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ACTION, OTA: Aphrodite's Love Matching & Arcade
[ Emerald is making no effort to hide herself. She never got a criminal record in Genessia or any of its cities. There's no evidence to prove she did, so even if she'd been on the bad peoples' side at home, there was nothing anyone could do as long as she kept her nose clean. (Or at least prevented anyone from seeing her get it dirty.) In order to keep up the image, she had taken over as matchmaker at Aphrodite's.
That hadn't lasted long before all of the lovesick morons had made her want to lose her lunch, so she was making an amendment to the allowances to come visit her in the "Love Matching office." Namely, the door was kept locked unless someone submitted a filled out contract of Emerald's own making.
She was fairly certain that would keep out anyone who wasn't serious, and anyone who was serious deserved her intentionally terrible matchmaking skills. Try and catch her while she's filling the little tray outside of the door with blank copies? Or perhaps you're going to try to get her to unlock the door? ]
TEXT, Mercury
Save me from this awful place. I'm dying. This was the worst idea I've ever had.
TEXT, OTA
These phones are terrible. Who only loads up a phone with Candy Crush and doesn't give us anything else to do? What's the point of having these things if they're just wasting pocket space most of the day?
If anyone here is holding back on app-making skills, shame on you.
[ Emerald is making no effort to hide herself. She never got a criminal record in Genessia or any of its cities. There's no evidence to prove she did, so even if she'd been on the bad peoples' side at home, there was nothing anyone could do as long as she kept her nose clean. (Or at least prevented anyone from seeing her get it dirty.) In order to keep up the image, she had taken over as matchmaker at Aphrodite's.
That hadn't lasted long before all of the lovesick morons had made her want to lose her lunch, so she was making an amendment to the allowances to come visit her in the "Love Matching office." Namely, the door was kept locked unless someone submitted a filled out contract of Emerald's own making.
She was fairly certain that would keep out anyone who wasn't serious, and anyone who was serious deserved her intentionally terrible matchmaking skills. Try and catch her while she's filling the little tray outside of the door with blank copies? Or perhaps you're going to try to get her to unlock the door? ]
TEXT, Mercury
Save me from this awful place. I'm dying. This was the worst idea I've ever had.
TEXT, OTA
These phones are terrible. Who only loads up a phone with Candy Crush and doesn't give us anything else to do? What's the point of having these things if they're just wasting pocket space most of the day?
If anyone here is holding back on app-making skills, shame on you.
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It's a tragic place in which someone likes a person, but that person only thinks of them as a friend and has never even considered romance an option. Don't tell me you've never heard of it, you're probably one of its perpetrators..
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He blinks and looks slightly mortified.]
I....
[Well the girls did make a fan club for him. But surely none of them like him, they knew him all of five seconds! He can't recall having shot down anyone because no one confessed to him. Unless his other self did and the idea of having someone confess to the thief is slightly horrifying, considering their fate might be worse than the 'friend zone' depending on how much they annoyed him.
He feels slightly sick.]
...wouldn't do that. I don't think I did.
[It sounds lame even to him.]
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[ She's going to come up with a stereotyped scenario and accuse him of it anyway. He seems like the pretty boy type. ]
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Though he has to admit, at Domino he's generally well liked. Though when people don't have terrible things happen to them when they are around you anymore that helps your chances.
But girls, in his world anyway, seemed to always take to him right away even though he was so shy he never spoke to them much.]
Well...I did have a fan club, actually. But I didn't want it! It was embarrassing, really, I didn't do anything to deserve that kind of attention. [How did she know? Is there something about himself he's not aware of? Did he do something to paint himself as someone who looks like they enjoy forcing rejection on others?]
But no one confessed to me. [Because you never met with any of the secret admirers that left you letters, Ryou!]
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[ There are plenty of ways she can twist this. ]
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Did he freeze out someone who may have genuinely been trying to get to know him? He looks at his feet, looking slightly miserable.]
I don't remember. [He admits this softly. Poor possible girls he's slighted...]
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[ Emerald pats his back comfortingly, then holds out the contract again. ]
I'll help you make up for it.
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He blinks at the piece of paper.]
H-how will that help? No one in this world likes me like that. [
But you're captain oblivious, so how would you know?If talking to girls is hard, dating some stranger he didn't know was terrifying.]action
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Suppose someone does have those kinds of thoughts about him, though? Does he want to find out this way? That's silly, though. The people here barely know him. So what is he risking? In fact, people here hardly had the reaction to him that people had back at home. Probably because so many people here were attractive themselves.
He pens his name feeling a little more assured.]
Well. I highly doubt it. No one here knows me. But if you think it helps anything, I don't see the harm.
What have I done?
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Great. I need to ask you a few questions then, just so I can find the best match, okay? Come into my office.
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Oh Ryou...Now he's kind of afraid. But it's too late.]action
[ Or else she'd just be giving everyone who hits on her to him.
..Eh, not a half bad idea. Too late now though. ]
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Sounds like a game almost. It also sounds like a lot of work. You must like your job.
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[ It really isn't since she's just talking to people and then arbitrarily picking, even if she says otherwise. ]
I love it. Matchmaking just makes me feel like I'm doing right in the world. [ A soft smile paints her lips. ]
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It is hard to find a place where you fit in the world. More power to you if you find it and you can make a career out of it. [He gives a shy smile in return.] I'm about to open my own business soon.
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But Emerald manages to keep her internal monologue quiet and smiles. ]
Of course. I think he's going to propose soon, too.
[ Whatever floats this guy's boat to get him to believe her. ]
Ooh, a business-owner. Good luck.
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And his smile brightens even more at her comment.]
Congratulations. You seem very kind, so he's a lucky guy.
Thank you. I've already had some success selling some of my things, so I figured why not? I don't want to keep living off of my friends after all.