Test Drive Meme 006

[voidtreckermods]

Welcome to our Test Drive Meme! Here is the place to see how your character might fit the setting, grab some samples and start having fun!

1. Post with your character. I’ve written out some prompts but feel free to make up your own, you have a whole train to play with!

2. Assume they have been around long enough for threads to jump right into the action!

3. Have much fun!

Happy testing!

Void Trecking

The thing about being on a train hurtling through void space is there’s not much to see. Outside the window lies an endless void of kaleidoscope colours shifting and swirling. It’s probably best not to stare at it too long. Do so and you might start to imagine order in it. Shapes, places, even figures. But your eyes shift... Back to chaos. Probably best you do something else other than stare out the window. Or convince your fellow passengers that void watching leads to headaches!

Relaxing

The newest carriage to be added to the Voidtrecker Express is a rock garden. In a glass domed carriage, flickering with the light of the void the rock garden is a peaceful and medative space, full of mosaics, a pond, fountains and small stony bridges.

It's also the closest to an outside space you have and so is likely to be used for less than peacful activities. Splash in the rivers, race around the paths. Or try and relax on a bench and read amongst the chaos.

Goblin Town

Goblins riding wolves, everyone's favourite foe. The wolves fly, obviously and the goblins fight with short spears, almost like knights on horseback if the knights were terrifying and demonic looking. They are causing trouble by harassing a small village.

Team One

Fight the goblins. A handful of weapons have been provided but mostly you need to try and outsmart the goblins. They can come from any direction, including up. Try and keep the village safe from their attacks.

Team Two

Protect the villagers, help them barricade their houses. Deal with any goblins that get through team one's defences. Some of the villagers want to help and that's alright, some of the villagers want to help and are still in single digits, that's probably less alright. Keep everyone safe!

Team Three

The thing with sieges is, some things still need to happen. People still need to eat. Babies need fed and looked after. Animals need tended. Try and help with the logistics of everything in the heart of the village, as far away from the fighting as possible.

Pick a team, go wild!

Comments

[queenvictoria]

The memory is bittersweet, and Peggy looks away, suddenly self-conscious. She regretted being cross with him after the plane had gone down. Regretted it like nothing else.

“...I do,” she says eventually. “I love him very much, and I think he loved me. But we never had time to explore it. He went down in that aeroplane and we never found him. Now he’s living in the future and he’s had a life without me. It would be cruel of me to hold him to those old feelings.”

[luckybucky]

“If he’s as stubborn as you say, what makes you think he’s given up on getting back to you?” He smiles, looking out at the battlefield. It’s still quiet, but the energy is familiar — violence is inevitable. “He doesn’t know when to quit. Even when he’s lost, it’s not in him to give up hope,” he remembers punching Steve, over and over again, until he broke down in the face of Steve’s simple determination.

[queenvictoria]

Peggy opens her mouth to argue, but finds nothing to say. Bucky’s right. Maybe she gave up too soon.

“...I think you’re remembering more than you let on, Sergeant Barnes.”

[luckybucky]

"Nah," Bucky replies softly. "What I remember is how he saved me," he looks away now, because he's downright ashamed of what he did. "He broke through the programming, but it nearly cost his life. Once he'd stopped Hydra's plan, he wouldn't fight me. Wouldn't even defend himself," he hangs his head and swallows heavily.

"He was broken and bleeding and saying my name," he had to stop, or his voice was going to break. He cleared his throat. "I learned everything I needed to know about him from that."

[queenvictoria]

Peggy has to fight the impulse to reach out and grab Bucky’s hand. She had ideas of what might have happened for Bucky to lose his memories like that, but what he’s describing is even more horrible than what she had imagined.

“That sounds like Steve,” she says softly. “Stubborn to a fault.”

She clears her throat to banish the tears that are suddenly pricking at the corners of her eyes and tries to adopt her clipped and businesslike tone from before.

“I’m glad he did. It’s good to have you back, Sergeant Barnes.”

[luckybucky]

He knew he had an instinctive trust for Peggy, but now he understands why. It's a balm to his aching heart that she can hold back from offering unwelcome comfort, and instead offers him the security of a more formal interaction. Something simple and certain, that he can use to push the moment away.

Some day he would be ready to deal with all the feelings that come with his trauma, but right now he's grateful they can sweep it aside. "It's good to be back, ma'am," he replies, and when he looks up his eyes are dry, if a little red. "Ready for another round?" he nods towards the battlefield, where the goblins are finally regrouping for another charge.