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thetube2016-02-27 09:49 pm
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Test Drive Meme: Feb/March 2016
Welcome to the Underground test drive meme! This is where you can try out the AU version of your character, start some potential CR and get a feel for the world of the game. Choose your character's species, read up on the available factions and you're ready to go. Put your character's name in your subject line when you post, tag out, and have fun!
Note to current players: Activity in this meme counts as game canon! So you can use it for activity check. If you end up playing anything that you can't or don't want to use as game canon, it's fine to ignore it. (In that case you shouldn't submit it for activity check.)
Here are some prompts to inspire you:
1) COMMON PEOPLE. What do normal Londoners do every day anyway? Sometimes you just want to blend in with everyone else. Make friends with humans. Talk about the weather. Go on, try it.
2) PENTHOUSE SUITE. But wait. Maybe you want to see how the other half live. The elite of the elite. You've been lucky enough to be asked to a meeting, or a luncheon, or a date. Find out what the most powerful people in London are really like.
3) GET OUT YOU FILTH. Supernatural prejudice is a regrettable fact of life in London. It doesn't matter what you are, there's someone out there who hates you because of it. They'll shun you, heckle you, even hunt you down and kill you. Of course, you're probably not immune to a few prejudices yourself.
4) SPEED DATING. Oh god. Why did you sign up to this. You should have known it was a bad idea when someone mentioned it was supernatural speed dating. Help.
5) THE REAL UNDERGROUND. Down in the darkest corners of the Tube, there are supernatural vagrants of all kinds, especially vampires. That friendly busker may well be a fae. That girl waiting for the next train is a ghost. Once you've seen it, you can't escape from it.
6) IN THE SUPERMARKET. On the other hand, you never know what you might find just walking around your local supermarket. You haven't forgotten how to do normal things like groceries, right?
7) A CURSED EXISTENCE. Maybe you literally are cursed. Maybe you just feel like it sometimes. There are things you can't do, weaknesses that normal humans aren't subject to, but they make everyday life in London that little bit more difficult. Try not to get too mad about it.
8) CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE. Anything goes.
steve rogers | mcu | meta human
[ Blending in might have been a good option had he actually tried it. The importance of it was to be low-key, not draw too much attention to himself or his friend while they lived here, for various reasons, but as much as it had changed since the 40's, Steve was really beginning to miss Brooklyn. At least he didn't feel so lost there—no matter what was different. Still, he spends the day wandering unfamiliar streets, making a note of places he should drag Bucky to or things he should investigate further, and by the time evening rolls around, he's pretty sure he'd gotten lost. Asking directions back to his flat shouldn't be a problem, though deciding to do it in a place he originally thought was just a bar probably wasn't the best choice once he steps inside. (The name Guilty Pleasures might have told him otherwise too.)
He stares at the workers inside and promptly flushes a little, trying to turn around to walk himself back out onto the street. Of course things like this existed. Why wouldn't they? It had been a lot more discreet before, so much so that no one ever actually heard about it except in rumors, and even years spent in close quarters with a bunch of other men in the military didn't prepare him for that. But luck is never on his side because he's bumping into someone, getting caught in the small crowd of people near the door, and really, all he can hope at this point is that they don't mistake him for one of the dancers. ]
speed dating (probably)
[ He should be used to this. Right? Dating hasn't changed much since before the War, but most of his "dates" he'd been dragged to because of his best friend. He feels this isn't any different, sitting at a small table with a nametag pressed neatly to his shirt and his hands between his knees. Steve tries to sit up straight, but he keeps slouching forward, an attempt at sinking into his chair and looking as small as possible despite the fact it would never happen now. When the first person joins him, he makes an effort at conversation with a slight smile. ]
Hi. [ And he reaches forward like he's going to shake their hand. Are they supposed to do that? What were the rules to this speed dating thing again? ] It's nice to— [ Said hand hits a glass on the table and tips it over, spilling its contents all across the small surface, and there's no hiding the face he makes when it happens. ]
wildcard (yes)
[ Or pick your own! Anything goes. Hit me up @
Speed dating!
Relax, don't get so nervous about nothing.
no subject
It's not nothing. [ He's making an effort, but the harder he tries, the worse it gets. ] The last time we did something like this didn't go so well either, you know. [ But he'd also been a lot smaller too. ]
no subject
[Not his fault there, but Steve's head was not in the game then either. He wondered what he was thinking about now that was getting him all nervous.]
At least you don't have to worry about an asthma attack now.
[That's a bright side.]
speed dating it is
Righting the tumbler, she flashes an amused smile.]
Don't worry about it. I didn't actually want to drink it anyway.
[Which is entirely true. She's been working through the drink, but it wasn't satisfying. Funny how the truth came out sometimes.
She offers her hand to shake, since that was the direction he'd been going.]
Natasha Romanoff.