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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?

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I thought you would at least have a bit more thought processing than that. I guess I overestimated you, my apologies. [Tower of Animus, destroyed by snark.]

Maybe lurking around on a floor not filled with sharp implements and torture devices could help with that. Just a theory, though.

Thanks for overestimating me! I try really hard to make sure no one notices the stupidity.

[At that last sentence, there's the ghost of a smirk. Then turning away back to blankly messing with his nails.] A good theory! Except most sane people don't hang around sharp implements and torture devices. Leaving the room means there's a higher chance of holier-than-thou balls of sunshine trying to bring me into the friendship circle. I'll pass.

You almost had it. You just need a bit more practice.

[Zoe raises an eyebrow and shifts to cross her arms.] Or maybe they may track you down here and try to drag you into the friendship circle anyway. Though I haven't met any balls of sunshine yet.

[Just the devil, Judas and a fallen angel oops.]

Damn, I almost had it too. I'll be sure to ask you for pointers next time I take a crack at it.

[He freezes for a split second. Zoe can immediately see it as the mental realization of "oh fuck me she's right".] Ugh. Well, at least down here the chance of them showing up en masse is lowered. But hey, lucky you for not meeting any girl scouts.

I think my pointers may be a bit too complex for you.

[And that just gets her to snicker to herself.] I've met the exact opposite of girl scouts, so you may have some luck yet. Though you'll have to leave eventually, and that will be when the friendship speeches start happening.

Give me a chance. Maybe make some diagrams to help make your point. Everybody learns better with diagrams. Or, shit what else, puppet shows? I forget how humans learn.

[The sound she gets is something between a snort, a scoff, and a laugh if you squint really hard at that last bit.] Luck's the only thing I'm good for, so hey! Maybe it'll work out. You're not exactly the arbiter of hugs or whatever, thanks for that by the way.

Maybe diagrams will be able to help you. Maybe.

[Zoe's smiles widens as she chuckles to herself again.] I'm not exactly a hugs person. However, I can be obnoxiously bright and cheery if I have to be. I could also literally glow at you if you want to see a real ball of sunshine.

Maybe. It's a really iffy maybe.

[Okay, no, she gets a wide-eyed stare for a split second before the smirk comes back in place.] If you do that, I might have to eclipse you.

Very iffy. But it might be possible.

[Yup, that just gets her to grin even more.] How rude. But fine, fine, I won't glow at you. I'll leave that to other balls of sunshine.

Do you really want to risk wasting so much time on what might be a lost cause? You're such a saint.

[Okay, Zoe wins, the gets a laugh and smile like blades. It yanks at some type of primal fear deep in your mind and wrenches it, but it goes away once the feeling gets tied back down.] See, look, you're proving my point. Saint! Who else would be so merciful as to not suddenly start flinging sparkles and sunbeams in my face. Can make a cynic go blind with that kind of abuse.

Oh, who said I would do it? I'm sure there's someone here who is more experienced with this kind of thing.

[Her smile wavers for a brief second, both at the feeling and being called a saint (too close to angel for her tastes), but she's quick to shove the feeling back.] After you travel with a cynic for a few months, you learn to keep the sparkles down to a minimum. Of course, that doesn't mean I will stop others from sparkling in your face.

Raising my hope for your teachings and then shooting me down is just heartless. You're breaking my heart here.

[At least he has enough tact not to call her out on it. Also the fact the sarcasm falls off a bit into genuine sentiment. Sound the alarms.] Pssh, it's not your responsibility to protect random assholes from optimistic morons. I wouldn't ask that from you.

Not to mention I think they'd be drawn to your shining personality. I'd rather not have a magnet around, sorry. [Wait, wait, false alarm, snark is back, we're safe.]

I'm so sorry, but I'm sure a trained professional will be able to help.

[That gets a snort from her, and she huffs some hair from her eyes as she moves her hands to her hips.] But I won't really need to be friendship speeched, will I? Sure, my shining personality is attractive, but I think sparkling at some dark cynic would be far more fun for them.

I'm not paying some twit to lie me down on a couch and try and dissect my r͔̱͈͕̬͖̳̤̩͓̳͚̊ͦͯ̈̚͡h̷̶̟̖͖͈̺̖͎̳̻̭̠̝̼̤̩̳ͦ̃̋̑̏̆ͯ̈́̌̀i̴̯̗̹̺̪̞͚̥̰̮̱̬ͬ̿̇̅ͯ̔̅͗ͫ̅͛ͨͩ̔́͟͜͝e̢̢̳͎̗̭͖͚ͮ̂͛̈̔ͨͩ̋̒̾̚̚͞ņ̸̶̳̘͎͚͕̪͎̺͇̤̙ͮ͋̇̅͠ͅi̢̖͔̱͈̯̝̞̤̊̎ͣ͑̇̑ͦ͡ issues.

[holy fuck whatever noise that was sounds like ten voices speaking at once, like nails on a chalkboard, a pain that stabs behind your eyes and makes your ears bleed.

He seems totally unaware of it.] Yeah, but they'll come flocking to you for your good looks and charm, then immediately change targets to me because I'm a prick.

[Okay yeah, that was weird. She had gotten accustomed to angel speak, which sounded like painful static to humans, so this just gets a frown as she rubs her ear.]

Speak English. Or French. [And cue that painful static gibberish.]

I suppose the white hair may act as a bit of a beacon. But I won't have to worry, since I won't be the one getting sparkled at.

[To humans, that kind of language would make them see into forever and probably fall over in a pile of suffering.

If Zoe hasn't picked up he's not a human yet, she'll probably pick it up when he just tilts his head to once side in puzzlement.]

Sorry. What kind of dialect is that? Fornax?

[Well, at least he caught the gist of it. Shrugs a bit at the second part.] Well shit, maybe I should just start wearing all black and I'll disappear into the scenery.

[Zoe was able to pick on it by the time eldritch speak came into play. So she's not surprised when he just tilts his head.]

It's something I picked up from home. [Noooot saying it's Angel nope.]

Didn't you know that balls of sunshine have cynic detectors? If anything, the all black outfit may make them try to track you down even more.

Your friends at home can't roll their x's right.

[Old Ones. God.]

So what, I should start dressing in bright colors like a tool? I prefer the suit.

[Ahahahahaha 'friends'...] They're not the most verbal sort.

[Shrugs.]

It might throw them off. Most people wouldn't expect a dark cynic to wear something similar to a clown outfit.

With an accent like that, good for us.

And I'm not doing the clown outfit. [But something happens, like a record skip in reality, and the suit gives way into Goddamn Hipster. The only thing that remains are the fingerless gloves.

Wiggles fingers in the universal sign of 'magic oooh'] But there! Brighter colors. They can all fuck off now.

[That gets her to raises her eyebrows, and she snickers at the finger wiggle.] Congrats, you should now be spared from sparkles and attempts to be friends.

... And now I just have to ask, what are you, exactly?

Thank mercy, if that's true. I might make it through the night at this rate.

[There's that smile again, like broken glass and nightmares, sharing a joke that only one member knows about.] You gave us a lot of names.

I would cheer you on, but I feel that even a tiny about of positivity may cause them to track me down.

[That gets Zoe to grumble to herself, and she rubs the back of her head.] Judging how you smiling is a tad painful, I'm going to guess something along the lines of eldritch.

Don't tempt fate any more than we already are. My power isn't that much of a gamebreaker.

[Head tilting to one side, one shoulder lifts in a shrug. The picture of someone who gives no shits.] That's one of them, yeah. I've given up trying to teach you guys the word. None of you can pronounce it.

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