Test Drive Meme | #50

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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... Let's play cops and robbers! Local law enforcement is handled by the Keeliai Police Department, an organization of both Foreigners and kedan dedicated to keeping the peace in the turtle... and they're about to make a raid on a large, illegal gambling ring! Are you going to collar the nearest bad guy, or are you one of the high rollers now looking to make a quick escape? Or a bookie who's now getting booked downtown? 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!

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Wolf | The Tenth Kingdom

[hungryforeverything]

[4 It's Not What It Looks Like]

Would you believe that Wolf was this gambling den because of a completely honest mistake? Yeah, he wouldn't either, even if it was true! Well, yes, he knew it was a gambling ring when he had come down here, but he wasn't here to gamble, he was here to see a man about goat, or whatever passed for a goat here, that has swallowed something important that he'd dropped.

Which isn't to say that he hadn't been gambling. See, the man said that he'd sell Wolf the goat for 50 Juulan and he was about 49 Juulan short. Gambling seemed like the obvious solution!

But yeah, he's totally running for it. Everyone else is running for the doors, but he spots a ladder and starts climbing for the roof!


[7 BORN TO GORGE, that's me!]

Wolf scratches his neck neurotically. Why was he feeling this way? The moon wasn't remotely full? But the hunger, it was coming.

He'd smelled someone, something. What had it done to him? He'd tried to chase them but they'd gotten away. Now he found himself in the middle of the Fire District and the sights and smells were overwhelming.

A woman beckoned to him from the street and he couldn't help but follow, her smell was intoxicating. He knew a brothel when he saw one. The only thing he could imagine that could improve the situation was if it had an in-house buffet.

"Like what you see?" she asked.

"I'm absolutely drooling," he replied in a manic tone. She smelled strange but he was confident that he could satisfy his appetite. All of them. His eyes started to glow orange as the wolf awoke.

She recoiled. "What's wrong with your eyes?"

"NOTHING!" he spun away from her and ran away, looking for someone dark and cold, because everything was so unimaginably hot.

Aliya Haskell | OC

[wolfishflame]

This place did not look familiar.

Aly chewed her lip, thinking. The Otherside had rules, but not many. It was entirely possible that she'd been drawn to this strange city against her will. And she still felt like she was Otherside. A quick glance at herself confirmed it - leather armor, a copper mace hanging from her belt, and a drab green cloak with a ruff of white fur about her shoulders, held together with a clasp in the shape of a red maple leaf.

She didn't like this. Luckily she still had an escape route. She reached her hand out into the air, turned her wrist, and pulled.

Nothing.

She tried again. Nothing. She let her eyes drift shut, trying not to panic. She could still see all of her lines, but they faded out into nothingness. Even the line she could feel in her hand, the one that connected her to the forest to which she had a land tie.

She didn't like this. Not one bit.

"What the hell is this place?" she asked nobody in particular, trying not to sound agitated.

Leo Whitefang | Guilty Gear

[siegesparade]

4. Ky usually fills this niche, but...

Ah, there's nothing like busting some criminals the first thing in the morning. Or at night. Or anytime, really. Some thief tried to take off and all Leo had to do was grab the guy by his shirt and stare him down.

"This may be a foreign land, but I won't allow crime to run rampant. You deserve grave punishment for what you've done."

Harsh? Perhaps, but the great Lion King doesn't go soft on the criminal element, no matter where he is. The cops didn't even have to ask for his help.

6. There's a hare on my plate

With the appetite of a king, Leo strolls around the food vendors. There's nothing he recognizes, but the smells are alluring enough. He's sure the cuisine is perfectly fine. He orders whatever comes with the highest recommendation and sits down with what appears to be a steak. But why is it garnished with feathers? A-and did it just wiggle?

Then he takes a bite, and lo and behold... "This is... INCREDIBLE!" Apologies to anyone sitting around him, because he's going to stand and praise what could be the best steak he's had in his life. "A meal fit for royalty!"

Chloé Bourgeois | Miraculous

[itwasherfault]

[ Haggling ]

Are you, fricken, crazy? This is a Louie Vuitton, you don't sell something like this for a handful of Chuck-e-Cheese tokens.

[ She clutches her purse to her chest as if it's a child. ]

In fact, I should charge you just for seeing it.


[ Cops and Robbers (Sort of) ]

Hey! HEY YOU! You're a knock off police officer or whatever passes for authority around here, right? I need you to arrest this lizard thing, RIGHT NOW.

[ She gestures to a Kedan who looks to be an equal mix of enraged, perplexed and despairing. ]

He assaulted me!


[ This isn't what I ordered ]

Excuse me. [ Other people in line? What other people in line? ]

I ordered a salmon not whatever... THIS is!

[ She slams the plate onto the counter so hard that the purple sea prune splatters onto the face of the attendant. ]