rubycity_ooc | November Test Drive!

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 Beach: You can almost forget you're trapped, in a place like this...

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. The Forest: Not a great place to be caught alone, but are you alone?

8. Wildcard: Pick anything from our list!

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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

"Ugh, fine." Vriska reached back with one foot and kicked the door closed before putting one hand on her chin and making an exaggerated show of thought.

"Hmmmmmmmm. Last thing I remember... I don't know, we figured out how to watch the humans a little while ago and now everyone's pretty obsessed with them! They're okay, I guess." As she talked, she wrung water out of her hair, then shook it out before tossing it over her shoulder.

"Before that, everyone was just sitting around in the lab block, watching Karkat make an idiot of himself with those ridiculous memos of his! He just goes on and on and on and no one even fucking reads them, but I guess he's too busy arguing with himself like a wiggler to notice. And then he has the nerve to tell me to stop what I'm doing! He doesn't even know what I'm doing, but he tells me to leave! I mean, I was done with that particular iron in the fire anyway, but you'd think he'd appreciate how much I do for him."

--yeah, that was perfect! Specific enough to satisfy Kanaya's nosy nub, but vague enough to absolve her of any suspicion.

Secretly, she was kind of delighted Kanaya wanted to know anything that she was up to, even if she couldn't actually tell her what she was up to because the secrecy of her plan was of supreme importance! But Kanaya had been practically giving her the cold shoulder since... well, she supposed she didn't blame Kanaya for being jealous, but still.

It would have been insufferable if Kanaya was the only one here and still pretending to ignore her.

Oh. That's actually somewhat further back than Kanaya expected. Then again, it couldn't be too much father, after all Vriska didn't live much past that point.

"...Okay. The first thing you need to understand is that we weren't brought to this place in order. There's some temporal shenanigans at work. What you just described... for me that was almost two sweeps ago."

... two sweeps?

The shock shut Vriska up for half a second, maybe even a couple of seconds as she digested that information. Once it sank in a second later, though--

Two sweeps.

That was a long time--way too long for them to have survived hiding out on that stupid meteor. Which meant--!

Vriska did her best to conceal her interest. Or rather, the nature of that interest.

"Really."

She already knew, of course: Jack Noir was dead.

And she'd bet every last boondollar she knew exactly who killed him.

It was her.

Of course.

"Yes, really."

It's too obvious. Vriska is all but begging for more details, but her ridiculous pride won't let her say it. Kanaya would almost take pleasure in how this conversation is going knock her down a few hundred pegs, if it wasn't so sad.

"I'm sure you have all sorts of questions, and I'm willing to answer them, but first, two things. One, whatever you thought was going to happen in your future almost certainly is not what happened. Two," she pauses, gesturing to a large leather chair next to her own, "take a seat."

Not what she thought? Not likely!

But when asked to sit down, Vriska complied, squinting at Kanaya in what might have been suspicion--but was more like an affected parody of cunning.

"All right, Maryam. I'm sitting. Lay it on me!"

Right. She has to do this... not that it's necessity makes it any easier.

"Vriska, within a few hours of the point you've come from, you and I both die. I got back up. You... your death was permanent."

Vriska just stared at Kanaya dumbly for a second, like a fish clubbed over the head. A haze of confusion rolled in, then a beat of disbelief--for half of that second, she actually bought it.

But then she started laughing.

"Hahahahahaha, oh my god, Maryam. I thought you were serious! You almost had me!"

No words. Her response is entirely silent, as her skin starts to glow all at once, like a lightbulb turning on. She's really not going to argue about this, as the grave look on her face may attest to.

"........"

If Kanaya was hoping for more dumb staring, she was certainly in for a treat.

If she was hoping for a more intelligent response, however, she would be stymied by Vriska's sustained inability to care about rainbowdrinker fiction and lore--which caused something of a lag in her ability to process what she was looking at.

But eventually her brain caught up--and she snapped.

"--So what!" she finally burst out, standing abruptly from her chair. "So what, you glow now! Who cares--what the fuck is your problem anyway?!"

Kanaya stands too, taking a step closer to Vriska.

"You went and got yourself killed, and I haven't seen you in two sweeps. That's my problem."

Vriska stood her ground, but instead of a smart comeback, instead of a sharp retort--instead of anything, her jaw locked and she met Kanaya's stare, brow furrowed in dark confusion.

On some level, Vriska--slowly--began to realise Kanaya was serious. Not that she'd thought Kanaya wasn't being serious before--but not serious in a way that actually applied to her. She still wasn't entirely convinced--she just wasn't that easily killed! Vriska Serket couldn't just die, after all--she was simply too lucky. And too powerful. And too good.

But on another level--

Was Kanaya admitting she had missed her?

Under normal circumstances, Vriska would have been absolutely elated--well, of course Kanaya missed her, but the thrill of getting her to admit it--! Even now, there was still a flutter of excitement--only now it was paired with something almost like apprehension.

Almost.

Either way, of the two--

"........ Kanaya, are you admitting you missed me?"

November Test Drive!

Wait should I swap to action, or

Oh no no, that was my mistake. do what you prefer, and I'll follow suit (when I don't screw up)

Well, I'm sticking to prose, but you don't have to!

I will too. Sorry about that.

No, it's fine! I'm just hopped up on nerves.

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I'm sorry for Vriska's everything.

Hee hee, you never need to be sorry about her with me!

.... that icon tho (Also I'm really groggy I'm not sure this tag is a reasonable progression at all)

If you like that icon, how about this one? I never get to use it, but now...

Oh NO. (Sorry for the delay oops)