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

[punch_it]

Hey Starfleet. Jane isn't averse to following the guy being followed by a cat through a tunnel surrounded by fish. She isn't even hiding it.

[dammitkirk]

Okay. Someone's following him. Oh, joy. Delightful even. And frankly, what the hell?

"Why are you following me?"

Simple, and to the point, as is his MO.

[punch_it]

Jane's lips twitched as she crossed her arms, for the world looking untroubled by being caught out.

"Maybe I'm enjoying taking in the view."

[dammitkirk]

"Of the fish surrounding us? If that tunnel develops a crack, well, let's hope the pressure is swift before we're devoured by the wildlife."

Grumpy, paranoid, and oh so dry. McCoy had little time, and he wasn't in the mood to idle chitchat when death surrounded them.

[punch_it]

Oh. No. You did not give her a disease and danger speech in a southern accent. No. She's torn between such sharp hope she can't breathe and laughing so hard she falls over.

Jane cocks her head and goes to give the glass a light tap.

"I don't know. These tunnels are supposed to be pretty safe."

[dammitkirk]

"I was told that on a shuttle before, by a good friend of mine. I still don't think he was correct, though."

He cocked his head, looking her over.

[punch_it]

"Still better than scattering your atoms across space."

Oh she has your number now. She'd tackle him if she didn't think he'd take a hypo out of his ass and subdue her on the spot.

She's already about to blow his mind. She can save him the hassle.

"Besides which Scotty treats every one of those shuttles like they're her kids."

[dammitkirk]

What. The. Fuck? Bones stared at the woman, utterly shocked. Scotty was a her? Was this Jim if Jim had been a woman? He blinked, once, twice, his mind turning over all the possibilities.

"What's your name?" Bones managed to get out, trying to not do anything too rash. He wasn't expecting this at all, but what did he expect, in a place ruled by supposed gods? Multiple universes.

[punch_it]

"Jane." She matches his wide-eyed look with one of her of own. Though her's has a distinct edge of teasing, gleeful humor to it.

Could she be blamed? She fucking loves that face. Its a thing of beauty when aimed at her from his face. She can't help being who she is. Though she would bet every credit to her name he will try just that.

[dammitkirk]

"Tiberius Kirk?" He was rapidly coming to grips with this whole situation, even though he really thought there wasn't enough room in the any universe for one Kirk, let alone two of them.

"I should be so lucky as to have met two Kirks in my lifetime."

[punch_it]

"I refuse to believe Jim is prettier than me."

Jane leaned against the glass wall and grinned.

[dammitkirk]

She did not just. No. He is not getting into that discussion, it will only end in tears. His tears.

"I plead the Fifth."

Two could play that game. He was not going to start comparing the two Kirks, not for a second.

[punch_it]

"Good choice."

Jane popped back off the wall and circled him with a thoughtful look.

"Never going to get over this."

[dammitkirk]

"Get over what? Being stuck here under the ocean, or the fact that you have a female version of myself?" His eyes tracked Jane's movements, body still.

[punch_it]

"It took Spock a day to believe me." She shouldn't be surprised Bones just knew. It kind of made Jane want to cry in pure relief that she wouldn't have to spend forever trying to convince him she was who she said she was.
"I've had a while to get over that. She wouldn't be any happier to see me than you are."

[dammitkirk]

"He, of all people, should know about alternate timelines." he jibed, then moved, hands behind his back.

"You think either one of us would not be happy to see their Kirk after an absence?" He spoke, very carefully, the very recent loss and regain of Jim forever fresh in his mind.

[punch_it]

"I believe it had more to do with our timelines being the same."

She knows. Okay? She knows. She knows just how fucking fabulous it would be for you and Spock to see Jim alive and well.

But you've got her instead.

"She'd find a way to blame me for this."

[dammitkirk]

He snorted at the last bit. That was a possibility this whole debacle was Jim's idea of a prank.

"Like your idea of a prank, perhaps?"

He knew Jim was alive and well, he saw him breathe before he was whisked here to be a potential mate for a Nysgod prince. How a male could do that made his head hurt.

[punch_it]

"Pretty safe to say the universe has it out for me." No. Even they wouldn't play this sort of prank. Or Jane wouldn't. Not by bringing them to this place. "You two just got lucky enough to be dragged along for the ride."

She closed her eyes for a moment and when she opened them she was smiling again.

And that's when she pounced. Slow-motion and deliberate with every step screaming she was about to go in for a hug and he better dodge the hell out of the way now if he wasn't going to accept it.

"You can't even begin to believe how fucking happy I am you're here."

[dammitkirk]

His mama and daddy taught him to never let a lady who threw herself at him fall, so despite the rather sudden display of intimacy, McCoy opened his arms to catch his Captain, despite the fact she was definitely female and not his Jim.

"Really. Even though I'm not your Bones?"

[punch_it]

"Doesn't matter." Jane had gotten the same argument from Spock and he had received the same response. She didn't give two shits about his gender or that he wasn't from her universe. His fundamental self was all Bones. Maybe he had a few different experiences, maybe he had some different ticks or concerns but the portion of him that ultimately shaped him was something she knew and understands.

"Same core. That's good enough."

It was good enough for Jane to draw every inch of strength and comfort from him and for him to clearly be accepting of Jane seeking it.

[dammitkirk]

"You'll have to forgive me if I am a little slow, then? It appears that I have a new charge while I'm here."

His arms had automatically pulled her in close, still in shock at the fact that there was at least two Kirks from the same divergence point. And well, he did have a new Kirk to learn, to study. And to worry over. What was different, what was similar, what changed because of the fact this Kirk was female?

[punch_it]

"Yeah. But look at it this way. I've been here on my own for two months and I haven't needed to be stabilized once."

At least not physically. Jane sagged in relief when he finally, finally started hugging her back. He could take all the time he needed so long as he didn't avoid her because she was a woman.