Nine To Go - [Voice]

[avaricious]

[Well, someone is getting married. Here, of all places! Ling thinks it's a bit reckless, but there's no harm in a little fun. So he devises a filter and doesn't even bother disguising his voice.]

[Filtered To Males Only]

Hello! My name is Ling Yao. I'm sure most of you heard about the recent wedding about to happen. I've been thinking about marriage myself. After all, I do have to eventually pick out fifty wives when I return home. But it wouldn't hurt to find someone here as well. I could be here for a very long time and Luceti does happen to have an exceptionally stunning population of women. So, what do you say that some of you suggest your top five most beautiful women for consideration. Feel free to elaborate on what makes them an excellent candidate for marriage.

And please, let's not get into the matters of Xingese politics. It's really just the way things are, so I'd rather not talk about it much.

[It would ruin the fun!]

(ooc: Please, please, please go all out with the thread jacking! I'm not even kidding. I want to see shit hijacked all over the place up in here. Hell, Ling himself might not even reply to some of these threads unless they interest him personally. Go wild, please! It'll be fun, honest.)

Comments

[fabrecation]

Heh, and I used to think the opposite for a while. Those kinds of marriages were just things I heard in books and stuff. Back at home, all I knew about marriage was that you were arranged to be with someone just to bring two families together. Nothing about love or anything.

[risingwinds]

But that sounds awful! What if you don't like the person you've gotta marry?

[fabrecation]

... To be honest? I was involved with that back at home. The person I was engaged to is... She's a close friend of mine. But I didn't love her. [He lets out an amused little snort.] Actually, for a while I thought she was really annoying. I know better now, and she's a great person... but I still don't want to marry her.

[risingwinds]

Well, at least you don't have to worry about that here, right? Luceti doesn't have laws like that, so you can stick with someone you really do love that way.

[fabrecation]

Yeah... that's right. [And he's really grateful for it. His relationship with Xion is probably the best thing that ever happened to him. But...]

Except now I really don't know what I'm going to do when I get back home.

[risingwinds]

Well... at least you've got time to plan to plan ahead.

[...Sorta. There's the whole memory loss bit that's problematic.]

[fabrecation]

Maybe. On the... bright side, I guess, I don't think she wants to marry me anymore, either. Still nothing we can do about it, but...