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

[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.]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

_{['I love you' - There are those words again, sharp and as potent as poison. They set his chest aflame, cause his ribs to constrict as he curls slightly against the other boy. Even after he'd done what he had, the Angel still loved him. Still cared. Still wanted him to be happy.

He's speechless. There are no words. Really, there aren't. What did one say exactly, to words of love? It's not something Shinji's very good at or familiar with - love, that is. It's as foreign as ever to him but something about Kaworu's words makes him feel a smidgen of hope. Maybe, just maybe, not all was lost.

Redemption was possible - it just needed to be obtained, somehow.]}

It doesn't matter now. _{[The betrayal he felt? It had stung terribly. At the moment? He could care less. Sure, he's afraid. He's terribly afraid. Afraid of betrayal, afraid of being hurt again and of hurting others again...but at the same time Kaworu makes him feel safe.]}

I forgive you it...it wasn't your fault. You didn't want to do what you did, just like I didn't want to either, right? If you can forgive me then...you don't have to worry about seeking forgiveness from the likes of me. The time we spent together...you made me happy, Kaworu-kun.

Your happiness is a delicacy, isn't it? I want to see more and more of it. The joy that comes from meeting one another and choosing to be kind to one another is what makes Lilin so valuable. I love it.

[Slosh. Water is beading on them. Kaworu sets his cheek to Shinji's hair.] Let's go to the shore, Shinji-kun. [He pulls back enough to make room that they might move, but keeps his hands at Shinji's elbows, like a guide.] Will you trust me to bring you out of the water?

Edited 2013-05-22 08:10 (UTC)

_{[A delicacy. Kaworu always did have a way of phrasing things oddly and yet it still made his heart swell. There's a nod at Kaworu's question, a silent answer. He trusts Kaworu, despite all odds, despite what he is.]}

I'm glad, [Kaworu says, and really seems it, as he brings Shinji slowly up and - as promised - out of the water.

Literally. The toes of their shoes are shedding little droplets onto the river's surface. Kaworu's holding Shinji's hands, and together, they're hovering.]

What do you think sounds good right now? A meal? A bath? A sleep?

_{[When Kaworu had said he'd bring him out of the water, Shinji hadn't thought he'd meant by floating. Immediately the boy's eyes widen as he stares, grasping the hands that hold his tight.]}

K-Kaworu-kun?! We're floating-!