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

[adios_comma_asshole]

Don't start it if you can't finish it, hotshot.

[hasthepotential]

[She feigns a pout, rather obviously. The smile alone was worth the bit of embarrassment, but he'd managed to actually strike her dumb.]

[adios_comma_asshole]

[Not only does he smile -- after a moment, he actually chuckles, and stretches a little, the way he will sometimes after he's won a fight.]

Don't worry about it, if it's that bad. Not supposed to rush your way through a meal anyway, right?

[hasthepotential]

[Minako leans over the table a bit and stares sheepishly into the shallow pool of tea left in her cup.]

...didn't say anything about it being bad...

[adios_comma_asshole]

... Yeah?

[He tries, very hard, and unsuccessfully, not to sound a little bit hopeful.]

[hasthepotential]

[She peeks up from behind her bangs, sitting back up in her chair and taking her cup of tea to hide behind.]

Knowing what I do about you--you obviously have good taste so...[Wouldn't flavor be a given? ♥]

[adios_comma_asshole]

Heh. Damn right.

[Pause.]

Not too sure about your taste, though.

[hasthepotential]

[Minako lunges forward on the table and glares across at him.]

What's that supposed to mean?!

[After she was being SO NICE to you!!]

[adios_comma_asshole]

Hey, not everybody can have a perfect palate.

[His tone is joking, dismissive... but he's not talking about cake, and he's not really joking. Why she's got any interest in him at all is not only a mystery, but something suspicious, something he can't help but question. It just doesn't make sense.]

[hasthepotential]

I never realized senpai was so into himself...

[She sat back in her seat and took the final sip that polished off her tea.] It's not like you're the only one who can cook, y'know.

[She folds her arms over her chest and crosses her legs.] And it's a well-known fact that girls are the universal experts of sweets.

[adios_comma_asshole]

Sweets you haven't tried...

[He mutters it under his breath. Yeah, they're not even remotely talking about cake anymore.]

[hasthepotential]

Are you offering?

[She doesn't even wait a beat to quip back.]

[adios_comma_asshole]

You don't know what you're talking about. You get that, right? No way you'd be pickin' on a guy like me if you did know.

[hasthepotential]

'A guy like you'? [Minako picks up a fork and reaches over to poke at what's left on Shinjiro's plate.] What's that even supposed to mean?

[adios_comma_asshole]

Tch.

[It was uncomfortable to put into words, to actually describe himself from his own perspective, not least because it felt like gearing up for a fight -- he knew he was going to get contradicted.]

I'm saying I'm not a nice guy. Good in a fight, sure, and somebody's gotta look after Aki, but whatever you think you're looking for, I shouldn't be it.

[hasthepotential]

[She stabs a piece of cake, circling it around playfully, dragging it through the fruit syrup embellishing the plate it rested on.]

I wasn't necessarily looking for anything in particular...[She brings the piece of cake to her mouth, holding it in front of her to pause before biting down.]...and I never thought you were a 'nice guy.'

[She hooks her foot behind his ankle, biting down on the piece of cake without breaking eye-contact.]

[adios_comma_asshole]

So what do you think I am, then?

[It was a question he didn't want to ask, blurted before he could rethink it -- because he wanted to know the answer. What the Hell could anybody see in someone like him, anyway? And... was whatever it was actually there?]

[hasthepotential]

[She sets the fork down carelessly, letting it clatter on the plate as she rests her chin in the palm of her hand, continuing to chew as she quite deliberately skims over Shinjiro's face with her eyes.

He hadn't meant to ask that, and she hadn't expected him to. As a result, her answer required a bit of thought.]

You might not be nice, but I think you're sweet.

[Get it? Shameful, she knows.]

[adios_comma_asshole]

Real funny.

[hasthepotential]

I don't hear you laughing.

[But she's pretty proud of it, yeah.]

But I mean it. You say you're not, but your actions frequently contradict yourself.

[She takes a finger and draws swirls in the fruit puree on Shinji's dish.] So I think you're either confused, or in denial.

[adios_comma_asshole]

Damn right I'm confused. Dealing with you...

[Sigh.]

I'm not tryin to say that like it's a bad thing. Just... whatever it is you and Aki see in me, I don't think it's there.

[He ducks his head and mumbles, trying for both inaudibility and incoherence.]

Don't want to let you down.

[hasthepotential]

I know, I know...girls are complicated.

[Sorry about that.]

Hmm? Let us down?

[Sorry Shinji, she caught every bit of that. She leans over on the table again and reaches across to pat him heartily on the shoulder.] That's just not possible, so it's not worth worrying over!

[adios_comma_asshole]

Easy for you to say.

[hasthepotential]

Well, you have no control over what I think, but I do!

[It makes sense to her, at least.] So if I say you're not going to let me down, I think I know what I'm talking about.

[adios_comma_asshole]

So maybe I think I'm gonna let me down.

I hate talking about this shit.