SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER TEST DRIVE MEME

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➞ 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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Comments

[notvaljean]

[And then Jean will have to immediately drag Matt to Shiro. Here you go, space dad, he found one of your friends!]

I have no idea. I don't think so? Maybe? You'd have to ask my friend about that.

[Which friend, Jean? Which one?]

Beating up preschoolers.

[Said with no shame as he starts to lead them out of the forest.]

[theotherholt]

You, ah, aren't...super into it, huh? [It's a tease, but a gentle one, given with a lopsided smile.]

...beg your pardon? [Matt tags along, brow furrowing, wondering if he's just gotten himself into the company of A Thug.]

[notvaljean]

No, I like it, I'm just not very good at it yet. Not like Armin or Shiro.

[mic drop]

Look, I don't encourage it. He just does it on his own.

[Proud crackling. Yes, he's A Thug Pokemon, and proud of it.]

[theotherholt]

[Matt has So Many Questions about your punkass orb, Jean, but first he needs to stand up a little straighter, eyes very wide, clearly having a Big Gay Moment.]

...Shiro? Shiro is here? He's...he's here?

[notvaljean]

[Blitz is a total punkass, it's true. He wears the title proudly.]

You know Shiro? Big muscular guy, wears black all the time, kind of shaped like an upside down triangle?

[You know, that guy?]

Yeah, he's here! Are you one of his friends from home?

[theotherholt]

He didn't wear as much black when I knew him, but...but it has to be. It's gotta be.

...yes. A friend. [A friend with a Big Old Crush.]

[notvaljean]

Hold on, I'm pretty sure I've got a picture of him here somewhere...

[Just let him scroll through his communicator until... ah! Here it is! Jean turns the device around so Matt can see it, and yes, that's definitely Shiro, looking long-suffering and with two Spheals on his chest. The Spheals are grinning cheerfully at the camera, and one of them (Fat Ice Dog) is waving a flipper.]

This guy?

[theotherholt]

[Matt leans in and immediately bursts into laughter.]

What -- what are those on him?

[notvaljean]

[Yes, excellent, Matt has zeroed in on the best part of the picture. Jean likes this nerd.]

Those are Spheals. The one waving is mine, Fat Ice Dog, and the other one is Shiro's, Europa.

[See, another nerdy moon name. Truly the two of you are nerd soulmates.]

Want me to take you to him?

[theotherholt]

You named it...you literally named it Fat Ice Dog.

[Matt laughs, incredulous -- and of course it's name is Europa. Of course. It only makes sense. He looks up, hopeful and amazed and maybe a little misty-eyed.]

I do. Yeah. More than...more than anything.

[notvaljean]

Well, yeah, that's what he is.

[Jean tilts his head a little at Matt's expression, at first curious, and then realizing where he's seen that face before. That's the face of someone about to be reunited with someone deeply important to them, and Jean's smile is both encouraging and a little sad. Would that he'll get to make that face himself someday...]

Come on. Let's get out of the woods and get you two something to eat, and I'll call him to come pick you up.