ASGARD GENESIS - TEST DRIVE #1

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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. Reserves open on May 25 at 12:01AM PST and close on May 31 at 11:59PM PST. 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! navigation.

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[freewilling]

Only when I'm caught up in mad things.

[ which is. more often than not, these days. ]

That's good to know. So what do you think this is?

[guestlectures]

I think the safest conclusion is that... whether these beings who've brought us here really are the Norse Gods or not, we're in a different physical time and space than we were before. Until they or someone else discover how we can return, it makes sense to get used to the idea that we'll be here for a while.

[ Not that she's happy about that. She's got things to do back home. ] At least the city is lovely.

[freewilling]

[ different physical time and space.

bucky excelled at school, but that phrase alone is enough to make him feel like the worst in his class. so he addresses the second point she makes. ]

[ he's barely taken in any of the city so far ] Find anything worth mentioning?

[guestlectures]

All kinds of things, depending on what you'd be interested in. [She doesn't want to assume the soldier would want to hear about the baracks.]

Each of these gods has their own area, each which its own... thematic attractions. Odin has a library, Sigyn has a garden, Heimdall, a weapons house. Something for just about everyone.

[freewilling]

Glad to hear I made the right call.

[ whatever's coming, he's going to want to be armed for it, of that much he's certain. so in truth, fair assumption.

the almost normal conversation brings him back into himself. whatever happened, whatever's happening now - not much he can do about it, so best not to dwell on it and deal with what's ahead. ]

You seem like the clever type - Odin?

[guestlectures]

More insatiably curious than clever. [so that's a yes] I decided I wanted to be close to the books. Ancient Norse studies wasn't one of my electives.

[freewilling]

I'd say both go together pretty well.

[ he smiles, it comes easier this time. maybe it was all just something he dreamed up on zola's table, when you think about it a real life super soldier does sound ridiculous, especially giving it to the only 90 pound asthmatic who would use it to rescue him. ]

What made the cut?

[guestlectures]

Twentieth century American literature. [Among others, but that's easy to talk about. She doesn't want to bring up disorders and abnormal psychology with someone just off the front lines. Ethically, this is neither the time or the place.]

There's always something interesting in how a person describes themselves. How we talk about ourselves as a nation, as humans-- that's just as interesting.

[freewilling]

I agree.

[ he's definitely pretty interested now. captivated, even. sure, the years of war are a part of it, but what she's saying is definitely interesting on its own, he isn't used to people speaking so...intellectually. ]

I'd love to hear more over drinks, which god's the keeper of the bar? [ don't tell him none because he refuses to believe it. he may not have a way to pay for it, but he'll figure something out. he could both use a drink, and, it seems like a better place to pursue this conversation and anywhere it may lead to than just standing around in the middle of the street. ]

[guestlectures]

I get the sense we won't have to look far for one. All vikings were fond of their drink, weren't they?

[ And she'll start down the street.

She has to stop herself from overanalysing the question, from wondering whether the young man is from the early 1940s, still ready and rearing to go... or from later years. Does he want a drink because that's what young men do when they talk with young women, or does the setting of a bar make things less intimidating, give him something to cover anything he's trying to hide.

But it's none of her business and it has nothing to do with the conversation. She keeps talking, hoping he won't read too much into the pause.]

It's thinking about who we are as people that led me to psychiatry in the first place. As a child I always preferred dark stories about flawed people doing flawed things to the traditional books usually recommended to young girls.

[freewilling]

You don't become this powerful not knowing your stuff.

[ and getting people drinks to promote comfort and cooperation is pretty basic. he doesn't know a whole lot about vikings, but he does know they were warriors, and he's been fighting long enough to know the crucial role alcohol plays on the battlefield.

his own mind is a jumbled mess struggling to process what's happening to him and around him, so a lull in the conversation hardly has time to register before she's speaking again. ]

You must be pretty happy with reality, then. [ because it's entirely comprised of flawed people doing flawed things. saves on disappointments, he supposes. ]

[guestlectures]

[A week ago, she'd have agreed. A week ago reality didn't involve Will Graham being arrested for the murder of Abigal Hobbs.]

Usually. [ She can't quite make her smile completely convincing so she looks away as they walk. ]

It does make it easier to do my job-- the job I have back home, I mean.

[freewilling]

[ that, he has an easier time spotting. he's been zeroing in on evasive maneuvers his whole life with steve. ]

Sounds like you've got some rough cases on your hands.

[ he's not sure if he can relate, or if he is one. ]

So who helps you? [ at least now he doesn't have to worry anymore about steve being alone - he has friends, he has agent carter. but a lifetime of worry and nurturing instincts don't just disappear because you take a tumble off a speeding train and end up in valhalla. ]

[guestlectures]

You know, the only people who usually ask me that are the ones behind bars trying to prove they're capable of empathy.

[ As she turns back to look at him, there's a grin on her face. Probably she shouldn't find this amusing, but she can't help it. Sometimes it's nice to be reminded that the same behaviour can come from completely different places. ]

I work with other psychologists, behavior analysts and the like. But really, the only way I can work is because I have my own therapist. They're someone I trust, someone I can talk to about problems that come up in my work, or if there's any part of it I feel might be affecting me.

[freewilling]

[ he raises an eyebrow, though the grin is sufficiently reassuring. ]

Does that say something about me, or the company you keep off the clock?

[ that all sounds absurdly healthy, he can't imagine it. ]

[guestlectures]

Oh, it's entirely a reflection on the people I choose to associate with.

[ She's a professional. She has professional friends. If they don't understand that she doesn't want someone to 'look after her', they stop being a part of her life. ]

I don't imagine the U.S. army has quite the same level of support for it's soldiers.

[freewilling]

That's good to know.

[ he smiles a smile far easier than he feels, and shrugs at her supposition. ]

We make do fine.

[ they don't have time for that, even if it were on offer. you're having a rough time? well, so's everyone else, it's war. he was lucky, for the last stretch of it he's had steve. most people don't get to spend every day side by side with their childhood best friend. ]