test drive meme

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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?

Comments

[loved2many]

Thank you, I hope he is.

Apologies accepted.

[puppy_lancer]

So, does this beautiful young lady have a name?

[loved2many]

Aoi Tohsaka; a pleasure to make your acquaintance.

[puppy_lancer]

That's a beautiful name.

[Familiar too. Where had he heard it from?]

Call me Lancer.

[He sticks his hand out for a handshake.]

[loved2many]

...

[blink]

[her hand goes to greet his automatically, only to be stopped halfway like gears being jammed in a machine]

...'Lancer'? Is that your full name?

[she knew some of the basics like the names of the classes but no real specifics; mostly from hearing it from her husband and Kirei. Though it's probably coincidence... hopefully coincidence...]

[puppy_lancer]

Nah, but it's an easy one to use.

[He's still holding his hand out.]

[loved2many]

[ingrained manners reinstate themselves, and Aoi shakes his hand, fast and lightly. She has no magic or command seals or anything like that.]

It just makes me uncomfortable. Is there anything else I can call you?

[puppy_lancer]

[Lancer shakes her hand. Though he's also quick, his grip is firm.]

...Uncomfortable?

[He raises an eyebrow.]

Well, if you really have to call me by something else...

[He hesitates, and then decides that he might as well as just use his full name.]

Cu Chulainn.

[loved2many]

My husband was involved in something- ah, it's nothing personal. Please, just forget it.

[she's sorry this took such a suddenly maudlin turn]

A pleasure to meet you, Mr Chulainn.

[puppy_lancer]

Huh. Was it a competition of sorts?

[It certainly sounds like she might be hinting at a Grail War.]

You too, Aoi.

[loved2many]

I suppose. I wasn't a part of it much.

[puppy_lancer]

[He nods.]

Well, whatever it is, it's not here. All of us get along well enough.

[loved2many]

['all of us'-?]

What does that have to do with-

[oh. She feels a little foolish.]

...You would be a Servant then, Mr Chulainn.

[puppy_lancer]

Yeah, Lancer class Servant. And you would be the wife of a magus who's acting as a Master.

[He shows no sense of hostility whatsoever.]

[loved2many]

...Yes.

[she's honestly not sure what to make of this situation, beyond the likelihood she is in an extremely dangerous position...]

[puppy_lancer]

I won't hurt you.

[He crosses his arms and leans against one of the elevator's walls.]

Like I said. No Grail War.

[loved2many]

[it was bizarre. Just a few days ago, she'd taken Rin to live with her family outside of Fuyuki for safety; to keep them out of the Grail war. Then, not a week later, she was having to travel right back to catch up with Rin and now she was having a conversation in an elevator with a Servant that wasn't tied to her husband.

It was a little staggering quite how far this gone completely off plan.]

But that's not up to you, is it?

[puppy_lancer]

I'm free agent. My Master isn't here and I'm not in a hurry to swear myself to anyone else.

[loved2many]

[...well that's a relief. Her shoulders sag a little]

Then, there's that.

Have you been here long... ah, should I be calling you Lancer? [their identities were supposed to be important secrets, as she recalls; part of why she'd asked was because she had believed a Servant wouldn't give it away so easily...]

[puppy_lancer]

Either would do fine. And I've been here a few months. What, got any questions for me?

[loved2many]

Isn't it natural to be cautious?

How safe is it; the War.

[puppy_lancer]

Uh...well, we're all supposed to kill or at least disable each other until only one Master has a viable Servant. What, worried about your husband?

[loved2many]

[ahah...]

Is it that obvious?

[puppy_lancer]

Pretty much.

As long as he's a competent magus, I guess your husband might do alright. Hell, if he can get the moderator to shelter him, he could survive even without a Servant.

[loved2many]

Aha, well, that's good; we're old family friends. He puts a lot of effort into his work.