test drive

[ironwood]

TEST DRIVE MEME - TU SHANSHU EDITION!

Itching to try out writing a character? Then rev up your engines, grab your accounts, and slam your way into this meme! Here is a venue for you to try out whatever character there might be tickling your fancy, from fandom to OC, for as few as one and as many as MANY. Seriously, there's no limit.

How do you partake in this fantastic congregation of character testing? Why, by following these simple steps:

1. Comment with the journal of a character you want to test; put their name and canon in the subject line for added sparkles.
2. Tag around with everyone!
3. Profit like you live on a the back of a turtle!

But wait, there's more! For the low, low price of $9,999.99, you can even use one of our handy prompts when you tag someone. You could even pick one with a Random Number Generator to help decide which prompt to go with!

1. A Chance Meeting at the Turtle's Head.
   Remember, being here causes a great sense of-- well, shall we say inner peace.
2. Haggling Over Something in the Marketplace!
   Maybe someone else saw the exact same shiny thing you did at the exact same moment! However shall this be resolved? Remember: blood is extremely hard to scrub off of turtleshell!
3. Hey, I Just Met You, and This is Crazy...
   First impressions are always the most important, right?
4. WILDCARD!
   Go nuts. Suddenly your character is fighting dragons! Good God, they've found the Millennium Falcon drifting in the ocean! Do you really feel the need to polish every paving stone in the Earth Sector? Please note, Wildcard options are also what you can choose to do if you aren't yet comfortable in the Tu Shanshu setting and would prefer a more 'dear-mun' esque experience. Please specify in your post!

The first comment/thread on this test drive is going to be titled ENABLE ME and it's where you post character accounts/muselists, etc and others (members, passerbys, shoulder demons) can enable you to apply to Tu Shanshu! Come, let us enable you to the turtletastic madness!

Comments

ENABLE ME

[ironwood]

[aloadeddie]

I'm still trying to decide who I should app as a third character! I have a muse list and I'm open to suggestions.

Claire Novak | Supernatural

[affirmation]

Re: Claire Novak | Supernatural

[gathersnomoss]

[so, the man ahead of you ordering at the cafe might be a bit peculiar... is that a sword he's carrying?]

No, I'm just going to have a coffee.

[as he reaches to take his change and turns, nearly running into you, you might notice that he's definitely not (fully) human]

Excuse me.

Frank Zhang | Percy Jackson: Heroes of Olympus

[iguanasolution]

[kelpful]

[Percy is just kind of wandering aimlessly through the marketplace, because let's face it, it's not like there's a whole lot else for him to do right now. He's feeling kind of...well, despondent is probably the right word, but he's going to call it 'crappy' because that sounds less dramatic.

And then he spots a familiar looking baby-face. For a second he thinks he has to be hallucination, but after a couple of seconds standing there gaping like an idiot doesn't reveal the newcomer to be an illusion, a wide smile breaks across his face] Holy - Frank!?

Captain Morgan Adams | Cutthroat Island

[tookyourballs]

Flame Princess | Adventure Time

[wayhot]

Cinna || The Hunger Games

[afirewithfashion]

[virginprice]

[Alcuin is making his way through the streets with what are unmistakably garment bags- three of them, layered over his arm. He doesn't count on the kedan child that bumps into him, sending him falling over, one of the bags landing in a puddle.

He scrambles to rescue it before the dress inside can get wet- he has no desire to set off Favrielle's temper, not when she has been under such strain.]

Ah, Elua, how troublesome...

Hercules | Disney's Hercules

[anactionfigure]

CALL ME BABY

[partofthematrix]

[ Linda is so distracted by those muscles that she practically runs right into him. ]

Woah. You're... [ hot ] new. Right? I mean, I'm new too, so I wouldn't know. [ Linda, shut up. Now. ]

Meetra Surik/The Exile | Knights of the Old Republic II

[soulwound]

Linda Danvers | Supergirl

[nottallerordead]

[ Don't be alarmed, partofthematrix is just Linda without the wig. ]

[andaway]

[Clark was doing Superman things when he-

Well, okay not really. He was just buying groceries at Clark Kent because he still has to eat. He's used to seeing many familiar faces when he's buying after spending months in this place, but he wasn't expecting to see her face. I had been years for him, so it takes a second for him to recognize her.

When he does he flies back home to get his suit in a blur, hovering to land in front of her.]

...Linda? [It's the only thing he manages to tell her.]

Lord Akeldama || Parasol Protectorate

[atadflamboyant]

[cravats]

[No, no, that is quite impossible. But that sense of style and that yellow hair are equally impossible to confuse with anyone else. What is a vampire doing here on the turtle?

Lyall approaches and bows politely. He and Lord Akeldama have a very long acquaintance, but one could never call them close friends... though one could never say they were enemies, either.]

My lord, what an unexpected surprise.

Duc Jean Des Esseintes | Á rebours

[againstnature]

 

[virginprice]

[Alcuin, having managed to charm a shopkeeper out of one of their few remaining bolts of silk, is carrying it out of the shop when he has to turn sharply to avoid another passerby... and nearly smacks Des Esseintes in the face.

He manages to notice and cut the movement short just in time, his eyes wide.]

Excuse me, messire. I do beg your pardon!

Hawke | Dragon Age 2 | because YOLO

[hawkethisnthat]

[There's a woman in the market, a very large stick on her back, her black hair short and messy and a bit of it falling into her bright blue eyes.

She's got a look on her face that's halfway between bemused and bored - but very sarcastically.]

I suppose this is a better option than Orlais.

Iolande | DC Comics

[iolande]

2.

[onefouroneseven]

[ Soranik doesn't have much money to spend on the turtle - all things considered - and so more often than not she finds herself trying to argue with the dealers. It's not on her list of favorite things to do by any means, and when someone snatches something she'd had her eye on she turns to angry argue with whoever it is, only-- ]

Iolande?

Mary-Lynnette Carter | The Night World

[shinkicker]

Tali'Zorah vas Normandy | Mass Effect

[imbabbling]

SCREAM

[cmdreffingshepard]

[There's something so tiresome about the rationing - and especially about having to haggle for every little item. Shepard definitely misses the days when she could just requisition anything she wanted.

Alliance resources: one of the things she seriously misses about home.]

I'm going to have to become a mercenary for hire soon, if this keeps up.

River Tam || Firefly

[problematical]

[aloadeddie]

[It's easy to get what he wants, even with the official rationing in place. That's the point of having good contacts, after all, but sometimes even the best contacts double-cross you, or just get complacent.

The guy who tries to punch Arthur is pretty big, but Arthur is lean and agile, darting away and knocking his head against a dumpster before bolting out of the alley and into the street to lose him.]

Hazel Levesque || PJ:HoO

[keeperfromtheflame]

[kelpful]

[Percy knows that he of all people should stay away from the turtle's head. But if he's honest, right now he could really use some kind of peace. Between what's going on at home and what's been happening on the turtle, he'll risk going crazy to take a break from the crazy. He should be fine so long as he doesn't go in the water, right?

He becomes less sure of this fact when he sees Hazel] --Hazel? [a beat] Am I dreaming??

Smaug || The Hobbit

[erebored]

[bindsthedead]

[Her shopping and work done for the day, Sabriel headed out past the city walls, onto the bare shell itself- she had no desire to linger in the stink of the Water District, and she hadn't yet seen what lay outside the city itself.]

Galadriel | Master of the Magical Maguffins

[goldenwoodlady]

[She's drawn first to the head, a place of quiet, of peace, of communion with Tu Vishan. There is pain, and grief here as well, but Galadriel knows there is no escape from such things in the circles of the world - even in this world.]

[bindsthedead]

[Sabriel had not expected to meet another soul out here. Sitting cross legged, with her sword and bells set in a neat pile beside her.

She doesn't speak, but she regards Galadriel with something close to wonderment.]

Alan Ryves | The Demon's Lexicon

[sensitiveintellectual]

Felicity Smoak | Arrow

[ex_notthatblonde608]

Bob | Reboot

[brbrebooting]

[Yolo]

Booooooob!

[willofjustice]

[At first the man doesn't really stick out. After all, he's blue, and most of the kedan are blue. Ish. (Funny how that got to be normalcy so quickly.) And she has a friend who is also blue. But the shininess of hair and armor definitely catches Amelia's attention.]

[Have a small princess popping up near your shoulder.]

Hello?

Eli Bradley/Patriot - Marvel 616

[ideaofamerica]

2

[crotcharrow]

[He knows that bald head anywhere. And if it hadn't been for the fact he's not seen anyone from his team in months, he probably wouldn't have raced over to where Eli is standing in the market place with the widest grin on his face. He's not seen Eli longer than everyone else.]

I thought I recognised the shine comin' off your head. [he's suddenly next to Eli with little warning.]

America Chavez/Miss America - Marvel 616

[senoritaamerica]

Dr. Eggman | Sonic the Hedgehog (Games)

[i_am_dr_eggman]