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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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Welll, I guess it gave you plenty to blog about, right? That's...something.

[Also lots of dead people, but that's pretty much a given anyway.]

See? You got a cool fake-fairytale backstory too.

It did, and now we're touring and working on a book and a story of our lives.

[Because obviously there's more than just hey there was a serial killer, right? There always is.

As a creepy kid who helps out the king of Halloween. [She pauses and then smiles.] Okay, fair enough. Cool fake fairytale life.

Sounds like a pretty sweet deal. Do you get to stay in fancy-ass hotels? Get room service, and all that shit?

[He remembers seeing that kind of shit on TV when he was little. It always looked pretty damn sweet. ]

See? That's pretty awesome. Great feather in your cap. Helped out a King. He'll probably pay you in Candy Corn or something, but it's still a reward.

[She grins at that, nodding.]

OH yeah, it's been a lot of fun in our time before college.

[He's one of those always the positive things, and it's kind of neat. It's been a while since she's seen someone like that.]

A bad bad reward, but it's payment.

Sweet. Get yourself a break before the hard work of studying and/or going to frat parties starts.

[Because college is absolutely those two options, right?]

Most people wouldn't even get that. Maybe you'll get enough that you can buy a spooky moped or something.

[She laughs at that.]

Yeah, me and McKayla are definitely planning on playing up our fame for college points. What else is the point of surviving?

[Okay, so surviving, but still.]

I would look totally awesome on a cursed moped, just saying.

You got to enjoy life while you got it, right? While you got a heart beating in your chest. Otherwise, it's just a waste.

[He laughs, offering some Grade A fingerguns in her direction.]

Damn straight. You'd look like a badass.

You and I see eye to eye on that.

[And anyone that totes around a weapon like that might not be entirely messed up if they ever learned her secrets. Not that she has any desire to talk about it with anyone. Not where she is currently mentally and emotionally.]

You think the closet would give us cursed items?

Glad to hear that. A lot of people don't get it.

[If Aasim doesn't bitch about his "live for the moment" credo at least four times a day, Louis knows something is desperately wrong with him.

Louis has learned enough horrible, terrible secrets that he can roll with them better. After Marlon...well, it's hard to top Marlon.]

I dunno. You could always ask it nicely. Pretty please, and all that. Maybe bribe it? What do magical closets like? Those nice smelly coat-hangers ?

But the only way to get the hangers is to ask the closet for them. So is it right to ask for an item you will then use to bribe it?

[And she's taking this seriously in so many ways. No matter how weird it feels to be talking about things like this.]

Noooot if you made them yourself. Like did this whole arts and crafts thing. Maybe you'd need to ask it for the materials, but then you can make something awesome out of it and be "here you go, closet, I did a nice thing with the stuff you got me, now do me a solid and get me this cursed item I need".

[The lesson here is don't take advice from Louis.]

[She's quiet, considering this. She gives him a look, head canting as her eyes narrow.]

You in on this? See if it works?

[And if it doesn't, she's not in on this alone.]

[He grins.]

Are you kidding me? If there's shenanigans afoot, you can bet I'll be there. I do love me some shenanigans.

[It's so soon after the event that Sadie still feels part of that person, the needs to prank and cause mischief and where haunted items feel both real, and needed.

She grins back then, giving a jerk of her head.]

Come on then. It's arts and crafts time.

[Louis couldn't even blame the event. Lost boy or lost boy, he's always up for a little mischief. It makes the day go much better.]

Fuck yeah, arts and crafts. Lets make the most badass arts and crafts there ever were.

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