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

[listentome]

Yancy Becket has never really been a fan of mazes. They have always been more of a source of headaches than of fun in his opinion. And yet here he is, wandering the topiary maze, too restless to grab more than a couple hours of sleep despite being bone tired. Perhaps a bit of physical activity will burn off the jittery energy.

Like many decisions made under the influence of adrenaline and lack of sleep he soon comes to regret entering the maze. A growl of annoyance escapes him when the trail he has been following brings him to a topiary he knows he has passed several times already, temptation to kick the damn thing flaring in his chest. Reining in on the impulse he steps back and studies the pathways that lead away from where he currently stands, plotting out which ones he has already taken. One of them will take him to where he needs to go and sooner or later he is bound to pick the right one. He just prefers it to be sooner.

Movement in the corner of his eye draws his attention back the way he had just come. He pauses when he sees that it is a woman and debates a moment whether to approach her or not. In the end he decides that it can't hurt to be at the very least polite. "Excuse me! Are you as lost as I am?" he calls, hoping that he does not startle her in the process even as he musters up a friendly smile.

[her_heart]

She's been staring at the tall hedges for some time, considering and contemplating them, still not quite sure of their function. To her, this was all very strange, the idea of these structures grown for the sole purpose of confusion.

It's why when he approaches she doesn't imemdiately hear him but the moment he speaks she turns, liquid brown eyes very wide, smile blooming across her features.

"Yancy."

It's so very strange, seeing her beautiful pilot after all of this time, seeing him right here, alive, and in the flesh is overwhelming and she very nearly begins to cry and she just barely holds it back -- if only because he likely will not recognize her.

Oh, but how she longs to pull him in her arms and hold him so tightly. Tancy Becket, alive, here and now, after all these years of that hole in her soul.

[listentome]

His smile falters and dims a little around the edges, his brow briefly furrowing in confusion. He doesn't recognize the woman in the slightest but judging from her smile and the way she says his name she definitely recognizes him. When he spies the first traces of tears in her eyes as he finally reaches her he stops and shifts his weight awkwardly. Yancy Becket can face down a raging kaiju with no problem. Faced with a crying woman, however, and he is at a bit of a loss.

"Are you...okay?" he asks, concerned despite the strangeness of the moment.

[her_heart]

What is it with her boys shutting down in the face of emotions? She smiles, genuine and sweet.

"Better, now. I don't suppose you'd recognize me, not like this."

She tips her head, and gives him a gentle look.

"My name is Gipsy Danger."

[listentome]

To be fair, neither their mother nor their sister had trained them how to deal with crying women. Domonique never cried in front of them that Yancy can recall, and Jazmine had usually been quick to chase them off or yell at them whenever they caught her crying once she hit the teenage years. But, that is neither here nor there. He relaxes when she smiles, relieved that the threat of tears seems to have passed for the moment.

"I..." he trails off, concern replaced once again by confusion over her words. It doesn't get much better when she introduces herself. The young ranger stares at her, emotions ranging from disbelief to annoyance to pure bafflement playing across his face. Clearly he does not know what to make of her. "Gipsy? How-?"

[her_heart]

"I don't know," she says honestly, lifting her shoulders in a half shrug. "I cannot explain this. Every particle of my being demands rational and an explanation, but unfortunately, there is none. I can come up with nothing save that it had to do with my arrival here."

Being so small, so tiny like this -- it was equal parts terrifying and fascinating.