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

[shineonyou]

Yeah, dude! The shit that's on Youtube-- it's fucking amazing.

[ He pulls out his iPhone. ]

Did you see the really big video of you? Like, there's some guy going around and cropping out shots of individual heroes, and then giving them their own videos. You seen yours yet?

[gogoghostpowers]

W-what? No! What is this?

[He floats over a little closer to see the iPhone screen.]

[shineonyou]

Dude, it's so cool. Here.

[ He finds the video titled "White Hair Floaty Kid - Locke City" and presses play. Instantly, music begins to play. Most of the video is still images zoomed in to reveal Danny-- sometimes there's a helpful red circle around him. There's only one video of him running, and it lasts about five seconds.

All in all, it's a really, really atrociously put together Youtube video. ]

That was you, right? Right? Great! There's a lot of theories out there about you-- most of them are probably bullshit, but some are pretty cool!

[gogoghostpowers]

Wow.

[It's no Hollywood trailer, but it's the first time he's ever seen a video of himself. Someone poured hours (minutes?) of their life into compiling images and finding video and setting it all to music...all because of him.

Now Danny's the one who's starstruck. By himself? Is that narcissism?]

I've seen a couple of the theories that are floating around right now. But...if I missed these videos, I might've missed a couple of those too. What sort of stuff have you been hearing?

[shineonyou]

[ Jonas looks Danny dead in the eye before speaking. ]

Are you and the fairy-chick married? [ He is so serious right now. ]

[gogoghostpowers]

[Danny is choking on air.

He does not even need to breathe and he is choking on air.]

Oh my god--you mean Octavia?! No! No, of course not!

I think her boyfriend might kill me if I was.

[shineonyou]

Oh.

[ Hold on, pulling phone back to text someone. After sending a message: ]

Alright, what about this one-- are you German?

[gogoghostpowers]

Kind of--I think my grandpa was.

...wait--are you texting this to people?

[shineonyou]

Maybe.

[ Text text text. ]

Just my best bro-- he didn't want to waste his Spring Break here like I am, but he's super obsessed with all the news about you guys.

[gogoghostpowers]

Oh. Well--I guess that's okay, so long as he doesn't change my answers to mean something like "I am absolutely having an affair with Octavia Serket." Or something.

[shineonyou]

[ Stare.... That's a legit point. Hold on, text text text 'bro dont fuckin twist his answers on your blog i s2g'

Crisis averted... for now. ]

Your dignity is safe. Hey, yo, you want me to buy you a coffee or soda or something? I'm pretty much grilling you here-- didn't mean to Spanish Inquisition you, y'know?

[gogoghostpowers]

Oh, uhhhh...

[He reaches for his phone in his pants pocket when he remembers he's in ghost form right now, there's nothing by his leg other than skintight spandex.

He leans over to briefly check the time on Jonas's phone. Okay, good, he doesn't have to meet Randy for another hour still.]

Sure! I'm free right now. Unless something else starts attacking but I really hope it doesn't.

[shineonyou]

Woah. Would you seriously just drop everything and run if someone needed help? Like fuckin'... What's his name? That comics guy who wears the spandex panties and flies around a lot.

[gogoghostpowers]

That...describes a lot of comics people.

But I--well...yeah. I guess I would. It's not like I can just sit there and not do anything about it, not when I can fly and phase through stuff.

[shineonyou]

[ ... totally ignores the heroic heroness to focus on the real important things ]

That outfit... is that your underwear?

[gogoghostpowers]

Well I'm not wearing anything underneath it.

1/2

[shineonyou]

...

[shineonyou]

Alright, alright. Ain't my place to judge. Style is a man's conversation with color; just because color and I don't have the same conversations...

[ shrug ]

Coffee. Soda. Where do we go? Not from around here, so I don't know the shops and junk.

[gogoghostpowers]

H-hey! I just want to be clear here--I can't help this. [gesturing up and down at himself.] This is part of the whole superpower package. Even if I take it off, it just pops back up on my body the next time I wake up or tra--uh, take a nap!

...But uh. There's a pretty okay cafe about a block from here over that way.

[shineonyou]

's all between you and fashion, bro.

[ Jonas makes a hand motion, implying that Danny lead the way to the cafe. ]

I'm Jonas, by the way. You got a name besides 'White Hair Floaty Kid'? I hope so, heh.

[gogoghostpowers]

[The most defeated sigh in the universe. He just hopes Jonas's friend doesn't write anything weird about that.

He decides to walk the way to the cafe, so he lets himself drop to the ground before taking the lead on the sidewalk.]

Yeah, my name's D--I mean, Cure Phantom. That's my, uh, hero name, anyway.

[shineonyou]

...What are you curing? Do you like... heal ghosts? Or use ghosts to cure?

[ Dang he's walking haha thats cool superheros walk too ]

[gogoghostpowers]

What? Oh, you mean--I don't actually know what the 'cure' part of it is supposed to be. It's just part of what our hero team does. We're all cures. Cure Phantom, Cure Love, Cure Sunny...you get the idea.

[shineonyou]

I... Don't get the idea? Does 'cure' mean something other than what I think it does? Are you guys, like, using a different definition? Who's the leader? Who came up with this?