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TEST DRIVE MEME

You want to join the game with a (new) character? Maybe you’re simply curious about the premise? Or maybe you just need a sample. Well that’s the meme for you to try and test your character as if they were already in the tower! The meme is open to anyone!

• Reply to this entry with a character you consider apping! Put your character’s name and fandom- Your usual meme thing.
• Comment around with your pups. You can also post and tag with characters already in-game of course!
• Most importantly, have fun!!
• Then feel free to go and reserve and app your character when those open.

Have a number of prompts to get you started:

[Floor 29]: This floor has seemed pretty peaceful so far, the maze isn't all that hard and the garden that lies beyond it is rather lovely. Still it seems best to head back now that the sun is about to set and nighttime is approaching fast. ...Is that just the leaves rustling in the wind behind you, or is it something more?

[Floor 56]: Oh this looks definitely like an useful floor - the room stretches into a hospital ward, dusty and old, a surgical suite surrounded by a maze of empty beds. The closer you look, the more you'll find that the first impression is quite deceiving - no medical supplies of any sort, unstable lights and what was that noise just now?! Clearly you are the only one on this floor. Or are you?

[Floor 25]: After all you have seen so far, this just might be the first truly innocent floor you see. But is it truly as trustworthy as it seems...? Many other people seem to think so at least! Come and see what they are up to?

[Elevators]: It's quite a long ride between the Dormitories and the Cafeteria - it probably doesn't help that the minutes and seconds seem to stretch out more and more towards eternity, what a hassle. Are well, maybe there is someone stuck with you and up to provide conversation... or entertainment~

[Anywhere]: Do you still have track of just where you are after spending your day exploring the Tower of Animus? If not, you might want to ask someone... or just start climbing the stairs regardless of where you are! Nighttime is approaching fast...

[Event]: Just earlier this day you have been called for (and/or brought in to) an unscheduled collar check-up, in which the color of your collar was changed. It takes a few hours, but soon you feel the effects of it, feel lightheaded and dizzy, feel all your power slip out of your control. Or maybe you heavy to the point of breaking down on the spot, while just none of your powers seem to work. Either way... hopefully you are at a safe place or in friendly company... That is, if either of these things exist in this tower.

Comments

florian ➙ tales of the abyss ➙ ota

[imitated]

Floor 25. [ A meadow is definitely the last thing Florian expected to find when he decided to go exploring where exactly he could be.

Considering he'd just come from the way-too-creepy morgue, Florian seems satisfied enough to just sit among the flowers, attempting to make a crown like Anise's mother had shown him, but not really dexterous enough for that. ]


Floor 56. [ However, not every floor can be as nice as the room with a meadow. It's only Florian curiosity that keeps him from bolting out of the ward once the lights start flickering. He could probably use the help of someone either smarter than him (to rag him out) or braver than him (to drag him further.) ]


Elevator. [ And with that Florian is 500% done with potentially creepy floors, and it's time to try and find his way to...somewhere he can go looking for Anise or her parents or someone he knows. He seems caught between wonder at the elevator and generally being worried. ]

FLOWERS

[bloodyashes]

[Florian, you might recognize this guy, seated in a back corner of the field messing with some flowers... But probably not.

He recognizes you, though, or at least recognizes an Ion that isn't Sync. Damn it, Anise, keep track of your greenie army, he didn't sign up for this.

After a minute or two, he approaches the boy - ]

Just get here?

[It's... Well, for Asch, it's a gentle question.]

tosses sunflowers everywhere

[imitated]

[ He does, vaguely, from when Mohs had taken him to read the Score. He'd been with Anise and the others, so he can't be bad. Maybe. Hopefully. ]

Uh-huh. But this isn't Daath.

just don't eat the poppies

[bloodyashes]

[It's complicated. Explaining antiheroes to a Florian is not on the list of things to do today.]

...No, it's not. It's a lot more dangerous than that.

but flowers are delicious :V

[imitated]

Where's Daath? I need to go back!

[ He's got important things to do. Like bother people into playing and running around the cathedral. ]

yeah but the poppies are poisonous

[bloodyashes]

There's no way there from here.

[Must be patient, must be patient... This replica really is a kid, unlike the others.]

You can't go back. There's nothing left anyway.

well darn

[imitated]

Nothing left? Where'd everything go? [ There were too many people and too much stuff in Daath for it to just...disappear or something. ]

Asch carries some around for the sake of mercy-suiciding himself

[bloodyashes]

It's dead.

[How to explain... He makes a gesture at the field.]

Imagine if all these flowers wilted and died at once. That's what it's like.

Also flowers! o u o /squeaks affectionately

[fragileprophet]

[The meadow was always a good floor to visit when one wanted to calm their nerves--and Ion was no exception. He supposed that, having arrived and seeing an all-too-familiar face sitting so pleasantly in the middle of the grass and flowers, he shouldn't have been surprised.

Especially not when he was, well, a replica. And not when he had run into his Original for the first time in just about the same place. Still, Ion was surprised. He couldn't help being anything but. Was this another one of the seven? Was this another variant of the Original? Or was this another...him? Actual him.

Well, in the end, there was no way to know unless he asked. Despite everything that had happened, Ion manages to put on his most pleasant smile as he steps off into the floor and approaches the green-haired boy.]

Hello, there. [He looks down at the flowers in the other boy's hands and his smile softens even more.] Do you mind if I sit with you?

mandatory greeney meeting among the daisies!!

[imitated]

[ Florian hasn't been in Daath long at all, but there's no way he can't know who Ion is.

Actually meeting the one who everyone talks about, who Anise mentions, is entirely different than hearing about them. ]

I don't mind at all! [ Also face sharing. This is weird. ] ...Are you the Fon Master everyone talks about?

PERFECT

[fragileprophet]

[Ion sits delicately once he's given the go-ahead, and nods considerately. So, this wasn't another him...and this wasn't his Original. The personality was too different. The knowledge too...limited. Then...who? Was he even called Ion?]

Yes. [Or at least he was assuming so, but he didn't want to be any more confusing than he probably already was, looking just like the boy across from him, so left it at a decisive answer.] My name is Ion. What's yours?

question is should the original be invited.....

[imitated]

I'm Florian! [ He says it proudly. ] Nice to meet you! Everyone in Daath talks about you a lot. [ And he once took off with your staff thing. vOv ]

WELL...it would be rude not to extend an invitation... uvu

[fragileprophet]

It's wonderful to meet you as well, Florian.

[Okay, this was definitely weird. There was no way that Florian wasn't one of the other replicas. They looked too much alike to be anything else. But he didn't think any of them had survived...well, there had been Sync. Maybe it was possible, if he had lived, that another had as well.

But the fact that he had his own name...Ion was in parts relieved as well as jealous.]

Do they? [He chuckles lightly, pleasantly. Good things, he hoped. It felt rude to ask, though. So, he changes the subject. He doesn't really want to think about Daath, anyway. Not when he knows how unattainable it is.

Ion points to the half-formed flower crown.] Can I ask what you're making?

it got lost in the mail okay

[imitated]

[ He holds the flower crown out to be seen between dirty fingers. It's not very good, really, because Florian still isn't totally with this proper motor control thing. ]

It's a flower crown! Pamela taught me to make it, and then you can wear it! I was making some for Anise back in Daath.

Elevator, because why not? c:

[forhislegacy]

[Anise seems to be caught between the same things - she's staring at Florian. And in addition to the wonder and the worry, there's a bit of horror in her expression, too.

Because she knows that this isn't Ion, neither the original or the seventh replica. She can tell the difference.]

...Florian...?

they make for the best awkward rides!!

[imitated]

Anise! I was looking for you! [ but what is that expression? 8( ] Anise, what's wrong?

yeeeessss

[forhislegacy]

[It is him. Anise is glad to see him - because it means he's not dead along with Auldrant, it means he's alive and she can keep an eye on him - but there are so many horrible things that have happened already... she doesn't even want to think about them happening to Florian.

She tries to force a smile, though.]

Nothing's wrong! I was just surprised to see you here... [She looks him over for any injuries.] Are you alright? How come you were trying to find me?

one day he'll just get in, sit on the floor and ride it to every level ad back

[imitated]

I'm okay! There was this really creepy place though and the lights kept messing up. But there was also a place with flowers and-- [ OH RIGHT ] Someone said Daath's all gone now. [ :( ] So I wanted to make sure you were okay.

oh god he is precious ;~; <3

[forhislegacy]

[Creepy place with messed-up lights? Anise's stomach churns, but she's at least assured that Florian hasn't been hurt; he's here in front of her, after all. Then she blinks and smiles again, and this time it's a little less forced.]

I'm okay. See? Perfectly fine. [She spreads her arms wide so that he can see that she's unhurt, and then keeps them out for a hug. She's not going to confirm that Daath is gone; not yet, anyway. It's too soon and she's not sure how to tell him that yes, most of the people he knows - her parents, the others in Daath - are gone.] Come here for a minute.

;u; replica baby

[imitated]

[ He quickly movies to hug her tightly, without any hesitation. ] When did you get here, Anise?

/pets him......

[forhislegacy]

[She hugs Florian just as tightly. She's just glad she's found him before something awful has happened - now, at least, she can protect him.]

Umm... [She doesn't want to say "a few months," because she's almost certain that it hasn't been that long since he last saw her in Daath. But then, if she keeps these things from him, won't that just make him more vulnerable to someone who's less than trustworthy?] ...a while. Long enough. [She makes a face.] It was super boring without you, Florian! Stick by me while we're here, okay? Don't go wandering off on your own or anything. Promise?

well flowers and elevator are already spoken for soooo ouo

[fonlines]

Careful.

It may not be too wise to wander too far onto this floor. Or many of the others, for that matter.

[ Now who is this? Too young-seeming, too naive to be his replica here in the Tower, for all his misplaced kindness... My, but this lack of self-preservation is something interesting.

They were supposed to have been programmed with some semblance of basic functioning. ]

oh man. LORELAI HELP HIM.

[imitated]

[ Florian doesn't hide his surprise at Ion's sudden voice at all, though when he realizes who it is, the distraction from creepy blinking lights is welcomed.

Except he thinks this Ion is the other, nice Ion. Because how many of them can there possibly be here?

Oops. ] What's this one for?

Did someone order a passel of replicas also flowers

[attheclocktower]

[Xion visits floor 25 for multiple reasons. It's a nice place to work on her sewing, or to read, or whenever she wants to do a solitary activity and also a good place to train, when she needs it. It's not clear which of these activities she's intending to do on this floor, possibly many, given the things she's carrying in her arms.

Ion? Or at least, it looks like Ion. He seems to be acting a little bit different though.

Still holding her things, she makes her way over, curiously]

What are you doing?

gonna need to do a replica headcount here soon

[imitated]

[ He doesn't seem bothered by the interruption at all, and holds the crudely made flower frown up for her to see. ] It's a flower crown! You tie all the flowers together and wear it!