Test Drive Meme

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Throne of Shadows
TEST DRIVE MEME!!!

New to Throne of Shadows? Long time player thinking of apping a new character? Welcome to our test drive meme! Experiment with active and potential muses! Here is a place where you can test out characters for the setting and accrue samples for your applications! Roll on the scenarios provided below, or come up with your own!

Scenario Builder

You are...

1. Working in the lava lamp factory
2. Watching "The History of Twine" in the cinema
3. Admiring the fish in the barracks tunnel
4. Lost in a topiary maze
5. Riding the shuttle between buildings
6. Trying to sneak into the administrative offices

You’re feeling...

1. Inexplicably happy
2. Like you could fall asleep at any moment
3. Angry enough to punch someone
4. Nostalgic or sentimental
5. Like someone stabbed you—oh, hey, they did, fancy that
6. As if life really ought to be more like a Broadway musical

Somewhat unusually...

1. You can only speak in rhyme
2. The room is full of old-fashioned toys
3. A box covered in runes drops down from the sky and lands at your feet
4. You hear the voice of your worst enemy in the walls
5. You would do anything for a grilled cheese sandwich
6. You have a cute and cuddly kitten...where did that come from?

Comments

Len "Bones" McCoy | Star Trek AOS (genderbent AU)

[bitcheslovehypos]

"You've got to be kidding me." Bones was storming through the topiary maze. First she was kidnapped - as a possible bride to the Nysgod prince, no less - and now she was lost in a maze. With a kitten. She wasn't sure why, exactly, she'd picked the fuzzball up, but she had. So at least she had an audience for her grumbled diatribe.

Holding the kitten up by the scruff of the neck, she scowled. "This is all Jane's fault," she groused to it, before tucking the thing back in her arms and continuing her rapid trek through the maze. Somehow, it seemed appropriate to pin the blame on Jane in her irritability. A lot of the trouble in her life was caused by the Enterprise captain.

[hisonlygirl]

There were plenty of grouchy people who might know a Jane but the voice pulled at the Enterprise. So while mapping the maze was interesting enough she left the task momentarily to find the person who seemed to be trapped in the foliage puzzle. It doesn't take her long to reach the woman, approaching her from behind.

"Lost?" She asked, popping up beside the strangely familiar woman.

[bitcheslovehypos]

Bones turned sharply at the sudden voice beside her. “Don’t you know it’s rude to surprise people like that?” she told the strange woman who’d popped up beside her. “You could have given me a heart attack!”

The question only made Bones all the more irritable. “No.” She wasn’t lost. Well, she was, in the ‘having been ripped out of her own damn universe’ sort of way. This was just a maze. Sooner or later she’d find her way out. “Not exactly.”

[hisonlygirl]

Whoops. She hadn't meant to sneak up on the woman. Really the Enterprise hadn't realize she was capable of it. "I'm sorry. I'll work on greeting people properly before approaching." Everything in her expression said she spoke the truth.

The Enterprise noticed that the question made the situation worse. "I've been mapping the maze if you'd like to leave in a more prompt manner." Except she held no tools to do so. Not even a pen and paper.

[punch_it]

Wow, Bones. Judgey. Not awesome. Jane is...not surprised. But she is so fucking happy she thinks she's gone and lost her mind. She's actually hiding behind a hedge, breathing heavily through her nose and mouth to keep from crying and there is a very real chance of that happening.

She wipes angrily at her eyes and takes another sharp swallow of air before swinging around from behind the nearest hedge and shooting Bones a blinding smile.

Anything is better than being caught crying.

"Nice cat."

[bitcheslovehypos]

That voice – HER voice, brings Bones up short. “Damn it, kid, they got you too?” she says, swinging around to face Jane. The look on the captain’s face stops her. She knows Jane, knows her damn well. She was crying. IS crying. And the blinding smile doesn’t hide it. What the hell?

She’s pulling the other woman into a hug without hesitation (it worked, the gamble with Khan’s blood had worked), shifting the stupid cat out of the way so she can do it properly.

[punch_it]

"Yeah. They got me too." Jane fell into that hug in greedy desperation, choking on a strangled laugh as she clawed at the collar of Bones' shirt, grasping and tugging it down as her body shuddered and quaked through each repressed sob until she was only trembling with silent tears tracing her cheeks and soaking into Bones skin.

She always was a tactile person, touching and teasing. Good for a pat on the back or a good solid short-lived hug. But since being here, she's grown more needy. Clinging to her people and her tightly held sanity as people she cared for kept coming and leaving and coming back a little more broken and she just-

She needed Bones. She had needed that cynicism and sarcasm and metaphorical grasp of reality to keep Jane grounded and in the present and not breaking into a thousand pieces that never quite fit back together the same way after.

She had needed her best friend.

And now she couldn't even articulate how much it meant to her that this universe finally stopped dicking around with her and gave her the grounding force she had been needing.