TEST DRIVE MEME (4)

[trainmasters]

test drive meme

Your character wakes up in a neat bedroom in their team carriage, in nondescript underwear. They might be missing their memories, or their special abilities, or they may just feel a little queasy. Next to them is what seems to be a smartphone, which they know how to use even if they never had before, even if they don't know if they have before. On the screen is a simple message:

Welcome aboard the Aurora!

You have been selected by the Star Prince as a potential hero, tasked with saving the universe from Malice. As a passenger I, your Construct and Conductor, will attempt to provide you with quality lodgings and safety. In return, we ask that you join your fellows in making bonds and doing your utmost to bring joy back to the Stars.

Due to the process of restoring your body, you may find some things are missing. We apologise for the inconvenience and hope to return them to you as soon as possible. Thank you for your cooperation.

★ One
Upon investigation, you'll find some basic clothes matching your team's theme in the storage provided in your room. Or, perhaps, you're wandering out of the room still undressed. Either way, downstairs you'll find someone has left a tray of cups of hot tea on the living room table. Drinking it may be simply pleasant, or it may cause you to feel a sudden need to warm up to the others in your carriage -- emotionally or physically. Welcome to the team, newbie!

☆ Two
Shortly after your arrival, you find yourself wrapped up in some monster NPC's Game. You're inside what appears to be a stone temple, with a massive golden scale on one wall. Suddenly, on one side, a heavy metal weight is dropped. As the scales tip out of balance, the floor begins to slowly disappear, brick by brick, ready to drop you -- and whoever is with you -- into an abyss. Your only hope comes in the form of an inscription on the altar:

How much do your secrets weigh?

Every secret you tell causes a weight to fall onto the other side of the scale. The bigger the secret, the bigger the weight. If you can collectively tip the scales, the floor will quit dropping bricks and a door will appear to allow you back to the train. If you can't, you'll fall, seemingly forever, til you pass out. When you wake up you'll find yourself unable to lie.

★ Three
You've been in aurora for awhile -- long enough to have recovered a memory/power or two, if you lost any. And it's lucky for you: today, the area around the train has been surrounded in a strange mist that makes you feel dizzy and overly warm. Left alone, your condition will slowly degrade, with increasing lethargy and shortness of breath until you lose consciousness. The cure is easy enough, though -- touch another person and they'll see one of your memories, experiencing it as if it's their own. The effect is mutual -- you now have a piece of eachother, and you're safe from the illness... at least until you take another big breath. Good thing there's no mist inside the train!

☆ Four
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Akira Kurusu | Persona 5(AU)

[crimeboy]

1)

[This boy woke up in the Licorice coach, and comes downstairs in something cute and purple. He's totally fine with the whole thing, which might be odd, considering that while his face is very familiar, he is sporting some small black horns on his forehead, red eyes, and a matching devil tail...

And after he stops to drink some hot tea, he's feeling a little odd. Is everyone here... cold? He's wearing shorts but he's feeling fine, why does he think everyone else is cold???

Welp. He'll just drape himself on the first person that doesn't look like they'll immediately stab him and kind of loosely embrace them.]

2)

[How much do his...?]

Uh... shit.

I can't remember my secrets.......

[Time to PLAY IT COOL as he looks at his partner.]

You go first, and then I'll... start saying things. And see what happens?

3)

[He's outside and getting dizzy but also getting a little overdramatic about it. Should he be playing around with something potentially deadly? Probably not, but you'll just find Akira wobbling around as he walks, taking perfect care to look like a drunkard as he does so.]

Oooooohhh... Woe is me...

To die out here... sad and alone.... If only there were someone to catch me as I faint......

1

[purrtagonist]

[listen we're going to say he totally knows someone on Licorice for this one okok]

[anyway, someone still dressed in a stupid unicorn kigurumi with the hood pulled down. he has a cup of tea cradled between his palms and he's sort of. . . staring]

[a little bit]

[hm]

[crimeboy]

[.........Oh hey this is.

Weird.]

...Huh. You have my face.

Give it back.

[purrtagonist]

[a beat]

[a few slow blinks]

[. . . and then a super casual, super blase sip of his tea]

No.

[WELP]

[crimeboy]

[Rude.]

Okay. That's probably fair.

... Are we twins? I can't remember. Do I have a twin?

[purrtagonist]

[Akira isn't thinking that this is cute but I SURE AM]

[just. takes another sip of tea, watching his facetwin carefully]

I don't know about you, but I don't have a twin.

No memories though, huh? That's rough.

3

[saddleclub]

Try not to hit your head on the way down.

[This guy from Clover is super friendly. So friendly. He's also approaching though.]

[crimeboy]

But how can I stop it...?

[Actually does run into a wall then and just leans on it for support.]

This isn't as fun as I'd hope it'd be.

[saddleclub]

[Ugh reaching out to steady him because he's getting dizzy too.]

Inexplicable but usually with help. It's a pain.

[crimeboy]

Okay, so "help". What does that mean in this context?

Like.

...Mouth to mouth?

[saddleclub]

Please, as if I'd kiss you with that face. Bonds and all that. Or just. Assisting each other. You may count yourself lucky you may lean on me.

3

[wellhanged]

[well, this loser's just watching him act like a drunk and snickering wheezily at the overdramatics, not helpful in the least.]

[crimeboy]

Ssssiiirrr...

Please... help me...

[He's just going to sink to the ground. Why not? Actually he feels a little better once he's laying on the ground.]

This isn't so bad, actually.

[wellhanged]

There are worse ways to die.

[said with as much wheezy cheer as before

but

...

gdit why is he so easy like this. can't stand kids dying around him. so guess he's gonna kick a foot at him. helpful.]

cw; gore time!!!!

[crimeboy]

[Unfortunately for the both of them, this means sharing another memory!

This one isn't as simple as the last one; Akira is in a cage, curled up in a fetal position, looking injured. He's holding his stomach and the room is soaked in his blood, but he's not moving, not getting up or fighting it. It's less that he seems resigned to his fate and more that he doesn't seem to understand it, and when footsteps can be heard coming down the concrete hallway, he begins to growl.

Like an injured animal, he tries to pull himself up, but his torso is torn up, and so he ends up on his knees baring his teeth to the shadow of a man at his cell door.]

....Oh... [MEANWHILE, back in real life, he sits up, his eyes suddenly alert.]

Normally I wouldn't thank someone for kicking me, but I feel a lot better now!

cw; SELF-HANGING TIME

[wellhanged]

[it's so nice that he feels better because suddenly,

it's a memory of Levi standing at the edge of a cliff, watching as, far below, his friends and allies are picking their way through the cavernous mountain pass oblivious to the happenings above them. there's a rope getting pulled tight around his neck, a man at his back yanking the knot tight to his throat.

there's not much room for a scuffle, but scuffle Levi does. enough so that his quick fingers can reach into the other man's coat and pull a book from it just before he wrenches himself from the man's grip and--well, between the choice of getting killed by that man and being killed by his own foolish confidence of surviving one way or another, is there really a choice?

so. he jumps.

he doesn't even remember anything besides the fall and the sound of a snapped neck and screams. isn't that a mercy?

in the present, Levi's blinking hard and fast, disoriented.]

Wow. Yeah. That's... hm. Well, about as bad as the Ravanges, I'll have to say?

3

[lapofluxury]

[wow buddy that's something HE'D say you can't go stealing his shtick]

Akira, you--

[wait]

...Akira?

[crimeboy]

Huh...?

[He'll turn to look at the stranger, and stare at him for a moment.... and squint. Not ringing any bells though.]

Sorry, have we met?

[lapofluxury]

Wow, you already forgot me? I'm hurt.

[wow!!!]

You look different from when I saw you yesterday, though.

[crimeboy]

Mmmmhhhnope, nothing, sorry! I keep looking at your face and squinting but I can't think of a thing! And I feel like my memory isn't THAT bad... maybe. Hopefully?



...Oh! Are you thinking of the Pink one?

[lapofluxury]

Wait, are you saying there's two of you?

2

[ghostfromthemachine]

...Well— as much as I would love to agree, I don't actually remember any of mine, either. So...

[ unsaid: we're doomed, my dude ]

[crimeboy]

[His smile now is super forced. Obviously so.]

Awesome!!! Great! Cool!

Can we make up embarrassing things about ourselves and hope for the best???

[ghostfromthemachine]

Sounds like a plan to me! Though, speaking of hoping for the best— breathe a little, even if the drop is bad the landing probably won't be.

[crimeboy]

Haha.... ha... I hope I die quickly.

[He's not even sure if the fall will kill him, he just wants to think that it will and that it will be a swift death. He doesn't want to suffer, is all.]

So... Uh. I wet the bed until I was seven...? [The scales don't budge. Probably isn't true, then?]

Well good news, that was a lie, bad news, it didn't do anything.