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Who: Exael and the Unlucky Contestants
Where: The Game Tower
When: 86, Evening

[ Between one step and the next the walls (or streets, or open air) around you changes. The sight before you is a room inside the game tower, a new pressure at your neck. Reaching up or looking at the people around you reveals it to be a collar, titanium with a small green blinking light set in the center. ]

[ the screen flickers on, on your cellphone. It's a half-second, blink and you miss it— Exael, chewing on a nail, looking uncharacteristically nervous— then the moment's gone and she waves both hands and smiles for the camera. ]

"Ladies, gentlemen, honored guests! Units of all stripes and sizes! I come offering you a game and a few familiar words, rearranged for the occasion!"

Her carnival barker demeanor shifts for a moment as she lowers her head to say: ] "Glory to the highest, and on earth peace—" [ her head snaps up, her pigtails bouncing with it, and she's grinning again, all pomp and energy ] "even if we're not getting much down here! So let's kick up a ruckus, put on a show, and see how much good goodwill alone can manage! If you wish to save your fellows, now is the time speak!"

[ The rules appear on your phones. ]

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[ this makes

no sense to her.

what is the purpose of being married if not for lineages or children??? maybe they're exclusive? is that what it is? she should probably just. stop asking / trying to comprehend it and just accept it for what it is. ]

I see. Well... congratulations on your marriage, Whisky.

[ just accept it Hiryuu it's easier that way ]

Thank you. You're reacting a bit oddly to it.

[ It's rude if she says he's the last person she expected to get married here outside of Doodle ]

It's a bit unexpected.... marriage....

That is, I had no idea your feelings were so serious.

Edited 2019-02-15 05:41 (UTC)

I'm trying to love them.

So you tied your fate to theirs...

[ that would be a more shocking sentiment to her except political marriages are actually probably very common where she comes from. so I guess that actually checks out. ]

That's unexpectedly cute. Do you think you love them yet?

[ why do so many people use that word with him!!]

I don't know yet.

[ you literally used it first, whisky. You said you were trying to love them. ]

Well, do you think about them a lot?

[ no the "cute" word!!! ]

... Yeah. Shouldn't I be?

[ FFFFSSS

at least she said "unexpectedly" first... i guess.... ]

I'd hope so, if you decided to marry them. Do you think a lot about the kinds of things that make them happy and sad, and does that affect the things you do?

.. I don't want to make them unhappy. If that's what you mean.

More or less. Do you find them attractive and interesting? Do you look forward to being around them?

[ he doesn't say anything but he does just, nod. ]

And you enjoy spending time with them and want them to be happy?

I already said I don't want them to be unhappy

[ so, yes. ]

Then it sounds like love to me! Congratulations, Whisky.

[

blinks ]

But it doesn't feel like the way I remember you showing me ...

No? What does it feel like to you?

It doesn't feel -- overwhelming.

[ well. first things first. ]

Do you want it to be overwhelming?

I don't know what I wanted. But it wasn't the same as what you showed me.

Well, if using Buddy Bond has taught me anything--it's that different people feel emotions in different ways. Even for me, love isn't always that intense. ... But some of my life's experiences haven't been very kind to me, so... I think maybe that's impacted how I feel the way I feel things.

So I think it's okay, if the love that you feel is different than what I showed you. It might just mean that you're less afraid of losing someone than I am. But it sort of depends on how you feel about it. And if you're happy with what you have, then there's nothing wrong with that.

[ nods. he's never been a wordy person but right now it seems like his silence is partially just, due to the fact that he's mulling all that over. ]

I think ... I was expecting something like what you showed me. So I may have started loving them and just not realized it.

That's definitely possible, too. Love is something that grows over time. Even if it seems small to you right now, that doesn't mean that it won't keep growing into something much bigger.

So it's still something I need to work on... ?

I think in this case, it's more like waiting to see what happens. You've already planted the seed and given it what it needs to grow. You just have to stand back and let nature do the rest of the work.

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