meme | 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!

This marks the official start of the monthly test drive meme and, to celebrate, we're giving a new feature a shot. The first comment/thread on this test drive is going to be titled ENABLE ME and it's where you post character accounts/muselists, etc and others (members, passerbys, shoulder demons) can enable you to apply to Tu Shanshu! Come, let us enable you to the turtletastic madness!

Comments

[persistenceofmemory]

[ Isaac's head is down as he's walking, lost in thought. Lost in trying to sort out his thoughts. He's not sure if it's the new setting that has everything mashed together so blending, overlapping, one voice right over the other and his mood is erratic and wild. Or the distance from the others - Meredith, Charlotte, even the grumpy old man, Jacob. In a way, they'd kept him grounding and in the present. In himself, at least.

But here, he's lost. No, literally, he has no fucking idea where he is, and the fact his mind is like a circus right now isn't really helping much. Nor is the fact he sees a woman looking suspiciously intense a few yards ahead of him, heading the opposite direction, hand on a knife at her hips. A goddamn knife. His eyes widen a little and he's about to turn and find another crowd to be in so as to avoid her, but the distraction has him taken under the current of the several other personalities swarming in his head like angry bees.

His voice snaps out before he has time to stop him, an arrogant, cocky tone, completely snide. ]

There are guards around, so murdering someone in broad daylight would pretty much be suicide, but there's always new candidates needed for the Darwin Award.

[assassinates]

[Shelby almost sighs. Go off and spend a month tracking down other assassins to kill them, no problem. Attempt to play games of cat and mouse in a crowd, and predatory instincts prove too much. Of course, now that she's been called, all the more reason to keep her fingers on the hilt of her weapon in order to defend herself. She lets her kedan go, however; she can pick his trail back up later.

Instead, she glances at the man who speaks to her with a faint look of amusement.] He would have been fine.

[No idea about this award thing. Or what a Darwin is. So Isaac mostly just gets a blank look for his troubles.]

[persistenceofmemory]

[ For a moment, Isaac's entire posture shifts, sinking back into slouched shoulders and hands nervously stuffed into pockets, and his mouth gaps open. He just caught the attention of the stalker with the knife. Why did he do that. Oh yeah, because he's batshit. This is awesome. And terrifying. He's never even seen a knife aside from a pocket switch blade Meredith used to cut wires.

He stutters at first, unsure but needing to force something out. ]

That's... great. Really considerate of you.

[ And wow that could be taken as sarcastic. He quickly adds on: ] I mean that sincerely.

[assassinates]

[Shelby catches the way he suddenly changes. He's either a very good actor, or there was something wrong with him. She remembered a few apprentices over the years who were like that. It was as though they were almost possessed.

It doesn't help her to relax. If nothing else, she's more alert now. The moment he makes a sudden move, she'll put him down.]

Okay. [She doesn't really get sarcasm that well, anyway.] It's not consideration; there's just no point in killing him.