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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!

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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?

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Scar was relieved to leave behind the constant bustle and noise of the shipping center as he stepped onto the shuttle back to the dorms. He hated working for these bastards, but the food and living space had quickly run out when he refused to. Surly as always, he minded his own business as he took his seat alone.

There was, however, one oddity.

A kitten, soft and a little on the thin side, had wandered to his side and settled on the chair next to him. It mewed, nuzzling Scar's side as it looked for attention. Expression unchanging, he turned his head to look at it. The kitten stared back.

After a moment's silence, he reached out with a hand nearly as large as the cat itself, and began to pat it.

There was another oddity in the shuttle, but this one was far less bold and adorable. Like the kitten. Of course the kitten.

Merlin watched the exchange between the little furball and the candidate with a small quirk of a smile. He was leaned back in his seat, and looked for all the city as if he was going to nap his way through the shuttle ride. Thin arms crossed over his chest.

"You know, I think that one is following you home."

Scar looked up suddenly when the stranger addressed him. He watched the young man for a moment before looking back to the cat.

"Are strays common here?" It seemed strange. Out of place, in such a bizarre world. The cat purred, snuggling closer.

"More common than you might think."

It was what they all were. In a way.

Strays from other universes.

"But cats aren't very common. You might want to keep an eye on it."

He caught onto the meaning behind the other man's words and frowned, lifting the kitten into his lap.

"I was planning to." Scar continued to pat the cat. Though he didn't exactly appear thrilled to have made a new friend, he had always had a fondness for cats. He looked up at the stranger once again.

"I take it you were taken as well?"

"One of the candidates, yes."

A short pause. "Merlin." Sometimes he did forget to give his name. It was just a matter of being somewhat absent minded, and then never knowing how someone would react.

Candidates. What a pathetic word to cover word for what they were doing. Scar continued to frown as the Merlin offered his name. He was silent for a moment.

"Scar." It was all he was ever willing to offer.

Each of them was doing something a little bit different. Finding a way to cope with another universe was a strange dance. Some accepted the change, and some never did.

If Merlin had to make a wild guess, he would say that Scar was likely to fall into the later category.

"Going to name that one?" The kitten.

Scar looked back down to the kitten currently sitting in his lap. Name it... His frown deepened. That was what was done, wasn't it? But what to call him? her?

"I ought to..." He suspected that it would simply run away once he got off the train, but it was nice to think that it would stick around, even if just for a little while.

"Isaac," he finally muttered, lifting the kitten to eye level and watching it squirm as it tried to bat at his bangs.

Edited 2013-12-13 07:30 (UTC)

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Scar | Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) (+Damned CR)

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Sorry for the wait! I had to hiatus for finals.

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