NOV. TEST DRIVE

[missleadingquestions]

Sorry to be late this time!



G'day, Ruby City!

Thinking of apping a character but not sure they'll fit in the city walls?

Have no fear, a meme for you is here.

Directions:

• Post with your character with their name and canon on top!


• Choose a location and prompt or wait for someone else to tag.


• If you'd like, leave contact info for people to get in contact for plotting and other such shenans.


• Tag around! Make friends. Don't be afraid to chat OOC while tagging.

Locations:

1. Train Station: New arrival, or waiting to welcome people? Either way, the train comes in, but you still can't ride it out.


2. Cathedral: Looking for redemption? Just doing a little sight-seeing? Or just getting a little shelter?


3. The Clocktower: You can see the whole city from here!


4. The Black Stallion Saloon: You were told the burgers were great here-- but maybe you just came for the beer.


5. The Library: You came to do a little research, but it looks like all of the information's just out of your reach. Though, you can always find a way to pass the time here.


6. The Coffee Joint: A lovely place to have a chat and a bite to eat.


7. Le Cafe Anglais: A Parisian-British fusion that's as charming as it sounds and serves the best tea around.

Scenarios

1. Just walked in: You intended to get here, and you made your way in; but now someone's caught your eye and you'd like to have a chat.


2. Been here all day: You've been sitting around minding the time. Maybe you didn't notice them at first or maybe you were just working up the courage to talk-- either way, they know you're here and you know it too.


3. Bad weather: You're here because you've gotten rained in. This wasn't your choice, but at least it's dry-- right?


4. Wild card: Got something better in mind? Well screw these prompts, try it out yourself!

Have fun, guys!

Comments

[guidingmaster]

[Xion isn't the only one who is surprised. He hadn't expected to have his question met with a denial and a return question. Especially when the boy before him looks so much like Ventus.]

He's one of my apprentices. You look just like him.

[withoutadoubt]

[He's not going to think too hard on this because running into Xemnas doing something as mundane as drinking coffee is throwing him enough]

How should I know?

[Jeez Xemnas. If he'd known he wouldn't have asked. Not to mention the last time he tried guessing at what you were up to he nearly ended up with an unwanted houseguest in his own heart.]

You better not be up to anything.

Train station

[withoutadoubt]

[Sora will come say hi! Of course, he's a new arrival as well, so he's looking just about as out of place. Still, he's bright and friendly and has a lot of light there.]

Hey! Did you just get here too?

[ceded]

[ She takes another step back, eyes wide in her face. ]

You ... you know me? I don't understand.

[ceded]

[ ...... ]

This is going to sound strange, but, please ... please just tell me. Can you tell me ... what I look like, to you?

[withoutadoubt]

Yeah, I... saw you in a dream. It's a long story.

[Because explaining what all had happened and how he'd seen her would probably have taken too long and now didn't feel like the right time for it. It wasn't important compared to the fact that she was here.

He reaches a hand up to cover his heart. The feeling there is growing again. He feels... hurt. He should know her. He feels like he should know her but he doesn't know why. Something's wrong, something's... missing. And that loss, that feeling that there was something that was supposed to be there but wasn't, was somehow one of the most painful things he could imagine.]

Who are you?

[ceded]

[ The terror clawing at her throat, the terror she can't name, is telling her to run.

I want ... I want to exist!

How can he be here? How can he be awake? He looks older than he did in her dreams, and his clothing his different. Even his voice is pitched a little lower. He's different, but it's unmistakably him. Even if he hadn't just confirmed his identity to her, she'd know him anywhere. She is, after all ... just a piece of him. If he stays, if ... if she stays right here, will she go back to him? Could she just burst into light and memory and dissolve, right here, to rejoin him?

Slowly, Xion shakes her head, wanting to back away further. ]

This ... this isn't possible. We can't both be awake at the same time! But ... you're right here. Am I dreaming?

[ She lifts a hand, pressing it to the side of her head and shutting her eyes. No... no, this is too real to be a dream, and besides. It's not a memory. She looks up at him again, cautious and uncertain where to begin. ]

Xion. ... my name is Xion.

[withoutadoubt]

Xion...

[It's like being reminded of something he'd forgotten. The name felt right]

I don't think this is a dream. Trust me, I know a lot about being stuck in them...

[Hahaha haha ha... Still something in her face is worrisome. Something that makes him lift the hand that had been clenched over his heart to reach out.]

Are you okay?

[She said something about not being able to be awake at the same time. But that didn't make sense. It was Roxas who'd been forced to go back to him, for him to wake up, even if Sora didn't think that was right or fair. But what had happened to Xion that would make her think that. Why had he never seen or heard anything about her before that dream?]

heheheheh

[acrobatrick]

In his defense, [haha get it] I don't think most lawyers are combat-equipped.

i do that all the time it's embarrassing

[acrobatrick]

[Unfortunately, Dick seemed perfectly ready and willing to continue fighting, his eskrima retrieved and held at the ready.]

And you think my material's bad? Do I look 24 to you?

I am incredibly flattered, ohohoho.

[queenofeasternseas]

[For a brief moment, Isabela considers waggling her eyebrows invitingly in order to a garner a more amusing reaction from the stranger before her. An attractive stranger, but a stranger nonetheless. Besides, it'd probably be a bad idea to seduce someone that could be a demon lurking within the Fade. She's still not entirely sure that any of this is real.

Better to play it safe than to find herself flirting with death. Literally.

At least, Isabela knows she should play it safe. She's almost positive that that's something Hawke and Aveline would, in fact, encourage her to do. But that doesn't sound very fun at all, now that she thinks about it. How dull.]

Barter, you say?

[Isabela's smile turns absolutely wicked.] I do hope that means something tantalizing here because I'd hate to be disappointed. [She raises her mug for another swig of her drink.]

[ceded]

[ Are you okay?

It feels like she hears that question a lot.

She makes a soft sound, unhappy, bringing curled hands up in front of her nose and mouth as if she can somehow hide behind them. But that's not really the intent, and she seems to realize how she must look a moment later. With obvious deliberation, she straightens, her hands returning to her sides and her expression firming. ]

... Sora, I can't be here. I'm sorry. But I have to go.

gomen for me

[waywardbird]

Nah, you look like a 13 year old brat.

[ Jason is unimpressed. He doesn't even bother to draw a weapon, it's not fighting time again. Yet, anyway. ]

Different worlds, dumbass. Shit, they covered this in bat school. Or did you skip that lesson?

[withoutadoubt]

[A look of... almost alarm crosses his face as the pain in his heart pitches slightly.]

No, wait! Please, don't go!

[Please don't leave again.

She'd run last time he saw her too, run before he could ask any questions. Before he could find out anything, and last time he'd let her. He isn't so sure he wants to do that this time]

Please... I know you're important, but I don't know why, and I wanna know. [beat] I got a letter, a little while back, that there were people I was supposed to help. I think you might be one of them.

[He has no idea if he's right or not, but the words ring true, in his heart. Whatever had gone wrong, whatever was making her upset right now and back home, he wanted to fix it.]

[ceded]

... important? Me?

[ ... well, that runs rather contrary to everything she's ever been told about herself. She shakes her head, looking away. ]

... I don't think you can help me, Sora.

[ She gestures, and a portal opens behind her. Lack of an Organization coat be damned, she'll survive one trip through without it. ]

[withoutadoubt]

[And Sora would be very disapproving if he'd heard all what she'd been told about herself. Everybody was important, somehow.

He gets the feeling he's only got one last shot at this though before she leaves though.]

How do we know if we don't try?

[ceded]

[ She does pause, her eyebrows drawn up and together, but she doesn't close the portal either. ]

... try what?

[withoutadoubt]

[Sora lifts his hand to rub the back of his head. That... was a bit of a trickier question.]

I'm not really sure, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna just give up.

[A great planner Sora isn't, but what he lacks in that regard he will more than make up for with determination and optimism. There has to be a way to fix this. He knows it.]

I guess I still don't really know what happened.

[Maybe that'd be a good place to start?]

[missleadingquestions]

[Ah, yes. It's a good thing she thinks you're pretty okay, Blackquill, cos she's figure out you're a sucker for this flattery of hers pretty damn quick. If you're not careful you might end up on the opposite end of that 'Simon Says' game of yours when Maya's involved, somehow...]

--You're a prosecutor?

[That's important.]

...Huh. I never would have guessed.

why, Plus. Why do you do this.

[missleadingquestions]

...Can you imagine an attorney superhero?

Using his powers to defend the innocent from a guilty verdict--!!

[missleadingquestions]

...Wait, or would a superhero just make sure the wrong guy's never accused of a crime?

[dotard]

[ Ah, but the question is, who's playing who... with Blackquill, you can never tell...aka I don't know what I'm doing but playing post case-5 Blackquill would be boring because no fun shackles help me Luc, he really does... have a soft spot for girls... because they'd remind him of Athena... ]

Indeed. Is it not pitiful? A prosecutor of the law who is also a convicted felon. One could say I am rather a startling contradiction.

[ He doesn't sound pitiful at all, just smug. Wow, Simon. ]

[Train Station] Well now, who do we have here?

[provenworth]

[It was rather fortunate for Elena that her home was so close to the train station. It made stalking watching the people arriving much easier to do and, for those who were friends, a quick walk to safety and protection.

Today, though, Elena is out running, rebuilding her stamina, and was on the way back to the house when she saw the older male standing at the station. Her jog slows, steps purposely more noisy than necessary to announce her presence as she comes closer. She stops roughly 50 yards from the man, eyes completing a quick sweep of the area before giving a polite nod.]

...Take it you're new here?

I can't tell you how long I've wanted an Isabela to interact with Fang.

[raindownthesky]

...

[Etro, YES. Finally someone else had the tact that she had so longed to interact with. While she was also a flirtatious woman, she had to tone it down because she knew it would make people uncomfortable, yet here she was. Another queen of well placed words and a tongue of silver. She smiles more, the grin starting at one corner, then spreading as she lowers her eyes to the table momentarily. She lets out a huff of a chuckle before running a hand through her mane of hair. As she leans back, she tilts her chin, watching her carefully.]

Whatever your trade is, I'm sure there are some in the city who'd be...[Her eyes scale the woman entirely now.] Interested.

[Now, Now, Fang. Remember where your loyalties lie. She clears her throat and leans forward again, linking her fingers together in thought as she continues.] But really, love. Welcome to the big city. If you have any questions about this place, I'm more than happy to answer them. I'm sure it's kind of jarring bein' where you aren't used to bein'. I know I was the first time I stepped off that train.

[asapphireheart]

[She almost doesn't want to let go but they can't keep sitting in the dirt. The ground is cold enough with the onset of winter and she doesn't need him to get sick or to get sick herself. Aqua had her duties around the city to take care of and getting sick would only interfere.

Standing slowly, making sure her legs can hold her, the young Master motions to a nearby bench for them to sit on. They can at least be a little bit more comfortable. Later on, she'll take him to her apartment or Miles' house.]

This city is another World. One that isn't connected to the Lanes Between and that can bring people here from any World and from any time.