text; un: anonymous

[battlebound]

Name: Anon!
Date: 29/06
Format: Text

Where do people go on dates in this blasted city?

[ Well, Aef? Please enlighten the romance-averse anonymous how he can woo a man beat his rival at romance. ]

Comments

un: PrincessAllura

[quintessent]

If this is your first date, clearly any public location should suffice. Perhaps the city center or the steps of parliament?

[battlebound]

[ Well, it's actually a halfway sensible suggestion. ]

Surely that can't be the whole thing.

[ It could be a start, though. ]

[quintessent]

Of course not, but it would be a shame if there was no one around to witness your Declaration of Intent.

[battlebound]

My... what???

[quintessent]

It's the prepared statement to line out your reasoning for courtship.

Maybe it's called something different here.

[battlebound]

[ That's a mildly horrifying concept to Steak. ]

It's nothing that formal.

[ Ugh, one of the many reasons he's glad he doesn't have to go through life with all the same restrictions his master attendant did. ]

[quintessent]

[Hm. She has considered that dating for her might be different considering the difference in species and class.]

Then, what is it you want to do on your date?

[battlebound]

Prove somebody wrong.

[ What a healthy approach to dating. ]

[quintessent]

[:\]

I am almost entirely certain that is the wrong reason to date someone.

[battlebound]

[ Oh, u rite, Allura. But this boy has a Long Way To Go. ]

It seems better than an arranged marriage.

[ And that worked out pretty well for his Master Attendant. ]

[quintessent]

Is this a commentary on my status?

[Princess and all.]

[battlebound]

[ Do we really think this boy thought that deeply on that comment, Allura?

No. ]

It was a comment on most relationships I've known.

[ Shit happens when you're around nobles all the time. ]

[quintessent]

[No, but so far he's anonymous so maybe she's talking to someone more rational.]

Not everyone has the luxury to marry only for love.

[AHEM]

What is it you are trying to prove, anyway?

[battlebound]

[ Oh, Allura, you'll never have that sort of luck here. ]

That's a stupid rule.

[ He's always thought love is kind of pointless, but for how much humans wax lyrical about it, why force people into marriages that go against that? ]

That I can plan a good date.

[quintessent]

[Smh]

All of this just seems incredibly petty.

[battlebound]

And? You're not going on this date with me.

[ It can be as petty as he likes. ]

[quintessent]

Does your date know they're just being used to stroke your ego?

[battlebound]

They were the one who issued the challenge!

[quintessent]

Then it sounds like you deserve each other.

[And he can consider this a dramatic hang up.]

NOT HERE

[marmoron]

[ Whenever it is in the day that Keith gets around to checking the network to make sure the city isn't on fire or whatever, he'll come across this conversation and Allura will feel a random spike of stress for absolutely no good reason. ]

[quintessent]

[You better work on your soliloquy skills, buddy.]