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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.

Comments

[sugoooi]

Would you rather me sick and starving?? Eren, you gotta be grateful for the good stuff in your life! If you only focus on the bad then you're never going to wind up happy that way...

And hey! You've got me! Mr. No-Go. One high-five and you're as bland as...uhh...anyone, I guess.

[garganteren]

No, I don't want that... And it's easy for you to say, it's different for you.

[Although Sam does make one good point, about his power.]

Yeah, that's right!

[He brightens briefly, but then is just as quickly crestfallen.

But you can't make it stick, and they're not going to let me take you home with me.

[For one thing, that would be horrible.]

[sugoooi]

I will take that as you liking me. Thank-you. [ ROUND 2: GO ]

[garganteren]

No—I don't! Sam...

[Ugh. SO ANNOYING, SAM.]

I just want to be normal, that's all.

[sugoooi]

[ "GOSH SAM, YOU'RE SWELL. LET'S BE BEST BUDDIES." ]

You're plenty normal. You're a normal, regular ol' grouch! An' you're gonna stay that way no matter what you are or what anyone says about you okay?

[garganteren]

[THAT IS NOTHING LIKE WHAT HE SAID. HE SAID THE OPPOSITE OF THAT.]

I'm not a grouch! No one back home thought that. I was just normal there, but here everything's different.

And I don't care what anyone says about me! Of course I'm not going to change because of that.

[sugoooi]

[ "I LOVE YOU SAM, YOU'RE SUCH AN INSPIRATION. I LOOK UP TO YOU LIKE MY OWN DAD." ]

See? That's the right attitude to have! Just be yourself. People probably need to get used to you is all.

[garganteren]

[HIS PARENTS ARE DEEEEEEEAD.]

I don't want them to get used to me! They should be upset. They need to realize that they're not the superior race they think they are. That humans will continue to resist them and fight for their lives no matter what.

1/2

[sugoooi]

[ EXACTLY. Who better to raise you than him?? ]

....................

2/3

[sugoooi]

[ Admittedly he's a little disappointed in you right now Son. ]

It's not about being a superior race or anything weird like that Eren. It's about being a good person. No one here's trying to prove they're better than anyone else, mutant or not.

Or at least...I'm not. I know I'm not. I can't fly through the air or solve math problems or jump really high and do a slam-dunk.

3/3

[sugoooi]

But...I am pretty good at drawing. And I can make people smile. I think those're pretty good and I'm a little better at it than some people. But I don't think it makes me any better than anyone else... Having a weird gene doesn't make you superior or anything.

It's having a better heart.

4/4 I LIED

[sugoooi]

Or--well--I mean, not that it's superior...everyone's equal! But it makes like a better person! Niceness...wise. Eheh...

[garganteren]

There's nothing wrong with my heart! It's full of love—for humanity.

[Why does no one here understand that?]

And you're wrong. You just don't understand, because you're a kid, like me, who got powers suddenly. And it's not like you want to be this way. But the other ones—they want to kill us—I mean, humans. They think humans are inferior, animals.

There's going to be a war. Humans against mutants. We're not going to be able to stop it, and I'm not going to let humanity be wiped out.

[Eren KIND OF MISSED THE POINT A LITTLE, sorry Sam.]

[sugoooi]

[ SO DISAPPOINTED, SON. ]

How many mutants have you met that told you they think people're inferior animals?? [ And he doesn't mean like an animal in bed here!! Mind out of the gutter Eren. ]

[garganteren]

[His mind isn't in the gutter, he doesn't have time to think about such things when there's a war on!]

They didn't have to tell me. They showed me with what they did.

[sugoooi]

[ He knows how you young hormonal teenagers get. ]

What did any of the people here do?

[garganteren]

[He's not hormonal at all! Well, he is very angry, but that's different.]

I don't mean them! I don't want to talk about it!

[He doesn't exactly change the subject, but he shifts it.]

I haven't been here that long, and of course they wouldn't say it to my face. But yeah, at our rallies, mutants say all kinds of things to us.

[sugoooi]

R...rallies??? [ Oh my god Eren like that doesn't sound creepy and KKK at all!!!! Sam actually looks totally unsure once that's brought up. He's going to try and believe in his precious new son but wow. ]

[garganteren]

Yeah, I mean, the Friends of Humanity have meetings and participate in protests and things like that.

[He sees Sam looking at him like that.]

It's our constitutional right!

[HE IS NOT YOUR SON!!!]

[sugoooi]

[ ADOPTED SON, WHATEVER. SAM DOESN'T SEE FAMILY THROUGH THAT KIND OF LENS. ]

And you...invite mutants? To hang out and argue with you??

[garganteren]

No. They come, too. And they protest us and yell at us.

Haven't you ever been to a protest?

[This political stuff and training for the COMING WAR is most of what Eren does, so he's not sure about what other teenagers do.]

[sugoooi]

Um...not really. But we had a debate club in school that I went to once? And I've seen highlights and stuff on the news.

[ Facebook and video games. And dating and stuff. He needs to take you to a skate park someday. ]

[garganteren]

Really?

You can't believe what you see on the news. Sometimes they twist the truth try to make us look bad. Like there's a fight that breaks out, and they report that it was all the Friends of Humanity's fault. It's all misleading.

[It's not like he's never played a video game! They have computers. But he doesn't do that a lot. And only certain, approved games are allowed. He hasn't been on facebook or gone on any dates, though. And he hasn't been to a skate park.]

[sugoooi]

[ Sam would introduce him to Plenty of Fish but he got in trouble trying to use that, once....... It was embarrassing for everyone involved. ]

Oh yeah, my mom says the news is mostly just garbage they use to get ratings and stuff! There's probably nice Friends of Humanity and mean ones, just like there's nice mutants and mean ones.

[garganteren]

[Eren would not want to use such a site anyway! He doesn't want to date!]

Your mom's right.

Yeah, I guess that's true.

[He's not going to say that everyone he'd lived with was nice, because he had gotten in arguments there, too.]

But mutants say all kind of bad things about us. And sometimes it's just humans in general they're talking about.