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

[afirewithfashion]

[He laughs a little.] Something of, yes.

[The archaic turn of phrase isn't unlike the affectation some of the Capitol citizens take on, and the eyes and hair -- those could be the product of alteration, but looking at him, Cinna doesn't think so.]

Let me take a look? Maybe I can help.

[virginprice]

[He chuckles, able to guess what Cinna isn't saying.] And that means you know far more of it than I.

And- if you insist. [The other man is very kind and Alcuin hates to refuse a kindness. He hangs the garment bags over the back of a nearby bench and rolls up his pant-leg. Yes, there's a scrape, but it's not bad.]

[afirewithfashion]

[Just a small scratch, but Capitol medicine being what it is... Cinna has a medicine that can help heal it in a matter of hours. He pulls out a tiny jar of salve, smoothing it over the cut.]

Where were you hurrying to?

[virginprice]

Thank you. [Alcuin wonders what that is, but he won't stop Cinna from putting it on. It smells good.]

I was delivering a commission for my employer, Favrielle. She's a couturier.

[afirewithfashion]

And I've made you late.

[It does smell good! Like cinnamon, in fact. It also stops the bleeding and takes away the sting of torn skin.]

Maybe I can help you make the deliveries, to make it up to you?

[It's the polite thing to do, and he's curious about what's in the bag.

[virginprice]

Ah- thank you, that would be most kind of you.

[He likes the gentleman. He's kind and soft-spoken... it's pleasant. He rolls his trouser leg back down and stands.]

[afirewithfashion]

Just tell me where to go.

[Cinna gives him a warm smile, taking two of the bags for him. He hasn't been here very long, but he knows his way around, and he's confident he'll be able to make the deliveries.]

[virginprice]

It's in the Fire Sector.

[He leads the way.]

You were a couturier at home? Have you met Mademoiselle Favrielle?

[afirewithfashion]

We don't call them couturiers, but essentially. And no, I haven't.

[Let Cinna carry the heavy bags, then. He's certainly a little broader than the slender young man.]

[virginprice]

Ah, what do they call them? And I shall have to introduce you, she's very talented.

[He gestures to his clothing- nothing particularly fancy, but flattering to his pale beauty, the lines elegant yet clean.]

[afirewithfashion]

There are all sorts of designers and makeup artists, but I'm a stylist.

[The best of the best. Not only is he an expert at every element of physical beauty, he's one of the twenty four best -- arguably the best, after his performance in the Games.]

I'd like to meet her.

[He already noticed Alcuin's clothes. They match his coloring, and moreover his personality, perfectly.]