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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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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!

scriptive: art by <user name="rboz" site="tumblr.com"> (YAY 🌸 upbeat smile)

levy mcgarden | fairy tail

[personal profile] scriptive 2018-08-24 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
i: if you can't say anything nice...
[ so, the flowers are kind of assholes? well, half of them are. the colorless ones are. and maybe they're saying something terrible to you.

if so, they're about to be SMASHED INTO by the word SILENT.

yes, you read that right. it's a flying word and as soon as it hits the flowers they make no noise whatsoever. sure, they seem to be turning to talk like they have been doing, moving around strangely, but there's just dead quiet from everything the word smacked.

if you turn around to locate the source of the flying word, you'll find a short blue-haired girl, her right forefinger glowing. ]


That should take care of that! Sorry, I don't know what sort of spell is making them say such rude things, but at least this should help.
ii: fancy monochrome nonsense
[ honestly, she's in a too-frilly white-and-black dress (well, it looks that way, but who really knows?) and levy doesn't really mind dressing up but this is simply...inconvenient.

super inconvnient.

so like most mages who hit a roadblock, she tries to solve the issue with magic. the dress won't come off, but... ]


SCISSOR! [ there's another one of those heavy words in the air. this one slices through a bunch of the lace on her gown, and she keeps using it to make it SOMEWHAT better.

she's not too worried about how it looks as long as it's functional, honestly. ]
extra: library
[ do you mean levy's new home? she's currently sitting at a desk surrounded by PILES AND PILES OF BOOKS and is reading through them at breakneck speed.

literally. she's wearing some odd glasses and seems to be reading way faster than she should, so that's sure a thing.

what a nerd. ]
wildcard
[ it's 2:30am throw me whatever and i will roll with it but i tried SO HARD ]
kototama: (♪ kalopsia)

i.

[personal profile] kototama 2018-08-24 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Holy.

Shit.

Kotoha has seen a lot of things in her life--but she has never seen someone slam a flying word into someone else. She can manifest syllables in the air, but it's usually by accident or for shenanigans.

She's never considered just shutting things up with the word itself.]


Now that was spectacular! Hey, how'd you get it to actually do the effect of what you're saying?
scriptive: art by <user name="rboz" site="tumblr.com"> (UM 🌸 bluescreen of confusion)

[personal profile] scriptive 2018-08-24 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh? [ well...sometimes she gets asked about her magic, but this question seems a little...different? admittedly levy knows this isn't where she's meant to be (but also isn't edolas?) so maybe magic is uncommon here.

maaaaaybe she should have hid it? but there are talking flowers, so like.

it's probably fine!

she tucks some of her hair away from her face, the glow from her fingers fading. ]


It's the magic I use, Solid Script - I'm a mage. [ ob...viously but maybe it's not obvious she's trying! ] Levy McGarden, a mage of Fairy Tail.

[ which again is maybe not the best thing to announce because the guild gets into all sorts of shit but she's proud of her idiot guildmates! ]
kototama: (♪ kerlerap)

[personal profile] kototama 2018-08-24 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
A mage, huh...

[Like in storybooks! Kotoha's not unfamiliar with magic, but very unfamiliar with people who call themselves mages. She rocks back and forth on her heels for a moment, arms linked behind her back, expression contemplative.]

Nice to meetcha, Levy McGarden! I'm Isone Kotoha, but Kotoha's good. I'm not a mage, buuuut...

[A contemplative pause, and she licks her lips.]

If I wanted to do something like thaaat, I'd have to be a bit more literal about it. So I'm real curious about your Solid Script thing.

[Words!! Words are so important!! Magic words are even more important.]
scriptive: art by <user name="rboz" site="tumblr.com"> (EAGER 🌸 bookworm)

[personal profile] scriptive 2018-08-24 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Well...what kind of word would you like to see? Or is there something you particularly need right now?

[ she usually demonstrates with butterfly or similar words... ]

I don't mind answering questions at all! I've done interviews before.
kototama: (♪ kia ora)

[personal profile] kototama 2018-08-24 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hmmm...!!]

Yeah, yeah! I wanna see your favorite word in action!
scriptive: art by <user name="rboz" site="tumblr.com"> (CHAT 🌸 well if we're going that way)

[personal profile] scriptive 2018-08-28 09:16 am (UTC)(link)
Favorite...word...

[ she thinks about that, her hands coming up to cover her cheeks. ]

...That's like asking for a favorite book! Absolutely impossible!
kototama: (♪ kerlerap)

[personal profile] kototama 2018-09-01 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmmm...! Well, I guess that's fair. It would be pretty hard to come up with a favorite word right on the spot.

[Not that Kotoha doesn't have a few off the top fo her head, but also, they're weird and she's weird.]

Anyway, have you ever heard of kotodama? See, I'm kinda wondering what the similarities and differences are between what we can do.
grimdeity: lexxercise @ tumblr (READ 🌹 books are my bffs)

library

[personal profile] grimdeity 2018-09-01 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ who doesn't enjoy a library? rose wonders what literature this place holds, though her expectations are low.

before perusing herself, her eyes pause on the speed reader nearby. wait, speed reader is too gentle a word, what the fuck is that girl doing. ]


Are you actually reading that fast, or merely glancing at the pages?
scriptive: art by <user name="rboz" site="tumblr.com"> (CHAT 🌸 amiable looking back)

[personal profile] scriptive 2018-09-01 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
Hm? I'm reading that fast! I mean, with a little magical assistance. [ she takes off the gale-force reading glasses and offers them to rose! ] They're Gale-force reading glasses! You don't have them where you're from?
grimdeity: soundphase @ tumblr (LIGHT 🌹 explanations)

[personal profile] grimdeity 2018-09-01 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ rose takes them and examines them for a moment. ] Gale-force reading glasses? No, I'm afraid not, we only have glasses with computers in them, and sometimes not even that.

[ what happens if she slips them on ]
scriptive: art by <user name="rboz" site="tumblr.com"> (WHOA 🌸 in awe of something)

[personal profile] scriptive 2018-09-01 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ she'll be able to read at 18x the normal human rate! congrats, rose. it looks like that gif i linked in the toplevel, but you know that already. ]

Glasses with computers? Hm...I know someone with magic sort of like that!
grimdeity: bottleshark @ tumblr (MY 🌹 oh my word)

[personal profile] grimdeity 2018-09-01 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my god. [ that's hardcore? she'll read a couple things before relinquishing the glasses. back to levy. ]

Magic, hm. Are you some sort of... wizard?
scriptive: art by <user name="rboz" site="tumblr.com"> (CHINHAND 🌸 i'm invested now)

[personal profile] scriptive 2018-09-01 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
I'm a mage! Of the guild Fairy Tail. I don't think anyone here has heard of it. [ perhaps for the best...they're mostly known for property damage. :) ]
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 ]