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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!

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[anythingwithstrings]

You can try to hide things from me, nobody is ever as good at it as they think.

*She smiles, glancing over at him, she almost reaches out but... it's still weird. Even if he was still acting like himself.*

I didn't say you didn't look good, you know, for an old guy. And I figured years of experience were pretty much how you could teach the class. Experiences I wasn't around to at least try to talk you out of.

Just... I want to go shopping, and get your thoughts on my clothes, and if they are too slutty, and do it without the clerks not only judging us, but the fear they might make a big deal and call the cops.

[comparative_insanity]

[No, nobody was ever as good at hiding things from Maya. It had become a fact of his life, five years ago, and he'd been used to her just... knowing stuff about him. Not everything, but a lot. And now it strikes him that there's so much she really doesn't know about, and it's a little bit like waking up and realizing your parents have forgotten your birthday. It just doesn't make sense, it's disorienting and it's upsetting.]

You make me sound like a silver fox, and I'm not sure if I should be affronted or flattered. I'm in my twenties, not pushing Magneto. [He makes a small, amused face.] And technically it's because I teach biology, but... you probably have a point.

[Fai sighs softly. Maybe he should be a mature adult about this and not encourage her any further, talk about how things have changed. But the thing is, sometimes being a mature adult can make you act like a right tit, and cause you to self-righteously hurt someone you care about.] You know, as long as I get eye contact I can make the clerks think I'm any age it damn well pleases me. [And here's a thing: Fai never ever ever used to swear at all.] And even if I don't do that, who are they to say I can't go shopping with my cousin, or maybe even my sister?

[anythingwithstrings]

I'm not even sixteen yet, what was 'in my twenties' when you were sixteen? And we both know for a fact when you're really old you will be a silver fox.

And you should feel flattered, obviously.

*She sulks for a little while longer as she thinks about the suggestion, and the fact that Fai swore, and just... everything.*

Sister, there's enough of a gap now that we could be half-siblings. You know as a staff member there are rules about socializing with students and plotting to lie and use our powers to trick large groups of people, right?

*Then she smiles, and actually opens her mouth to talk for the first time this entire conversation.* Thanks.

[comparative_insanity]

[He just gives her the most innocent of smiles at hearing such outrageous things about himself when he's supposed to be even older and more respectable. Because it's not as if he can't deny it. Nor does it seem, if these last five years are anything to go from, that he'll ever really settle down with anyone.]

[And he does reach out when she finally speaks for real, giving her nose a very solemn prod.] I know there are rules. I also know there are probably rules against stealing the Blackbird, and drinking beer on the job, and visibly smoking within the school - even if you're an air manipulator. But that never seemed to stop the old crew.

As long as I don't take you to a hotel room and get you drunk- [He grimaces sourly, but the expression is gone in a second.] -I'm probably going to be alright. Besides... I've missed you. I've missed you a lot.

[anythingwithstrings]

What if I was already in a hotel room and drunk?

*She's kidding! Except that this is an entirely likely scenario as she desperately wants to catch up to her friends. Even if that's impossible.*

I wish I got to miss everyone, I got to wake up to a brand new world with all the same problems. Like a school where the rules are pretty much guidelines and if I could find a boy maybe I wouldn't care so much about the sounds of people having sex.