[ SECRET POST #2717 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2717 ⌋

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Notes:

Late day at work, sorry!

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Re: Got any ideas rotting on the vine?

[esteefee]

I'm working on an AU where globally administered Compatibility Tests are the norm for people to find their life partners (or at least possibles). People don't take them until they are in their mid-twenties or later and they are ready to settle down. Some people never take them at all: they are called "free-rangers" and are somewhat frowned upon for not being quite stable or conforming, but it's their choice.

Guy A is a brilliant scientist and doesn't trust the global Compatibility Test, thinks psychology is hocus-pocus, really (per xkcd's Purity). But he's also quite lonely, is getting on in years (mid-thirties) and hasn't had any successful relationships. He's insecure about personal relationships, poorly socialized, and abrasive in a professional setting. So he acquires a false identity and secretly takes the damned thing, careful to keep it on the DL so he isn't mocked by his peers. Then he gets his results back to discover he is compatible with exactly no one.

He internalizes this information to mean he is even less lovable than he'd heretofore suspected, not realizing the exact type of person he might be compatible with (Guy B), the kind of person who'd put up with his abrasive, sarcastic personality, who could keep up with his quicksilver mind, is just the kind of free-ranger who wouldn't take the test either.

So that's where I'm stuck. Because I've got them working and being together, but how do I reveal they are ultimately capital "C" compatible, or do I even want to? Is the point that the Compatibility Test is bogus, or the fact that they both don't need it the most telling thing? It kind of falls apart thematically. All I know is I kind of had a point and then I lost it writing the sex. It's always fun writing sex.