and teasing I think she and Ringo were pretty much right on the same page, and they would have had a blast working together for something like that.

After that, Serpilia's mood, which was already pretty good even if she had some lower moments, was sky high. She wasn't really that subtle about what had happened with her and the girls, even if she wasn't saying it outright, the people that already seemed to realize her feelings (and by that point several of the people close to her like Edamura, Poppy and Luka had realized) she was happy to confirm with. At that point she really was happy to be matched with whoever, though she still thought the most likely choice was Shoko, and was pretty clear in stating it. She also hoped it would be her and Shoko, because how great would that be for her not to be in the way of Shoko's relationship with Poppy, because she already had her own she wanted to run to?

Literally at the end of the show too, when they managed to get all of their lights, and she was able to run into their arms.

NOW... as far as what the future holds for them, I think that's hard. Serpilia definitely would have wished for a way to visit their worlds easily whenever she wanted, but she would probably be busy with a lot of things happening in her own often, and not be able to join them for a lot of the journeys. She's also an ambivert with like extreme swings from sociable to recluse, but I didn't really play with the second part of her personality in the game because it was a one month game and that would spoil the fun, so her being away from them while working on important things in her world probably suits her well, and lets her charge up her battery for when she does go to see them. I do think that means in some ways she will never be quite as close to Furina and Ringo as they are to each other, but I think the three of them are all reasonable enough to accept that, and Serpilia isn't a particularly jealous or needy person that would be bothered by that, especially knowing she is the cause of it.

I just think that they'd all be able to fill in some niche of needs fulfillment, and the fact that Serpilia is the disappear for stretches at a time kind of girl wouldn't end up harming her relationship as much as if it was with just one or the other of them, because they'll have each other still while waiting for the next time Serpilia comes waltzing back in.