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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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Is your gaze prone to wondering, my dear Lord Protector?

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My gaze hasn't wandered past anyone in a long time. Who are you? ?

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[ Could there be someone else reading this? Quite probable, and Corvo would admonished her if she was too brusque with her name and position without him at her side and it's only carefully she's picked her way to him.

That carefulness will keep her words now, if he is her Corvo he will know, if not? Then nothing lost. ]

... A very foolish girl who when she came of age picked a very tall boy to guard her all her life long.

[ Corvo thanks the Abbey, the Watch, the Outsider himself that his tablet did not break when he dropped it. His hands had scrambled for it on the way down, his heart racing and his gaze all but unfocused. There was no way, there was no way-- ]

HMYBCKLPGOmmmmnb

[ The keysmash that sent should properly convey his feelings, right? It's a good thing he's quick to follow it to the floor, his fingers going faster than his brain could catch up. ]

WHEN DID WE FIRST KISS

[ Oh, Corvo. ]

Second day, the Month of Rain.

The anniversary of which, our daughter was born.

[ Corvo spends a good minute staring at the screen, reading the words over and over again as if they might disappear the third or fourth time around. This world was as cruel as Dunwall, if not more, how could it give what their home would never? ]

Jessamine-- [ He rasps, his hands shaking as he searchs through the variety of buttons with blurring vision. He curses the damn thing just before it decides to work. ]

Jessamine. Star of my sky. I let you go, I let you... I've missed you so much, my love.

[ She's a flicker at first, off center, the corner of her mouth, her neck, hair that for once - now that she doesn't need to stand on ceremony, undone. Not comfortable, but adjusting. Dressing herself down that little so she did not stand out so much.

It's a far cry from the Tower, after all. ]

My Lord Protector. [ Not the way others would say it - not the, but my, always hers. From her first day ( to her last ). ] You have been gone from my side so long...

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[ It'd been so long since Corvo has seen her face at all, let alone the way she'd looked when there was no one to interrupt. He can't help the laugh that escapes his lips, as choked as it was. ]

W-When the morning comes, my dear, I will never leave your side again. Whatever this weather may bring can't stop me from coming back to you. [ Are those tears down his cheeks? He doesn't even notice. ] Not again.

[ It's a relief to hear him say such - not outwardly so, not at all. She's an Empress, born to never be anything and she had stopped showing much past her sixteenth birthday. But it's there, the flicker down of her eyes, the release of tension in her shoulders.

He is not here, but he is here, in voice, no more wishing up the sound of it on the long months of his progression in seeking aid for her Dunwall. ]

I will wait for you. [ of course she will. Just here, just so. But as to the rest, she says nothing save for the promises they both need. ] And our daughter? Have you found her?

[ She'll wait for him. She'll wait for him again, just like she had all those months as he pleaded for aid. But this time he will fall into her arms, this time she won't be so cold as he holds her. He has to wipe the tears away lest he want to find himself sobbing, because he can't. Not in front of her. Not like this. ]

No, [he manages, slowly coming to frown.] I know she's close. I've tracked her movements, she... she's been taking care of herself. She'll be so happy to see you, Jessamine, you have no idea...

[ She breathes, nods, and maybe she was hoping, that Emily would just appear as bright and young and beautiful as her daughter always was as suddenly as Corvo had on the screen. But - he has never failed her, not once, since she put her life into his hand. He has only ever held her tight.

The Empire may crumble, but he will never let her go. ]

I have no doubt. I will be glad to see you both. She nagged me so often when you were coming home. [ a mimic, soft, of Emily's tone. ] 'Is it today? When? Soon? Tomorrow?' [ shakes her head, laughs, as she ever did, keep a strong face as she must. She was never allowed to stumble. ]

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[ Corvo would counter with Emily's words about her mother, but before he can part his lips, they're replaced with overheard conversations. Questioning to Callista if her mother could still be alive, and the fact she couldn't sleep at night.

His laugh is bittersweet. ] The look on her face was something I'll always treasure. I let her find me before coming to see you, but I can't afford that now. I'll teach her so much more, now that we're both here.

[ It warms her, and worries all in the same breadth. A concern for the childhood she had fought so hard for Emily to had against Burrows and Campbell and courtly expectations. How important it was to allow a child to dream, to foster that commonality. ]

You will always do what is best for her, I know you will. [ That trust is implicit for their child. ] I worry, Corvo, she is so young, and this place has cruelties enough to strike a grown man back to a whimpering boy. We must find a way to get her free from here.

I know. [ He knows his worry for her, for it's something he shared. But it isn't as intense as her mother's, knowing what she's endured in Jessamine's absence. Going back to Dunwall wasn't exactly a resolution for cruelties. ]

She as strong as her mother, my love. She's gotten as far as she has now, and we'll worry about leaving this place later. [ He hesitates, for it isn't something he could ever say freely, but here, now-- he can't resist.] As... as a family.

[ 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...

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