To me the main appeal of Oralina (both platonically and romantically) is that you're taking two female characters with arguably the most misoginistic writing in this entire series and you decenter men from their lives to instead explore how two very ambitious women navigate being on top of the world and how they stay on top in spite of people not always liking them for it. And how mutual respect and conflicting feelings can unexpectedly arise and how they would deal with them.
I imagine that they would not immediately like each other at first. With Oralie grieving Kenric, she might resent Alina for using his death as an opportunity to climb the social ladder. Similarly Alina could be frustrated with Oralie because I headcanon that Oralie would have delayed her vote and only reluctantly agreed to the majority voting Alina.
Thus you have an actual enemies to lovers rather than the half-baked "fake hating but we actually had feelings for each other this whole time" that Shannon attempted with Koralie in Stellarlune.
And they are neighbours. (And they were neighbours). Forced proximity something something.
Also, Oralina would never fit matchmaking ideals meaning they are instantly superior to Koralie who had the audacity to use "b-but they were each other's first match!" as an argument to why we should ship them. Fuck the matchmakers. Fuck Stellarlune. Here we approve sesbian lex 👍🤤
Also also, their colour schemes are COMPLEMENTARY. Do you know how much joys this sparks for artists out there?? Green and pink, the duo of all time. 🌸🍀
Come on people, they're basically meant to be.
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