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

[video] | Bro Strider | Homestuck

[breaux]

[For a second the feed is a bit shaky, then it steadies and Bro eyes it for a second.]

This watch is hells of weird...
Anyway! I just tumbled off the train from Mordor and I have no idea what happened, buuut... I'm apparently stuck here. Which is cool I guess, I mean the alternative was gonna be death. Ehh, so, anybody want to fill me in on anything I should know that isn't covered by the FAQ section at the station? 'Cause...

[He turns his head, glances away thoughtfully, then pulls his cap down a little bit.]

Yeah.
Oh! Uh, before I forget, just? Call me Bro. Right? Cool. Thanks in advance for any words of wisdom.

[Video]

[thepuppetmaster]

Huh.

[Siiiigh. Really, he should have figured this would happen. Temporal mechanics be damned, and from the looks of things he's going to have to deal with the asshole from square one all over again.

How inconvenient.]

Don't forget, you're here forever.

[Yeah, Simpsons references right off the bat. Someone give this kid some juice.]

[Video]

[breaux]

Oh shit, look at this adorable motherfucker.

[Bro grins - he can't help it. He sees that reference there, Dirk. He sees it.]

Time shenanigans all up ins, I guess. What's up, li'l me?

[How could he not instantly recognize (what's technically) his own face? It's a little spooky, but he thinks it's pretty cool too, and it's not like he's a stranger to weirdness.]

[Video]

[thepuppetmaster]

[Smirk. Well, he's definitely the same guy.]

I reckon we can skip the introductions, since you already know my name, right? [He rubs his thumb up against one side of his nose.]

But I'm going to clear one thing up before this goes anywhere else. While we're more or less identical on a genetic level I feel compelled to point out, before you start making assumptions, that we ain't the same person.

[Dirk holds one hand up in something of a peaceful gesture.] That said, I'm not opposin' the nickname. Whatever makes you comfortable, bro.

[Video]

[breaux]

Gimme a break, dude, I'm not five.

[He smirks a little bit and raises one eyebrow above his shades, leaning closer to the watch.]

I've seen enough weird multi-dimensional horseshit, I know how this stuff works, man. It's cool to meet you though. Never met an alternate before.

[video]

[primrosepath]

[Well, well, well, look what the dimensional shenanigans dragged in. Despite it being obvious he doesn't remember a thing about being in the city Rose has to smile. Sometimes it's just nice to see a familiar face again.]

You just can't stay away, can you?

[video]

[breaux]

Hu--?

[He makes a really dumb face for a second, then blinks behind his shades and shrugs.]

Ah, you know how Striders are.

[video]

[primrosepath]

[She fully expects him not to know her. It doesn't make the lack of recognition hurt any less.]

You're like cats. Feed you once and you keep coming back.

[video]

[breaux]

Nyoro~n.

[Making cat noises at someone he's pretty sure he doesn't know. Yes. Yes, that is a thing he is doing right now.]

[video]

[goodknightsweetprince]

Well aren't you a sight for sore fucking eyes.

[Hey look it's your kid brother. ...Older than you. Yep. 8D]

Sup Bro. Might wanna get real comfy and sit a spell, this place ain't all bad. Specially not when you got shit all to go back to.

[Speaking from experience.]

[video]

[breaux]

Shit, when'd you get old? Warn a guy before you go and do that, man.

[For a second his infamous pokerface disappears and is replaced with genuine surprise and slight confusion.]

This time bullshit's gettin' whack as fuck.

[Obviously this isn't the Dave he raised, but seeing him still stirs up something right in the emotions muscle.]

[video]

[goodknightsweetprince]

I dunno man, it's getting hard for this old fossil to remember.

[He broke the infamous Bro Strider pokerface.]

Tell me about it. You want the long version or the short?

[He thought he'd gotten used to seeing Bro, a man about the same age that Dirk would have been if the meteors had come on time, and feeling an ache right in the guardian emotions by simple dint of the fact that Bro is a Dirk Strider. But hell, he didn't think he'd see him again. Specially not so soon.]

[video]

[breaux]

Heh.

Tell you what, for the sake of my sanity, just gimme the bullet list, I'll draw my own conclusions.

[All these mutual Guardian Emotions. This guy's probably twice his age, but he's still Dave and the last time Bro saw Dave... Well the situation wasn't exactly all that great.]

[video]

[purpleprose]

[Oh hey, ectodaddy. Rose studies the resemblance to herself and Dave, and the even more prominent resemblance to the Dirk she met briefly, and draws a quick conclusion.]

You must be Dave's Bro. [Despite being fairly disoriented and still mildly shell-shocked from the contact with her mother, she quirks a black smile.] It appears that this place is a veritable magnet for displaced Striders and Lalondes.

[video]

[breaux]

The one and only. [More or less.]

[He does a little salute in greeting.]

Yeah this place is like the multi-universal Stri-Londe sandbox. Chuck E. Cheese level family reunion. Who we missin'? Anybody?

How you doin', ecto-girl?

[video]

[purpleprose]

I think all we're missing is... pre-scratch, alpha-timeline Dave. This stands to get rather confusing with names, doesn't it? [She's just going to have to start labeling them Dave 1 and Dave 2 or something.] And I haven't spoken with Lil' Cal yet, unless you've brought him along.

Me? Well, the change of scenery is most welcome. [About this other part with being stuck here, though... not so sure about that.] And yourself?

[You're alive, for a start. But she leaves that part unsaid.]

[video]

[breaux]

I'm not doin' too bad. Been worse, anyway.

[You haven't seen Li'l Cal for a while and it kind of makes you sad.]
[Well, not really sad. Closer to disappointed.]

So everyone but Alpha Dave, huh? Jeezy, this place is just collecting the whole Stri-Londe herd, ain't.

1/???

[crowsicle]

[ASDFJKDGLGKHFUCK???]

[crowsicle]

[WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING??]

[crowsicle]

[No big deal, Bro, it's not like he just finally began the process of MOURNING YOUR FUCKING CORPSE AFTER LIKE SEVEN MONTHS OF EMOTIONAL CONSTIPATION DUE TO THE FACT THAT YOU WERE HERE AND HE DIDN'T WANT TO BURDEN YOU ANYMORE.

NO

BIG

DEAL!]

[crowsicle]

[Fine. Whatever. He's got this. He's good.]

[Video] Done!

[crowsicle]

[Ruffled and disgruntled, he can manage. Appearing disgruntled is better than being a total mess. Especially when Bro sounds so chill.]

There's no pizza place.

1/2 davesprite /honey/

[breaux]

[Oh man. Oh no. Why this?? He literally just died in front of the kid a few hours ago, he can't face him now, Bro is not ready for this!]

[No. No he's got this. He's Bro "Breaux" Motherfucking Strider, Do-er of the impossible, cutter-in-halfer of fucking meteors, Sultan of Swag, King of Cool, Ace of Awesome, he can look this kid in the eye through video! Easy!]

[Why this.]

[Ok. Ok be cool.]

2/2 [Video]

[breaux]

How can there be no pizza place. I thought I'd be able to survive here, but Merlin's tits, it just keeps throwin' curve-balls at me. This is horseshit. I'm being punk'd right, like, any minute Ashton Kutcher is gonna leap out from behind that support column over there and be like, "YO, YOU JUST GOT PLAYED, FOOL." Everyone laughs, cut scene, roll credits????

[Video] I'm glad we had this deep and healing discussion about feelings.

[crowsicle]

I dunno, I've been here since October and I'm making out okay, somehow. I only get withdrawal seizures like twice a week now.

[He makes his way to the window of Dirk's room, opens it, and leans out for a moment, free hand against the sill. For a second, he doesn't know where he wants to fly: off towards the train station, where Bro might still be, or into the woods where no one will find him ever.]

Then again kid you, granddad me, and grown-up Rose seem to enjoy shoving peanut butter pinecones down my craw at every possible opportunity, so it'd be hard to waste away here.

[In the end, he picks the direction of the train station.]

You'll live.