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!

Comments

[rancis]

[What-- What is this abomination? Fruit has never been featured in any kart he has had in the past. Why are they going to start this now?]

What are you talking about?

[He isn't stupid. He is going to promptly remove that apple from his shopping cart and set it on an empty place on a shelf.]

[promisekept]

Nutrition.

[Cloud's memory has never come back completely, and one thing he's still hazy on at times is the names of fruit, but apple he's got, at least.

He lobs another fruit into the cart. This time, it's a banana. He doesn't remember the name of that one. They're not common, at home.]

[rancis]

[This guy really isn't going away. Huh. Just, gosh...Who goes around with their hair like that? Merely associating with the guy is embarrassing enough.]

Nu...What is 'nutrition?'

[Does it help make his kart go faster?]

[promisekept]

[Hey, his hair just goes this way. Some people have--different hair. It's a fact of life. Don't judge. At least Cloud knows what "nutrition" is.]

Good nutrition means eating healthy. Vegetables, fruits, grains, stuff like that.

[Not that Cloud's always the best eater, but he sure doesn't fill carts full of chocolate.]

[rancis]

[At least his nickname isn't Spiky. Calm down with that nutrition nonsense over there, dude.]

What does eating have to do with any of this?

[What a nosy guy and he didn't even know what he was going about.]

[promisekept]

[Hey, not everybody calls him Spiky. Just a guy or two. At least he's not-- some weird kid.]

Okay...

[W h a t.]

So you're taking all that candy and you're not gonna eat it.

[Where is this even going?]

[rancis]

[Right, because he's a Final Fantasy. That's nice.]

Um...Why would I? It's for my kart. I need to build one so I can race.

[A dur-hur!]

[promisekept]

[It's not nice, as being a Final Fantasy is suffering, but he'll thank you to respect him, young man.]

Your kart.

[Silly kid, racing is for chocobos, not chocolate.]

You're building a kart out of that. To race. Race what, exactly?

[Other kids with melting lumps of cobbled-together chocolate?]

[rancis]

[How's Kingdom Hearts going for you, then. He is going to be in that someday, believe it.]

Yeah, what else am I going to build my kart out of?

[Surely he isn't going to use real car logic.]

And just to race whoever. It's boring with no races. I have to race.

[promisekept]

[He doesn't know what this "Kingdom Hearts" you're referring to is.]

I don't know. Wood, metal? Not candy.

[What did kids build karts from? He'd never really had one.]

You want to race that much? [Cloud shrugs.] I'll race you. [Why not? He's a sucker for kids, even weird ones.]

[rancis]

All of my karts have been made in the bakery.

[This guy doesn't seem to know anything. But by now he has come to terms that obviously not everyone is from a video game.]

Wait, huh? You want to race me?

[Mister crazy hair over here? He probably doesn't even wear a helmet.]

Okay, I'll race you!

[promisekept]

And that bakery's not here, I'm guessing.

[That's right, Cloud is not from any kind of video game.]

Yeah, why not? I've got a bike.

[And he does wear goggles. He's safety conscious. (And Tifa's been making him wear a helmet lately.)]

When you're ready.

[rancis]

[There certainly isn't going to be what he's looking for outside of Sugar Rush. But he is capable of going about something by hand.]

Okay, deal! We'll race tomorrow!

[promisekept]

Okay, kid. Tomorrow I'll race your chocolate car.

[Why not. Sounds like something that would end up happening to him.]

What's your name, anyway?

[rancis]

Kart. It's going to be a kart.

[Thank you very much.

He straightens up when the strange hair wreck asks for his name.]

Rancis. Rancis Fluggerbutter. I'm the best racer in my game.

[May or may have not been exaggerating but details. No one from his game is around to correct him, anyway. He can claim the title all he wants. He works hard, after all.]

...Who are you?

[May as well ask.]