Live triple threat!

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Who: Cosmo, Marnie, the Grand Master of Ceremonies Ligrev, and you!
Where: the lobby
When: Day 244 noon

[It’s the lobby, there’s like, not much special going on, but Vergil is in a big robe and pointy hat and false beard obscuring himself as much as possible. The massive size of the beard helps muffle his voice a bit too. Marnie is just hanging out nursing a drink, basically. Cosmo has set up a table of drinks.]

Good morning/afternoon/evening, please set all cellular devices to silent during the ceremony or they will be confiscated. ...Good enough? [HE IS SO UNCOMFORTABLE the disguise was not enough.]

Marriage! Fuckin' cute, right? Choosing someone to be bound to for life! Ain't nothin' more romantic, if you're into it! And if you're not, well, we're just fuckin' around, so no worries there. But we've got a theme to pander to, so let's have some fun!

[What we have here is actually a man who is terrible at monologuing. Does he get points for effort?]

[Cosmo raises a glass of champagne in a toast.]

Thank you Ligrev, Grand Master of Ceremonies! Thank you Marnie! We should work on a title for you shouldn’t we.

And with all that said, anyone who comes by now can marry one of these three eligible* bachelors**! Just point at your choice and the other two will see the wedding done… Somehow or other. Personally I recommend Ligrev, a serious older gentleman with a distinguished aura. Then again, if eye-candy is your thing you can’t beat Marnie. Naturally I, Cosmo, am a catch.

Of course you can bring your own bride or groom if you like, too.

Well, who will come get married?

*Citation needed
**Citation needed

[Ligrev starts to back away from the scene the moment they’re all offered as possibly eligible possibly bachelors. Hopefully no one will notice if they’re distracted. This was not part of the deal.]

((Zreal, Baritones, and Taisho get host bonus, all participants get theme bonus + 3 host bonus, come bully Vergil or get hitched what happens in hell stays in hell))

Comments

[rollplayinghouse]

...You don't want recognition?

[auguryofinnocence]

Of course not, I don't want anyone to know it's me if I'm doing something so stupid or embarrassing.

[rollplayinghouse]

[hmmm]

If you think you can't manage it, you could just not do it in the first place.

[auguryofinnocence]

That would be the smart option, of course.

[Which he isn't. Maybe he can admit that for just. a moment.]

[rollplayinghouse]

Then if you're already doing something stupid, isn't it just being cowardly to not go all the way with it?

[auguryofinnocence]

You might be right. Really if it's going to get me what I want, I'm willing to do it regardless. It just seemed like a nice idea.

[rollplayinghouse]

It's a little bit hard to fade into the background in a place like this.

[auguryofinnocence]

I expected more of a..."pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" sort of effect.

[rollplayinghouse]

I'm pretty sure that didn't work out in that situation either.

[auguryofinnocence]

.....Right. It's not my favourite, guess I didn't pay enough attention.

[rollplayinghouse]

Well, I guess it's true that officiating weddings doesn't really seem like your style. Do you even count as an eligible bachelor?

[auguryofinnocence]

In the most technical sense, I guess. You think I'm married?

[rollplayinghouse]

Maybe. Though I guess I don't know if it counts if you don't remember it.

[auguryofinnocence]

I may not know definitively but consider how likely that really seems. Who in their right mind would subject themselves to that?

[rollplayinghouse]

Wow, you really don't think much of yourself, huh?

Regardless, there are plenty of people who aren't in their right minds.

[auguryofinnocence]

I think plenty of myself, just not in that context. Isn't it just being realistic to know I'm not fit?

[rollplayinghouse]

What do you think being "fit" for marriage entails?

[auguryofinnocence]

Well, I'll put it this way. I had a memory of caring for someone, but I was trying not to admit it to myself. And given that Nero was abandoned, that sounds awfully unfit for anything requiring emotional maturity.

[rollplayinghouse]

And you don't think either of those things could have changed?

[auguryofinnocence]

Do I strike you as someone with emotional maturity? Of course it hasn't changed.

[rollplayinghouse]

Well, you have amnesia.

Also, my standards for emotional maturity are very low.

[auguryofinnocence]

Does amnesia have anything to do with that?

[The amnesia is actually making him significantly better...]

[rollplayinghouse]

...

[she takes a moment to consider that, actually]

I think it depends. Some people are just good at it naturally... but some people change from their experiences. Positively or negatively.

[auguryofinnocence]

Well, of course. But if someone can't make sense of or express their feelings well, I would think that means they're just like that. One's experiences don't tend to improve something like that.

[Unless they've had a lot of good therapy or something?]

You've heard about how I was from the others, right? So you have the benefit of knowing that too when judging my ability.

[rollplayinghouse]

...I don't acrtually know that much about you. Just a few incidents. And I have to assume they're not representative of your whole life.

[He can't have spent his whole life ripping arms off, abandoning children and cutting open space. Probably.

She sets her jaw.]

And I don't agree. I've been working on improving my ability to make sense of and express my feelings for months. I'm still not great at it, but I'm definitely better.