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[spaceygoggles]

TEST DRIVE MEME #2
THE RETURNENING

Welcome to the second season of the Asgard Eventide Test Drive Meme! This is your hostess, Noah, very pleased to bring this back after the success of our last drive.

Now the steps are the same as the last time. In fact, mostly copy-pasta:
Step 1: Post with the character and journal you're wanting to play. You're more than welcome to leave the message blank or have a fun little scenario going on. Like fighting that dragon thing or other Assgard shenanigans.
Step 2: Other people respond to your post with new or existing muses! A budding romance! Hilarity! Fluff! A sudden attack! The choice is yours to make!
Step 3: PROFIT!
Step 4: Spread the word! Bring a friend! Make a random announcement on D_M! Get this post to crack the hundreds! It doesn't matter if you end up apping or not! This is a place of fun and meeting new people before the waiting!

Okay I was a little off in my scheduling the last time, but these memes will go up the day of reserves, depending on my own ability to get them up. Other than that, go ahead and have fun.

NOW! FIRE ZE MISSILES!

Comments

[astralrain]

[There's something just a little bit off, though; Natalia is rather thoughtful when she needs to be, and right now her mind is going at a mile a minute.

She lets him finish, at least, before responding to all of what he has to say. She looks down at her feet for a moment, unease finally showing its face. Time to acclimate or not, things just keep getting stranger. She looks up at him after calming herself down, it only taking a few short breaths.]

I'm fine. A little shaken, but I can't think of many who wouldn't be at a time like this.

[But. There's definitely a but there, but she can't bring herself to say it. Instead, she pauses.]

All that blood, though...and those holes. So you were wounded before arriving here? Is that what you're saying?

[soldieringlife]

Glad to hear it. [He picks up on that "but", but it's not as if he's going to press her, here and now.] You're right, I don't know what kind of person would find this easy to deal with.

[Oh. Well. Maybe he'd wanted to change the subject, just a little. Because as far as he knows, he died. He's pretty damn sure he died. It's hard to miss a thing like that. So technically he should be dead, but this doesn't seem like any kind of afterlife he ever heard of or imagined.

He doesn't know how to feel about that. He doesn't know how to feel about any of this.]

You could say that. I was in pretty bad shape.

[Of course, he has to downplay it.]

Hey, you didn't happen to see a blonde guy, shorter than me, dressed a little like me, anywhere around here, did you?

[Changing the subject again? Him? No, never. But he is genuinely worried about Cloud, and if there's even a chance he's here too, he has to find him. But if he's not here, maybe that'll be good, if being here has anything to do with being dead.]

[astralrain]

All of this about gods and goddesses...it's complete madness. [Coming from a world with only the Score, such things were only heard of in fairy tales.] Every answer I get only brings more questions.

[It definitely can't be the afterlife, though Natalia's last moments are haunting her as well. Sitting in a room, being offered poison to take her own life, questioning her parentage...did she take the poison? Is this something else? She had no intention to drink, certainly, but...if she was brought here by gods...]

It's for the better, then. It doesn't seem I can use my healing artes. [Downplaying it is definitely for the best, but the longer she talks? The less she feels uncertain. Pushing forward is one of her specialties, and the task at hand is important, too.] I can't say that I have. You are the first person like me I've come across. The rest don't seem...as aware of their surroundings. They're colorless.

[soldieringlife]

That's what I think myself.

[Not that he hasn't heard of gods and goddesses, but this is ridiculous.]

You're a healer? [He thinks this over.] I feel different, too, to tell you the truth. Changed. [His reflexes are slower, and he's pretty sure he's less strong than he was, none of that legendary SOLDIER power. (Not that he thinks that's necessarily a bad thing now, considering.) And that can't be because of what happened, can it?]

Too bad you haven't seen him, but thanks. [He nods, frowning.] Yeah, I'd noticed that. It's more than a little odd. [And he didn't like it, either. It reminded him of things he'd seen before, mindless, unaware people, altered...] You're the first person like us I've come across, too.

Oh, I almost forgot. [He suddenly smiles again.] The name's Zack. Nice to meet you.

[astralrain]

Indeed, I am. [She nods at that.] Changed...yes, I suppose that's what I feel. I can't properly feel the fonons around me. [They're in everything; that's how she heals, how she fights...not having them around is unthinkable; instead, it's more natural to assume she can't, somehow.]

I wish I could be of more help, Zack. I was told our purpose here was to bring color to this world. [She takes a deep breath. The nerve of these people; it gets to her, it really does.] Kidnapping is hardly the proper means to an end. They have no right. [She can at least smile, though, when she introduces herself. Even if it feels a little forced.] And likewise, even given the circumstances. My name is Natalia.