DECEMBER TEST DRIVE

[nukeoleptic]

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! • This is open to everyone! Also, test drivers can tag other test drivers. :) • Make up your own scenario or have them walk into all the doors or leave it blank for others to do it for you! Reserves are here, and open on November 24th at 12:01AM CST. Application information (including the list of pending apps) is here, and they open on December 1st at 12:01AM CST. OPTIONAL SCENARIO: After your character receives his or her bracelet and the run-down from the faceless maids in the castle, they walk out to find the city blanketed with snow and in the middle of what seems to be a snowball war organized by the Native children! Be careful on your way to your Welcome House: snowballs are flying, and these groups of giggling kids don't seem to care who gets caught in the crossfire. Make sure to have fun, and as always, feel free to hit the mods or players up with any questions you might have! ♥

Comments

bweeee!!

[dilectio]

I didn't suggest that you shouldn't plan revenge at all, just that it shouldn't be too brutal.

[ it's really hard not to be sort of bounding around in circles waiting for him to get up so she can hug him, like how she attacked affectionately greeted Remus on his arrival, but she's managing. he holds the snowball out to her and her gut tells her no, don't take it, because then you'll be armed and it'll plant a big red target on her back for both the children and Sirius, but she does it anyway because what's the fun in playing it safe? she holds it in both hands, right in front of her, all very neutral. ]

Are you honestly going to just keep sitting there packing snowballs when it's been weeks since I saw you last? Months, actually. [ which.. makes her stop and think about that for a second, wow, okay. months. three, at least. but she snaps out of that weird mood quick ] On your feet, please. I demand affection! Hugs, at once!

[doggedly]

Snowballs are me at my least brutal, Mrs Potter.

[Time was where he'd have called her Evans, where he'd have been shoving snow down her jumper, to see if James would laugh or shove him, to watch her get angry and pink and do her best to ignore him. But everything is different now.

Everything is really different, and when she says weeks, months, he's not quite sure of what to do with that, because-- it's not been. Has it? But it has, at the same time, that's what he's been told, and Merlin, but that's-- a lot. Like the rest of this is something less than a lot. She looks the same, basically, still with that happy glow, maybe a little less worry pinching at the corners of her mouth and her eyes--but even worried, she was always lovely, and he can note that with nothing more than fondness. There are few women that have worked themselves into Sirius Black's actual affections. Lily Potter is one of them, and all right, yeah, he stands, rubbing his hands against his jeans a moment to warm them before he steps in to catch her in the hug she's just demanded.]

Can't have been months, Lils, I think you're touched in the head. Too much disgusting squiffy romance. You need to punch that out of your husband, or, better yet, let me do it-- ooorughf--

[This last wordless exclamation is because he's suddenly shifted his weight so he can heft her up, leaning back so she's lifted off of her feet with his arms clasped tightly around her.]

[dilectio]

I'm not touched and you may not punch my husband because we're not squiffy., oowf-!

[ but she is pleased with this hug, and that snowball gets dropped ( hopefully somewhere near the pile that was forming otherwise she just wasted a perfectly good snowball, oh well, hug priorities ) so she can hug him tight as he lifts her off the ground. it is weird, how much things can change in just a year, how not that long ago she would have never been in anything even remotely resembling this situation ( hugging the hell out of Sirius Black ) let alone asking for it. and she wouldn't call it 'growing up' because she doesn't feel like any of them have, not really, but something changed because just hearing him call her Lils again for the first time in a while makes her smile like a goon. ]

As soon as you put me down I'll explain in great detail why I'm not touched and how it's actually been months.