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[witchbuster]

Characters: Maka and vatheon
Location: Option A: DVD section of the bookstore, where she is looking at romcoms.

Yes, really.

Option B: The shelves in general where she is (very, very, very carefully) looking at books to read

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oh hi buddy

[witchbuster]

[...Those sickles look kind of cool, even with the doofus-fu. She's making a note to ask him about them later.]

I told you I would! [And now she's holding up one of the Earth films she managed to snag to show him the title "27 Dresses"] I basically just picked up whatever had a wedding involved in the plot, this one's about a woman that always ends up being a bridesmaid at her friends' weddings.

[witchbuster]

[Are you really setting off her boring explanation ability. ARE YOU.]

They're usually friends of the bride that she picked out specifically to help; they assist the bride with the preparations beforehand and during the wedding. Typically the highest ranking one of them is the maid of honor, whose usually the best friend or sister of the bride.

What I'm basically saying is they're friends and helpers that the bride can rely on to be there for her on her wedding day. Grooms--or, rather, the other partner in the relationship--have their own equivalent in groomsmen and a best man.

The dresses...don't really have a lot to do with it except it's a part of the etiquette to dress nicely at a wedding and the bridesmaids typically have matching dresses. It's sometimes a part of the theme of the wedding.

[witchbuster]

I'll try, but it's kind of complicated since humans make a bigger deal out of gender than trolls do. I'm going to talk about this as if we're talking about a man and a woman getting married, although marriage between the same sex is gradually becoming a thing back on Earth.

The bride is the woman that's getting married and the groom is the man that's getting married, right? The whole ceremony is about them and you're usually able to tell the bride apart from everyone else because she wears a really fancy white dress. The white dress traditionally symbolizes the purity of the bride before she's married.

[witchbuster]

Sorry, I wasn't specific, it's because of the color of the dress and not the dress itself. Humans have a lot of color-based symbolism.

[........Yeah, getting too close to the hemospectrum there, MOVING ON--]

The goal of marriage is being with the person you love forever.

[witchbuster]

It's legally recognized by society for one thing, but I think a lot of importance comes from the permanence people associate with it whereas regular human dating is considered less stable. The bride and the groom have to respond to wedding vows said to them by whoever is purveying over their marriage with "I do" and...well, the vows tend to end with "till death do you part."

[Aaand now she's going into the uncomfortable looking down at the ground territory.] So...it's kind of like saying "you're the one I want to be with for the rest of my life, there's nobody else I'll ever love."

[witchbuster]

[Forcin' a smile here buddy, you'd better be...somewhat less angry.]

Humans have the same concept sort of, but they call it "finding your soul mate."

[witchbuster]

Hopefully! But I can answer questions if you have any.

[witchbuster]

[Then she'll just put the piles back into the bag she had them in and pass it over!]

Thanks again for all of your help, I hope this can help you too.