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

Yancy Becket | Pacific Rim

[listentome]

Yancy Becket is tired. No one can blame him, really. He had been woken up at two in the morning by a combination of alarms and his brother incessantly beating on his mattress and shaking him. There had been a rapid-fire conversation (mostly one-sided) and a fist bump (again mostly one sided) and he had retreated to the wash room to splash some water on his face. He had never made it to the drive suit room. No, instead he had ended up in some underwater city, struggling to listen to the explanations being babbled at him while his head spun.

Logically he should probably try to locate his assigned room in the barracks to sleep off the remaining dizziness and weariness.

Instead he is sitting with his back against the wall in the tunnel between the barracks, staring blankly at the fish with the expression of someone who has tried to assimilate a lot of information at once and failed to do so. He is not entirely alone, however; sitting on his shoulder is a small kitten who has a great deal more interest in the fish than its perch does. Yancy, for his part, doesn't even seem to know the kitten is there.

[makomori]

In her meanderings, she's not quite paying close attention to her feet, head lost in thought, and with the broken Drift. But what was this? Someone she knew from the Drift, one she had seen, overlaid with grief and loss and pain.

Mako stopped, feet inches from Yancy's leg, and looked him over, eyes sweeping from his feet to the cat hanging out on his shoulder.

"Yancy Becket?"

[listentome]

The sound of his name breaks the trance Yancy has fallen into. He blinks slowly and shakes his head slightly to clear some of the fog clouding it. The kitten mewls in protest when he shifts his shoulder, and he regards it with muted surprise and confusion before turning his attention to the source of the voice. It belongs to a young woman that he has never seen before, but the suit she is wearing gives her away as a Jaeger pilot.

"Yes?" he asks in return as he sits up a little straighter, wincing a bit when the kitten digs in its claws to keep its balance.

[makomori]

She sucks in a breath, then smiles. "I would have preferred different circumstances, Mr. Becket, but I know your brother, Raleigh. We Drifted together, and so, I have a part of you and him in my head, now."

A bit blunt, but it was better to get it out in the air.

[listentome]

Okay. That is definitely not one of the admittedly few potential answers he had been expecting from her. He stares at her, incredulity replacing the weariness in his expression. Maybe this is not a fellow Ranger after all. Maybe this is one of those obsessed fans that make their own drivesuit replicas and invent fantasies where they insert themselves into the daily life of a PPDC member.

"Uh. What?"

[makomori]

Mako had an idea of why Yancy was behaving that way, thanks to certain memories Raleigh shared with her.

"My apologies, Yancy. My name is Mako Mori, and I'm a recent Ranger, though I do know Raleigh. We're co-pilots." There wasn't a delicate way of putting that, but that might lessen the blow just a little.