awoosh | 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!

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[Calypso can't help finding his statement funny. Especially after the commentary that they've been giving her and her current threats to crush them underfoot. Clearly, she's channeling Persephone.

Her laughter is almost reactionary to the comment as she looks over to the interestingly dressed man, not that she could say much in her pink puffy coat.]

We could find out.

[No, really, she wants to murder all these flowers.]

[He smiles - not the one that's his version of a neutral expression, but an actual one - pleased that someone else apparently finds his joke funny.

...Not that he's not absolutely prepared to shove a flower in his mouth to teach the others a lesson, because while he can take a few insults, doing this to everyone is just in bad taste. Pun absolutely intended.]

Would you like to do the honors, or shall I?

[It's nice having a normal conversation. Not one where people are trying to kill her, not an argument or strategy planning. Just an actual conversation about eating insulting flowers.]

That seems more like something we should both do together.

[When you're a sword in a very literal sense, the bar for what counts as a normal conversation is already set pretty low without factoring in any other shenanigans, so yep, talking about eating flowers that also happen to talk is nothing out of the ordinary. It could even be considered pleasant.]

I'm fine with that.

[He bends down a moment to pluck the nearest two of the offending flowers, tossing one over to his new friend with the sort of casual ease that suggests that the thought that she might not be ready to catch it never even crossed his mind.

The flowers's yelling takes on a more distressed note.]

[It takes both her hands, but she does manage to catch the flower. It insults her as soon as she opens her hands. 'Only a useless goddess would eat innocent flowers!' The insult only makes her more pleased with the idea of silencing it.]

On three then?

[A goddess, huh? That's interesting. Maybe he'll ask about that later, after they introduce themselves.

His own flower keeps yelling 'Murderer!', but it sure doesn't do anything to change his mind beyond hoping it doesn't keep doing that in his mouth. That'd be unfortunate. He nods and holds up a hand.]

One.

[A finger up.]

Two.

[The flower curses.]

Three!

[And yep, in his mouth the flower goes. He immediately regrets it a little since the texture is kind of unpleasant and he was right about it being flavorless, but it's not the worst thing that's ever been in his mouth either, so it's probably worth it.

Calypso gets a thumbs up.]

[At the word three, Calypso puts the flower in her mouth and chews. It really does taste bad, not exactly nothing, but not something either. She decides that it's the texture more than anything else that she'd taste.]

They really are tasteless.

[SHe wasn't expecting that actually. Everything was supposed to have a taste of something or another.]

I wonder if that's better or worse than if they had bad taste...?

[He pauses a moment more, and then decides that no, he's really not willing to try to actually swallow this thing after all, and spits it out as politely as he can manage.]

[Calypso, for her own merit, actually swallows hers, but after spending months lost in the world with nothing but whatever they could find, she wasn't as picky as she once was.]

Can't they have both? Their insults aren't very clever, after all.

[She refused to be emotionally hurt by these flowers. She'd been through much worse.]

[Nikkari's not anywhere near picky, but eating is also less of a mandatory thing for him than it is for most human and human-adjacent beings, so why swallow if it's no good?]

True. It would be weird to expect flowers to be clever, wouldn't it?

I'd think it was important for a flower to be clever. Especially if it isn't pretty.

[Not that she thought looks were more important than brains, at least not as much as she might have before. Leo, after all, wasn't exactly the most blindingly attractive of heroes (with the scrawny body and unkempt ... well, everything) but to her, he'd become rather breathtaking due to his personality and kindness.]

Is that so? I would have imagined tenacity would be more important for any sort of plant than beauty or brains. Better for survival when you're rooted down, you know?

[...Unless they've somehow wandered into using flowers as metaphors for people when he wasn't looking. Then being at least clever enough to know when to retreat is generally necessary if one doesn't have a minder. But if not-]

But I'm no expert on flowers, so you may be right.

Test Drive Meme 3.

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