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This is for anyone wanting to test out their characters in the setting before the applications open, see what clicks. Multiples will be allowed for this post, and you can generally assume any threads are a self-contained continuity unless you feel like getting creative.

Just post a thread with your CHARACTER NAME and CANON NAME in the title with a prompt and others will reply. Prompts and threads can be action spam or prose or whatever. These threads can be used on the sample section of your application, as well. Go out and have fun! Feel free to consult the institute tour and dorm guide for setting info. We also encourage you to check out the "!!event" tag on the IC comms to brush up on the story so far.

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[everyone_wants_to_be_a]

[Network]

EVRBDY KNOWS U MATHS NUMBRS STOOPID!

[Prose]

Katt splayed herself onto the roof with a yawn. MAN this institution was BORING. She wasn't sure which was worse. The fact that it was colder then hell outside (what being winter and all) or the fact that she'd been sidelined for "remedial education." What was wrong with not knowing your multiples?! Or basic science!? ...or reading! It's not like any of those things was really going to help you when you're out fighting a wild boar or stalking a deer...

She growled loudly from the top of the roof. Surely there had to be SOMETHING she could do here! If only she could get into the danger room, then maybe she'd be able to have some FUN around here..

Her ear twitched, and her eyes followed the movement of something darting in the snow. Was that... Standing on her feet, she was able to make out the darting outline of a bunny rushing into the brush. At last! A diversion! Without a second to lose (or looking below), she took a leap from her resting place and decided that if nothing else was going to be fun, then she'd AT LEAST have roasted hare tonight!

[princesstenko]

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here, Katt-san.

[everyone_wants_to_be_a]

U R DUM

[princesstenko]

Young lady, I will not tolerate that tone, even over text.

[everyone_wants_to_be_a]

HA!

[princesstenko]

And if you do not learn to address your elders with some respect, there will be consequences.

[everyone_wants_to_be_a]

BLEH!

[princesstenko]

Could you at least use actual words?

[everyone_wants_to_be_a]

THEES R REL WRDS

[impersonal_space]

That's funny. That scampering critter should have been inside that bush that the girl had been investigating and yet it is nowhere to be found.

Oh! But there it went, around that tree. It crossed that opening without so much as a hop in between, and it seems a little frightened. How could that be?

One wonders~.

[everyone_wants_to_be_a]

"One" must not include Katt, because she's fairly certain the tiger-woman that is chasing the poor critter is the reason why it is frightened.

After all, Katt would be too if she knew she was after herself!!

[impersonal_space]

Then what about when the bunny ends up behind the tiger with no indication of having circled around her?

Or when it hops into one opening of a downed, hollowed-out log, only to exit the end of an entirely different tree?

Surely something is amiss, here.

[everyone_wants_to_be_a]

Her nose and instincts are kicking in too. With each time the bunny appears where it's not supposed to... sort of like an intangible wrongness that only animals (and Katt) can sense. She doesn't know what is going on, but it's bothering her... and until she can make sense out if it she's going to use her nose, ears and eyes to figure out just what is going on.

[impersonal_space]

Shadows moving where they shouldn't will be the most obvious clue. They make no sound, and have no obvious sources. The scent will confirm it is indeed the same rabbit which was, honestly, starting to get as confused as Katt would be. After all even it can tell that its destination is not where it was headed.

There's something else in the air, though. Perfume. It's sweet, not overly strong, but still obvious against the forest's backdrop. Coming from... thataway, if the tiger-lady is curious. Some of it's coming from the area of those shadows, too. Coincidence? Hardly.

[everyone_wants_to_be_a]

With her destination established, Katt decides to investigate the source of the sweet perfume. Her experience told her that it was a woman's. And if the disruption of bunny and the shadows were any indication she was the one behind it. Even though the how or the why wasn't understood, that knowledge alone was enough for Katt's temper to begin to rise. If this was somebody's fault, she was going to be SURE to cast blame and aspersions on anybody that she finds.

It was simple logic, but it usually proved successful.

[impersonal_space]

Relief will come to the bunny, who is free to frolic without any further interference. Perhaps Katt's new target won't be so relieved, but if the woman with the long blonde hair is at all bothered by being discovered, she doesn't show it. No, Yukari is as elegant and poised as always. Standing there on top of a recently felled stump, in her fancy dress and clean heels, without any sign in the grass around her that she actually set foot on the ground at any point, the lady just stood there looking out from under the protective canopy of her parasol.

"Lovely day for a walk," she says without a hint of irony. It really was a good day for getting some fresh air.

[everyone_wants_to_be_a]

Just as the events with the bunny started to give a rise to Katt's instincts, so to was meeting this woman in the flesh. Katt heard her. Smelled her. Saw her. And yet something warned her that this was something that she wanted and that she could undo these things at a moment's notice. Almost ephemerally, like a ghost. A part of her mind warned the catgirl that to pick a fight with this one was suicidal. And an even louder part said to do it, since she was going out of her way to mess with her hunt.

How? Katt hadn't the faintest idea.

"I knew it was you." Katt accused, pointing a clawed finger at the woman sitting on the stump. A blind accusation, perhaps, but one full of certainty.

Katt | Breath of Fire 2

[everyone_wants_to_be_a]

((Since I fail at following directions...))

[network; text]

[lumokinetic]

Okay, fine, I get it. You don't like math.

You've been making this so difficult for me that I'm not even sure why I was asked to try to help you out in the first place.

Oh well, I guess that can't be helped. Got anything else you'd rather work on instead? [She's assuming that there's at least one subject here that Katt actually enjoys. If not...eh, she'll figure something out. Maybe.]

Re: [network; text]

[everyone_wants_to_be_a]

[Midori certainly high expectations of Katt's reading ability. Unfortunately...

Katt stares at this for a while. Then she gets bored, walks off, chases a bunny, makes her way to the lunch hall and discusses a meal arrangement, tears through the halls and has an adventure with Celes, gets injured, and is lays out on a bed before remembering that Midori replied to her.]

MBI U CAN HELP MI WIT MY REEDING

[lumokinetic]

[Midori stares at her screen for a few minutes, actually somewhat dumbfounded that it took Katt this long to respond.]

What part of it? [It's already clear that spelling needs some work, but Katt specifically stated reading, and Midori doesn't feel like going out of her way on things that aren't being brought up.]

[everyone_wants_to_be_a]

[Oh good, a nice, short sentence. She was happier with short sentences. It made things much more easier to understand.]

AL OF IT.

[lumokinetic]

[She just. Stares at that screen some more. Forget simply being dumbfounded, Katt just took a cinderblock to Midori's brain and mashed it into a fine paste. The spelling should have been her first clue, really, but a high-school freshman needing help with reading?]

Really? [Where would she even start? Actually, she should try asking to figure out where to start.] Is there any part that you find harder than the rest?

[everyone_wants_to_be_a]

[Though she doesn't know why she's asking in the first place. After all her time at the convent, none of the sisters were ever able to get through to Katt other than Sister Margerie...]

NOT REELEE

[lumokinetic]

[Midori's going to try to remain patient, but there's no telling how long that will last.]

Then what part do you want to start with?