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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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"And you can't get the same method here?" She figures not, if he's taking pills, but she can't help but to ask.

"Take up a hobby? Explore the creepy caves that you might die in? Swim into the ocean until you find the seamonster?" She kinda smirks as she says them. "Okay, kinda being a bitch, but I guess it's about figuring out what keeps you busy. Without being told like a boss would."

"Psychic vampires." So no, he can't.

"I suppose I'd have time for music again... I used to be in a band. We were semi-successful. I can actually take some time for song writing and stuff." He hasn't really thought it about before now.

Every time she thinks she's ready for it and she's just not. Nope. Not yet. Maybe never ever.

"What? No way they could show up here?"

Yeah, that's the best she's got.

"That is a great idea. They need some live music here and a good venue for it. You could totally think about it." That she will so back.

Todd shrugs again. "I mean, sure, I guess they could. I hope they don't, though. I can't cope with the Rowdies for more than about ten minutes at a time." They're overwhelming and terrifying.

"I'll dig up a guitar from one of the closets. We might be able to rustle up some more musical talent."

"Even if they help you?" She's curious then, head canting as she looks over at him. "Most would put up with it if it helped."

She can't help but be curious. "I bet there's others here that either had garage bands or even up to a full musical career. Come on. We need our own entertainment, might as well make it."

"Even then. I mean, yeah, I like the idea that they can drain off the attack. But I don't like the idea of only having one of them and all four is completely overwhelming and terrifying and they should be with Amanda."

They were a... couple with six people involved. Except not. "I met my number one fan recently. By accident. Tina... is an experience you don't forget in a hurry."

She laughs at that. "You know how that sounds, right? I mean, she's your sister. I assume you love her. Let her deal with the crazies?" She's still laughing as she repeats back how that sounds to her.

"Wait, so you had a big enough band to have fans? Or was she just into the whole cute waif thing?"

"Oh, they worship the fucking ground Amanda walks. She adores them, they adore her. They make her happy like I've never seen before." He thinks of them gathered around his sister, of Martin hugging her with one arm and her hanging off his neck. of Vogel sitting at her feet, playing with her shoelaces.

Todd scowls. Dirk calls him cute too and he doesn't take it from him either. "I'm not a waif. I'm a lot stronger than I look. And yeah, we were big enough for fans. I said semi-successful. We were sort of big in the Seattle grunge scene."

She considers that and then looks away with a sigh. "I miss the person I adore," she admits. "Being here without her is madness, so I wouldn't want Amanda to be without them." She just wishes McKayla was there too.

"Hey, no offense. It's a good thing. Plays well I bet with a band," she points out. "And that's cool. What was the band's name?"

"And breaking up the four energy vampires... they're pretty co-dependent." Even without Amanda, the four of them had been close knit, living in each other's back pockets.

"Mexican Funeral. I don't know why, we were really drunk." For most of the time they were performing, actually. "I think there was a joke about funerals being cheaper in Mexico."

"Okay, never even known anything like that but.... I mean... if that's what you do and you've lived like that and all... Why wouldn't you be tight with others that do that and get it and you can totally probably be around. Like herd animals."

She snorts at that. "You don't look like the emo scream type," she teases. "Which it would be a good name for."

Privately, Todd thinks it had to do with shared trauma from Blackwing, but he isn't going to tell a stranger that.

"I wasn't. It was grunge, not emo. Not the same. You're probably too young to remember grunge, which is incredibly depressing."

"Yeah I know. I mean, most of my work is blogging, well vlogging, but still. I know music," she says, smirking. "And it's retro, so I've heard it," she adds, definitely rubbing salt into that age wound.

"I hate you so much right now," Todd pointed out.

Sadie laughed at that, grinning widely. "Good, my work here is done."

"... you remind me of Amanda."

That isn't good or bad. It just is.

"She must be interesting though,' she teased, opening the door to the stairs down. "She kept you on your toes, did she?"

"Amanda's- she's pretty good. And weird. Super weird. But yeah... she did that. There's a big gap between us, age wise, she's eleven years younger than me, so I looked after her a lot."

He misses her. He's missed her for a long time before this place, so he's at least used to it.

"Sounds like my M.K.," she admits, that icy humor slipping then as she thinks about her friend. "So I know that feeling. There's hope, you know. She may show up here."

"You said you had an ex boyfriend, but you and M.K.-" He trails off not sure if he should ask. "You sound super close. And I don't want her here. I hope she doesn't turn up here. It's easier missing her when she's not around than missing her when she is."

That makes her laugh. "Okay, you just insinuated that your sister is maybe involved with more than one energy vampire and that idea makes you second guess things?"

She is amused by it though. "She has been my best friend since we were six. We have shared everything in life, and even when things changed, we still made our way back to being besties. And if we hadn't, we'd be dead now."

That makes her frown. "You guys have a falling out too?"

"Ugh, one, no, do not make me think of my baby sister and sex and two, if she's involved with any of them, it's just the one. Martin. He's the least insane." Still stark raving mad, but more able to pretend to be a person than the others.

"Because of the psycho serial killer." She mentioned that, he had listened. "Yeah, we did. My fault, rather not talk about it. Tell me about it?"

"Sounds like someone I should meet," she laughs, aware that she is the least insane. Maybe. Maybe not. It's kind of equal between them.

"Prom massacre," she says, speaking about it casual. "We went outside to talk, to try and make up and while we were inside, he locked the gym and lit things on fire." Yep, just casual talk. Not talking about him and his sister. "They found out after that Jordan had hung himself during the dance. He shot the killer though, found him in the rafters where he set the fire. Jordan just hadn't realized what he had already done."

Yeah... Todd's good with not having crazy girl meet his crazy sister and her crazier gang.

Especially when she drops shit like that.

"That... is insane. Like, genuinely, holy shit, I didn't know that sort of thing even happened outside horror movies." That is genuinely horrifying. "So... you go outside to make up wiht your bestie, a nutcase killer locks the doors and starts a fire with him inside, your boyfriend then shoots the killer without realising about the fire and then hanged himself?"

That makes even less sense than the average adventure with Dirk. He smells a rat.

"It happens more often than you think," she says, warming to the topic. McKayla and I totally do a vlog about the way killers operate in the United States. Well, we started one after it became clear there was one operating in our town."

She nods, sighing softly. "A few of us made it, though apparently he found one of our teachers outside first. She was really sweet," she says, folding her arms over her chest to hug herself. "She had done some things to help me too. With scholarships and stuff. And they say that's what happened with Jordan, though I guess, I mean, how can we ever really know the details?"

Hey, some parts of her story are totally true, especially about a serial killer already being in their town. Well, three of them technically.

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