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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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I know what that's like! Those kids can be a real pain, can't they? You should see the stuff I find when we're doing dorm checks. Though maybe you already have.

[He laughs.

Adachi is not the most outgoing person, but it's a chance to complain about kids! And he doesn't mind the janitorial staff as much as the faculty. As a member of security, he can relate.]

[Ah yes, complaining and being terrible conversationalists! They have so much in common. Booker scratches his stubble idly and groans.]

I think I could make bingo cards outta all the crazy ways mutant kids can fuck up a bathroom, but I don't wanna think about it that long. [Some uncontrolled powers are just... ugh.]

But a job's a job, I guess... [This was easier to tell himself when he was killing people for a living.]

[They are great things to build an association on. Adachi nods in understanding. The students and teachers just don't get it, what they have to suffer! And for less pay than the faculty, too!]

That would be too much work. And too much about work. Better not to think about it unless we have to. I try not to when I'm off duty! Just put it all out of my head and relax. As much as I can.

Yeah, we do what we have to do. I bet none of the teachers knows the half of what we have to go through.

[Quiet laugh.] Honestly, I've gotten way too many jobs no one gets. I'd rather be a hired gun again than cleaning up acid puke and all the heaps of potato chip bags in the girl's dorms.

[Although sometimes some chips are left at the bottom and that's nice.]

You're one o' the security guards, right? Lucky bastard. [Yeah if that doesn't illustrate how bad it is...]

[Adachi doesn't talk about his past, but he nods.]

I know all about shitty jobs.

Don't be too sure you want mine. They just made me start a security club, teaching kids to be narcs—I mean, public safety officers.

Though—okay, I hear you with the acid puke. You win.

[Adachi perks up with interest. Most things involving guns have that effect on him.]

Hired gun, huh? What was that like?

More fun than teaching kids just about anything.

[Although there was that one job, the one the Lutece twins sent him on... h-he doesn't want to think about it.]

I guess I wasn't in a great place when I had the job, though. Took it up after getting kicked out of, uh... a sort of vigilante agency. That, and...

[And that one time he sold his daughter for booze.]

...Let's just say I'm no one to be proud of knowing.

Yeah, I hate working with kids. They're a pain in the ass. Their ears haven't developed yet, because they don't listen.

[One might then question why he's working at a school, but a lot of mutant misfits end up here.]

A vigilante... so, did you kill criminals? Or—?

[Adachi's a little wary, and still doesn't say anything about himself, although he seems very pleased. Wow, finally someone he can relate to, at least a little. He laughs.]

Me too! No one would be proud to know me, either.

I don't mind kids, but taking care of everyone else's is a pain in the ass.

[He pauses. Hrmmm.... how much does he actually care to share about this?]

More like I was in charge of stopping trouble. Didn't really matter who was starting it, just that I shut them up. [Groan.] I guess it's nicer to tell people I stopped criminals but more often than not I was just keeping their secrets safe.

...Mind me asking what's such a shame about knowing you?

They're okay, as long as I don't have to deal with them.

[Honestly, he doesn't like anyone much.]

So it didn't matter if you thought they were good or bad, you were just doing your job, taking them out.

[That's kind of cool.]

You can ask. It's okay. I don't talk about it, but I got into a lot of trouble back in Japan. That's why I had to come here. Ah... some people died. And it was my fault. But they don't tell people about it. I guess killers on campus look bad for them or something!

[Adachi doesn't usually tell people these things, but this guy killed people too. Anyway, he doesn't have anything to lose, since he doesn't care if people like him.]

But a lot of those X-Guys have killed people. It's not too weird.

X-Men. Yeah. [He looks vaguely uncomfortable as he rubs his neck.] I guess it would be pretty awkward if the whole staff was really honest about how many people we've killed.

But... I guess it all depends on which side the people you kill are on. A lot of times criminals and clean folks have the same sins...

...And after all the laws I've broken I'm still here caring for the next generation, if that doesn't tell you something's wrong...

X-Men, right.

[Adachi doesn't mind correcting his English, amending it cheerfully.]

I wonder how bad it would look if everybody knew each other's body count. [Adachi might look pretty good by comparison!] But when the X-Men do it, they're heroes. If a soldier kills someone, it's supposed to be better than a random person doing it, but the dead people are just as dead, no matter what.

You've probably killed more people than me. I've only killed a few.

[He doesn't present that as a good or bad thing. It's just a thing.]

Ha! Yeah, so am I. Things are pretty fucked up.

I think if we all knew each other's body count I'd be out of a job.

[Sooooo many people.]

A soldier or an X-Man gets a pardon because he was working for the government. All that means is politicians are no different from kingpins.

...How many people did you kill, anyhow?

[Well, color Adachi impressed!]

Yeah, throwing their muscle around. But it's okay when they do it! Though they kill more people than the rest of us put together.

[Not that Adachi has a moral objection to the killing. But it's funny how it's okay with people sometimes.]

Ah, I haven't directly killed anyone. They died because of me, though, so... I scared them to death, you could say. So I don't really know a count. They could have had heart attacks or fallen down the stairs anyway.

Fair point.

[He feels he should return the favor and share, but it feels awkward since, well, at least Adachi killed them indirectly... But, well, okay, he owes him.]

I guess I don't quite have a body count either. But that'd be because... I lost count. Army, agency jobs, hit man jobs, et cetera... I took this job mostly because I figured I couldn't hurt anyone this way. But there's always time to fix that. Somehow.

[This guy just gets cooler and cooler, and he doesn't seem to be looking down on him. Maybe he's not so bad. Adachi laughs.]

Wow, so many. That's a different reason! I have maybe, twenty?

[He could be exaggerating... He doesn't think it's a very impressive number, nothing like losing track.]

But it depends on how you count. It was a small town, and I got caught. They made me come here after that, I guess to keep an eye on me. I'm kind of under arrest. Or "undergoing rehabilitation". But it's better than prison!

Right, if we get attacked, you'll probably have to hurt someone, so don't count it out yet.

If we get attacked I fully intend to hurt whoever attacks. [Groan, but he doesn't want to. He likes to think he's retired from killing. It's more trouble than it's worth.]

I guess we're both in a better place than we should be. Should be in prison like all the sad saps that don't have our luck, right? But the law just ain't straight like that.

Same here. I don't have a problem with that! I'm ready. Security is on the case.

[All that cop training still should come in handy.

Adachi, for his part, feels no reluctance. Although his power is actually more of a defensive one—unfortunately, from his perspective. So if some powerful enemy appears, he's pretty sure he's screwed. Actually scoring a victory would be amusing though, and he would not object to killing someone.]

"Sad saps", that's a good one. I like it. Is it like "poor suckers"?

[Adachi is always looking for chances to add to his English idioms. He studies a lot, and as he's been in the U.S. for a fair amount to time now, his English is good.]

No, you're right, it isn't fair at all! By idiots, for idiots.

[He doesn't mind that, though. For once, it's even worked out in his favor.]

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