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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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You can keep this one after all. [ Came the aloof voice from around one of the bookcases. The gloved hand snapped the title shut and held it out as the woman stepped forward from her hiding place to place the book down with the rest. ] I did not anticipate it would be written in the first person. [ Yukari is not a fan of seeing things from the eyes of others, inside their minds. Not in fiction, anyway. ]

[Well, she wasn't quite expecting... that. But her parents had told her that Yukari liked to drop in on the shop as she pleased, more unexpectedly and unnoticed than any other patron, and that there was a possibility she might be here.]

Ah... Yakumo-san, isn't it?

[She tries to tone down the look of surprise on her face while she considered the other books in her stack. Old bookstore habits die hard and what not.]

Is there something in particular you're looking for?

[ It would be difficult to mistake her look for anyone else. Not many Japanese women out of cosplay walk around with wavy blonde locks and those distinct, natural purple eyes. Yet, due to the eccentricities displayed by her family, everyone she met had always assumed she was wearing a wig and used contacts, even from an early age.

It's funny, really, the lengths society will go to in order to rationalize that what they are seeing is within acceptable standards. ]

Nothing in particular, though I have found something all the same. [ Being called by name narrowed down a few possibilities, but she still played the ignorant woman, for now. ] Someone that I do not recognize carrying knowledge of my identity. I wonder who that might make you, little girl.

[ She knows the answer, of course, but what fun is the game of life if it can't be played? ]

[After closing the book in her hands she neatly folds her glasses and stores them in the special pocket of her tote meant just for them. She doesn't bother marking her place, what use is there when she had barely begun? She would have to start from the beginning again anyways.]

You are familiar with a store by the name of Suzunaan, yes? It's owned by my family. When my parents decided to send me here they told me about you.

[ She taps her chin with the end of her closed fan. ] My, that takes me back quite a while...

Why on Earth would I come up as the subject of a conversation at such a critical time? [ Moving from home isn't easy, but Yukari spends almost literally half her time here and half her time at home, managing her many businesses; the gift shops primary amongst them. It's like she's never gone anywhere at all, as far as most people know — because no one can take weekly flights to and from Japan on such a humble salary.

What does she know? What do her parents know?

Recognition lights up in her eyes as if on cue and the woman smiles kindly. ] That must make you Little Kosuzu~.

Yes ma'm, Kosuzu Motoori. Pleased to meet you.

[She was far too comfy to stand, and given that this was a rather informal situation the girl settles for a bow of her head as she properly introduces herself.]

It started as a bit of a joke, to be honest. Something about our family attracting people who were "different". I thought they simply meant Reimu-kun and Marisa-san, but mother said she always wondered about you as well. She couldn't stand to alienate a good customer by asking such a thing so outright though.

[Kosuzu however can be a bit more straightforward when she wants to be, especially in the pursuit of new information.]

[ The girl might be well-meaning in that revelation, but whereas others might hear reassurance, Yukari just sees a need to engage in some creative damage control. She cannot have word of her being a mutant making its way back home because, to be fair, she trusts no one to keep that secret safe. The questions remains: "how?" ] There is certainly no need to worry your mother, for she has always been exceptionally kind to me and my family.

Speaking of which... have you met up with Ran or Little Chen yet? I must apologize if they were unable to visit as much in recent times, for things have been rather hectic. [ Translation: dangerous. The downside to cute physical mutations and no effective means to hide them. Chen has a little belt for her tails and a cap helps, but it's a discomfort in many ways. Ran is just flat-out impossible to disguise. ]

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