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]

The giggliness dies away, at least for now, replaced by pride. There’s his brother, dressed like a king—that must mean he’s King in the North, now, like Robb had hoped he would be. (Underneath is a sense of sorrow, that he had to ask this of his brother, place this mess on his lap when he passed the crown to his head. If he had a choice he would’ve wanted Jon safe and far away from the Lannisters, but this is where the dice have fallen.)

“You have no idea how glad I am to see you, Snow,” Robb says right back, and steps forward to pull his brother into a tight, warm hug. Idly he marvels at how tall Jon’s gotten, a solid few inches more now on Robb himself, but he won’t bring any attention to that. “I thought you were—”

A dying dream. A hallucination made up to comfort himself in his last moments.

“—I’m glad,” he repeats, and knows that there’s no word for the affection and sorrow and giddiness winding in his chest like ropes twining together. “Although I expected a little more black, next time I saw you.” A small smile, meant to tease as Robb pats Jon’s shoulder to lead him away.

[northerndragon]

Jon hasn't seen Robb since the day he left for the Night's Watch. There had been snow in Robb's hair, just a drifting flake or two, something he's never been able to forget. At the time, they'd thought that Jon might return to Winterfell for a visit when Benjen did -- and then Benjen had been lost, then their father, then Winterfell, then Robb himself.

Their embrace is tight as anything. And you shouldn't be able to see the dead once they're dead, but it's clear, this place is different. And Jon himself has returned from the dead, which makes all of it much harder to question... or it makes the questions more complicated. The joy he feels at seeing Robb is tempered by something, he can't say what. Maybe it's the knowledge that he's bent the knee, that he isn't king at all anymore.

"It's been years since I was in the Night's Watch." But it's true enough that it's where Robb would expect him to be. "What's the last thing you remember, at home?"