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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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[senbazuru]

[Even without the masterful stealth, Chizuru isn't the greatest at situational awareness...]

Ah--! [Her gasp is high pitched and she spins on her heel to face the unmistakable source of the voice. Her cheeks flush and she nods with over-eagerness.] Y-yes sir! It's q-quite different from Tokyo, I mean..!

[notabluffingman]

Easy does it, lass, didn't mean to startle you. [There's a little bit of amusement there, but no particular maliciousness.] Tokyo, you say? Never been myself, only passing via the milt'ry bases on Okinawa when I was young, but I can see why you should say so. Missin' home, are yer?

[senbazuru]

It's a little early to be missing home yet, sir! [Chizuru beamed back with an earnest politeness offered to most of the adults here. She rested her clasped hands in the small of her back, shrugging her shoulders.] Everything's still fresh and exciting, so I am trying to take advantage of the energy while I still have it.

[Looking back at the maze, her eyes round as she takes in the sight.] These sorts of things you only see in movies...like...Alice in Wonderland, that sort of thing.

[notabluffingman]

The place does have a certain what I would call a "vibe" 'bout it, doesn't it?

[That is said rather wryly, glancing around at all the greenery.]

It's to impress all them families in the brochures and while giving them the grand tour, I should think. Show 'em that their kids might be strange in their own little ways, but at least they can do it with style. [Despite the words his tone isn't really mocking; rather a certain fondness for the place and its inhabitants.] Mind, it gives you all something to do instead of sittin' around, and that's only good for you.

[senbazuru]

I see...[She took another look around her, furrowing her brow thoughtfully.] ...do a lot of students come here with their parents, at first?

[Her father saw her off at Narita, but as far as she knew, Dr. Yukimura never set foot on the premises.]

Teenagers have a lot of energy. [She says this matter-of-factly, as though speaking of those other than herself.] If there aren't extra-curriculars, they tend to find less-productive ways to busy themselves.

[notabluffingman]

Aye, lass, many do. [He shrugs monumentally.] But there's many that don't too, for reasons of being in another country, or not affording the trip in gen'ral, or preferring know as little as possible so that they can pre-tend that their little angel isn't a bleeding mutant.

[There is definitely a scathing tone on that last part, but it goes away almost instantly, and he smiles in wry amusement.] And as I understand it, at this place they're the devil for extra-curriculars.