Week 2 Matchup Ceremony;

[omnivoracious]

❤ Week 2 Matchup Ceremony

[ It's Time.

The Overseer will call everyone outside, to the area. She stands at the podium behind a screen bearing two handprints, while the guys can sit in the seats and the ladies + Diamond will be directed to stand on the platform-- and Cyrus and Douki-chan continue to be seated together.

Behind her and off to the side, there are eight beams of light. ]

Hello, everyone. Choices for our third week have been made. When a couple has been announced, please come forward and place your hands on the screen. You will be locked in.

Once all couples have locked in, the lights will go out. For every couple that is a Perfect Match, a beam of light will appear. To win this game, you will need all eight beams lit. If no new beams have been added per week, you will encounter a blackout and one of you will be chosen at random to lose your wish.

Due to the unfortunate departure of Dohalim, Kuchiha and Vivy, our matchmakers have changed some of the Perfect Matches and also discovered a trio of three. I will inform one of the three of this development next week, to assist them.

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Comments

[saucerous]

So we should operate on the assumption that any factors around you are based on a lie?

[This is not quite as harsh as the word choice makes it sound. She's just trying to figure out the exact implications of what he's saying, at this point.]

[gilden]

Huh? That's not what I meant. I meant that there's no way I'd be paired up with two other people.

[saucerous]

[Oh... She actually might have jumped to conclusions or listened carefully enough to his words. And instead of doubling down, she even acknowledges that she did it.]

...Got it. Not even in a way where you think it could help you get over something you don't want to admit, right?

[gilden]

I'd have to know what I don't want to admit first, so no.

[ This logic. ]

[saucerous]

Really? That's a lot different from "something you don't know you need." Plenty of things are hidden on purpose.

[gilden]

...yeah, I know. [ He ruffles his hair and sighs. ]

What are you trying to get at?

[saucerous]

I'm not getting at anything; I was being upfront about it.

I just want to ensure that, in all aspects, a third match is something that you think would be harmful than helpful to you.

[gilden]

[ Another long drawn out sigh, all very dramatic, and Ash puts his head down into his hands. He stays like that for several long seconds and then snaps back up with a small smile. ]

No one's ever gonna make me charitable instead of greedy, it ain't who I am. I can't share and if I ever had to I'd rather just get outta there than deal with it.

[saucerous]

[That makes him sound exactly like the kind of person though should be taught about sharing, she thinks, but then she reconsiders.]

Yeah. Even if it might "improve" you in some way, it would feel like torture, wouldn't it? At first I also believed that I'd be bothered - what if they each liked the other person more. But then... [She trails off.]

Reasonably, I think we can safely rule you out.

[gilden]

Like I said, there's no "improving" me. [ A slight nod to show he agrees with the rest. ]

Process of elimination for the rest is probably our best shot.