Test Drive VII

[of_the_highest_caliber]

Time for another one of these, right in time for ATP tomorrow!

test drive meme!

Here's how it works!

➊ wanna play a character but don't have the time? or maybe you just want to test them out?
➋ well go for it! post them here like they're already in the game (text, voice, video or action), and have them talk to characters already in the big gay Garden! Be sure to put their name and fandom in the subject line, for those of us who don't know it.
➌ then app them because you know you want to. 8|

Happy hunting on the ATP!

[ Reposted from an old entry on this comm! ]

Comments

usually with a warning

[shanghaiworld]

... Well, there are many people with blonde hair around.

"beware of cute"?

[nephentes_rajah]

Hmm, is that so?

[ Since Alice isn't moving, she will just reach up and gingerly pluck the headband from her head. Or, at the very least, touch it. ] Though I don't see anyone else wearing one of these.

sure let's go with that

[shanghaiworld]

[A shiver from Alice.] R-Really? I swear I've seen someone else wear one.

[nephentes_rajah]

Oh~? Perhaps you should introduce me. [ There is an edge of frustration because, for all the things that happened, it felt both like it was so long ago and yet such a short time ago. What was this girl's name again? Did she even bother to get a name? Probably not. Things were rather busy that day. She misses those times... they come so few and far between. ] Hmm, I think it's missing something, though.

[ Yuuka pushes the headband into her own hair with one hand, and fusses briefly with it. ] A frill? Hmm, no, I'm no maid. Some gems perhaps? No? Too flashy.

[ A sigh. ] I guess a bow ribbon would be too plain...

[shanghaiworld]

[Alice hides her irritation, but answers anyway.] Oh, not anyone I know personally...

... You could always enter the hat crowd?

[nephentes_rajah]

[ Yuuka sighed, and there a dull sound as she drops the headband to the ground beside them. ] You're so dull like this. I liked it better when you were small and cute and had some spirit.

[shanghaiworld]

[Okay, turning around now.] I was not small and cute! And I have spirit, I just know how to manage it!

... [... Well, that may have been a mistake.]

[nephentes_rajah]

[ Yuuka's face is awfully close when she does that. ] I distinctly remember a girl, small and cute and weeping. Are you saying I'm getting senile?

[shanghaiworld]

... You sure it wasn't Reimu?

[nephentes_rajah]

Now you're definitely making fun of my memory. As if I would make such an obvious mistake.

[shanghaiworld]

I guess I should have said Marisa, but it's too late now.

... Enjoying the scenery?

stupid history section. /flips app

[nephentes_rajah]

[ Yuuka takes a deep breath with her eyes closed. When she opens them and exhales, she actually takes half a step back so she can properly leer size Alice up. ] You could say that...

[shanghaiworld]

... Huh? [It was rare for Alice to be this confused. She really had no idea what that had meant.]

[nephentes_rajah]

You've grown into a fine young woman. Perhaps my pruning did some good after all. [ All smiles. Aren't compliments the best? ]

[shanghaiworld]

... [The reaction is silence, she's not entirely sure how to respond to that one.]

[nephentes_rajah]

[ While Alice's brain plays catch-up, Yuuka crouches and picks up the headband. She even goes to far as to pick off a couple of stray bits of grass before she reaches forward (if Alice is willing) and carefully slips it back into place on the girl's head. ]

[shanghaiworld]

[And... that wasn't what she expected to happen.] Ah... thanks. [Nor was that ever something she thought she would ever say to Yuuka.]

[nephentes_rajah]

Ahh, and here I thought I was going to have to hunt the cat that stole your tongue. [ Or go in after it. One of those. ] You seem so modest, now. It hardly suits you.

[shanghaiworld]

You... do know that's just a saying, right? [She managed to take what was said literally AND miss any meaning behind it.]

[nephentes_rajah]

Hmm, that's true. All that cats steal these days are corpses. Would you rather have that? [ If you can't tell that as a threat or not, that's the joke. ]

[shanghaiworld]

You met that cat, too? Didn't think many others would know of the underground youkai... [What about missing the joke?]

[nephentes_rajah]

Word surrounding incidents spreads fast. You know how everyone loves their gossip. [ A twirl of her umbrella. ] I've helped solve one or two in my day. All the latest ones have been so dull, though...

Which is why I'm looking forward to this change in scenery.

[shanghaiworld]

I don't know, the incident itself wasn't much, but the raven that shot suns was a bit different.

[nephentes_rajah]

A troublesome ability. There is such a thing as "too much sun". [ ...damn it all, now she was going along with Alice's tangenting. ]

—speaking of that, I have heard there are hot springs here, as well.

[shanghaiworld]

Oh, yes. I believe it's a two-in-one with a Japanese styled inn. [Please don't make me go.]