August-September Testo Doraivu!

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TEST DRIVE MEME

➞ Post with a character you wish to test drive in this game's setting.
➞ Tag other people's starters and thread out shenanigans!
➞ Invite your friends! Try out new characters! Come play with us!
➞ Have fun!


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ALSO, AS PROMPTS FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: Last month's mini-events!

Effect: Friday, July 8: Flower Gift - All day, despite the season, flowers drift down from the sky. They’re harmless, beautiful, and smell lovely, but if trainers aren’t careful, they might end up trudging through rosedrifts up to their knees before long.
Swarm: Tuesday, July 12: Spinda
Effect: Friday, July 15 to Sunday, July 17: Worry Seed - Affected characters won’t be able to get any sleep. Does that make your character cranky? Does it damage their brain-to-mouth filter? The effects can last as little or as long as you’d like over this weekend.
Effect/Swarm Double Duty: Friday, July 22: Surf - Large waves appear in all bodies of water, including things like bathtubs and your Sawsbucks drinks (it’s just bean water, you know). Be careful on the ocean, but also, hang ten, dudes! The waves won’t destroy anything, but trainers are going to get wet on this ride. Also, oh god, small jellyfish Pokemon (Tentacool, Frillish, Inkay) happen to be swarming randomly in these bodies of water. GANBATTE, VICTORY ROAD.
Effect: Friday, July 29: Haze - The forecast is misty inside and out on this oddly cool July day. Affected trainers will find it difficult to remember things, whether those happened long ago or just five minutes past. The memories aren’t gone, of course, it’s just…foggy.
Swarm: Sunday, July 31: Illumise and Volbeat


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Comments

[notvaljean]

The hell is that thing?

[It's a... it's a metal chicken. Okay, that's a thing. Jean supposes if he can accept floating, sentient balls made out of what feels like plastic (a new material), he can accept metal chickens. He's reminded, briefly, of Hange. She'd probably love a metal chicken, right before she tried to take it apart.]

[Blitz, Jean's sometimes-loyal Voltorb, does not like the sound of that metal chicken (much like Jean doesn't like the sound of Eren's voice, come to think of it), and rises menacingly over Jean's shoulder, crackling loudly in response. Jean ignores him for now.]

Did anyone from home come with you?

[Anyone better? Like Mikasa or Sasha or Reiner or the Captain or Shadis or really anyone who isn't Eren?]

[greatrage]

A metal chicken. [Eren repeats it like Jean is stupid. Because he is. He's stupid. STUPID!!] Or, well, I guess the little talking machine said she was a "Skarmory".

[Hange would love to try and dissect this thing. And every pokémon, to be honest. ... It's a good thing she's not here.

Eren ignores Jean's question in favor of one his own]

What is that!? It looks like a giant one of the balls we got... but with eyes! [angry eyes.]

[Skarmory, meanwhile, does NOT like that crackling, and she hisses loudly at Blitz, fluffing her feathers out]

[notvaljean]

He's a Voltorb, obviously.

[Said with all the scorn and condescension of someone who wasn't just a few days ago perplexed by his sentient ball. Blitz notices the Skarmory and immediately starts glaring and crackling, full of menace and rage. Jean scowls down at the chicken.]

Beat it, Hahnchen, we're trying to talk.

[greatrage]

[Voltorb. Vol torb? No. Volt Orb. UGH. That was a terrible pun and Eren wants to punch whoever named that one. But then, Eren leaps to the defense of his nosy bird]

Hey, don't talk to her that way. If your weird angry ball can hang around, so can she. [Eren places a hand on her head] Calm down, alright? [she does, but keeps her eyes trained on Blitz. Balancing on one foot, she holds up two talons to her eyes, pointing at them, and then pointing at Blitz.]

... Anyway, what were you asking?

buh GUCK

[notvaljean]

[Oh snap. OH SNAP IT IS ON. Blitz's eyes widen with surprise at the sheer audacity of the Skarmory, and he goes into full intimidation mode, practically bristling with electricity and vibrating in the air. Jean glances at him, but he knows better than to touch the Voltorb when he's doing that.]

Blitz is going to kick your chicken's ass.

[Said conversationally, like they're discussing the weather.]

Did. Anyone. From home. Come with you?

[There, said nice and slow so Eren can understand.]

[greatrage]

He looks dangerous. [he also doesn't know about Skarmory's weakness to electricity. But she does, and she doesn't make any motion to attack. She's here to protect Eren, and she will do that, type disadvantage or no!]

Don't talk to ME like that either! Why are you such a scumbag?! [he growls, then takes a breath to calm down] ... No, as far as I can tell, I showed up by myself.

[notvaljean]

He is. He'll shock you if you get too close. [Or maybe just for fun, he likes to do that too. Blitz is kind of a douche. At the moment, though, he's fully invested in Skarmory, menacing her with all his might. He's not going to attack, though, not without Jean's permission or without the chicken making the first move.]

You bring it out in me. [Fact. But now that Jean has the information he wants, he deflates a little, some of his aggression bleeding away. He'd been hoping, maybe, that someone else from home might show up, might wander in this weird little world. It's a world he'd like, Jean thinks; he'd be good at taking care of the Pokemon, probably better than Jean. He'd have charmed Blitz immediately, and maybe Blitz wouldn't feel obligated to shock people all the time to get their attention.]

[Jean shakes his head. No sense in dwelling on this, and he turns, making a motion to follow him with his chin.] C'mon. We're camping not far from here.

[greatrage]

[Well, good, this can just be a good old fashioned stand-off, with neither willing to make the first move. Which is probably a good thing; these two get into enough fights on their own, there's no telling how rough their Pokémon might get with one another.

... Oh. That's a look that Eren knows, one he actually has the tact not to ask about. The look that Jean got when he was thinking about a certain lost comrade. It makes Eren think about him, too; he'd love this. He'd probably be surrounded by the things, like some sort of Pokémon whisperer. Actually, Armin would probably the same. He can imagine his friend running around this new world with a journal and a pencil.

Wait, we? Eren perks up a bit]

We? Who's "we"?

[notvaljean]

[The Pokemon are really just imitating their partners here, and, just like their human counterparts, aren't entirely willing to switch to attack mode without just cause. Blitz shoots the Skarmory another dirty look and menacing crackle before floating to Jean's side, where Jean causally lays a hand on his head. The Voltorb can tell Jean is upset about something, and that is more important than attacking the noisy bird.]

[Later, though. Soon.]

Me and Armin. Let's go.

[Jean turns and heads off, expecting Eren to follow, and also because he's afraid he might be expressing more than he wants to at the moment. If he knew that his expression had already given away who he was thinking about, he'd be furious.]

[greatrage]

[nah. It's all just bluster. All bark, no bite. Blitz sparks and zaps and Skarmory slides her feathers against one another, but nothing comes of it. Blitz bobs off, and so Skarmory sticks her neck under Eren's legs, and forces him up onto her back]

Ok, ok! I'm going to have to make a saddle for you or something...

[wait.... !!!!!!!]

Armin! Armin's here?! [his eyes MAY ACTUALLY be sparkling. Jean's sadness about Marco is forgotten for the moment in favor of elation about his own friend] I can't believe it! He's probably the best kind of person to have around for something like this, though.

[notvaljean]

[... and now Eren is riding his metal chicken. Will horrors wonders never cease?]

[Jean's eyes tighten with Eren's excitement. He shouldn't be so resentful, he knows, but damn, it's hard being around someone who is so overjoyed about seeing his friend. His living, breathing, actually here friend. Jean supposes he's going to be the odd man out now. Oh well. He has Blitz; they can share a tent.]

Yeah, he's having a good time.

[If, like Armin, you consider reading and researching and in general being a giant buzzkill fun. Armin has been very useful for doing all the necessary research and writing stuff down, though, Jean can't deny that.]

He has a bird Pokemon too.

[Jean's Voltorb is unique and knows it, and he bobs along proudly at Jean's side.]