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

taking advantage of alternate universe shenanigans is always a fave

[apologiesmyking]

[Kaldur knows then that trying to leave will only make him look like a coward. He would rather confront Manta directly than run away without assessing him. What does he know? Is he even the Black Manta Kaldur recalls?

His heart beats quicker and he takes a breath before stepping out into the open. His weapons are drawn.]

Black Manta, I see that whatever brings us here is not as selective as it first seemed.

um yes!!

[mantas]

[ It's a good thing he has a helmet like he does. He categorizes the look of the person, the boy. Gills, the cut of his skin, the look of his face. He looks different than the last time the Manta saw him.

That doesn't mean he doesn't recognize his own flesh and blood. How could he not?

He laughs, something that echoes loud in his helmet. ]

Or maybe just selective enough.

[ He steps forward, slowly, muscles tense and brandishing the dark blade in one hand. ]

[apologiesmyking]

[Kaldur is tense himself, weapons at the ready and more than willing to fight if it comes to it.]

This place is not our world. We have been brought here for a purpose. Should you try to disrupt this world, you will be stopped. Fighting here will only bring more trouble upon yourself than you are prepared to deal with.

[mantas]

[ He swings that blade, a little experimentally. He remembers quite a bit about these powers, but the way he moves is different. More experienced, maybe.

Black Manta doesn't fear it, either way. How long has he waited for this? Maybe he could get the attention of others, get the word to Aquaman, because that's all it's about.

It's only about legacy insomuch as he can take this, and use it. For his benefit. ]

You don't know enough to make that call. Heh-- I'll do what I wish.

[apologiesmyking]

[And that is when he swords come out. The water-blades for easily and he shifts his stance to one ready to attack.]

You have not been here long, to walk about as you do now. [If he had Kaldur does not think he would wear that helmet so blatantly. Arthur would spot him in an instant.] Or to think we would allow you do so. But if this is the path you wish to take I shall do what I must prevent you from doing harm here.

[And with that he brings the blades together to fire off a large fountain of water like that from a firehose.]

[mantas]

[ He's made to work in water. His suit is made for it, but even still, he doesn't chance the force of it. He'd been expecting something uncoordinated and clumsy, not like what the boy had just shot toward him. He'd been so much more inexperienced, the first time they met.

He laughed, more of a sharp bark than a full on cackle, but between the diver's shiv and the wicked blade, Black Manta was fearsome.

And he was fast, the red coming from his helmet leaving bright streaks to hang and dissipate in the air, before he strikes forward with a blade. The shiv, rather than the wicked, nasty looking one.

No need to step forward with too much, too quick. ]

[apologiesmyking]

[Fast and efficient, Kaldur knows that if he does not keep up, Manta will take control of this battle too easily. He switched as quickly as he can from the heavy flow back to normal weapons, in one hand a sword and the other a shield to block the shiv and then he pushes back, trying to force that hand out of reach while bringing his sword to strike in an upward slash.]

[mantas]

[ His shiv glanced off the shield, easily. But he used the momentum to direct himself, make himself move just as quickly, bringing his other weapon to stop the sword, catching it between the twin blades arcing from his fist.

He laughed, again, glancing the blade away from him this time, and letting his shiv aim for his arm.

Thematic and appropriate, really. ]