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ɪʀᴏɴᴡᴏᴏᴅ ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ ᴇsʜᴀɪ ([personal profile] ironwood) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_ooc2016-02-10 05:00 pm
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Test Drive Meme | #36


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.

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→ Comment with the journal of a character you want to test; put their name and canon in the subject line for added sparkles.
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  1. 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 turtle shell!

  2. Dramatic Chase Sequence!
    You're running away from something! It could be anything, from a rampaging kirin to a gaggle of overly enthusiastic children! One way or another, you can't stop, and much like a katamari ball, you feel obligated to grab everyone in your path along the way to keep them out of danger! Or perhaps you're more the sort to try and knock them into it as a distraction...?

  3. Where There's A Will, There's A...?
    The Life and Dreaming Planes have been merged, and sometimes what starts out as wishful thinking becomes lured into reality. That slick new motorcycle or pile of kingly treasure you were just daydreaming about? Surprise! It's just appeared in front of you. Though, it may only stay for a short while before it disappears again, so make it count. Hopefully you're not the type to daydream about terrible things befalling people you don't like...

  4. SECRET UNDERCOVER MODE ACTIVATE!
    The three major kedan families all have their own agendas, and you've chosen to entangle yourselves with one (or more!) of them. Are you hoping to shift the balance of power? Gain some favours? Perhaps you're on a mission to bring a criminal to justice, or maybe you just want to get the cream of the crop from the black market. Maybe you haven't been hired by them at all, but are using their name for your own goals... as long as no one discovers the lie!

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    The kedan are a curious folk, and the Foreigners are entertainment in conveniently arriving packages, especially when they come along with unique items that the kedan might not have seen before. Maybe it's your cellphone... or maybe it's your knickers! How badly do you want to keep your stuff from some overeager native shapeshifters who want to buy, bribe, or burglarize it right off your person?

  6. Sea prunes, get your sea prunes right here!
    Life in Keeliai can take a little getting used to: the chickens have scales, the cows have feathers, and the fruits come in more colour and pattern combinations than your average tye-dye shirt. Not to mention that meal you just ordered from the food vendor? Has arrived on the plate, and you're pretty sure you just saw it move.

  7. Everybody needs a little darkness...
    The Great Enemy may have been defeated over two years ago, and people are even willing to speak Malicant's name aloud now, but there remains a taint in the city never fully purged. Those who consider Malicant a dark god whose end was unjust are the cultists of Keeliai, and they aren't always so easy to identify as one might think. Sometimes their presence is felt in the growing urge to give into one's darker instincts, especially in such a foreign place...

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    Every city has its vices, and Keeliai is no different. Perhaps you actively sought it out, or perhaps an opportunistic dealer saw you as a potential customer needing a free sample, but you're now in possession of a packet of Lucid, an emotion-enhancing drug. Interested in finding out what happens when you crush that colourful crystal and ingest it?

  9. Incoming!
    Tu Vishan's latest landfall stop has brought an unwelcome problem to its residents: enormous, toothy creatures who look more like pterosaurs than most people are comfortable with! With a twenty-foot wingspan, these aren't exactly harmless local wildlife, and they have a nasty habit of swooping down on targets both Foreigner and kedan! How are you going to fend them off, or help someone who might have been injured by the latest dive bombing??

  10. 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? Anything goes!
androit: (✻ And you played it)

[personal profile] androit 2016-02-23 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
five.

[ It's almost comical how quickly his arm snaps out at the woman's distressed voice. One moment there's a kedan running hell bent for metal and the next, the back of his shirt is grabbed and he's pulled up incredibly short with an incredibly uncomfortable-sounding hrgk!

Junior lets him drop almost immediately and stands over him, bending to pry out whatever the kedan is clutching so tightly. He calls up without quite having gotten his prize from the dazed local just yet. ]


Is this it?
angelofnaboo: (pic#9984714)

[personal profile] angelofnaboo 2016-02-24 07:47 am (UTC)(link)
[She watches in a daze as the man catches the thief with lightning-quick reflexes. It's when he drops him to the ground and begins to pry the Kedan's hand open forcefully that Padmé reacts.]

Yes, but do you really need to yank on him like that. Perhaps he'll return my necklace if you just ask. You have the upper hand, after all.
androit: (✻ As mine sure won't be shared)

[personal profile] androit 2016-02-24 07:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ This is, by far, the lesser route he could have taken, but Junior still hesitates greatly at the reaction. He pauses, moves and crouches down next to the kedan. ]

Okay. This is me asking. Hand it over?
angelofnaboo: (pic#9984702)

[personal profile] angelofnaboo 2016-02-24 08:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Unnecessary abuse of others is something that she's never been able to stand. But she is sort of amused when he sort of asks his captive. It's the letter of what she requested, to be sure.

And it works as the Kedan coughs up the japor carving, begging to be let go.]


Perhaps you should think about the consequences before you steal from someone. [She then turns to her help with less attitude.] As strange as a first meeting this is, thank you for your help.
androit: (✻ Aren't quite what they seem)

[personal profile] androit 2016-02-24 08:46 am (UTC)(link)
[ Junior abhors fighting. He can't stand it, doesn't partake, isn't very violent. Stopping the kedan without violence had been the plan but now her comment has him very much acting closer to a small child who's just been chastised.

Prize retrieved, he steps aside immediately and walks up to Padmé, holds out the carving for her. ]


Here. Sorry about all that. I could have been gentler, but... no harm, no foul?
angelofnaboo: (pic#9984737)

[personal profile] angelofnaboo 2016-02-24 09:00 am (UTC)(link)
[He strikes her as someone anxious for approval, much like a certain Padawan she once knew. And he seems to be a good person.

She can relent just a bit. Especially as she now has her most precious belonging back.]


I suppose that if he's learned his lesson in not stealing, then you've done everyone a huge favor. Does my rescuer have a name, or shall I be forced to call you "the man who nearly wrestled a native for me"?
androit: (✻ Who d'you think you're kidding?)

[personal profile] androit 2016-02-24 09:02 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I've got a nickname. Junior.

[ That's enough to spur him on, and he holds a hand out to shake. By the implication of the nickname, it's pretty easy to see he isn't used to his actual name in basically any form. ]

Pleasure to meet you.
angelofnaboo: (pic#9984819)

[personal profile] angelofnaboo 2016-02-24 09:08 am (UTC)(link)
Well, Junior, it's a pleasure to meet you as well.

[She's met people with many different names, and she will be giving him her professional name. She takes his hand and shakes it firmly.]

Senator Padmé Amidala.
androit: (✻ Without any of your fancy tools)

[personal profile] androit 2016-02-24 09:09 am (UTC)(link)
Senator?

[ Way to up the ante. He shakes her hand, his own warm and polite, before he pulls back and looks a bit out of his depth. ]

Do... okay, but do senators have titles, or are you still a Ms or a Mrs or...?
angelofnaboo: (pic#9984754)

[personal profile] angelofnaboo 2016-02-24 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes.

[She's not really trying to impress or cause anyone to feel inferior. It's a simple facet of the matter that she is a senator and has been for some time now.

It's not hard to see that she's made him uncomfortable and she goes to give a friendly smile as she answers his question.]


Hm, I do believe that senator is a job title and can be used in place of another such title. However, you can just call me Padmé.
androit: (✻ Who d'you think you're kidding?)

[personal profile] androit 2016-02-24 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It definitely helps. He's a meek person by nature despite his physical stature, so the reassurance gets a slight grin. ]

Padmé, then. Uh, have you been here long?
angelofnaboo: (pic#9984811)

(I really shouldn't tag when I'm not awake. Typo shame now)

[personal profile] angelofnaboo 2016-02-24 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[He has a nice smile and she owes him for helping her.]

Not very, no, but I seem to have a knack for finding trouble, no matter where I am.

[It's something she's inherited from her husband. The attraction to trouble.]
androit: (✻ Don't underestimate)

I don't think I saw anything!

[personal profile] androit 2016-02-25 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
Either that, or this place is just too full of it on a good day.
angelofnaboo: (pic#9984818)

But I did! It's so sad!

[personal profile] angelofnaboo 2016-02-25 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps it's a bit of both. I'm not adverse to thinking that it might be both.

[Either option is totally reasonable.]

What about yourself? How long have you been here?
androit: (✻ Is worth two lions)

Then let cuteness cheer you up! \o/

[personal profile] androit 2016-02-26 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ It really is, and Junior is totally okay with placing the blame wherever it actually goes. ]

Oh, me? About a month. Not really that long compared to some people, apparently.
angelofnaboo: (pic#9984706)

Cuteness is totally acceptable!

[personal profile] angelofnaboo 2016-02-26 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
There are others who've been here longer then. Are there very many? I'm afraid that you're one of the first people I've actually met that will talk to me about these things.
androit: (✻ She wants to dance)

[personal profile] androit 2016-02-27 09:01 am (UTC)(link)
Word on the street is up to four years, maybe even more.

[ He shakes his head. ]

There's a Welcome Center for new people who arrive and they'll talk with you there.