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( the test drive meme )

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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[formerly_known_as_prince]

If anything, Utena turned even more red at that.

"I think so. I don't know too much about it. That's one of the reasons i'm here. So you can make people scared of you?"

She gave him a crooked little smile back. It was always so weird coming down from the state her power put her in, when she was more archetype than girl. Everyone else here seemed so familiar and easy with theirs...

[comparative_insanity]

Which made Fai all the more inclined to make her blush again, because that was the vicious circle which was the workings of his mind. For now, though, he only smiled blithely.

"Well, you're not alone. Most people don't really know what they're doing when they arrive at the school. You'll work it out soon enough." His lips quirked slightly, eyes flashing gold for a second before returning to neutral blue. "And I can do that. Or I can make them admire me, be attracted to me, hate me... or just forget about me. But neither of those would have worked really well in that particular situation - or at least not as well as fear."

[formerly_known_as_prince]

She found herself immediately liking him, the way he seemed to say everything in a singson, his unapologetic fabulousness.

Admire me, be attracted to me... That set something off though and she remembered. Dark fingers in her mind, slicing with a surgeon's skill. How much of what she'd thought and felt had been real then? Down that way lay difficulties Descartes had never dreamed of. She was somewhere else for that moment...

[comparative_insanity]

He tilted his head slightly in concern as she seemed to space out for a moment, hesitating slightly before venturing: "Ah, but you don't have to worry. I mostly have control over it, and I... if I do affect people, because I guess it happens, then it's not very strongly. I simply find it best to tell people from the beginning what I'm capable of, so that I don't risk coming off as if I'm hiding it."

People knowing sometimes made them uncomfortable in his presence, but it was nothing compared to what they felt if they found out later in their acquaintance with him. He would rather not have his friends second-guess every single moment spent with him, wondering how genuine their emotions truly had been.

[formerly_known_as_prince]

She returned to the present, and so did her smile, though weaker. She hadn't meant to space out like that, but as her mind returned to functioning normally, those memories would bubble up.

"Sorry. It's not your fault. That's just...happened to me before."