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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER TEST DRIVE MEME
It's Chinese for 'Japan.'






Prompt A: Serious Event

A memory is displayed. It's yours, the most traumatic of your life whether it was a terrifying clown encounter or the death of someone you love. It's on a loop for everyone to see. You can enter the memory and take your own place, but no matter how hard you try, you cannot alter the outcome. You're forced to try in vain to change what happened or watch until you decide it's too much and walk away. If you can.

Prompt B: Lighter Event

Welcome to Storybrooke.

You've lived in a quiet town in Maine for as long as you can remember. You are a fishmonger or a diner employee, perhaps you work at the hospital. Whatever you do and whoever you are, it's not the real you. You are cursed and you know no other life outside of Storybrooke.

When the curse breaks (either from True Love's Kiss or, in a more TDM friendly, handwaved way), you have two sets of memories: who you were, and who you are. Do you choose to accept all that you were cursed to believe, or would you rather slip back into your old life? The choice is yours.

Prompt C: ediS rorriM

Use this prompt to test out your mirrors. Are they loyal to the new White Queen or do they think she's too good to be true? Do they long to cross over or spend their days tormenting reals? Whatever the scenario, know that the Queen is watching, and let that guide you - or not.

Prompt D: Choices

Any scenario goes! Thread out your character's arrival, have them act like a long-established resident, let our past events inspire your scene, or write up literally any Wonderland-based scenario you feel like playing with.

Rules

Test drive memes go up every other month. Please note that any threads made as part of the test drive meme don't count towards your activity check, and they can't be used as samples for any future applications. Thank you for understanding, and have fun!



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Comments

[choosetruth]

Many aspects of my life are really awful. In ways, if you're lucky, you can't possibly imagine.

[Things are better than they were. She still wakes up screaming more nights than not.]

Doesn't change the fact that they happened. They made me who I am.

[teamfun]

Well, I sure don't want to play in the Trauma Olympics but I could sure try to imagine.

[The worst part of the school at night is the absence of screaming. You wake up from a nightmare and you sure as hell don't make a single damn sound out of pure instinct. He's pretty sure that's stuck with him. ]

I don't know, I was a lot like this before all the...dying and the undead and he existential terror stuff so I think I'll be okay on that front.

[Largely because he's had the comfort to continue doggedly refusing to grow up and take everything seriously. ]

[choosetruth]

I didn't mean it as a competition. I'm just saying, I have every reason to want to lie to myself. But it doesn't actually solve anything.

[teamfun]

It might solve some psychological damage. That'd be nice. Also I wouldn't remember I was lying to myself, so I think it'd be all good.

[This is terrible logic. ]

Can't miss what you don't remember happened, right?

[choosetruth]

You can, actually.

[She should know. Of course, she also knows it's missing.]

Have you ever heard the saying, "Ignorance is bliss?"

[teamfun]

Suuuure. The bliss part sounds pretty sweet, actually.

[Louis, no. ]

[choosetruth]

Yeah, so's cocaine, but that doesn't make it good for you.

[teamfun]

Oh wow, great stealth PSA there, lady. Never saw that one coming.

[choosetruth]

[She rolls her eyes behind her sunglasses.]

I don't give a damn about cocaine. My point is things that feel good aren't always good for you.

[teamfun]

Neither's a lot of things, but I'll take a day or fun over hanging around playing it safe,