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: 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?

Comments

[armoured]

Then you can't have known many people.

[Al's belief is firm, though his tone is more eager than it is argumentative.]

All anybody is, is a series of changes brought on by experiences. Anyone can change themselves, especially for the better, all it needs is determination.

[purjare]

I know more than I would like. [beat] Knew.

[He never did get to know anyone here and now it seems he won't get the chance.

Cristian's voice is much the opposite of his conversation partner's. He is weary, and not just from the cold. However, he also isn't argumentative. He is simply seeking something.]

I think it would require... much more than determination. You cannot change yourself without knowing yourself and... that is rare. In any world.

[armoured]

I'm not saying it would be an easy path, or that change would happen quickly. But anyone, even the worst of people, can be redeemed if they want it enough. You don't have to know all of yourself, just that you don't want to be what you are any more, and know you won't stop moving forwards until you find the right path.

[Isn't that all he and Brother are doing? Moving forwards and looking for that elusive redemption that would give them their bodies back and finally absolve them of the horrors they brought about.]

[purjare]

[There's a long pause. Just long enough that maybe Cristian gave up the conversation. But then:]

What do you think you did?

[Anyone else, Cristian would not hesitate to be more accusatory. There would be no what you think you did. The voice is what stops him. Full of conviction and young. The kind of person he was trying to save, back where he came from.]

[[OOC: Okay so it's been A WHILE since I've watched/read Fullmetal Alchemist, so if I'm misremembering that Al sounds like a kid, please let me know! I'll change up my tag accordingly. <3]]

[armoured]

[OoC: No, you're totally right! <3]

[There's a moment of frozen silence. And then another moment of frozen silence. And then, only then, does Al respond with some very awkward and stilted chuckling.]

W-What? What makes you think I did anything?

[purjare]

[Cristian sighs, not able to hide the quake in his throat from the cold.]

Intuition.

[armoured]

[He could deny he'd done anything, but he's never been great at lying and even the constant deceit about his armour body stretches him to the extreme.]

...I think everyone has things they've done that they regret, that's what makes us human.