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This is for anyone wanting to test out their characters in the setting before the game opens, 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.

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Ezio Auditore | Assassin's Creed

[vendicativo]

[Prose]

There was nothing quite like the rush of having to throw oneself off a rooftop, the next hand hold meaning the difference between life and death. Or life-after-seriously-debilitating-injury, take your pick. Ezio caught a windowsill by his fingertips, the soles of his trainers finding purchase on the mansion's brick facade. The wind was in his hair, the sun warm on his shoulders and the solid earth a good distance beneath him.

[Action]

[ Someone has let Coach Auditore near a guitar, whoops. Ezio strums it like he has any real idea of what he's doing (secret: he doesn't), working out a chord or two while he croons in Italian: ]

♫ They say great men discuss ideas;
Small men, well, only people-
Don't let the small ones stifle you,
Dream big, it yet remains legal. ♫

[ It...sounds way better in Italian. Probably. At least this time he's keeping the really filthy verses in check. Playing to your audience, Ezio totally knows how. ]

Prose

[nobodysweapon]

X-23 was happily lazing about in a window, just enough room for her to sit inside it and look out at the sky. Which is why she noticed someone launching himself at the window ledge and catching hold.

Well, that wasn't very usual, not for someone who didn't seem to have the ability to fly. Fliers usually were a bit reckless with the windows, it generally made her day more interesting in ways she rather her day was boring.

She waited a few moments, trying to decide what the right way to handle such an... odd, social interaction. Finally deciding she should say hello. She cracked the window, enough to talk but not enough he could get in without fighting her to open the window more, "Hello."

Prose

[vendicativo]

Oh, there was someone at this window. Not one to shy away, he pulled himself up to get a firmer grip and shift more of his weight onto the ledge itself, much like a cat clinging resolutely to a table's edge. Ezio flashed her a smile.

"Good afternoon!" This was totally the most normal thing ever, clearly. "It's a beautiful day, isn't it?"

[nobodysweapon]

Well, the only reason this was new to X-23 was the roles, usually she was the one clinging outside to a building. But she had claws and very little concern for if she fell. It only hurt a little while.

"Yes, the sun feels very nice," she agreed, it was why she was in the window. She decided he seemed nice enough (and he'd be easy to handle if he tried anything) that she opened the window completely. "Are you a new member of the staff, or a very amicable threat?"

[vendicativo]

That might have been a gleam of approval in his eyes. He laughed off her question. "Do I really seem at all threatening? I'm just the former. Call me Ezio."

[nobodysweapon]

She raised an eyebrow, "You're hanging outside a window by your fingers." It wasn't a normal activity, as it required a great deal more skill and ability than most people, even mutants, could muster. She regarded him a few more seconds, as if his answer wasn't enough to confirm he was staff.

"X-23."

[vendicativo]

"So I am. Well," He bounces a little on his feet, his toes flexed against the wall, "And braced a little. Part and parcel of my curriculum, actually."

"Quite the unique name. It is a pleasure to meet you."

[nobodysweapon]

"Parkour or technical climbing? Both would be good for students to learn if they wish to join the X-Men." Not that she needed to take a class on either, he seemed more skilled at this than she was, but she had a natural advantage with built in claws.

"Nice to meet you too," That's what most people say, he was more interesting than most so she almost meant it. "And my name is more unique than I am."

[Action!]

[blue_charcoal]

[Sumiko happened to be nearby, and listened intently. Once Ezio's tune was finished, she began to clap; not caring whether the song was actually good or not. She certainly didn't understand Italian, either]

[Action!]

[vendicativo]

Grazie.

[ Pleased, especially since he was just dicking around, Ezio offered an exaggerated bow to his listener and coaxed another chord from the guitar. ]

You're too kind.

Can't wait for AC3, but I'll miss Ezio ^^;

[blue_charcoal]

I thought it was fun to listen to.

What are the lyrics in Japanese?

[Maybe she should've asked for English, since that seems to be the preferred language around here. Well, Sumiko was weird like that]

Me too!

[vendicativo]

[ Sheepish, he shook his head, ]

I'm afraid my Japanese is quite non-existent. Do you speak it, cara?

[blue_charcoal]

I do. I can teach you, if you want. But I've never taught it before.

[Then why are you offering, Sumiko...]

[vendicativo]

It sounds like it would be a learning experience for the both of us.

[ Ezio plinked a brief arpeggio, thoughtful. He added, ] What is your name?

[blue_charcoal]

Yes.

I'm Hishikawa Sumiko. Nice to meet you. [she doesn't know your name yet, though :< ]

[vendicativo]

Ezio Auditore, Miss Sumiko, and the pleasure is all mine. [ Here, have a handshake over his guitar. ]

So, you'd like to teach me Japanese. What would you like in return?

[blue_charcoal]

[She thinks a bit about the question, and then-]

Would you like to join my karaoke club in exchange?

[Action]

[the_saner_one]

[ Have some rather enthusiastic applauds and a very happily smiling Yuui. It's been too long since he heard Italian! ]

Bravo! Very good. And it's nice to hear another language than english around here!

[ He speaks in flawless Italian but with perhaps the trace of an accent. ] 

[Action]

[vendicativo]

[ Ezio just lights up at that, pleased as punch. His Italian carries an accent as well, pure, native Florentine arguably the sexiest of them all, ]

Ha! What a relief! Let me guess, you must be a telepath.

[ He rises from his seat on the bench, offering his hand. ] Name's Ezio.

[Action]

[the_saner_one]

[ And Florentine just happens to be the dialect Yuui is used to, and has been missing ever since he came home to the US, and his smile widens, becoming even more delighted. ]

No, just... good with sounds. [ He gladly accepts Ezio's hand, shaking it warmly. ] I'm Yuui.

You're Italian?


[ooc:I'm sorry if the italics were confusing orz. They were meant to just indicate him speaking Italian. ]

[Action]

[vendicativo]

[ This young man has him curious, and feeling a bit of a fraternal link. It's been so rare for him to find anyone even vaguely bilingual here in the States, and those that are tend to speak Spanish or a little French, not Italian. Ezio shifts she strap of his guitar around so the instrument is out of his way, as he tends to talk with his hands. ]

Good to meet you, Yuui. Yes, born and raised in Florence. And yourself?

(ooc: no no it's cool! Ezio's responses are all in Italian too, it's more natural for him anyway :) )

[Action]

[the_saner_one]

[ Yuui's smile could probably blind people by now. He's been missing Florence something awful even though he's very happy to be reunited with his brother and meeting someone who was born there is like heaven to him. ] 

I lived there for about three years studying music. I only came back here because of... you know. [ You know... mutant powers and all that. ] 

[ooc:Good Then it was just me being confused xD]

Switching to the Prose cue!

[hands_on_the_panda]

And then, Ezio noticed someone on a nearby bit of roof.

Noel Vermilion had probably used a wall-step maneuver or something to get up the twelve or so foot wall... Then again, she must have been there for a few minutes - there's no way she'd have been able to get up there without him hearing it.

Well, barring some convenient mutant power.

She then turned towards Ezio, looking a bit forlorn.

"Ah... Hello," she said.

action

[chant]

[ Have a small fourteen year-old double take at some dude working the guitar. After hearing a verse she gives the guy a round of applause and sorts through her thoughts to find the right English word for AWESOME ]

Bravo, bravo! Very good, very good!

action

[vendicativo]

Grazie- thanks!

[ If this is the attention he gets for goofing off, who knows what would happen if he makes a serious effort? And, he thinks, how refreshing it is to have such simple concerns. ]