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?

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namine | kingdom hearts | ota

[rewritethesky]

two - network
[Namine has quickly learned that she's not a fan of the cold. Snow, maybe, had Kairi and the others actually lived somewhere that had it and experienced it. But combining the two of them together, it leaves her wanting to stay inside the tiny room she woke up in.

But that was days ago. Days without seeing the sun or much light and only surviving on the rationed food in her backpack. She's used to being alone, stuck in places she wasn't allowed to leave for whatever reason. But this is too long, and after waking up from a restless sleep today, it feels like staying in this place is starting to affect her.

The walls of the room feel closer to her than before, and now there's tall dark shadows that she notices just slightly out of sight, brandishing what look like weapons and gesturing to her.

She needs something to take her mind off them, and turns to the tablet in her pack. Someone please give her a distraction.]

Is anyone ther

Does anyone have

I need something to draw. Please. Someone give me an idea. Something to draw.

three - action
[One look at this girl could tell you that she's not used to this kind of climate or weather or even exploring. Small and frail looking, but she understood the basics of survival, and couldn't stay in the place she had woken up in. There had to be better shelter out there.

Namine had begun to think it was a mistake to leave the small shelter she found herself in, having just about never explored a world on her own. So that house on the hill looks like a blessing to her, and she makes a beeline in the snow for it. Opening up the door and stepping inside, it feels cold and vacant and dark but still better than outside. And a fireplace makes this place even more promising. A source of warmth and light in this place.

There's just one little problem...

She doesn't know how to light a fire. As she kneels by the fireplace and collects some pieces of the wood that's around, she runs through what she does know in her head: wood, a match and something to catch the fire easily. But she had no matches and no tinder. No way to actually make a fire other than just stacking the wood up.

How is she supposed to get warm now?]

two!

[coleader]

You draw?

[ she smiles — another artist. maybe they can exchange tips sometime, or collaborate. if they survive the weather, that is. ]

I used to draw nature a lot. Trees, flowers... or the sky. Or you could try drawing someone who's important to you, as a gift for when you get back.

[rewritethesky]

I do.

[She's never exactly bonded or talked to another person who shared her interests. Therefore, she can't explain it, but it makes her smile slightly too.]

Not very well. But it's something that I've always done. It's kind of relaxing.

I've drawn them many times before. I'd like to try something new, like flowers. DO you have a favourite?

[coleader]

I don't know what kind they are, exactly.

[ she'd seen many types in books — violets, lilies, tulips, and so on — but not these. whatever they had been originally, they mutated due to irradiation. it sounds like they'd be horrific, but Clarke has good memories associated with them. ]

They're blue, and they glow in the dark. They're beautiful.

[rewritethesky]

They sound very unique. I wish I could see them.

[Especially since she's thinking that they'd come in handy in the dark right about now. Maybe she can learn how to draw by a description only.]

What's the shape of it's petals?

[coleader]

They come in all different shapes. The trees glow too, and the butterflies.

[rewritethesky]

[At the very least, this is giving her a couple of ideas!]

That does sound beautiful. Is there anything else that glows?

[coleader]

That's all I know of, but I haven't been far. I think it's safe to assume there is.

What about you? You must have some favorite things you can draw.

[rewritethesky]

[The response comes with a slight delay; she was debating on answering honestly, or not answering at all. But talking is keeping the cabin fever at bay. A little.]

I do. I've mostly drawn some of the people that are import-- that I've had the pleasure of meeting and some of the places they've been to.

[coleader]

What places would that be?

I'm sorry, this probably sounds strange, but it seems like there are people from places I've never heard of before.

[rewritethesky]

A beach, mostly, clock tower, and a castle.

Not strange at all. I doubt we really come from the same place. Since I don't know about those flowers and butterflies you were talking about, and you probably don't know about the places that I know of, it only makes sense.

[Please don't call her crazy. This is probably the most polite way to explain it right now.]

[coleader]

[ Clarke doesn't think she's crazy. she worries about her own sanity a bit — is she having some sort of break? — but not Namine's. it's true that she's never seen this beach, clock tower, or castle, but nobody else seems to have seen anything she has. ]

It makes sense, but it also doesn't make any sense at all. How can any of this be possible?

[rewritethesky]

[She brings up a good point, one that brings about some rather unsettling thoughts and too many questions with it.]

That, I don't know. I'm a little more concerned on why we are here.

two

[apolly]

[apollo has been scrolling the entries one by one, all of them technical and afraid, including himself. so naminé's post stops him short, his hand hovering over the tablet, before he types out a reply.

he's not even sure why, but—]

Well, I'd say draw something that's challenging? Something that you're not used to, I mean.

[rewritethesky]

[Asking for a distraction could very well be a sign that she's afraid and scared. But then again, Nobodies can't possibly be scared or any other emotion. So then, what is she feeling?

She wasn't exactly expecting a reply, thanks to the fear of being stranded n the dead of winter and truly alone, but she's relieved when a response comes up.]

Challenging. That sounds like a good idea. [Something for her to get lost in, to take her mind off those shadows on the wall.] I've drawn a lot of things before though. Mostly people and places.

[Meaning Nami still has no idea what to do.]

[apolly]

Then, well... That'd be a sign to find something new.

[apollo is all about new problems and new solutions, but this has taken the cake, and he can kind of feel that from this person's text. the urge to comfort is coming pretty strong right now for some reason.]

Like animals, or objects. It keeps your head more focused, you know?

[rewritethesky]

[Objects, huh? That's a good idea, except she looks around the room she's in and there's little inspiration to be had with what's around her. And from what she gathers, there's no animals outside from the sounds of things.]

My thoughts exactly. Maybe a bird. It sounds like there aren't too many of them outside.

[apolly]

[... she still sounds a little down, maybe a joke?]

You can use me as a reference if you want. I get called a bird all the time!

[rewritethesky]

Why do people call you a bird if you aren't one?

[For all she knows, he could be a bird.]

[apolly]

[for a brief moment, apollo turns on the video feed to show off his hair in all of its bird glory before switching it back off.

girl if i have any chance to show off this hair then i will DO IT.]

Yeah, see? Like a cockatiel.

[rewritethesky]

[That is officially the best thing she's seen all day. Be thankful you can't hear her light giggles, Apollo.]

I do! They do look like feathers. Like a majestic crest.

[apolly]

It better look majestic, I used to get up early in the morning just to make sure it looked right.

[at least this girl sounded happier by tone, though apollo was never the best at reading that kind of stuff.]

And after coming here, I'm pretty sure I don't have the most unusual hair. You can draw just about anybody's.

[rewritethesky]

Sounds like you're very dedicated to your crest. Your hard work definitely has paid off.

[Not exactly happier exactly, but definitely in a better state of mind now. And what's that she's going to start doodling on the side of a wall? It's gonna be Apollo!

Or at least her interpretation of him. Hard to know what he looks like from the shot of his hair, but its enough for her.]

I've drawn a few different hairstyles before. Even one that was more spikier than yours. And it's unusual. Just unique.

[apolly]

[it's not often that apollo gets direct compliments on his hair, so he's just going to take what he can get.]

More spiky? Not sure how that's possible unless you use a couple of gel tubs. It starts getting expensive if you're not careful though!

[because believe me ma'am i've tried]

[rewritethesky]

Gel tubs?

I'm pretty sure their hair is naturally like that.

[Prepare to be introduced to the magic that is Sora, Roxas and Axel. If the former ever gets here. Not even water can ruin their mighty spikes.]