ASGARD GENESIS - TEST DRIVE #1

[asgardmods]

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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[needsnoheadsman]

You—

[He wants to believe him. He wants to believe him so, so badly, because he’s spent most of his life caring for Theon as though he was Robb’s own brother and even now, that’s not an instinct that can be turned off. And his brothers alive—he misses them, suddenly, misses them so fiercely that it hurts worse than Roose Bolton’s blade did, he wants them back.

But the moment passes, and the vulnerability is wiped off.]

And how do I know you aren’t just lying to me again? [Again, like he can’t tell the truth apart from the lies anymore. You trusting fool, you got yourself killed believing in people like Theon and the Freys.] And besides, even if you didn’t kill my brothers, you still took my home. I still want to know why.

[reek]

[ You don’t.

Theon has never thought himself a liar, not like his older brothers who lied almost compulsively, but he doesn’t tell the truth either. He hides things, he dodges subjects he doesn’t like, and he builds his walls so thick that no one can ever see the true Theon who has always been a frightened young man completely out of his depth.

He can’t tell Robb the reasons why he took Winterfell. He can’t tell him that he simply wished to earn the love and recognition of a distant father. He can’t tell him that he expected Winterfell to simply fall beneath his hand on the basis that he was a familiar face. It all makes him sound so weak and childlike now. How could he ever make Robb understand? Robb has never lacked in love or recognition.

So Theon doesn’t even try. He puts his mask on again, that absolutely infuriating smirk, and ignores Robb’s request for answers. ]

A fine place to have met again, Your Grace. You have your choice of sword. I always thought your father would be the one to take my head, but I suppose he never got the chance.