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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.]
darkshield: (fear ✰ I will journey on)

[personal profile] darkshield 2013-05-14 12:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[He had a feeling, though this is definitely something different. The inquiry itself earns a faint, if not slightly perplexed chuckle. After all, if this 'him' was still wearing the blindfold, then that would make him, what... fifteen? Sixteen at the oldest?]

Nah. [He pauses, pushing those thoughts aside for now.] Funny, though. I was going to ask you that.

[After all, he did just recently turn eighteen.]
guidetoblivion: (pic#6174574)

[personal profile] guidetoblivion 2013-05-14 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sixteen, thank you very much. Not that it matters; this is not an age competition. >.>

And well... if he was any younger he'd probably answer something of the lines of 'Well, I asked first'. As it is though, he just pushes himself up to his feet, arms crossing as he raises an eyebrow. For a second he thinks about jumping down... but if he is facing some new kind of replica then he'd rather not give up the high ground until he has to.]


Then where does that put us?

[Because well. He is not in the mood to start a fight, but he can't let the other just go around goof off with his face either.]
darkshield: (back ✰ all is well)

[personal profile] darkshield 2013-05-14 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[Not playing the age competition; just trying to figure out when this particular him (or is this a Replica? Doesn't smell like it...) is from. It was a longer time of wearing the blindfold and coat for him, okay.

He studies the other carefully, a bit of a smirk playing at the corner of his lips. He doesn't really "goof off" anymore unless Sora, Kairi, or the others were around and making him. Considering that they aren't here right now?

He shakes his head. It isn't like he's in the mood to start a fight, and with the Organization's activity back home lately--though he has to wonder why they'd want to reclone the "impostor", or if it were possible (sure it is) without Vexen, considering the only one who knew how to stop Xion from absorbing Roxas was DiZ Ansem the Wise.]


Where do you think? [Hey; honest question!] I'm not looking to start anything if you aren't.

[Because he's learned to pick and choose his confrontations and observe; no way is he going to be provoked like he had been when he was younger. Besides, why would he want to fight the other? Even if they are a replica, those days are over unless Xemnas somehow has influence here.

...Though he wonders; are they thinking the same thing?]
guidetoblivion: (pic#6174580)

[personal profile] guidetoblivion 2013-05-15 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Days!ku meanwhile keeps his face blank even as he sees the hint of a smirk on that of the other - he doesn't see anything funny about this really. He has no idea what the Organization would want with another replica of him either; were they hoping that it would hinder Sora's restoration like... that girl's existence had? Or was the other perhaps an accumulation of Sora's Riku-related memories gathering in another replica? But in that case... shouldn't the other look younger rather than even older than himself?

Question over question and his face-double adding one does certainly not help.]


I'm not sure yet.

[All that he's sure of is that it's best to stay wary for now. Though, the other's offer is certainly worth thinking about.]

...A truce then?

[It would suite him quite well right now. Fighting now, while he doesn't have any idea of the situation is pointless, something he would have done maybe a year ago. But not anymore.]
darkshield: (fear ✰ I will journey on)

[personal profile] darkshield 2013-05-15 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[S&D!ku, however, does. Because he has a few more years of experience and intel from three former members-turned-fugitives. Now that he thought about it, those remaining didn't have the full expertise Vexen had, and he's pretty sure Axel couldn't make much from the man's chicken scratch.]

Pretty sure the Organization couldn't make another replica after someone eliminated Vexen.

[Or if they could, it would be with plenty of trial-and-error. Maybe just too much after a certain trio fled.]

Sure. I'm more interested in finding out how there's two of us, anyway.

[Maybe in the next life he'll be able to thank Axel. ...Maybe. After punching him for making his two best friends cry after all the grief they gave him for distancing himself.]
guidetoblivion: (pic#6174576)

[personal profile] guidetoblivion 2013-05-15 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well... he definitely does have the information advantage there.]

...I suppose.

[Though that doesn't explain how- Yeah. Okay, this is kind of freaky. If he didn't know better he'd almost suspect that the other was reading his mind.]

...All right.

[He jumps down from his spot on his roof, easily landing not too far from his... look-alike. So. Any bright ideas how they go about this?]