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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!

ninjanature: (pic#12382349)

[personal profile] ninjanature 2018-08-25 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, he can't exactly cross his arms, so he just stands off to the side with his hand on his hip beneath the swallowing cloaked jacket.

He doesn't use the sharingan or the rinnegan, but even so, his dark eye has the quickest movements when following the clay and the streaks of lightning. He appraises the work almost exactly like he appraised her before in the cafe.

Of course, he has to take in consideration she is just showing him in favor of seeing something back, and she has no intention of becoming a ninja. If so, he'd probably pretend to be a little harder.]


Not bad. How long have you had these abilities?
superwaifu: (miso soup)

[personal profile] superwaifu 2018-08-25 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
[Not bad? Having known him a little while now she should have guessed it would take something earth-shaking to impress him. Even so, she has to remind herself that the lack of high praise isn't because she's nothing special out of everyone in the entire world. It's because a ninja sees this sort of thing all the time!

Right?

That tactic he's using really is effective; Hatoko isn't one for building up her image but she does have an unusual desire to GIT GUD and really earn a pat on the head.]

Three months, I think.
noholdsbard: (Staying composed)

[personal profile] noholdsbard 2018-08-25 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
You do yourself an injustice. You were more than a mere cat from the very beginning. [ Which was why he was wary in the first place. If you have to fight in a magical battle royale filled with political alliances and intrigue and fucking mages then you’d want to be careful too. ]

That is why I cannot simply trust you with the secret of my harp.
lavabend: (59.)

[personal profile] lavabend 2018-08-25 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
Woah! [ He didn't expect a large, purple man to phase out of Jotaro, but this is apparently happening. This purple ghost sure is huge, too! ]

Oh. Okay. I get it now -- Astral projection, like Jinora can do! But your own body's still moving, so I guess it's different.

[ Now he looks Star Platinum over, curious about him. ] But he doesn't look a thing like you. Well, besides how neither of you seem to like smiling a whole lot.
purrsuasively: (12)

[personal profile] purrsuasively 2018-08-25 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
[Damn, can't you just let him pretend to be lazy cat?? This human is going to ask for something complicated, Mogget just knows. He's tired already.]

Yes, yes, you want something in return. My wise counsel? It's priceless, you know, and humans hardly ever heed it.

[And the ones that do are met with either great success or horrible failure. It depends on his mood, really. He's terrible.]
lavabend: (73.)

no ...... the worst

[personal profile] lavabend 2018-08-25 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
You know those pioneer-types. They sure love naming things as they see 'em. I once visited a town near a large cave that was just called 'Cavetown'.

[ Or maybe... he dreamed that. Bolin actually stops to ponder this. What a mystery. ]

Hold on, a ninja village?
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[personal profile] purrsuasively 2018-08-25 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
[This girl asks more questions than anyone should be allowed to ask. Mogget... is tired.]

I didn't waste time bemoaning my misfortune, as so many of you did. I left that dreadful place as quickly as I possible could.

[Because water is awful, you see. FUCK water. He hunches his back at the very thought before continuing right along.]

As to how, well... that's a secret. A very useful one. [No, he's just being Rude, and he cements this with a yawn.] If only you'd paid more attention to your surroundings...
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[personal profile] grimdeity 2018-08-25 10:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ she recognizes his voice before she even sees that it's dave. ]

Oh, I don't know, I might enjoy being attached to this bush for the rest of my life.

[ she looks up to give dave a wry grin, then frowns slightly. ]

And why aren't you trapped in impractical clothing that gets caught on everything?
noholdsbard: (Sail le vie Iseult)

[personal profile] noholdsbard 2018-08-25 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He’s not entirely keen on that purported wise counsel, either. Mogget, you’ve already proven that you cannot be trusted… ]

I always need counsel, I feel, but there is something far more valuable that I desire.

[ Wait for it. ]

A comrade.
ninjanature: (pic#12385832)

[personal profile] ninjanature 2018-08-25 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's a tough cookie, sorry Hatoko.]

Three months. [Hm. His eye lifts upward then returns to her and the area of the dusted clay. Some gifted ninjas learn techniques in a few days, but she is neither a rare ninja nor learning their kind of techniques.

She did manipulate lightning with extreme precision while also manipulating earth. The corners of his lips twitch up into something reassuring.]


Impressive. Not many ninja can work with two natures at the same time in three months of starting.
ninjanature: (pic#12385832)

[personal profile] ninjanature 2018-08-25 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[Cavetown. Why are people like this???]

It's a village of ninja clans. They train to become ninja who can be hired by others for jobs requiring espionage and infiltration, to name a few.
inheritance: commission; DNS (188)

[personal profile] inheritance 2018-08-25 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Shouto and I are in the same cottage! And there's Mikleo-kun and Sorey-kun, too.

[Izuku pauses at that, tapping at his chin.]

We should figure out where you're supposed to be staying, too, All Might. That can wait until later, though.
swordfucker: (193)

[personal profile] swordfucker 2018-08-25 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm working on it. Sheesh.

[He waves it off, literally, eyes focused ahead. To Ruga, to his house... his big ugly purple house. But really, it's not like it's quiet in there, either? But he'll shut the door.]

Have you run into anyone else here? Crowley's been here, just so you know.
superwaifu: (banana smoothie)

[personal profile] superwaifu 2018-08-25 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[She is absolutely not going to inform him that it was three months of reading manga and sharing strawberry pocky in the clubroom with the occasional agreeing to 'hey u wanna spar' when she was in exactly the right mood to play along with her friends' interests.]

Heeheehee~

[He praised her, uwah! It feels good. She hadn't worked too hard on it or anything which makes the skill unusual; she's used to putting an effort into studying or learning to cook to get the best flavours. This must be what it feels like to be a naturally-talented genius! It's a first.]

Look, look. This one is fun too!

[She's happy now, and goes on further without being asked to mix droplets of water in the air, refining them. It doesn't take much time, then adds bursts of rounded, short-lived lightning to create ✨a rainbow✨.]
swordfucker: (48)

[personal profile] swordfucker 2018-08-25 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't make me hit you again.

[He can feel his irritation (and exhaustion) building from this guy. God.]
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[personal profile] bittybat 2018-08-25 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[The tightening grip makes him feel bad--she's scared--so he keeps his strong and firm as if to say he won't let go unless someone takes his hand off.

Getting out the forest is easier, surprisingly, than wandering in through it. There's no doubt it changes, even as they walk. Any landmarks he's made or he makes with his eyes are gone when he takes the time to look back. Sometimes, he pauses to listen briefly for anything.

He can't believe nothing is trying to make them miserable, and he feels uselessly stupid for telling her to be paranoid once they come out of the many mouths of the woods. The only strange thing is he went in on the Ruga side, and the two of them came out on the Flavo one.]


There. We're out. You should be safe now.
ninjanature: (pic#12382350)

[personal profile] ninjanature 2018-08-25 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[Good God.

He would have astral projected straight into hell if he had been sixteen or seventeen. There had been nothing more infuriating than people not taking skills seriously, than people not focusing on some goal with the utmost ambition. This is almost some Naruto-level shit.

As it is now, he's mellowed just enough for it to be an amusing nuisance.]


I think a lot of the people are tired of being stuck here. Maybe you could give them something to look forward to, hm?
ditherer: ((s3) it is futile to head out with frien)

[personal profile] ditherer 2018-08-25 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
No offence taken. It's rather difficult to deal with random love confessions from people.
ditherer: ((s3) there's no such thing as truth)

[personal profile] ditherer 2018-08-25 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[gandharva doesn't find it particularly odd that she's so attached to these flowers; he's kind of the same way with sea creatures, after all.

so sure, he'll take a seat.]


You're rather fond of them, aren't you?
ditherer: ((s3) asleep — or something like it)

[personal profile] ditherer 2018-08-25 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
One day, that question is going to get you in trouble.

[luckily, today is probably not that day.]

Sura.
superwaifu: (strawberryjam)

[personal profile] superwaifu 2018-08-25 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
["Rainbows are a nuisance." - Sasuke Uchiha, probably]

Things are different now...

[Hatoko comes to a calmer tone, that suggestion forcing her to think. As hopeful as she desperately needed to be towards the belief that she would not be stuck here forever, he had a point.]

Are you going to do that too?

[She's unlikely to do anything alone.]
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[personal profile] overlayed 2018-08-25 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[ In the back of their mind, a familiar voice chimes: This was Cairngorm's fault. If they hadn't been so critical, maybe Ghost wouldn't have fallen back on old habits.

Even in different bodies, it's the same old song and dance.
]

Have you figured out how to get it off? [ They look at Cairn's forehead expectantly, still unable to look at them directly. If Cairn's unwilling to confront them, however, Ghost is even less so.

And maybe somewhere in there, Ghost is relieved they don't have to.
]
ninjanature: (pic#12385808)

[personal profile] ninjanature 2018-08-25 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I think you are better suited. [Look at him. Does he really seem like the type of person who would try to cheer people up? That's definitely Naruto's job.] I'm going to try to find a way back.

[He tips his head toward her in a nod. The edge of his cloak parts, and his arm emerges, palm up and fingers cupped. The sound is something akin to a bunch of screaming birds, honestly, but what swells up in his fist is a rambunctious handful of lightning.]

Chidori. Make something solid and throw it in the air.
umbraportation: (and I feel this life)

[personal profile] umbraportation 2018-08-25 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ No one wants the shambling dead roaming around town, that's for sure. They already have enough issues with all the other monsters around. ]

Sounds like it could be a dangerous game for them. If there's an actual being behind it, I'd hate to be them.

[ Nico wouldn't just think of a child but a god or immortal being - someone who's gotten bored and set this up as entertainment. Whereas Damian feels the need to hold back, Nico allows himself a small upcurve of his lips. ]

Can't say I've ever wanted to play that version. Unfortunately I'm lacking a suit or water powers so swimming is out. Not really my area anyway.

[ The ocean is Percy's territory. ] And building a boat is out?
umbraportation: (fight till the last drop)

[personal profile] umbraportation 2018-08-25 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It looks like they won't have to worry too much about Sadie in this place, though it would still probably be better if they stuck together whenever they could. Nico doesn't know if three is a good number when it comes to Egyptian problems but it certainly is in Greek and Roman. Three is usually the number of people on quests. ]

Makes sense. [ Though it seems dangerous for her to be too close to an explosion. ] Does using magic tire you out?