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!

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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?

Comments

[brains_before_bullets]

"Fine. Let me brood in peace, then."

Definitely irritated, pissed off, even. He needed time to think about this shitstorm, find a way back home. He needed to find a way back home.

[didnotwant]

She mentally winces. He had all kinds of feelings pouring off of him. She can smell it.

"You might want to get a handle on yourself, buddy." He isn't her buddy but mister would have sounded weird.

"All the not-quiet-humans are gonna smell it all over ya. They might try asking after you. Especially depending on who they room you with."

She lets her mouth twist slightly. "I understand the anger. I was pissed off too. I was just gettin' my shit together when they grabbed me. I had a small.... shit fit. Not the smartest idea."

But she can be a dumb wolf on occasion.

[brains_before_bullets]

He exploded over the Network, too. Only he had no regrets.

"Fine by me. I don't plan on being here much longer." And a look back. "And no. You don't understand."

She really doesn't.

[didnotwant]

She gives him a flat look.

"Maybe not," she agrees. Jax is just human. What could he know about the kind of violence a werewolf can deal out or crave? She really hates that part of herself.

"But there's a hell of a lot you don't know either. People have been fighting back. Apparently we were put in this place because they caused trouble at... some kind of temple. So either be angry or get in contact with the people trying to do something. Though I suppose you could stay angry while helping. I'm just not the sort to let myself be angry for long."

It's just too dangerous for her to stay angry.

[brains_before_bullets]

A snort, there. He's still getting used to all this magic shit. Still trying to factor in everything, get used to everything, come up with something that'll get him home.

"Whatever."

He doesn't want to talk about what he doesn't know. It's pointless and a waste of words. He'll sort it out. He'll come out the other side fine. He always has.

[didnotwant]

"I know. Magic is total bullshit. But. It's a fact."

She decides to finish the rest of her sub later. Suddenly she is turned off from food. She repacks it and shoves it in her bag.

She wants to chuck her drink at something too. It is a very childish reaction she thinks so that won't happen. She just stretches her legs out more.

"But I knew about it before this. Messed up my life."

[brains_before_bullets]

"Great."

That's snapped. Because, seriously?

"Remember when I said I wanted to brood in peace?"

[didnotwant]

She doesn't quiet flinch but her posture shifts. She dips her head and focus one her drink rather than Jax.

She doesn't want to deal with him should his temper explode. By the way he is acting it is well on it's way there.

[brains_before_bullets]

He gives it a few minutes before his posture relaxes and he goes back to staring at the screen dully, messing with a loose thread in his kutte.

His temper was close to exploding. A culmination of all the shit over the past few days. Every little annoyance chipped away at his remaining patience like a fragile wall.

[didnotwant]

She is trying very hard to not do anything that might be annoying. She really doesn't want this to explode into a confrontation.

But sitting both quietly and still is hard for her. Especially when she as the sudden urge to burp. Too many peppers on the sub. She should have gone easy on them.

Damn it. Worst timing.

[brains_before_bullets]

And the silence is now just plain awkward.

Jax isn't the type to sow fear or force people into doing what they don't want to do. He sighs again.

"You don't have to be totally silent."

[didnotwant]

She raises an eyebrow.

"Can't be helped." Part of it was not wanting to deal with his temper should it snap. "Don't like being a bother."

[brains_before_bullets]

"It can be."

And he's getting to his feet. He's going to do the smart thing and leave. With his back to Marion, she'll see the stylised Reaper with "Sons of Anarchy - California" stitched into the leather of his cut.

As Jax makes his way out of the row, he takes a cigarette from the pack in his shirt pocket and lights it up.

[didnotwant]

She was somewhat familiar with Biker clubs. Her Dad was the best mechanic in the area so sometimes bikers would be at his shop when she was growing up.

She gives him some space. She needs it too personally.

"It wasn't really.... You." She's keeping some distance.

"Werewolf. You're.... like an alpha. Responded to that."

[brains_before_bullets]

He takes a long draw on his lit cigarette, the tip glowing in the gloom of the theatre. He couldn't care less if this place was no smoking or not.

"Darlin', you're not making any sense."

He still has his back to her, responding from the end of his row.

[didnotwant]

"...You'll figure it out eventually."

She isn't bothered by him. "It's a magic is bullshit kind of thing."

Well that is true enough.

[brains_before_bullets]

"Whatever."

It's not as dismissive, but he's still turning to leave, with a sure-of-himself swagger in his step.

"Catch ya later, maybe."