rubycity_ooc | [January] 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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

So she's not the one from back-- that's okay. It's okay. It's a weird feeling, and it causes his smile to falter, very faintly, for just a second. But he's just happy to see her.

He leans a bit, one hand on his knee and another held out for hers.

"S' Show Pony, lil' bee. Don't recognize me?"

She takes a good long moment to study him, cataloging every difference from the same man she'd seen what felt like only hours ago. She shook her head slowly, letting her hand drop into his. She frowns, looking around him like she's expecting someone else to be with him.

"No," she finally answers, "You look.... different. Very different. I don't understand. I just saw you a while ago."

That stings a little. But, still, it's okay. It's just how it works.

He grips her hand, gently, helping her out of hiding.

"S' complicated. Tell you all about it, but let's get ya outta this cold first."

"Okay."

She lets him pull her away from the buildings, squeezing his hand a little tighter once she's out on the sidewalk.

"You have a place close by?"

"Yea'."

With a little luck, his smile won't creep her out. There's love and caring in his eyes, but also some sadness. It's a weird mess of feelings.
He brushes his hair back with his free hand, looking down the street like he isn't sure where he is. Or like he's expecting someone to show up. But he looks at her, smiles again, and starts walking.

"So, huh..." How could he even ask this?

" How long you been out 'ere?"

She glances up at him and then back toward the street a few times, antsy and skin itching with nervous energy. She tries to focus on keeping her steps in time with his, even when everything in her is screaming to take off running until she hits sand again. If he's calm, she thinks she needs to at least act like she is.

"A few hours?" She's not sure and it shows on her face. She had started running once she realized she was here, not home, and hadn't bothered to keep track of the time. Her skin wasn't that cold, a sure sign that she hadn't been outside nearly as long as she thought. "I want to ask that about you. Since you look different and all."

"It's...complicated, too." A long time. He's been away from home for a long time. A little over a year, though it feels longer than that.

"But we can dig into it when we get somewhere warm."

He wants to know the last thing she remembers. How far back he needs to reach - what he should tell her. Honestly, he figures that Cola should do most of the talking, he's better at that. But, if he has to, he'll do it.

"S' not far from 'ere."

"Okay." Her tone suggests she's excepting that for now, but its not an answer she likes. She wants to press the issue because her mind's trying to fill in the blanks, figure how tie enough could pass for him to be different, for them to end up some place decidedly not in the Zones. None of her theories sound good and she'd rather not keep thinking about them, freak herself out again.

"Just." Not far suggests they're not leaving this city, or at least not going far from it. Another thing she doesn't like. If it Bat City, if it was BLI controlled, she knows he would have told her to run from the get-go. She knows that. Still, she's worried. "Pony. Are we safe," she stops and gestures around them vaguely, "out here?"

He looks at her, and it's clear to him that he's not helping, in a situation where anyone with half a brain would be confused, concerned, and just plain scared. He remembers how it was for him - how it is for everybody. But it's always hard to try and explain to someone what just happened to them - even harder when it's someone you know and care for.

So his expression softens and he gives her a warm smile - maybe suspicious in itself, in this situation, but it really is a genuine attempt to calm her never.

"We're fine, lil' bunny. Shiny. S' gonna be okay, I promise."

Her grip falls loose in his, her eyebrow shoot high. She wants to trust what he's saying, but she deep down she doesn't. A side effect of the lifestyle. Nothing ever felt truly safe. Not without them. "Okay," she says again, softly. "No lies."

She looks at him, tries to smile in turn to soften her disbelief. To keep him from seeing how uncomfortable she was. "Is anyone else around?" It isn't a dislike for his company, she hopes he knows that. There were just other hands she wants to be holding, that would make her settle in her skin. She tightens her grip again in reassurance.

"No lies." Though he feels that she might not really believe him. But she knows there's others that might make her feel calmer - and an answer to her question.

"CC's around. He's better at explainin' what's goin' on."

She nods, quietly accepting this.

"No one else? Dr. D? Chimp?" Hadn't they all been together before she ran? Which, she realizes, she might owe an apology for eventually. She thinks if Pony was going to bring it up, he would have. But Cherri might, and might actually want to talk about it. She wasn't ready to explain. "Just him?"

He doesn't even really think about bringing that up - not now, anyway, not before the talks about names that he hasn't spoken in months, names that sting, but he does his best to try to not show it. It's upsetting, for sure, but it'd be a lie to say it hasn't happened before, and, besides, he's had a long time to learn to deal with it.

"Just him." Just the two of them, though Cola has more he could tell her. "Jus' the two of us."

He gives her hand a gentle squeeze. "How 'bout we get outta this cold now? We ain't doin' ourselves any favors, freezin' our domes off out 'ere."

There's a lot more that she wants to ask about after that. She didn't know any of them as well as her boys, not anyone really, but she'd gotten it in her head that people like Pony and D stuck together. She'd half believed that's where he was taking her. Same as where she was meant to be heading back home.

But knows that tone, knows when someone's trying to make her drop something for later. "Fine. Feels awful out here anyway." And then she asks, a little hopefully, "You guys got supplies holed up? Any water and Power Pup?"

[January] Test Drive

no helmet, no makeup, different clothes, longer hair... :v he's been around for a while

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