Test Drive Meme | #43

[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: → Comment with the journal of a character you want to test; put their name and canon in the subject line for added sparkles. → Tag around with everyone! → Profit like you live on a the back of a turtle! → Maybe even RESERVE so you CAN live on 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! 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! 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...? 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... 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! Wait... you want my what now?! 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? 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. 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... Illicit substances, anyone? 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? 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?? (Please note: This scenario isn't applicable to becoming game canon if you choose to app your character, as an alien pterosaur attack is a major event.) 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 uncontrollable urge to polish every paving stone in the Earth Sector? Anything goes!

Comments

[highprofilerichkid]

"It could always be worse." The tone is incongruously cheerful, and the young man who responds to the rhetorical statement is smiling. "We could be in the middle of another invasion, or a drought, or there could be Cultists trying to kill everyone, or the whole market could be out of that one really tasty kind of shrimp."

[reluctantaccessory]

She wasn't exactly expecting anyone to actually respond to that and she looks a little bit amused at first then the realization of all the things that Tony just said and in such a cheerful tone - well, it hits her and she frowns slightly. Sure, those things could be happening, but they aren't happening. But they could also very well happen here based on everything that she had been forced to learn since her sudden arrival.

Marie glances over her shoulder, "And you actually just made me manage to worry a little, but only a little. Also, you sound like you kind of want something to happen... do you?"

Then she rolls her eyes to joke that she is joking with him and cracks and very slight grin. "Of course, there isn't that much I can do about it and my luck is rotten regardless of what I say or think. So, I'm going to run with this moment and take what I can get."

[highprofilerichkid]

"Oh, no way," Tony says, with genuine feeling. "We definitely don't need any more Cultists or Chihuelans around here." Then he grins a little wider, acknowledging the joke, and adds, "Maybe just a few small-time crooks that I can punch to keep things interesting."

[reluctantaccessory]

"A few small-time crooks, huh?" Marie can't help but look extremely amused and she finds herself continuing to tease Tony, "You mean like thieves or do you mean something more interesting than that? Personally, I could go for a good mystery...it'd bring back some good-ish memories, I think so I could be fine with thieves if they were the fun kind that go after casinos or art."

[highprofilerichkid]

"I was thinking alley-lurking muggers, but you know what? An art heist sounds like a good time. I've never busted one of those before. I'm imagining going undercover wearing a nice suit, and then putting my Iron Man suit on over it, and making a great pun about suits right before we take the crooks down and save a bunch of priceless and ugly paintings."

[reluctantaccessory]

"Well, alley-lurking muggers would probably be easier to find than a group willing to steal art."

Then Marie pauses and raises an eyebrow. "You say priceless and ugly. Only some of it is ugly, you know?" Then she makes a slightly amused sound that is almost a snort but not quite. "Also, wearing a nice suit over another suit?"

The woman is about to go and start on a ramble when she pauses again.

"Wait, you said small-time crooks... I guess an art heist wouldn't be so small, would it? But it would be more exciting."