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: IT WON'T BE LONG NOW... Well, you made a mistake. You spent too long searching around, or you ran outside near the end of the day for just one more thing, and now you've been locked out. You can search around all you want, but the best shelter you can hope for is pressing against the side of a sealed up building. You do still have your tablet, though. Maybe someone on the network can give you some advice, or at least some comfort while you wait for hypothermia to set in.
TWO: CABIN FEVER Maybe you didn't want that mistake of getting caught outside to happen again, but now you've ended up staying too long in one location, and cabin fever has set in. Maybe you're taking to the network to try and ignore the hallucinations. Maybe you want to tell everyone that you've figured out they're all in on your kidnapping. Maybe you ended up wandering off and now you'd really like to know if anyone can check back in the place you were at for your pants.
Action Prompts
THREE: AN UNEXPECTED MEETING You're going about your business searching what seems like it might be an especially promising house--it's fully intact and there's even a working fireplace with some wood! It looks like someone else has the same idea, though, and you've run into them in the middle of your search. Do you share the potential wealth or try to kick them out? On the other hand, maybe you know who this is, or maybe you're just glad to actually see another person for the first time in ages.
FOUR: GOOD MORGUE-NING You've just woken up in a morgue after dying in one unfortunate way or another. You have no idea where you are beyond that, but your tablet is insisting you can't stay here, so you should probably get out of here pretty quickly. Of course, bringing people back from the dead isn't a perfect science, so you're missing something important to you. Maybe you've lost your voice, maybe you can't remember where you're from, maybe you can't remember where you are right now. It looks like someone else is nearby, though. Maybe they can help you out?
[He wonders about the smile and what paths life has taken her down to lead her to an expression that's so devoid of warmth. She might think her smile monstrous, but Al just finds it a little sad she could think that way about herself.]
I just see someone else lost in the snow like me. Besides, even if you did look like a monster, looks can be deceiving.
[Like him. People might call him inhuman, a ghost, or even a monster... and Al might worry about it too. But Ed would punch them all down for it, Al included, and remind him that he was human. The outer shell doesn't make a monster, and he's still human inside.]
So... it's nice to meet you, Rose-the-non-monster, I'm Alphonse.
[ He might as well have hit her for the internal recoil she feels. The smile disappears, but not because she's moved out of the skin, no — he saw right through her. It's not that she can't recognise compassion - only crazy people do it, and only Grayson is a certifiable Crazy Person. ]
Hello, Alphonse the not-ghost.
[ She shifts her weight to the other foot, suddenly unsure of herself. But she has one of his weak points. If she pushes at him... she can find others, use them when needed. ]
Let's get not-lost. There's a few cabins around. How fast can you walk?
[He would be shocked and so sorry if he knew the direction her thoughts were taking, when compassion was something to be distrusted and avoided warily.]
Pretty fast, but I'm afraid I don't think it will do much good, they all lock down on a night and we won't be able to get inside. Our best bet is to try and make you a shelter here in the snow, and I'll protect you from the worst of the wind. If we keep alert and work together, we should be okay.
[ Nobody gives without wanting something in return. No one but Grayson. One anomaly is fine. More of them? She can't cope. ]
Not inside, but it's easier to build a shelter against a wall or under an awning.
[ She makes a face at the idea of working together with a complete stranger, but it's their best bet if they want to survive. Sometimes, optimism is pragmatic. ]
[He chuckles, rubbing the back of his helmet. His instinct would be to offer to carry her in order to get her feet and legs out of the snow, but the struggle of walking might actually do her more good in the long run.]
Come on, stick close to me and maybe it'll keep the wind off you a little bit.
[ She's already determinedly walking behind him, unwilling to expose her back even if it's very, very unlikely he'll attack her. It wouldn't do him any good, and anyway, he doesn't seem like the kind of person who would. Even so, she's wary. ]
A little bit, he says. [ they walk in silence for a few moments, before, ] So where're you from, Alphonse?
[He slows down, thinking that she's incapable of keeping up rather than that she's deliberately keeping behind him. He wouldn't understand that level of wariness, especially not when keeping close to him and potentially lessening her exposure to the elements even slightly could mean the difference between life and death.]
I'm from Amestris, originally a little place in the mountains called Resembool, but... I guess I won't be surprised if you don't know it, nobody here seems to have. What about you? Does it ever snow like this where you're from?
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[He wonders about the smile and what paths life has taken her down to lead her to an expression that's so devoid of warmth. She might think her smile monstrous, but Al just finds it a little sad she could think that way about herself.]
I just see someone else lost in the snow like me. Besides, even if you did look like a monster, looks can be deceiving.
[Like him. People might call him inhuman, a ghost, or even a monster... and Al might worry about it too. But Ed would punch them all down for it, Al included, and remind him that he was human. The outer shell doesn't make a monster, and he's still human inside.]
So... it's nice to meet you, Rose-the-non-monster, I'm Alphonse.
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Hello, Alphonse the not-ghost.
[ She shifts her weight to the other foot, suddenly unsure of herself. But she has one of his weak points. If she pushes at him... she can find others, use them when needed. ]
Let's get not-lost. There's a few cabins around. How fast can you walk?
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Pretty fast, but I'm afraid I don't think it will do much good, they all lock down on a night and we won't be able to get inside. Our best bet is to try and make you a shelter here in the snow, and I'll protect you from the worst of the wind. If we keep alert and work together, we should be okay.
[The optimism, it burns.]
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Not inside, but it's easier to build a shelter against a wall or under an awning.
[ She makes a face at the idea of working together with a complete stranger, but it's their best bet if they want to survive. Sometimes, optimism is pragmatic. ]
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[He chuckles, rubbing the back of his helmet. His instinct would be to offer to carry her in order to get her feet and legs out of the snow, but the struggle of walking might actually do her more good in the long run.]
Come on, stick close to me and maybe it'll keep the wind off you a little bit.
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A little bit, he says. [ they walk in silence for a few moments, before, ] So where're you from, Alphonse?
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I'm from Amestris, originally a little place in the mountains called Resembool, but... I guess I won't be surprised if you don't know it, nobody here seems to have. What about you? Does it ever snow like this where you're from?
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I'm from a place called New York City; I haven't lived there in a while. It doesn't snow like this there, but it's not my first time seeing it.
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[Not that this surprises him, he's never heard of all these weird other world places.]
Maybe when you get back there, you'll be able to impress everyone by acting like the snow that falls there is no big deal.