Test Drive

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TEST DRIVE MEME

If you'd like to apply to Snowblind and would like to test the waters first or get a sample set up for your application, this meme is for you! We've even provided some prompts for you to use if you want (but feel free to make up your own). Here's how it works. ✭ Reply to this entry with a character you're considering apping into the game. You can include the name of your character and the fandom in your subject line. ✭ Comment around to others on the meme, whether you're in the game already or not. ✭ Now you have a sample ready for your application! ✭ So go reserve and apply when reservations and applications are open. ✭ Seriously, do it. Network Prompts ONE: SEE THAT WE CAN SEE It's late and you're settling down for the night when you notice a strange light coming from... outside? Through the heavy snowfall, you can just make out the haze of glowing eyes in the distance. Dozens of them. It's difficult to tell through the window, but they seem to be staring directly at you. Since it's after lockdown, you can't get outside to investigate, but maybe others in town are seeing the eyes too. You'd better take to the Network to see what's going on. TWO: BEHIND THESE HAZEL EYES You can't sleep. You've been trying, trying, trying. But every time you close your eyes, you see the eyes of the prophet etched into the insides of your eyelids. The symbol only seems to get brighter and clearer the longer you keep your eyes shut, the closer you get to drifting off. It chills you awake. Nothing seems to help. Maybe there are others on the Network who are having the same problem. Or, at least, someone who doesn't mind keeping you company through the long hours. Action Prompts THREE: THREE'S A CROWD You and your traveling companion are exploring what looks to be a perfectly normal building when you notice something strange carved into the wall. Is that an eye? Strange indeed, but what's stranger is that new carvings keep appearing, always where you're not looking. Soon, the whole room is full of eye carvings. Is your companion doing this? If not them, then who? FOUR: THE KNIFE'S EDGE Most everyone in town still has eyes that are either glowing or shaped like the prophet's symbol, and your eyes are no different. These are the same eyes that made everyone attack each other a few nights ago. Every time you catch a glimpse of yourself, maybe in the reflection of a window or the video feed on your tablet, you feel a little sick. Unfortunately, your traveling companion's eyes look strange too, and they're the opposite of yours. Both of you are in danger if those murderous urges come back, which makes it difficult to trust each other after what you've been through. It's late at night when a dark thought crosses your mind--you do have a knife. Not that there's any reason to use it, of course... Right?

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viktor nikiforov | yuri!! on ice

[vitrissimo]

TWO

@skates | text

Is it always snowing THIS much? I'd say I'm impressed but... Anyhow! Where's the nearest hot spring? I can't seem to fall asleep.

FOUR

[ It's freezing cold and Viktor can't help but shake the feeling that someone is watching him. Sure, he's used to lots of eyes on him at all times, but this is definitely different. Ignoring the fact he's god-knows-where and can't remember how he got there. Yep, ignoring that entirely.

He's also ignoring the weird eye thing going on. He sneaked a glance at his reflection on the ice - and well, it wasn't what he was expecting. His traveling companion looks worse and maybe it'd be nice to just end his suffering - no. No that was a strange thought. He also ignores the compulsive urge to clutch the knife in his pocket tighter.

He shakes his head and presses forward. It'll go away eventually. It's just the cold, right? ]

[bywolves]

[ Poor Corvo. Royce doesn't seem to mind, tilting his head back. ]

I don't keep track, do you?

[eclecticbassist]

ok its fun being sardonic and all but i cannot help but feel that youre stalling
like
dont overexert yourself
or do anything else that is likely to result in injury

all roads lead to pain and suffering

[empireofrats]

[The way she won't turn her head to look up means, thankfully, there's some shame in it for her. But she still holds Corvo's hand.] It wasn't on a purpose.

It was... this place. That's what Mister Alfie said. It was the town. It made people do not nice things. Miss Tifa and I... we killed them, Mister Alfie and Royce. We didn't mean to, but... they felt bad.

We thought we would be safer.

[maskedfelon]

The important ones. [ He's the one quick to answer this time, narrowing his eyes behind the mask. He's watching you, Royce. ] I know why I hide my face. So what about yours?

[bywolves]

[ There's only ever really been one important one. Royce remembers that one, but he's not about to tell a stranger. ]

Because it's cold. [ Royce says dryly, pulling his cloak closer. ] I'm not going to kill you unless you give me reason, don't worry.

[maskedfelon]

I'm not worried about you being able to kill me. [He rolls his eyes, reaching up and removing his mask with a click. The wind was freezing, but the need to see with his own two... glowing... eyes was more important.] I'm worried about having to put you down.

Just don't get any ideas. There a shelter nearby?

[bywolves]

[ Glowing eyes. That's... reasonably reassuring, actually! At least he's not a prophet-eyes. Like his daughter. Oops. ]

Pick a building, any building. [ There's a pause. ] What did you say your name was?

four!

[powersouls]

[Tifa is used to paranoid from so much time with Royce, but she's not a huge fan of that creepy mask. Still, she doesn't push, just keeps quiet as they travel. She knows she can't really force him to trust her, because it hasn't worked with any of the more careful people in Norfinbury. They've been quiet so long that it shocks her when he finally speaks up, and for a moment she's so thrown by the question that she doesn't even know how to respond.]

W-what?

[maskedfelon]

[ Corvo wouldn't be able to stand it if she were able to look at him. As terrible as it sounds, he didn't want to see her face with news like this. He never wanted her to be able to look him in the eye.

He certainly couldn't when they spoke of Dunwall. That couldn't change. ] Did they hurt you? Alfie and Royce? Did the town...?

[his shitlist:
tifa ☒
alfie and royce ☐
the entire town ☑]

[maskedfelon]

I didn't. [ Bye, Royce. He's trudging through the snow at the fullest speed one possibly can now, towards... well, any building.

But no, he isn't that much of an ass. He'll call over his shoulder. ] It's Corvo. Come on.

[bywolves]

[ Royce follows right after - though once they reach the porch and Corvo introduces himself, Royce stops dead. He actually falters slightly on the step, which he immediately curses at himself for under his breath. ]

Corvo. [ A beat, and then Royce tightens his grip on his broomstick staff and moves up the rest of the stairs. ] I know your daughter.

[ Way to drop that bomb all casual-like. ]

[maskedfelon]

[Thankfully, Corvo is relatively calm despite the circumstances. "Calm" was still featuring him wielding a knife to defend himself at a moment's notice, but... it could be worse.]

Have you killed anyone? [He repeats, the lenses of his mask adjusting as he was probably magnifying Tifa's face. He's watching carefully, but with less ill will towards her than some.] And why?

[maskedfelon]

[ Corvo freezes with his hand on the doorknob, staring at the wood as he lets that fact hang in the air. If it weren't frozen solid, he might have left a dent with how tightly he'd gripped it. He might have even ripped it off.

But there was only a few seconds when his hands were empty, because in one he's letting go of the door, and the other he's grabbing the collar of Royce's cloak to slam him into it. ] How do you know Emily?!

[powersouls]

[Tifa stays quiet for another moment, staring down at her boots as she walks. When she finally speaks up, her voice is soft.]

Yes. Some of them deserved it, and some of them didn't.

[bywolves]

[ Look, it isn't like he's not expecting this. Corvo grabs him, and Royce lets him do what he will, but he's also going to defend himself by dropping his broomstick and grabbing his letter opener instead, bringing it up to hold against Corvo's neck. Royce calmly stares up at Corvo, expression flat. ]

She's taken care of me, and I've taken care of her. [ His voice is a little soft. ] I wouldn't do anything to hurt her. So if you'd like to let go of me...

[empireofrats]

[SORRY, PAPA...]

No... Mister Alfie and Royce are nice to me, but they say they aren't nice people. Mister Alfie runs a distillery, like Slackjaw, with his Jewish family. He's a "gangster." Royce says he takes things, and once he had to take a book and put it back. He works with his friend, Hadrian. Miss Tifa is nice. She is really strong. [She finally manages to look up a little.] The town isn't very nice.

It's always very cold, and there's not a lot of food. The pretend lady, the Admin, she said there is a shortage. Everyone got worried.

Sometimes, monsters come out to eat you. One time, everything got very blurry and fuzzy. People would disappear, in and out. Mister Alfie says the town makes you do things you don't want to do, like hurt people. It makes people very sick.

Oh, and don't eat Cheetos if you find them. They taste like funny cheese.

[livingthing]

[ It pulls, so tightly in her chest, to know they were both so close and yet - all this dark between them to keep them apart. ( a hover there, the close of something dark and over-whelming that she thinks she can taste behind her eyes, fathomless and cold and starless ).

But that word out of his mouth - it's not something. It's everything. ]

We will be. [ A quiet insistence, reassurance, pushing forward. ] We will be together. [ a hand that rises, tight, they had gone so long together, and there was danger, there was always danger, but they had done their best to ensure a life for her that was not consumed by it. ] I have missed holding you both, my love. At least I can console myself with your voice now.

[ Brief, stolen - she does not breath out such things readily to anyone else but him. ] Would that you were here now. When I awoke here, so utterly alone...

[definingfuture]

Um. I think we're stuck with them until morning at least. We're kind of trapped and all. But the good news is that I don't think they'll hurt anyone. They seem to be keeping a distance from the building here.

They aren't getting closer to you, are they?

[maskedfelon]

[Corvo falls silent, considering her answer and turning the knife in his hands... to sheathe it. He exhales and rolls his shoulders, looking at the endless snow ahead.]

Do you regret killing those that didn't?

[powersouls]

[Tifa notices it, but she doesn't acknowledge it.]

Yes, but there's no way I can make up for it.

SCREECH I didn't realize you put him up on the TDM Three

[heroproceeding]

[ Zack's been minding his own business for the most part. At least as much as he can because he's noticed Zidane's aggravation and he really wouldn't like to feed it. At least not if he can help it, you know? Unfortunately, his luck doesn't seem to be with him. One moment, he's studying one of the new carvings with a careful eye. The next, he's being snapped at.

Zack looks up from the eye with a raised brow before both furrow in confusion. ] Excuse me?

ZAAACK!

[tidalflame]

[Zidane folds his arms over his chest.]

C'mon this is you, right? You're foolin' with me?

[He tries to sound neutral but his voice carries a distinct note of "PLEASE tell me it's you..."]

omg SLAMS IN HERE

[devoutish]

Yes.

[By now, Alfie has learned from Emily that this is Corvo, and he'd learned a while ago who Corvo was to her - and so his answer is simple, straightfoward, and above all, non-combative.]

Why?

@ASolomons; audio

[devoutish]

I see you haven't figured out how to turn off the capital letters. There's a little button for that, next to the letters.