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

[flashover]

Yeah!! I didn't tell you about it because it's a SECRET!

That doesn't matter. You know that there's a saying about greatness! Some people are born great, and some people have greatness thirst upon them! .... Wait, not thirst... Oh well, you know what I mean!! WE HAD GREATNESS SHOVED IN OUR FACES, ANIKI! We can't ignore the call of greatness.

[sugarrushed]

... Sounds troublesome.

[Scratch scratch scratch. He wonders if he'll still be able to pet Behemoth.]

How do we save the world with long fingernails and a tail?

[flashover]

Ahhh... well... ahnooooo... [Rin taps his chin with a finger, thinking]

I'm not sure yet... But...! Every super hero starts somewhere!!

[sugarrushed]

If you're clueless just say so.

[Satou shrugs.]

'Toutou-chan, shouldn't you hide it?

[flashover]

I'm not clueless!! [he puffs up] I know more than you!!

... Hide what? [what are you talkin about satou. It can't be the obvious twitchy wagging thing behind him]

[sugarrushed]

Do you?

[He reaches for his phone back and idly checks his messages before reaching to tug at the tuft of hair that is the end of Rin's tail.]

People are sending pic SMS, I saw them...

[flashover]

Um yeah. I pay attention!

[oh!]

You mean this? [he swishes his tail forward] I don't care about that! I don't care if people see it. [he frowns] ... Unless... you think we should keep secret identities?

[sugarrushed]

You don't think we should...? You'll end up on the news like those other people.

Then 'tousan will see. He'll be angrier.

[flashover]

Hmmm.... [Rin considers it, then starts tucking his tail up under his shirt] I guess you've got a point, there!

[sugarrushed]

Besides... someone could grab it otherwise.

[Like... he just did.]

[He sticks one of his long nails between his teeth and chomps down... but he just winces.]

Anou.... I'll chip my teeth...

[flashover]

Yeah, and that totally hurt!! Ah, but it's all cramped. And itchy. [he scratches at his shirt. Ugh. FUR.]

[he smacks Satou's hand] Then stop chewin' on 'em! Get some gum or something, aniki. [still hasn't noticed those teeth yet]

[sugarrushed]

I don't want them to be this long though...

[He reaches forward, using the points of his nails to scritch at Rin's back, scratching it for him.]

Do we need... a file?

[flashover]

I don't kno-aaaahh AHHH aaahhaaa ahh that feels good just RIGHT THERE oh man...!

[so pointy much scratch wow]

Mmmmm. Maybe? Though if your nails are stronger than your teeth, you might need a really heavy one.

[sugarrushed]

[He continues to scratch at him, using his other hand to grab a stick of gum from his pocket to chew instead.]

Maybe hedge cutting shears.

[flashover]

Or like... the scissors they use to trim a dog's nails! They kind of look like that.

[sugarrushed]

Owch... sounds painful.

[He stops scratching at his tail-back area and leans back out of his slouch so his back cracks.]

'Touto, what do we do now huh?

[flashover]

No more painful than you bitin' your nails, aniki. Don't be dumb.

[ahhhh that felt really good. Such a good big bro!]

Mmm... I dunno! Obviously we're super heroes...! But we don't really have any powers, yet. I mean, I have my sword, but... it's just a sword. That I have no idea how to use.

[sugarrushed]

You said it wasn't sharp though... Were you lying?