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Test Drive Meme 2.

These are the mem’ries that last.
These are the mem’ries that will never pass.
And time waits for no one.
It’s gone in a flash.
And only the mem’ries will last.

Prompt 1:

he forest looms, uninviting and full of menace, an unwelcoming place for sure. Time to go explore! It isn't as though there's anywhere else to go, now that you've looked around the Town.

The trees whack at you with branches that have far too much mobility for normal trees, strange and mutated animals watch from the shadows and boughs, and there’s the constant, constant sense of being watched --

But eventually, nonetheless, you’ll come across a small house in the forest. It sticks out like a sore thumb, bright and colorful, which is probably the first warning that something is way off, and it’s...covered in candy. It’s a candy house! It looks delicious.

(It’s empty, too, not a single soul in it, without even furniture, but everything is otherwise edible and utterly delicious.)

But if you eat the candy? You’re going to have a terrible, overwhelming urge to do one of two things:

Fight the first person you see

Kiss the first person you see

Unfortunate.

Prompt 2:

he problem with a Town like this is that now that color is starting to return, bit by bit? You never really know when color’s going to come back -- or disappear. Maybe you’ve made a delightful, delicious sandwich from handmade bread and tomatoes and deer meat, all of which have color now… and then suddenly, when taking a bite, you get only the taste of ash and bread and tomato as the deer meat loses color.

Also, someone probably died for that color to fade away. Alarming!

Or maybe you’re walking along when suddenly your makeshift clothing is a hideous mix-match of colors; it had seemed fine when it was all grey and colorless!

Or perhaps, even worse, you’re walking out of a house when suddenly, the flowerbed in front of it has full color, bright and maybe a little blinding after so much monochrome. Damn those color mechanics.

Prompt 3:

he quest seems simple, on the Quest Post:

Quest 33:
Feed the Cockatrice.
Requirements: 2 of any color

Key word, of course, is seems. First, you have to find the cockatrice. Maybe grab someone to drag into the woods with you, since there needs to be at least two of you. Time to stomp through the woods in search of the elusive cockatrice.

Of course, once you find it, the quest...looks a bit harder. The monster hisses, ready to turn anyone who approaches to stone, as cockatrice tend to do. What do you even feed that thing? How will you get it to take it without getting stoned up? There are so many questions.

At least the stone will wear off...eventually… if you’re unlucky enough to get petrified.

Prompt 4:

ut hey, you did it! You fed the cockatrice, it seemed satisfied, and now you can go fetch your reward from your home. It must be something amazing, with the work that you put in.

The only change in your home, though, is what looks like a...picture book. It's got a colorful cover (in your character's color shade), and has their name on the cover, so it definitely belongs to them.

And when they flip it open, it's clearly full of pictures scribbled in, as if drawn in scribbly crayon. Unlike the rest of the Town, this book is fully colorful, every shade of the rainbow in those crayon strokes... which depict, page by page, your character's worst moments in their life. Every single last horrific experience or tragic moment -- it's all there, in colorful, cute children's drawings.

Congratulations!

Extra:

Got something in mind? Want to play with the setting more? The sky's the limit, so feel free and make up your own prompts to play with!

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[ Holy shit--

that's such an awesome weapon.

Mafuyu's only really owned things like brass knuckles and wooden swords, but using weapons isn't something she's accustomed to, nor of fighting against them. Surprised as she is by the attack, the way she immediately dodges looks instinctual, moving out of the way and seamlessly into a position ready to strike— she launches off without stopping, and grabs the other end of the sanjiegun. ]

So cool! What is this? Can you show me how to use this!

[ No sorries, completely ignoring Nanami's shouts. ]

[Don't just stack books on him, jesus. Ling objects to that but not being draped all over (there's no such thing as boundaries after body sharing, agreed), but it's time to look at these awful drawings instead. He looks at each of Greed's pages before shifting the books around to flip through his own.

It really is a Promised Day montage, here, with plenty of the same images, and Ling hesitates when he reaches the end (going backwards, so the beginning, but details) because if there isn't a Greed memory before all of this then it's going to be Lan Fan losing her arm and he doesn't want to confront that again, even in crayon scribbles.

But okay, flipping the page reveals... not Bido's death, but oddly enough the jumble of memories of the rest of Greed's gang he'd seen at that time. It must be chronological for each of them, but still—these books just keep getting better and better.]

These must have been confusing to put together. [Should've given them an omnibus edition!! He lifts the corner of the next page and then puts it back down; it's not Lan Fan, it's worse... it's a shoe.]

Kiss or Fight?

[The door to the mysterious candy house is left open, which is the strangest part of this. It's also strange that a house made of candy can manage to have a working door at all, but here we are. Inside, there's a boy who looks about 18 and far too unharmed for how far into the forest he's wandered. There are no scuff marks on any of his pure white clothing, on his skin, no scratches, no bruises.

But he's incredibly thin and frail looking, so it must have been luck that brought him here. Still, however it was that he managed to get here without being harmed, he's now standing inside of the house, not far from the doorway, popping a cute little colored candy into his mouth. He couldn't resist!

Of course, when he turns to see who's walked in behind him, there's an instant urge he can't seem to understand.]

(ooc: choose ur fate or I'll pick randomly... eichi is sickly so either way he'll suck at it)

Feed him, he's spoiled

[You know what Eichi doesn't really do? Cook. Not when he has staff to do it for him, friends who are willing to help him, money to buy whatever he needs. But here, stuck in this mostly-grey town and watching ingredients turn pale before him, it's even more upsetting. He doesn't even have tea to ease his mind about it?

Eventually, he takes to the streets, to wherever he can find someone. An open window in your kitchen? Maybe he's there, suddenly, peering through with a soft, angelic smile. Or maybe you're preparing food in public. Either way...]

[...he wants some. His gaze won't leave the food at all, and these compliments sound generic to the trained ear.]

Eichi shouldn't do quests

[Something Eichi shouldn't be considering at all is coming face to face with a cockatrice. Isn't that a mythical beast that's rumored to kill anyone it looks at or breathes on? Something like that, like straight out of a fairytale.

Later, he'll talk to just about anyone about it.]

[Draw the reader in...? It's a quest? He hums anyway, like he's thinking about it, and touches his fingertips to his own chin, eyeing the person he's with. Actually, they look quite capable enough...]

Wildcard

[HIT ME WITH ANYTHING.

zeloser]

Leave it! Put it back!

[In one big, swooping motion of a man who has a jacket but is not wearing it properly, Howl waves his arm in Ling's direction without prying his face from the doorframe. He's acting like he's been cut and paste from a dramatic movie scene with the world's smallest violin in the background. Oh the humanity??]

Bury it! Burn it! I dropped it with purpose, and now you're undermining it!

[ Maybe she wants to see all the other fortunes he's got hidden away in this book, trying to flip the page but not managing to do so because she also doesn't want to tear the pages. ]

Food, and... I dunno, what else do you need money for?

[ So, just food. ]

[...well, that certainly is a huge monster bird. Kaoru turns to her with a grin and a thumbs up. She's never fought a giant bird before, but how hard could it be, really?]

Ah, but if a cute girl like you is protecting me then who's protecting you?

[ nanami has never seen someone so colorful, and in this mostly-grey town, it's hard to miss the fact that someone is suddenly a bright, beautiful rainbow leopard!

but he seems so sad about it. ]

...I think it's nice! You look like a circus performer!

[Well, that's weird and kind of interesting. And honestly really, deeply traumatic, so much so that he's not even faking a grin anymore. But interesting, yeah, because it's the same exact perspective with wildly different takes, and what's that supposed to mean?

Probably that Ling was more moved by the memories than Bido's death himself. Not to say Greed wasn't fucked up by that, but killing Bido was a trauma unto itself (and honestly, he's sure everyone else's deaths are illustrated somewhere else, so it's not as if they're forgotten).

Anyway. He thought he'd see something about Lan Fan, or maybe something in Xing, but no, it's just . . . something brown?]

What the hell was that?

[TURN THE PAGE or he'll turn it for you, gently but firmly.]

[Damn dude, you okay?? You good??? Or: Ling just stands there, actually, but in doing so allows the book to be swiped out of his hands and back onto the ground, where it lands face down. He doesn't even flinch, this just happens. He's still holding his hands out like a book is resting on them, and everything.]

Good aim for someone who won't look up.

[Gandalf pauses in his walking to blink at the rather troubled young man. He glances but once at the book, guessing what this is about.]

Burning the images will do little to burn what troubles you, my dear boy.

[His tone is gentle and without judgement; he'll certainly lend a match or offer to light it himself if Prompto really wants but he wishes to be sure the boy isn't expecting that to be the end of it first.]

[Diana's too curious by nature not to go snooping around to see what everyone else is doing (though she'd call it a different name for sure, amazons don't!!! snoop!!!), so here she is doing exactly that. She'd keep her distance, since sometimes you just don't know the kind of people you encounter in a panfandom, but the sight of Annabeth's intense concentration seems familiar (the kind of look Menalippe would have while making yet another Obstacle Course of Doom probably).

The strange device she has on her lap is also quite interesting, and so Diana finds herself moving closer and closer until she's like right behind Annabeth, peering down at her screen like the worst kind of rubbernecker. A rubbernecker dressed in some kind of armored body suit complete with sword and shield, but at least the last two are strapped to her back.]

Is that an artifact native to Greece?

[You don't see many objects outside of pottery and swords and interesting books that are written in Ancient Greek aite]

[This kind of reaction just kind of... gets Howl to slump over more. He slowly drags himself from the door to just fold himself over his legs.

Muffled, from his knees:] If one is turned into a bird enough times... one becomes part-bird.

[profound]

[This house is made of candy...?? But he can't focus on that for very long when he sees someone sprawled in the center of it. Guren doesn't care if it might be a trap. He's on guard as he enters, but he still crouches beside him, reaching out to touch the stranger's arm.]

What happened? [First step, since he's clearly not really Okay.]

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[ At first he thought he was seeing things, maybe having taken one too many branches to the back of his head, but no, the color Iori saw through the trees was very real and it's a huge relief. The color makes it easy to navigate towards but once he gets there rather than going inside, Iori stands and surveys the house. He may not know a lot of Western fairy tales but he still knows when something's too good to be true.

Still, it is very inviting... ]

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[ Iori's not really sure how this constitutes a reward for something as difficult as feeding a cockatrice, but he picks the little blue book up and opens it anyway. Anyone watching might be able to see, even with the lack of color, how he gets paler still flipping through the pages.

His brother's first day at school is confusing but easy enough to move past. Things get worse from there, though, and by the time he's looking at a picture of himself in a spotlight with his mouth closed, just a single ragged line, while six other figures stare at him, he's clearly uncomfortable. ]

How does anyone know this much about me? Who is telling them this?

[NO, DON'T... Think about his opinions on total strangers' deaths instead! He has a few more disapproving friendship speeches up his sleeve just waiting to get out there!!]

Nothing. [He slaps his hand down on the book, such that Greed will have to literally tear it from him to see his shame.] A crucial mistake in the history of Xing, that's all.

[ Mafuyu, if allowed to dress herself, is just sort of like this, so that shirt is legit awesome and is the entire reason why Mafuyu wanders over to Ling in the first place, with her plate piled high of temporarily delicious food. It's mostly raw stuff she has, because heck if she can cook, but here is a whole bowl of soup somebody else has so kindly cooked up for everybody and she can spare some soup.

Aka standing over him while he's lying on the ground and proceeding to tip the bowl and pour soup straight into his mouth.

Also the soup turns into mud. ]

[Oh, no. She said the magic words.]

Oh, kid.

[He laughs as he yanks the book up, pulling it out of her hands. And just to stop her from trying to leap up and grab it, he shoves a hand through her hair, rough but not unfriendly.]

You gotta think bigger then that! Food's great, sure, but what about . . .

[Well. The things he likes aren't really appropriate for a kid, although she isn't as much of a child as Greed thinks she is, but still. He's not going to say liquor and women to a little girl.]

Look. What else do you like doing besides eating?

[ BLINDFOLD YOURSELF...like, that's fine so long as: ]

You're experienced fighting blindfolded? [ she doesn't sound disparaging. if mafuyu says she can fight blindfolded annabeth is just gonna take her at her word here? ]

[Kaoru stares at him for a long moment.]

Mister, [Sounds patient and gentle.] if you've been trying to quit smoking all your hard work will go to waste if you give in to temptation now.

[She isn't even being sarcastic. She 100% wants to help you quit smoking (?).]

[ He's not a guy who likes to dwell on heavier issues, so a change in topic is more than welcome. Actually, he's more shocked than anything that Greed could see his Stand-hands. ]

You saw that ...? [ Is Greed an ENEMY STAND USER -- Probably not, he seems so chilled-out and civil so far. Not all Stand users are out to get him, so beyond the initial surprise there's no reason to start being suspicious of this man. He does want to ask later on though, just how Greed was able to see Crazy Diamond.

His expression flattens when the book is brought up again, and he lets out a tired sigh. ] My best friend. But he's alright now, probably stuffing his face without me somewhere back home.

[ top 10 anime betrayals ] What's even the point of all this -- Were they trying to piss me off for fun?

[ the problem with nanami's cooking is that she "can" "cook."

nothing looks wrong with the food, and she's an expert at scraping together meals from limited ingredients and making it ""edible."" it's just that she has no sense of taste, and that's impossible to tell from just looking at her food that it's like the devil himself prepared it.

she's even wearing a cute little grey apron! she's so prepared! and there's a nice stew simmering away on the fire, a little weird in color due to the limited ingredients, but it doesn't look bad. ]

Oh! [ he's so beautiful! ] Hee hee. It's nothing, really... Nanami just likes to cook.

Whoa! [It's not every day that a wolf comes running toward you at full speed. There's a dubious second where Izuku tenses up, ready to fight the perceived threat--you can't be too careful in this forest, he's learned--but something stops him.

Several things, actually. Like those bracelets and the fact that the wolf is colored and normal looking, unlike the grey mutated animals he usually sees around here. But mostly, it's the sense of fear that he gets when he looks at the wolf. Izuku lets his fists drop back to his sides and carefully cranes his neck to look at the wolf hiding behind him.] Um...hi?

[He's not sure if he should be expecting a reply, but better safe than sorry, right?]

[would somebody please have mercy on Ling

Or: that would be a great shirt, but alas all he has going for him right now is hotrod polos and starving to death (not really), so they'll have to bond about that another time. He sees all of her food and feels an immediate rush of gratitude, that she would spare some for him—

But pouring soup directly down at his face is not ideal, wait, wait—]

Hang on, isn't that hot! Don't— [Nope, now it's a faceful of mud and he's sputtering, trying to spit it out.] Stop pouring it—!

Nope, but I bet I can do it.

[ She says she can fight blindfolded; will Annabeth just take her word for it? ]

What? Uhhh.

[slllLLLOOOW DOWN, PARDNER. Prompto opens his mouth a couple time to try to answer at least one of the slew of questions, but then ends up mostly laughing a little, bewildered but charmed. He thinks he's charmed? Sure, he'll be charmed.]

Nah, I'm not a... whatever you said? None of those things. I'm just a guy! A guy with a camera. My buddies and I run into wild animals a lot for hunts and stuff. Oh, here we go!

[He leans over to show Dave the camera screen. Hello, baby!]

With a chocobo for size comparison. Aaaand me, I guess. Man, I wonder who took this picture...

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