Test Drive Meme

[scramasax]

HEL-LO, EARTH'S NEW HEROES.

Test Drive Meme!

Scenarios:

> Cleanup of downtown Locke City still has a ways to go. It looks like that shop you were planning on another trip to this week is closed for the time being. Or the entire block is trashed and you'll be needing an alternate route to work. Or your workplace is trashed, if not some real estate you had in the area, and you'll be needing a helping hand - or are trying to offer one!
> Help, help, I've been robbed - your bag or wallet's just been snatched, or is in the process of being snatched. Catch the snatcher or rough them up - you may or may not be surprised, if you come to blows or a chase, to find on throwing a punch that they're much quicker and/or sturdier than you'd have expected. Maybe someone will dive in to back you up.
> Monster encounter! The above or you were robbed (or, for all you could tell, misplaced something) a while ago, and one of the objects you lost seems to have come back to you, if not the way you recognize it. Ayup, getting backup might be a good idea.
> Transportation/travel. You're at an airport or train station, whether to escape or take a tour to a strange-events hotspot, or plain go on an innocent vacation. Mix up your bags or timetables, grab a pre-ride snack, chat up those with the same destination, get or give directions, find yourself receiving an ill-timed item Echo in front of security - whatever you can think up!
> Say - is that one of those superhumans you've spied on the street? Yes, I do believe it is - you've seen them on the news/read about them, that or their looks give them away! Go on and ask questions of them, be it for serious answers or an autograph, depending on who you are.
> ...And it looks like you're a superhuman yourself. Looks like that hollowed-out feeling you got was followed by a mutation, or some strange thing in your brain. How're you going to come to grips with it?
> Wildcard/Etc. Make up your own!

Prompts suggested by Alec and Zero.

Comments

FIRST PROMPT, YES LET'S DO IT

[gogoghostpowers]

[Danny Cure Phantom had just finished fighting off the latest rash of weirdness in Locke City--a bunch of flying toasters shooting out toast burnt to the point of flames at the speed of bullets. He generally likes to leave shortly as soon as his work is done, but he feels pretty good about the work he just did and is kinda tired too, so he takes a moment to float a few feet in the air to feel satisfied and recharge a little.

Unfortunately, that gives Rin the perfect opportunity to shove a notebook into his face.]

Wha--! You...you want me to sign your notebook?

WHOO the meeting of future BFFs. Yeah. YEAH

[flashover]

[oh. holy shit. Not only was this a superhero, it was the coolest, best superhero ever. Rin was so happy he was nearly beside himself. And tripping over his words even more than usual. He shoves the notebook and pen in Danny's hands. He claps his hands together and falls on his knees]

Y-yes!! Ummm... {how do I say it in English...} Ahhhh... Au...to...graffu?! Please!! PLEAAAAAASEEE! You're the coolest supa hiro! Y-you can say "To my biggest fan, Aoyama Rin, from THE SPOOKY BADGER!"

[gogoghostpowers]

[He's kinda weirded out but at the same time...he can't deny that having a fanboy is pretty damn cool.

He's halfway through guessing how to write this guy's name ("Ohyama Rin"? Is that what he said?) when he hears the name. In a very cartoonish manner, his pen jolts and screeches off the edge of the page.]

What...what did you call me?

[flashover]

[you gotta admit, Danny, it's pretty friggin sweet.

AOYAMA. AOYAMA. IT'S A VERY EASY NAME. IN JAPAN.]

Hah? I said... the Spooky Badger!! It's your name! From Reddit! I-I mean... uhm... you know... All supa hiiro gotta have a cool name!

[YOU'RE INTERNET FAMOUS, DANNY]

[gogoghostpowers]

[Look man even when you're raised near the largest community of Japanese people on the east coast, sometimes you mishear things!]

Reddit? Reddit gave me a name? What else does Reddit say about me?

[This is SO COOL, people are talking about him on the Internet, and it's not to make fun of him!

Or at least, it would be cool, if the name weren't so terrible.]

I mean--you know I already have a name, right? I'm Cure Phantom!

[flashover]

Are you joking me? Are you saying you haven't even checked the Reddit thread for the LOCKE CITTY SUPA HIIROZU? You're internet famous! The Snake Slayers! BANG, ZOOM, BAM!! [he does a weird little punchy kicky thing to accompany his onomatopoeias]

[Rin finds that hard to believe. It has it's own subreddit, now!] Ah but... maybe you're busy!! With all the stuff you do!! That must be it!

Kyua Phantom? [Rin seems to ruminate on that for a while] ... No. It's not as... [he snaps his fingers, picking his brain for the right word in english] Catching!

[gogoghostpowers]

Well, at least it sounds cooler! Being called Phantom sounds way cooler than being called Badger.

...although I do like The Snake Slayers. I'm gonna have to find that Reddit thread.

[flashover]

They took a while to pick between "skunk" and "badger", but badgers are meaner or something... [he shrugs]

It's so cool!

[gogoghostpowers]

I could've been Spooky Skunk?

[He drags a hand down his face. This is the Actual Worst.]

Seriously, why not Cure Phantom? Go back to that Reddit thread and tell them I'm actually called Cure Phantom--official word of the hero and everything!

[flashover]

Yeah!! It's the hair. Spooky Skunk has a nice ring to it, too, though... But I think it was a honey badger reference.

[it's alliterative!]

Why don't YOU tell 'em? They won't believe me.

[gogoghostpowers]

Well...maybe I will, then! Before the name spreads too far and the news starts calling me Spooky Badger too.

[flashover]

You gotta get on that, man! Ahhh... Mmm... damage control! Right?