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[TEST] DRIVE IT LIKE YOU STOLE IT

I HONESTLY COULDN'T THINK OF A GOOD PICTURE SO THANKS LAVVY

Here, have the slightly more relevant song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_nLlL1mwKI

Anyway, this is a random scenario test drive meem, since we've had an influx of new potential appers. I am a bit too lazy to make this a proper meem, so you make your own shit up. Here's some inspirational scenarios:

> The Mall. The hell are you doing out in the suburbs, bro? And why is that woman trying so hard to sell you nail polish?
> The Park. MAN IT IS A NICE D-- shit is that a Vermicelli or whatever the monsters are called?
> Arts & Crafts Fair. Cute knit cat cozies! Bad pretzels! YEAH.
> Rainy Day. It's wet and you're stuck at the bus stop. HOW DEGRADING.
> You get an echo while someone else is around. SHIT. PARANOIA TIME.

Or make up your own!

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[OOC: Eh. I'll probably just change his specialty - make him a historian or something, that's probably easier to fudge. Maybe even a biographer, for that extra twist.]

Oh, no!

[Sarah hesitates, caught between her shyness and her compulsion to help. The latter wins out, and she runs over.]

Are you all right?

[OOC: Maybe a professor of some kind. Or you could always make him a priest of whatever religion you think suits him.]

[Vanessa makes a mental note that she'd have to practice her landings a little more as she sits up. Nothing serious but she'll probably have some bruises later. But who cares about that anyway? She had beenflying! Or at least pretty close.]

[She can still feel the adrenaline in her system and she's caught between wanting to take to the air again or just burst out laughing when that same girl runs over and... says something. She's not sure, it was a little too fast and quiet to make out.]

What?

[OOC: Oh, definitely a professor of some kind. It's just my initial thought was some manner of professor of religion, and... yeah. I'm really only familiar enough with my own faith.]

[Oh, no, two-way conversation with a stranger. Okay, Sarah, you can do this. Just speak clearly and loudly enough to hear.]

Are you all right? You just fell out of the sky!

[Sarah's eyes are wide, and... well, she could use some work on the "loudly enough" part. But it should be comprehensible.]

[OOC: It would definitely fit. Just a suggestion but if it were me I'd go ahead and keep a few myths or stories on a text file for him to refer to if it ever came up. You'd really only need a few tidbits on hand.]

[Of course, what else would you ask somebody who just dropped out of the air. She stands up, brushing some dirt and grass off her jacket. Luckily, one of those earlier powers that had come back was pewter and that seemed to be a good thing too since she didn't seem to have any way to really control her landings yet.]

It looked worse than it was. I'm fine.

[There was no way she could come up with an explanation for why she was in the air in the first place off the top of her head, so she just omits that part. Best to keep that quiet... unless this girl was one of the people like her but, no, best not to take that chance.]

[OOC: Good thought. And even if I do need a bit more breadth than that, that's what Google is for, yes?]

[Oh, good, she's not hurt. Sarah would be horrified to be a witness to serious injury.]

Oh. All right.

[Awkwardness, ho! She doesn't want to just run off at this point, but she also doesn't want - or really know how - to keep socializing.

It is entirely possible that Vanessa might notice some odd coloration in Sarah's hair, as though a dye job is growing out - but this looks like pink hair dyed brown, rather than the reverse.]

[OOC: Yep, nothing that can't be handled with a little Google-fu. If you want to put up a test post for him go ahead and link me to it and I'll happily return the favor.]

[Awkward silence is a go! Vanessa isn't all that interested in hanging around getting to know this girl either but she doesn't want to take off just yet. Not until she figures out if she has to worry about her talking to the wrong person. Vanessa wanted to stay as incognito as possible.]

[Didn't look like it, the way this girl seemed almost petrified at just having a conversation. Might as well test the waters.]

Nice hair.

[It was different, that much was at least true. Vanessa tended to keep her own hair short and its regular dark color but she had seen all kinds of dye jobs in her life. She hadn't seen someone who started at the roots though.]

[OOC: Will do! ...eventually. I want to at least finish this canon review first, and maybe do another. I haven't got him talking to me in words yet, which makes RPing harder - though not impossible.]

[Panic! Is it showing already? Has she waited too long? If people start noticing, who knows what kind of attention she might attract? Okay, better play it cool for now.]

Um, thanks?

[Sarah, you fail at playing it cool.]

[OOC: Yeah, I understand completely. Consider me on standby.]

Sure.

[More awkward silence. Not that Vanessa was really helping with that but that very clear flash of panic at least suggests that this girl isn't a scheming mastermind of some sort. Still, it didn't look like she was going to ask exactly how Vanessa came to be in the sky in the first place and Vanessa certainly wasn't about to offer that information.]

[Even more than the silence there was that weird feeling of being way taller than somebody who had a foot of height on her.]

You don't talk much, do you?

No, I, um... not really.

[If she talks, you see, people might notice her.

...Yeah. Not a very well-adjusted girl, this one.]

[No kidding. At least she can be fairly confident that she isn't going to run down the street screaming about people falling from the sky.]

That's fine, neither do I.

[Another awkward silence, and she clears her throat a little and shoves her hands into her jacket pockets.]

So, nice... meeting you?

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[TEST] DRIVE IT LIKE YOU STOLE IT

So... if Vanessa feels the need to take a secret identity, will she go by Violet?

Haha, that's not a bad idea. I might steal it. Her name's still a work in progress

By all means! Good name ideas are rare enough I wouldn't feel right laying claim.

Thanks for the idea then!

Of course, Mistress.

Probably better not to call her that in an AU.

Picky details. We should get a re!TenSoon, and carefully engineer their memory Echoes...

So would that mean his Echoes would cause his skeleton to fall out? O_o

Probably, yes. Eww.

I love it.