towerofjamjars | test drive meme

Test Drive Meme
✭ Reply to this entry with a character you're considering apping into the game. You can include the name of your character and the fandom in your subject line.
✭ Comment around to others on the meme, whether you're in the game already or not.
✭ Now you have a sample ready for your application!
✭ So go apply when apps are open.
✭ Seriously, do it.
✭ Interested in finding out what's happened so far? Check out the plot guide and recap post!

To get you started, here are a few optional prompts for you to use if you so wish:

Prompts
1. [Setting: Elevators] Did you know it takes a half hour to get from the top of the dorms down to the cafeteria by elevator? Well you're finding out now! Strike up a conversation with the others stuck in there with you! Maybe play I Spy or something.

2. [Setting: Floor Eighty-Six] What's with all the mushrooms? And why are they in circles? That's weird--but maybe the mushrooms are edible? On the other hand, maybe you know exactly what these are--and you should really stop that idiot who's going to jump right in the middle of one of the fairy rings before he gets everyone on the floor turned to jell-o or something.

3. [Setting: Floor Seventy-Nine] Fancy some deep-sea diving? Grab some scuba gear, hop off the staircase, and explore some ruins! Just be careful you don't run out of air or run into a shark (or run into a shark while you're running low on air). Of course, if you can breathe underwater or just don't need to breathe at all, then the sharks would be your only worry. Try and find some treasure!

4. [Setting: Floor Fifty-Nine] Is this a torture chamber? Yes it is. Maybe you want to get out of here as soon as possible or maybe this floor really speaks to you. Maybe you want to give that iron maiden try on the first person who happens to wander by! On the other hand, maybe you got a bit too close to something and are about to take a spin in the racks yourself. Hopefully someone will come help you.

5. [Setting: Floor Thirty-Three] There's farmland on this floating island, and anything you can grow yourself is bound to be more reliable quality-wise than the cafeteria food. Of course, the recent odd storms have made a mess of this floor. Get to cleaning it up and then get to growing something!

6. [Setting: Floor Two] It's time for your first collar checkup! Go wait in the waiting room for your turn--maybe strike up a conversation and find out what this is all about! Or try to fight the worker units when they call for you, not that fighting them ever ends well.

7. [Setting: Anywhere] Whoops, you've gotten distracted, or lost, or you're still climbing up the stairs when night falls. It's time for the monsters to start prowling--and one's got its eyes (or whatever sensory organs it may have) on you! Time to fight back, or time to run?

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Someone else might be doing something they think is bad, and they think it`s the only way to stop that person...

But..couldn't they just lock up the person? Police officers do, and they're good people!

Yes, but sometimes police officers need help catching those people...and sometimes the police officers are wrong to do that, because the person is actually innocent, despite what people think...

But..if the person is innocent, why would the police go after him?

They don't really know the person is innocent...it looks like they're guilty, so they think they're guilty...I think that's the best I can explain it. It's poor judgement.

I don't know what judgement is..but if it's bad, maybe they should make it good.

It's what someone decides something means. If someone was seen coming out of a store that was just robbed, the police's judgement would probably be that person did it. But they might be wrong. That's what I mean.

[..That wasn't the best of definitions, but Yotsuba was trying to wrap her head around it.]

But..the police in..investagate things and talk to people! So they might find the robber wasn't really a robber!

[HE'S TRYING OKAY]

Yes, they do that now...they didn't years ago, though. And even if they investigate, they might still make a mistake.

[This is especially hard to explain when he doesn't want to explain the concept of corruption in the government and police to a little girl... Otherwise he might just say sometimes police are bad people too, but...no she doesn't need to know that.]

[She could know that. After all, she had already been tossed some pretty horrible facts in the Tower already. One more might not injure her that much.]

Why didn't they do it a long time ago? And they might..but I bet they try to correct mistakes!

Yes, of course, if they realise they've made a mistake, they'll try to fix it.

It was just left up to the government to look at the report and question the accused, and a lot of the time they were forced to do what their bosses wanted, or what the crowd wanted so they could stay in power. So a lot of innocent people were killed just because someone didn't like them.

[At that, Yotsuba frowned, thinking.]

That's horrible..but times have changed, right? Guvernment don't do that anymore?

That's right, it was a long time ago, things are different now, but that's how it was.

Okay..were you a part of the guvernment a long time ago?

No, I wasn't, but I helped them find someone who did nothing wrong. That person was my friend, and they killed him, so that's why.

Why?! He was your friend! Did you think that it would be good if he was found?

Yes, I thought something very bad would happen to him and the rest of us too if he wasn't. But I should have trusted him.

You should have! He was your friend! And he's dead, so you can't apologize..

That's right, so you see, I wasn't lying!

You weren't lying! Creepy Purple-haired guy really is a bad person!

...C-creepy?

[Is he really that creepy looking?! HE'S SORRY LITTLE GIRL...!!]

[It's alright, Judas. Yotsuba was known for her brutally honest 'nicknames' of a sort.]

Creepy!!

Uh...why?

Your hair covers your eyes, and they're really dark!

Is that creepy? People have dark eyes! And it doesn't cover both...!

[If it did, he'd look like Lucifer, and that would be awful]

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