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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 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.

"... really? Because I think it happens pretty rarely. In fact happening at all is really more than I thought it did."

Todd can't explain what's ringing wrong for him. Maybe that's what she was told, or how she remembers things, but there's that niggle that says something isn't right.

He doesn't push it. "Sounds like you had a hell of a time."

"You should look into it. There are a lot of serial killers in operation at any given time. You just only hear about the ones that get solved most of the time. Like Ted Bundy. It makes good news if they catch them. Not so much if they're still operating thirty years later," she points out, and beyond her own work, truly believing it.

"It was... It was harder than you would think it would be. Knowing that those singular decisions changed so much. One of the girls that chose to stay home than go dateless was talking about how it was the one time being without a guy was worth it."

"Oh, I know about serial killers. I meant the locking whole school in the prom and burning it down thing. Amanda was obsessed with serial killers for a while, the psychology that motivates them and stuff. Until she got sick, she wanted to train in forensic psychology." For a while, anyway.

Todd had never really been as much into true crime and that. And now, his brain didn't need the fodder, frankly.

"Like the decision to go outside to make things up with your best friend."

"See, I think Amanda would be cool to know. You're lucky to have someone like that in your life." And she means that. She doesn't always run into others that are into the things she is.

"You go to school dances? You can't hear anything over all that music and all. And everyone is all come dance and we should get punch and everyone should go to the bathroom... It was easier to hear one another out by the parking lot. Prettier by the bleachers but you know what kids do there."

He doesn't have her in his life. Not since he told her the truth. But it had been worth the price he paid for it.

"Yeah, no, I mean, like you were saying, those little decisions that change everything. You and she went out to talk, the other girl stayed home rather than go stag... the little choices that saved your lives. Changed them."

Picking up a little dog and taking her back to her owner.

She nods. "It's something we've been talking to others about. Trying to share with others that you can't live your life on that," she says. "I think sometimes I really try and overthink it. Like what decision ended up with me here."

Because she really wishes she knew on that one.

"Here being this place, Wonderland thing?"

Todd's fairly sure the decision he made that ended up here was picking up that dog. Or maybe not throwing Dirk out with more conviction.

"Yeah, that. I was traveling across country with McKayla. I just went down to the hall to get ice and when I came back into the room? I was walking into the foyer of the mansion," she says, shrugging.

"Left my apartment," Todd offers. "I was about to head to the office."

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