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[marriagebroker]

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[nrangel]

Haha, no worries. I have kept my word on it taking me like two months to get to all of this, so I'm not judging anyone else for skipping.

As for a little writeup about Miss Odile, well...! Yes. I think the two of them never fully understood each other and what the other one wanted and was looking for, which for Serpilia actually made it harder to determine if she and Odile were a match, though I think Odile was a little more certain (and obviously correctly so) that it wasn't going to be her and Serpilia.

From pretty early on while Serpilia was very sociable and flitting around flirting with people, I think Odile's more reserved personality meant the two of them didn't click quite as quickly as Serpilia did with some of the others, though she liked Odile well enough. The woman took an interest in her Sankta traits without getting strange about them like some people did, and had a pretty calm and fairly practical way about her that Serpilia respected a lot.

While Serpilia doesn't actually consider herself a fashionista, she was flattered that after seeing the outfits that she was picking out for Furina and Ringo that Odile took some interest in letting Serpilia find something for her, and was determined to make it beautiful and classy for a woman who struck her as having a lot of poise.

I think it wasn't until week three where they got the reveal that most of the remaining pairings were going to be same sex couples that Serpilia really started considering Odile as a possible option as her match. Although we know WWX didn't actually know anything, he did reveal in one of the talking heads encounters that he had read her file, and seemed to think what Serpilia needed was stability and someone who could be secure while she walked down a rocky road, so Odile describing herself as a safe port in a storm immediately made her go !! and ask her out on a date.

Ironically this is the time that Odile was taking into consideration things like people's mutual interests and hobbies, and trying to nudge Poppy in Serpilia's direction, though at that point the same thing that made Serpilia think she and Odile might be a fit made her certain that it wasn't going to be her and Poppy, even though her and Poppy had a stronger rapport in the first couple of weeks.

Fishing trip was pretty illuminating in some ways. It didn't necessarily make Serpilia any more certain about the nebulous potential connection between her and Odile (though at that point she thought it was likely she was a match with Shoko), she did still get to learn more about Odile herself and the world she came from, and how different it was from her own. I think even if that small potential she was following didn't seem like it was coming to fruition, she did appreciate the chance to get to know Odile a little better.

And throughout the rest of the show, the woman continued to be someone that Serpilia thought had such cool lady energy. She seemed relaxed and comfortable enough in her own skin, and ready to not suffer nonsense when it mattered. Her pulling together the final truth booth at the end in a way that helped them all slot together the final puzzle was a huge bonus for Serpilia, and considering that was after some TRUTHS came out about Messmer (iirc time lines get murky after a couple of months), I think Odile's willingness to do that hit even harder.

So while they never formed the UNBREAKABLE FOUND FAMILY BOND, Serpilia did really like Odile a lot as a person, and was happy for the chance to get to know her.