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

[goodknightsweetprince]

[Just call him Grandpa Dave.]

Either absent or part of the general populace. I know some of the necessities shops restock themselves without any help from the peanut gallery, but some people have converted houses and other spaces into shit like tea shops, a bar, an armory, stuff like that.

As for the fucking people over, it's just got something you've gotta see to believe. Last weekend our clothes disappeared and got replaced with completely different outfits. Sometimes, it's hells of more serious.

[purpleprose]

So... people can remain here long enough to establish new lives, in essence.

[That would be a little concerning if she hadn't already picked up on the fact that time works differently here.]

Everyone loves a tormenter with a sense of humor, I suppose. At least the clothes-switching was probably worth a chuckle.

[goodknightsweetprince]

Pretty much. And a fair amount have shit-all to go back to, too. Rosie and I have been here for almost a year, and little Dirk for about a month longer than that.

From what we can tell, no time passes back wherever you came from when you come here. If you go back, you just go on like nothing happened.

[He chuckles.]

Either that or a nigh-critical case of secondhand embarrassment.

[No shame. None. This Dave is actually genuinely shameless, not just guarding his weak spots.

You should've seen his legs in those heels, though.]

[purpleprose]

[Rose remembers from her research that the alpha timeline versions of herself and Dave did die pretty horrendous deaths at the hands of the Condesce. So... no, not a whole lot to go back to.]

That's a convenient loop. Perhaps even more beneficial than it is disappointing.

[Hm. Rose might find herself quite enjoying a shameless Dave.]

Secondhand, hmm?

[goodknightsweetprince]

[Even if they hadn't kicked the bucket yet in their canon points, their timeline was still bleak as hell, and why would they want to go back when at least one of the children they gave their lives trying to protect was here?]

Y'see, Rose and I thought that the dress suited me just fine. Not my favorite kind of neckline, but I could deal.

[A playful smirk.]

Dirk disagreed.

[purpleprose]

[She eyes him--or at least, as much of him as is on the feed--critically the way Kanaya might have if she were here, like she's trying to picture it. Finally she speaks solemnly.]

I think you would look lovely, actually. Dirk must have no idea what he's talking about.

[goodknightsweetprince]

Why thank you kindly, little missy.

Can't really fault him for that, though, right there on the list they give to guardians upon accepting the call, along with prepare the little shit best you can, is embarrass the hell out of them at every available opportunity, and I got hells of lost time to make up for.

[purpleprose]

I'm sure that particular list is on standard issue to practically every guardian in the universe. [Mom definitely did it often enough, back when Rose had a sort of almost normal life.] Still. He is a Strider, is he not? He needs to learn to accept the indisputable fact that all Strider men are destined to look incomparably stunning in skirts.

[goodknightsweetprince]

Damn straight it is. All there in the manual. [Yeah he knows he remembers how embarrassing the beta guardians were.] I keep telling him I bet we can find him something fetching in his favorite shade of orange but it's a no-sell. His loss.

Anyway lucky for you, Casa Stri-Lal is perfectly outfitted to house as many Roses as we can hold; if you're looking for a place to stay.

[purpleprose]

I've yet to have a better offer. You have all of my gratitude, of course.

[goodknightsweetprince]

Our pleasure. You're family.

Need me to come pick you up?

[purpleprose]

Family, hm?

[She doesn't really think of it that way, not now at the very least. Her only family was--is?--Mom. Dave is still more a bff than he is an ectobro and she never knew Bro. And she can't quite bring herself to think of all these AU Strilondes running around as "family." Friends, perhaps, or people to whom she has undoubtedly strange and strong connections to, for one reason or another, but not quite "family."

But perhaps Alpha Dave has known a few of the clan long enough to consider them such.]

Davesprite has it covered. He's been kind enough to begin an explanation of the "house rules," which actually sound more like "nest rules" to me.

[She's kind of really getting a kick out of the nest thing.]

[goodknightsweetprince]

Ectobiologically speaking, anyway.

[STRIHANA MEANS FAMILY, ROSE. FAMILY MEANS NOBODY GETS LEFT BEHIND.

Give it time. The sheer dysfunction settled into one house tends to grow on you after a time. And actually, when he arrived in the city last year, the only one he really knew was his Rose. 'Course, he felt like he practically knew Dirk, but that was Guardian Powers.

Dave smiles.]

Well then I'll let canary Dave give you the 4-1-1. You wouldn't be wrong about the nest thing. Mess with it and you'll be eating feathers in your cereal for weeks.

[purpleprose]

Festive. But not all that appetizing, I'd wager.

[goodknightsweetprince]

Eh, you get used to it. It's a challenge.

[purpleprose]

Do feathers from neon-colored game constructs carry any nutritional value, I wonder?