reposted with credit to asea.

[pendragon]

Test Drive MemeExactly what it says on the tin.
First brush up on some of the general rules outlined here first, then:

1) Labeling the subject with your character's name and canon is up to you, but would make recognition easier.
2) Do go ahead and tag out! The purpose of this mingle post is to get everyone cozy with the setting and the playerbase.
3) If you're up for it, make a reservation. Applications open on the 22nd!

Some prompts if you'd like a boost (the first chunk is lifted from the applications page, bless the mods):

A) A new curse has settled upon the city of Vatheon: Suddenly you character realizes they are unable to lie for the duration of a week.
B) What is this? Is that rain? How nice-- wait a minute, is it raining rubber duckies? Seriously?
C) Suddenly, by the force of Vatheon, an over zealous npc, or even your character's friends playing a joke, your character suddenly finds themselves wearing clothes they otherwise would never wear.
D) The city of Vatheon is under attack (again). Giant sea-creatures are wrecking the city (again). Time to prepare for battle.
E) A new plot development has happened and your character has decided to get some more information from one of the NPCs.

F) Whatever the heck your beautiful heart desires

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[ourlegends]

[ N had taken off somewhere, and while this was normal for him, Hilda had a bad feeling today. It wouldn't let her alone until she found him, so she had set out from their apartment and started looking for him.

Finally, she found him ... with someone she hoped she would never see again, much less have N see again.

Unfortunately, she had arrived in time to see N completely lose it.

She had frozen, and stared wide-eyed. She wanted to run over and calm him down, but things from there had happened so fast. Next thing she knew, Ghetsis had fallen, and ...

She was going to run over anyway. ]

N!

[abarrelofrazzes]

Tried...? I... I have already succeeded...

[he laughed bitterly, looking over as Hilda came running up to them]

And now the person that's so precious to you has seen it for themselves...

[unwrittenformula]

Hilda...

[It was like a pin hitting a balloon. N just deflated, all of the fight and defiance rushing out of him, replaced by shame at her seeing him in such a state.]

I... I'm sorry. I'm so sorry...

[ourlegends]

[ While Hilda was shocked to see him the way he was ... knowing what she did about him, she really couldn't say she was surprised it happened at all to begin with. She was worried, really, but ... the fact that he wasn't permanently like that and seemed to be back to normal now (all shame aside) let her know that he was going to be as okay as he could be ... all things considered, anyway.

Still, she couldn't let him telling Ghetsis to kill him just to see how strong their bond was slide. That was one thing she would see didn't happen. Hilda moved a little closer, closing in and wrapping her arms around N in a hug. She didn't quite know how to tell him what she was feeling at that moment, so she hoped that the hug would let him know that she understood, and didn't think badly of him, even if she didn't exactly approve of the things he had said. She stayed there, holding him, for a few moments ... then turned her gaze down to Ghetsis. ]

... We should get him some medical attention.

[ She didn't like Ghetsis. She didn't like him at all. In fact, he may have been one of the few people in their - or any - world that she could say she hated. But ... she couldn't let him stay like that.

After all. She and N ... they weren't him. They weren't anything like him. They weren't going to let someone who needed the help stay there without it ... Even if that someone might have deserved it. ]

[abarrelofrazzes]

[by now, Ghetsis had collapsed onto the ground, clutching his chest as though it were for dear life. He rolled over on his back, and continued to laugh and wheeze.

They wouldn't be getting many more words out of him for the time being]

[unwrittenformula]

[N didn't want to. The idea of helping this man who had done nothing but manipulate him his entire life repulsed him to a near visceral reaction.

But he wasn't Ghetsis. As much as he had tried to make N in his image, it had failed, and the teen still held compassion where Ghetsis did not.]

... help me get him on his feet.

[ourlegends]

[ She nods and moves away from N, moving to one side of Ghetsis and grasping his arm with both of her hands. Time to help someone neither of them really wanted to help ... yep. ]