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.] |
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justhugalready2013-05-14 01:12 am
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[And he nearly killed him.]
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[it genuinely takes her a moment to remember who that even is; she practically sputters when she finally remembers the name]
-The jock?! The Jock wasn't even a Child!
Mari's Mari! Mari Makinami! Pinkie, Four-Eyes, the Favourite! The UN girl; managed to land on you with a parachute to say hi and then never fucking shut up about it for fourteen years!
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I've never met her before. And...And he was a Child! The Eva he was in went crazy and...and...
[His hands ball into fists as he stands, turning his gaze back to the water's surface.]
My father told me to kill him. To destroy the Eva...but I didn't want to! I wouldn't! So he took over and nearly killed him himself! Don't tell me that he wasn't a Child - not when he nearly died because of me!
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[Wrong.
This is completely wrong.
Everything he's saying is wrong.
But that's the clincher.]
That was me.
I was the one who took the Unit-03 assignment. I was the one inside the plug when the Angel took over. The Dummy Plug system, wasn't it? Because you refused to fight.
Shinji. What is going on here?
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...I don't know. None of this makes sense! But it wasn't you in there, it was him.
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Well shit.
She relaxes a little, no longer glaring you in the eye. This isn't Shinji Ikari. She looks away, suddenly tired; all that pent up anger for nothing.]
It's how I lost my eye. That's definitely what happened to me. You snapped, nearly trashed Headquaters and killed Gendo - nice try, by the way - got thrown out... and then the Tenth Angel came.
I'm out. You're in exile. Unit 00 still hasn't completed repairs. The First actually goes after it with an N2 missile. [she snorts, half in admiration. With the benefit of hindsight, she can recognise Rei - or that Rei - had a lot of fight in her. A lot of life. A pity the same couldn't be said of the barely living clones NERV spewed out after.] Mari takes Unit 02 and even activates the Beast Mode. Not enough.
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Which is when you happened. You got back in Unit 01, went straight on the attack. But that failed too. Ran out of power. You were always bad with that. Unit 01 shuts down, with the Tenth-Hybrid hammering on the core.
And then you snap.
Eva activates fully, as it was always meant to. Unit One isn't a fighting machine, it's a trigger for the Third Impact. You went berserk, and destroyed the Tenth Angel, using the full power of Eva to pull Rei right out of the Core. [she snorts] Or you thought you did.
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It never worked. Nerv recovers Unit 01. Secret's out now; disbanded by the UN. Ex-NERV staff reform into the special organisation 'WILLE', dedicated to preventing Fourth Impact, destroying the remaining Angels and destroying what's left of NERV. Your father escapes. Only remaining pilot is Mari and one ain't enough, so they wake up me. Takes several months before they've even convinced I'm human. World goes to shit.
[she sits, dropping down with a little 'flump' onto the sand, the gentle waves pouring over her feet.]
An Evangelion war. That's what people were always afraid of, you know? We practically ended everything. NERV was even producing artificial Angels themselves by the end of it. Your father really is a genius, apart from when he isn't insane. They fired you up into orbit so no-one could get to Unit 01; we pulled you down 14 years later. Needed the Unit. Don't ask.
You didn't know a thing. What were we to say? An Ayanami clone shows up and 'rescues' you from us, and you run right along thinking it's the same one. You brat. Like one person's worth ending the world. Like one's desires are worth that much.
'Bout a week later, you're at it again. Rejoined your father, God knows why, piloting again, God alone knows why...
Fourth Impact. You did it again. Babbling about changing the world. We manage to stop you but you've practically ended the world twice. Not even your father can boast that one. Congratulations.
Congratulations. I'm so done.
He feels as if he's going to be sick.]
I...
[What is he supposed to say to that? How is he supposed to respond? He's speechless, fingers quivering. It's like taking an egg and trying to swallow it whole, shell and all. He's choking, his chest is tight. For now, he's speechless. Give him a moment, Asuka. Being congratulated on ruining the world twice kind of takes a toll on a person.]
I KIND OF HAD TO
Welcome to the rest of your life, Shinji Ikari. Once again.]
Everything is beautiful and Eva hurts.
[He's not saying that you're lying - goodness no - not after everything he's heard. There's no way anyone would make up a story like that. He just doesn't understand it. How can fourteen years pass and one not look any older?]
How is that possible?
[Then again, how is any of this possible?]
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The same will happen to you, probably.
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[Physically, he means. It's eerie to hear Asuka say she's 28. They were both the same age, after all, and now...now she was an adult and he was still just a child.
At least that would explain why she hadn't punched him yet.]
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Everyone else is older, though. You know Aoba grew a beard?
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...He did?
[It's easier to focus on the mundane, on a man growing a beard instead of the overbearing, crushing weight of the information he's been given. Information he's still not really sure pertains to him or not.]
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I'm sure it does, Asuka.
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So what's your story?
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Well...when you became unable to pilot Unit-02 Seele sent Kaworu-kun, another pilot, to come and help my father. Everything went wrong, though. I don't know what was supposed to happen or what the goal was, but Kaworu-kun ended up being an Angel. He was the seventeenth Angel...and now there aren't any more.
He was...I didn't want to kill him, but he told me to. He told me to kill him and I barely couldn't. I-I crushed him with my own hands, Asuka. I killed him.
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...There wasn't anything else you could have done, was there?
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There wasn't. I didn't want to kill him, I didn't want to pilot Unit-01...but he told me to before he joined with Lilith. He told me he wanted to die and that if I killed him, he'd be happy that his death would mean humanity could keep on living.
I didn't want it to end the way it did. At that moment, I barely cared whether the world would exist anymore if it meant I could keep from killing him...but in the end I did it. I killed him. There wasn't any other choice.
[He set his chin against damp knees, still looking out over the water.]
Misato-san said I made the right choice and that I did the right thing...but I still think I should've been the one to die instead.
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[and he chose the world.
Between one person, and the rest of humanity, he chose humanity. This really isn't her Shinji.]
You should listen to Katsuragi. You made the right choice.
[Without looking over, she punches him lightly in the shoulder.]
You're a good person.
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He can barely believe it. There's a small little nod. He still can't believe it.]
...Thank you.
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