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[herotypical]

the luceti test drive meme

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.

Comments

[echotaker]

Doctor Adele LeBlanc.

[He smiles up at her from the grass.]

You want to know about my hell or do you want to lie in the grass and pretend there haven't been any penalties and that you don't have a barcode or something? Because seriously. It's nice grass all things considered. And it just smells great.

[fleurdesel]

...You are. Without question or the barest shadow of a doubt, the strangest New Feather I have met.

[She's curious enough to want to ask. But tired enough of every shade of hell to just. Lay down in the grass next to him and rest awhile. He was right, after all. It was nice grass. Soft, not clipped or cut so it didn't poke or cause one to itch. There weren't any insects that would crawl or bite. Just.

Grass. It's almost ideal.]

It's easy for me to forget how lovely it can be here.

[alloys]

I can. The question is if I will.

[Yep, right on the mark. Especially if she's expecting him to build regular, boring, un-innovative shelves. What's the fun in that?]

If you bring that in here, I can't be held responsibly for when it become target practice.

[Because it would be inevitable. He hates that thing.]

Guy should like him anyway cuz Asch is a adorbable!

[tenerezza]

It would be a disgraceful mother who doesn't worry about her own children.

[ Once comfortably situated she pauses to fix a level stare at him. Familiarity comes with time, and until then she can always search for cues on how to best proceed. The first steps are always the hardest. ]

That's to be expected. Sit down, please, Asch.

[heardyoucall]

They have their moments, albeit few and far between.

But they're the only ones I'd be able to tolerate going anywhere with anyway

[thebellthatbinds]

[With the young man sitting up she leans back a little to give him space, still close enough to catch him if he looked woozy or dizzy.]

You haven't had water? Were you in the desert before you came here?

[She can't imagine how else he might have gone without something so vital.]

Patty Fleur | Tales of Vesperia

[ps3pirate]

[Patty is, in fact, brand-new to Luceti. So new that she doesn't even know she's in Luceti yet. She woke up somewhere dark and small, which is already confusing enough, as she was sure she went to sleep in a bed. As she gropes around helplessly, she can feel both wood and cloth, but it's not exactly helping her figure out her location. Therefore, she decides to call out loudly.]

Hellooo? Who turned off the lights?! It's darker than a purple squid's ink on a night of the new moon, ya know!

[Unbeknownst to Patty, she is stuck inside a wardrobe. Whose wardrobe is it? It could be anyone's!]

[echotaker]

It's Michael Andrews, not New Feather. Sheesh, Addie, give me a break.

[He reclines.]

Don't have this where I'm from. Imagine New York if it spanned the planet with about eight times the population. And it's always a Monday. And rush hour. And no one wants to go to work.

Now throw in Spirits, Ghosts and Echoes... oh man...

I miss lying in the grass.

[fleurdesel]

Michael, then. New Feather is a term for new members of the village. Not a name proper-

[She twitches at the nickname. Sighs. Scrubs her face with a hand and props herself up on an elbow to look over at him.]

...Please don't call me that. My ex husband did, for years, and it holds no fond memories for me.

[It's civil if restrained. Fairly polite, compared to how it might have been months, years ago. Once she's certain he understands she slides back down, comfortable in the grass.]

What is the difference between the three?

[echotaker]

Not good water. The stuff I eat on a daily basis in the land of the dead has everything in it mixed together and that includes water. It's pretty much like... gruel. It's not fun.

This place though... it looks amazing... and the water tops it.

[He's definitely still hurting, but he's not showing it easily.]

[fallenambitions]

[There's some scratching sounds on the other side of said wood as there's a cat pawing on the other side. A moment later, Patty can probably hear the sound of footsteps getting louder. Alexei stops in front of his wardrobe, puzzled.

Did he just hear someone speak from inside...? It sounded familiar too...]

[ps3pirate]

[She perks up at the sound of that scratching. She has no idea what it is, but... Surely that means someone is out there! The following footsteps only confirm it. She raps her fist against the wood.]

Hellooo? Yuuuriiii? Have you come to save me?

[ps3pirate]

Nope, not at all!

[She just continues to smile cheerfully as she says this. She's dressed in her own attire, so evidently she must've paid a visit to the store earlier. Even so, Patty's pretty new to Luceti and knee-deep in the 'exploration stage'.]

It's the duty of every great adventurer to gather information about a new place with a skip in their step and a pair of binoculars to their face!

[fallenambitions]

[....Oh, it's her. Yet another one of Yuri's group is here, in his wardrobe. Thanks Luceti. Frankly he can't really leave her in there so, have some light suddenly in your dark place Patty as he opens the wardrobe. Hermes move beside Alexei and look curiously at the little girl who was inside.]

He's not here.

[ps3pirate]

[She recoils at the sudden bright light, covering her eyes with both hands. Yeesh that was unexpected. She was about to make a remark on it when a familiar voice speaks up. A familiar voice that could only belong to one person. But that's... impossible, isn't it?]

A-Alexei! [She'll try and squint up at him anyway, regardless of whether her eyes have adjusted to the light or not.]

No prob

[somethingtoavenge]

[...Whose gawking...?

He was just clarifying, since he mainly know Tony.]

Vintage. Near-mint. Slightly Foxed.

[A part of Coulson doesn't want to find new cards here. He had looked a long time for most of them. It had been fun, frustrating, and something that was his.

Finding new ones here just wouldn't be the same.]

Maybe. Took me a long time to get them all though, originally. If they just appear here, well...

[fallenambitions]

Miss Patty Fleur. How nice of this place to decide to drop you in my home. [Meaning, you are totally not welcomed here, but I'll play pleasant anyway. He takes a quick note of her new feather garbs.]

I imagine you must be rather confused as to why and how you got here. [Nevermind, why Alexei's still alive.]

[somethingtoavenge]

Oh, them.

[Coulson can't quite argue with that, not as he knew them. But he also had faith they would get their act together. From what he heard, they had.]

As a team, maybe so. Individually though, I wouldn't say they lacked conviction.

[Coulson gives Loki a 'must-you-be-so-you' look.]

I'm afraid I'll have to decline. I think I can manage to live with the uncertainty. Since I'm alive here.

[ps3pirate]

[She pushes herself to her feet instinctively, only to narrowly avoid getting tangled in the clothes hanging above her. Her hand flies to where her pistol would normally be, before she comes to the realization that it isn't there at all. Well, no matter, she still has her dagger-- ... Oh, wait, that's gone too.]

A-aye... [Alexei's right about one thing, there is definitely a lot of confusion right now. Confusion and intimidation, because suddenly coming face to face with Alexei isn't something she expected to ever happen.]

[redjacketthief]

So you're a team?

[He chuckled; he understood that sentiment too.]

[echotaker]

A dick, huh? Yeah. Lots of them in the world, sadly. I'm sure someone like you will eventually either find a good guy or at least make sure the rotten ones don't try what they tried with you a second time. Men like that aren't men at the end of the day. Just boys acting tough. Drives me nuts.

[He pauses.]

A Spirit is what is left of you when you die. It retains your memories and all of the emotions you've accumulated throughout your life. The older you are, the more memories, the more judgement weighed upon you. At the same time, the younger you are, the fewer the memories, but at the same time the emotions are so much more powerful.

A Ghost is what a Spirit becomes if it realizes it's dead. Ghosts can "live" if you will in the Land of the Dead if they're not ready to move on. They can get jobs in the hundreds of sorting bureaus or, if they're rotten, get sent to prison. And let me tell you, maximum security prisons on isolated islands have nothing on the prisons in the land of the dead.

An Echo...

[He winces, suddenly putting a hand to his head.]

Hff... sorry. Echoes have different classes.. but lemme explain what they are. If a Ghost loses control of its emotions through rage or despair or any number of negative feelings, it has a high chance of becoming a C-Class Echo, a twisted version of what it once was, no mind, only emotion... and they mutate based on the memories that brought forth the emotion. Awful, horrible things.

Then, there's a B-Class Echo, known as a Spirit-Echo. When A Spirit realizes it's dead, it becomes a Ghost... usually. Sometimes there are people... usually kids... who can't handle being dead. Their emotions go out of control in denial, rage, sadness, and they become B-Class Echoes. B-Class Echoes are much stronger than C-Class Echoes and are usually a lot bigger with a more devastated spiritual attack. Some of them can actually absorb other Ghosts and other Spirits into themselves to grow bigger.

Finally, A-Class Echoes, or Cluster Echoes. When people die together in a group, the collective energy sometimes isn't able to separate properly into a group of Spirits for sorting due to the high level of emotion and memories flitting from Spirit to Spirit. The overall panic and confusion can create not just one Echo, but many, all at once... and then they merge to form a collective Cluster Echo. Cluster Echoes are enormous both in actuality and in their attack strength. They're also capable of affecting the minds of those around them just by existing due to the turmoil they possess. Cluster Echoes form in war, in car accidents like buses exploding, in buildings collapsing... any place where tens, hundreds or thousands of people die all at once, Cluster Echoes will result.

I hadn't been hired as a Night Arrow at the time, but apparently some of the worst Echoes of all time came out of the shit around WWII. The most recent Cluster Echo emergency came from 9/11. That's not to say there haven't been bad crop-ups of Cluster Echoes since... but the panic and shock of that day was pretty much a guarantee for them.

[He sighs heavily, looking at her.]

That help?

[unfrowning]

[Elmer quirks his lips at that, patting his trusty not-quite-hat.]

Well one-man hopscotch isn't much of a game, so I thought I'd spice it up a little.

[markofthebrave]

[She blinked, absorbing that.]

Oh.

[...yeah, she'll just let that sit for a minute and examine all the facets she can see.]

[fleurdesel]

...

[That. All of that. Was horrifying on no small level. Adele sinks into the grass and just. Attempts to wrap her mind around the concepts Michael puts forth and finds that she can't. Just the idea of a city based land of the dead is entirely foreign to her. Ghosts? Echos? Clusters of souls that die terribly and react violently upon their arrival elsewhere?

There's nothing she can say. Well.

One thing.]

...I think. I am correct in my assessment that this place is much, much better than your hell Michael. And I shan't begrudge your enjoyment of it in the slightest.

[handing]

If you--Tony. Are you saying you won't make shelves for me?

[Pepper's not actually as indignant as she sounds over that. Tony's got his pride, and Pepper respects that. But she also still needs a set of shelves.]

I don't understand why you don't like it. It's soothing.