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

[effective]

[Katniss has taken to wandering the turtle when she's not giving lessons on how to deal with rations. It's not like she has anything better to do.

When she first sees Cinna, she's convinced she's started to hallucinate. It wouldn't be the first time, after all. She resolutely turns her back and stumbles off, breaking into a run shortly after before he can see her. There's a choked sound in her ears, and it takes her a couple of seconds to realise that she's the one making it.

But if Finnick can be alive, why can't Cinna? Why can't - why can't anyone? Katniss presses her hands against a wall and leans her weight into them, closing her eyes and trying to speak. Slowly, her body turns back in the direction of what might not be a hallucination after all, and her feet start to walk, dragging the rest of her with them. She ends up nearby, too scared to get closer in case he disappears]

Are you real? [Her voice is small. She feels small.]

let me preface this by saying I am so rusty and would totally welcome any crit you have ;_;

[afirewithfashion]

[He hears her go running, and he turns, looking for her -- but she's gone too fast. So he does the only thing he can do: he waits.

It would be stupid to run after Katniss once she's spooked. There's no way he can catch her, and the last thing he wants is to frighten her more. So he stays put, and when she comes back, he offers her a smile. It's a small one, but as warm as he can manage.

Whatever he remembers from before, whatever he's feeling right now, he puts it aside. For Katniss.]

There you are.

no problem! c:

[effective]

[Katniss' face just sort of crumples in on itself when he speaks. It's not really confirmation, but she can't bring herself to care anymore. He's here, and she's just going to pretend he's real until proven otherwise.

A quiet sound of pain or relief or something in between escapes her as she all but throws herself at the man, clinging to him] I did it. [The words are choked, whispered] I was the Mockingjay. It's done. [She needs to make sure he knows that. She needs to make sure he didn't die for nothing]

no problem!

[afirewithfashion]

[There's so much he can say. He knew she could -- how many times had he told her? He'd never doubted her once, from the beginning.

But that's not what she needs to hear right now. And he owes her better. He catches her and hugs her, one hand smoothing over her forehead and into her hair.]

I'm sorry.

[effective]

[Something about that simple, almost paternal touch breaks something inside of Katniss. Which takes her by surprise in and of herself, because she hadn't known there was anything left inside her to break anymore. She presses her face into Cinna's chest.] They killed Prim. [Her face is wet, and it takes her a couple of seconds to realise that she's crying. She hadn't known she could do that, still.] They killed Prim, and Peeta was taken, and Finnick died, but it's done. Snow's dead. [And Katniss still doesn't know how she survived]

[afirewithfashion]

[He can't tell her it's okay. It's not, any of it. It was never okay to begin with, and he's just as responsible as Snow or Haymitch for dragging her into this. He made her into a symbol, look what happened.]

It's over, now. You're here. You made it.

[Weak consolation, at best, but it's all he has to offer her. He hugs her tighter and strokes through her hair.]