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ASGARD GENESIS - TEST DRIVE #1

the test drive meme.

❧ let's do this.

Anyone can post to the test drive meme, including duplicates! Please put your character name and canon in the title of your comment.
All threads are considered open to everyone! Tag around and make some friends (or enemies)!
If you decide to apply to the game, you can use your TDM threads for your app samples! You only need to provide seven comments if you use TDM samples.
You can't be "late" to a TDM! This will be considered open until the next one goes live next month.
You can make up your own scenario, interact with one of the locations in the game, use the welcome process of your character selecting a god house, or use our optional prompt below!
You do not need to pick a god house to play on the TDM! You can have your character still in the process of discussing/deciding/despairing instead.
If you are accepted to the game, you can keep TDM threads as game canon as long as you fudge some of the details depending on your original thread. If you aren't sure exactly how to do this, you can always ask a mod.
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Applications open on June 1 at 12:01AM PST and close on June 7 at 11:59PM PST.
Please always feel free to contact the mods if you have any questions! Have fun, dear (future?) Wanderers. ♥

❧ optional scenario.
As you enter Asgard proper, many of the natives have gathered into curious crowds to greet these mysterious children of the World Tree. Some of them carry baskets of flowers and nervously offer one to any Wanderers that come near. They are vibrant and colorful, picked from the wilds surrounding Asgard, and they might have an odd effect on your character if they sniff the flowers directly.

Purple flowers will make your character very giggly and easily amused by everything they see and hear.
Orange flowers will make your character feel very warm all over, like the sun is beating down on them directly.
Blue flowers will make your character somewhat short and impatient with anything that seems like even a minor inconvenience to them.

Effects of the flowers can wear off anywhere between a few minutes to an hour. And for those new to Asgard, this scenario aligns with some of the general curses we might have in the game!

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[ He laughs tearfully and into her hair. Pulling back, he simply cradles his daughter's face. ]

Brianna.

[ His thumb strokes her cheek tenderly. ]

Your mother, she's--she's well?

[ She doesn't know why she's been so emotional herself; it's not like this is her first time meeting him. But maybe knowing it's his first time seeing her again, it's just brought out this swell of emotion in her. ]

She's been so happy. She's with you again, where she belongs.

[ Now he understands why he didn't die at Culloden, or while he was on his own in the cave, or even in prison. It was because of this, now. He lived so that he might meet his daughter and have his family, at last. ]

And ye have no' seen her here, yet?

[ Christ, his heart aches for the chance to see her again and if his daughter is here, perhaps... ]

We'll search together, a leannan.

[ She's hoping desperately that her mother is here, not only for herself, but for Jamie. This Jamie, who apparently hasn't seen her in years. They were never reunited, not for him at least. ]

I'm sure she has to be here, if we are.

What do you...remember? Right before you came here, what was the last thing that happened?

[ Jamie doesn't know how much his daughter knows about him, and he tries to phrase everything discretely. ]

I'm at Lallybroch for now. Trying to ease into life again after paying my debt to the Crown.

[ Said bitterly but he moves on quickly. ]

I've considered working a printing press.

[ There's much she doesn't know about this part of his life, of course, since her mother wasn't around for any of that. She's filled her in somewhat in the last few weeks, and she's heard stories around the table at supper, but there are still many holes in his life, things she'd love to know. ]

What year is it for you?

[ He can't stop looking at her, can't stop looking for every bit of Claire in her features, parts of himself. ]

1764, lass. Though I met someone from...from much further in the future. Even further than the 20th century.

[ it was mind-boggling, truly. ]

And the year ye were returned to me?

[ She understands what he's doing now because it's exactly what he did before when they first met. He's trying to find himself in her features, trying to find mama. ]

1769. Mama found you in 1766 so you only have two more years to wait for her.

[ She smiles softly, letting out a breath and then just gently squeezing his wrist. ]

Who else did you meet from the future?

[ Two years. Will she come here, instead? Will it still be two years? Will he be back at Lallybroch by then? Christ, it's so much to not know. ]

I met a young woman from the year 2016.

[ He'd had a hard time wrapping his mind around it. ]

I canna believe you're mine. Of my blood.

[ The problem with being the keeper of so much knowledge is simply knowing how much to tell and how quickly. ]

For me, I just met you a few weeks ago.

[ Should she tell him she met him in Wilmington, that he and her mother have land and a cabin he built for them? He's just starting to rebuild his life in Scotland, it would seem like such a distant dream to find himself suddenly in the Colonies with the wife he thought he'd lost forever. ]

I've known about you longer than that, though. It's still - [ She weighs her words carefully, trying to be mindful of his feelings, but truthful to her own. ] You're my father. But I was raised by another man, a wonderful man. I was worried that being with you was disloyal to him somehow. [ She pauses and smiles softly. ] But then you told me to call you Da and it's made everything a little easier.

[ It is a bit to process, just the way she speaks of Frank, but he reaches to cradle her face in his hands. ]

Ye were well loved then? 'Tis why I sent your mam through, I couldna--

[ He looks down a little, as though ashamed. ]

I couldna give ye a life where ye'd thrive.

He loved me. So much. And I loved him, but I don't - [ As he cradles her cheek, she lets out a breath, worry swimming in her eyes. ] I never want to hurt you by talking about him.

Ye willna hurt me, a leannan.

[ Jamie's quick to reassure her of that. ]

Never, that. I will no' lie and pretend not to be envious of the things he was able to experience wi' ye. Things that I've missed. But I hoped he would do all of those things for you. I hoped he was a good man, who wouldna abandon Claire.

[ And, now he knows. Frank did the right thing, and all Jamie can be is grateful. Jealous--blind with it. But grateful. ]

[ Squeezing his wrist, Bree feels the need to add a little more. ]

What you did, sending mama away like that to keep us both safe, that's...incredible. I don't think many people could have done the same thing. You are a good man, too. A good father.

[ Her words make him swallow heavily and look down before letting out a shaky breath. ]

I would give up my verra soul for her to be safe.

[ He did, in fact, to Randall. ]

And you as well, Brianna.

I know you would. You have.

[ They just have to find mama and then they can handle anything this place might throw at them. ]

What do you make of this place?

[ How much does she know, then? But he doesn't ask; for now, he offers his arm to his daughter so that they can walk, all the while searching for Claire. ]

I dinna ken much, yet. Other than I'll have to declare myself for a 'house' to a God. Truth be told, a leannan, it unsettles me. Have ye heard anything that explains it a bit more?

[ He knows that no one really understands why they're here, but he doesn't like this world with multiple gods. ]

[ It's such a familiar gesture, but so like him, the man she's come to know so well already in just a few weeks' time. He's been noticeably affectionate, putting an arm around her as often as he can, and though at first she had more frequent concerns about betraying her father's memory, those fears have faded now. Here in Asgard, at least, she feels like her heart can be more open to this man who was forced to let her go. So, she leans into him with a soft smile. ]

I only know as much as you do, unfortunately.

Maybe you're thinking too much about it. You're worrying if you're making the right choice, so you're not picking your first choice. There has to be something you value more than anything else.

Your mother. You, mo chridhe.

[ That comes easily to him, at least. Everything he's ever done, all the choices he made after his wedding to Claire, were to best benefit her. If they'd have food, shelter, safety. When he could give her and their child none of those things, he had to let her go. ]

Family, I suppose.

[ He'd always, always wanted a large one. ]

[ She might have known. ]

Then you know where you should be. I think that might be where I fit, too.

[ She muses out loud, just talking it out with him. Her mother would know a little better for this sort of thing, of course, and it makes her ache for her again, not wanting to think they've all just been separated again. ]

I ken where yer mother would be, too.

[ All three of them, Frigg. As it should be, he supposes. ]

She would want to be near the hospital, were she here, and there's no' a chance she'd let either of us out of her sight to live anywhere else.

Definitely not.

[ And Bree absolutely doesn't want to be separated from them again. ]

You'll learn about this later, of course, but mama's a surgeon. At the hospital in Boston. [ A short pause. ] One of the major cities in what was the Colonies for you.

[ Jamie can't help the smile that crosses his features now. ]

She's a proper doctor now?"

[ He hums, low in the back of his throat. ]

She always was one, now she has the title to go wi' it. That's where ye've been living then? The Colonies?

[ He'd hoped that maybe Claire would at least be able to stay in Scotland, but he knows why that didn't happen. At least, he assumes Frank wouldn't allow it, but he'll not say as much to Brianna. ]

All my life. But then mama took me to Scotland for a trip, shortly after my father died.

[ That's something she realizes she hadn't yet told Jamie. ]

He was...killed in an accident.

[ Her voice gets noticeably quieter for just a moment. ]

[ To hear Claire took his daughter home means more to Jamie than he could ever say, but it's followed closely by an ache at his daughter's words. Anything that causes his child pain and grief will always cause his own.

Stopping their walk, he reaches out again with one hand, cradling her cheek. ]

I'm sorry, Brianna, that ye had to lose your father in that way. My own died, when I was no' but a lad, just barely a man. But Frank verra clearly loved ye, and if I can be proud of you already, then I ken the pride he has for ye was beyond what ye even knew off, lass.

[ He can do this, be supportive of the man he's envious. If for no other reason then because he did exactly what Jamie'd hoped. ]

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