Test Drive Meme!

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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.]

Comments

you ain't met me but I have an auska so lets thread maybe

[agelostdoll]

[Asuka just crunches on up over the sand. Kind of familiar, ain't it? And you still have that stupid fucking S-DAT why is she not surprised. The bland shirt and the boring hair she'd recognise a mile away and-

Isn't that the DSS choker? Didn't they detonate that? Weird. She keeps on walking until her shadow is casting right over him, blocking out the sun. Surprise, Shinji, you still can't run away from me.]

So you're here too.

oh god i'll try

[gakishinji]

[A shadow. He blinks down at it, and within a nanosecond of looking up to see who it was, he was reeling and practically scrambling away backwards.]

A-Asuka.....! [as he stares at her, the image of her fist cracking the inches-thick observation glass separating them replays in his head.] Y-You're... you're here, too...

[agelostdoll]

[oh, yep, that's the reaction she was expecting.]

So are you. Twice.

[she doubts you can, but care to explain?]

[gakishinji]

[oh. she's not...... kicking him or something. it's impossible for Shinji to keep himself from looking a little confused at this. actually, it's more confusing than her question.]

Oh, um... y-, yeah, I saw him too... I mean, me, I guess.

[agelostdoll]

[oh she's tempted. She's very, very tempted. But one of them here is a mature adult, so...]

I suppose you wouldn't know why?

[gakishinji]

[he shakes his head with downcast eyes, still clearly not trusting her to not lash out at him.]

How would I know? [Nagisa-kun is the only one who's ever told him anything.]

[agelostdoll]

Maybe because you'd stopped being a brat, and gone and found things out.

[gakishinji]

Why don't you just... go find out for yourself, if you want to know so bad.

[Even as he says it, his voice is small and afraid and pathetic. But he's still saying it. everyone's always demanding so much from him. They don't understand him like Kaworu does.]

Or... go ask the other one. Maybe he knows.

[agelostdoll]

He doesn't. He's actually okay. He hasn't nearly ended the world twice in a fucking row.

[were you waiting for that kick? Because here is that kick. Straight for the gut.]

[gakishinji]

[twice? what is she talking about? he'd ask if his trust in everyone hadn't been so damaged. ultimately, it didn't sound any different from the endless amount of other cryptic things people have referenced in his presence and blamed him for.

he's getting more stubbornly indignant as this goes on. looking away, he looks down at his earbuds as if he really wants to put them back in.]

Is that all?

[agelostdoll]

...




You killed several billion people and that's all you have to say?!

[gakishinji]

Did you really come here just to yell at me?

[his shoulders are slumped and he's too much of a coward to look her in the eye, but his refusal to entertain that question with a real answer is laced with unmistakable self-pity.]

What do you want me to say?

[agelostdoll]

Mein Gott...

I'd ask for an apology but I doubt you'd even mean it.

[gakishinji]

[an statement like that stabs him in the heart and activates every ounce of excuse-making power he has.

how is he supposed to apologize for something that was an accident? it's not like he got back into the Eva that day just to ruin everything for everyone. that angel had gone after Ayanami... it ate her...]

...I'm not sorry for trying to save Ayanami.

[as soon as he's done muttering it, he starts stuffing his earbuds back into his ears.]

[agelostdoll]

FUCKING-

[oh hell no, she reaches right down and tears them back out.]

-DOES SHE REALLY MEAN THAT MUCH TO YOU? SHE'S A CLONE OF YOUR FUCKING MOTHER!

You didn't save her! Your father just dragged another one out the tank! Like he's done for years!

[gakishinji]

[really, she may as well have just slapped him, because that's how it feels and that's how he reacts. he curls up a little where he sits, bowing his head and covering his unplugged ears with his hands.]

That... that's not her. That isn't Ayanami! That's not my Ayanami! You'd never understand. Nobody does. Just leave me alone!

[agelostdoll]

...



You're the one who doesn't understand anyone else.

[gakishinji]

Go away.

[he doesn't want to talk to her. he wants to ignore her. all of his friends, everyone, betrayed him. and Ayanami is gone now.]

I'm not... I'm not going to listen to you pretend to understand me. Go away.

[agelostdoll]

[that just earns a snort] And now you're asking your problems to run away for you?

No.

[gakishinji]

[fine.

he gathers his SDAT and earbuds up, stands, and begins to walk away from her, completely avoiding any eye contact.]

[agelostdoll]

[and... Asuka just follows, matching pace. There's a second beat of feet crunching into sand along the shoreline.

Watching his back, the shine of the DSS Choker catches her eye. Nearly forgot about that.]

How are you still wearing that thing? It detonated.

[gakishinji]

[why is she still following him? why can't he get away from all this, even here?

he thinks about putting his earbuds in again. or running. or something. he really isn't interested in listening to more of this. it's too much. maybe he can lose her... or find Nagisa-kun...]

I don't know what you're talking about. [it's a barely audible, extremely indignant and reluctant response. leave me alone. I can't do anything. everything is so unfair.]

[agelostdoll]

[Actually, no. This is important. Far more important than her or, heaven forbid, Shinji's self pity.]

The DSS choker.

[She moves to stop him with a hand on his shoulder. The vitriol is dropped - mostly - in favour of authority; this is an official matter, not a personal one]

Katsuragi sent the detonation signal as soon as Fourth Impact began. It did. You weren't wearing it when I dragged you out the plug, either.

[gakishinji]

[her words don't really hit him. he doesn't know what she's talking about, and he's too afraid of her and stressed out by this situation to listen.]

...I said, I don't know what you're talking about. [it's a little louder now. he's daring to assert that fact a little clearer. after all, he's still wearing this awful choker, isn't he? what in the world is she saying?]

[agelostdoll]

Don't ignore me on this, Shinji. If the detonator failed it could go off any second.