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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[foughtvaliantly]

"Eddard Stark?" The last he had seen of the man was at the Trident, lost within the rank of soldiers. He didn't know what became of him, but it seemed that he must have lived. Did he know of Lyanna then? Did she return home with her brother or did Robert claim her against her will?

He thought he might be amused to hear Ned named as the lad's father, but the ghosts of the past kept him from feeling much aside from curiosity. "He is a different man than I remember." Was it Robert's influence? Men at war often had bed companions, but he never believed that Eddard Stark would do it.

"Rhaegar Targaryen."

cw mention of rape that didn't actually happen anyway

[northerndragon]

He hears the name and goes cold, and much of his friendly demeanor is replaced with wariness. It's true that having a bastard son was unlike Ned Stark, everyone said so, but Jon's existence was always taken as evidence that even so righteous a man might slip.

"My lord." He should do something -- maybe buckle his sword belt again. Rhaegar Targaryen has a friendly demeanor, albeit also a grave one, and Jon has encountered a dragon named for him, but what the man had done to the Starks before Jon's own birth is unforgivable. "My prince."

Daenerys is different, isn't she? Different from the other Targaryens, the one who had killed Rickard and Brandon, and this one, who had stolen Jon's aunt and violated her until she died.

Hi son

[foughtvaliantly]

He waves away the title, not needing to hear it. "Rhaegar." Viserys had been a bit imperious as a boy and would have flinched at being called 'lord', but it mattered little for Rhaegar. Was he even a prince anymore? He had lost his life and claim on the banks of the Trident. He was nothing but himself at his most bare.

"Your father is well?" Yes, he will ask about the man who had raised arms against him. He only had to think back to Lyanna and her heartache at losing her father and older brother. She would want to know what happened to Eddard. There might even be a hint of what had become of his wife.

He sees that wariness on Jon's face and understands where it comes from. While he hadn't been in King's Landing long, Lord Varys had informed him what lies Robert was spreading.

[northerndragon]

Jon is troubled, and it shows in every line of his face and body, the set of his face and the set of his shoulders.

"My father is dead," he replies, flatly. "Killed by the Lannisters when I was eight-and-ten."

Why would Rhaegar Targaryen ask after Eddard Stark? It didn't sound unkind, what he'd said: it had sounded like genuine interest, and an expectation that Jon would answer him yes.

[foughtvaliantly]

"The Lannisters?" Tywin was sitting to the side from what he could tell from a cursory glance. His father and Lord Tywin were at odds, but they seemed to be temporarily allied. Given how old the boy looked, this had to have been a recent event. So was this murder long after Robert Baratheon won and had the Lannisters sided with him or did they continue fighting for the Targaryens. "Why? Lord Eddard isn't the sort of man to make enemies."

He genuinely liked the man, even though they never really spoke or interacted. What little he knew of him was from observation and Lyanna.