Test drive meme!

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TEST-DRIVE MEME

Maybe you've considered appping a new character but you're not sure how well they would adjust to the in-game scenario? Well, here's a chance to give it a try!

• Post with a character journal you'd like to voicetest or you've considered apping to Ruby City. Feel free to play them as newcomers or as if they've been here for a while - the setting is your own choice.

•Respond to other threads with new characters or with characters who are already in the game.

• Explore different interactions, find castmates, develop possible CR - anything you want, as long as you have fun!

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Emma (Jack's sister) || Rise of the Guardians

[skatingonthinice]

[Emma quickly untied her ice skates as she stumbled off the train and looked around, big brown eyes looking around terrified.]

J-Jack?

[Jack, I'm scared.]

Jack?

[We're gonna play a game. Hopscotch, just like every day.

Just like every day. No. Not like every day. Every day didn't include thin ice.]

Jack!

[bringsthefrost]

[Pitch had put him in a bad mood. A really bad mood. Jack was hanging around the tower near the train station as a result. Staff clutched in hand, he'd almost missed the sound of the girl's voice. He lifts his head from where he'd had it resting on his arms, looking around.]

That voice...

[skatingonthinice]

[Tying her skates together and putting them over her shoulder, Emma sniffles and looks around the station. It's not as cold as it was back home but it was still a little chilly. Especially with bare feet, but she'd dealt with worse.]

[bringsthefrost]

[Hearing sniffles, he gets up from where he was sitting, anger forgotten for the moment, before he floats off the tower, looking down at the station plaza. There was no way...she couldn't be here...then again, all things considered.

He lands behind the girl to start with, breath catching in his throat when he sees that it is her. Somehow. She doesn't look like she's aged at all from the memory that he saw. The skates over her shoulder make him freeze, but he wets his lips and manages to call out her name.]

E-Emma...?

[skatingonthinice]

[E-Emma?

That voice is familiar. She heard it just a little while ago, before-]

Jack...

[She's imagining things, she has to be. And she doesn't want to turn around, tears stinging at her eyes for a moment. She doesn't want to but she does.]

Jack?

[bringsthefrost]

[It is her. Jack's heartbeat would have quickened if it wasn't dead and he shakes his head, running a hand through his hair. Of course she was here. Whatever powers that brought them here weren't lenient on who they picked. Then a feeling of guilt sweeps through his stomach when he remembers that he didn't remember she existed until he came here himself.

He steps a little closer, crouching and placing his staff on the ground.]

It's okay. You're gonna be alright.

[skatingonthinice]

[It is Jack. It is him! While his heartbeat isn't getting faster, hers is. She thinks she's seeing a ghost, his white hair makes her think that she is anyway. His sister takes a step back, instinctively and then he talks. "You're gonna be alright."]

Jack, is that really you?

[bringsthefrost]

[He gives her a small smile when she looks at him, thinking back to the last time she really saw him, falling through the ice. He probably saw her back then, in the village, but he wouldn't have recognized her and she wouldn't have been able to see him.]

Yeah, it's me. I'm a little different to what you remember but I'm still Jack.

[skatingonthinice]

[Almost too quick for normal people to notice, she's hugging him and holding on tight. He's real. He's alive. She's probably crazy but Jack is here.]

You fell through the ice.

[bringsthefrost]

[The hug almost takes his breath away - even with people being able to see him here and everything, he's still not used to contact. He looks at her out the corner of his eye before wrapping his arms around her, resting his chin on her little shoulder.]

I did.

[skatingonthinice]

[Holding on tightly, like he might disappear at any moment.]

But you're here. How? I saw you... I didn't even get to thank you, Jack.

[bringsthefrost]

It's a long story.

[Like three hundred years long. He rubs her back soothingly before holding her at arm's length, pulling his hoodie off over his head and reaching for her skates, setting them on the ground. She must be cold, not that the orange hoodie is much better but it'll keep her warm until he gets her back to North's.]

There's something that pulls us here from our worlds, how we arrive on the train. We can't go back. Sometimes it might pull us from different times.

[skatingonthinice]

[She watches him, frowning a little when he takes off his sweater.]

You'll get cold, Jack.

[And Emma likes stories, as long as they aren't scary and don't lead up to Jack playing any tricks on her.]

[bringsthefrost]

[He shakes his head, motioning for her to lift her arms up.]

I don't get cold anymore.

[skatingonthinice]

[Oh fine, she puts her arms up for him and lets him slip the sweater onto her.]

Is it because of how cold the water was? Is that why your hair is different?

[bringsthefrost]

[On goes the orange sweater that he borrowed and forgot to give back to Dirk before he pulls her hair out from it to sit on her shoulders. He's still wearing a t-shirt (also borrowed), but for the moment he fixes the hoodie around her, making sure that it's nice and snug even though she's practically drowning in it.]

Kinda. D'you remember mom telling us about the Man in the Moon once?

[skatingonthinice]

[Drowning in it is an understatement and a bad turn of phrase considering the last time she saw jack. At least it's warm though and it came from jack which makes it all the more special.]

Uh-huh, I remember. What does that story have to do with it?

[bringsthefrost]

Well, the Man in the Moon is real. He pulled me from the lake.

[Even if Manny is a douche sometimes, he kind of owes it to him to spread stories about him. He brushes his hand over her hair, dusting off the stray frost that had collected there when he'd put her in the sweater.]

He gave me back my life, and some pretty cool powers to go with it.

[skatingonthinice]

He's really real?

[Wait. Wait! Hold up, this has obviously got the potential for the best storytime ever. So she gets closer to Jack with a big smile on her face and looks expectant.]

[bringsthefrost]

You bet.

[He lets his hand drop from her shoulders and crosses his arms over his legs, remaining in his squatting position in front of her.]

I know the Sandman, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and Santa too.

[skatingonthinice]

[Scoots over to sit down next to him, curling her legs up in the over-sized sweater.]

They're all real too?

[She had believed but hearing from Jack that they were real was something else entirely.]

Think I'll meet them someday?

[bringsthefrost]

You bet. And you know what?

[He leans in almost as though to whisper conspiratorially, leaning in.]

Santa's here.

[skatingonthinice]

[Her eyes light up and she smiles like only a kid on Christmas morning (or in a toy store) can.]

Really?

[Waaaait. And then she looks a little suspicious.]

This isn't just one of your tricks, Jack?

[prettylittlenightmare]

[The fear in this one is intoxicating to the point where he feels utterly compelled to investigate. Traveling through shadows makes arriving at the station almost instantaneous, and he walks from behind a pillar with his hands behind his back, barely composed. If only she were asleep, the nightmares he could achieve....]

Jack is not here, child.

[He really has no idea what Jack you're referring to, but hey, he's not here at the station right now, so that's good enough for him.]

[skatingonthinice]

[Well, if you had almost died and instead watched your big brother die, then ended up who knows where, you'd be pretty darn scared too.]

But...

[No, he was right. Jack wasn't anywhere.]