trainingwings | it's time once again for a...test drive meme!

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[*] test drive meme

it's time once again for a...test drive meme!

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. Oh. And don't forget to RESERVE your characters.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[NOPE. No tracks. Robin's up on a rooftop, watching. Not stalking, just watching. Finding him is part of the first test. It shouldn't be impossible if this kid-in-a-Robin-suit is really one of his replacements.]

[Truthfully, he was kind of expecting to be attacked, but since there's nothing like that, he lets the worry fade and thinks about the birdarang instead. It came from somewhere high, so he looks up.

...well, it's not like he has anything better to do. Since he only just found his costume, he lacks in anything particularly useful, so he'll just have to do this the hard way and climb his way up!]

All right, pal, I'll play your game.

[His climbing could use some work. He's blowing way too much energy on the early floors. It's sloppy.

He looks young though. Maybe he's still new. Robin will even throw him an easy one and give him a vocal cue. He throws his voice off to the northwest end of the rooftop, even though he's settled in the shadows on the southern end.]

Your technique needs work. You're probably not training hard enough.

[Wow, rude. He sounds close, though. Just a little more and he can catch a glimpse of whoever's taunting him.]

Hey, I'm just getting started!

[It doesn't really sound like anyone he knows... Maybe someone Bruce knows? But he doesn't think about it too hard, because, you know, it's been a few days since he's had a good chase.]

[Idiot, don't follow the sound!

Another birdarang nicks Jason's ankles then, intentionally betraying Robin's true location. This too came with a note: "Sloppy. If you were in Gotham, you'd be dead right now."]

[He's too close to the top to change what he's doing now, and though he doesn't bother reading this new message, he grabs the birdarang anyway. At the top of the building, Jason looks around before he glances at the note.

Seriously rude. 8|

But this person knows the dark, that's obvious enough. ...you know, now that he thinks about it, it's different, but he tries anyway:]

Nightwing? No random's this good.

[Again with the "Nightwing" stuff. Robin's fairly sure by now that his adult-self is awesome and badass and loved by all heroes in the future, so he accepts the assumption as an ego-stroke. He reveals himself then, in the semi-standard "I AM THE NIGHT 101" pose.]

Not quite. This goes easier if you did your homework and read the journals.

Hey, I read... [But he doesn't finish, because... well, he's surprised by what he sees! He didn't really know what to expect, but this? Not it.] You're a lot shorter than I remember...

[ . . . ]

So I keep hearing.

[So weird. He'd heard about things like this, but he never expected that it'd happen to him with someone he knows.]

So it's really you? You're a sight for sore eyes! [Even if it's not quite what he was expecting. ...and even if he's just been a pain so far. It's still a relief that there's someone kind of familiar around, at least for now.]

That depends on what you mean.

[Really, Replacement Robin? You're just going to start trusting people right out of the gate? How new are you?]

I think it's fairly obvious that I haven't met you before.

Oh... Yeah, I thought so. [That's disappointing. Maybe he'd been a little too hopeful. If it's really Dick (which he doesn't dare ask in case he isn't—even Two-Face had an imposter, after all), then of course he doesn't know him if he's still Robin. Hrm.] I guess my eyes are a little too sore.

So what do you want, then? Worried I stole your identity or something? I'm no thief.

Edited 2012-09-02 06:00 (UTC)

Call it curiosity. I've heard about the next one. Didn't think I'd get to meet him. Maybe you'd want to talk about yourself a little.

[By the way this is a test. Don't fuck it up.]

Oh, so you've heard of me? [He grins. ...he's not taking him seriously.] Did you know I was born next to a lion's cage?

[He's actually heard of Tim, because Jason is the Robin of Whom Nobody Speaks.]

Is that so? Must've smelled terrible.

["Who are you again?"?!]

Like a zoo! I haven't been there ever since. Sad story, right?

Tragic. I might cry.

You're welcome to start saying true things whenever you'd like.

Why, lookin' for bedtime stories? I'll pass. I only know the one about the three bears.

[Even if he could be sure it was Dick, he didn't expect him to suddenly start caring. Besides, going by everything else that's happened so far, he knows that's not the reason for this.]

[...Okay, that one gets a twitch at the corners of his mouth. Robin likes to think he's gotten the lineface thing down to a science, but then someone has to go being funny. It opens him up to a legitimate query this time.]

Not yet. Maybe at 10:47.

[If this kid is who he's dressed as, he'll get the reference. 10:47, the elder Waynes' time of death, is the passcode for the grandfather clock batcave entrance. Nobody outside the family should know that unless Aang has been going around blabbing again.]

[...! He blinks at that. So he must be right. ~~Because gosh, why would there be more Robins after him, right.~~]

I left my watch at home. A little too heavy to carry around, and priceless to boot. My grandfather gave it to me, and that's the truth.

[He nods once, and that's really all there is to it. His stance relaxes immediately.]

You hungry? I got sandwiches.

That's not another trick question, is it? 'Cause if it is, I'm not sure I'll pass the quiz this time around.

[Nope, that's an "I keep a cooler on this roof because sometimes a guy wants a sandwich." He'll even demonstrate said cooler as he disarms it and digs in for the promised snack.]

You're not worried I'm trying to poison you or anything, right? [All things considered, this is a valid concern.]

You keep a cooler on the roof. I think anything's possible at this point.

[But no, he's not really worried about that! Because he's not sure how much Bruce would brag about someone who poisons people for fun.]

What, you're going to report me for breaking protocol?

[Bruce would never allow rooftop snacks. But Bruce is an arrogant heartless jerkface that Robin abandoned forever ago so his opinion doesn't matter.

This sandwich thing it totally happening. He tosses one to Replacement-Robin and works on chewing on a second one for himself. It's turkey and bread with nothing else in it because what is cooking Robin does not bother with that. He also doesn't bother with swallowing before he starts speaking again.]

You found a place to stay yet? I've got this building locked down fairly well already if you need an apartment.

well HEY. 8D

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