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

[googirl]

Mmph...

[She stares at them as though she could cook them with her gaze alone. Out of the unshaped mass of ooze that makes up most of the lower half of her sitting body, a few long, slender, and otherwise featureless limbs begin to snake their way out.]

Can I, though? I mean... Am I allowed to? I don't wanna get in trouble or make anyone mad...

[She doesn't seem to find Lambda's apparent age odd, and she definitely hasn't noticed her joints.]

[lastalian]

[Lambda watches, still expressionless. With all the monsters running about on both Ephinea and Fodra, this is hardly the strangest thing she's seen. Herself included.]

Humans would probably find some fault with it. Do you fear them?

[she understands that the strange mushroom-creatures are harmless, but isn't exactly capable of feeling sympathy for them. And plenty of monsters ate others for survival, it was just the way of things.]

Though I suppose if none of them observe you eating, it hardly matters.

[googirl]

If I just ate everything I wanted, a hero would exterminate me.

[Mostly because if she didn't discriminate, the heroes themselves would more than likely be part of the menu as well. But it hurts when she's hit with a sword or zapped with lightning, and anyway it's more fun talking to adventurers than trying to eat them. She likes making friends. It's not as though she has to worry about there being a shortage of food in this place, either.]

I don't wanna break the rules. I'm not a bad girl.

[lastalian]

[she tilts her head slightly, unsure how to feel. On one hand, fear of pain at the hands of the sword is hardly an alien feeling. On the other, the thought of compromise merely for a human's sake--]

[her eyelids lower a little, the unnatural red color of her irises still glaringly sharp below them. She looks to the side a moment.]

Is that it? You follow their rules to escape destruction? Why is it they who dictate what is worthy to exist and what must be exterminated?

[there is a profound bitterness in her very young-sounding voice, one that hasn't disappeared despite the months she's spent living side by side with humans.]

[googirl]

[The stare Lambda gets in return is not particularly comprehending.]

Um... I don't think I get it. [She doesn't at all, really.] But it's not like I'm doing it because just they say so! Humans are really interesting and some of them are really nice, too, so I want to be friends with the nice ones, and I can't be friends with them if I break their rules or make them mad.

[lastalian]

[oh. This one is simple. She remembers a little what it was like to be like that. And Asbel is the same way...]

Sometimes they'll be angry even if you've done nothing to warrant it.

[googirl]

But if they get mad at me any I haven't done anything bad, doesn't that just mean they're not nice? I don't wanna be friends with anyone who's mean.

[lastalian]

[Lambda can't exactly deny that solid logic.]

You're lucky if you meet a human that isn't "mean".

[googirl]

Uu... Am I? A lot of the ones that came to my cave were mean and tried to hurt me, but there were a lot of other ones that were really nice and would talk with me and tell me stories! Some of them even gave me things I could eat...

[lastalian]

Then consider yourself fortunate. [if Lambda could sigh, she probably would.]

At least the humans on this world are not as inclined to violence as the ones I am familiar with.

[googirl]

Hrm... Were there lots of mean people where you come from?

[lastalian]

That is an understatement.

[she manages to look bored while she says it, though she's far from feeling it.]

Or perhaps I'm not as resilient as you.

[this is sarcasm, though her flat tone doesn't change at all to indicate it.]

[googirl]

[She seems to be thinking that statement over really seriously.]

Mrr... I guess slimes are a lot tougher to beat because of the way our bodies are.

[Fran... Fran, please.]

[lastalian]

[Lambda tilts her head slightly, wondering briefly if she should be annoyed or not.]

Good for you. I suppose they just gave up after a while, then?

[googirl]

Myu... Sometimes. But sometimes they hit me with lightning and it hurt really bad...

[But they never seemed to see the need to pursue her after she had been incapacitated that way, probably figuring actually killing her was more trouble than it was worth.]