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Test Drive Meme

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. Lost in the temple
2. Trapped in a cloak room
3. Stargazing on a balcony
4. In the bathroom
5. In a bedroom
6. Swimming in a courtyard pool

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. Seriously horny. Must be something in the water.

Somewhat unusually...

1. You can only speak in rhyme
2. You are naked
3. You suddenly cannot verbally communicate
4. There’s a lot of alcohol/drugs here!
5. You are gender swapped
6. You have amnesia

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"Yes," came the immediate response. "What planet is this? What galaxy?" There is little surprise in the questions. She'd just left Earth so hearing that it wasn't her home planet wasn't unusual.

More and more questions kept rolling around in her head, some of them would be very odd to ask. It was possible this woman wouldn't actually know. Besides they weren't nearly as important as finding a way back. The Enterprise had a crew to look after.

Using one hand to brace herself she sat up, wiggling her toes as if they were a new existence. Though her attention is immediately taken away from the digits when goosebumps rise across her skin. "That's new," she murmured quietly.

"They didn't tell you?" Shit. That probably explained the lack of clothes too. Jane grabbed her leather jacket and tossed it up onto the bed. "This will help. You're on Niflehim, city of Gebo, under the fucking sea."

Sorry she's still a little sore about that point. But one failed escape attempt didn't mean she was about to give up. Of all escape plans, that one had been the simplest. Now they needed to be...creative.

"Sorry." Jane leaned against the bed and extended her hand. "I'm Jane. Jane Kirk."

"Who?" Had she missed information that the crew had uncovered about...Niflehim? Nothing in her databanks had anything concerning this planet or even this city. The Enterprise frowned, but not at Jane's choice of words and more of the idea of being in the ocean.

Again. However she's distracted from commenting on it by the leather jacket. Fingers curl around it uncertainly, her thumbs moving over the material for the first time ever. Smooth and rough at the same time. The smell of it seemed like it should be familiar yet she knew it wasn't. It's just a jacket, how hard can it be to put it on? The left arm went into the left sleeve and the right into the other one. There, simple. Warmth spread from where the fabric made contact with her skin. She's aware that humans generally tend to wear more clothes than this but the jacket is only to take away the chill her body wasn't used to.

That was a disturbing thought.

She'd been built to withstand the iciness of space but now she couldn't even be in a temperature-controlled room without some sort of covering. This body was so much more...fragile. Delicate. Something she would have to remember. No more taking enemy fire.

Blue eyes flick up to the extended hand, suddenly glad this is a human and not some other species who greeted others with difficult hand gestures. Her hand took the one offered to her, and she shook it - once, twice. Normally one would let go after that but she kept hold of it as her gaze searches the woman's face. Kirk. There were plenty of people with that particular last name and Jane wasn't unusual either. The combination had probably existed at least a dozen times through human history. Yet she knew it wasn't that simple. That earlier strange familiarity pressed down on her with determined insistence. Sure the gender was different but there was no mistaking it. This woman was Captain Jane Kirk.

Her Captain.

She's silently staring, still holding the hand and something seemed to switch in her as she realized it. "The USS Enterprise." Her name tumbled out of her mouth before she had the chance to stop it.

Now she sounded crazy. Jane wouldn't like this.

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"Bullshit."

But Jane now wasn't ready to let go of that slender hand and she used it and an elbow as leverage to pull herself up on the bed. She searched every crevice and dimple on the other woman's face, hunting down the lie, but there was none found. Either this lady was mentally compromised or she was really the Enterprise in human form.

And fuck it all if Jane didn't believe her. What kind of sick joke would that be otherwise? She was already in a land that she had thought was a myth, living with a Spock who wasn't a woman, vampires and half-mermaids and the worst part was how badly Jane wanted her to be telling the truth.

She realized after a moment her grip might be too tight and she leaned back with a short, sharp sigh.

"You never do things by half, do you?"

Instant disbelief. As she expected. It's actually a milder reaction than originally thought but she isn't one to complain.

There's not so much as a flinch as Jane is in her non-existent personal space, searching her face with her eyes. A curious thought of what that face might look like flitted across her mind but she wasn't a vain ship. Just simple curiosity.

Jane seemed to find the truth in that face, her expression or eyes or maybe a combination of all three. As the Enterprise knew she would seeing as how she had no reason to lie. Actually, lying about this particular matter to any Captain Kirk in any universe would be a foolish thing to do.

The question earned Jane the upturn of her lips in amusement. "What sort of ship would I be if I couldn't keep up with my recklessly wild Captain?"

Jane barks out a sharp, hysterical laugh and clutches at the Enterprise's face. A large,, crazed smile split across Jane's face as she leaned in and pressed a fevered kiss to her brow.

"You're fucking gorgeous. Look at you. What the hell?"

This was like Christmas and her birthday and every naughty, beautiful ridiculous fantasy dragged from her reptile hindbrain and brought to life. Jane didn't know how to handle this. She did not know what she was doing.

She needed Spock here to make sure she wasn't imagining this.

She doesn't fight the face-holding or forehead kissing, not because she's stunned but because it's Kirk and for her, there's a level of trust that ran so deep into her core that the Enterprise would let the woman do anything she wanted. It doesn't matter that her Captain's gender had changed - a Kirk was still a Kirk was still her Captain in any universe.

"That's quite impossible to do like this, Captain. I'll have to take your word for it."

It was probably for the best that she wasn't telepathic and able to read what was going across her Captain's mind at this very moment.

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"You haven't-" No shit? Jane blinks and pulls back, only then grinning and jumping back off the bed. She couldn't hold still on a normal day. There was nothing normal about today. Not at all.

She reached for her ear piece to summon Spock and then held out her arms.

"Well, damn. Come here."

"I've been in your bed this entire time." Not that she minded. And the Enterprise is not apologetic at all about it. It could have been a worse way to begin. She could have ended up naked in a complete stranger's bed.

The Enterprise watched as her Captain pulled away only to motion her to come over. That's all the prompting it took for her to shift to the edge of the bed and place her feet on the floor. Briefly her toes curl at the hardness before turning her attention to those outstretched arms. Without hesitation she took Jane's hands and pulled herself up. Her balance is shaky so she doesn't let go.

However the moment she attempted to take a step, she tumbled forward.

"I've got you." Jane's arms flew around her waist when she stumbled. Probably should of seen that coming. She let out a brief huff of laughter and then smiled encouragingly.

"All right?"

Besides the obvious. How would it feel to go from something so vast and interconnected to this? Jane couldn't even imagine it.

Spock was gonna shit himself. His overly scientific mind will be blown.

"Just keep holding on to me."

Trust didn't even enter the equation. There was absolutely no question of it in Jane's mind. This was her girl. She would fight and die for her and she had a hard time believing the Enterprise didn't know that.

Her hands clutch at Jane not out of fear of falling. No, her Captain would never allow her to hit the ground, that had already been proven.

Where were the hundreds of crew members to push buttons, pull levers and do millions of other tasks in order to make a single vessel function the way it should? It took humans months to learn how to walk but the Enterprise couldn't wait that long. She'd already been waiting a year for the repairs to be complete so that she could be back among the stars. Even though those stars were so far away there were other things she could accomplish with a pair of legs.

A pair of legs she is currently staring down at as if that alone would make them cooperate. The Enterprise could make this happen. After all, a human body could be thought of as a starship. Hundreds of various parts working together under the command of the brain to make it function as one.

Finally she looked back up, took a small step back in order to shift all of her weight onto her legs instead of leaning into her Captain. Though she doesn't let go. She smiled.

"Better." It may not be perfect while using Jane to keep her balance but she was certain her legs wouldn't collapse beneath her completely.

"It'll take time." And no one knew that better than Jane. Learning how to walk again had been the best and worst part of PT. No amount of reassurance or soothing encouragement could make up for that lack of control and fear that she might never be as good or strong as she once had been. That had been a long damn summer. Longer still for all the fighting and stupidity between her and Bones and here she was parroting her words without thought for how hypocritical that made her.

Even when the Enterprise found her own feet, Jane didn't let go.

"We'll get you there. Come on." Jane took a step back and then another, leading her toward the bathroom where their only mirror hung.

The words aren't exactly what she wanted to hear. "We've both had more than enough time to recover." She's spent more time docked for construction and repairs then out on missions. If anyone can understand her need to be exploring the great unknowns of the universe it's her Captain. The Enterprise knows that humans are resilient and can recover from such terrible ordeals but it took time. Time she didn't want to waste.

For now she'll settle for walking the short distance across the room without continuously looking down at her feet.

When the mirror can be seen over Jane's shoulder, she stared at the unfamiliar face looking back at her. Logically the Enterprise knew it now belonged to her but she wasn't sure how to feel. It certainly explained the pale wavy wisps of hair that her peripheral vision kept seeing. Her eyes were the same color blue that could be found nearly everywhere from the bridge back to the warp nacelles. What she could see of her skin looked washed out against the black of the borrowed jacket.

It takes effort to tear her eyes away from the stranger in the mirror. "I look...odd." Recognizing herself whenever she saw a reflection would take some getting used to.

"One of us has never had legs to stand on before."

Jane stepped out of her way, careful to never let go, and moved around behind her to rest a chin on her shoulder, trying to see what the Enterprise saw. Trying to imagine how terrifying it had to be to look 100% different than normal.

"Different. I wasn't lying when I said you looked fine." For a humanoid she was distractingly fine. If not paler than pale and fragile in appearance.

She closed her eyes and hummed. "I missed you."

She still misses her ship, the way she normally is, but right here and now she gets the beating heart and soul of her girl wrapped in a skinny human package and that is more than enough to let her believe this particular universe didn't totally hate her.

"You bipeds would be much more stable if you were quadrupeds." Or had stabilizing thrusters.

Now that she had a full view of herself and not just what she could see when she looked down the Enterprise took it all in. There wasn't much muscle mass, not surprising considering that she'd never used them before. But it looked like a human female body should.

She lifted her hands to touch her hair, it was softer than she imagined. At Jane's words her eyes shifted up to the woman's face. "I believed you." Despite Jim's - and she imagine it was the same for Jane - nature to flirt the compliments tended to be honest ones.

Three simple words that said so much when they were put together. They'd just been together but the logical part of her brain helpfully supplied the idea of mismatched timelines. "Has it been long?"

If she could give Jane what she wanted, if she could have her Constitution-class shape back then the Enterprise wouldn't hesitate to go back. But all she had to offer was this delicate unfamiliar body to offer and she would give it. "Scotty would complain if you hid me in the ocean again."

"Stability is so boring." Jane squeezed her a little tighter. Hey now. Be fair. Even when she flirts what she's saying is more often than not the truth. And it was hard not to be appreciative when you've got your arms wrapped around a half naked woman who was wearing your clothes.

"Two months. Might be more. And in my defense, this time is definitely not my fault."

"Too much of a good thing makes you appreciate it less." She only speaks the truth. The Enterprise doesn't have all of the data to make an accurate evaluation. What Kirks do on their shore leave is not included in her statistics. Concerning that half naked state - if she's going to examine herself, it might as well be all of her. She shrugged out of it though she's hardly ready to give it up completely.

Since Jane's got a good view of her back the Captain will be the first to see that across the width of her shoulders U.S.S. ENTERPRISE is tattooed straight across with an upwards curving NCC-1701 underneath with larger print done in black and familiar letters. The tattoo looked exactly like the name that's painted across the topside of the hull of the saucer.

"Two months and the natives aren't upset with you?" There was a teasing light dancing in her eyes. "Who's fault is it?"

Jane's fingers trace the letters in a slow steady examination, totally enthralled by the brand she hadn't ever expected to see in a place she had least expected it. She pressed her hand flat over the words and looked up with a delighted smirk.

"Fine." Oh but she does have every stored report/captain's log made whether intentionally or in error and every deletion she ever made so in that the Enterprise probably knows far more about her than anyone in the entire world. Who else can you be honest with if not your own ship.

Let's not delve into the casual control fondling or the way she'd forced herself back into Engineering and sat by the entrance to the core and just rambled every fear and concern and love and praise and apology until she'd gone hoarse.

Those were things best left buried, but Jane would never doubt the Enterprise had heard and remembered. "Mostly not mine. There was an entire group of us."

Her body shivered, not from the chill but from the touch. Without being able to see it she had no idea what Jane is doing, unable to make out the pattern across her sensitive skin. Every touch was like fire and ice, warmth coming directly from the fingers but coolness was what left behind in its wake. She wasn't sure whether to stay or squirm away.

In return, the Enterprise had nothing to hide from her Captain. Not that she could make such confessional reports or logs as a ship. Though now that she had the capability to share her thoughts, feelings and secrets she would.

As for those moments that no one else was privy, those private moments where Kirk had faced what had almost extinguished both of their lives, they wouldn't talk about them unless Jane wanted to. Was there anything left to say when it had already been said? They'd both die to save their crew - to save each other.

"Which parts were yours? What have you got planned next?" She knew her Captain, there would be something that came next.

"Hacking the systems. It was fun." Oh wow. Understatement. Jane never felt better than when DOING SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE even if the payout was up in the air. When left alone too long to her own head was when trouble began. Jane never liked living in her own head. It wasn't a kind place to vacation.

She could feel those fine tremors beneath the press of her hand and she grinned. So fucking fascinating. She idly traced the capital 'E' as she watched the Enterprise explore her body in the mirror.

"And I jacked a shuttle yesterday, got a handful of us stranded in the middle of the sea, but it was worth it."

Both of those things sounded exactly what she'd expect from her Captain. Of course, it also meant that there was something here at work that Jane didn't agree with. That alerted her that their situation was not favorable. Considering that she hadn't planned to end up here, and looking like this, meant they'd been captured. So it was a situation that involved them and not the natives of this world. "What did you learn?"

It wouldn't be worth it unless, they'd learned something. Though the shuttle highjacking would have been entertaining all by itself.

"Whatever you need of me, I'll do it," she said, not that it needed to be spoken out loud. Jane should know that the Enterprise would do anything she possibly could.

"Magic is the WORST." Jane wrapped her arms around her girl and squeezed. Different shell. Same fucking Enterprise. Jane would love her just as fierce and with as much protective might as she would when they were both safeguarding hundreds of others.

"And we're going to have to be more clever if we want to make a true attempt at getting out of this city."

She nosed the Enterprise's neck and tightened her hold. "I know you will."

"Magic." There was a hint of disbelief in her voice, reflected in her face. While there was a lot about the universe they had yet to figure out - to even see but she was built with science, her mission was scientific exploration. Magic was not exactly a concept that was easy to accept. However looking at herself, at this very human body, she couldn't deny its existence entirely.

Her eyes flick up to look at Jane's face reflected in the mirror. "I'm certain you'll think of something. Any plans I come up with may not be as creative as yours." Jane may find her to be a little more like Spock in that aspect. At least for a time.

She doesn't say that she will protect any of the crew members with her life, including her own Captain.

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