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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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[And Eren SHOUTS RIGHT BACK, like the shonen protagonist he is.]

I mean mutants who are gonna hurt people! Like how criminals are scared of jail, so they run from the cops. There should be something mutants are afraid of! But no, they can even kill the president and get away with it!

But that's not what we were talking about! We were talking about my family—!

[Carver cuts himself off, but he doesn't deflate. Instead, he just snaps his mouth shut, running a hand over his face a second later.]

I'm...just going to go sit down or something.

[Eren blinks. He honestly wasn't connecting the topic of conversation with an actual real family, having gotten so carried away by his "rhetoric".]

What? I wasn't talking about your family, I was talking about mutants!

[Eren...]

My family is mutants. You can't talk about one without talking about the other.

[And, you know, so are both of them, but this is apparently going unmentioned.]

Well, I don't want anything bad to happen to your family! That's not what I meant at all.

[Now Eren seems affronted that someone would think this about him! In spite of what he was saying.]

Well, I'd hope not. But that's the thing. If you say every mutant should be treated like a criminal waiting to happen, that means every mutant.

That doesn't change the fact that something needs to be done. The laws we have now aren't enough to protect everyone! I still think it's the right thing to do. There are going to be problems, but people will just have to get used to it.

[He's going to keep being stubborn about this.]

Right, well, I think we'll have to agree to disagree. [Carver doesn't have the wherewithal to keep arguing this issue. They're obviously not getting anywhere without one or both of them getting heated.] Just... Mutants are part of "everyone," and having them register isn't going to do a lot to protect them.

Fine. I will. Agree to disagree.

I care more about the rights of humans.

[Bluntly stated, but at least he's being honest? No, that really doesn't make it any better.]

I'm just saying my opinion. I don't expect anyone here to agree with me.

[Since you're all a bunch of weirdos!!]

Well, fine, but don't say you're thinking about everyone, then.

[He says that a bit pointedly, but the question he follows up with is much milder.]

Why even bring it up, then?

Okay, I'm not trying to say anything about people's families.

[Somehow, he manages to balance that contradiction in his mind.]

Because! I'm tired of not being able to talk because I'm surrounded by freaks! They might as well know I'm not the same as them. So—now everybody knows.

[A+++ reasoning there. Eren is good at making friends and influencing people.]

[Considering his own disconnect from the identity of "mutant," Carver isn't as offended by that statement as he could be, but even so—]

You are, though. You have a different opinion, but you're still a mutant freak. Isn't that why you're here?

I know I am. A mutant freak. [Although his powers just manifested recently, and he's still very upset about it, frowning as he says this.] But I believe I should be removed from society.

I didn't want to come here!

[Well, now this is just kind of depressing, and Carver isn't quite sure what to do about it. He shifts awkwardly, staying quiet before he finally asks:]

Where did you want to go, then? It seems like coming here is the best way to keep away from humans, if that's what you want to do.

[He's not the best at finding the silver lining, but.]

I didn't want to go anywhere. I wanted to stay where I was. My friends were going to take care of me.

[As he's Eren, and not subtle at all, he looks very obviously evasive.]

[SQUINTS

Is this a rabbit hole he wants to go down? Carver isn't sure. So, he asks:]

And this was going to remove you from society?

[Just so they're clear.]

I'm not a hypocrite!

[He really does hate hypocrites. So he feels he should point that out.]

If I say that about dangerous mutants, I mean me, too. And they were helping me!

[Carver winces, then holds his hands up, palms out and fingers spread.]

I wasn't calling you a hypocrite. I was asking a question. No need to jump the gun like that.

What were they doing to help?

I wasn't... People act like I say this stuff should be true of other mutants but not me.

[Though he has to admit, Carver didn't say anything like that. His less confrontational attitude makes Eren less sure of how to react.]

They were going to make sure I didn't hurt anyone else, that's all.

Well, it's a little hard to imagine someone wanting to be treated that way. That's all.

[But Carver will take him at his word! Eren certainly seems...earnest, if nothing else.

He folds his arms and shifts uncomfortably again, debating whether or not to let the subject drop. Ultimately, though, he does ask:]

Did you hurt someone?

If I'm a danger to people, then why wouldn't I? I'm not selfish! Even a mutant who doesn't mean to do any harm could be used to hurt people.

Uh... well, I don't really remember.

[He has no recollection of what happened when he was in that state, and he frowns, his expression making no secret of his guilt and unhappiness.]

But yeah... I did.

"Can be used"? They're not weapons. [But, again, he tries to sound less pointed when he adds:] There's a difference between deciding something for yourself and making decisions for other people.

I'm sorry about what happened, though, whatever it was. Since you're here anyway, maybe you should make the best of it and try to learn to control whatever it is you do?

They're like weapons, because they can be used as weapons. I know they have feelings and things like that, they're just dangerous.

Yeah...

[He doesn't want to talk about it, so he's quiet for a minute, before announcing, with a sudden, determined air:]

No, I'm never going to do it again!

Still, you can't think it's exactly the same thing as pointing a gun at someone and pulling the trigger.

[That sudden determination catches Carver off-guard, though it probably shouldn't. It's just that, for a second, he thought he might have convinced Eren of something.]

Well, if you don't like being dangerous, I say you should learn to control whatever it is you do. That's what my father did, and why he passed his lessons along to my siblings. Neither of them have hurt a hair on anyone else's head.

[By mistake.]

No... I don't think it's the same. But I do think they should be regulated. Not like weapons exactly, but like... dangerous people.

[Since everyone hates his weapon analogy so much, he'll state it differently!]

No. There's no way I can. It's not like that. I don't know what your power is, but... it's not mine.

[Eren's power is serious and horrible and totally the worst!]