Test Drive Meme 008

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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
→ Tag around

Possible Scenarios 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 chruning 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, filing 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 at the Tower that spills out it's doors in welcome, by someone who calls themselves the Emperor. Obviously that's weird, 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 it's 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 choice of 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? Villian. 06. Carnival: The City has carnivals or festivals now and then; you're lucky to catch one! With it's 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. Wild Card: Choose your own adventure in the game's setting!

Comments

shakes head at, huffs a little.

[alphaophiuchi]

If nothing else, the reaction wasn't bad. To a Draco fresh from his world, there would have been a very different reaction: likely more of a sneer, some level of disdain, that sort of thing. This Draco, however, merely shrugged casually in response to the day being so significant.

"I've been here a while. Perhaps I've softened over that time." Perhaps, he thought to himself, we had a bit too much history for that. Words he wouldn't bother saying out loud. "Don't think I won't hesitate to call you an actual twit if you happen to demonstrate the qualities of one, though."

[thebreakingwave]

"It's reassuring to know that some things are constant." Harry's smile is a bit smaller this time, a little more wry. "How long have you been here, exactly? You know I'm going to be nosy, so I might as well get it over with."

Harry is probably a little older than Malfoy remembers. Somewhere in his mid-twenties, perhaps? He's not much taller, nor broader, but he seems to have started settling into his own body.

[alphaophiuchi]

"I do indeed," he drawled thoughtfully, regarding Harry for a moment over the rim of his glass. His sip was large. "Nearly four years, by my count. Now, what's your next question going to be?"

He had a feeling it would probably be what he'd gotten up to in all that time. Like the wedding ring he wasn't so much hiding as simply not showing off wasn't an indication of that.

[thebreakingwave]

Four years? It's clear that Harry didn't expect that. He's sure he saw Malfoy at the last miserable Ministry function and they'd attempted something like polite conversation. It's a puzzle and he doesn't yet have all the pieces. It's almost, but not quite, like a timeturner gone wrong.

"I'm spoiled for choice. Do you have any for me?"

[alphaophiuchi]

That was probably the most accurate statement one could come up with for all of this: a time-turner gone wrong. Among other things, but the time differences were just bizarre.

"Actually, yes," Draco replied, once more giving Harry a once-over. It was a lot less subtle than the last. "What's the last thing you remember?"

[thebreakingwave]

"It was early 2004 and I was in Cornwall on what was supposed to be a run for chocolate frogs. A sweet and easy job, you know?" Harry snorts and adjusts how his glasses sit more out of habit than necessity. "There'd been a nest of smugglers there and we'd raided their...the building they were using for processing. They knew we were coming and it'd gone sideways. Badly sideways, but we were doing well enough."

"I was running there and then in the next moment, I was here."

Surely, surely, there's an easy way home. Draco must know of it. Harry can't and won't accept any alternative. Not yet, anyway.

[alphaophiuchi]

"2004," he echoed mildly, the numbers sounding bizarre to him. Mostly because they were very much in his future. But at the very least, they gave him a good timeframe for Harry - definitely not the one he himself was from.

This was all far too complicated. But part of him wondered what the whole situation with Ginny was. For...no real reason whatsoever. None that he could pinpoint, at least.

"Well. To randomly showing up somewhere," Draco drawled, lifting his glass a little in a toast. "Hope you're making yourself at home. Does that mean you're an Auror, out of curiosity?"

[thebreakingwave]

"To randomly finding a familiar face when far from home." It's not the greatest toast, but at least he's honest. He's certainly not friends with the Malfoy he knows and barely even acquaintances. They can meet, talk briefly, and respect each other's mutual desire to be elsewhere.

"I am, actually, or was when I left. I might've upset the applecart a bit, but you know how that goes." He's been causing trouble in the ranks. You'd think that wouldn't surprise people, and yet, it seems to be a great shock that Harry doesn't want to just do what's always been done before him. "And you? How've you settled in here?"

[alphaophiuchi]

"I'm hardly random. I've been here too long for that," Draco scoffed mildly, the twist of his mouth wry. All the same, he was happy to take a large chug of the drink, grateful for the familiar burn down his throat. That would soften it all somewhat. He had no idea what he wanted anymore.

He sniffed, though. "I do indeed. I expect you're enjoying it far too much. Oh, to be Harry Potter and to get my kicks from 'upsetting the apple cart', as you put it." One hand fluttered to Draco's chest in a dramatic show of pearl-clutching.

"I'm doing all right. I've been better. Actually, I was doing much better this time last month, give or take a bit. But never mind that."

[thebreakingwave]

Instinctively, Harry wants to argue. He's not causing a fuss just for the sake of enjoyment, nor for the hopes of press coverage. It's difficult to hold his tongue, but he manages. Somewhat. "I wouldn't say I've upset any carts, more so that I'm firmly flattened under the donkey's arse that pulls the miserable thing."

"And, all apples aside, I'm glad to hear you're well and sorry to hear that whatever happened last month happened? Honestly, I'm not sure how to say it, but there it is."

[alphaophiuchi]

In some ways, perhaps Draco was hoping for an argument. It would have made things easier, maybe, than this unfamiliar and tentative chatter they've fallen into. It's like when Hermione came back, clearly no less eager to be his friend (forcibly) than before. Except it's Harry.

"Oh, I see. Well, that does happen, particularly in our world, doesn't it?" Draco remarked mildly. "It's exceedingly common, I'd say."

He frowned a little after that. Yes, that was very odd to hear. And so, Draco just came out with the rest of it, perhaps interested in seeing how Harry reacted: "I was married to a rather wonderful gentleman, and he disappeared on me. I'm no longer sure if I'm supposed to call myself still married, widowed, or single. I miss him horribly. Also, you were here before, ages ago, and we were actually friends for a bit. How do you feel about that?"

[thebreakingwave]

Shocking, Harry has actually managed to grow up some in the intervening years. Not much, but some. He's still sorely tempted to make a joke about how 'exceedingly common' he is, and the words are on the tip of his tongue when Draco mentions that he'd been married.

"Another me isn't all that interesting, as I'm sure you'll agree and tell me at length, but I'm ...Malfoy, if there's anything I can do, to help you find him or find answers, you know I'll do it." He might only be able to awkwardly tolerate Malfoy at the best of times, but the offer is genuine.

[alphaophiuchi]

Now that was just baffling. Draco had been more than ready to launch into some rant defending himself and his choices, only to find that all the words were lost before he could even start. In fact, the surprise of Harry's offer resulted only in Draco gaping at him, blinking grey eyes as though regarding someone with a second head. It was, to say the least, flooring.

"I-" was all he managed at first, before he deftly (and smartly) shut his mouth, instead going back to staring. The offer was far too kind. Even for the Potter who had helped him rescue Theo and kill the Dark Lord. "I don't need answers," he managed quietly. "I know what happened. It's normal around here. But-" He swallowed the lump of awkwardness in his throat, then sniffed. Thank you died on his lips as well, though he imagined that Harry understood it well enough.

[thebreakingwave]

In many respects, Harry is an utter prat, but he isn't quite so terrible to snap at a man that's just said he's lost his partner. It's a surprise and that shows in his expression, but there's little Harry holds as dear as family. It's one of the few things he's always had in common with the Malfoys.

"Alright. I don't really understand how this place works, but if you say so, I'll believe you."

[alphaophiuchi]

Draco was, truthfully, a worse prat. He was purposeful about it. And the notion that someone from his world, who had no connection to him and no love lost between them, would be sympathetic was actually baffling. Perhaps because Draco likely wouldn't have given the same courtesy.

"Well, I have been here long enough. Unless you don't trust me not to steer you wrong," he prompted, brows arching a little as he slowly regained his wits back about him.

[thebreakingwave]

Harry rolls his eyes and takes a sip of his drink. Does he really need to answer that? Of course, if Draco can find a way to make Harry embarrass himself, then he'll nudge in that direction, but he doesn't believe that the other man would set him up for death.

"What can I say except that I have confidence in your skills?"

[alphaophiuchi]

Well...at least Harry wasn't wrong. Getting Harry killed wasn't in Draco's best interests, nor within his capabilities, but embarrassment was certainly a possibility. At the same time, he was pretty sure that Harry would be more than capable of doing exactly that all by himself.

He scoffed softly, rolling his eyes just a little. Like that, the spell of brief sympathy and bonding was gone. Alas.

"You may live to regret that, Potter. Perhaps not today, though." A little shrug, the gesture delicate. "Have any questions about how all this works?"