monthly test drive!!

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THE TEST DRIVE MEME

• Got a character you're thinking of reserving/apping this round? PUT THEM HERE! • Threads here can count as your third person sample! • Comment with your character's name and canon! • Make up your own scenario or have them walk into all the doors or leave it blank for others to do it for you! • OPTIONAL SCENARIO: After your character receives his or her bracelet and the run-down from the faceless maids in the castle, the first thing they realize upon stepping outside is that the city has been all but shut down for some sort of large festival. There are stalls set up along all of the main streets, selling everything from savory foods to desserts to clothes to trinkets, and the vendors cheerfully call at people as they pass, trying to entice them over. The stalls are all decked in incredibly colorful banners and flags, as if attempting to beat back the grayness still lurking in a lot of the city by sheer physical force. Small musical ensembles play on street corners, and one can't go far at all without nearly running into someone juggling or swallowing swords. Good luck finding your god's welcome house in this chaos - the streets are pretty packed with people just milling around! And have fun! ♥

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Toph Bei Fong | Avatar: The Last Airbender

[tophgirl]

[A young girl sits in the middle of the street. Yes, the middle, she's in everybody's way and she not only knows it, she doesn't care. She's in a foul, foul mood and her normal method of releasing her frustrations has been blocked to her.

So she sits, posture slumped, tapping the gemstone on her bracelet. Holoscreen goes on, holoscreen goes off. On. Off. On. Off. On. Off.]

Whoop-de-doo.

[Holoscreens. Not very useful when you're blind.]

[bestestfurrend]

Is your bracelet broken?

[The voice asking the question is youngish, close by but not getting into Toph's personal space. Being a troll, Nepeta knows better than to crowd someone.]

[tophgirl]

[She's still capable of sensing other people's approach, luckily, or she would've jumped at the sudden address.]

I dunno. You tell me.

[Holoscreen on, holoscreen off. On. Off. A never-ending cycle of boredom and anger. Not Toph at her most charming.]

[bestestfurrend]

[Nepeta is used to a certain level of grumpiness from all of her friends, and so she takes Toph's words as an invitation to join her. She sits next to her, looking at the display as it flickers on and off.]

It looks okay, I think.

[tophgirl]

Yay. [She sounds thrilled. No. Really. She's totally excited.]

THIS THING IS SO STUPID!

[Yeah okay she hadn't been excited before but she's certainly angry now. She takes off the bracelet and hurls it away.

She can't bend. What is she supposed to do if she can't bend?!]

[bestestfurrend]

[Nepeta frowns at that, getting up to retrieve her bracelet for her.]

I know it's pretty awful, but taking your bracelet off isn't a good idea. You'll go grey and end up not being yourself any more.

[She holds it out to her again, hoping she's not going to get it thrown at her head.]

Do you need help learning how to use it? Is that what's wrong?

[tophgirl]

Ooooooooooh, grey. I'm soooooooooo scaaaaaaaaaaaaaaared.

[Toph makes a face in Nepeta's general direction, giving the other girl a good view of her pale, cloudy eyes.]

[bestestfurrend]

It's not the gray part that's the problem. It's that you forget who you are.

[She tilts her head at her, frowning a little to see her eyes. One of her best friends is also blind, but her eyes are bright red from it, not like Toph's at all. It's not too hard to realize what the problem is, though.]

You can't see? You can set the bracelet to talk to you, I think! Do you want me to try?

[tophgirl]

Why would I want a talking bracelet? [Yes, she is determinedly cranky. Because if she makes herself as deeply unpleasant and obnoxious as possible, maybe they'll just send her back.

It's totally logical. Totally.]

[bestestfurrend]

It lets you talk to the other people here no matter which part of Asgard they might be in, and they can talk to you through it too. It's very useful.

[She's rather used to crankiness and will at least try and explain things. She doesn't know if Toph really wants to hear it, though.]