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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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[doingthemistything]

[Did someone ask for an innocent bystander? Because that's certainly one innocent bystander passing under the tree right now.]

action;

[lendmestrength]

[ Far be it for Sado to try to put a stop to somebody's apparent nesting, especially if none of the faculty have seen a need to put a stop to it. Ignoring the very obvious fact that it's hardly his place to take offense towards any furniture rearranging because he doesn't own the place... well, it's probably making this kid more comfortable.

He thinks.

Really, it isn't looking like he's coming to a natural stop and calming himself down anytime soon.

More relevant is that that looks like a very heavy wardrobe and there is a pretty high concentration of people and/or objects that would be much worse for wear if it were to overbalance and fall on them, in this particular... entire planet. Not necessarily something to worry about at all, but as Sado figures it, he's already here and he has nothing to attend to that couldn't wait for later. Heavy furniture is practically child's play.

Don't mind him kind of looming his way into the vicinity without any stealth whatsoever, man. Stealth went out the window for him a long while back. ]

Ah... could you use help?

[long_live_disco]

Well let's hear some tunes, girl!

[She has a soft spot for classical instruments.]

[sonofhulk]

What does that mean?

[markedviolin]

All right! [She goes over to the violin case, opening it up and pulling out the instrument and bow. It takes a moment for her to get ready, but soon, she's playing a song that she knows by heart. It's her favorite piece and her expression makes it obvious that this tune is one she enjoys playing.]

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[sonofhulk]

I was told I didn't have to do that anymore since food's no longer scarce. I'm not supposed to have to worry about whether or not I'll be able to eat later.

[Yes it does. XD]

[long_live_disco]

[Ali seems genuinely touched by the music. She wipes a tear away when the violinist finishes her song.]

Beautiful!

[Action]

[gotthescent]

[There's just the legs and butt of the rabbit left now.]

You always gotta make sure you eat. Never know when you won't be able to. Only reason anyone wouldn't eat whenever they can's cuz they've never been starving and don't know any better.

[byeontae_geomi]

Pretty sure you're at least old enough to figure that part out, kid.

not enrolled -- just a visitor in these threads

[ahead_of_herself]

Hand to her chest, Celty bowed her head, obviously relieved. What might have normally been a sigh of relief ended up being just a small puff of black smoke that leaked out of the collar of the helmet. One wonders just it just doesn't filter out of the vents in the cat ears.

The secret is duct tape.

She approaches the winged woman, a practiced gesture of her arm causing a phone to drop into the palm of her own hand. A few quick taps of her fingers later, she turns the screen to face Reki at a conversational distance.

It reads: Hello.

I hope that did not startle you.

[Action]

[allswellthatendswell]

Prying a bibliophile away from the thrill of a new library is pretty bold. This isn't some ploy to get me to buy you food is it? [Because let's face it this has probably happened before. She waves her hand as if to let Reimu know that her question is more teasing than serious and gathers up her books, making sure that the one on the bottom is in Japanese.]

Where are we going?

[Action]

[musou_tensei]

McDonald's. I want to try the new fishy bite things.

[Network-Voice]

[allswellthatendswell]

Ah I didn't know Marisa-san would be here too!

If there really isn't one I wonder if I could get enough interest for it... I'm so used to club membership being mandatory that I can't imagine not being in one.

[Action]

[allswellthatendswell]

[She should have expected this answer.] Of course you do. Let me go put these away in my room and I'll be ready to go.

[Network-Voice]

[stardustreverie]

I wasn't sure if I was comin' back or not else I woulda told ya!

Schools here are weird but hey, I'm not agruin'. You know I'd join up and I'm sure there are others still there that would join as well. Maybe ya could get Reimu to join up to, get him ta do somethin' other then laze about.

[Completely teasing obviously.]

[video]

[lastplaceigo]

Wow. Rude, much?

It's not like they meant to or anything, I'm sure.

[penaltykicktothehead]

[Safer? Charlie's brow furrows as soon as she hears the word. Had something new developed in the PI's absence? Why hadn't Father spoken about any of this in his messages?]

The Chevaliers...

[But they'd put them behind bars, hadn't they?! Most of them...]

Did they attempt another move?

[Network-Voice]

[allswellthatendswell]

How else are American schools weird?

I didn't realize you were so interested in books and writing other than what you wanted to "borrow" from our store. Honestly I think the two of us could get Reimu-kun to do most anything if we offered him food.

[hipsterbane]

She cocked her head an inch or two, wondering exactly that, or indeed what the point of a helmet with cat ears was, besides to be cute. Misdirection? She wouldn't wear it on her own scooter, that was sure.

Reki shook her head. "I lived with the Morlocks for a year. Not many mutations weird me out."

She looked at the cigarette she was holding, ash dropping to the ground. She ground it under her boot's toe to make sure it didn't ignite the leaf mould.

"This isn't, ah, dangerous to you, is it?" She said, holding it up.

[video]

[ohcaptainmycaptain]

I said have a nice day. *With only the fakest of sincerity to it, like right now.*

So if one of the kids who makes like Speedy Gonzales every day around here slammed into you, you wouldn't mind? They didn't mean it after all. And you would lend a kid with acid powers anything they wanted? How about lending me your shirt, I wouldn't mean it if some idiot made me grow wings through the back of it?

Intentions are cute in a happy land where everything is make believe and rainbows, but in the real world there's a direct correlation between actions and consequences.

action/prose/what have you

[comparative_insanity]

Has he got climbing powers? Nope. Has he climbed on basically everything and scaled every building he's spent any amount of time in at least once? Sure has. He won't balance on the edge, though, on the off chance that someone he knows sees him and almost has a heart attack - indoctrination courtesy of his dear mother. Still, it's hardly surprising to find someone else up here, considering the nature of this school. And it'd be strange to be sharing a roof with someone without saying hi, even though he's not sure she's seen him yet.

"It's kind of pretty up here, isn't it?" he suggests from a point somewhat behind her, perched further up on the sloping roof.

[ohcaptainmycaptain]

"It isn't ugly, except when dogboy is chasing rabbits on this side of the grounds," Sasha had this annoying habit of being completely incapable of just saying something is nice. Her life isn't nice, the world isn't nice. If the world were nice one of the crossdressing brigade wouldn't find her when she's trying to be alone.

But... they weren't bad people, just extra freaky. "So did you come up here for the view and the solitude? Trying to find any personal place in this school is worse than a battle of wits with a Sicilian when death is on the line."

[comparative_insanity]

That got a soft laugh, because to be honest negativity was never a thing that put him off for long. "But not quite as bad as getting involved in a land war in Asia?" He hummed quietly, stretching his legs - no crossdressing for climbing, at least, since skirts got caught on things too easily and lets not even go into the whole ugly business of heels.

"But something like that, yes. It's pretty exhausting to always have people around, isn't it? And sharing rooms doesn't really help either."

[ohcaptainmycaptain]

"It isn't that dire here... all the time," Sasha glanced up at the laugh and fought off any urge to smile, just went back to being moody. She was up here to get away from it all, to sulk and be homesick. Then not tell anyone because it isn't there business.

"Exhausting, no. Annoying? Yes," Sasha didn't handle people well before her powers, with them it just made her worse. She hadn't been out here long enough to ease back to Black Swan from 'Defcon' Swan yet. There were too many people, the dance program was a joke, they wouldn't let her install a bar in her room. They wouldn't give her her own room. She was so much better of becoming a spinster in her apartment back in Paradise.

[comparative_insanity]

"Not all the time," he agrees, because sometimes things got pretty dire even without the occasional attack or kidnapping going down. Too many highly strung people crammed together until their lives blurred together, no free space, like some kind of pressure cooker that every once had to let off a lot of steam or the whole school would go sky-high. "Too much hormones and angst in one place becomes like a poison in the air, until even the most rational people catch it. We bathe in each other's emotional exhaust fumes." He wrinkles his nose. "Wow, that sounded gross. Anyway, add powers to that and it's no wonder we're all going mad - or severely annoyed, I guess."