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 [With summer coming, the water level in the river is starting to go down, exposing some of the riverbank. 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 2 [With a new district available to the public, there are new places to visit. However there are also questions with each new arrival. One may find themselves headed for Saeng Seong's town hall and government buildings in search of answers. Whether it be more reasons for why they're here, or simply looking for an attorney to sue the unnamed scientists that brought you here. (However, they may be slightly prejudiced to this one. You've been warned.)] Option 3 [There are certainly a lot of different options for shopping in the city. Perhaps one of the more interesting and eclectic of these options, however, is the outdoor Marketplace in District 3. All sorts of fresh food stalls line the large open area, with different aisles that can be walked down. There's food of all kinds here - fruits, diary, vegetables, and so on and so forth. Some of it will likely be familiar, but other kinds may be so foreign as to be unrecognizable - a orange, seemingly hollow kind of fruit with holes like swiss cheese, for example, or salad greens with leaves the size of heads of pins. You are on a different world, after all. So wander the marketplace! Discover something new! And perhaps meet other curious people such as yourself...] 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

Akiha Tohno | Tsukihime | Option 2

[cliffside]

[If there's something Akiha disliked, it was things she didn't understand. The young head wasted no time searching for the government center of Saeng Seong. She didn't even bother looking through the rest of the district - sightseeing was far from Akiha's mind. She needed answers, preferably immediate.

If you're near the city hall, consider yourself unlucky. She's going to be grilling you for answers.]

You there! Can you tell me who's in charge of this twisted social project?

Re: Akiha Tohno | Tsukihime | Option 2

[beforetights]

[There's a scrappy little kid tugging at Akiha's skirt.]

I think the welcome center people rule this place, Lady. But they're nice.

[cliffside]

[Nice? What could be nice about capturing people and essentially holding them prisoner?]

Then they should be willing to listen in on the people's concerns.

[beforetights]

I think they do listen. They just need a lot of help.

[After all, one of them had been very glad to listen to him talk about his home.]

[cliffside]

[Help with what? Kidnapping *more* people? If she wasn't talking to a little kid, she'd probably argue more on that subject. But the boy seems sincere and almost reminds her of someone, so she'll just inwardly sigh at his innocence.]

Why do you think that?

Minato Arisato (AU) | Persona 3 (Mayfield port) | Option 1

[doudemoe]

[By the sea or not, it's been a long time since Minato has seen a beach shack. (Or well..technically it's his first time seeing one.) Either way, he's going to take up those seafood specials. He orders a fish curry, and since it'll take time for it to be done, he won't mind some company.]

Re: Minato Arisato (AU) | Persona 3 (Mayfield port) | Option 1

[beforetights]

[There's a little kid standing next to Minato's chair, drooling while staring at his strange food. Does he look familiar at all?]

Woah! What are you eating?

[doudemoe]

[Yes, very familiar. That's why he looks surprised.]

Curry?

[beforetights]

Oh. What's that?

[He comes before that was invented.]

[doudemoe]

[A kid who doesn't know curry...how devastating.]

It's like a stew, only spicy.

[Or at least that's how it is in Japan.]

Germany (OU) | Hetalia | Option 1

[vereinigt]

[Germany enjoyed going to the beach. He especially enjoyed annexing sections of beach for his people. Germany didn't know if any of his people were here, but that wouldn't stop him from making sure they had prime spots for sun gathering.

Perhaps you find Germany as a suspicious blond in German flag patterned swim trunks carrying a large number of German flag towels as he stalked up and down the beach looking for spots to claim.

Or perhaps you find him after he's claimed a number of spots and has laid his German flag towels on them.

Or maybe you catch him moving your stuff and claiming your spot]

[lovespasta]

Italy enjoyed swimming around in the ocean. The beach sand was extremely hot on this particular day but that didn't stop him from running around. The cheerful seemingly young man also didn't care what others might think either. He did have own a pair of swim tanks that had a green strip down one side and red on the other, the main color being white. He also wore a plain white t-shirt as he finally came out of the water. There's a wide smile on his lips as his auburn hair dripping wet clung to the sides of his face. Italy was on a mission now! He decided that he would create another masterpiece. That meant he was going to try to build another amazing sandcastle! Only that it would be a big giant pizza. Italy had already made a big bowl of spaghetti.

He was on the look out for the perfect spot, which meant he was happily walking up and down the beach. Italy noticed that there was a lot of people out today. The heat must have brought them here to cool off and play in the sun. It sure was fun! He was enjoying himself too. Italy hoped that he may run into one of his friends while being here. Along the sand he notices he's finally coming to an open area. Only that several towels started to show up but no one was on them. Italy blinks, stopping from one to the next curiously looking down at the familiar colored flags. The black, red, and yellow should have triggered in his head. Italy couldn't place it for the time being and he follows them along. There were plenty of them! As he came towards the end of the row, he came to the other edge of the beach. He turns his head and spins around looking realizing that this area would have been great! He knew the other end was just as packed.

He had started from that section, slowly making his way across, dipped into the ocean and back out again before going back in. Italy had no other place to go, but were all these towels necessary? Italy raises a hand, palm flat and puts it on his forehead as he scans the towels area for at least someone issuing them. The bright sun reflects off the sand making it hard for him to see at first. He spots a long figure in the mix and makes his way over. The closer he came on them the more recognizable they were. He could see a man sunbathing. Italy came closer still coming around to sneak up behind him.

Italy's shadow starts to cast over the man as he came closer. He stops standing where the man's head rests, he leans forward his wet hair still dripping. There's a wide bright smile on his lips as he sees that it's someone he knows!

"Ciao! Germany! Ciao! Germany!" He shouts only a few feet away from the other man's face.

[vereinigt]

[Germany cracked open an eye and glanced at Italy. He seemed to be content to go back to sun bathing and pretending that Italy hadn't woken him up, when the water dripped on him. His nose wrinkled slightly and he opened his eyes fully. He set up to avoid more drips]

You are wet, Italia. [Captain Obvious is basically Germany]

[lovespasta]

[ Italy blinks, if he even blinks and then looks at Germany. His head tilts to the side as a wide smile appears. ] The water feels really great! It helps with the heat and to cool off. [ He looks around at all of the towels before back at Germany. ]

Did you really need all of these towels? [ He was still trying to find a spot to create that masterpiece sandcastle. Yet at the same time the water was going to be tempting again. ]

Ryou Bakura | Yu-Gi-Oh! | Option 4

[ring_and_die]

[In hindsight, Ryou should have realized something was wrong much sooner. But he didn't even need a whole hand to count the number of times he had ever drawn on the Ring's power himself, and without the Spirit around, things were so quiet in his head that he didn't notice when his supernatural sensitivity started to fade in and out. But now here he was, just shy of two weeks since he had first arrived in this strange place, and his long-cultured habit of avoiding human contact was finally coming back to bite him.

Ryou sat with his back against a pleasantly shady tree with his eyes closed in an attempt to wait out the dizzy spell that had recently come over him. So far, it wasn't anything unmanageable, but he just wanted to rest a bit before he had to work up the nerve to ask someone for help.]]

Vanitas (AU game transplant) | Kingdom Hearts

[vainvoid]

Option 2

[It seems that Vanitas more than most people knew what it was like to be ripped out of the world. The last thing he remembered was being in Adstring only to end up in this strange city. But after spending the last seven months in a post apocalyptic wasteland, this was admittedly a nice change of scenery. So he decided to look for answers in the goverment bulidings.]

Okay, who's the clown who thought sending me here was a good idea?

Option 3

[After searching the government buildings and learning all there was to know about this town, Vanitas decided to search the marketplace for some decent clothes. With summer here, this bodysuit wasn't really the idea choice of fashion, Not that Vanitas really cared about fashion. care to apporach anyone brave enough?]

Mai | A:TLA | Option 1, 2 and 4.

[maipokerface]

Option 1
[Mai's trying to decide right now if the "beach" is really where she needs to be. Or even ought to be for that matter. She has both good memories and bad ones about her last trip to the beach after all, though the good outweighs the bad.

Regardless, Mai eventually decides it's either attempt to enjoy this pathetic attempt at a beach or die of boredom somewhere else in this place.

One will find Mai either:

1) Camped out under an umbrella, eyeing one of those 'seafood specials' with a look that just screams she's waiting for it to climb off the plate

2) Trying to rouse up some kind of volleyball game. Her strategy in this choice is rather simple. She walks up and raises a volleyball that she got from somewhere up, stating:]

So are you going to do something or just stand there all day.

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Option 2
[If there was one thing Mai hated, it was the tedium of politics. Her parents had spent their whole lives chasing the elusive beast of political importance and she had been roped into their ideas and schemes for ages now. So the last thing she wanted was to go to some government center voluntarily.

She's here not though, looking for answers about where she was and why she was there more than she wanted to know anything political about the place. She's barely made it in though before she gives a nice, healthy sigh.]

Well this is fun. This is exactly what I wanted to do today.

[Oh the sarcasm.]

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Option 4
[The lethargy wasn't the worst part. The feeling of a mild cold wasn't the worst part. Even the nausea she could partially deal with, even if that was one of the less enjoyable parts.

It was knowing that all those cautionary words were absolutely correct. Just like her parent's own strictures and rules, she was beginning to really hate these. ... Actually, she already hated them somewhere between the limpness in her body and the not being able to stomach much of anything.

Make her an offer if you like or watch as Mai approaches the first person she can and, with a look of disgust on her face, flatly speaks.]

Hug me and let's get this over with already.

Davesprite | Homestuck | 3 + 4

[dontthesunlookgoodtoday]

Option 3

[He's mostly just taking a look at everything, picking up bits and pieces, and definitely taking a second look at the cheese-hole fruit- maybe there's something he could do with that.

More importantly, though, where the hell is whoever sells apples around here?]

-

Option 4

[He's been getting slower over the last couple of weeks and trying to ignore it, trying to work through it and force himself to adjust. Go through the not-entirely-routine arrangement he'd've had back on Earth. That… hasn't been working so well, though, and he drops down on a bench, sword at his side, head in his hands.]

Estellise Sidos Heurassein | Tales of Vesperia | Option 1

[selfishaltruism]

[Even if she's seen the ocean, even if she's travelled by boat, the riverbank is still an exciting spot for the princess. With her boots off and her leggings rolled up, she's already taken to playing in the shallow waters on the shore, spinning and splashing around. She doesn't need a swimsuit or an innertube since she's entirely content just playing on the shore as is.

Though later on, she might try some of the seafood cuisine as she sits outside observing the stars. People may make fun of her for eating outside, but somehow the air makes food taste different -- better.

Clearly, she's just a girl enjoying herself, even if her attire and polite attitude may not mix in with the general population. After all, even if she says nothing, she practically screams 'noble'.]

Maya Fey | Ace Attorney | Option 3

[missleadingquestions]

[Maya's certainly not the type to let a new situation get her down-- especially not when the city is so bustling and there's so much to explore. You'll find her darting about the marketplace, curiously investigating all the strange food, like a nosy cat.

...In reality most of her interest is because it's all food, but what else could you expect in a different world?]

{OOC note: Maya's canonpoint is after Recipe for Turnabout, for those who are familiar with the game.}

[selfishaltruism]

[Estelle might be next to her also exploring the strange food out of curiosity, but that's it. It's a simple curiosity in regards to something new -- something she hasn't seen in the palace or in Terca Lumireis. What does it taste like, is there a specific texture it has in your mouth? So many questions popped up in her mind...]

Do you think they'll let us sample it?

[She knew how marketplaces worked. Some owners were kind and let you sample because that could potentially lead to a sale. Others were strict...]

[missleadingquestions]

Maybe if we're quick enough, they won't notice.

[Maya's almost expecting Nick to appear out of nowhere and scold her for that one.]

So you haven't seen it before either, huh?

Miles Edgeworth [OU] | Ace Attorney | VERY tentative

[frilliance]

[So, it's one of Miles Edgeworth's very, VERY few days off work. He is sitting at a quiet spot near the riverbank, dressed in an unbuttoned red shirt and black shorts (no cravat, unusually), looking like he is reading a very pretentious and boring-looking book on law and courtroom procedures....

Except is that a Steel Samurai comic book hidden between the pages?]

ririchiyo shirakiin / inu x boku ss / ou

[redoes]

( option three )

[ While it was true that she had been in a hurry to return to Ayakashi-Kan not long prior to now, somehow she had found herself becoming sidetracked by the different convenience stores that surrounded her. Granted, she wasn’t planning to actually buy anything for she didn’t have any money on her at this very moment, but that didn’t stop her from doing some simple window-shopping with a few glances through different windows of different stores. That is, until she finds herself bumping into someone and, by doing so, she stumbles back slightly as though she’d been thrown a little off balance - which was exactly what happened, in this case. ]

H... [ Somewhat dazed for a moment, she tries to regain her bearings before scoffing. ] Hmph! Are you blind? What kind of person bumps into someone without apologising?

( option four )

[ She didn’t know how long it had been now, but for quite some time now she had been feeling off - almost as though she was coming down with something. But, to her knowledge, she hadn’t been staining herself or her body enough for her to catch a bug; it was weird really, especially when she woke up every day feeling more and more worse than the days before. At the beginning, it was nothing more than a light cough, but over time it had grown into something else entirely and now she had reached the point where she felt as though she could be sick at any given moment.

Just what was going on? It didn’t make any sense. No matter how hard she wracked her brain, she couldn’t come up with a reason on how she had gotten this sick. It was tiring - in fact, every day was tiring as she could feel her muscles getting weaker and weaker and her body become more and more tired and worn-down. Even when she flipped through all her medical books, she still couldn’t find out what it was that she had appeared to of caught, and nor could she find a cure for it. That, however, didn’t come to her of much as a surprise for if one couldn’t find the source, then how could they possibly find the solution?

Uncertain on what to do, she coughs into her hand once, twice, 3 times. ]

option 3

[hellfire_gouka]

[The young man that bumps into Ririchiyo has a few bags of groceries in his arms, and has to try and snatch up some of his things before they fall out of their bags. It takes up enough of his attention that he doesn't have the chance to immediately check on the person he ran into. Blame it on it being the first time he's been around these shops that he ran into her at all. But he's aware enough to look back to her after a moment, feeling sheepish.]

Exc--

[He's a little taken aback by her retort, having been cut off at the beginning of his apology. He almost feels as if he's being scolded by his parents.]

I... I was about to...