Week 2 Matchup Ceremony;

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❤ 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]

[Cassius might say it if she taught him to repeat it back to her like a parrot, to be fair.

Still, it sounds like Kasque might be using the costumes like armor. But what's what actually going to protect that way?]

Why don't you wear something that makes you feel beautiful instead?

[dankgod]

Whaaaat? I'm beautiful no matter what.

[saucerous]

Obviously. [Marcille confirms that immediately and freely. Of course Kasque is beautiful.]

So I think you should feel that way. That doesn't mean you can't also be... [a very small pause as her brain spins for the correct word] sensuous, but I think any of the three of them would be able to tell.

[dankgod]

You think I don't already feel like I'm beautiful?

[ Kasque's tone is dismissive, but also a bit genuinely confused. Of course she is beautiful. What is the difference between knowing that and feeling like it? ]

Tell what, exactly...?

[saucerous]

[This time, Marcille is actually quiet for a little while because she has to think of exactly how she wants to say what she means - and before that, what she means at all.]

That you feel like you deserve their attention.

If you wanted a repeat of the twins you told us about during the party, though, you could put on one of the costumes. Not that I think either of them would act like that - they're both so kind; but that's the point.

[dankgod]

[ Kasque also has to consider her response to that one for a while. ]

...I sort of get what you're saying, but it's not like that. It's more about, mmmm... what they're being attentive to? With those idiot twins, they were obsessed with me because my power helped them once. Well, when you're God, obviously most of the attention you get is for that kind of reason. I hate that kind of thing, so I'd rather it be for playful stupid stuff.

And before you say something like "it should just be for you being yourself, though," it's not like I don't know that. But I've been God for a long time, and there's not like... a dress I can put on that will suddenly get rid of that.

[saucerous]

... Some things have been in place for such a long time that it's difficult to move them. Here or there, it doesn't stop being a part of you. [It's a reminder that she probably needed.

What's a few weeks, really, to any of them, but especially to people like Kasque, like Zagreus? It's a drop not in a bucket but a veritable ocean. She thinks she can understand it, even if that understanding is small.]

...As long as you're trying, then I'm fine with it. So, what do I do to help?

1/2

[dankgod]

Bingo. My power, and everything that comes with it...

[ There's a struggle clearly visible on Kasque's face now. ]

...Well, it's not a part of me, really. But it's not something I can just shrug off and go back to being "myself." Even if I could ditch it, at this point I dunno what it would leave behind.

[dankgod]

[ ...She shrugs. Time for a subject change!! ]

Anyway, if you're offering, why don't you help me pick out something casual?

[saucerous]

Like an omelet... [Marcille looks equally introspective in the silence between Kasque's reflection and deflection. Her lowered gaze lifts back up and is scrutinizing for a second. She's pushed enough, right? But the urge to be stubborn......]

I still have a lot to learn about what's stylish in this place and time, but I'm not exactly letting that stop me, either. [Given the speed with which she managed to dress herself and a few others in more modern clothes this week, she really seems to be getting a handle on it already. She's always been a fast study.] We'll find you something.

[How disappointed Marcille will be to find Kasque in the closet come Monday trying on catgirl, maid, and catgirl maid outfits.]

[dankgod]

[ Look, she can wear a catgirl outfit and something more reasonable. They have time. ]

Well, I didn't say it had to be stylish. Mmm, but I'll leave it to your judgment.