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[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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[itsnoteasybeingreen]

Maybe The Jungle, too, with some bookmarked highlights.

[Ignore it all you want. He's got it in his teeth now, and he's not going to let go.]

Yeah, the brownstone.

[He's raising his eyebrows at her now. It's not like he makes a habit of letting his house burn to the ground. The last time was only the kitchen, and they got new appliances out of the deal.]

What - you don't like the brownstone? We sterilized the basement, and I even dragged people in to give a clean bill of demonic health.

[raptorcanaria]

Oh shush, you know I loved that place.

[He was in it. As were Mia and Connor. In terms of places to stay on the West Coast, it was easily her favorite.

She moves her left hand up, cupping his jaw and playing with his ear teasingly. Doing that gives her a good view of her rings, without drawing his attention there.]

I just wanted to make sure you hadn't burned another place down when my back was turned.

[itsnoteasybeingreen]

I didn't burn it down, woman! It was blown -

[But the half-serious tirade is derailed, and it's not because he leaning into the touch, though he is. Ollie reaches up and presses her hand against his cheek briefly, then draws her hand down to get a better look at what had flashed at him.

He stares at the rings in silence for a good while. The wedding band is new, but Ollie recognizes the other one. Hell, he robbed the JL trophy room and the Flash museum to make that one. Finally, he shakes his head and laughs.]

Well, shit. At least I know you're gonna say yes. C'mere, pretty bird.

[And he leans down to kiss her again, with a rare, slow tenderness.]

[raptorcanaria]

[Well, that wasn't entirely intended. Still, she's never going to object to a kiss. Especially not today, especially not here.

She sighs into him, lacing her left fingers tightly into his at their shoulder height, her right hand sliding into his hair to keep him bent towards her.

He's here. And he's him.

And it's a few minutes before she says anything else.]

So. Time travel is a thing here.

[itsnoteasybeingreen]

Time travel is definitely a thing here.

[Ollie's fine with that reveal, too busy being puffed up because they're OK again and she said yes to think of any considerable bad side effects of time travel or the potential disaster that being tied down could be. Still, he wishes Barry was here, if time hijinks are the order of the day. Wally would do.]

Aliens are a thing, too. Hal here yet?

[raptorcanaria]

Kyle, not no Hal yet.

[Sorry, Oliver. You'll have to cope with that.]

Clark. Bruce.

Wally, but he's this high and wearing yellow. Also from an alternate dimension.

[Let's see how well he takes that first.]

[itsnoteasybeingreen]

[He makes a face at Kyle's name. The kid's doing all right; he's less of a doofus than he was. To Ollie, Hal will always be G.L. That's just how it goes.

There's a groan that he only just manages to stifle in her hair. God bless Clark and Bruce, but sometimes Bats and Boy Scout get on his every last nerve. He's already had it today.]

Keep me away from Clark. Please. I'm begging you, if he starts telling me how interesting the kedani culture is, I - I'm gonna hit him, Dinah. I swear to you, I'm gonna break my hand on his face.

[This high. Ollie holds his hand up to match hers and draws it to his chest. Thinks about it for a minute, and the years tick back up to a decade until the relative heights of Wally and Roy match up to this high.]

Sonova - he's a kid?

Pretend she also said Arthur, kay? Kay.

[raptorcanaria]

[She grins into his costume and nods solemnly. He'll have to face Clark some time, and he can pretend he's a grown up when he does.

The second nod is for the idea of kid Wally.]

And he's friends with Dick, who is here and even smaller. Similar universes, slightly different timelines.

[She'll tell him about Zee and Kaldur later.]

Pretend he made a comment about getting Arthur to mindcontrol the fish fascists.

[itsnoteasybeingreen]

[FINE. He'll pretend he's a grown-up, but only because they've got sidekicks back in diapers.]

Of course he's friends with Dick. Of course Dick is the smallest.

[Thank God for small miracles, those two facts still make sense. But if Wally's a kid... and Dick's a kid...

Ollie's afraid to ask, but he can't not ask. It's just hanging there, begging to be given voice. He wants to avoid it, should've avoided it.]

Any other Teen Titans?

[Dammit. She'll know he means Roy.]

[raptorcanaria]

[Yes. She knows. And from the way she sighs against him, he can probably guess the answer is yes but...]

Not from their universe. Or ours. Not that generation, anyway.

[Well: Mia's friends. And Zee and Kaldur. But she means Roy.]

Oliver.

[Her fingers interlaced with his tighten in his hand.]

He doesn't know who I am. He barely knows you.

[itsnoteasybeingreen]

[He doesn't have words for that one. That means Roy's young. Too young for Red Arrow, even too young for Arsenal. Before all the crap that came between them, when he was still naive and fresh and shit. That might be too much for him to face. He wishes that she'd said that Roy didn't know him at all and absolved him of the responsibility of having to talk to him. He's not sure that he can, without shoving him into a chair and staging a pre-intervention complete with pamphlets and a Powerpoint presentation on the likelihood of a band making it big.

Ollie hugs Dinah tighter.]

[raptorcanaria]

[She wraps her arms around him completely and just pulls him to her.]

He's just so different. Too old for Speedy, which means nothing to him. No drugs, sure, but no you, no me. no Lian.

I don't know him anymore.

[itsnoteasybeingreen]

[He goes rigid at that and clings to it like it's a life preserver. Roy's older... and has never been Speedy. Clean. Clean is good, and he wants to hug him for that, to tell him he's proud of him, except -

He's never been Speedy. There's an immediate distancing of himself from this Roy, without the years of shared experiences. He doesn't have to step in for a missing Green Arrow if there isn't one to miss, and the pressure is off.]

That's not Roy.

[raptorcanaria]

[Feeling him tense, she squeezes him tighter her finger hooking into his costume. Suddenly realizing why he's tensing makes her loosen her grip enough to lean back and look at him.]

It's not our Roy.

[It's still Roy Harper.]

[itsnoteasybeingreen]

[It's not still Roy Harper. Roy's had a rough time, and he's come out of it a better ki- man than he ever could have been if he hadn't learned what it was like to be kicked when he was down. To have someone else that you put first. If you take away Roy's past, he loses something essential that carves out his personality and drives his opinions.

Ollie can't picture him any other way and doesn't want to.]

Our Roy doesn't always like me, and I don't always like him.

[What is he supposed to do with one that he can't needle about that time he crashed the Arrowcar to diffuse the tension?]

[raptorcanaria]

[He's supposed to treat him as a person in his own right, and learn to like him?

Dinah takes a step back, keeping Ollie's hands in hers, but letting them fall in front of them.]

Just promise me you won't avoid him.

[itsnoteasybeingreen]

[He is not a person in his own right! He is Roy Harper, except that he's not Roy Harper, and, if he doesn't hold up to Roy, Ollie is going to read him the Riot Act daily until he does.

Ollie grunts at her.]

I won't avoid him.

[That isn't a promise. The word promise was never said allowed, and he can't be held to that fairly. Besides, he'll make Roy avoid him.]

[raptorcanaria]

[Yeah, well. They'll deal with that inevitability when it happens.

Dinah pulls herself closer to him and gives him a light kiss to acknowledge the not-a-promise.]

I'm glad you're here. I missed you, hotshot.

[itsnoteasybeingreen]

[Yep, he's gonna be screwed when he meets Roy, one way or another. Sealing the deal with a kiss is cheating, pretty bird.

Ollie breaks away and deliberately messes up her hair before collecting his bow from the ground. He looks up at the city in the distance and sighs.]

Let's get this show on the road. I don't care if they say time is frozen. I left Mia and Connor in charge, and they have access to my bank account. I'm not going home to Zen Garden 90210.

[raptorcanaria]

Come on, I'll give you a lift back.

[She interlaces her fingers with his and starts back to the walkway. Her motorcycle wasn't really built for two, but they've ridden worse together.]

Unless you'd rather walk. You could probably use the exercise.

[itsnoteasybeingreen]

[Ollie just rolls his eyes and swats her ass.]

I've got better ways to get cardio.

[raptorcanaria]

[She squeezes his other hand in return.]

Let's get out of here before we commit some act of sacrilege, then.

[And suddenly her day off became kind of full.]