cityofsin_ooc | 🚕 TEST DRIVE 🌱 March

Test Drive Meme

Considering apping to the City of Sin, but unsure of who to bring or if they'll fit? Feel free to give the setting a test drive here! These are a perfect way of getting your playing sample done for the application.

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→ Comment with the character you'd like to test drive in the setting, with name and canon in the subject line.
→ Choose a scenario or create your own, and tag around!
→ If you're still tagging in the last TDM, you may continue to do so, or feel free to move your threads here. New test drives are now posted sometime during the months of: March, June, September, December.
→ Threads in the test drive are NOT eligible to use for activity checks, however you can make them game canon if you wish — and only if both players are accepted in the game.

Possible Scenarios
Please note that all characters will initially arrive in their assigned housing; they are free to explore the City to their heart's content after that!

01. A New Arrival: Hello, New Person! You seem to have found yourself on a sidewalk in the City of Sin with nothing but the clothes on your back and a stomach churning feeling of being displaced. Thankfully, the streets are full of people - Watch out that you don't get mugged!

02. Demonic Presences: You were just minding your own business, weren't you? But that's always when bad things seem to happen, and the City of Sin isn't really that friendly. Whatever bar or street you're hanging out in suddenly go dim, filling the area with an unnerving feeling as the shadows on the walls jump out into reality. We suggest you phone a friend for help, or maybe try running?

03. Party Hard: You've been invited to a massive, elegant party in the Tower District that spills out its doors in welcome. Obviously, this whole thing is weird and you don't know who your hosts are, but maybe you can get some free drinks and food out of it! This place might not be so bad.

04. Prominence: The City of Sin influences its population on a weekly basis. Too bad you came right smack dab in the middle of a heavy Prominence. Lust, Greed, Gluttony, Envy, Wrath, Sloth, or Pride: choose your sin and be wicked.

05. Trouble: Not everyone is sunshine and roses here. Some people are violent and cruel, raised in the sludge of a sinful city. And they like to pick on people they think can't fight back. Are you that person? Or are you the Hero who can't stand to watch? Worse yet, could you be the person doing the instigating? Villain.

06. Carnival: The City has carnivals or festivals now and then; you're lucky to catch one! With its open booths filled with cork gun games and funnel cakes, how can someone not have any fun! Go win your darling a stuffed animal, or meet someone new on the spinning cup ride. You might even see someone you know being talked into sitting in the Dunk Tank.

07. Network: There's a network device in your pocket - or at least a familiar object that seems to work in mysterious ways. Perhaps you can take to that and ask for a bit of help? Or maybe you'd prefer to have a little fun with all of this. Surely someone will reply.

08. Wild Card:Choose your own adventure in the game's setting!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

It was pure luck that Devi happened to find herself in a hallway with the back of a head that she couldn't ever forget.. Though admittedly, she hadn't seen too much of the baldness coming, but there was no mistaking that Loreal swoop of hair. She'd only been passing through, walking to a new stairwell that would reach the higher levels, but the sight of him stopped her.

Her heart was heavy and tired of hoping and being disappointed in the Charles Xavier's (she'd lost count how many at this point) that she had to refamiliarise herself with, but the tight breath held in her chest told her that she was going to keep trying, at least this time. Case by case basis, right?

She didn't even have to say anything - a terrible wonderful bonus, but Charles had long taught her the practice of 'throwing' or 'pushing' her thoughts out, despite her not being telepathic herself.

Charles? Is that you?

Devi didn't bother to hide the emotional exhaustion in her mental tone or anything that happened to slip through - She loved Charles in her own way, as a brother of sorts, and she'd missed him but it felt like there was no chance for luck to give enough that this instance would be the one that remembered her and the way things used to be.

It is fortunate timing that puts the telepath right there when Devi projects her thoughts. However random one wants to see it, this is the City and Charles was always of the belief that the right people will cross paths at the right time. And so it seems that the first person that the telepath is meant to see after arriving is the woman that is not only tied to his best friend but his husband, too. That made her very important to him, too.

The question slows him to a stop in the middle of the hallway. Had it been asked aloud, it might be mistaken for simple clarification. But since it was projected and the voice was one he knew, Charles felt the tentative hope for a specific version.

It is also fortunate that Charles was deep in thought as he made his way towards the elevators, left hand up to his face, displaying a band on his wedding finger. As his name sounds in his mind, he turns.

There would be no doubt when he makes eye contact and offers her a small smile that she'll know what version is back in the City. He nods once to confirm.

The City apparently has unfinished business with Charles Xavier-Malfoy, it seems.

He slowly makes his way towards her.

It's good to see you again, Devi.

The ring gave her hope - There was only instance of Charles that she knew was married, and the sight of it, as happy as it was, still twisted a dagger in her soul somewhere, like the City was trying to fuck with her again, a carrot and stick of hope that both of them would come back. With a clear wash of relief, Devi matched the slow, almost cautious step towards him.

Her face pinched a little. Can I give you a hug? Devi was not a hugger - that hadn't changed, but Charles Xavier-Malfoy had found himself to be a broad exception. If he said yes, she wouldn't hesitate to throw her arms around him and squeeze him close.

"I'm happy you're back," she started, voice sympathetic to the fact that he was back alone. Silver linings and all. "Are you okay?"

He knows that feeling of having the carrot and stick of hope constantly dangling in front of him. If it's not happening in his world, it's happening elsewhere and despite how bleak things can get sometimes, Charles always manages to keep looking for it. Draco isn't there and he knows that. But as long as he's there, he's a married man. That won't change.

The question doesn't receive an answer; the timing has Devi easily within arm's length at about the same time as he would. It's the kind of embrace that is meant to be comforting but also seeking comfort in return and when he pulls back, Charles leaves his hands on her upper arms for a moment longer.

"Head is a bit jumbled but otherwise I'm well," he answers, looking her over. "You look.."

As if she had lived 3 lifetimes.

"How long has it been?"

The hug let her confirm he was real, let her get out the urge to tackle him or cry or allow herself to doubt what her gut was telling her. It also let her pour her internal feelings into it. They wouldn't talk about it; Devi wasn't sure she could and it wouldn't be helpful.

Devi couldn't help but huff a little half laugh at the way he trailed off. "That bad huh?" She shook her head a little as she tried to mark just how much time had passed. "Almost a year? Few months shy, maybe? A long time it feels like, much longer than that." Even if that wasn't the case.

"Not a lot has changed, except management. You've come in during a bit of a lull." Not that it meant much beyond allowing him to get settled before the world turned over again. "Erik and I married." She.. couldn't remember anymore if he knew, she wasn't sure he was here to catch that after it happened in semi-secret. But Erik was his best friend and she felt like he was owed that. Especially after the doubts that Charles had had. She didn't blame him for them - they were for Erik's wellbeing.

"Did they send you back home?"

Charles shook his head, trying to express that he didn't mean it like that. She was beautiful and genuine, even despite Sickness, and Charles couldn't help recall the times that he would look at Devi and think sometimes how she reminds him of Raven. It was hard to explain and he was glad he wasn't expected to.

The information was taken in with the news of them getting married earning another small, sad smile. It would be enough to say he wasn't here for it but would have loved to be.

Devi's next question has Charles lapse into thought, clearly trying to piece together what feels like more than a year and yet, there were no new memories that came to mind. He even looks the same as he did before leaving.

"I don't think so," he manages with a shake of his head. Charles looks back up at her. "Devi, I know he's not here. How long after I left before he.."

It hurt to think about how his disappearance affected Draco and in turn, how his disappearance affected her.

Devi waved off the shake of his head, nodding at it. No, she understood. No one polite ever meant it that way. The nodding carried over to cover Charles's nod - there was too much to say and never enough time or words to get it all out. No, she understood.

His follow up question made her throat knot behind her next swallow as she looked back at the floor. There was no helping the sudden flash of memories - Draco's brokenheartedness and the stiff upper lip that followed for the few months he was gone too. She almost hadn't gotten married because of it and it still felt like she'd put both of them in the ground.

"About two and a half months. Your house is still there. People still remember you both." They hadn't been lost. Not to the City. "It's been too long. The place and the revolution could use you and your experience. People have questions you're better suited to answer. I'm sorry, Charles."

That he didn't have Draco, that he was here alone, that people still needed him five minutes after he arrived.

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