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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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[ Staz looked irritably over the edge of his heart framed shades. This was seriously pretty damn weird. And he lived in Hell usually. Hell had some pretty weird shit. He never saw rain freaking rubber duckies before though.

One bounced off his head. And then another.

When he saw how overcast it was he honestly had been pretty happy. Contrary to popular belief sunlight didn't kill him, it was just really hot and bright and slightly uncomfortable. So overcast days were really quite pleasant for someone like him. Except when duckies were bouncing off his head. ]

This is sooo annoying. This better not be normal for the human world.

[ He mutters to himself as he walks down the street, kicking offending ducks out of the way. ]

Dumb Ducks. I just wanna try and find an anime shop... there should be one around here. There HAS to be one. Humans live here so it'd be crazy if there wasn't!

Edited 2013-05-14 03:05 (UTC)

[ There's a girl in a kimono standing nearby as the boy speaks out loud to himself. Chizuru has never seen .. these.. ducks?

Yes, they looked like ducks. She had picked one up, even though seconds later multiple had landed on varying parts of her. ]

Uhm.. do you know what these are for then? [ Chizuru points to the duck in her hand with her other hand. It suddenly squeaks as she squeezes it, surprising her. ]

[ Staz can't help but snigger a little. But hey, he always has a little time to spare for a cute human girl! And she's dressed in tradition clothing too! Staz has a brief panic attack over what HE'S wearing. Did it look cool? He didn't look ridiculous or anything, did he? No use worrying, instant wardrobe changes were not in his skill set. ]

You know, I'm not entirely sure but I think they're used in some sort of human coming of age ceremony involving water.

[ He's pretty sure he read that in a book somewhere. ]

..Really? [ She looks at the duck and then squeezes it again, eliciting another squeak. Chizuru doesn't really have any reason to doubt the boy, so she'll go with his theory for now.

He talks about humans as if he's not one, and that makes sense as she feels something different about him. ]

Are you not human? Oh, [ She lowers her upper form in a traditional Japanese bow. Chizuru just realized she hadn't even introduced herself and was asking such a question. ] I'm Chizuru Yukimura.

[ Oh wow now she's bowing just like... it's like she's some little anime girl that hopped right out of a historical series this is so cool. ]

Name's Staz Charlie Blood. [ He bows in return HE ALWAYS WANTED TO TRY THAT. ] A vampire.

[ He flashes her a smile full of pointy teeth. A rubber ducky bounces off his head again because apparently the universe didn't want him to look cool or anything. ]

A.. vampire? Is that like a demon? [ Sure, her demon skills were still not perfected, but that cements why he didn't quite "feel" like a demon. ]

And, nice to meet you! [ Another polite nod of her head. Chizuru's just quite intrigued. ]

Yeah. [ He nods. ] A vampire's a type of demon, there's tons of different races.

[ Hopefully that wasn't a turnoff. ]

Nice to meet someone as cute as you are, too.

A type of demon.. [ The girl repeats this, obviously quite hooked on the idea of it. Her hand idly moves to the hilt of her kodachi and then drops to her side. ]

Oh, thank you! [ Another formal nod. ]

I'm sorry, but.. I've never heard of more than one type of demon. Where I came from there was only one. Unless they were half-human.

[Ghetsis been sitting alone, in the darkness, ever since he'd been taken into custody by Alder and that young fool whose name he couldn't remember. He had been waiting, and wondering about how everything had all gone so wrong... and how he'd ensure that everyone paid for what they'd done to bring about his downfall.

Everyone, including N. That freak of nature who'd dared to consider itself his son. Of course, Ghetsis had conditioned him to think that way, but the idea that such a warped being could consider him family still made his skin crawl.

But then, amidst all of this, something had changed. Ghetsis found himself outside of his cell, and flailing about in a body of water. His heavy cloak made it nearly impossible to swim, but eventually, he managed to make his way to what passed for dry land.

Soon enough, he had been afforded an explanation. This left him even angrier at having spirited away, and effectively left him standing there, seething with his soaked robes and hair. The fact that water had gotten into his bad eye and how the water made his robes heavy, thus putting strain on his arm, made things worse.

And so the once mighty Ghetsis stood in the plaza, looking absolutely wretched.]

Note: Ghetsis is set after the events of the first BW game, on account post BW2 Ghetsis is entirely unplayable due to being an insane, broken wreck.

Edited 2013-05-14 04:35 (UTC)

[N had considered Vatheon an uncomfortable freedom of sorts. Uncomfortable because he was being shoved outside of his normal boundaries and forced in to situations he didn't entirely know how to deal with, but a freedom because it gave him distance from the things that he had given his life meaning but were ultimately taken away and shattered.

But days had turned in to weeks and weeks in to months, allowing him the time needed to settle and slowly start working on something resembling normalcy, and for a time he was content.

Until that day when he stepped in to the plaza, and saw something he had hoped he would never see again.

He froze in place, heart sinking to his stomach, mouth dry, hands shaking.

No.

No no no he couldn't be here. This was a nightmare. He would wake up any second, in his bed, safe.]

[It was a chance turn of the head that allowed Ghetsis to know N's presence. If not for that, he may not have even seen the young man at all.

When he did... his eye widened, and then narrowed. Even in the state he was in, the sight of his so-called "son" caused him to take on an air of cold menace.

Slowly, he began to approach N, not yet saying a word]

[N didn't move. He couldn't move, save for a nervous clenching of his trembling fists at his sides. He swallowed hard, but his voice had fled, leaving him to do nothing but stare with fear clear in his blue grey eyes.]

[ A girl in a light-colored kimono, but with hakama and a kodachi at her hip (giving her a more masculine look) is standing near the Lamufao in the Plaza.

She's still got one of those rubber ducks in her hand, and is looking around while more continue to fall. Apparently Staz thinks it's some part of a human coming-of-age ceremony, but Chizuru is having a hard time believing that. Unless.. this was from another time and world than her own.

Feel free to run into her while rubber ducks fall from the sky. ]

Edited 2013-05-14 06:21 (UTC)

[Hikage was pretty much use to being ignored or invisible and it seemed the same would happen here. So, standing next to a person holding a rubber duck, she watched the duckies land all over, including her own head.]

Excuse me?

Yes? [ Chizuru turns to the girl who spoke to her and smiles, still holding the duck she had selectively picked in her hand.

As she looks at the girl, a duck bounces off of her shoulder. This causes her to flinch slightly and then look to the ground where it fell. ]

[Hikage nearly jumped. She was not use to people spotting her on the first go. Two hours afterwards, sure, but right away. That wasn't very common. Now Hikage had no idea what to say, nerves slightly getting the best of her.]

I...Uh. [She soon watched as the duck landed on the floor as she looked at it.] I've never seen it rain ducks before.

[Chii had been glancing out a window of a nearby store. Watching as it was raining cats and dogs, or more so ducks. Rubber ducks to be exact. Now Chii wasn't exactly use to odd things, but at the same time, she couldn't say it was odd as she still had a lot to learn back home.

Putting her finger on the glass, she already knew what they were.]

Ducks. [She smiles at getting it right, her eyes following the falling ducks, keeping an eye on certain ones.] Chii does not understand why it's raining ducks? If this considered normal?

[She turned her head, there wasn't anyone nearby to answer her curiosity. So the next best thing would be go outside and look.]

[Tohru was having a much better day today. The place was tidy and pretty much spotless from head to toe and now she had the time to be able to go out and get a few groceries that she needs. So, with a checklist in her hand, she had set off, making sure that she at least had a basket to bring the food home in, so not to use to many bags.

Looking up at the sky, she watches the fishes swim over head. She still hadn't gotten use to being here and she still had some worries about back home, such as school or her friends, if they were okay or not was her major curioisity.]

Tohru, they are fine. Though I'm not sure the Sohma's will be able keep the house tidy. [At the thought f that house turning into a tip, again, she made a face. If she did ever return to that, she guessed she'd just tidy it up again. But still, she remembers just how bad they let it get. After a moment of worrying over that, she started to worry again, this time over school. If she missed too much, she wouldn't be able to graduate High school and she would never be able to keep her promise to her mother. Sighing, after the thought was all she could do as she stopped on the spot.]

I'm sorry, mother. But if I can't get home, I'll have failed you.

[Oz was sitting there calmly as anything watching the ducks fall. For someone who never seen something like this before, he's awfully calm about it.]

What did the duck ever do to you? [He bent down and picked up the poor abused rubber duckie.]

[And then, one day, there was an odd box sitting in the plaza. It looks like a large CRT Television... except the back side of it is a massive collection of strange lights, a weird blue glow from somewhere behind a hot air vent, cables both loose and connected to other components, and the occasional heatsink. On the screen is a large closeup of an eye. It has no visible means of locomotion, and the unblinking eye is shifting back and forth quickly, trying to document everything in its view arc.]

[The device must be equipped with some sort of speakers though. A synthesized voice is rambling out of it.]

CompNode Network Disconnected. Power disconnected. Activating emergency generator. Fuel Rods at 100%. Reactor shield integrity sensors offline. Shield integrity presumed to be 100%. Alpha Complex Announcement Broadcast frequencies silent. IntSec emergency wireless contact non-responsive. IntSec Communication frequencies silent. Troubleshooter surveillance frequencies silent. Visuals active. Inderterminate Sector. No obvious Security Clearance. Assertion: Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

N.

[and now Ghetsis is there, looming over N like a shadow... a damp, unkempt-looking shadow, but menacing nonetheless]

What are you doing here?

[Being from the time he is, Dirk's not very familiar with what a CRT television looks like, but he knows interesting technology when he sees it. Particularly with that eye shifting around screen like that.

For a while, he just stands nearby and listens. Eventually, he approaches to crouch in front of it.]

Yo. There some sort of AI in there, or are Oz jokes just part of the system analysis?

[He could have been painted pink and had flowers in his hair and the man still would have terrified N. once he had nothing but admiration for his father, but those faithful, soul crushing moments in the tower before Ghetsis had been dragged away had turned his admiration in to fear and anguish. Years of subtle manipulation and abuse had taken its toll on N's already fragile mind, and he was left after all of that a broken person, not an adult but too old to be a child anymore.

Yet in this moment he felt like a child again, tiny and scared, wanting nothing more than to hide behind a Pokemon and cry.]

... S... same as you, father. Trapped in this city, worlds away from Unova.

[The eye is certainly tracking Dirk, at least once he's standing in front of it. Odd as it may seem, the device's optical sensors seem to be literally locked to the viewing arc of the screen.]

Greetings, Citizen. Oz jokes are above your clearance level. What is your designation?

[It is definitely weird, and he's itching to learn more about why that is.]

AI it is, then. Designation's Dirk. What't yours? Or is that above my clearance level too?

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Staz Charlie Blood ♦ Blood Lad

have chizuru yukimura from hakuo(u)ki.

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Ghetsis | Pokemon | OTA

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chizuru yukimura ⋆ hakuo(u)ki ⋆ rubber duckies!

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Chii | Chobits

Tohru Honda | Fruits Basket

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The Computer - Paranoia

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