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trainingwings2013-04-17 12:51 am
herotypical) wrote in trainingwings2013-04-17 12:51 am
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don't stop me now
Reserves have just opened and apps are right around the corner. But are you still on the fence about any of your would-be characters? Well -- here is your chance to take them out for a spin!
▣ TAG IN or reply to others with characters you would like to test drive for Luceti.
▣ ONLY add top-level comments for characters who are not yet in the game. You're free to reply to others with Luceti characters (because that's half the fun) but remember that the whole point of this meme is for potential characters.
▣ PLEASE do not post duplicates of characters already in Luceti.
▣ GO AHEAD and give us a brief description of your character in the top-level comment, along with one or two possible ways to run into your test-driven character around town.
▣ YOU MAY use these threads for your first person samples on your app -- just make sure that you link threads of a goodly length (i.e., threads with at least ten comments from your character).
Need a little help getting started? Remember, you needn't post here as though your character is still brand-spankin' new. It'll probably be more fun for all involved if this isn't a simple dress rehearsal for showing up. Here are a few scenario ideas:
o1. The grocery store is out of food. What do you do?
o2. Wing injury! Call for help or stagger your way to one of our fine clinics.
o3. It's a busy evening at Good Spirits, one of Luceti's local bars. Do you dare try the drink specials?
o4. Have a talent for playing music? Try Cloud Nine's open mic night!
o5. Beach party? Snow party? Leaf-raking party? Gardening party? YOU DECIDE.
Okay. So my examples are pretty non-exciting. But they're really just suggestions. I'm POSITIVE you kids can come up with more creative things.
Above all? HAVE FUN. Oh. And don't forget to RESERVE your characters.
Primrose Everdeen | The Hunger Games
I: Sometimes she'll spend a morning in the item shop. Not getting anything, really - it's still a little hard to trust and believe that it's allowed, just taking whatever you need, and she's yet to actually take anything, not even a spoon or something more innocuous - so much as picking up this or that and wondering at some of the odder items. Some of it she recognizes and some of it she doesn't, but it's a sort of game to try to figure out which is which, regardless. To poke around the shelves and to find brightly colored plastic toys, sometimes, that she's never sure how to use.
She's easy to sneak up on when she's looking at something else - or at any other time, really. Prim isn't the sister who looks for danger, even when she ought to.
II: There's also the library. Books you can take out whenever you want, and more than she'd ever seen in one place. There'd been books in school, and some at District thirteen, but not the variety here. Picture books, stories - medical texts that are pretty enough she almost wants to cry.
There's no real rhyme or reason to the piles she collects in the afternoons, except for anything that caught her eye. She'll take them out to the fountain, or a bench in town, and she'll read cross-legged until the light fades enough that she wanders back home.
III: She's not suffering a wing injury - at least, not unless she is! - but Prim likes to lurk near the clinics. She's not worked up the courage to ask about maybe helping - she could run errands, maybe! - but she likes being nearby and looking at the facilities, although the side effect of lurking is, well. Looking a bit obvious, if you're not accustomed to it.
She's thirteen and tiny, though, so at least she doesn't look particularly dangerous? ]
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Hey! Whatcha reading?
you always have my back
Prim, for her part, looks startled for a moment before placing her hand on the open page, then flipping the cover forward, to show the title. ]
It's just a textbook. I mean, I think that's what it's meant to be used for. There are lots of diagrams, and it's...
[ Well, probably dry if you aren't interested. Prim finds it a bit dry herself; she's mostly looking at the diagrams. ]
always
Oh, like the kinds for school? Are you learning things?
unlike certain social networking sites
...Okay it's probably not what he expected. What he expected might be more along the lines of the picture-book version of The Goose Girl, one book lower on the stack. ]
I think so. I mean, I think that's what it is, yes. And I'm learning. Or I'm trying to! Back home I was learning more. I mean, I was in training.
[ She's a little bit nervous; maybe it has something to do with the tattoos, which she's trying not to stare at, although she's gotten...well, more okay with all the strange sights, here.
Manners, Prim. ]
I'm Primrose. Everdeen.
You're worth a million Plurks
[And he gives one of his friendliest smiles.]
Nice to meet you, Primrose! I'm Aang!
so are you aw
And the friendly smile does work magic - or at least, it earn a smile back, albeit a shy one. ]
You can call me Prim, if you want. It's nice to meet you, Aang.
[ He's a bit older than her, she thinks - maybe not by much, though. ]
yay
[Good, because that smile's staying as he relaxes on the bench.]
Okay! Prim it is. But both names sound good.
Re: yay
[ She looks a little baffled, but willing to listen. Is he some sort of performer? They...bend, right? Acrobatic things. She thinks. ]
Well...medicine. Hopefully. I mean, that's what I was doing before I got here. I was learning what my mother knew, and what the other doctors knew. [ A beat, and then she confides, a little hesitantly. ] I wish the school here taught that.
[ Prim relaxes a little at the compliment, too, though - although her expression goes a little wistful. ]
Thank you. My father chose it. Primrose, I mean - my sister and I were both named by him, for things that grew near home.
[ The Evening Primrose and Katniss. She hadn't seen either growing here, yet. ]
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Oh! Medicine, huh? Doctors are really super neat! Katara's not a doctor, but she's a healer and I think she knows some doctory things. Maybe she could help you learn some thing sometime! Or maybe the school'll teach if if you ask Professor Sage really super nicely enough.
Wow... I thought it sounded like a flower. Very pretty, Prim!
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Really? [ It's hard not to sound over eager at the thought - she can try asking, right? Nothing ventured nothing gained...and it doesn't seem like she's going back (but back to what, even if she did?) so maybe... ] So by healer you mean she wasn't trained? My mother's like that, too. I mean, she ran an apothecary.
[ And Aang gets another little grin. ] Thanks! I like your name, too. I've never heard anything like it before, though.
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I guess not. Most people from other worlds just now magic instead. But I can show you some!
Well... she's been getting training herself! But her healing's a kind that uses waterbending.
[He smirks at the appreciation of his name.] Thanks! It's not a flower, but I'm glad you like it anyway!
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A world with magic can't be all bad, can it? ]
So if she's been getting training... [ Then she can definitely get training, too. She'll have to bring it up with Katniss. Maybe Katniss knows someone here who'll teach her. ]
Does it mean something?
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You can get some too, maybe. I'm not sure how it works. You can ask her sometime.
[And he gives her a warm smile.]
Well, it means "peaceful soaring".
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I'll try that! I'll just talk to Katniss about it, first.
[ Peaceful soaring, huh? It sounds...well, peaceful. It's a happy name, for a boy who seems happy. Prim likes that. ]
Then I like it even better.
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Rue was taken away. Peeta. It's only a matter of time before Prim leaves, too.
But until then, she's doing her damnedest to just enjoy. To not worry what the future might bring for once and savor every extra moment she now has with her sister. Every extra moment to spoil her rotten.
Which is why, when Katniss joins her at the fountain, it's with a bag chock full of the peppermints Prim loves so much. And a huge smile on her face. A smile that always seems to appear the instant she sees her sister.]
What are you reading?
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And it's nice to see Katniss happy again. Even if it's in a strange place, and even if there is, apparently, some sort of war here, too. Katniss isn't anyone's Mockingjay in this place, and while there are Gamemakers (whatever they're called, that's what they are), Prim can trick herself into a sort of peace.
Luceti isn't District 12, where there was always want and need (and then, when Katniss won, near-crippling fear because somehow winning didn't stop anyhing at all), and it's not Distrinct 13, either. There's no schedule tattooed to Prim's wrist, and she can go where she likes, though she doesn't care to wander too far from the home Katniss made here, or the few haunts she's taken a liking to.
They're still boxed in, but the barrier is wider than she's ever wanted to wander, and there's no money and there's always food and there's Katniss.
Sometimes, if she's not careful, she finds herself waiting for the other shoe to drop. But she doesn't like thinking that way, and never has. So Prim tries not to think about what ifs or whys or what about. She's out from the ground again, and her sister is smiling at her, and - oh, and there are peppermints. Prim recognizes the bag immediately, offering up her book as a possible exchange for one of the candies. ]
A fairy tale. "The Seven Swans"; it's got lovely pictures. [ A children's book, and easy to read, but the luxury of such things is still a nice one. Silly, pretty stories where everyone lives happily ever after. ] It's about a girl with seven brothers - only they're cursed into swans, and she has to save them.
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She takes a seat on the fountain's edge next to her, opening the brown paper bag and offering it to Prim. Her bow is slung off her shoulder and placed on her lap as she leans over to look at the book.
It's not one of the books she's ever looked at in the library. She's never had much patience for the fictional ones. If the books weren't meant to provide Katniss with the information she needed, she could just as easily to do without them. But she likes seeing Prim make use of it.
And really, isn't so surprised by her choice in stories. She takes a deep breath, trying to mask the pang of hurt the summary causes. A girl who has to save her siblings. It sounds familair.] Does she save them?
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She takes a peppermint without hesitation, unwrapping the treat and popping it into her mouth. Once, these had been a rarity. Once, and then again. And now? Now they're in a place where none of the old rules made sense. After a moment's thought Prim pocketed the wrapper, tucking it away against future use.
Prim smiles, a little. ] Yes. She has to sew them magic shirts, to turn them human without saying a word, or the magic wouldn't work. It's like that. Magic, I mean. In the books - it has rules like that.
[ And in the people she's met here so far. Magic is a strange thing. ] She saves all of them, though.
[ Finishes all the shirts save one sleeve. ]
People get changed into animals a lot in fairy tales. I'm not sure I'd mind being a swan; that's one of the better ones. [ And that's a purely silly line of discussion, but there you have it. ]