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Rekindle Moderators ([personal profile] rekindlemods) wrote in [community profile] justhugalready2013-05-14 01:12 am
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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
[While the days grow longer and warmer and the older, oriental-style of the city would normally make one think that the interiors would not be much in the way of relief from the hot sun, it may surprise the guest to see that the apartments the natives have allocated for them are surprisingly comfortable. In fact, the only modern convenience they may be missing is a television set! At least, outside the media floor on the first floor of Building One - the first of four inter-connected buildings.

In fact, each apartment building seems to have at least one different amenity on the first floor. In Building Two they seemed to even spare a library in another that seems to have the basics and some information packets that are otherwise found in the Welcome Center in District 2. There are even a few restaurants and common dining areas in the Building Three that are open until late at night, and meeting areas and a ballroom on the first floor in Building Four, perfect for setting up small parties or big events.

With the locals gone save those who work in the restaurants and the one librarian, leaving you to your own devices, what will you do? What mysteries could be left to discover in this place?]
Option 2
[With summer coming, the water level in the river is starting to go down, exposing some of the beach. The Riverside Shack is open late, and its restaurant is pulling out all the stops and offering seafood specials (even though a river is a far cry from an ocean). The rental store, meanwhile, is finally bringing out more of its swimming supplies, inner tubes and pool noodles, and a calmer stretch of the river has been roped off with buoys for swimming. They even have lifeguards chairs set up. Clearly this sort of thing used to be an annual event.

It's not quite an ocean beach (quite different actually), but there's still plenty of chance to have fun in the water. Or teach someone to swim, perhaps.]
Option 3
[If you're more inclined to explore or learn, the City's Learning Center might be more to your tastes. There certainly seems to be a lot going on here - there's laboratories and libraries and workshops, and plenty of communal areas where you can meet and talk with people. The natives seem pretty absorbed with their studies and work, though they're polite in brushing you off, at least.

Perhaps you'll have more luck seeing what other Guests such as yourself have discovered?]
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.]
paraclete: (mouthpiece of the dead or of some god)

[personal profile] paraclete 2013-05-20 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
All right. [He'll keep the bananas, then, but he settles them in the crook of his arm. His left hand is free, now, and he holds it out toward Shinji.]

Do you think the sky will be clear tonight? [His softness toward Shinji is implacable.]

[personal profile] gakishinji 2013-05-20 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
[his hand.

Shinji stares at it, unsure of what to do. But, finally, he reaches up and takes it.

Maybe he doesn't deserve the things of the past, the things he destroyed, but... Nagisa-kun...
]

...it'll be clear. [the warmth of his hand gives him the courage to look Kaworu in the eyes again.] It'll be clear tonight. There won't be any rain until... Wednesday.
paraclete: (does not my heart astound you)

[personal profile] paraclete 2013-05-20 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
If that's the case, [Kaworu says, and grasps Shinji's hand firmly,] let's do something fun. I want to look at the stars with you.

[Repetition is key. Kaworu wants to be the one to offer the sanctity of stars this time around.]

[personal profile] gakishinji 2013-05-21 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
[Shinji's face turns a little pink again. If he didn't deserve to be in this place... If he didn't deserve to enjoy something as stupid as bananas... Then he definitely didn't deserve Nagisa-kun. Not him, not his voice, not his patience or his friendship?

(But you do think you deserve him, don't you?)

He nods slowly and squeezes Kaworu's hand back.
]

... Yeah. Okay... yeah, let's do that. After we cook.
paraclete: (to believe beyond heart's flare)

[personal profile] paraclete 2013-05-22 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
I'm looking forward to it. I'll learn about cooking from you, but the night sky here is something we can learn and experience together. [Kaworu's atmosphere has settled into something so serene that it's like the air around him has stopped moving, for how good this concept is to him.] That makes me happy, Ikari-kun.

[There's a moment where his gladness is almost tangible - no, those are just his fingers, cool against Shinji's palm. But then he lets go of Shinji's hand, and the air stops its stalling. Kaworu has turned to the side to admire the grapes.]