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Test Drive Meme 3.





Mary, Mary, quite contrary
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells,
And cockle shells,
And pretty maids all in a row.




Prompt 1:

t's probably been at least a little while since you managed to climb out of the well, so hopefully you've dried off by now and are enjoying poking around the Town. But who cares about all of that? More importantly, the Town has a new feature this time, for reasons entirely unknown to everyone.

The flowers...seem to be talking. They have no faces, but they will definitely turn to talk to you, and if they have had their color restored, they will very brightly and contentedly compliment you, or your clothing, or wish you well.

If they haven't? Prepare yourself for all sorts of horrible, horrible insults, because that's all that's coming your way.


Prompt 2:

ow are you settling in? Is the Town treating you well? It's not as bad as it used to be; some of the houses have color, some of the food has color and taste as well. It's been polished up a bit since everyone first got here.

Granted, when you wake up that morning to find yourself in full fancy wear of many different types (all colorless, and gender has nothing to do with which you might end up in), you'll find that the Town might not be as well put together as it seems.

You can't get out of the formal wear. It just won't come off, no matter what you do. Which wouldn't be so bad, but... it seems like these clothes will snag on just about everything in the Town, which is far from smooth. Try not to trip over those loose cobblestones, or your dress snagging on a nail sticking out from a door frame. This is really not the place for this sort of clothing.


Prompt 3:

e loves me, he loves me not... that's a pretty familiar game, right? For some reason, the urge to pick one of those flowers and casually pluck the petals from it while playing that game is going to grow stronger and stronger the more flowers you see. Eventually? You're just going to have to cave to it.

(Certainly it doesn't help that the flowers scream a bit when you pull their petals; they still can talk right now, after all!)

She loves you, she loves you not...and by the time you've picked the last petal, you've forgotten who you were even thinking of originally -- instead, the very next person you see is going to be the victim of a very impassioned declaration of love. Don't worry, you'll come back to yourself...after you declare your undying love for everyone to hear.


Prompt 4:

ut no matter how many people tell you not to go into the forest, however, it's still rather enticing, isn't it? It's sitting right there, waiting for you to explore it, waiting for you to just step a little bit out of the Town...

And soon, you're surrounded by the dark boughs of the trees, the twisty, turny paths of the woods, where it feels like you're wandering in circles for hours upon hours --

And then, after ages of tree branches yanking at your hair and roots tripping you up, you find a clearing.

And in that clearing? There's a field of flowers. They're colorless -- strangely eerie because of it, but still distinctly recognizable to the flower familiar as Asphodel. And touching any single one of those flowers will suddenly give you vivid memories of one of your precious friends -- so long as they're dead. Anyone around you is going to experience that flash of memory too, so be careful!


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!



Welcome to Awash's third Test Drive Meme! Please check out the FAQ and rules as you test your characters out. The setting is yours to play with, so be creative and have a good time with it!

An important date to remember is September 1st, 9 PM EST, when Applications will open. There will be no reserves for this app round or any future app rounds, so it will be first come, first served applications. As a side note, TDM threads are not canon, so please feel free to assume established CR for the sake of the TDM if it will make threading or showing off your character's voice easier.

If you have any questions about the TDM, feel free to ask us here. If there are any other questions, you can catch us via PM, the FAQ or the contact page. You are of course welcome to use prompts from the previous two test drives. Thank you for your interest in Awash!

bulletheart: (pic#12476535)

3 and he's about to die

[personal profile] bulletheart 2018-10-03 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[ As much as Agnum loves to act like he's worldly about everything, the world of love is... totally foreign to him. He's never actually gone on a date with a woman. In fact, the only dates he's ever gone on were with... Yuma.

And those were... an awkward exploration of a side of him he's still coming to terms with. He's small and cute and literally their whole ragtag team has fallen in love with the heroic little asshole, get off his case, ok?

So this is... well.

What the fuck is what it is. What the fuck? Who is this guy? He's burly and uncute and definitely not someone he's met before and he's holding his hand.

Agnum is not above lighting the guy on fire, but he'll give him the benefit of the doubt here. He's hot-tempered but not an asshole, okay? ]


Yo.... buddy, what the hell are you on about? If you got your nose into some bad mushrooms, like, I get it but... this is...

SLIDES IN LATE WITH SBUX

[personal profile] lilies 2018-10-16 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[ there's something incredibly...

artful about ignis holding a basket in one hand, a knife in the other, poised for anything like a coeurl set to spring upon its prey. he's a lean silhouette in the shadows, saying his name in a way that seems almost too hesitant for gladio to feel reassured. instead, he places a hand against a tree he's leaned against, two fingers caught in his collar as he tries to loosen it a bit comically.

and he stares.

and he stares a bit longer.

because the ignis looking back at him is someone who has both of his eyes, a pair of glasses poshly perched on his nose. the disastrous scar over his face doesn't exist and instead, gladio is looking him dead in both eyes, his own gaze intense, evaluating at being caught in such an embarrassingly vulnerable situation. ]


Iggy.

[ not a question, but tailed with doubt. ignis with both eyes emerging from the trees like a dream - humorous in his dichotomy: knife like the sharp teeth of a beast prepared to strike and basket cradled protectively.

gladio shakes his head. ]


That really you?

[ lips breaking faintly into a smile, a private one for the two of them. ]

let's assume it :3 (also sorry for the lateness! pls love me...)

[personal profile] lilies 2018-10-16 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ something in the back of gladio's mind says This Is Ridiculous (TM) like this is absolutely the worst joke, and for half a second he's fighting it. he's a willful guy, after all - the personification of both unstoppable force and immovable object.

but is that willfulness just not enough today.

buddy, dearest, sweetest prompto: you think this is a joke. and it kind of is. a joke that the flowers are all about because gladio just deigned it good and proper to a) insult them right back and b) go around plucking petals off because they literally urged him to. what a weird place this is.

anyways. in a fashion that prompto might actually be able to appreciate, here's a really awful joke. it pains gladio. seriously, it is literally causing him bodily harm to say this: ]


What do you say when you want a kiss from a flower?
photoshooter: (OH? 📷 Kim's marrying who?)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2018-10-16 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[...........?????????????????????]

...If this is about Iris, I swear on my life I've never hit on her, ever.

[personal profile] lilies 2018-10-16 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[ this has nothing to do with iris and gladio's eyes clearly show it with the way he scrunches up his face just a little, drawn brows and slightly twisted smile. ]

This is definitely not about my sister. It's about us.

[ he looks dead serious. ]

[personal profile] lilies 2018-10-16 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ gladio up on one knee looks noctis back in his eyes, seeming deadly serious in comparison to noct's blase sort of look. still, there's a desperate part of gladio that really seriously wants to stop this while the overpowered portion of him thanks to those goddamn flowers just keeps on embarrassing him for the second time in a row. he's literally never going to cross another flower wrong again as long as he lives. he'll never even look at one. fuck flowers.

fuck flowers. ]


You can't.

[ ughhhhh ]

I need you.
photoshooter: (SQUINT 📷 Well that's just unsanitary)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2018-10-16 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh. Okaaaayyy...?

[Maybe Gladio has a fever. Maybe Gladio's dying. Prompto can't check while they're holding hands, though, so better humor him until he can get Ignis or something.]

So what do you say when you want a kiss from a flower?

[personal profile] lilies 2018-10-16 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ gladio is pretty sure he's dying. or he will be dying. in fact, he'll probably be dead by the end of this conversation. does that look like sweat on his forehead? it's definitely sweat. ]

Plant one on me.

i'm super late but know that i accept my mantle as a murderer

[personal profile] lilies 2018-10-16 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[ gladio really. really. doesn't wanna get lit on fire. in fact, if there were any other way to stop this crazy flower-driven problem, he would do it. unfortunately... it has to be done away with in the most ridiculous manner possible. and apparently with a complete and utter stranger, which makes this possibly? worse. ]

I wish it were mushrooms.

[ it's... a start???? grit teeth, furrowed brows. god he really needs all of this to be over. ]
photoshooter: (SELFIE 📷 Gotta put this on Hastegram)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2018-10-16 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
--Oh! I get it. Hahaha!

[Prompto manages to free one of his hands to ruffle Gladio's hair, because whaaaat else is he supposed to do, here?]

Good one. Man, I'll have to remember that for later.
whichcraft: god the killers truly understand my soul (BURN ♚ on the back of a hurricane)

3 (surprise you also get summer)

[personal profile] whichcraft 2018-10-17 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[There are some things that you just sort of expect out of life in Chroma. Weirdo animals with too many limbs running around in the woods. Crazy batshit siren islands popping up in the middle of the lake and kidnapping residents for noms and profit. Wishing wells that grant you prom dresses if you've got a coin and a can-do attitude. Cute boys with magic guns perpetually teasing you about stealing potatoes.

You know. Usual, everyday things.

Here's what Summer isn't expecting out of Chroma today: a huge, incredibly built dude diving onto his knees like a fairytale prince on steroids, catching her hand and looking up at her like he's about to wax poetic or start making bodices rip open everywhere within a ten mile radius, or possibly both.

And yet, here we are, and boy does he ever have her looking like a deer in the headlights.]


Uh.

[OH LORD OH FUCK OH WHAT OH HELP OH JEEZ]

...No hablo ingles?
icharibachode: (pic#12643023)

Monkey D. Luffy | One Piece

[personal profile] icharibachode 2018-10-19 07:22 am (UTC)(link)
i. rude flowers

[Are you taking a carefree stroll through Chroma? Having a few pleasant chats with the colorful flowers? Well, too bad, because your idyllic moment is about to be interrupted by some yelling.]

--Shut up! I'm gonna be the Pirate King!

[Oh, someone new is here. He turns to you with a fist full of uprooted flowers and what could only be described as a pout on his face as he points toward the colorless flowers in your path.]

Meh, don't walk by those ones. They're annoying.

ii. pirates arr not fancy

[Luffy's normal attire consists of: a red coat, pants, sandals, and a straw hat. Needless to say, this is about as far from fancy as you can possibly get, so when he's suddenly stuck in a formal suit, he's instantly trying to get it off of him. Which goes great with said clothes catching on everything, really, so at some point he trips on a rock at the top of a hill while he's tugging at a cravat, and being a stretchy person made of rubber makes this nothing short of a recipe for disaster.

Which is to say, at some point a literal human rubber band ball comes rolling to a stop at your feet, looking about as helpless as a turtle rolled onto its back. Save him.]


iii. it's nakama time

[Surprise surprise, Luffy definitely got bored and pulled some petals off a flower. But unlike the more reserved individuals who might feel the urge for a love confession as something shameful or awkward, something to try to hold in, Luffy has literally zero qualms about it. The next person that passes by finds an arm suddenly extending to grab their sleeve and hold them in place, before there's a teenager in their face with a huge grin on his own.]

Hey, hey, you're pretty great, you know? Come join my crew!

[What? That's basically a love confession as far as Luffy's concerned, okay.]

iv. the wildcard option, aka: obligatory shipanigans

[See Luffy. See Luffy slipping onto one of the boathouses and trying to untie it from its perch on the harbor. Is this your house? Better act fast before you both float away.

Or: maybe Luffy successfully untied a boathouse, which then sprang a leak and started to sink. Catch him clinging onto the mast like an actual monkey, screeching out into the distance for anyone with eardrums to offer Assistance.]


HEEEEEEELPPPPPPP--!!! I CAN'T SWIM!!! HEEEEEEEEEY ANYBODYYYYYYYY--!!
Edited 2018-10-19 07:31 (UTC)
parodeity: nubbybuns @ tumblr (YO 🎧 you make no sense)

iii

[personal profile] parodeity 2018-10-22 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh, what? Are you asking me to be in a street gang? Is this that fabled thing known as peer pressure?

[ dave isn't too bothered by some guy in his face with a grin - he knows a bunch of idiots just like that - although he does try to reclaim his arm. ]

I'm definitely committed to my life of "doing whatever the fuck whenever the fuck", but you do have good taste. I'm a real catch for any and all group activities.
grimdeity: nuclearcarrots @ tumblr (CALM 🌹 stoic remarks aside)

[personal profile] grimdeity 2018-11-02 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
A mage, hm? [ so an rpg wizard by another name WOULD SMELL AS SWEET ] I don't think I have. Guilds aren't exactly a thing where I'm from, though mages of a sort are.
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[personal profile] scriptive 2018-11-02 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
Really? Then what is it your mages do?

[ sans guild she means ]
grimdeity: freshfriend @ tumblr (MAGIC 🌹 mastery over)

[personal profile] grimdeity 2018-11-02 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
It varies, based on their aspect. I haven't been able to personally analyze them as a class, unfortunately. I believe it to be perhaps an "active" version of my own "passive" class as a Seer.

[ whatever sollux does ]