April Test Drive Meme

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THE TEST DRIVE MEME

Hello, True Believers!

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!

AND REMEMBER, RESERVES OPEN APRIL 3RD!


Be sure to read up on all game information and the "!event" tag, as well as the weekly updates to make sure you have all your ducks in a row.

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Chun-Li | Street Fighter

[kikosho]

[ Action ]

This was her. China and Interpol's legendary Super Cop. The US had Captain America. Japan had Sunfire. Mexico had El Santo. China? China had the Strongest Woman in the World, Chun-Li Zhiang. And she was now teaching at the Institute, preparing the future X-Men for the battles on the horizon against them mysterious forces manipulating the world towards global mutant/human war. The aura around her as she examined the 'troops' was incredible. The strength in her every step was palpable. This woman was a legend, and she carried herself like one before her students... Though really, she still had jet lag and just wanted a goddamn nap.

She stopped at one of the students, examining them up and down, cocking her head. This one looked like they had some potential, at least...

"You. Your name, grade, and mutation." She commanded, her voice clipped like a drill sergeant.


[ Network - Video ]

-This Chun-Li is barely the same person as the one that was heading up training the other day. She was far more relaxed, casually sipping on a mug of tea, with her hair partially down in braids. Even her smile seemed sweet, sincere... almost intimate. When the job was over, she didn't feel a need to keep up those pretenses.-

I've been on assignment in American before, even in New York, but I never been outside the city before. Anyone have a favorite hangout? Local bars? Gyms? Especially gyms. I don't want to take up all the facilities here for myself, heh...

Mostly, I just want to know what you guys do for fun around here. All work and no play, right? Have to keep reminding myself that...

network

[mr_badguy]

I just use the gym here because I don't feel like going anywhere else. Just use it at weird times and no one will care. [He pauses before continuing, like he's debating with himself whether or not to answer further.]

I dunno if someone like you'd like the bars I go to. [Read: please no drinking buddy. Please. PLEASE.]

[kikosho]

As much as it'd be easy to indulge my jet lag, I don't want to encourage a poor sleep schedule by doing heavy physical activity at odd hours. -She laughs though, appreciative of his honesty.-

[mr_badguy]

Eh, then I can't help you on the gym front. I don't sleep much so it doesn't bother me.

[Video]

[dandyelegance]

If there is one thing New York has over my beloved San Francisco, it's the wider selection of late night bars. They're the perfect places for when I have an urge to people-watch.

[Or when he can't sleep again.]

[kikosho]

I appreciate the offer, but I don't want to take a cab into the city any time I want a drink. I was hoping for something here in Salem Center.

[dandyelegance]

There is one small bar that's about a twenty minute walk from the campus. It's a bit noisy, but they serve an amazing Mexican coffee.

action

[asarcheologist]

[Liara isn't exactly up on the heroes of the world, but she doesn't need to know Chun-Li's reputation to be intimidated. Everything about the way she carries herself does that job on its own. When the woman stops in front of her, Liara automatically draws a little straighter, her already uptight posture stiffening.]

Well, I'm—blue. [Of course, as soon as the word are out of her mouth, she realizes how stupid they are. To her credit, she only cringes internally.] Obviously. You can see that.

[Alright. Deep breath. Now, starting again...]

Liara T'Soni. College freshman. [She looks a bit too young for that, but considering her obvious physical mutations, it could just be hard to pin down her age.] I have psychic abilities, though I'm better with telekinesis than I am with telepathy. Ma'am.

[NAILED IT.]

[kikosho]

-There was the slightest, ever so slightest hint of a smile at Liara's introduction of herself. Chun-li had to admit, the effect she had on people got some... amusing reactions at time.-

Scenario, T'Soni. -She stepped back, turning around with her arms locked behind her as she gazed up at the sky.- On the battlefield, you are faced with two attackers. One is armed with a club of some sort, the other is not, but obviously has some augmentation to their strength. Which do you attack first, and how?

[asarcheologist]

[Is she...smiling at her? And more importantly, is that bad or good...?

Thankfully, before her thoughts can travel too far down that path, Chun-li gives her that scenario to chew over. For a moment, Liara remains quiet, digesting the information given to her. When she opens her mouth again, it's to ask:]

What are their positions relative to mine? Depending on that information, my answer will differ.

[As though she's solving a logic puzzle.]

[action]

[friendofdorothy]

Liir, who hadn't been that long out of the military, clipped his heels together. Ironic that one of the world's most famous cops would be assessing the usefulness of the son of a terrorist.

"Sir, Liir Ko, Beta, Imitation of the traits of and communicating with animals and postcognition of organic objects, sir!"

Was that earnest and immediate a reply sardonic or sincere? It was hard to tell with him.

[kikosho]

She was familiar with the political turmoil in Oz, but it was one of the situations where Interpol was very strictly forbidden to intervene. There was little evidence of anything they normally stuck their noses into. Illegal prostitution, human trafficking, drug trade, illegal gaming and other black market activities were her specialty. Terrorists and politics... She felt such things were best determined by the people.

But this wasn't the time or the place to assure Liir she had nothing against his history, or his mother. More important was...

"Scenario. You are presented with an enemy that has a hostage as a human shield. They will escape, with the hostage, if you do not act within ten seconds. The enemy is armed with a gun. The type is irrelevant. How do you respond?"

[friendofdorothy]

"Sir, what is the environment around me, sir?"

Liir was a careful thinker, not prone to heroics.

[Action]

[long_live_the_queen]

Kaede was! ...somewhat unimpressed. Chun-Li's name was barely recognizable in her mind; something she heard from the brief snatches of TV in the other institutions. Though most of her inattention could have just as easily been chalked up to her not paying attention, which was also entirely possible.

She wasn't expecting to be called on, let alone answer. So her mind drifted elsewhere in a dozen different directions as it usually did-

"Excuse me?"

She wasn't wearing a hat in the lineup, though her horns didn't budge--not like ears at all. Her shoulders stiffened instead, just like how they had every time an instructor called on her.

[kikosho]

"I am not repeating myself, student, answer the question." Chun-li was un-phased, locking eyes with the girl. She'd heard of this one... She may need to adjust her approach, but for now, she would not show anything different from what she'd show any of her other trainees.

Kisume | Touhou Project

[droppedbucket]

[Visual]

[It's a strange thing to see a very ragged looking child on the network, looking at the camera like it was a thing that could bite her. But once she's sure it's one there is a hesitant smile and a wave.]

Who all here? School not like before..Smell different..people bigger or not here.

[A pause and she glances about and slightly frowns. Her English is off and very forced, probably not helping anything.]

I alone this time...Was told safer here. Is true? Or bad men come to attack? I will fight!

[Action]

After wandering about the school, feeling lost and confused, the tiny girl had made her way outside, out to the forest. Even with her oddly colored clothes, she seems to blend in and slip in and out of the brush without any cares in the world.

Although once she reaches the water, she'll sit and gaze up at the sky, a deep and thoughtful look on her face.

[Action]

[long_live_the_queen]

"Fuck!"

Kaede had been just visiting the forest; dabbling at the edges, really, to look at the flowers and new buds and sprouting growing things and there was something too big scuttling around and--she hopped awkwardly backwards, one after the other until she stopped, vectors bristling ghost-shimmer bright from her back.

"Who's there?!"

[Action]

[droppedbucket]

It's almost instant that there is a amount of noise. That startled the feral enough to make her stumble and sit up rapidly before peeking out of the brush, twigs and leaves in her unkempt hair.

"...I here. Not bad, not hurt. Just looking to find thing."

She tilts her head and sniffs at the air a little bit, trying to figure things out on her own before trying to ask..since she knows not everyone really understood her.

Oulan | Suikoden II

[flamingfists]

[ACTION]
[A Job offer was the last thing she expected. She thought she had screwed up, using her power in front of a client in a noticeable way. She hid it so well in the past but this time used them in front of the wrong people? Or was it the right people.

Suddenly instead of bodyguard work she found herself with a new job working security at a school for the X-Men.

Her first day of work finally done she retires to the gym. It was definitely far better equipped than the dojo she trained at before. They actually had punching bags that weren't turned to paste after just a few punches.]

Sure as hell wish I had this back home.

[Video]
[It's been a few days and outside of being the random girl walking through the halls and courtyards she hadn't really introduced herself to the populace.]

Listen up! I'm going to get straight to the point and not waste your time. I'm Oulan, a new security officer around here. You'll see me roaming around on campus. If you ever feel unsafe, come and talk to me. If you need an escort somewhere in town just ask.

video

[asarcheologist]

[When Liara responds, she looks like she can't quite decide if she wants to feel curious or concerned about that announcement.]

An escort?

Re: video

[flamingfists]

Maybe chaperone would have been a better word to use?

[action]

[kikosho]

It's super nice, isn't it? -Of course she wasn't alone this time of day. But considering Chun-li's job of whipping other people into fighting shape, she had to take time for her own conditioning as well. She'd just finished some rather intense work out of her own, just resting with a towel and a bottle of... awfully green looking water. Must be a nutrition thing.-

I mean, we have something this nice at HQ, but I was always on assignment and never got to use it.

Re: [action]

[flamingfists]

I could stick here just for this. A heavy bag I can punch without putting my fist through? I'm in heaven.

[Action]

[droppedbucket]

[It's not long before there is a small girl just watching curiously. One of the newer students with messy green hair and a curious look on ehr face.]

You not have before? It good then?

Re: [Action]

[flamingfists]

[She crouches down to look at the kid beneath her]

It's fantastic. You are lucky to be in a school with stuff like this.