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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[iustise]

Brianna.

[Lord John repeats the name, sounding it out slowly as he does and smiling in the process. It's different, but then again he had known a man named Perseverance, so he cannot really judge.]

It's lovely. Your father, or your husband's?

[nineteenfortyfive]

My--[Well, she's never had to explain this before. Clare visibly struggles to find the right words.]

My first husband's. He passed some years ago.

[In a manner of speaking.]

[iustise]

Ah.

[John understands when he has stumbled upon a delicate subject, though he is too British to acknowledge his mistake aloud.]

I am sorry for your loss, madam.

[He is quiet for a long moment, uncertain how to proceed before he admits, abruptly:] My father passed away. When I was twelve.

[He was murdered, he thinks to himself, but he best not tell her that. It's not exactly a conversation for polite company. In fact, he's not sure that even as much as he's said is, but he continues on regardless despite himself.]

It was a difficult time for all of us. Not the least of all because my mother saw fit to then ship me off to finish my schooling for the next few years with her family in Aberdeen.

[He flicks her something of a smile to lighten the mood. A joke. Though technically true. Aberdeen had been miserable, as far as he was concerned.]

[nineteenfortyfive]

I'm sorry to hear that. It's always difficult for a child to lose their parent, especially so young. I lost mine when I was a child, too. [So long ago now that it doesn't ache as much to talk about it. She thought about her father often, when Frank died, trying to draw something out of it to help Bree with her grief.]

... but I kicked and screamed and dug my fingers into the door frame before I could be shipped off to boarding school.

[Said with a rather smug smirk. A joke of her own, but also true.]

[iustise]

[He appreciates her sense of humor. His smile widening to match her smirk, despite their rather heavy topic of conversation between them.]

Ah, would that I could have done so myself. It was two against one, I'm afraid. My older brother -- Hal. Nine years older than me, and just enough for him to suppose that he knew best. I never stood a chance. Still don't, damn the man.

[Though for all Hal is something of an overbearing worrywart, he does love his brother. He's been there for him, looking out for him, all his life. It's strange. To be here in this strange land, without perhaps the one man in the world he knows he could always count on in his hour of need.]

[nineteenfortyfive]

[Nine years is a considerable amount. Claire understands, nodding.]

Well, whatever schooling you were forced into, I think it helped shape you into a proper gentleman.

[He's the textbook definition, thus far.]

[iustise]

[He presses a hand to his chest, offering her a (rather charming) smile.]

You flatter me, madam. Though I can take no credit in it myself, save for the fact that I did my best. There is not that much to do up there, in Aberdeen.

[He flicks her something of a wry smile as he muses:]

I suppose that is why I was off on the biggest adventure I could find, as soon as they allowed me home.

[It's too bad that that adventure was joining up with the army, but then again his father was a soldier, as was his brother, and John had never really considered another path for himself either, stepping back and looking at it after the fact.]