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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!

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

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Adachi startles at the sudden appearance of the mermaid. His reaction is so severe, he almost falls—he stumbles, but manages to right himself in time. He laughs, nervously. He clearly isn't here to fish, as he has none of the necessary equipment.

"Ah ha, hey—I didn't expect to see anyone else out here."

He'd hoped he wouldn't.

"You're new here, huh?"

Naija watches him have a near-fail with interest. If he falls in, she'll fish (hah!) him out, of course. He seems...nervous? Something to hide? That only makes her more curious.

"I am! It's much smaller than my home waters but very cozy. Did you come here to swim?"

He shakes his head, gesturing down at his shirt and pants, his smile easing. "Nope. Not dressed for it." He doesn't particularly like swimming, but he likes being alone.

"Security officer Tohru Adachi!" he introduces himself, then adds, "but I'm not on duty now. I just came out here to think. And—" From his jacket pocket, he pulls out a book of English grammar. "Study!"

Adachi knows how to have a good time.

"Oh! It is nice to meet you, Mister Adachi. I'm Naiaja and I'm to begin teaching swimming and underwater combat soon."

She pulls herself up, onto the pier. She's not much different from a normal human. Her legs are definitely seperate, though her feet have large webs, helping her to move more quickly through the water.

She sits next to him and peers at his book.

"What are you studying?"

You'll have to excuse her. She hasn't learned much about personal boundaries.

"Looks like you're perfect for the job." He looks at her briefly, then glances away, as if embarrassed.

At least she calls him mister, shows some respect. He backs off, though, when she draws closer, not managing to be subtle about it. He holds out the book toward her, however, so she can see it clearly.

"English. I think I'm pretty good, but I could get better. I've been studying since I got here. Every day."

Nothing to be embarrassed about here, she's wearing clothes. Well besides her being a bit of a personal space invader.

"You sound fine. So you're a guard, then? Where are your weapons?"

She looks him over, checking for...I dunno, a trident or something. Or a shank made from a shark's tooth. Something she'd recognize as deadly.

He's not so much actually embarrassed as he is wary of the wet woman seated near him. But not for any reason that she would know about. So that's fine. She could probably beat him up, so that's... well, it's not good or anything. But he's gotta be on his best behavior!

He really hates it here.

And then he hates it more, as she strikes at one of his sorest points suddenly, without any warning. He flinches. "No..." Adachi deflates visibly, sighing. "I've been petitioning for a gun! But they haven't let me have one yet." It's really unfair. "You know, the professor's not big on guns on campus and stuff, around the kids. I think it would be a good idea, though! You can't be too careful." He loves guns. A lot. At least when he was a cop, he got to carry a gun on duty. "I think it'd help keep the kids safer." That seems like a good reason, although it is not Adachi's actual reason.

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It's a good thing she is. She's liable to get his book wet.

"Are there not people here who are quite a bit more powerful than a gun?" She asks. Child safety is kindof a new concept to her.

"Well, sure," Adachi sighs, "But when I'm patrolling the grounds and none of those guys are there, and something happens, what then? Sure, it wouldn't be much good against attacking mutants, but there's those humans who hate us. The people with those super, special powers, they can't always be everywhere at once, not even with Old Man X's brain stuff."

"No, no." She shakes her head. Water drips from her short hair. "I mean that Mister Xavier doesn't restrict the use of their powers. So why restrict you having a weapon?"

"Oh! I get it!" He brightens and nods, glad to see they're on the same page. "Ha, sorry, most people say the opposite, so I thought you were, too. But you're right! I don't know why. I've asked about it, but..." He shrugs. "Could be a legal thing. Or they don't want it to make the students nervous. They'll think, 'wow, it must be scary here, the guards have guns!""

"I do not understand why that would make them nervous. Are you not there for their protection?"

The idea of not being constantly alert for danger, of seeing such nervousness as alarming, is new to her.

"By the way, if you see anyone dumping things into my lake, I give you full authorization to use any weapon you have on them."

She does not appear to be joking.

"I like the way you think. That's exactly what I think, too! Americans have this weird thing with guns. They love them, but they hate them! If anything, students would feel safer seeing guards with guns, especially if they don't have powers that could stop a troublemaker. Sure, if some big robots or the Brotherhood showed up, I couldn't do much, but for regular humans, it would be good to have! You point a gun at them and they'll stop, a lot of the time. And if they have guns—I can't stop bullets, so that isn't fair."

He nods, enthusiastically, pleased to have been given the go-ahead to use force. He doesn't seem to find her seriousness strange. "Sure! If you want me to protect the lake, I can do that! It's part of my rounds, anyway." Adachi has typically been assigned to the more out of the way areas on his patrols. "Can't have people messing with your place. I wouldn't want anyone dumping trash in my room."

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