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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

[tragedygirls]

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.

[great_assisting]

"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.

[tragedygirls]

"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.

[great_assisting]

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

[tragedygirls]

"Just like from one step to the other?" Because that she gets. "So many seem to have huge stories, and mine is just eh, one day."

[great_assisting]

"Yeah, basically. I walked through the door and... here." He shrugs. "Honestly, it didn't even surprise me that much, nothing weird had happened in a while."

[tragedygirls]

"SO you just expect everything bad to happen to you? Just regularly?" That is interesting to her. Mostly in that she is usually causing it.

[great_assisting]

"Not bad. Weird. And yeah, fairly regularly since I met Dirk. Actually, no, before I met Dirk, but only by twelve hours. I did mention we met because he climbed in through my window, right?"

[tragedygirls]

"And that was okay with you? Him just climbing through a window?" She glances at him as she pushes open the door of the diner. "Did you shoot him?"

[great_assisting]

"No, it wasn't. I panicked and threw a shoe at him. Why would I shoot him? Why would I have a gun? I live in Seattle."

[tragedygirls]

"Because if a stranger comes through your window, you should protect yourself? And I don't know. You strike me as the type to have a gun."

[great_assisting]

"... no? I've never owned a gun. I know how to use one, but I've never owned one. And honestly, he wasn't that threatening. I mean, you've seen Dirk."

[tragedygirls]

She cants her head, considering that. "Wait, I have? Dude, he's here? Which weird guy is he then?" Because the place is full of them.

[great_assisting]

"No, back in my memory. Farah and Dirk. Dirk in the bright yellow jacket and band shirt." A band shirt of his band, which Todd had given him.

[tragedygirls]

"Oh. Duh. Right.But I mean, in that memory how can I tell if he's bad ass or not. Though that face popped in my window and I might totally throw things at him," she admits.

[great_assisting]

"He's not bad ass. He's a uncoordinated dork who blunders through life and the universe with no idea of what's going on. He's about as threatening as wet celery."

[tragedygirls]

"And yet he completely and utterly changed your life, right?" She moves to settle in at a table.

[great_assisting]

"Yes. Me. My life. All of it. He makes me a better person." Makes him want to be a better person. He sits down opposite her, slouching into the chair.

[tragedygirls]

"Then he's the best threat of all. The one that gets us back to who we truly are," she pointed out. "McKayla did it for me when I let myself believe I wasn't truly me."

[great_assisting]

"I have never been the person that he's helped me to become." Not in his mind, not at all.

[tragedygirls]

Her head cants, considering him. "Would he think that?"

[great_assisting]

"No idea. Maybe not. He might just get distracted by a magazine cover instead."

[tragedygirls]

She can't help herself. Maybe it shouldn't be funny but she laughs at that. "I guess that's fair enough. So I guess you're here. Be the man you want to be here?"

[great_assisting]

It's a bit funny.

"Mm. We'll see. I suspect I'm going to slip back into old ways of being an asshole."

[tragedygirls]

That is something to consider. "I guess that's your call, you know? What do you want to be."