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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[ Amethyst looks impressed...confused but impressed. There's a HUGE gamble on the line here but she thinks about what Steven would say and she takes it. In a flicker of purple her whips vanish and she relaxes her stance.]

Wait don't you want to be unfused? You seemed pretty ticked off last time we saw you...well OK LAST time I saw you you did unfuse. But whatever.

[ Taking a few steps out of the way so she can see the door Amethyst was trying to get them through.]

Things are different here...but you're still trapped. We all are and the only way of getting out is to do what we're here to do. But go ahead and try if you want. See how far you can run before you wind up back here at the temple.

Why would I want to stop existing?

[Didn't Amethyst already know how fusion worked? Real fusion, not the broken half-and-half of fighting over the same body? Alexandrite seemed stable enough, but maybe she hadn't been. Maybe the little overbaked gem really had no idea what it should be like.

She'll extend that tiny bit of a doubt. Even traitors should understand fusion isn't about fighting for control against yourself.]

... Last time you encountered me, I wasn't ... myself yet. They were still fighting each other more than fighting you, if they hadn't been I'd be picking your gems out of my teeth. But now I am here, and I don't ever want to be separated. That other one. The Sapphire-Ruby. She'll know what I mean if you need a better explanation, go bother her.

[Maybe a better example would be Sugilite than Garnet alone, but it's the only tenuous offering Malachite will make.

Somehow, somehow Lapis and Jasper came to terms. Enough where they preferred each other over anyone else. Creepy. The rest, about being trapped and unable to leave whether she wanted to or not is noted with a sudden hot surge of fury, but that one she can test just fine on her own.]

[ This leaves Amethyst with some...conflicting thoughts. Garnet is the only fusion she's met who can't stand to be apart, but then again isn't that the sort of thing they were fighting for?

On the other hand it doesn't sound like this was the most healthy realization of affection if you could call it that.]

Yeah, Garnet's not here so basically you're stuck with me and all the human gems.

So wait...does this mean that Jasper and Lapis like...love each other?

[ She sounds really unsure that she wants to know the answer.]

[Two-way Stockholm Syndrome is healthy for NOBODY. But it allowed a measure of trust, and that's all she'd really needed.]

I understand how it works perfectly well, you're stuck with me.

[Human gems does not compute and is immediately dismissed save for the little niggling thought that maybe Rose Quartz now qualified, being tiny, squishy, and human.

A little closer and she'd be within striking range. A little further after that and there would be nothing between her and the wide blue sky. This thought is derailed by the utter ridiculousness of the very IDEA of love between either of her components.

Malachite is not a union built on love. Or even affection.]

Don't be stupid, of course not. You don't have to love someone to work with them.

[Permanently.]

[ Her expression falls from one of confusion to disappointment.]

Well...that's...special.

[She's almost positive Garnet would not approve.]

Well whatever, Garnet couldn't unfuse in this world even if she wanted to so you probably can't either. If that's even still a thing...man I dunno it's not like I knew that many perma fusions on Earth. Why do I have to have all the answers?

[She was mostly ranting to herself at this point.]

So are you gonna go out the door or what? Because Imma be real with you? I don't really wanna smack you around anymore. Kinda feels pointless.

It's easy enough to unfuse someone with the right tools.

[She certainly still could, she just didn't want to. Eventually she might come across someone strong enough to poof even her, and when they reformed they'd have to fuse again..

No. She'd just have to be better, tougher. That wasn't an option.]

You weren't smacking me around to begin with, don't try to oversell yourself. [This comes with a curled lip and bared teeth, contempt bubbling up ever so briefly.] That was a playfight by quartz standards.

[All really good fights, the ones worth having, inevitably involved things on fire and there wasn't a single fire going. If Amethyst ever gave up on being a revolutionary, maybe she could teach her what it really meant to be a quartz-type. And how much fun a good fight really could be.

Malachite was a little disappointed that things hadn't escalated that far, but she couldn't quite bring herself to deliberately attack even a traitor when they're not being openly hostile.]

I am going to leave when I wish to, and I am going to go home when I do.

[In other words she's being mulish simply because Amethyst suggested she go out the door. Contrariness just to be contrary. What a peach this fusion is.]

[ OK, two can play at that game. Her gem glows and Amethyst shapeshifts into a purple clone of Malichite.]

Blah blah blah, I'll leave when I wish. I'm Malichite I'm all cranky and don't wanna admit I was losing.

[So much for a peaceful leaving. There's a moment's pause, expression unreadable, before the non-purple Malachite pounces. Amethyst might currently have just as many limbs, but she might not be quite as good at using them.

She's not going to aim any punches at the shapeshifted gem. She's just going to grimly work on literally ripping her apart if she can catch hold with vicious deliberation, one limb at a time. She didn't need special powers to be dangerous, and someone needed to learn that lesson.]

Whoops!

[Malachite could move a lot faster then Amethyst gave her credit for. Suddenly she was on her back getting pummeled so hard she actually shifted back to her regular form. Unfortunately that gave her two less arms to block with.]

Let's see how you like this!

[ Rolling into another spin dash directly underneath Malachite and bouncing back and forth furiously between the ground and her gut, with the force of a furry cannonball.]

[That spin dash might not last long, because Malachite's not letting go, perfectly willing to absorb the pain of the high speed strikes if it means letting Amethyst tear off her own limbs in the process.]

[ The ground is taking a beating from Amethyst being pinned under Malachite, slowly and inevitably she grinds to a halt as painful as it probably is for both of them. Amethyst is dizzy, sore and frustrated now.]

Ugh get your fat butt off me!

[ Her gem glows once more and she starts to grow shifting into her more muscular purple puma form to try and get some leverage.]

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[Malachite had no fat at all thank you, but somehow Amethyst's words made her want to lay down entirely and just squash the smaller gem under the weight of her lower torso.

She does not. It was an absurd urge to begin with.

The shapeshifting is unexpected though, and the fusion actually recoils as if Amethyst had suddenly sprouted spikes, startled. Sure, gems could shapeshift but she never had and to her recollection neither had either of her components.. or anyone they'd been actively fighting. In fact she couldn't recall the last time she'd seen anyone do it at all.]

What do you think you're going to accomplish with a pelt??

[Dat be manly bodyhair, Malachite.]

[ She wants to continue the banter but she needs to focus for a moment digging her heels into the ground, lifting with her legs going up...up higher so she can try and throw the bigger girl off her while she's off balance. Finally getting a little wind back she growls out.]

Gonna teach you how to put on a show!!!

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