justhugalready | Test Drive Meme!

Welcome to the Rekindle Test Drive!
Trying to see if a character will fit or work in the setting? Need some interaction samples? Well this meme is for you!

Make a post, tag around, and most importantly, have fun! Here's the setting page for those who want to learn a little more about the city itself.

~~Then don't forget to go reserve your character in a week when they open.~~

Here's some prompts to help you get started, if you need it:

Option 1

[The midsummer heat is still in full swing. But that's okay - enterprising residents on the riverbanks are renting out innertubes for you to float along the cool waters in. The catch? They're innertubes for two, and you're sharing with the person ahead of/behind you in line! Get nice and cozy, you two.]

Option 2

[There's something odd about some of the shops in the third district. There doesn't seem to be any pattern - it's something that can be found in all sorts of establishments. But if you see the twin daisy sign in the window, it turns out that you can get a discount when making a purchase with someone else. It could be someone you know, or someone new entirely, but so long as you both reach the checkout at the same time, you get the discount - a pretty substantial one too! So hey, look and see if there's anyone else shopping with you! Could be a great way to stretch the allowance you've been given.]

Option 3

[Even if there are no children among the natives, it doesn't stop the adults from being a little immature - or maybe the heat's just getting to them. If you glance around, you might notice almost-hidden baskets of water balloons, tucked under benches and against trash cans...

If you didn't notice, though, it might be an awful surprise when one hits the back of your head. And when you whip around to look - well, it's probably not immediately obvious who the culprit is. Will you brush it off, yell and scream, or take revenge on the town at large?]

Option 4

[Whoops. Looks like you haven't taken the cautionary words of the other NPCs to heart, or maybe you just wanted to take your chances. Either way, the withdrawal symptoms have started and you need to find someone to hug quickly before you get even more sick.]

Option 5

[If there's something else you wanted to play with, that you didn't see here, then have fun with that. You've just arrived in a strange city, after all. There's got to be plenty to explore out and about, not to mention people to meet.]

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When the water splashed its way across her back, Charlie's mind instantly went to demon attack. About the same moment she realized how stupid that was, her mind latched her computer instead - but no, that was safely at home. A good thing, since that was the closest thing she had to a connection back home, and a reminder that she wasn't just crazy.

Finally she stopped to wonder who had actually thrown that - just in time for another blast to strike her in the head.

"Sorry! Those ones went a little wide!" Comes a voice from nearby, followed by a green blur as the owner of that voice waves her arm in apology. "Didn't mean to hit you; we were just trying some dodging and aim."

M'gann waves aside whoever else she's been playing water balloon assault with, putting her focus instead on the person who was caught in the cross fire. "Are you ok?"

"Fine." Random. Cute. Green girl? Her mind flicks to demon, before bouncing off and landing on little green martian men. Yeah. Right. If they were this cute, she'd have probably welcomed an invasion.

"I'm... Fine. Just.. A little. Washed up."

"Heh," she gives an awkward giggle, not fully sure if that's something she's supposed to laugh at or not. "Well...I think there's some towels close by, if you need them? That was my fault, sorry; my aim is usually a lot better than that."

"Towels... would be good." Though she wasn't sure how much good it would do her poor tee shirt. The sarcastic bunny rabbit on her shirt was looking more sad than snarky, with the watery splotches.

"Okay! Just hang on a second," M'gann stretches her hand out as she speaks, and...

...Give it a minute...

...There. Two towels whipping around the corner and into her hand, as M'gann gives a pleased-with-herself-for-planning-ahead grin. "We thought it would be good to have those on hand, with throwing a bunch of water around. Just didn't think we'd need to use them on anyone else." Still, she can at least hold them out now.

Right. That freaked out look on Charlie's face? That's her wondering if maybe M'gann really is a demon after all. (Which is way less ridiculous than her being a martian, of course.)

She's staring at the towel more than M'gann. Until one of the words registers. "We?"

"Oh...The person I was practicing with. It's been really hot out, and...Kind of hard to do regular training or work outs, so something like this sounded a lot more fun. Less exhausting either." She glances up towards the sky as she speaks, giving an awkward shrug.

"I don't...Do so well with the heat, sometimes." It's when she glances back that M'gann catches said freaked out look, and blanches for a moment.

"E-everything ok?"

Calm down, Charlie. You've been getting used to weirdness, right? This is like. Something from a comic book. "Do most people float things with their heads where you're from?"

"I've never met a martian who can't use psychic abilities." M'gann replies easy enough, though when her smile comes back it's on the hesitant side. "It's something we all know how to do...But I-I know that it's not common with people from Earth."

"...As in little green cute girls?" Wait. Men. That should have been men. She's flipping things about, isn't she?

That earns a confused blink, before M'gann shakes her head. "No...Actually Martians are both sexes. And colors other than green."

"Like... red?" Lame suggestion, she knows. But her brain is still just a tiny bit stuck on the fact that hello, she's talking to an alien?

"Actually, yes! They're not as common compared to green, but Martians with red skin do exist...They're actually held in very high standing." And she'd much sooner talk about them than on some of the OTHER colors, thank you very much.

"...Isn't that sort of racist?" Color her suddenly annoyed. Liberal girl does not enjoy hearing about anyone judged by coloring.

"It-"

Oh.

Oh no.

This right here? This is NOT what she wants to talk about. There's already alarms going off in her head and a desperate need to deflect any possible conflict or irritation that might be arising from the conversation.

"O-oh, it's...It's just sort of how things...Are over there?" She tries to smile as she says that; really, nothing wrong going on here!

No. That's the worse deflection you can have. "Maybe the way things are is wrong," she challenged.

One can see the confidence rushing out of M'gann as the conversation continues, her shoulders starting to bunch up as she glances away.

"...I-I didn't say it was right." She keeps her eyes fixed to the ground now, nervously shifting from foot to foot. The towels left in her hands get worried at with her grip going white knuckled as she grasps at them.

She made herself take a breath. Alien world, possibly from another universe? She should probably focus on the now, and be glad that old white men weren't running things all over the universe.

"...So. Water balloon fight, huh? Can anyone join?"

"Oh?" She's surprised by the question at first, enough that she glances up to look at Charlie before M'gann can catch herself. A second later she actually picks up on what's being asked.

"I mean, yes! If you want to?" And once she DOES pick up on it, M'gann is fast to pursue that line of conversation.

"Did you have ay extra water balloons?" she prompted, nerves showing through her attempt at calmness. She's really trying to be nice, but she doesn't know how much more prompting sh can give to get past the awkwardness.

"Yeah, just over this way; c'mon, I can show you!" Plus, this is a chance to be helpful, and of course she'll pounce on that. M'gann even hops a few feet into the air out of eagerness, pointing down the sidewalk to where, sure enough, there's another basketful of the things.

She reaches down to pick one up, giving it a little heft before cocking her arms. Sword fighting, gun shooting - sure. But she hadn't been near a water balloon since she was twelve.

Test Drive Meme!

Charlie Bradbury - Option 3

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