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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

Pepper Potts | MCU - The Avengers

[handing]

[Option A:

Pepper is in Good Spirits, currently trying to decide how many drinks she needs to handle everything she's learned after arriving in Luceti. Really, the Malnosso could brag about it. It takes something special to break the three-or-more-olive standard Tony inspires on bad days. Or his really creative ones.

Oh, that's a bad thought. Tony trying to out-do the Malnosso. Pepper closes her eyes and tries not to shudder, because she knows Tony's going to try, and probably already has, and now she's here and it's going to be worse because of that.

It's sweet how he shows he cares. Really, it is. Pepper just wishes sometimes that it wasn't also so...problematic? Yes, problematic's a good word, she decides. Safe.

She polishes off her martini, then orders another before munching on an olive.

Option B:

Pepper's been in the village for a few days now, long enough to decide that Tony does not get to keep the entire house looking like his lab if he expects her to spend any significant amount of time there. So she's made it to the item shop, where she slowly wanders the aisles, picking up a few pieces to make the place look less his and more his-with-her-touch at the very least. Tasteful pieces, some of which are already in a neat pile near the front wall, out of the way of other people who might also be browsing.

Vases are a bad idea, probably, given how easily they break. But it doesn't stop her from picking up one and turning it around in her hands anyway, or trying to picture where she could put it so it can both be seen and survive for more than a few hours.]

B!!

[alloys]

[What, he has great decorating skills. Just because paper plates and a house plant that's been dead for got knows how long isn't her thing doesn't mean it's all bad!

...Okay, it's all bad. But hey, at least it's pretty clean, thanks to Billy. She should be glad she wasn't here before he showed up.

In any case, when Pepper returns with her decor of choice, Tony will be giving her that look. You know the one.]

What, didn't they have a picture of me?

Re: B!!

[handing]

[It's worse than bad, Tony. Also, that houseplant? That's going to disappear before she's done. Might want to say your good-byes now.

Thank goodness for Billy. He'll probably never know just how grateful Pepper is for being spared the true experience of Tony's house without maid service, and in turn sparing Tony from Pepper's reaction to said experience. That would've earned him a definite "I told you so."

And yes, she knows the one. Which is why she keeps a mostly-straight face as she walks past, eying the room for art-worthy places.]

No, no, actually they did not. And even if they had, you know I wouldn't have gotten it. Except maybe to keep you from getting it and hanging it up somewhere. I already let you get away with that once.

[alloys]

[Farewell, good fern. He hardly knew ye. Seriously. It's origins were a mystery from the beginning.

He breathes an exaggerated sigh as she passes, turning to follow her. Hey, he's going to insist on having a say where things go around her, okay.]

And was that a bad thing? Not at all. You know, I'm extremely self motivated. Seeing a picture of myself would actually help me get more done. Plus, it just makes for good decoration. I mean, it's me.

[handing]

[And yet Tony held onto it all this time. Afraid it would get lonely without him around forgetting to water it?

Tony can have a say, sure. The same way Pepper can ignore that say, because there are certain things that are better left uninfluenced by Tony. Home decor is one of them.]

That wasn't a bad thing to you. Remember, I said no, and then let you do it anyway because I was too busy trying to run your company to argue about it.

[She's grinning at Tony as she turns, but it's not a happy grin. It's one of those 'now I'm going to make you regret it' grins.]

I don't think it would help. I think you might end up staring at it so long you'd completely forget whatever you were working on in the first place.

[alloys]

[You say that like he doesn't have an expertise in everything! Which of course is false.

He lifts a finger to raise a point, but, well, she's right.]

Okay, that's fair. On both counts. But are you sure we can't have something...vaguely, Stark-esque? A portrait of a hot rod, or something. And don't try to tell me vintage automobiles aren't fine art, either.

[handing]

[Mmm, is it now? Did you ever memorize your social security number, Tony?

She cocks her head to the side, considering it.]

Okay. I'll look for automobile portraits when I go back. But! I get to decide where to put it.

[Because honestly, she can only imagine where it would go otherwise.]

[alloys]

[He did. Because it's 5. Mastered it.]

Let me guess, you're going to rule out 'above the bed' as an option.

[Is that where she was thinking he'd put it?]

[handing]

[Right. Pepper will absolutely let Tony go with that next time it comes up then. Since he's mastered it.]

...Tony, why would I hang it above the bed?

[She knows why. It's Tony, and it's obvious. But she wants to pretend she doesn't actually know, or maybe thinking exactly that.]

[alloys]

[If 5 doesn't work, he'll just ask for his SSN to be changed to 'Iron Man'. No one would ever guess that, would they?

A knowing smirk.]

Because it's fine art. And one of my favorite things. You wouldn't deprive me of one of my favorite things, would you?

[handing]

[No Tony. On so many levels. Like being obvious or the fact that it isn't even a number...no.

And you know what? She can smirk right back.]

Actually, I would. I think hanging a picture of an automobile over the bed would be a very good reason to deprive you of one of your favorite things.

[Guess what thing she's thinking of Tony. Hint: it's one she doesn't want to do while you stare at a painting of a car.]

[alloys]

I don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about. [Of course, there's that glint in his eye that makes it very clear that he does.]

I think I could use a hint. Or a demonstration, maybe. I'm open to different possibilities.

[He's not making a very good case for the painting, is he.]

[handing]

Of course you don't. [Yes, Pepper sees it. And she might be fighting off a smile now, because it's an activity she's kind of fond of too.]

Different possibilities, hmm? How very flexible of you, Mr. Stark.

[She puts a bit of emphasis on that word, flexible. Takes a step closer to him, leans in just enough so he might think she's giving in--

And then pats him on the cheek. Because Tony is really cute. She just doesn't always say it, because his ego is big enough without her help.]

After you help me put this stuff up. Or at least in a safe place where it won't get blown to pieces.

[He really isn't. Pepper's okay with that.]

[alloys]

[Oh, that was cruel. The cruelest. You cut him real deep right there, Miss Potts.]

Alright, alright. You play Design Star and I'll take care of the technical side of things. You'll have the levellest frames in the whole damn Luceti.

[But he's holding you to that 'after' thing.]

[handing]

[Then she'll just have to kiss it and make it better, won't she? All part of that 'after' thing.]

Thank you. I'm sure the other residents will be appropriately jealous.

[And she'll let him. But right now? Business mode, and Pepper's back to appraising wall space.]

We could probably use some shelves too. I didn't just get wall art.

[alloys]

[That usually does the trick, yes.]

...Shelves? [Maaan he just got okay with the idea of the art. Now there's going to be shelves, too?

It is time to pretend like this is a bigger deal than it is for fun again.]

And what sort of things will you put on these shelves, Miss Potts?

[handing]

Yes, shelves. You can build shelves, can't you?

[Of course he can. Pepper knows it, knows it's so utterly beneath him he'll probably scoff at the idea. But maybe it'll also give him something to do, which wouldn't be a bad thing. Tony's dangerous when he gets bored.]

Hmm? Oh, you know. Pottery, sculptures. Things that don't hang on a wall. I found the kinetic piece I had on my desk before. They actually had it, at the item shop.

[The little twirling number Tony loved so much. She's not actually cruel enough to put it in his lab, but hey. He's not the only one who can dish out a hard time.]

[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.]

[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.

[alloys]

I'm not saying I won't--exactly. Just let me have a little free reign over their design, and we're in business.

[Come on. They'd be customizable to a tee.]

Except for the part where it just keeps going. And never stops. I don't need a desk toy to remind me of Newton's Laws.

[handing]

Free reign. You're...well. You're you, and you expect me to give you free reign over something I need to be stable, and not break, and not break everything I put on it when it does whatever you make it do, which will probably be completely unnecessary.

[You see her concern here, Tony. Mostly it's that last bit.]

It's not a toy, it's a kinetic sculpture. And the fact that it is kinetic is what makes it soothing.

[alloys]

Pepper. [He leans in. This point needs to be emphasized, okay?] Do I make things that break? No. Do I make things that break other things? ...Admittedly, sometimes yes. However, you can trust me on this one. A little ingenuity can go a long way.

[Unnecessary? He'd hardly see it as unnecessary. Just improving.]

And it's a toy. Come on. The least you could do is own up to it being a toy.

[handing]

No, you don't make things that break, but you can't tell me that they don't break other things. You can't. [She's talking over Tony a bit now, because he's being stubborn, but so is she. So there.] And even if it doesn't break, I don't want shelves that'll outshine the art on them, which is exactly what they'll do if you make them however you want.

[Yeah, see, that's why Pepper's concerned. Her definition of 'unnecessary' is pretty different from Tony's. So's her definition of 'improving.']

It is not a toy, Tony. Just because it moves doesn't make it a toy.

[alloys]

What? It'd just be my way of contributing to your art collection. You can't tell me what I build isn't art. See? It definitely belongs. And I should have free shelf reign.

[At this point, he's pretty much only making the case to see where she'll draw the line. Because he'll build them the way she wants, eventually. She knows that, too.]

But you have to admit, it has a lot of toy-like qualities.

[handing]

Except this entire place is already full of your "art," which is the point of me getting other art. So there's more of me along with all of you.

[Sharing space. It's a novel concept, she knows.]

Well, if you want to make that argument, then your Iron Man suit is a toy too. It's a giant action figure.