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

Comments

[blackteriques]

[...No. No laughing. Walter huffs and gets a lungful of water before he emerges from the water as well, spitting it out as his hair fades back to its normal pale blond.]

What are you doing out here?

[Yes. Normal greetings are saved for normal circumstances.]

[welnares]

[This is perfectly normal; what is he talking about?]

Just talking with the fish around the area. They don't say much, but it's good for passing time.

[blackteriques]

You must have talked to all the other animals to be stooping to talking to the fish.

[Except they were pretty much the first ones he had started talking to, too. ...Besides the ducks.]

They're terrible gossips.

[welnares]

You think so?

[They seemed rather mellow to him. Maybe if he asked them about Walter . . . ]

Do you not talk to them a lot, then?

[blackteriques]

[...How does he answer that without sounding embarrassed and/or annoyed?

...

He snorts. Like such questions even had a place in his head to begin with.]

Not recently. I ignore them.

[welnares]

[ . . . In other words, the fish bothered him one way or another.]

I see. You prefer ducks.

[blackteriques]

[Yes. But no one is supposed to know that.]

They fly, swim, and walk on land. They are much easier to relate to. [This is clearly the best reasoning.]

[welnares]

Just like you, huh? [Rather, just like them.] The ducks said you feed them, too.

[blackteriques]

[He tenses at that. He had actually talked to the ducks?

The ducks mentioned that? Damn quackers.

And he had even commented on talking to the other animals before the fish, so he couldn't push it off with an insulting remark or something...

Walter's face is doing attempting to go through a myriad of expressions and utterly failing.]

Of course.

[welnares]

[Oscar just looks entertained. It's not everyday that Walter goes through something akin to being flustered. Who'd have thought ducks would be the cause?]

That's good. I think the ducks make better company for you than the fish.

[blackteriques]

[Stop looking entertained! He struggles with a grimace, unsure why he manages to feel like a little kid around Oscar. It's embarrassing and ridiculous to feel that way around a stranger -- regardless of whether or not said stranger insisted they knew each other.]

What makes you say that?

[welnares]

[Oh, he's actually curious? Fish and ducks aside, life in Luceti for four long years seems to have had a remarkable effect on Walter's social skills (or he's projecting based on his own reality of their world, but he likes to think it's Luceti's doing).]

They talk more, don't they? Compared to them, the fish are quiet, so you'd stop talking with them right away. They don't remember things too well, either . . .

[blackteriques]

Ducks forget, too. [Is he really arguing about this? His tone is a little sullen, like he's remembering something he'd rather not think about, but it's quickly replaced by a more serious voice.]

It's probably the ducklings.

[Totally serious voice.]

[welnares]

[ . . . Something about that seems completely fitting.]

. . . Do you think they're cute?

[blackteriques]

...I didn't say that.

[But he's not exactly denying it, either.]

[welnares]

You don't say a lot of things.

[Not that he considers this a problem.]

But they are cute, aren't they?

[Like you—]

[blackteriques]

They're nice to look at.

[Totally not cute.]

[welnares]

[Nice? Ducklings aren't nice to look at — they're cute.]

Not like the fish?

[blackteriques]

The fish are rather boring.

[To look at. He wasn't going to retread the whole gossipy part if he could help it.]

[welnares]

I guess they're not as cute, huh? I understand.

[They're more like ducks than fish, in a way.]

Still, I'm surprised.