Test Drive Meme!

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Test Drive Meme

That's right! A test drive meme! This meme serves several purpsoes!

- Test drive a new muse! -- If you are considering apping a new character to Ruby City, you can comment with them here to try their voice out. Others (currently played characters and other potential characters) can respond. The same deal as usual. Post ICly. Your character can be newly arrived, or you can treat the thread as though they've been in the city for a long while. It's up to you!

- Test drive DreamWidth! -- We realize DreamWidth is new, so feel free to jump in, even with your current RC characters to start a thread and get accustomed to how DreamWidth feels to RP on. But please remember, any interaction from this meme will not count towards in-game CR. What happens in memes stays in memes.

- Stop the withdrawal! -- We anticipate that the move will slow down posting between our announcement of moving and the opening of the DreamWidth communities. So if you need your fix of your RC characters, toss 'em here for fun and games.

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[imperialdecrescendo]

I never cried over a Pokemon film, but YEAH evolving those bastards!

I can add you on mine~ I am MamaAustria there, so you're not like WHOA who is this crazy person IMing me?

Sophie Newman | "The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel" series

[legendary_silver]

Josh??

[There's a girl. In the station. That's not so strange, Ruby City gets plenty of those but the strange thing is the smell of vanilla ice cream wafting through it only moments after she arrives and the silver armor that formed over her body.]

Josh, this isn't funny! Mom, dad-

[She cuts herself off. Can she really call those people mom and dad after they'd been lied to their whole lives? Aunt Agnes wasn't really Aunt Agnes, she was Tsagaglalal. And they were Isis and Osiris. They had been on Danu Talis... How cool was that though?? She'd been on Danu Talis! The lost city of Atlantis!

Aaand, then the reality of it hits her. There were ley gates nearby, where was she?!]

[legendary_silver]

[Sorry but the nearest thing, or person rather, to him as he's forced off the train is a fifteen year old girl. And she screams as he's forced out and goes falling to the ground.]

[ex_nohero520]

[Caleb frowns--this time in brief puzzlement. Then he snorts softly, lightly shaking his head.] Yeah, yeah, calm down already and stop knocking back that wine. You can't drink it like water.

[ex_nohero520]

[Agh-- What is it with kids and screaming. Caleb stumbles away, falling back ungracefully himself. He catches himself in a half-crouch and looks at the girl he managed to startle the hell out of.]

Damn it... [A grunt as he goes about gathering himself to his feet.] Y'alright, kid? [His hand without a glove is offered.]

[legendary_silver]

[She HAD been wearing a cozy red hoody, jeans and hiking boots but when he helped her up, there was shiny silver chainmail covering most of her body. A moment of panic like that made her aura flare around her protectively.

Sophie gladly took his hand though, nodding.]

Yeah, I'm okay. I've gone through worse than getting tackled.

[in_italia]

I'm a fucking nation, wine doesn't matter. [Because that's going to win your case, Lovino.] Stupid fucking mortals don't fucking understand this shit, damnit! [Chugging a few mouthfuls of wine, BRB.]

Re: Italy is a place of very special snowflakes. XD

[fireofshandora]

[Calgara scoffs a little at Lovino's lack of respect, but then again, he hardly expects an outsider to understand.] So you talk to no one? Ha! This is why you are ignorant. And I do not believe in monsters, only gods, and I have...killed gods. [He smirks a bit and slams his staff on the concrete ground]

Well, if you have no information, then you- [He levels his spear at Lovino again and leans closely, his eyes looking even more wild] - Are of no further use to me...

[fireofshandora]

[Once again, this fellow's words remind him of Norland. Calgara regards him with a frown, though it's not the angry one of before. He's more assessing, and a bit curious]

You remind me of someone. Someone I've not seen...in a long time. [There's a strange distant tone to his voice, and he looks away, still frowning] He was not so quick to name things the power of the Gods as well. Perhaps you are right.

Where I am from...we do not have things called 'trains'. [He glares suspisciously at the train depot once more, where the shattered glass and metal remain from his abrupt exit] We have boats, and some sail in large ships, but we travel by foot.

[broswagonist]

A friend of yours I take it? [Souji assumes that's it, judging by his tone of voice and body language, not to mention it reminds him a bit of how he'd act, should he talk about any of his friends after not seeing them in a long time- His own expression would be a lot more blank though. A bad habit of his that, to disconnect completely from how he felt whenever he was separated from friends for longer periods of time...

Shifting his focus then, he tilts his head.] I see...

Where I come from we have lots of different modes of transportation. Traveling long distances by foot isn't all that normal any more.... Or sailing when I think about it. There are ships, but they have engines that drive them forward so it's not like they need wind to move. Or sails for that matter. [He shrugs a little. He figures his world is just pretty technologically advanced compared to the world this man comes from.]

[in_italia]

[He squeaks as he finds himself facing the spear again and falls hard on his ass in surprise.] W-WHAT THE FUCK! [There are no tears just yet, but his eyes are wide and his breathing turned ragged so fast, he's rather close to them anyway.]

[morethanpasta]

[Feliciano blinked. The man's old-fashioned speech shouldn't have come as a surprise after he had already noted his clothing, but it jarred him anyway. Encountering this stranger was like stepping into his own past, only that he had been a little boy the last time people spoke and dressed like this.

He pursed his lips in concentration, it took some effort to switch back to that old dialect he had nearly forgotten. When he spoke, his Renaissance Italian was a bit clumsy, a bit stilted, but smooth enough and with a distinctly Venecian dialect.]

This city is called Ruby City. I'm sorry, but you're far from home, signore, and as to why, that's a long story. [He smiled, though he winced inwardly. The entire fantastic tale was hard enough to accept for someone from his time, but for someone from the Renaissance? Explanations wouldn't be fun.] I'm Feliciano Vargas.

[purgatoryismyhell]

[Cesare paused, faltering momentarily in his indignant bravado. That was a very odd question to ask.]

I'm in full possession of my faculties, signore.

[Cesare felt some uneasiness as he realized that odd question could have been a threat. He hesitated for a moment, then decided to fake obliviousness.]

[fireofshandora]

[Calgara wasn't actually going to harm him, but he could hardly see the harm in frightening this little upstart a bit more. Smirking slowly in a wholly unpleasant manner, he begins to lean forward, looking less a man and more an animal in his movements]

Usually...men run at this point, heh.

[fireofshandora]

[Calgara doesn't answer his question; the thought that he might not be able to honor his promise to his old friend is a point of shame and regret for him. He looks away sharply, concern flooding his senses]

I cannot linger here; I have to return to my village - the warriors can't repel the outsiders without my strength!

[renaissancerevenge]

[He seemed surprised by something, though Ezio didn't know what. Looking over Feliciano, he noted the odd manner of dress and tilted his head. What kind of clothes were those? No armor or any sort, so he wasn't a warrior it seemed... When the other Italian finally spoke, the words seemed rather off, like a foreigner trying to say them. It was Italian, but it looked like he was having trouble saying some of the words.]

Ruby City? I have not heard of such a city in Italia. [His boots thumped soundly on the platform as he stepped across and off of it onto the street before it. Just Feliciano Vargas? He supposed there was no noble house he came from like himself. Perhaps there were no noble houses in this city, which was probably true at the state of the architecture around him.] I am Ezio Auditore da Firenze. Son of Giovanni Auditore, who was a well-known banker. Perhaps you have heard of him?

I need to return home, back to Firenze immediately. I had work I must tend to and I have no time to waste here.

[ex_nohero520]

[Caleb does a double-take-- His gloved hand jerks violently, instinctively, but he clenches it into a fist, scolding himself internally.

He hauls her to her feet, frowning and releasing her hand once he does.] Worse, huh. [He grumbles it; more echoing than questioning.] What's with... [He gestures at her sudden armour acquisition.]

[in_italia]

[Well, he doesn't need to be told twice. The sentence is barely out of Calgara's mouth, and Lovino is racing full-speed for his house. Bye bye, evil crazy man.]

[ex_nohero520]

Sure you are. [Nation? Really? That's a new one, at least, Caleb's never heard that one before. But he doesn't believe it, nope.] And you're the authority, I see.

[in_italia]

Si! Any shithead would know South Italy, damnit, that's who I am! [Surely anyone would believe a drunken 22-year-old acting half his age anyway to be a century-and-a-half-old country.] I'm smarter than you 't least, damnit!

[broswagonist]

[He falls quiet when he sees that look of concern, and turns a bit more serious, lips in a tight line, silver gray eyes focused on the other. He can understand his concern, if his village is under attack. His situation might not be quite the same, but he does have people waiting for him... Well, sort of.

Sometimes he wonders if his parents would ever even notice if he was gone...

But that's not important now, what is important is to give a helping hand to someone who needs it.]

This is just a rumor, but... [And he's not even sure he believes it himself..]

I've been told that time stands still while we're here. Which makes it likely that you'd be sent back to the very moment you were taken from....

[legendary_silver]

Yeah, like zombies on Ojai. OH! But they weren't really zombies! Some movie company didn't give notice that they were filming so it freaked everyone out!

[They were zombies though, very real zombies raised by Dee.]

It's... kind of a self defense thing. I panicked.

Anne Boleyn | The Tudors

[maple_happiness]

(OOC: Not the very next character I want to app, but I know him well enough that he doesn't need a test drive, and I've been wondering if she's feasible if I go for three. So...)

[She had expected to wake in her room in the Tower, on the last morning of her life. Instead, she wakes in a strange little room that seems to be moving. There's a window, and yes, she's moving. It's like a carriage, except... She can't explain it.]

This is some kind of dream, or delusion. Something to help me cope with what is about to happen to me. It cannot be real.

[So she treats it as a dream, leaving the strange conveyance and finding herself in what she knows is a city, but not like any real one she knows. But it's not real.]

Is this your last revenge on me, Henry? For not giving you the son we both longed for, for not being that little blonde wench you adore? You will drive me mad as well as have me executed, as well as bastardize our daughter?

[She laughs, a wild, broken sound, and falls to her knees. Dream or delusion, it does not ease her pain on this day. For it will fade, and she will still have to face the scaffold.]

[fireofshandora]

[Calgara fixes this fellow with another look, though it's not a glare so much as it is frustration] How can you speak of such things and not think them the work of gods or demons?

[Growling, he begins to pace the terminal in a restless sort of way for a few minutes, trying to grasp the whole of what had befallen him. His hand grips his spear in growing rage at his inability to understand]

It doesn't matter that time stops; I will not be able to rest until those invaders are driven from my island and I know that my daughter and my village is safe! I have many promises to keep that cannot ever be abandoned!

[broswagonist]

... I've just seen a few things before, I suppose. [He shrugs, face blank. Really though. The idea of other worlds, of human beings with supernatural powers-- They're not exactly foreign to him. He's not going to say that he doesn't mind being here because he does mind. He wants to get on with his life- Go home and study, decide on a path in life... Move out on his own and do all those things that people his age do. But still, this place's existence...

The powers their captors had...

He's not so quick to blame gods or demons for all of this. Anyone could do that and be happy to live with it, but he wasn't just anyone. The truth behind everything, the complete story... Those things were important to him. More so than your average person.]

... Sorry. There isn't really anything I can say that will make you feel better about being here. [His words are sincere, voice soft, even if his expression remains mostly unchanged.]

For now I can't really do anything but tell you to hang in there. None of us really have any choice in the matter.