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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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[Chizuru brought her hands together and rested them against her skirt in a coyly polite fashion. Were this Tokyo back home, she could be certain that her classmates would be whispering and giggling in the background at the young man's approach, but here...

...maybe it was foolish to think that no one was watching. Not in a place like this.]

Mmn, not at all. [Think lips crack to a small smile, and she breaks her gaze to once again look upon the thick hedges.] I was simply exploring. I've never seen an estate as expansive as this one...

It is impressive, isn't it?

[His reaction had probably been a bit less obvious than hers, back when he arrived - everything he did tended to be more understated and all - but he'd found it hard to believe that anyone could have so much...space, after growing up in a place like Tokyo where even a comfortable existence was still a cramped one.]

It's like a fantasy...[She's breathless in her agreement, her eyes lighting up the sight of the hedge, as though Saitou's presence unveiled some secret to it that she'd not yet seen before.] I'd been to gardens back home, but...

[She cut herself off, bringing a hand to her chin and looking down in thought for a moment before glancing back up to her classmate.] I'm sorry, you've been here for a little while now, and here I'm talking like I'm just here on vacation. [She needed to start referring to this place as 'home' - even if it didn't feel like it, she needed to get into the habit.]

It's not strange to think of it that way at first.

[Or so he says. It's purely hypothetical, from where he's standing; he'd arrived there knowing he'd better get used to it and start feeling at home quickly, because he sure as hell wasn't going to be welcomed back, but...it's not like that for everyone, right?]

Which part?

[The fantasy, or the feeling-at-home part? She couldn't be certain, but sometimes she wondered if Saitou's clipped answers were intentional, in order to commit to one opinion or the other...

Well, she wasn't about to make him any more uncomfortable than her statement had done so already. She carried on, hoping to move to more cheerful subjects.]

Is it easy to get lost in there? [She nods toward the hedge maze.]

[No matter how uncomfortable she might make him, she can take solace in knowing she'll never catch up to some people on campus.

Or she could if she had any idea. Oh well.

He looked up, following her gaze to the hedges.]

I...haven't really tried, to be honest. But if you keep your hand on one wall and pick a direction to follow it in, you can find your way back out of any maze, sooner or later.

[Some of them just might take a lot longer than others...]

Hmm! So Hajime-kun at least knows how it's done! Not surprising at all, really! [It wasn't flattery - whenever Saitou did have an answer for something, it was well thought-out and often backed-up with evidence.

There's something shameless in how Chizuru steps in closer to him, leaning forward and peering up at him with a playful smile. Her ponytail heavily drapes past her collarbone, swinging with her movement.] Wanna try it out with me?

[The request is void of any shyness, as though it hadn't dawned on her that he may have been in the middle of his own affairs.]

[In the middle of his own affairs?

Well, yes.

But it's not like he doesn't already spend half his life training in some way or another...and perhaps more importantly, he might be a little bit weak to giving in when she smiles at him like that - not that he's in any way conscious of that, of course.]

I suppose it couldn't hurt.

Oh, thank you! [She clapped her hands together, jumping from foot to foot in delight over his agreement.] Then! [A hand snatched out and seized his wrist.]

The entrance is this way!

[O-oh.

He half-followed, half let her drag him to the entrance to the maze, shifting the practice sword tucked under his arm into his free hand to keep himself from dropping it.]

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