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It is not Aqqord!  That would be classless, okay?  Inserting yourself as a woman's top match is the act of a person without any class.  Aqqord has at least some sense of classiness.

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Anyways!  The top match is some guy who goes by Doomnoper.  Judging by his photo, he is one of the few souls besides Aqqord himself to wear reasonable-looking glasses instead of machine goggles, as well as a trilby so dark that it fades into the dark background he was photographed against.

Doomnoper is apparently some sorta minor Spark who tried to stop some sorta staggeringly catastrophic opponent from taking over all of Europa and maybe destroying the world!  He, like, totally lost, and now resides as a refugee in Doctor Disaster's domain.  His profile says that he is probably something of a rare taste, bedroom-wise, but very tasty if you are the right sort of woman to be into what he has to offer.  Dominant, sadist, and a huge goofball (especially in the bedroom) despite his generally grim aura and backstory.

You can buy action figures of him, for a price.

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Nah. The action figure is just too much. Who does this guy think he is. He didn't even win.

(She does wonder about the rare taste, but reminds herself that she can always come back to this one later.)

Next!

 

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Mister Bloomlord isn't a tight match to Opalyn specifically.  But one of the first things you learn in machine learning: priors matter.  The fact is, the machine didn't really have that much specific info on Opalyn.  So the #2 match is just that one guy in town who you would guess, on priors, any woman might end up dating.

The machine did compromise on one part of Opalyn's request, namely, for the man to be available.  But Mister Bloomlord does still have some room left in his romantic schedule, despite the other 37 women he's dating.  In fact, given how many other women it's worked out for, the odds are if anything strongly in Opalyn's favor!

(Possibly there is at least one time machine involved here.)

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Thirty-seven! His milkshake certainly brings all the girls to the yard! Opalyn wants to know what the special ingredient is. He can go in the maybe pile for further study.

It does not sound like Mister Bloomlord will have a lot of room for Opalyn, though, so she should probably keep looking.

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#3:  He-Who-Soars.

A perfect match?  No.  But if He-Who-Soars is into you, he will damn well make it work.  He's a hardgoing perfectionist that way.  So, really, it's only necessary that he be attracted to you, not that you be attracted to him.  Statistically speaking, that's quite a boost to the probability of a successful match.

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Unacceptable! Opalyn is the main character in this story and if someone is going to work hard to pull something off, it'll be her.

Next!

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#4:  Some guy who renamed himself to "Mornelithe Falconsbane".

Who's not into rogueish catboys?  Another minor Spark, who transformed himself feline, and also got chased out of his previous domain after a bunch of, er, well, heroes, actually, brought down his reign of, er, terrifying villainy.  With a distinct sexual component.  Also he turned his own daughter into an unwilling catgirl as the prototype for his own transformation.  He's in Doctor Disaster's territory under probation, under supervision, and under condition that he makes himself useful and restricts himself to willing victims.

Some women are into that sort of thing!  The machine doesn't know otherwise!  Opalyn didn't tell Aqqord to restrict to Lawful Good alignments!

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Opalyn tells herself sternly that this one is not at all interesting and tosses it emphatically in the no pile.

Why are the top five mostly worse than the next five? Can match #5 save the day?

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(Worse, hm?  If that's what she wants to tell herself.)

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