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rubycity_ooc2015-08-30 07:49 pm
rubycitymods) wrote in rubycity_ooc2015-08-30 07:49 pm
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September 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:
- Use an RNG to choose a location and prompt, or wait for someone else to tag.
- Post with your character with their name and canon on top!
- 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 - The place where everyone gets dumped off at. Your first view of Ruby City, complete with informational posters telling you all about where you've ended up.
2. THE BEACH - Lovely year-round, though in the winter months, you're probably not likely to dip your toes in.
3. THE BLACK STALLION - A rather quaint bar. Supposedly, the burgers are great, but you don't see anyone immediately who's willing to serve you. Maybe you're meant to get it yourself.
4. THE OBELISK - The tall monolith in the center of the city marks the gathering place of many events, though right now it seems to be cold and dark.
5. THE CLOCKTOWER - Offering an impressive view of the city, several residents come here to clear their heads, if they don't mind braving the narrow staircase.
6. THE COFFEE JOINT - the front windows are warm and welcoming, and it seems there's always someone friendly enough to fix you a cup when you wander through.
7. THE CATACOMBS - Intrepid, aren't you? Those weird holes may beg exploring, but go too deep and you're going to be in a lot of trouble, considering the viciousness of the creatures held within.
8. THE CITY STREETS - All told, Ruby City is a lovely place, once you get past the fact that several of the buildings look derelict and on the verge of falling down. There's no harm in doing a little sightseeing.
9. THE PARK - You thought it'd be a lovely stroll, but the park is anything but friendly, if those approaching wolf-like creatures are any indication.
10. CHOOSE YOUR OWN - Don't like what we've come up with? Feel like picking your own place? There's a whole host of lovely locations to choose from in the City.
Scenarios
1. NEW ARRIVAL - Step off that train, walk down the street. People usually latch on to newcomers to try and help them out. Even if you look shy, the other residents probably won't be!
2. WATCH TALK - Feeling lost? Disoriented? Don't worry, everyone feels that way on their first day. Fortunately - if the signs at the station are to believed - the watch in your pocket can be used to talk to whoever else might be here.
3. BAD WEATHER - Aw, man. Whether it's snow, or rain, or just plain cold, today was definitely the wrong day to get dumped off in a City in the middle of nowhere.
4. A RUN-IN - Maybe you weren't watching. Maybe they weren't. Either way, you just bumped into someone. Perhaps apologies are in order?
5. HELP, IT HURTS - Clumsy, aren't you? Perhaps wherever the train brought you from wasn't so friendly, or you just tripped and twisted your ankle. Either way, you're in a bit of pain. Hopefully someone will notice your booboos and help patch you up.
6. HUNGRY - It isn't very obvious sometimes that restaurants are what they are, especially in a place like Ruby City. Where can a person go to get a bite to eat around here?
7. MISTAKEN IDENTITY - Hey, there's someone you know! --Or maybe not.
8. BEING FOLLOWED - Maybe you're just being paranoid, or maybe you've got a reason to be afraid. Whatever it is, it feels like there's eyes on you...
9. EVENTS - Feel free to look through our event tag!
10. CHOOSE YOUR OWN - Don't like any of these ideas? Feel free to come up with your own!
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That, and the apparent belief that he knows her as well.
It only helps in reinforcing the idea that there's something very off about this whole scenario. ]
I would prefer if we could meet somewhere private to discuss this. From my point I see an old clock tower; tell me, is it a good meeting point for you? I expect no interruptions while we speak. And- one more thing.
[ She pauses. It's easy to sound professional, but she doesn't feel it at all at this point. This boy is striking a chord much too close to home and she wants to understand why. Who he is. Why they're meeting. ]
You haven't told me your name.
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[He knows full well that the woman he's speaking to isn't Japanese, but he picks the name order deliberately for one very important, very understated reason — because when he says it rapid and smooth, the middle two syllables repeat, and he's betting that her foreign ear will pick out "Jojo" before it registers anything else.
It's a reasonable gamble to take. At least until they're off of the pocketwatches, and somewhere that they can do this in relative privacy. Not that relative privacy is going to make it any easier to accept, but it's a lot harder to ignore something you can reach out and touch than it is a face on a screen.]
I can get to the clocktower, sure. It'll take me twenty minutes.
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He's a smart kid, and that was certainly a good call; while the name registers in her mind, phonetics play the big trick and her focus turns fully towards that one little detail - Jojo.
Her hearing is as good as ever; Lisa Lisa doesn't doubt for a second that she heard that right and it only serves to further strengthen her theory that this boy, in some way she has yet to fully understand, is indeed a Joestar. Or related to the family in some way, at any rate. ]
I'll be waiting for you at the top. [ It should take her a litte less even without making a run for it. ] Don't be late.
-
[ Finding the doorway to the clocktower is surprisingly easy and Lisa Lisa makes it to the top quickly enough. It's empty, now save for her.
She may not be especially tall compared to a Joestar, but one will find her standing by one of the stone ledges, sunglasses covering her eyes as she looks out at the cityscape, arms folded neatly over her chest in a firm yet graceful kind of way. She's graceful, Lisa Lisa. She's anxious deep down, but now is no time to lose her cool. This boy... She'll find out more soon enough. ]
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He's a few streets away from the clocktower when he eventually leaves the rooftops in favor of walking like a normal person, so his last bit of distance goes slower, but he covers it in reasonable time. Then it's just a matter of making it up the stairs, hands in his pockets, to meet destiny in the form of the second (or is it third?) family member he's seen in this city so far.]
...
[He ought to say hello, buonasera, something, anything. But he's never really been good with finding words for moments like this, so it's frankly something of a triumph that he speaks up at all.]
...You asked me what my name was, and I told you. I can tell you yours, if you want me to.
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Even in a situation like this, there are those small little details that she can't let go of. Force of habit, or perhaps a way to keep herself grounded this time, fact is he made it in time and now - up here, in this tower, in this city in the middle of (literally) nowhere - they have all the opportunities in the world to make this right.
She doesn't turn to face him straight away; between her absence of a greeting and his, she finds another similarity and ultimately those dig a nail into her steel nerves. She knows facing him is facing a reality she doesn't understand yet, and this time it takes her just a moment longer. ]
If you wish to, [ She concedes, finally willing herself to turn around.
The boy is tall, youthful and, in person, all too similar to him- to them - and, in all these small little traits, to her. ]
But you understand that a name alone won't explain any of this. [ Not the city; them. ] Or where you know me from.
I'm all ears.
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[He doesn't approach; he leaves her the benefit of space, and keeps his hands in his pockets.]
I recognized you because I've seen a picture of you. My mom has it in her house. I'm pretty sure my Grandma Suzie gave it to her.
[He draws a slow breath.]
I don't know what this place is, or how people are brought here. I do know that it's not the year I thought it was — the year it used to be, when I was last at home. For me it was January, 1988. For some people, it's more than thirteen years in the future. My great-great-grandfather is here, and he's from a hundred years ago — a hundred years before me.
My mom's name, before she got married, was Holly Joestar. My grandfather's is Joseph Joestar. And yours...is Elizabeth, but for some reason they all call you Lisa Lisa, and nobody ever explained to me why.
You don't have to believe me. But I'm not wrong.
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Of course it's strange to think this city can host a myriad of people from even a hundred years apart. Of course she finds it unfeasible, but she's used to the unusual and the bizarre and she somehow finds this easier to believe than the idea that she's dead and that she died, just like that, without even realising it.
So she can concede - for now, until she has any proof of an opposite explanation to her manifestation here. She was never one for nihilism anyway. ]
You're telling me that Joseph Joestar is your grandfather. [ It's not a question or a deliberate way to ignore anything else he said; it's a statement as she wraps her mind around these family ties. This would meant Joseph lives, even if she dies. Joseph lives and marries - Suzie?
Suzie Q? ]
And he had a girl.
[ Holly. Holly Joestar; Holly Kujo?
Lisa Lisa isn't confused; but she's sure as hell masking her bewilderment very well. ]
You're not wrong; not about Joseph or about my name, though I can't say much for anything beyond that. The Joseph I know has never been married - not yet.
[ ... ]
Though I'm assuming what you're implying here is you know what I am to Joseph; and by extension, to you.