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THE TEST DRIVE MEME

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!

We also ask that you please pardon our dust. We're working very hard to get this game up and running and hope to be open by September 1st!

Comments

[icy_heavens]

[Well he can't go scold the missing five years. Where else is he supposed to put it?]

[He sets his mouth in a line, and his expression takes on something a little more sombre than annoyed. Damn it, X-23, he's happier being annoyed.] I guess people might take it that way.

[No outright admissions, here. Those are for healthy people.]

[nobodysweapon]

Jean Gray is dead, there is nobody here you can blame.

*Being all pouty doesn't suit you.*

Move past it.

[icy_heavens]

I was not blaming anyone. [Fact is, he's not mad at the staff, he's not even mad at Jean. Some might argue he has a little justification for the latter, but he's not. It's the situation, the having had years go by for everyone else while he's been left behind.]

[And he knows the poutiness doesn't suit him. Irritation does. That's why he'd gone with that. But he can't say that because it would be admitting his feelings and he just doesn't do that.]

[nobodysweapon]

Then what are you feeling? Because you do not seem to be looking for a way to overcome what has happened.

Which is the only option. It cannot be fixed.

[icy_heavens]

[Explaining what he's feeling would require knowing what it really is and having a willingness to share it. He has neither. So he's skipping that.]

You don't know that I'm not doing anything. And I'm perfectly aware it can't be fixed.

[nobodysweapon]

What are you doing then?

*Part of it is idle curiosity, but it might be something of value to her to try and apply to her own various 'things she cannot fix' list she hasn't completely gotten past. Like all the people she has killed in her life.*

[icy_heavens]

[A sigh, but it's more one to try and relieve his tension than anything else. It doesn't really work. He's a tense person in general.]

Learning what's happened the past five years, trying to readjust my perceptions of the people that are still here and familiar to me. [He will never call Fai "Mr. Flourite", though. Or stop scolding him. That's too much.] Resuming my training with new teachers and trying to figure out where I fit now that things have changed.

[Yep, all things he is honestly doing. Whether all of them have anything to do with moving on might be debatable, but some of them are. Unfortunately, there's probably nothing in there that will help X-23 with her particular issues.]

[nobodysweapon]

A well reasoned plan of attack.

*Sadly, no, none of this is really useful for her. Then again all of these are things she has attempted in the past, so perhaps she can be of help instead.*

You should not try so hard. It is too much to do in a short span of time. Start with acclimating yourself to the new dynamics with your former peers first. Then worry about the other items.

*Although she knows full well that he will not do any such thing, she has to say it. It is how she has improved herself since the Phoenix Event.*