T H E M E A : M A T C H M A K E R T H E M E
M A T C H M A K E R + T H E M E
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Name: Shannon
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Would you like your match to be a male or a female character? Either!
Do you prefer characters from the games, the movies or the books? Games, please.
Describe yourself in...
...three adjectives sarcastic, cynical, disconnected
...three nouns thunderstorm, whiskey, ruby
...three verbs thinking, writing, manipulating
You’d rather want your partner to be...
optimistic or pessimistic: Realistic.
mature or immature: Mature, definitely.
quiet or loud: A nice balance - if “loud” here means “obnoxious” or “outgoing,” then no, I’ll take quiet. But I want someone who’ll stand up for themselves when necessary - I don’t date doormats.
rude or polite: Polite; class goes a long way with me.
violent or peaceful: Well, obviously I don’t want him/her to be violent toward me, at least not when it haven’t been previously agreed upon. But totally mellow people bore me.
dominant or submissive: Dominant, since that doesn’t necessarily mean I’d have to be submissive. I wouldn’t want him/her to be completely domineering, because I wouldn’t stand for being bossed around, but I do like someone who can speak his/her mind. I’m afraid I’d take advantage of someone who was too submissive and agreeable.
selfish or altruistic: A nice mix. I don’t want a completely self-serving asshole, but I do like people that look out for themselves and their closest friends.
a leader or follower: Leader.
the hero or villain: Probably ambiguous, not clear-cut one way or the other.
doing lab work or field world: Lab work, probably, though either is acceptable.
Questions
Name one quality in a man/woman that guarantees him/her your instant affection. The ability to be intelligently scathing.
Name one quality in a man/woman that guarantees him/her your instant rejection. Immaturity.
Where are you most likely to meet each other for the first time? A bar, probably.
Who makes the first move? S/he does, I don’t put myself out there first.
Fancy dinner time. Who ends up paying? They do if they offer, because I’m really quite okay with people spending their money on me. But I’d probably insist on doing it next time, just to make sure there wasn’t some perceived debt involved. Mind games! They’re hard to get over!
Happy Birthday!! But wait, your partner forgot! What now, what now? I’d actually be pretty pissed, because I’m a big brat about my birthday, and would’ve probably been reminding him/her for weeks beforehand. But if s/he was genuinely repentant, then whatever, it's fine.
100% genuine Resident Evil scenarios
When the two of you are trapped in a monster-infested mansion, he/she will most likely… Fight alongside me, I’d imagine/hope.
You find out that your partner intends to betray his/her comrades/company. Do you support him/her? Try to talk him/her out of it? Tell his/her comrades/company? Do nothing? Or something else entirely? If I think it’s a good idea, I’ll support him/her completely. If I don’t, well … this depends upon why I think it’s a bad idea. If I just disagree with his/her viewpoint on the matter, I might stick around to see the end result; if I’m sure it’ll results in his/her ultimate ruin, I’ll probably book it immediately.
Your partner announces that he/she will fight injustice and take down Umbrella for good / restore Umbrella to its former glory and take over the world. Your opinion on this? Let’s go! I’m all for a good rumble - from backstage, that is.
Your partner finally believes to have perfected his/her precious virus. However, he/she insists on testing it on himself/herself. In addition he/she needs to remain in cryogenic sleep for 15 years. What do you do? Well, I’ll be back in fifteen years to meet up again. I’ll take care of whatever s/he needs me to in those years, but I’m not going to wait around mooning for him/her. Fifteen years is rather a lot of time to waste!
Your partner is slightly obsessed with his/her pets. You know, ants, leeches, parasites - cute little things along those lines. Does this affect your relationship in any way? As long as it’s not detracting considerably from his/her time with me, I don’t care. We all have our obsessions, and it’d be hypocritical of me to deny them theirs when I certainly have my own.
Your partner has been infected with the T-Virus. How do you react? Try to save him/her, of course. If all else fails, and s/he turns into a slavering flesh-eater, well, there’s always the shotgun. It’s been real.
You have been infected with the T-Virus. How do you expect your partner to react? I would rather hope s/he would do everything in his/her power to save me!
In the end
Which Resident Evil character do you think you’re least compatible with and why? Rebecca, probably, just as I answered for my main application. She’s just too sweet and naïve!
And lastly, please pick a song or quote to describe your ideal relationship.
I went with Ted Hughes’ “Lovesong,” probably my favorite poem of all time, though that’s a hard choice to pin down. In any case -
Lovesong
He loved her and she loved him.
His kisses sucked out her whole past and future or tried to
He had no other appetite
She bit him she gnawed him she sucked
She wanted him complete inside her
Safe and sure forever and ever
Their little cries fluttered into the curtains
Her eyes wanted nothing to get away
Her looks nailed down his hands his wrists his elbows
He gripped her hard so that life
Should not drag her from that moment
He wanted all future to cease
He wanted to topple with his arms round her
Off that moment's brink and into nothing
Or everlasting or whatever there was
Her embrace was an immense press
To print him into her bones
His smiles were the garrets of a fairy palace
Where the real world would never come
Her smiles were spider bites
So he would lie still till she felt hungry
His words were occupying armies
Her laughs were an assassin's attempts
His looks were bullets daggers of revenge
His glances were ghosts in the corner with horrible secrets
His whispers were whips and jackboots
Her kisses were lawyers steadily writing
His caresses were the last hooks of a castaway
Her love-tricks were the grinding of locks
And their deep cries crawled over the floors
Like an animal dragging a great trap
His promises were the surgeon's gag
Her promises took the top off his skull
She would get a brooch made of it
His vows pulled out all her sinews
He showed her how to make a love-knot
Her vows put his eyes in formalin
At the back of her secret drawer
Their screams stuck in the wall
Their heads fell apart into sleep like the two halves
Of a lopped melon, but love is hard to stop
In their entwined sleep they exchanged arms and legs
In their dreams their brains took each other hostage
In the morning they wore each other's face