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Test Drive Meme #3


Test Drive Meme #3
LOGS | NETWORK | OOC | MEMES | NAVIGATION



Arrival



Part 1


You arrive in an unknown space, dressed in white clothes (player choice what kind of clothes, as long as they cover everything). Whatever was happening to you before no longer happens. It's like everything was put on a pause and you were transferred away from the situation without you realizing it happened.

The space that you find yourself in is one of these four options:

An empty landscape filled with snow and ice, almost like a blank canvas.
A field with cherry blossom trees and spring flowers.
A sunny beach near an ocean that seems never ending.
A quiet forest with falling autumn leaves.

All of the spaces seem to continue endlessly. No matter where or how far you walk it almost seems like you're not moving at all. There are no animals here - just those who happened to wake up there at the same time, in the same place. Everyone is wearing the same kind of plain, white clothes.

Despite the possible rollercoaster of emotions you might be feeling, the place somehow feels familiar. Like somehow you belong there.

And it looks like you're not alone.


Part 2


After half an hour has passed the surroundings change as everyone is teleported into a room with all the other new arrivals, no matter what space they woke up in. It's a large place with plenty of seats to sit in and beverages to enjoy. Medical attention is offered to those who need it and the doctors here are very prepared for any challenging situations.

Here, in this room, everyone gets an answer to where they are and why. A hologram of a man appears at the center of the room, waiting to be heard. He brings a message on behalf of the leaders of Ellipsa.


The Message [ Click to Expand ]

Hello, my name is Olwen. I'm one of the leaders of Ellipsa as it currently is. I'm also one of the four who summoned you here.

Our world is in trouble and we need your help. I apologize for tearing you away from your world and forcing you to come here but I hope you understand. The magic we used doesn't let us ask in advance, nor does it let us choose who we bring here.

This world is composed of four Seasonal Segments. All of them represent one of the seasons. They were the places we used to get our resources from, but now they're dangerous places no one should go into unless they have the power to fight back. All of them have their own sets of powerful monsters and natural catastrophes.

We used to have plenty of people here who could control the powers of the four Seasons. We called them Seasonal Power Holders. Unfortunately, due to a tragedy you can read about later, we lost almost all of them. Now only four of us remain and the world is in chaos. We have done our best to protect the world, but we need more power holders to do that.

That's where you come in.

All of you have been assigned to one of the seasons. Whatever space you were in just now is what season you represent. You will learn different skills based on the season and those skills are going to help you save this world.

These powers don't interfere with your own natural powers. They use a new energy that has formed inside of you. It's harmless to your health, but it's vital to your seasonal powers. Your own powers should still work, even if the dark energy outside the city might interfere with them.

Unfortunately bringing you here wasn't as simple as it sounds. We couldn't do anything about how to keep you anchored to this world other than making a simple spell that helps with it. That is, you need to touch someone else who is not from this world ideally at least once a day. It will help you stay in control of your powers and boost your magical energy. If you don't, the consequences aren't very good. But as long as you hold someone's hand or give someone a handshake, you should be fine.

That's all I have to say about the situation. The staff of the Research Center will give you more information about housing and other necessary things. I will, however, promise that you will be sent home once the situation becomes better. That's the least we can do.


The hologram can be viewed in private in a separate room later, should someone wish to look at it again. For now, the staff of the Research Center hands everyone their new smartphones with their small flower lucky charms (the flower is anything the player decides). They're also told that the building next door is where everyone can find a room assigned to them with some of their belongings there and possibly even any animal companions. Those concerned about their mount-sizes companions are welcomed to the stables downstairs to see if their friends are there. The mounts are allowed to stay there until you find a place more suitable for them.

In the Arrival's hall there are also several stands with information pamphlets.

First type of stand is for the local Guilds and about the benefits or joining one.

Second type of stands is for the Welcoming Committee that aim to show otherworlders what the world is like and help guide people in the beginning of the journey and helps in getting settled into the new world. They even have people to help if you're unfamiliar with the new phones.

Third type of the stands is for The In Touch Support Group that is led by the Otherwordly Ambassador, Kamisato Ayato. The pamphlets have contact information for businesses looking to help Otherworlders. They also focus more on the lore of the World and what they have discovered so far, as well as a guide on what to think about when preparing to venture out to the Segments.

Once you get your smartphone and necessary information, you're urged to go out and find your apartment. After that whatever you want to do is up to you.

Part 3


The building next door is where everyone can find their new apartments. As you enter, you're told by a friendly native that for the first two months you can live anywhere rent-free and five meals a day are paid for you. After that they get a monthly payment that helps with some of their living expenses, but otherwise they have to have a job to support themselves.

All of the apartments are comfortable, two bedroom apartments with all necessary utilities. They are also completely soundproof. Sometimes the magic system, however, does glitch and you might find yourself rooming with a stranger. This is not the intention and the staff will immediately prepare you your own room if you ask them. But maybe having a roommate isn't all that bad?





Party in the Underground




Part 1


The center of Nightwake never sleeps and there's always something happening, but today there's a lot of excitement in the air all around the center and every district! Locals and those who want to help them (for 100 Moon Coins or a gift card of their choosing), are walking to everyone to offer colorful fliers along with free vending machine tokens. There's also colorful advertisement on billboards and posters everywhere around the city advertising all sorts of things like items, clothes, drinks and more.

Local businesses, stores and restaurants are also going pretty crazy with their celebrations of anyone walking in being their 50th, 100th or whatever customer of the day and the prize among other things are gift cards and more free vending machine tokens but they aren't even for that same shop or restaurant? They also offer people to spin all kinds of different prize wheels, spin roulettes, buying a certain amount of things from them, and taking part in eating and drinking competitions for a surprise prize. Someone even put these surprise prizes into the Gacha Restaurant's randomizer, so for a week, you can choose it as a total surprise there too. (The surprises can be even more vending machine tokens and silly things like cute keychains or a 5-in-1 avocado tool as some examples.)

You can't find any of these shops, restaurants and other places, that they are advertising, in the whole city. The locals, posters and billboards will tell you where you can find them. There's a new entrance in every district, where locals welcome everyone to the grand opening of the Underground Mall!

Some may even drop into a sudden hole in the ground on their way and fall (or slide) somewhere far away. Don't worry, there will be very soft and huge pillows for landing in your destination.


Part 2


The Underground Mall's upper floors give the vibe of a joyous mall with several restaurants and shops you won't see on the surface. The mall is definitely a must visit place for those who appreciate different fashion and exciting food choices. The party from the surface continues down here with various sales around the area. A good day for shopping!

For those who like games, there's a futuristic VR Arcade for you! This Arcade focuses on games that are played with VR goggles on. Even your regular DDR machine will now take you to dance in different environments and feel like you're dancing for your life or for an actual audience.

There are all sorts of vending machines lined up in their own, huge corner. You can find the usual ones with all sorts of different snacks, food and drinks, but there are also some with cake, cookies, mayonnaise, cream, flowers, engagement rings and other less usual but normal things. Nothing here is randomized, unless you choose the random option from the machine, otherwise you get exactly what you want. So pick your favorites or try something new, that sounds more or less good! You can find a machine that turns moon coins on your phone into vending machine tokens (or you can pay straight with your phone).

And, yes, you can find vending machines full of snacks and drinks all around the area too.

Then there's also an area for ufo catchers with all kinds of prizes like pokemon plushies and lots of other plushies, items themed to different season, plushies and other items themed to any fauna and flora from all around Ellipsa, puzzles, food themed items etc etc.

Moving inside the mall is done by escalators and elevators, but there are also regular stairs for those who prefer them.

The fastest way of traveling from floor to floor in the mall is by quick teleport nodes. You choose a floor you want to go to from the list of choices, much like an elevator and then you're transported into that floor's node within seconds. Unfortunately, they're still working out on the bugs in the system, so you may end up in the wrong place - including places that aren't on the list of choices.

Part 3


There's also a Poké Ball Vending Machine, so anyone who recognizes poké balls may have some idea what they could get here. The vending machine somehow has enough balls for everyone in Ellipsa but everyone can only buy one ball! The balls don't have names in them and no one can see through them, so even those, who know Pokémon will NOT know what they'll be getting from this vending machine as it is entirely randomized!

Are you ready to get your first Pokémon? What about being ready to see how you two get along? Everyone, who plays this vending machine, gets either a Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle, Pikachu, Eevee, Chikorita, Cyndaquil, Totodile, Treecko, Torchic, Mudkip, Turtwig, Chimchar, Piplup, Snivy, Tepig, Oshawott, Chespin, Fennekin, Froakie, Rowlet, Litten, Poplio, Grookey, Scorbunny, Sobble, Spirigatito, Fuecoco or Quaxly.

(And yes, ICly it is entirely randomized but OOCly you can decide which one you want your character to get... Of course you can rng the result too. More about Pokémon guidelines in the OOC Tips of this TDM.)






Welcome to Our Dark Side




The third part of the TDM is under this details cut as it has Content Warnings, including Cursed things, Organized Crime, Illegal Activities, Monster Forms/Body Horror, Attempted Murder, Experimenting on People

The Third Part of the TDM [ Click to Expand ]
Part 1

The lowest levels of the mall are only accessible by random quick teleport nodes around the mall (if you know you know is the motto with these). You can run into them on accident (they're usually hidden, but with so much traffic, the hiding place becomes visible) and they sometimes immediately just teleport people without any warning. The arrival can be in various places. A random shady hallway, in the middle of the floor, in a shady establishment and so on.

Anything that seems shady can be found from these floors. Even the local diners here are very weird and likely have illegal things on the menu. Clothing stores sell all kinds of clothes fit for thieves and assassins and the amount of weapons shops here is twice the amount than on the surface. Rumor has it there are also people trying to summon the devil somewhere around here, but that's still just a rumor.

One of the teleport node locations can take you to the front of a cursed vending machine corner. At first they look like ordinary vending machines, but upon closer inspection one may notice they are anything but ordinary.

The food vending machines are full of different "eatable" bugs with half-hearted warnings that they may or may not be poisonous (they didn't really check before putting them in the packaging), Mystery Food boxes (includes some very suspicious foods that don't look edible, but are actually alright in taste? But may contain some side effects like growing mushrooms out of your hair if you eat the mushroom ones), ones that is labeled Energy Drinks but all of them look more like creepy potions (they provide energy but at the cost of poisoning someone for 24 hours) and hyper realistic cakes that look like various body parts (the cake part is intentionally written in small print).

Other vending machines have various shark eggs (hatching them will provide a magical shark with little hands and legs that invades the first watery surface it finds and bites whoever comes too close - it does not belong as a pet, but one may try to tame one), Mystery Boxes (with anything from highly cursed jewelry to books that suck your soul if written into) and Cheat Slips (it's said these slips will let you master a skill immediately, but all it does is cause one's powers to go berserk for 2 hours).




Part 2


The lowest levels are also a place for a large Casino. While they do exist on the surface, this one is a little different.

The Casino (named just that, "The Casino") is divided into four different sections; All of them are dominated by an organized crime group. This is the only area of the underground they work together in peace and sometimes come to relax. They don't cause trouble for each other here, but they definitely can try to cause trouble for everyone who is visiting the place.

Losing in this Casino can mean being taken to the back rooms by whichever group's area you ended up losing in. They will offer to let you go if you can pay off your debt you made in the Casino, but they have other options of compensation.

Name: Diamonds
Game Area: Card Games (Poker, Black Jack, Craps)
Compensation: They will send characters on a criminal quest to either steal or sabotage something or even smuggle a (cursed) item into important places.

Name: Spades
Game Area: Roulette
Compensation: They will attempt to kill the character that lost in the quietness of the backrooms.

Name: Clubs
Game Area: Pool, Darts
Compensation: They will just make characters clean their casino area.

Name: Hearts
Game Area: Slot Games
Compensation: They will drag characters into experiments in a different facility.

You may also end up taken to the back rooms for getting caught cheating, although it may also end up in a congratulatory meeting for an impressive sleight of hand instead or an invitation to join one of the groups. How would you feel about a life of crime?




Part 3


Those caught in Hearts Group's Experiments will be subjected to series of tests. Mostly they're to check the characters' physical condition before proceeding. Once the tests are concluded, the character will be given a medicine (either via shot or a pill). This medicine will not show any signs of working for a while and characters are let go afterwards.

The same medicine can, however, later be consumed by anyone else in various foods and drinks (free samples, some restaurants, even some grocery store items), even in the higher levels of the Mall. The experiments were the final test before distributing the medicine secretly to the public. So your character may accidentally end up getting the medicine in other ways.

What are the medicine? Monster Form activators. They will awaken a monster form inside a character that will trigger under one of the (player) selected conditions: strong emotional reaction, full moon, near death situation or bleeding.

The form can be returned from by calming down and focusing on their sense of self, but there's a chance to go berserk, making this difficult. If characters go berserk, their powers will be a lot stronger, but they won't know who's a friend and who's a foe. Their form may also be a lot scarier than it normally is. They will likely only want to cause destruction around them or want to feed on humans.



MonsterDescriptionPowers
AlraunePlant monsters with a humanoid shape. They may have changes as simple as flowers growing in their hair or have complex body modifications such as roots for legs and long vines as hands.Pollen with status effects like sleep/poison/paralysis, control over plants, poisonous kisses, etc
GargoyleMonstrous humanoid winged creatures with horns on their head and stony hides.Super strength, tough skin, flight
HarpyHuman-bird hybrids. Anything part can be replaced with bird bodyparts, although the most common configuration is arms turned to wings and legs into talons.Flight, sonic scream, hypnotizing voice, ability to whip up whirlwinds
KelpieAquatic horses with a man made of seaweed and algae, covered in a sticky fur that makes it nearly impossible to get off if one is to ride them. Some may get a fish tail when underwater, although when out of water they have legs like any horse.Water breathing, illusions
LichUndead humanoids, they may look skeletal or simply corpselike.Raising the dead (into zombies/skeletons), necrotic touch
ManticoreBeastlike creatures with the head of a human, the body of a lion, and the tail of a scorpion or dragon. They vary greatly, some sporting horns on their heads, or resembling a Chimera or Sphinx.Super strength, flight if wings.
MinotaurAnimalistic monsters with the head of a bull and the body of a human, although some variations exist in which there are different animal heads. Some sport hooves and a tail in place of legs. Super strength, overall size, super defense.
TaurThis refers to any number of creatures with a humanoid upper body and a lower body that resembles a non-anthropomorphic animal in the same sort of style as a centaur. This category includes things like Arachne and Naga, and other variations of such monsters.Varies depending on animal the taur is based on
WerecreaturesMonstrous, bipedal animals, the transformation of which is often (but not always) triggered by the full moon. Common variants are wolves and bears, although they can be about any animal. The Pooka would be one of the variations in the werecreature category.Depends on the animal the form is based on, but usually super strong/fast etc



This effect can either be permanent or temporary, depending on how the players want it. Temporary can be up to just one transformation under the conditions or several.






OOC TIPS


- Ask your questions related to the TDM here.

- The TDM is available only to friends of the mods and their friends. If you want to play in the TDM, please leave a note here to inform us who invited you over. We will get to you as soon as possible.

- Test Drive is open for current characters to make a top level as well. New characters can add TDM (or "New" or anything else) on their subject line to indicate they're new!

- Current characters cannot access the starting area again to meet new arrivals. They can, however, be at the Research Center when the newbies are teleported in.

- The TDM is game canon so anything in the TDM can happen for your character(s) in the game as well.

- Remember to add Content Warnings wherever needed!

- Smut is not allowed on the TDM. You can play situations leading to it, but if the thread is turning into smut, please move it to a private space such a post in your character's journal, or a locked post in the game's log community if you decide to app!

- Pokémon Guidelines:
• Anything mindblowing crazy that the pokedex has to offer for any of the evolutions doesn't carry over to Seasons. They're closer to anime variants where people can get flamethrower at their face and live (we still do not recommend getting a flamethrower at face)
• Pokémon gain experience points much slower, even if they battle one another.
• You may be able to find a vending machine with weird stones mixed in for stone evolutions. Strange.
• All start at level 5.
• More Pokémon may appear later in the game but for now it's just the ones mentioned.
More on all the available Pokémon here!

- Check Locations: City to find more areas to explore inside the city. Every place in the districts are open. The Underground Mall has been added to the locations page at the very end of it.

- Similarly, Locations: Segments is useful for outdoors adventures. You can find monsters to encounter on Beastiary.

- Minor NPCs page has been updated with the criminal organizations.

- FAQ has information on characters' smartphones as well as general things about the world that might be handy.

- Feel free to check and use out Questboard for additional prompts.



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scrappyjedi: (CK061840 copy)

[personal profile] scrappyjedi 2023-07-17 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
A...

[ He trails off before laughing a little. Cal has never felt more out of place than he has since coming here, and that's saying something. No one seems to know what a droid is here - at least from his experience. ]

He's all metal, wires, and circuitry.

[ He has no idea if he's coming across any clearer. It's not something he ever had to explain to anyone, after all. ]

Armor isn't too far off, though. It's like...if armor had a mind of its own?

[ He sucks at this. ]
foundherway: (067)

[personal profile] foundherway 2023-07-17 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[ This time she accepts the embrace easier, and is able to return it. She smiles faintly and tightens her embrace at that expressed fury. She'd known it without question. ]

It's alright. I've found a better way now and have been helping how the Force wants me to.

[ And then that question. She'd expected it. Of course she had. Now she can't avoid the answer. ]

You...die. Giving birth, from what I heard.
jiangzaid: (XY-090)

[personal profile] jiangzaid 2023-07-17 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Welp. There goes his hope for sneaking away unnoticed. SIGH. His hand tightens on Jiangzai's hilt as he stops, lips thinning as he keeps his back to Lan Wangji for a moment. With effort then, he sheaths his sword before turning and folds his arms across his chest.

See? Not going to attack! He gets points for trying, right? ...Right? ]


Hanguang-jun surely doesn't need the help of someone like me, right? I was just gonna get out of your way!
partizan: (2)

[personal profile] partizan 2023-07-17 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
{ his eyes flicker over her face for a moment, before darting away to look to the side as a frown settles over his face. there's some hesitancy with it, because the karmic debt is there for a reason--payment for all the slaughter he's done through the years. it feels, somehow, wrong to try and nullify something he feels is deserving. }

I'll think about it.

{ it's probably the best she'll get out of him, the closest to agreement. }
politicallyinclined: (❦ approach)

[personal profile] politicallyinclined 2023-07-18 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
(Ahsoka will be tucked against her shoulder if she doesn't resist. Padmé feels like her friend needs it - and, to be fair, she needs it too!)

Then you have nothing to regret. I knew you would make the right decisions.

(Her brow furrows and she blinks.)

And the baby?
localdeliveryboy: (idle3)

[personal profile] localdeliveryboy 2023-07-18 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ His pops out as well and, amazingly, his is a two star meal. Even lower. ]

....I don't get it, is that good? It had two stars.

[ He thinks its good even if its just a plain looking broth with, what is assumed to be boiled meat and veg, no seasoning. He takes the bowl and a spoon, giving it a taste and - ]

...Huh. Taste like home.
Edited 2023-07-18 01:01 (UTC)
foundherway: (068)

[personal profile] foundherway 2023-07-18 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ ...This...! She has to close her eyes as she's tugged close, but she lets herself rest against her friend. Lets her head settle on Padme's shoulder with a quiet little sigh. They both need this, don't they? ]

My only regret is not being able to help Anakin more. We were...in the middle of a rather heated fight when I was brought here.

[ Well. That question is enough to return a little grin to her lips. ]

Safe and healthy. Rather cute, too.
politicallyinclined: (❦ delicate)

[personal profile] politicallyinclined 2023-07-18 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
(They do. She has missed Ahsoka sorely and blamed herself, in part, for the trial going so poorly. Even with Anakin's intervention, the Jedi refused to see the bigger picture - and that Ahsoka has always been innocent.)

You...saw him? It's difficult for me to imagine him ever fighting you. Is Palpatine the reason he changed?

(The tense knot in her chest eases, minutely, and she smiles a little.)

Oh I imagine. (While she certainly isn't happy to learn about her death and the poor timing of it, Padmé adds softly:) It's alright if I die in order for them to live.
silentjade: (LWJ (426))

[personal profile] silentjade 2023-07-18 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ Escaping to cause trouble another day would be Xue Yang's style, so he's not entirely certain if he should act before that happens. Until he has a better grasp of the situation, Lan Wangji will hold off until he has all of the new facts. ]

What do you know of this?

[ He nods his head towards the lich, not drawing any conclusions that this might be Xue Yang's work, but that he might know something. ]
foundherway: (067)

[personal profile] foundherway 2023-07-18 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
I wish I knew all of what happened to make him change so much. I think...he got really badly hurt. He has to wear a big suit to stay alive. I could hear the machine working to help him breathe...

[ And it had hurt her to listen to her old master struggle so much. But she'd seen his eye. She'd seen the madness and pain there. So briefly, and yet she didn't question it was there.

But she pushes past the pain and tightens her embrace. ]


Spoken like the best parent.
jiangzaid: (14)

[personal profile] jiangzaid 2023-07-18 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ He's not at all surprised that Lan Wangji thinks he might have something to do with this. But he still pouts, working not to bristle. Really, he just has to keep Xiao Xingchen in mind. It's easier that way. ]

Just that they were here. I came down to do something about it.

[ Which could mean a variety of things and Xue Yang is sure the righteous cultivator is well aware of it. But it sounded like...he wasn't being outright, automatically blamed for it? He has to poke at that a bit more before nodding to the one that had tried to sneak up on him only to get cut down instead. ]

I didn't want Daozhang Xingchen to have to deal with them so I came instead.

[ Which is true. ]
politicallyinclined: (❦ loss)

[personal profile] politicallyinclined 2023-07-18 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
(Could trauma really change him so much? If the Jedi were the cause of the trauma... Is that what happened? But if she was alive at the time, there's no way she can imagine supporting him. Furthermore, why would Anakin ever attack Ahsoka?

Something went very, very wrong.)


We'll try to learn more together. (The more they know, the more she can change when she returns.

She smiles a little more at the squeeze.)


I would love to be a mother. I know I'm so busy - as is Anakin - but miracles happen unexpectedly.
Edited 2023-07-18 01:29 (UTC)
foundherway: (070)

[personal profile] foundherway 2023-07-18 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ Her heart feels lighter with that promise and she nods, slowly pulling back without going all that far. ]

Then I'm sure we'll learn what happened. And save him.

[ Ahsoka shakes her head and squeezes her friend's hands again. ]

You would make time for your child. Both of you would.
politicallyinclined: (❦ ready)

[personal profile] politicallyinclined 2023-07-18 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
(She guides Ahsoka back to the couch and sits beside her again.)

We will. He's...Ani. I can't believe he is beyond our reach; I won't.

(No matter how grim the future, they have a golden opportunity and she is ready to take it.)

I might even retire. (If, you know, democracy wasn't dying.)
foundherway: (070)

[personal profile] foundherway 2023-07-18 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
Exactly.

[ Ahsoka reclaims the seat and position she'd initially taken. ]

I won't give up on him either.

[ She smiles at the suggestion of retirement and shakes her head again, fond. ]

I think I'm more likely to retire than you, Padme.

[ And they both know how likely that is. Ahsoka Tano? Give up? Never. ]
politicallyinclined: (❦ argue)

[personal profile] politicallyinclined 2023-07-18 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Then he will be fine. (He should spend his time enjoying their baby; not becoming a Sith! Even if Padmé can't be with them, their baby deserves to know their father.)

I don't know if I've ever heard of a Jedi retiring. (She shakes her head.) You are what a Jedi should be. You won't retire.
foundherway: (068)

[personal profile] foundherway 2023-07-18 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh she's missed Padme! She hadn't let herself think on how much until now.

She grins a little. ]


We don't have it in us to retire. The galaxy needs too much help. [ The grin dims. ] Especially now.
politicallyinclined: (❦ hair)

[personal profile] politicallyinclined 2023-07-18 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
It sounds like we will be very busy for years to come. (Well. Ahsoka will anyway.) Promise me you will be a good godmother regardless? Our baby needs you, Ahsoka. Growing up in an empire will be...scary.

(Her face falls.) After all the work we did...
silentjade: (LWJ (158))

[personal profile] silentjade 2023-07-18 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ People don't change overnight, but they do change. So unless Xue Yang gives him a real reason to take action during their time here, then Lan Wangji will stay his blade. He will merely keep an eye on the situation.

There are certainly scenarios that come to mind when Xue Yang says he came to do something about it. What he hadn't thought was that the man would say that.

Lan Wangji heard the story of all that transpired in Yi City, how it seemed Xue Yang stopped tricking Xiao Xingchen until Song Lan came around. So for Xue Yang to be the one to handle it, it's a change. ]


I see. Is that your path now?

[ His question more an observation rather than a full-on judgement. Once upon a time, he fought with Wei Wuxian about his demonic cultivation, and it ended in tragedy. Lan Wangji will never condone Xue Yang's past actions, but he is determining if they should fight once more. ]
foundherway: (067)

[personal profile] foundherway 2023-07-18 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ She hums in agreement. Then rests a gentle hand on her friend's arm. ]

I'm doing my part in keeping them safe. I promise you that.

[ Her gaze lowers at that last. ]

I know...but we can't give up. And we can't lose hope. I started to, and was shown the way forward.
jiangzaid: (14)

[personal profile] jiangzaid 2023-07-18 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ Change is hard. But Xue Yang has a very good reason to do his best to do just that. Xiao Xingchen's happiness. His light. That laughter that rings so prettily. Any effort is worth it to protect that.

Some wariness eases at that question and he nods, utterly serious before lifting his chin. He thinks...maybe...Lan Wangji isn't about to just attack? That would be nice, for once. He'd really rather not fight him again! He hates losing. ]


You can ask him why if you want. And Daozhang Song, if I've been doing what I promised.
politicallyinclined: (❦ senator)

[personal profile] politicallyinclined 2023-07-18 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
So you were able to meet them? You know I would want you with us at their birth.

(Ahsoka would've been one of the first to hold the babies.)

No, we can't, you're right. The moment we stop fighting is the moment chaos wins.
foundherway: (003)

[personal profile] foundherway 2023-07-18 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
I wasn't there at their birth, but...I've seen them a few times.

[ Even if Leia hasn't met her yet. ]

It's easier to keep hidden if secrets are kept between only a few. [ Which Padme should know very well!

Ahsoka gives her a supportive squeeze and warm smile. ]


And it won't win. Maybe madness has taken hold of the galaxy, but it won't stay that way.
politicallyinclined: (❦ disbelief)

[personal profile] politicallyinclined 2023-07-18 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry...for so many things. (She feels like Ahsoka has been given the short end of the stick multiple times. Someone like her should be valued and praised. When the Jedi Council chose to do otherwise, that was just another sign they had lost their way.)

I got into politics to see justice done. It's frustrating to feel like your hands are tied.

(Yet hope exists. It always has.)

Have you had dinner yet?
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[personal profile] foundherway 2023-07-18 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ahsoka mock huffs, cocking her head as if not understanding. ]

It's not your fault I wasn't there. I was already on the Outer Rim! I learned all this when your baby was already several years old.

[ But she softens and nods, agreeing. ]

It's hard when you're doing your best but you don't feel it's enough, that you're not making a difference.

[ Her shoulders shake with a quiet little laugh then. That's Padme, always looking after everyone else! ]

I haven't eaten yet, no.