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Test Drive Meme 016
Welcome to the Test Drive Meme! Here is the place to see how your character might fit the setting, grab samples and have fun!
1. Post with your character, including their name and series in the subject. We’ve written out some prompts but feel free to make up your own, you have a whole train to play with!
2. Assume they've been around long enough for threads to jump right into the action.
3. Have lots of fun. Mandatory, mod-sanctioned fun.
Happy testing!
Silence in the Library
The library is a double carriage. Downstairs is brightly-coloured, with cover posters across the walls, tables and chairs in the strong colours of the team uniforms, and a wooden model train placed as though winding its way through the carriage with carriages of shelves in tow. The walls are shelving, and beanbags litter the floor. Upstairs is quieter, rows of nonfiction shelves with private desks at the end of each row; the sound up here is muffled.
You don't know who, you don't know why, but someone or something has had a bad power day. How do you know? Well, the fact that the characters of any book you read keep coming to life as tiny versions of themselves and running riot around the carriage... that might have been a clue.
You just wish you'd picked a different book before realising it.
An Apple a Day
Medical is another double carriage, though it boasts one of the few person-sized lifts on the train as well as stairs. On the bottom floor, two of the three rooms are examination rooms, with simple beds, equipment and first-aid capacity. The third is a surgical bay, albeit a simpler one than some passengers may anticipate. All three rooms have ICPs with instructions and manuals for all equipment and a number of medical procedures.
Upstairs, there are four private recovery rooms, with a medical bed and an accessible en-suite. It's possible to check a passenger into one of these rooms, at which point they cannot leave until discharged by the person who checked them in.
Which, unfortunately, you are entirely aware of. You've been here for three days, and you're climbing the walls. But that'll teach you to get injured in such a stupid way. Or so they hope.
Sprockets and Skysong
In which a train arrives among the smokestacks of Little Underpool with some unexpected visitors.
Little Underpool is a township on Void world #30630687444. Caught up in the middle of what appears to be a series of industrial revolutions, the world is in a state of constant, chaotic innovation. Currently, that means that there is a power struggle going on between the skywhaling megacorporation Scrimshaw Inc and the Zephyr Company, an airship manufacturer, over control of the skies above Underpool, and the rapidly diminishing population of skywhales, whose bones are used in most modern airships, and whose blood is a key fuel source for a great number of new devices and engines. The voidtreckers are, this mission, to rescue the whales, rather than any humanoids.Team One
Infiltrating Scrimshaw Inc, this team's job is to sabotage the tracking drones used to locate the whale pods, to allow the great beasts to migrate successfully away from Underpool. The offices of the corporation are in a series of spiralling brass and bone towers in the centre of the town, connected by exposed cable bridges that run to dizzying heights. Their clockwork guards are numerous, but often faulty, and highly vulnerable to tinkering.Team Two
This team's job is to hijack some of the Zephyr Company's airships, and use them to defend the whale pods closest to Underpool. Several pods contain whale calves, and cannot evacuate as fast as the larger bachelor groups. The airships are light, and handle well, but their oddly organic design can be rather unsettling. The primary weapons are harpoons and short-range bomb slings, both as deadly against other airships as they are against their original targets.Team Three
The final team's task is less direct - they must go among the populace of Underpool and spread unrest, redirecting the attention of the people towards the plight of their nonhuman neighbours in the sky, and the wrongdoings of their resident megacorporations. The people are not aware that the whales are an entirely sentient species, which appears to be a deliberate obfuscation by the town's council and sponsors. Your job is to change that.
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[She snorts at Yuume's chastisement, stiffly turning her head away. What did she know anyways?] If she wanted me to be a monster for her little playacting, I was all too happy to oblige. And I needed to work off some steam anyways from how much she was pissing me off.
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[She's going to give as good as she gets.
She's just not even going to process the one part.]
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...granted Kimi wasn't herself but...
The woman sighs, grimacing and shoving that thought to the back of her mind. Focus, she reminds herself, expression stern.] Once again- Rei. Assume that she is as she is, and not somehow 'meant' to be someone else.
And as I told you, all that attitude has earned you is more confusion and a larger fight. If you didn't want her to continue accusing you of being 'possessed', or someone you shouldn't be, you should have left her alone to figure it out then. [After all, what would she have done? Forced a duel? Regardless.]
Deliberately risking danger for the sake of your anger, as it stands, is irresponsible, childish, and STUPID.
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Please. At least when I took a flying leap into heel territory, I had a good excuse in, you know, getting brainwashed. Or possessed. Or whatever.
[Beat.]
What, I never said she was wrong.
[Alexis is going to ignore those remarks about childishness because that, unfortunately, actually does sting.]
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Never mind that she just tied, she's still ready to go again. Even if Chaos Emperor Dragon sucked all her life points out.]
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Her attention however, is firmly on Alexis.] You will stop this, now.
Stop baiting her. Stop toying with her, as if it will earn you anything more than someone's pain. This is not about what happened in either of your homes. It cannot be, and adding those words does not help, [She hisses.]
You are both yourselves. Regardless of if either of you were possessed in the past, [she adds, placing emphasis on the past while looking at Alexis again.]
Now drop it.
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[There's a dangerous quality to Alexis's smile as she steps forward into Yuume's personal space, intentionally turning up the hollow look in her eyes.
(The worst part is that Alexis doesn't even know if she's lying or not.)]
Do you see the look on her face? That heroic, rugged look of determination that she's so clearly aping off Jaden because she doesn't have the strength to find it in herself? The doubt, the realization that if she hasn't saved me by now, she probably never will, nya? [She licks her lips, turning up the theatrics.] It's absolutely delectable. Why would I want to drop it?
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[She's going to try to raise her arm again, despite Yuume.]
Stop it! Even if you aren't possessed, I won't let you keep acting like that with Asuka's face! I'm not going to let another friend end up like Martin!
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[Yuume doesn't even look away from Alexis as she says that- she still doesn't even know the blonde's name, now that she thinks of it actually.
But this rings too familiar, too dark, for her to be phased entirely.
Outwardly, at least.
Saaaah, she remembers proclaiming on that broken arena only two years ago, I AM the 'MONSTER'!]
It's easy, isn't it? To put on the face of a villain. A villain is to be hated, so when you are hated beneath that mask, it can be as deserved.
It doesn't 'hurt' as much, if it's 'supposed' to be, does it?
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She stands like that for several agonizing seconds, stock still.
And then two snarled words:]
Shut up.
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I am not going to watch, and ignore, that mistake. It seems easier, to put on a mask- it's safe, you could even say.
But you need to understand...that what seems safe, what seems easy, is not in the long run. Be honest- but try to care more for yourself while you are.
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[Alexis throws a punch with all the force of a wild animal and absolutely none of the technique that Dokja taught her at Yuume's face. She doesn't expect it to land.
She just needs to lash out.]
YOU THINK I'M SO POOR, INNOCENT GIRL MISGUIDED BY SOME MALEVOLENT FORCE MANIPULATING HER INTO SELF-LOATHING AND SADISM? AS IF! YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO JUDGE ME FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE, NYA! YOU DON'T KNOW ME! KNOW WHAT I AM!
HELL, I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT I-
[Alexis's mouth clamps shut, but it's too late.]
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I don't think you're anything. I don't think you are controlled by anything, because you don't need those things to do it to yourself, [she whispers knowingly, gently moving to push Alexis' fist away from where it drove against her cheek. And maybe the words are too soft for Rei to hear in the meantime, maybe not.
But Alexis' sharp hearing will pick it up easily.]
I don't know who you are.
But no one ever will, if you refuse to be truthful to yourself, and to others. Including you.
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I don't know who you are, either. But I can tell who you're definitely not.
[So that's... like... helping? Maybe? She's trying.]
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...I-
[Then Rei says her piece, and Alexis turns on her with all the ferocity of a predator wounded.]
Really. Really. So you KNEW Alexis- I'm sorry, Asuka- huh? After all, she was your LOVE RIVAL, of COURSE you had to gather intel on her, nya! And really, what was there to find? Just another pretty, shallow girl who always took time out of her day to help everyone. Somebody so nice and polite couldn't possibly turn into the angry, sarcastic, sadistic monster screaming in your face, nya? The girl who spent YEARS searching for her brother only to be tormented by him every god-damn day once he got back couldn't be this bitter, could she? THE HONOR STUDENT WHO WAS SO ATTRACTIVE SHE HAD TRUST FUND BRATS AND SLIMY NERDS PROPOSING TO HER EVERY OTHER DAY CAN'T HAVE ANY PROBLEMS, RIGHT?
Oh, right. Except you DON'T know any of that, because you've only known her for a YEAR at most!
Fuck off.
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And...naturally it comes crashing down when Rei speaks, the woman's eyes simply rolling upward in some desperate hope to simply escape what's coming next.
Yep. Yep.] ...Rei.... [Yuume sighs.] ...I understand what you're trying to do, but what you're saying is not what anyone needs to hear for now, I fear. For now, what anyone is, or isn't, that isn't for anyone else to decide.
For now, if we can focus on simply 'being', instead of questioning how the other is...I think that would be best for both of you, hm?
And perhaps myself as well, [she admits, scratching her cheek.]
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I know her well enough! What I was trying to say was that you're not the Asuka I knew, so you're a different person, so- Ugh, forget it!
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I have better things to do. [She moves to stalk off, hesitating for a moment as she looks back at Yuume.]
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[She rubs her forehead.] Sometimes....what we mean, doesn't necessarily come out the way it should, neh? We can just drop it.
[And oiii oiii, Alexis...] ...If it isn't too insulting, I'm personally a little more worried about the trouble you could get into... [Her expression seems more dry than polite all the same.]
...Souryuu Yuume however, is my name. And yours?
[Now, she's smiling.
You never introduced yourself, after all.]
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And I'm Alexis Rhodes. Don't you forget it.
[She saunters off, defused... for now.]