Welcome to Ryslig's test drive meme! If you're considering apping here, this is where you can try your characters out in the game's setting. A few things to note:
Test drive meme threads can be used for your roleplay sample!
Sample scenarios:
SCENARIO ONE: You've just been released from the hospital in Vandare and no one really seems to know what to do with you. The locals offer polite advice but don't seem to want to spend a lot of time with you. You and the other new arrivals stick out like sore thumbs, so perhaps one will spot you wandering about town.
SCENARIO TWO: You've become hopelessly lost in Lager Woods. Paths don't seem to lead where you remember them leading, and you feel as if you're going around in circles. Childlike giggling can be heard from no direction in particular. Suddenly, you stumble upon another character, who seems to be just as lost as you! Perhaps you can find a way out together.
SCENARIO THREE: The time has come and you've found yourself becoming a monster. Is the change instant, or gradual? Are you familiar enough with monsters to know what's happening, or is it a complete shock? NOTE: Feel free to pick any monster type for this prompt, but note that you may not get the same one in game.
"They weren't bad," Marco agrees solemnly. "They kept the monsters out, but that also meant they trapped us inside," he says. Like fish in a barrel, when you got down to it - it meant they had no where to run when the Titans broke through Wall Maria, and that they would have had even less than non to run to if they hadn't plugged Wall Rose.
When he asks about Jinae, Marco gets a small smile. "It's home. It's a little farming village, not as big as some of the other cities, and there's lots of trees and friendly people."
Huh, he thinks, as Beck points at all the items he's describing, and it makes him frown lightly.
"I don't know if that would be better or worse than being out with the monsters." On one hand there was some safety, but ... never being able to leave? Beck kicks morosely at one of the wooden pylons poking up along the dock's edge, normally used to tie boats to. Now it's a good place to repeatedly lightly apply his boot-tip to. He didn't often leave Argon, but not being able to..?
He might have risked the monsters just for a little freedom. "Do you miss it?" This question is hesitant. Maybe Marco didn't miss it, maybe he hadn't been gone long enough TO miss it. But friendly people meant friends and those were often hard to adapt to the loss of.
Even for programs.
"Oh, uh. I'm from the Grid. Argon City specifically. We.. how to put this. It's ... directly created by a User, and he never I guess, thought to add things like a tree or a bird." He shrugs a little helplessly; he didn't feel that he was particularly MISSING anything without birds, but..
Marco has to think about it. Apparently, according to Eren, home will mean dying. But he's not sure being here is any better. If he thinks about it in terms of just Jinae, though....
"Yeah, I miss it," he says with a small smile. "It's why I'm here, hoping to find some clues," he says, even if Beck likely already figured that out.
He tilts his head at the unfamiliar terms. Grid? Users?
"Is a User like an architect? They build houses where I'm from - but they don't usually deal with things like trees, unless it's to knock them out of the way."
"...Well if you find anything, don't hesitate to share. I think a lot of us would like to get home.." It's a little wistful. Marco had a vested interest in returning to where he's from, missing home was enough.
Beck's reasons were myriad, but he couldn't deny a huge chunk of it is because he misses his friends. Users had important relationships too. Things like family.
How to describe a User to another User though is a bit more of a challenge than understanding the motivations for home. Beck hesitates. "Kind of, I guess? A User, Kevin Flynn, built all the cities on the Grid. And most everything else attached to it. The sky, the portal, the rocks, even the energy pools and storms and all of us as well." Sounds like 'god' might be a closer term to what people might usually undersand.
"I don't plan to keep it to myself if I do," Marco assures Beck with an easy smile.
And Beck's description definitely fits more of a "god" than what Marco had been coming up with. The look he gives Beck is a little wider eyed. He's pretty sure that what Beck is talking about is just their idea of a god.
Still, to come from a place without birds or trees?
"This must be a lot different for you than home," he settles on finally.
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When he asks about Jinae, Marco gets a small smile. "It's home. It's a little farming village, not as big as some of the other cities, and there's lots of trees and friendly people."
Huh, he thinks, as Beck points at all the items he's describing, and it makes him frown lightly.
"Where were you from before this?"
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He might have risked the monsters just for a little freedom. "Do you miss it?" This question is hesitant. Maybe Marco didn't miss it, maybe he hadn't been gone long enough TO miss it. But friendly people meant friends and those were often hard to adapt to the loss of.
Even for programs.
"Oh, uh. I'm from the Grid. Argon City specifically. We.. how to put this. It's ... directly created by a User, and he never I guess, thought to add things like a tree or a bird." He shrugs a little helplessly; he didn't feel that he was particularly MISSING anything without birds, but..
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"Yeah, I miss it," he says with a small smile. "It's why I'm here, hoping to find some clues," he says, even if Beck likely already figured that out.
He tilts his head at the unfamiliar terms. Grid? Users?
"Is a User like an architect? They build houses where I'm from - but they don't usually deal with things like trees, unless it's to knock them out of the way."
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Beck's reasons were myriad, but he couldn't deny a huge chunk of it is because he misses his friends. Users had important relationships too. Things like family.
How to describe a User to another User though is a bit more of a challenge than understanding the motivations for home. Beck hesitates. "Kind of, I guess? A User, Kevin Flynn, built all the cities on the Grid. And most everything else attached to it. The sky, the portal, the rocks, even the energy pools and storms and all of us as well." Sounds like 'god' might be a closer term to what people might usually undersand.
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And Beck's description definitely fits more of a "god" than what Marco had been coming up with. The look he gives Beck is a little wider eyed. He's pretty sure that what Beck is talking about is just their idea of a god.
Still, to come from a place without birds or trees?
"This must be a lot different for you than home," he settles on finally.