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[duelbride]

She shifts in the outfit she picked out. She wasn't very good at wearing something that wasn't, well, formalwear. Or her uniform. She picks at the skirt and the loose fitted shirt until she feels her front teeth biting a bit too far into her lip and then relents, sighing.

Once Suletta opens the door, Miorine is picture-perfect, ideal and composed. Except for the tomato blue on her cheeks. "Suletta Mercury."

"I'm here...to ask you out on a date." She holds up her phone, an advertisement for a Maze by Pixie Light. Something advertised for couples. Which they are, so this shouldn't be making her heart beat so fast!

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[duelbride]

On tonight's episode of the Bridette...

Our self-proclaimed winner Suletta M. and dark horse Andrew P. are already a step ahead of the competition...

A scene fades in of Miorine R. speaking to the camera:

"I have no intention of picking anyone except-"

The camera cuts away.

Tensions are high as our 12 competitors await the tomato ceremony. But before then...

"I'm Chip Garrison, and tonight, on the Bridette, our competitors will be in a 6 versus 6 competition of...Rugby."

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"Alright you two, we need to decide how we're going to do it. If you're both on the same team, you have to win, because the 'MVP' wins a tomato before the ceremony." She clicks her tongue, tapping her heel on the ground.

"Or you could be each on one team, so one of you can be given the tomato. Even if you're terrible, it'll just be a 'controversial decision' that increases ratings, so I think they'll allow it." Still, the issue with that is that both Suletta and the strange army of similar-looking men would probably crush Andrew, who was shaking like a leaf.

"I'll let you two choose, what do you think? As long as one of you gets the challenge tomato, I think we can make it through the tomato ceremony."

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[duelbride]

She had been scared when she arrived, but her unflappable nature wouldn't let her show it. Sitting in the car provided for her, she simply read her instructions - honestly having been prepared to be kidnapped from a young age, she was able to appear calm, cool, and collected.

The issue, really, the glaring issue, was the mission that they were all meant to be embarking on shortly. She gnawed at her thumbnail, looking anxiously out the window as she waited for further instructions.

A phone was provided for her, it seemed, and she clicked through the applications. Nothing very familiar. She hesitated before opening the contacts. A plethora of unfamiliar names, and then-

[Dialing. . . ]

"Suletta!?" She had something prepared, a rant, anything else, but instead all she could say was a shaky, "You're here?" As she exhaled into the receiver, the car slowing down in a residential district.

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[duelbride]

The television flickers on, an angry teenager in formalwear appears to have just sent off a man, indistinguishable from the man who just introduced himself. She doesn't even shake their hands, nevermind hug them, instead standing there with clear disgust across her features.

The camera zooms in on her face, "That's ten of them, only two more."

This is the set of The Bridette, flowery, strange, and completely surreal. You've tuned in at the moment where the final two limousines pull up. Anticipatory music swells - will our Bridette, notoriously difficult to impress, want to meat our next two contestants...?

The limo pulls up, the music swells, and...

Oh, there's, oh he's running away. A teen in a rumples suit with a rose over his face has exited the wrong side of the car. Oh, he's crawling away.

The screen goes blank for a moment, TECHNICAL ISSUES on the screen.

When we resume, the Bridette is comforting the young man...could this be...love? Or, wait, someone stop his interview-

A...strange approach to our competition.

After our young Bridette comforts the shaking man, sending him inside looking like a lost puppy, the final limo shows up. Is there competition?

Oh, she's singing, it seems, the young woman is stepping out of the car, singing a jingle, and doing a strange dance. An advertisement, maybe...?

Oh! The Bridette is laughing...Our nervous boy has some competition, and some strong words from this competitor.

Stay tuned for an invigorating competition between 12 eligible grooms-to-be. Who will win the heart of our ice-cold Bridette? Stay tuned-

"Shut that camera off! I told you I'm already enga-" The feed cuts there.

[isolaradiale]

i think i need a little break from her muse so i'd like to drop suletta mercury from mobile suit gundam! she was housed in earth house (3BR - cotes). i'd also like to drop aria from zenless zone zero even though i didn't get anything going with her. she was housed in 212, thank you!

They'll be dropped for you!

-- mod altair.

[dramacabre]

"You're, uh, Suletta. I remember you from that show, which-"

"Uh, yeah, we don't have to talk about that. Anyway. I'm Thomas, Andrew's boyfriend." He really didn't expect anyone else to be on the shore with him as everyone got ready to go fishing. He had his charcoals with him, fingers itching after hearing about-

"You heard about this ghost fish?"

Winterfes 25/26 -> SOMETHING SEEMS ICE-FISHY -> @mercurywitch

[wildeheart]

Winterfes: Silver-White Winters

Andrew really tries to listen to the teacher’s lecture about how to identify different types of pine trees. About its medicinal uses. About how they should only harvest resin from trees that have already fallen, and about how the winter storms make this a perfect time of year for collecting the sap... But he’s too anxious, shifting from side to side nervously.

He thought there would be a spare handful of people in this class. As soon as more attendants than that arrive, Andrew starts to break down. Even now, he can see some of his classmates looking at him indiscreetly, wondering what his story is, no doubt. But Andrew doesn’t have a story to tell them, not one he’s willing to share at least.

When the teacher tells them to try to collect pine pitch by themselves, Andrew nearly panics until he sees a familiar mop of bright red hair. Breathing a small sigh of relief, he goes to the fallen tree Suletta is standing next to, scraping the dried resin off a broken branch with a knife.

“...I didn’t think anyone I knew would be here.” Andrew starts the conversation hesitantly. He tells his rabbiting heart to ‘calm down, it’s just Suletta—we know Suletta’ but it refuses to cooperate. It feels like there’s more pine sap in his throat than the jar he’s been scraping it off into—and with Andrew’s new anatomy, maybe there is.

Forcing out more words past the lump in his throat, Andrew tries again. “...Have you two started planning the wedding yet?”

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[duelbride]

Everything had been moved for them, so it was less of a hassle than expected. It was too cold to plant anything new, but she could start with seedlings in the house.

Dropping the box on her gardening mess, soil already caking to the counters, she looks around for-

"Suletta?"

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