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!

Comments

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?

[traitorously]

[Catty pauses, and then offers the guy a brilliant smile. Compliments, the fastest way to a girl's heart] Maybe I should get caught up more often, if it's going to get people to say things like that about me. [She holds out her hand to shake] I'm Catty, nice to meet you.

[nowitsshowtime]

[Haruto smiles back, giving the offered hand a quick shake. He's wearing a rather unusual ring on his finger so he keeps the handshake brief.]

I'm Haruto. It's a pleasure to meet you. That was an interesting way to make an entrance.

[traitorously]

[Catty has her own reason to keep the handshake brief, angling her wrist so that the phoenix brand seared into the skin isn't quite as visible.]

Nice to - no, I said that. [Smooth, Turner. She decides to wave off his comment on her entrance instead] What can I say? I'm from Hollywood. We know how to put on a show.

[nowitsshowtime]

Ah, you're from America? Are you an actress? [He nods a little.] I do appreciate a good show.

[traitorously]

Born and bred! [That's a lie. She tilts her head to one side, toying with a lock of hair.] An actress? You could say that. [She's quick to turn the conversation back on him] What about you, where are you from?

[nowitsshowtime]

I could? [He smiles, slipping his hands into his pockets. Haruto rocks on his heels and smiles again.] I'm from Tokyo.

[traitorously]

[Catty winks] A girl doesn't give away all her secrets on the first meeting, even when she falls from the sky. Especially when she falls from the sky, actually. [She claps her hands, and then abruptly stops, because wow Catty that's sort of overboard] Japan! I've never been, what's it like?

[There's a kind of wistful tone to her voice. Being dead makes it hard to travel.]

[nowitsshowtime]

[Haruto lets out an amused little chuckle. She doesn't seem like a Phantom so he's staying relaxed. When asked about where he's from, Haruto lets out a thoughtful noise and looks to the sky for a moment.] It's like any other place, I suppose. I haven't been other places to compare to. At least not until here.

[traitorously]

I don't know. Every place has its own weird quirks. This one, for example, is on the back of a giant turtle. I guess that doesn't apply to Japan, though. [She gives him a sidelong glance] What do you think of it here?

B

[fatedchaos]

[Catty pls. Catty no. Catty stahp.

Vanessa's making a particularly pained face, glancing around nervously in case anyone sees her friend being particularly terrible. It was bad enough when they would skip out on meals as she time traveled! But now, with her powers from the Atrox or her father or whatever...]

Catty. [With a strained smile, she plucks the bracelet out of her friend's hand, handing it back to the confused kedan merchant.] No thank you, ma'am. She's changed her mind.

[traitorously]

Wh - Vanessa. [There's a faint hint of a whine to the name. Catty pouts at her friend. Why so mean??] No, I didn't.

[The kedan makes like she's going to offer the bracelet back to Catty, but the girl is too busy focussing on her friend to care]

[fatedchaos]

[Don't you whine at her, missy.] Yes, you did.

[Vanessa sees the way the poor woman is trying to offer her bracelet again, so she just grabs Catty by the wrist and pulls her away from the stall, scowling.] You know that they need the money from their sells. Why would you do that?

[traitorously]

[Catty let's Vanessa drag her, but she's huffing as she does it] She doesn't. Besides, she bought it from someone who stole it. She totally knew, she just decided not to ask too many questions.

[fatedchaos]

That- [Catty, you are becoming a problem.] That doesn't make it right for you to steal it too! Were you going to give it back to the original owner?

[traitorously]

[Catty sniffs] I didn't think it through that far. I was mostly, you know, teaching her a lesson for being a jerk. But now she'll sell the bracelet for a profit and the gangs will know that they can go to her to pawn the stuff they steal. [And Catty doesn't have a cute bracelet 8c]

[fatedchaos]

You're not teaching her a lesson, Catty. [She feels like she's her mother right now.] What you're doing is stealing, too. The gangs are going to find someone to sell things to. We can't stop that, and stealing is definitely not going to help. [Vanessa sighs, sliding her arm through Catty's.]

[traitorously]

Why can't we stop that? [Catty leans into Vanessa as the other girl threads her arm through hers] We stopped the most evil thing in the entire world, you don't think we can deal with a few puny gangs?

[fatedchaos]

Stopping evil and stopping people? [Catty makes sense. Why can't they? But on a more rational level, Vanessa knows why.] Defeating the Atrox was our destiny. It didn't belong in the world. But this is not our business. Where does the crime end? How deep will it go?

[traitorously]

[Catty's eyebrows crawl up her forehead] Are you seriously telling me that we shouldn't stop bad things because it's not our business??

A

[refusing]

[Huh. Well...weirder things have happened, she supposes. She stares at the girl for a moment before shrugging and offering the other girl a smile.]

Yeah, must be Winds-day or something.

[It's a terrible joke, and she knows it, but she's not about to break how casual this awkward meeting is by pointing out that people don't normally just fall out of the sky.]

Re: A

[traitorously]

[There's a brief, startled pause from Catty, before she throws back her head and laughs. Her kind of humour, tbh] Yeah, it gave me quite a flight.

[refusing]

[Oh good, a laugh. That means it's okay for Rose to laugh at herself, and so she does.]

And here I am, all stuck on the ground. Just doesn't sound right or fair, if you ask me.

[traitorously]

Honestly? If I were you, I stick with it. Falling from that height is not my idea of a good time.