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!

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[ironwood]

Izabel - Saga

[ghostsitter]

[She's a pink ghost missing half of her body with her intestines on full show. Come on guys.]

03

[spoilerwarningpls]

[Dustfinger looks at her, particularly the bit that's not there.]

What foolish Silvertongue only read you half out?

[He is aghast. Aghast at a ghost. What puns could possibly next go wrong?]

Quorra || TRON Legacy

[biodigital]

3. Also HOW HAS QUORRA GONE UN-TAGGED THIS LONG?!

[wallcrawler]

[Well. That's an outfit you don't see everyday.

Spidey tails her for a few minutes, just trying to refresh his memory over whether or not she's knew. But after drawing a blank on the mental search for "young women wearing that outfit in public," he's pretty certain she's new to Turtletopia. So he swings out ahead of her enough to lower himself down from one of the taller buildings on a web line.]

Lemme guess: new in town? Aaand probably wondering if all that stuff about giant turtle adventures is true, right?

Sadie Kane | The Kane Chronicles

[eye_of_isis]

[AKA Rick Riordans Egypt Series]

Turtle's Heads!! not a kind of soup

[depicted]

[Well, Dorian did say he'd be willing to keep Asti company. So he's making the trek up towards the turtle's head, preferring to walk over fly, when he spots a stranger there as well. He hails her with a wave.]

Catty Turner | Daughters of the Moon

[traitorously]

Option A;
[Wherever you are, Catty literally just fell out of a portal in the middle of the air. She groans, laying there for a second before dragging herself to her feet and dusting herself off] I haven't had a landing like that in months... [There's a pause, before she notices that other people are kind of around] Oh, crap. Uh, hi! Weird weather today, huh?

[yes she is blaming her sudden appearance on a freak wind]


Option B;
[Catty is wandering around the marketplace, already laden with various trinkets and food. She has a cookie hanging out of her mouth, and is chatting easily with the vendors. Observant people might notice that, whenever she points out having a particular interest in something, the kedan are happy to give it to her as a 'sample'. Other people might notice the way she occasionally steps into the shadows and disappears, only to show up again somewhere completely different]

A

[nowitsshowtime]

It is. It's raining beautiful girls.

[Haruto's not buying it but he's playing along. It's fun.]

Are you alright?

Terry McGinnis || Batman Beyond

[bootjets]

[he comes in two flavours]

A
[There's a Bat(man) on the rooftops (probably in Metal, but he can be wherever.) It's easiest to get a feel for the area from up high, and also easier to get a drop on the crime. He's long since given up trying to contact Bruce so he's gonna go through the motions until he figures out what he wants to do next. He's not even bothering to use the suit's invisibility because, lbr, he's not expecting anyone else to be up here.]

B
[Meet Terry McGinnis. High schooler, all around decent guy - if a bit of a flake. He's just wandering around, catching his bearings. Maybe nosing at the stuff for sale or the animals around Keeliai. Y'know. Newbie stuff.]

A

[imaginate]

[Except there's someone else up here too, glowing quite green, enjoying the night air and looking for an entirely different vigilante on the rooftops of Metal Sector, and is... distinctly less subtle about being here.]

Oh you have got to be kidding me.

Lt Nyota Uhura | Star Trek reboot

[lt_linguist]

Option A;

[After just arriving, and unsure of her welcome (or of the applicability of the Prime Directive, for that matter), Uhura is doing her best to keep a low profile as she explores some of the more populous areas of the turtle. Most people seem human enough, but you might catch her listening intently to any conversations taking place in languages other than English - especially the kedan language.]

Option B;

[Today, dressed like a local, Uhura is in the marketplace, shopping for some groceries and maybe a few other, less-necessary items. She's speaking with the shopkeepers in their own language, albeit somewhat haltingly - for having been here for such a short time, however, she's picking it up very fast.

If she pots a nice pair of earrings, she might make a dive for them.]

Option B (kinda?)

[irkenmindtrick]

[Have a creepy stealthy rage filled positively adorable little earth girl suddenly speak up from right beside you, Uhura.]

Pardon me, but is it normal to want to stick foreign metals in your ears? How do you know you aren't allergic to...whatever that is?

[She's got earrings of her own, so it's probably a safe bet to assume she's referring to the material. Considering all the weird things around here compared to her experience with Earth, she sees no reason to assume they're using familiar metals from earth.]

Haruto Souma || Kamen Rider Wizard

[nowitsshowtime]

3!

[fatedchaos]

[The gangs have been getting worse, ever since rationing began. Usually, Vanessa's pretty good at the whole evading thing once she spots them. Today's not one of those days, it seems.

It's pretty embarrassing, but she latches onto the first person that she sees when she slides out of an alleyway, a few kedan on her trail. She smiles brightly at the boy, threading her arm through his.] This is totally weird, but pretend you know me?

pitch black; rise of the guardians

[zaesha]

[ It's quaint, no really it is. He briefly wonders if Sandy is responsible for this, because clearly there is no such thing as giant cities on the back of a giant turtle. It's the sort of thing children's minds come up with in their dreams, influenced by golden sand.

But alas, here he is, and he might as well get the most out of it. Pitch lurks in the shadows and darkness, as is his nature, observing and being generally creepy, especially towards young ones whose fright and tears sustain and power him and yeah, that's creepy, he's not sorry. ]

02

[trollololoki]

[Gunnar moves from merchant to merchant, making queries after a Thorlief Golmen, every ounce of his tone one of worry, concern, and fear. When there is no answer, he lingers by the shadows that ring the markets. There is a thin aura of fear (for Thorlief, truly) that exudes from his person, but truly it is thin. Diet fear, even, for one that understands the true nature of the emotion.]

Piper McLean | Heroes of Olympus

[charmspeaks]

A
There's no way this bread is that expensive. [Piper is trying to keep her temper down, but this jerk is seriously trying to overcharge her for something she could have just made herself. Probably not as good, but it'd still be a lot cheaper. The baker argues with her, insisting that she pay even more juulan now for arguing back with him.

She grits her teeth, leaning forward to put a little bit more sweetness into her words as she goes back to haggling. Eventually, she gets the bread for a few juulan cheaper. And she might have also gotten to get him to agree to give out free loaves to every kid he sees that day.]

B
[Piper's sitting on the edge of the shell in the sand, watching the water. It's not exactly a real beach, but it's better than nothing. It's quiet out here, and it reminds her of her dad. Of surfing. Of before this craziness of her life really hit.]

A

[wholedamnplanet]

Sure it is. [It's the jaded tone of a man who knows all things cost more than they seem (especially a marriage; oh, but he's not bitter.] It's call they hack up the wheat with silver scythes, grind it to flour with diamonds, then bake it in the heart of some sacred volcano on Delb II. [McCoy gives the baker a stern look -- YES, BE ASHAMED.] But that sure ain't what happened here, is it.

Morinth | Mass Effect

[evildemonseductress]

Yomiko Readman | Read or Die OVA

[givebackmybook]

Melanie Walker/Ten | Batman Beyond

[tenofspades]

[bootjets]

[He's been deliberating on what to do for a couple of hours now. Just leave her alone? It seems kinda cruel, Melanie's the only person from his world here as far as he can tell and she's always made a decent go of being a good person for the most part. Can't exactly just hang her out to dry. Besides, she'd figure out Terry was here sooner or later, which is why he's not coming to her as Batman, instead sidling up towards her in the marketplace with his backpack slung over a shoulder.]

Small universe.

Beast Boy // Teen Titans

[onetitanzoo]

Barry Allen | DC Comics

[diedasaint]

[A black jacket over a dark green sweatshirt. A pair of jeans from over five years ago that still fit him remarkably well. They're unobtrusive, hard to pick out in a crowd, and frankly Barry prefers it that way. He's not sure where he is (but really, a city on the back of a turtle sounds like something straight out of a science fiction novel) or who exactly is surrounding him but he does know that the last thing he wants is to be wearing a sad red-and-gold excuse for a 'LOOK AT ME' sign.

Hence, his relief in having the clothes he has right now.

For a guy who's supposedly the fastest man alive though, he's sure moving pretty slow. With his hands tucked into his jacket pockets and the faint breeze riffling at his short blond hair, he's allowing himself to leisurely stroll through the marketplace—for the time being, at least.

SCREAM.... HI.

[sciencewhizard]

[ Just another day of wandering around the city and trying to avoid the crazy kedan, who have taken to blaming the refugees for the state of the turtle. He probably shouldn't be running around like this, with the rationing in effect, but someone's been sneaking him extra and it's had him feeling way more energetic than he has in the last couple of months.

Thankfully, though, there was a good sight to stop him. Blond hair- that build- he'd recognize that. How could he not recognize his mentor? His hero, of all people?

The problem? Decelerating. Wally did not give himself enough time and Barry would probably be hearing a screaming ginger as he came sliding the man's way head-on! ]

Uncle Barry- watch out!

Belle Beaumont | Original

[bearnecessities]

A
[There's a bear in the wood sector! A giant bear. It's probably bigger than most bears you've ever seen, which could be almost terrifying, considering there are a couple of downed trees nearby, clearly clawed off.

Except, at the moment, the giant bear is lying on her back, rolling around in the grass.]

B
[There's a girl sitting in a small clearing next to a few trees that seem to have gone under some attack recently. There are also a few carcasses of animals on the ground.

She's scowling as she tugs her shirt back on. Her hair's a wreck, grass and dead leaves tangled in the black mass. After a moment, she rubs the back of her hand over her mouth, but there's probably still a smear of blood on her face.]

Tom Bronson (Wildcat) // DC Comics

[borntobewildcat]

[Yes, this is a werepanther, and yes he currently smoking. Wanna fight about it?]

[onetitanzoo]

[No fight about smoking but have a little green kitten landing on your head, Tom.]

Help a fellow feline out and tell me where I can get something to eat?

[Yes, a talking green kitten.]

Kushi | Okami

[brewinthunder]

[dungfu]

[IS THIS A FAMILIAR FACE SHE SEES...

kasjhfakljdfhldf

OILEURHGILEUHAD!!

Okay happy doggy barking and rushing towards Kushi because yes]

Asbel-Tales of Graces

[heartofgraces]

[Warning: Here there be friendship.]

WILDCARD

[oathwalk]

[So you're just walking in the street with a friend like you do, right, Asbel? Maybe Richard's chatting about something inconsequential like hey how are you, how has lhant been, have you made your mom any grandkids yet and can I be their godfather, also is lambda doing okay on Tu Vishan because that's probably weird for him—

—and then on the street before you, you see it: two stacks of paperwork. One addressed to King Richard in Dalen's neat handwriting. The other one, in Frederic's handwriting, addressed to Asbel Lhant.]

. . . How . . ?

Rae "Sunshine" Seddon | Robin McKinley's Sunshine

[vampparasol]

Option A;

[Sunshine is in the market today, looking at, well. Baking goods. She takes the quality of her flour seriously, okay? And the selection around here is mighty disappointing. Rationing kind of sucks all the flavor out of everything, she thinks.

And the only thing more difficult than finding decent flour, is finding decent chocolate. Talk about a needle in a haystack.]

Option B;

[She's near the head of the turtle today, sunbathing. Not tanning or burning much, just soaking in the sunlight in what is obviously the most peaceful place on the turtle. Her eyes are closed, but it's hard to say if she's asleep or awake.]

oh my god sunshine you are my hero. also option a.

[bestpedigree]

Planning a bake sale?

[unlike rae, helena's not looking for anything in particular. mostly, she's content to be a sponge and suck in everything she can get about turtletopia.]

EDI • Mass Effect 3

[humorheuristics]

[Okay.

So theoretically her mobile platform shouldn't be functional without the Normandy nearby and yet she can't make any kind of contact with it. Which is slightly disconcerting since she is more or less the Normandy. Even more disconcerting, her encyclopedic knowledge isn't helping her-- these "kedan" are unlike any known alien race in the galaxy.

But EDI isn't inclined to panic. Instead, she starts some diagnostics and walks around, looking for any clues or information.

Her inherent curiosity is piqued by a marketplace in Water. She stands a short distance off, watching the kedan go about their business. She takes stock of the goods being exchanged, local mannerisms...

If nothing else, she's a tall chrome android with guns strapped to her back. Pretty likely someone she knows will find her.]

[cmdreffingshepard]

[What's almost funny is that Shepard wouldn't recognize her except that she saw her future thanks to the Emperor. Because the EDI she knew was still a blue globe-shaped hologram.

So it kind of takes her a minute to place the android - she recognizes it, but it's more like a memory of a dream than an actual memory.]

EDI?

Jason Todd • DCnU

[ex_agoodsoldier468]

[demon_brat]

[Have you been Robin-stalked recently, Todd? Because you're getting Robin-stalked, now.]

Match | DC Comics

[newtomorrowboy]

Thor / MCU

[courtedwar]

[traitorously]

[Hi this teenage girl is just going to walk straight into your chest. Sorry about that bro. ] Oof. Wow, sorry about...that. [There's a pause as she kind of slowly move her eyes up that which is Thor, until she finally gets to his face] Um. Hi. I'm Catty, nice to meet you. [Seriously]

Clara Oswald || Doctor Who

[confounding]