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awash mods ([personal profile] awashmods) wrote in [community profile] awoosh2018-08-18 07:00 pm
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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!

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[personal profile] blossomblade 2018-08-23 11:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ If he touches her, if he gets close, he no doubt gets the same flash that she gets. Which is why she startles at first as his arms go around her before her eyes see clearly and she can tell who it is.

Then her eyes light up as she realizes who it is, and she turns to clutch him in return. ]


Noctis!
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[personal profile] nascere 2018-08-23 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He sees it, too, the violence of the memories erupting -- a punch in the chest, a reminder of how much Luna and Ravus have lost. Noctis blinks, but doesn't let go of her, startled at the vision.

He remembers it in bits and pieces, details already smudged, but this, this is vivid and almost all too real. ]


What was that --

[personal profile] blossomblade 2018-08-31 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ His shock and confusion is almost more helpful than anything else. It gives her something to focus on, on him, and has her reaching out to stroke his cheek. ]

The flowers here. The vision came once I'd touched one.

[ A pause before- ]

Are you all right?
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[personal profile] nascere 2018-09-01 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ Luna... he's seeing her up close for the first time in a long while, and it strikes him how beautiful she is, how kind her eyes are. The world has dealt her such a bad hand and yet she can find it in herself to reach out to others, to anchor herself in caring for them, and it makes his heart clench.

She's going to die. Luna, kind and beautiful and the light of this world is going to die, and the reminder of it makes his heart clench. ]


Uh.

[ No. He's not, for so many reasons and all of them swirling around the fact that she's going to die, and Noctis is fighting so hard against it, wanting to be better, to save her against the odds and turn the tide of time. ]

Yeah, I'm fine.

[ He can deal with this. ] What about you? You were looking at that, too.

[personal profile] blossomblade 2018-09-01 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
[ There's something firm in her eyes as she looks at him, something that doesn't believe his words, and wants it clear that she doesn't believe them. But she won't force the matter. Some wounds need air before they can be attended to.

Instead, she looks around the clearing and back to where she'd come from, where he'd come from, and tips her head towards the path.]


We should head back into town, perhaps.
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[personal profile] nascere 2018-09-02 12:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's obvious Luna doesn't believe him -- it strikes him again, that Luna, for all of her compassion and warmth, doesn't take kindly to untruths. But she is kind enough to leave it be, and so Noctis will take advantage of that kindness out of pride, and the powerful desire to keep her safe.

He can't fail her, not like this. ]


Yeah, I -- yeah. C'mon.

[ He rises to his feet proper, dusting himself off and holding his hand out to her to help her up. ]

Did you just end up here?

[personal profile] blossomblade 2018-09-07 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She has feelings about his need to keep her safe; some of them have to do with her duties as the Oracle and others are simply as herself. Regardless, none of them are spoken since they're moving on, and she takes his hand to rise to her feet. Only a moment is needed to dust herself off. ]

Yes, I only just arrived a few hours ago. In a well. Is that the common method of entry to this place?