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.
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ONE: THE THINGS THAT CRAWL IN THE NIGHT
You haven't thought about the spiders that roam Norfinbury in awhile. But then something happens one night. It's after lockdown and you're all alone, but you can't sleep. How can you, when every time you try to drift off you hear the sounds of scurrying little legs? The sound gets louder, it multiplies, until its all around you. But where--where? Maybe they bugs are beneath the wallpaper, maybe they're under the floorboards. Maybe they're in the furniture. Or maybe, maybe they're just in your head. The tablet is the only thing you have to turn to. Even if you're the only one experiencing these sounds, maybe someone can talk you down, convince you that it's just a brief episode of paranoia that you can unwind from.
TWO: IT WAS ONLY JUST A DREAM
You wake up late into the night. You dreamed you were crawling through a tight, closed space, your body scraping against the metal, and know you don't belong here. Where are you going? The vent is dark, and you don't have your tablet with you. You think there's someone behind you, but you can't be sure. You pull yourself forward with one of your arms. And then you pull yourself forward with your other arm. And then you pull yourself forward with a third--one you shouldn't have. One that doesn't even belong to you.
Once your eyes are open you can still feel those extra limbs extending outward from your body, thin spider legs grabbing at air, clawing for purchase--but then the feeling passes. You're just you, and now you can't get back to sleep. Maybe someone else had the same dream?
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THREE: RATE YOUR DISCOMFORT
You and your traveling companion have found an easy routine. Travel, search, hunker down, try to find a semblance of warmth and comfort for the night before you sleep and start all over again. You don't question when they offer you the last of the fresh fruit from your last run to the grocery store. It's a kind gesture, and perhaps you intend to return it the next chance you get. But the food sits uncomfortably in your stomach.
You can feel it, can't you? It's not churning inside of you but moving, squirming, crawling. Nothing relieves it. It doesn't hurt but you feel sick, you find yourself shuddering, but when you show your companion your shaking hands they don't seem to notice the way that your skin ripples with something unseen just underneath. Whatever you ate isn't just in your stomach. It's inside. You can feel it tickling up your throat, reaching up up up.
FOUR: IT SLEEPS BENEATH THE SNOW
You're almost there: the building is just ahead of you, and just in time for lockdown. The coast is clear...at least, that's what you think before the ground around the building begins to move. The snow shifts, snaking in a wide, giant circle around it. And then the monster reveals itself, snow falling from its hardened exoskeleton in chunks, a giant centipede-like anomaly with too-human eyes and hundreds of legs like stilettos decorated with razor blades.
It has you and your traveling companion in your sights--you're going to have to think faster than it can reach you if you want to get around it and into the house before the door locks and dooms the both of you.
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snowblindmemes2017-01-14 08:59 pm
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I remember a certain prince would sleep on the weekends until I got off my classes at noon, though I don't doubt that you would have slept longer uninterrupted. But I'll be generous. That gives you what, six hours to travel? How far are you getting like that?
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[Whatever, Specs!]
Far enough. Look, I'm getting places. Not everyone moves so slowly just because of a little snow.
[He is not getting far at all.]
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[pause]
I bet I could catch up with you.
[he had to laugh. as ridiculous as Noct was, it energized him and filled him with nostalgia.]
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[He lets out an indignant sort of snort.]
I doubt that. Don't push yourself too hard, you get brittle with age.
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[he rubbed his eyes. There was no way he was moving fast enough to do anything other than barely scrape by. One mistake and he'd be dead, probably.]
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[Food supplies... what a good question.]
I'm gettin' by. Can't say I've exactly been enthusiastic to eat what our generous hosts have seen fit to give me...
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[he rubbed his neck before laying back down, dragging the tablet with him. Even if he was being a little jerk, it was nice to hear him at all. That was his default anyway. Nothing he wasn't used to.]
Me neither. They are insults to us as human beings. I think I could kill for one of those damned cup noodles. I'll have a word with the admin. None of this is any way to live, but I haven't lived with this sort of indignity since- Well. You remember.
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[Rude, Ignis! He's not that bad!]
Yeah, I'm sure the admin is going to give a shit about what you have to say. Do you think you're the first to raise this concern to her? I seriously doubt she's going to change anything.
Besides, there is one place that has fresh food every day, it's just not entirely convenient to go there.
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[There was definitely more of a grumble in his voice now. At least he went from terrified to just his regular feelings: worried about Noct and annoyed about the savagery of this place.]
Oh, none of this is convenient! What's one more. Let's traverse towards it then. I'll make you something as some respite from the MREs.
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[The thought of that man makes his stomach twist, but the cruelty they deal with at the hands of the admin bares a striking resemblance he can't readily ignore.]
That's true, but we have to go through an ice tunnel, and it's preeeetty deep in there. But, we've suffered worse for a great meal, so if you're willing, so am I.
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[He breathes out slowly. He knows this for sure. Noctis just kinda... makes him spunkier than he is.]
We almost died for Gladio's ramen quest. [he catches himself, almost asking if Noct remembers it.] This'll just be like old times. Now you'll have to let me catch up to you.
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[Probably the best cup noodles he ever had.]
How far out are you, anyway?
[He asks, still not entirely accustom to the fact Ignis is blind, and that's probably the most inconvenient question he could ask a blind person.]
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[he starts tapping at his tablet, the voice guidance just reading everything out. It's... This takes a while as every press elicits a sound, and navigating the map spreadsheet is, well...]
[It doesn't bother Ignis at all, it's just how things work for him, but he knows his prince is a little more impatient.]
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Don't tell me you've forgotten how to—
[Then it dawns on him, that of course it's taking forever, Ignis is blind, and so he silently curses himself for even starting that sentence, or asking in the first goddamn place.]
—Er, what I mean to say is... how's it coming? Any closer to figuring out your location?
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Not really... My apologies, Noct. I'll send my location to your inbox in the morning.
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Yeah. Do that. And then stay put, 'cos I'll come to you. No sense in making you do the harder part of the trek when you've got enough to deal with.
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No need, Noct. I start earlier than you do... and I'm not the largely helpless young man you once knew. We may as well accomplish something while you're sleeping away the daylight.
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[It's bad enough you're wandering around in this hellscape blind.]
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[he crosses his arms. even though he knows he's not on video. And... gotta lighten this dreadful mood somehow.]
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[He lets out an amused sound.]
Are you actually going to miss out on the opportunity to get me out of bed early? I don't think you can resist the temptation.
[Lightened mood achieved.]
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[he stifles his relieved breath, instead leaning into a laugh]
And I think I'd even feel bad depriving you of your rest.
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[It's a whole lot easier to not think about this horrible situation when he can banter with Ignis like this.]
But if you insist on me sleeping in, then don't come crying when you get lost in the snow. I offered, it's not my fault you turned it down.