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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!

culpa: (absolutely、 it's worth it every time!)

[personal profile] culpa 2018-08-20 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
( you, yuu, it's basically the same thing. it gets his attention anyway, head tilting up to look over to damian before turning to the pile of wood. but he doesn't. . go for the two-by-four, picks up the biggest piece of wood he can find instead and offers it on up. )

What, this one?
osuni: (wazzup my gurl)

[personal profile] osuni 2018-08-20 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
[YUKINE.... pure...

Okuni's eyes crinkle at the corners in amusement at his reassurance. She thinks it's funny because she's a punk, but she also thinks it's brave of him to do... Maybe he is actually an old geezer pretending to be a kid? Maybe she should put her trust in him?]


And how exactly will you do that?

[she scoots closer.... and then she starts nudging his shoulder with hers, hey hey, TELL HER YUKINE]
theshowsover: (i see whats mine i take it)

[personal profile] theshowsover 2018-08-20 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
[A fair reaction, honestly.

Akira watches this all go down, then clears his throat.]


Are you okay?
culpa: (what do you think you're doing!)

[personal profile] culpa 2018-08-20 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
( wow rude. at the very least he's very good at just. taking it. and ducks his head down, a palm pressing to his face where she smacked him. )

Ow--hey!! It's not like I meant to!
culpa: (frozen in my own light。)

[personal profile] culpa 2018-08-20 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
( sucks that his life has gotten to the point where he's not even sure if he did forget this guy or not.

actually that was always his life. both of yuu's hands raise in surrender. )


Sorry? I. uh. It's not like I try to forget stuff?
fivefingerdeathpunch: smiling with eyes closes (okay. maybe not so bad.)

[personal profile] fivefingerdeathpunch 2018-08-20 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Jotaro is probably a fool to accept that declaration of peaceful intent after all the shit he's been through the last couple of months, but fuck it, he likes it when he doesn't actually have to fight anyone.]

Jotaro. I'd appreciate the backup.

[He's definitely a fool for being so friendly with someone as familiar-looking as Giorno, but he totally saw a guy who looked like Arabic Clint Eastwood when they were in the Middle East, so he's letting it slide for now.]
swordfucker: (21)

[personal profile] swordfucker 2018-08-20 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Ah. He missed this shit child. Eventually, he gives up, letting his arms relax where they are and tilting his head back to stare at the sky like he's tired of it all. Yuu is really here. It could be a good thing, even if he's worried about home.]

I've been stuck in this shit hole. None of the others came with you, huh...

[Unfortunate. It would have been more helpful to have more of them, and whether he admits it to himself or not, he misses them, too. He wants to know they're all okay. But Yuu, selfishly, is who he's worried about the most. He's glad he's here. At that fond thought, he blinks back down at Yuu, reaching to grab at his ear and tug. Let gooo.]

What a pain. I got the worst one.
tropism: (pic#10540667)

[personal profile] tropism 2018-08-20 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ giorno, who's been chased by loud women all his short teenage life, isn't about to explain that feeling to someone else. actually he's been chased by a lot of loud people in his life that he's not about to add flowers to his list as well. especially ones that can talk and potentially reveal things he doesn't want to have out in the open. he cares a lot about such things.

interesting, though. ]


The colours are usually a team effort, and takes time. I doubt you'll be able to do that in a day.

What do you call your power? [ a pause. ] I like it.

[ it's very similar to his own, but giorno's not going to say that at all. he's got no business knowing that anyhow. ]

[personal profile] kyokai 2018-08-20 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ What if he's an old geezer at heart. Okuni would be fine placing her trust in him, maybe, but that confident smile of his gets startled off his face when she nudges him. She's drop dead gorgeous but also Way Too Close. ]

I draw a boundary line, and akayashi aren't able to cross it.

[ Something like that is better shown than explained, so he doesn't bother with it just now and blurts out the question he had in mind when Okuni first spoke to him. ]

But that reminds me, if you can see me, what are you? A god, a spirit, or a demon?
passio: (pic#6016918)

[personal profile] passio 2018-08-20 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ shinya will quickly discover that dextera is not going to say anything, actually, since dextera apologetically taps his throat.

the flower takes this opportunity to tell him that he has an ugly voice no one wants to hear anyway, and dextera winces. he didn’t think he was sensitive about that, but the flower is just so crass. ]


…Guren’s friend?

[ he changes the topic with some sign language—understandable, thanks to the magic of the town. ]
culpa: (the horizon's a million miles away。)

[personal profile] culpa 2018-08-20 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
Ow--owowowow!

( head tilting over to the side to lessen the pressure against his ear, yuu--does finally let go. if only because he already got his hug in and he's pretty satisfied with that. the stupid happy expression on his face doesn't fade any, even if he's wincing from guren pulling on him.

until he realizes what's coming out of guren's mouth anyway. )


What do you mean you got the worst one? I'm the best one!! You should be happy!

( NOW he's gonna start swinging fists around. moment ruined! )
swordfucker: (83)

[personal profile] swordfucker 2018-08-20 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
[They'll find something to ransack, Reim, and he's so sorry. He still thinks he's not on this list, thanks.

But sure, he'll shake his hand.]


Nice to meet you. Have you found your laptop yet?
superwaifu: (miso soup)

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[personal profile] superwaifu 2018-08-20 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Status report noted. Flowers = harmless.]

Hmm. [She's thinking.]

[Hatoko begins diligently burying the flowers in heaps of dirt anyway. She doesn't know this adult in particular but he seems nice. As a teenage girl, she is an excellent judge of character.]

Lawless (Hyde) | SERVAMP

[personal profile] thisucks 2018-08-20 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
2. Fancy dress for a fancy ...hedgehog??


Kyui! Kyui kyui kyuuiiiii~!

[There's a tiny hedgehog calling out to you for help. It's wearing a fancy little vampire costume that even comes along with a tiny hat and is helplessly stuck between a door and its way out. Looks like this little fella tried to rob somebody's food cabinet and got stuck trying to make a getaway.

Will you resist this cute tiny face with the huge pleading eyes?]





4. The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.


[Lawless should have listened to the warnings. He really should have. But like a moth to the flame the vampire hadn't been able to resist to do exactly what he had been told not to do, reasoning that whatever happens won't be able to kill him anyway. Maybe make him a little miserable but he wouldn't be the Servamp of Greed if that could have ever stopped him. If there is something bad then it makes it just all the more worthy to conquer and possess it, riiiiiight~?

And that's how he ends up sitting smack dap in the middle of a field, getting assaulted by one memory after another as the flowers gently sway in the wind.]


Ah, I remember.

I once loved a princess... They told me not to but I did it anyway. She was headstrong and a real menace.

[Had it been worth it?]

Ophelia. You wanted to become the symbol of peace so hard...

[ .......

He'd begged her to let him help her stay alive. Run away with him.

But she had wanted something more.

She had wanted 'Peace'.

Even if that meant to die for it. He remembers standing in front of the scaffold. The sword had come down... Her head had fallen.]


But those things, it never lasts.

[Peace had barely lasted a human lifetime. Another memory comes up. His family, beloved, united. Then the vote they had held on whether or not to kill their father over the off-chance that he could 'become' a villain.

His admired oldest brother lazily deciding it by announcing that he would kill him. How nobody but Lawless had tried to stop him.]


Haha... Look at me, fool that I am crying now. It's just a memory....

[But that's what it is, isn't it. As one of the vampires of origins Lawless has endless lifetimes of people he had become close to and who he had seen rise, shine and fall in the end.

More memories.

The peace his beloved had created crumbling after just a human lifetime. One master after the other, rise, shine, fall, reapeat and repeat. How his siblings had abandoned him one by one because it had been easier to call him the broken rather than look at the mistakes they all had committed. Ignore and destroy the evidence and nobody will ever be able to blame you? Right? Rise and fall, repeat, repeat, repeat-

Then another memory. Two-colored hair, fierce eyes. Fire around them. Angelic sounds, never sorry, never slowing down, showing mercy for no-one.]


-Todoroki!! Not him, you can't take him from me now too! He isn't dead! I didn't feel him die yet! I didn't kill him!!!!

[By now the vampire has pieced together what is happening here and in the jumbled mess of his own memories and what the flowers are showing him he freaks.]


V. Wildcard!
tropism: (pic#10360048)

[personal profile] tropism 2018-08-20 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
'Backup' comes with payment, and I'm here working without a tip. Be careful, Jotaro.

[ but he's smiling, anyway. ]

We should get out of here. [ giorno glances around. ] It's quiet now, but ... you never know. Stranger things have happened in the forest.
regrede: (Default)

[personal profile] regrede 2018-08-20 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
Haha! You’re so rude.

[ very true to vampire form, she isn’t even a little intimidated by guren’s unpleasant attitude. she’s not scared of any attacks he might throw out, and now that she’s gotten him to pause, she walks closer. no running for her, thank you. ]

What are you busy with? I’ll let you take me along if it’s interesting.
umbraportation: (and I feel this life)

Sadie~

[personal profile] umbraportation 2018-08-20 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ An unamused snort. ]

Which part? The love confession or that I was cursed?

[ Nico is not even going to touch on the fact that there was an 's' at the end of the word boyfriend. He's not ready for that kind of talk yet - he was barely ready for the whole part of admitting that he liked boys out loud to people he hardly knew. Instead he chooses to focus on tearing up the pitiful remains of the flower and tossing it aside. ]

Doesn't help that I have someone either. Probably just some god deciding to play a trick on me or something, as if my love life hasn't already been a mess.

[ Also luckily it was only a brief moment of confession and not something he kept going on about. ]
trepidate: <user name=vertebral> (21.)

[personal profile] trepidate 2018-08-20 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
D-Dia—?! [ THIS IS THE LAST PERSON WHO NEEDS TO SEE THEM GETTING OWNED BY FLOWERS.. But rather, no, Phos is sort of relieved that of all the 10s, it's just Diamond. They're more likely to sympathize with the situation rather than tease them or tell anyone, right? Right. ]

It started saying all sorts of awful things to me, you know. I don't think we should get close to it.

[ Solid advice from the person who was just arguing with one! ]
finalize: (now you're a hero.)

[personal profile] finalize 2018-08-20 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ and with permission granted, aigis gets to work! her intricate plan involves advanced calculations, such as...

... gently tugging and fiddling with the cloth until it comes loose!

which it eventually does, after a small bit of silence and some thoughtful shuffling. ]


You are free.

[ you can stop your robot-stillness now, connor. ]

And the fabric remains stuck on your body intact, as promised.

[ we...ird, but not untrue! yay! ]
finalize: (you brought the light.)

[personal profile] finalize 2018-08-20 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
Engineered...? I see.

[ it's her turn to be caught off-guard, honestly, because where she expected jion to be confused or amused he was excited.

then it all kind of makes sense when he says that one word, and suddenly all that tentativeness she's felt melts away into something like... unexpected understanding? she isn't too sure how she should feel right now.

he said excitement, so maybe that's what this unexpected jolt in her chest is. "excitement".

and now, more easily: ]


I cannot give the specifics, but I am also something of an... engineered unit. I can't blend in quite as well as you, of course...

[ given she wouldn't have even guessed, really, that he was something of a kindred spirit, and he guessed very easily-- ]

... I suppose the simplest way to summarize myself would be as a... [ this time she hesitates just a tad ] "Robot". Or "living weapon".
finalize: (now you're a hero.)

[personal profile] finalize 2018-08-20 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ it occurs to her for a moment that maybe she said the wrong thing...

... but she doesn't quite know how to correct it, considering she was just making an observation. ]


And you are already so much taller than Koromaru-san... That's wonderful, Amada-san. If you continue at this rate, you may even surpass Akihiko-san.

[ aigis


no. ]
swordfucker: (29)

[personal profile] swordfucker 2018-08-20 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
Haha.

[This is the amusement he missed. He'd stood straight and dusted the wrinkles out of his uniform the first chance he got, but he still has time to reach up and catch one of those fists, gripping it as he grins down at him.]

No way. [He's happy. Even as some of the gray flowers around them pipe up with their insults, telling Guren that he's garbage that can't save anyone, he doesn't care.]

I'm surprised you didn't immediately run to the most dangerous place in this town. Maybe you've got some brains, after all.
trepidate: <user name=vertebral> (30.)

[personal profile] trepidate 2018-08-20 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
But you're already right here.

[ Phos has low self-esteem, why would they believe something nice a flower tells them. Please.]

If the colored flowers are fine, then we should work on fixing the uncolored ones. [ Original idea right here. ] So tell me your name, we'll become besties and get rid of all these mean flowers.
rerevale: (1.)

[personal profile] rerevale 2018-08-20 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh well.

He might as well do this the fun way!!

When Metera grabs his hand, Momo takes that opportunity to spin her around— or try to, at least. He might wind up making a fool of himself, but that's fine.
]

That's a really good attitude, but we should definitely try to find out each other's names, first. And we can start as friends!

[ This might be trite, but he is, in fact, Sincere. ]

I might not look it, but I'm really shy, you know. [ A wink. He's definitely Lying. ] You have to be super gentle with me!
Edited 2018-08-20 10:29 (UTC)
averagemedium: (pic#8968200)

[personal profile] averagemedium 2018-08-20 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
I'll keep that in mind. Don't worry, though, I try not to go looking for trouble.

[That's a lie, he just thinks he doesn't...

He smiles, though, adding--]


If you know anyone who'd need either of those, you can send them my way, yeah? I don't mind helping out, and-- well, it'd be nice to have something to do beyond checking the area out.

[A useful kind of distraction sounds pretty good to him.]