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Test Drive Meme #3


Test Drive Meme #3
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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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noodleboi: (GIVE IT!)

[personal profile] noodleboi 2023-08-07 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
Huh? Oh no! No. You didn't. It's not you, it's me. It's complicated...

[He sighs and looks down at his hands for a moment. She has been open with him. Why is he hiding things? That's not fair and not what friends do.]

I'm...kinda like Monkey King, I guess. I came out of a rock and can turn into this monkey demon form now. It's just...the last time I used all my powers...someone died. Someone...I basically killed a god.

So...I'm kinda not wanting to go all out if I don't have to. That's all.

[MK goes quiet for a beat.]

I won't bring it up. And I'll bring Monkey King. Just in case. And for that drink you owe him, I guess. Yeah. It'll be fun and everything will be a-okay.
sangreine: sad :: neutral (i can't)

[personal profile] sangreine 2023-08-07 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ ...oh. Way to break her heart, kiddo. ]

I'm so sorry. [ She rests her hand on his shoulder and gives a gentle squeeze. ] I didn't mean to remind you of something painful.

Of course, you should do what you're comfortable with. I didn't want you to worry about hurting me, is all.

[ She knows what it's like to use her full strength to kill people, of course. A bunch of people. Being a weapon of war has that drawback. But he doesn't seem like he wants to talk about it, so she moves on. ]

Everything will be fun and okay, I'm sure of it. [ lolol famous last words. ]

So, how did you meet Monkey King? [ Change of subject for the win! ] If you answer, then you can ask me something you want to know. Like a game!
noodleboi: (Art Human - Such a good boi)

[personal profile] noodleboi 2023-08-07 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
[MK is very much a kicked puppy. He looks up with big old eyes at Saya when she touches his shoulder. He smiles softly and nods.]

Thank you. I'm glad you'll be okay when we spar and I can do what I'm comfy with.

[He nods again and perks up a little.] Yeah. Especially if we work to leave things better than we found it.

Well, funny story. So Red Son pulled Monkey King's staff out of the mountain sealing his dad. And some stuff happened, I went to Flower Fruit Mountain to give it back, Red Son's mom stole it on the way, and then I met Monkey King behind the waterfall.

And turns out he was watching me, I guess. That's what he said.

I like that idea of a game. Okay. Uuuuh my turn. Who taught you to use a sword?
sangreine: touch :: surprised :: huh ([solomon] shh)

[personal profile] sangreine 2023-08-07 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
...Oh, wow. [ Saya's heard three POVs of that story now and they're a bit difficult to reconcile. ] I guess he was seeing how you'd handle yourself. And I also guess you passed his test.

I learned fencing while I was pretty much owned by this rich human. [ Her memories think of Joel Goldschmidt as a father figure, but look what he did to Diva? Look at the choices he took from Saya? He didn't even tell her what she is. ] He liked to have me practice different skills, testing the limits of my abilities.

I don't really remember how long I was there, but something like fifty years? Give or take.

Hmm... what languages do you speak?
noodleboi: (You seein' this shit Monkey King?)

[personal profile] noodleboi 2023-08-08 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Hearing some old guy owned her made MK squint. That was not cool. Some mean old rich guy. He was imagining it being the Mayor. And for fifty years? Wow. Beats being under a mountain for 500 years though, right? But comparing was probably dumb.]

Oh. Uuuuuh. Like two? Not a lot. I know it's not, like, super impressive.

Just Chinese and English.

Soooooo...does different peoples blood taste different? Like some good, some bad, some super yummy?
sangreine: happy (Default)

[personal profile] sangreine 2023-08-08 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ Asking about Saya's past is asking to be stuffed full of horrors. ]

I'm working on my Chinese, actually. I'm not bad with Mandarin, but my Cantonese sucks. But I speak about ten languages thanks to my travels, and I'm learning a few more here. [ One of which being the language of the dead which is pretty cool. ]

Everyone's blood tastes different. It's like a fingerprint. And it tastes slightly different depending on their mood and what they're up to. Like if someone's been fighting, they're full of adrenaline. Or if they're in a great mood, dopamine. Those are my favorites.

Generally speaking blood of people who are magical or immortal tastes better to me. It's like... a piece of fruit that's unusually sweet and delicious.

Hmm... give me your top five desserts.
noodleboi: (All set!)

[personal profile] noodleboi 2023-08-08 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
Oh wow. That's a lot of languages. Nice. I can help with the Cantonese probably.

I mean, I'm definitely magical. Not immortal though. Haven't done the immortal things.

So I guess if you need some, I can give you some of mine.

Oh! I like this question! Um...

Ice Cream, Cherries, Anything with Apples, Raspberry Snowflake Cake, aaaand Egg Tarts.

You?
sangreine: happy (quiet time)

[personal profile] sangreine 2023-08-08 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
I'd love to speak Cantonese with you. [ Her Cantonese is pretty good for something this simple, and her accent is impeccable. It's when you get into different verb tenses that things fall apart. ]

Yeah? Thanks, that's really nice of you. [ She has to think about whether Red Son would mind, but emergencies happen. ]

My favorite desserts is a hard one. I like all human food, really. But let's see... canelés, they originated where I spent a long time living in Bordeaux. My husband's chocolate cake. Mochi. Taiyaki. Aaaand those sweet boozy drinks that come in neon colors.
noodleboi: (Art Human - Such a good boi)

[personal profile] noodleboi 2023-08-08 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
Oh wow. That was good!

[He smiles and nods.]

Those all sound nice. I haven't had boozy drinks before. My dad doesn't want me drinking. Says it'll go to my head. Like caffeine. Which is why I'm not supposed to have that either.
sangreine: happy :: flirty (wink)

[personal profile] sangreine 2023-08-08 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
Are you still bound by that even though your dad isn't here? [ She can only assume Wukong would be fine with MK drinking. But then she assumes it'll just be standard drunk stuff, not some bad reaction. ] If you want to try it, I don't mind being a bad influence.

In fact, that's my next question. What are three things you want to try that you never have before?
noodleboi: (Default)

[personal profile] noodleboi 2023-08-08 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
I meeeeaaaan...noooo?

As long as he never finds out. Like you can't tell him if he shows up. He'll go balaistic.

I could always use more bad influences. Oooo. Three things. Let me think.

[MK actually does put his hand to his chin and thinks for a moment.]

Okay. So first one, alcohol. I do wanna try that. Second...this one is hard. I've done, like, a lot. Oh! I wanna try flying with a jetpack. Aaaaaand, I wanna try dating someone at some point. Like finding someone I wanna date. I haven't ever done that or found someone before. Like ever.

...Are those good answers?
sangreine: flirty :: happy (thbpt)

[personal profile] sangreine 2023-08-08 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
I solemnly swear to keep my mouth shut. And I wouldn't let you go too far anyway. What's he so worried about?

They're great answers! We can check off alcohol probably, at some point. A jetpack sounds fun, flying is one of my favorite things, but I can do it on my own.

[ But then that third one. ]

...Really? [ Red Son either, before Saya got her hooks in him. Do people just not date or hook up back on his world? ] I'm surprised, you're thoroughly charming.

I'm sure it would be easy to find someone who'd date you. Do you know what sort of things you'd look for in a partner, or have you never thought about it?
noodleboi: (Default)

[personal profile] noodleboi 2023-08-08 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
Cool! See, I kinda like freaked out when I had caffeine as a kid. And Pigsy was like, no more of that ever. And no alcohol if this is how you're gonna behave. I made a huge mess.

I can fly on a cloud too. But like that's not a jetpack.

Yeah. Really. I...don't know. Like. I just don't. Does that make sense? I just...don't know who or what I like. I never found anyone really that I like like that.
sangreine: happy (Default)

[personal profile] sangreine 2023-08-08 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
I see. But you're not a kid anymore. I'm sure it'll be fine. And if it's not, at least you can say you tried it. Or not-say it to your dad.

It's fine that you don't know. Sometimes you don't know until you do. But that's easy enough to fix, you just get to know people until you find someone you feel differently about. And I already know you're good at getting to know people.

I wish I had better advice, but for me it's how I'm wired. [ Nature supplied her with the instinct to make Chevaliers, but since she refuses to do that ever again the next best thing is a regular harem. ]
noodleboi: (Default)

[personal profile] noodleboi 2023-08-08 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
Awww. You're so nice. Thanks.

[All the compliments are so nice. He gives a smile with his tongue hanging out.]

I guess maybe not knowing is like wired into me. And if I find someone, I'll let you know.

Hmmm. My turn for a question. Uuuuh. Oh! Would you ever go the moon if you could?
sangreine: happy (quiet time)

[personal profile] sangreine 2023-08-08 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
I only speak the truth.

Don't feel bad, by the way. I spent something like two hundred years spending every waking moment with someone and we were both blind to our feelings until things got bad enough that we had to stop being idiots. [ And then he died ten minutes later. Her life is a cosmic joke. ]

The moon? If there were people with me, sure. It sounds like a fun adventure. If it would just be me, no way. I hate being lonely.

Okay... what's your favorite kind of music and why?
noodleboi: (Default)

[personal profile] noodleboi 2023-08-08 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
Oh yeah, totally with friends. Friends make adventures worth it.

Oh. I like all kinds of music. I think my favorite is like club music. Electronica. Stuff I can dance to or chill to while delivering food. That kind of stuff.

Do you believe in destiny?
Edited 2023-08-08 02:38 (UTC)
sangreine: happy :: neutral (carefully now)

[personal profile] sangreine 2023-08-08 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah? You should visit me at work sometime. It's a club with a sort of intense atmosphere, but the music's great. [ A goth club pays her a fortune to exist as a vampire and get gawked at. ]

Destiny... I sort of hope it's not real. My life has been a mess. But if other people believe in it, that's fine and I hope it brings them only good things.

do you believe in it?
noodleboi: (Default)

[personal profile] noodleboi 2023-08-08 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
I totally will, yeah. Tell me where it is and I'll show up sometime.

I don't know. The things that keep happening around me, makes me feel like it does exist. I just don't know how it works. Someone told me once about a destiny but it never came true. But someone told me fate can have plans so maybe it is real but not like...written and all powerful?

I don't know.
sangreine: happy :: sad :: comforted (reassurance)

[personal profile] sangreine 2023-08-08 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ Honestly how is it that she wants to hug him 100% of the time ]

Hey, it's a hard question. If these things were easy, you'd think the countless philosophers who spent their entire lives studying and meditating on these things would have the answer. But no one does.
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[personal profile] noodleboi 2023-08-08 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
I guess that's really true. Yeah. Even Master Subohdi doesn't know everything. And he like is super smart and immortal and stuff.

[It helps MK smile again. He is such a puppy.]

My turn I guess. What's your favorite color?
sangreine: glowing eyes :: serious (flaring)

[personal profile] sangreine 2023-08-08 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
Red. [ Her eyes flash, quite literally glowing red. Their natural color is a bit more subtle. ] Although I've got a thing for blue eyes.

Where I was last, we were assigned to a particular group and each group had a color, and we each had our own color. My unit's color was black, and mine was red, so I got used to weaking black and red all the time. [ It's funny, what few memories she has of her world she's always wearing pink, white, yellow, softer colors. The most daring she got was purple. And while she still likes the purple leather, she can't imagine wearing white or yellow regularly. Such is life when your personality gets rewritten all the time. ]

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I like you a lot, by the way, but everyone has one thing they'd change. I think I've got fifty.
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[personal profile] noodleboi 2023-08-08 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I like red too!

[He chirped up when her eyes flashed red. At least it wasn't blue. Blue eyes weren't something he liked. Not anymore...

He listened. Strange little group names but if they worked. Team Monkie Kid just had a ring to it. Then again, they did do Team A and B sometimes. Oh. That question derails that train of thought.]


Oh. Um...one thing...I guess I wished I believe in myself the way Monkey King believes in me.

I'm still not good at that yet.

[That or not messing up everything. Not being a weird monkey thing? Just being MK? He doesn't say those parts out loud.]

If you could go back and change one thing about your past...what would it be?
sangreine: sad :: scared :: nervous (seeking redemption)

[personal profile] sangreine 2023-08-08 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Believing in yourself is a lifelong project, I think. Even confident people struggle with it sometimes. Anyone who says they never waver is full of it. You're doing fine. [ She's sure of that. He seems wonderful. She can see why Red Son was taken with him despite being "enemies" at first. ]

[ Change one thing about her past... the challenge is deciding which thing. Should she save her father, or her brother, or her twin, or Haji? Or admit her feelings to Haji sooner? Should she die alongside Diva, when she should have? Would she go back and undo the poisoning that had her nearly kill a dear friend and left her chained up for five long days? Tried harder with Nem? Spent more time getting along with her unitmates? ]

There's so much I'd change. I guess the thing that would do the most good is... the man who owned me also had my twin sister, but he kept her locked away and tortured her. By the time I found her and let her out [ pretty much accidentally, since Saya was so sheltered she had no idea what captivity even was ] she wasn't really messed up. So I'd change that. I'd find her sooner and help her. All she ever wanted was a family, but she hated humans after what was done to her -- I can't blame her for it really, but I had to stop her all the same.

[ Thanks to how she recovered her memories in Imeeji, she's very Team Diva Deserved Better. Not incidentally she wouldn't have had to nearly eradicate her own species in the process of stopping the whole thing. ]

So I'd change that. It would save a lot of people.
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[personal profile] noodleboi 2023-08-08 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[MK goes quiet. This rich guy sounds awesome. Like a real villain. To do that to Saya's poor sister. Listening to it makes him sure the guy is like the Mayor. Some crazed villain who doesn't care about anything but their goals. Or whoever they did those terrible things for. His face falls. To save her sister was such a good thing to change. To save people. Stop bad things from happening before they did.]

I'm sorry you and your sister had to go through that. It sounds awful. That sounds like a lot to...like a big weight. Family is so important. I'd do anything for the people I care about. I feel like you're the same.

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