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. 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

Comments

[hisonlygirl]

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.

[punch_it]

"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.

[hisonlygirl]

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.

[punch_it]

"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.

[hisonlygirl]

"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."

[punch_it]

"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."

[hisonlygirl]

"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?"

[punch_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."

[hisonlygirl]

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.

[punch_it]

"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."

[hisonlygirl]

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.

[punch_it]

"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."

[hisonlygirl]

"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.