crystalclods | TEST DRIVE MEME

Hello and welcome to the COSMOGRAPHIA TEST DRIVE MEME! This is a place where you can get a feel for your character(s) in the game's setting! A couple quick points before we get down to business:

☆ Please take a look at our Premise, World Information, and our FAQ to get a feel for the rules and setting. This is great if you want to see what the game is about before jumping in!

☆ Test Drive threads are certainly allowed to be used for samples for your application, should you choose to submit one!

SAMPLE SCENARIOS:

A: By whatever means, you've tumbled through a hole into a cavernous temple. Gems suspended in bubbles float about the ceiling, and a large Heartlike gem looms before you. Touching it, whether out of curiosity or frustration, will give you some basic information, but then again, there's no guarantee you're just going to walk up to a giant weird thing in the middle of a giant weird room and touch it, right? Why not take a look around and see for yourself what kind of place this is? Perhaps you'll run into someone in the same predicament as you, or perhaps you'll run into someone who can help explain why there's a weird rock now affixed to your body?

B: It's Thursday in Waverly Bay, and that can mean only one thing: the weekly Farmer's Market is here again! Stalls not only from farmers on the outskirts of town but from crafty residents with interesting homemade items to sell, and businesses looking to attract the Market's crowd are all here! Are you shopping for a good deal on vegetables for dinner? Or perhaps you're getting a feel for the residents, having recently arrived? Or, perhaps, are you an industrious gem who's looking to set up shop? Either way, you're bound to run into somebody in this bustling, busy place.

C: Uh-oh! Looks like you've run into a monster! Apparently, from what little you've heard, you can shapeshift into things and pull a weapon from your gem, and you have some sort of special power, but maybe you don't know what it is yet, or you're still not used to using it? Guess you're going to have to learn on the job. Don't leave your fellow gems hanging if you see them fighting one of these little guys either! You're going to need each other to take 'em down!

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[ Zidane had just arrived moments before Dagger did. He jerks a little at the sound of someone hitting the floor and whips around to see who it is. He honestly can't believe who he's seeing. The dress is familiar.

He's already walking, moving towards her - his feet giving out the command to move as he watches her stand up. ]

Dagger!

[ He's practically running to her side and once he's there, a hand goes on her shoulder. It's been far too long since he's last seen her. ]

[ooc; canon point is typically post the final battle, but before he's reunited with Dagger and Co. Good to see FFIX folk around. ]

[ The fall hurt to be sure, but a sore and acting behind was hardly enough of a deterrent to keep her away from the curiosities floating there in heart of the atrium.

What might give her pause, however, was that name. From time to time, someone might call her that--Vivi perhaps, or even Steiner, in his haste, might accidentally slip a time or two.

But more than that, the voice that called out her.

Bewildered, the young queen turned quickly toward the sound, deep brown eyes wide. Even in the faint light, she was pale as a sheet, as if she had seen (or in this case heard) a ghost. When her gaze finally fell upon him, her breath catches, and a complicated expression passes over her face.

His hand felt solid on her shoulder; he was... ]

...

[ Say something. Anything. She's too dumbfounded to speak, at least right away. ]

[[ooc; similar canon point for Garnet, so this works well!]]

[ Well, this isn't exactly what he hand in mind, stumbling into a different world? And Dagger is here?

He had leaped after Kuja, intending to save him. But, he's hardly noticed the gems around now.

She's quiet and he can't quite understand why. No yelling or scolding at him, just quiet. ]

Uh, Dagger? [ He doesn't remove his hand, in fact, he just squeezes her shoulder. He's sorely tempted to pull her into a hug, but he doesn't just yet. ]

[ooc; Works for me. She might be slightly ahead of Zidane.]

[ Somehow, the squeeze is all it takes to snap her back into reality, and let her brain begin to process what was going on. He disappeared, going in to save Kuja and all at once exited her life. It felt like it was so long ago; her hair was much longer now, and she had ruled over Alexandria for quite some time now. She had given up home.

But like always, Zidane made his own way, and managed to somehow managed to find her... where was this? No, it didn't matter.

That complicated, somewhat startled expression changed quickly. Oh, she was mad. Mad and upset. Mad and upset and so very, very happy. But she wouldn't let him have that yet. ]

Zidane!

[ You want scolding? Don't worry, she has you covered. ]

[ Uh oh.

She looks mad. A very tiny, small step is taken back, but not enough to remove his hand off her shoulder.

He has that "I'm in trouble" look on his face now. Now it's his turn to say nothing, he'll just wait on the scolding to hit. ]

[ Despite the time apart, she falls in-step rather quickly. And yet, she seems to have difficulty maintaining a look of anger. She is upset, in every since of the word. ]

You just--

[ She pauses abruptly. Words were difficult. She wanted to be angry. Furious. She thought he was gone, that she would never see him again! That he was...

Her hands were shaking as she stood there in moral conflict. Why couldn't she be angry. She should be angry. But all she wanted was to hear him say that name again. Say her name again.

But she could be poised, at least temporarily. It was a noticeable stretch, and he would likely be able to read her like a book, but she didn't want him to see her cry. ]

I didn't know--we didn't know what happened to you! You just... disappeared from all of our lives. We thought you were...

You're the worst, Zidane.

[ Voice, please don't give out on her. ]

TEST DRIVE MEME

[A] Gem not decided as well; a Garnet!

OKAY RUDE PERSON I wasn't GOING to app, but if cast mates are a possibility!

I'm way too tied up with stuff this month to app into games, maybe next month!

That's where I'm sitting too, between working a convention and graduation

Oh nice, it's spring break and I'm doing charity work after it.

Lucky, my spring break isn't until the end of March =3=