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Test Drive Meme
Applications will open on November 01st at 00:00 GMT+4 (October 31st at 15:00 EST) and close on November 08th at 23:59 GMT+4 (14:59 EST)
— Reply with a character you wish to test in the game's setting.
— Feel free to use one of the prompt below or make one of your own!
— Tag around! This is a panfandom RP, so don't hesitate to tag both castmates and non-castmates.
— Most importantly, have fun!
1/ Welcome to the world of Crystallis!
You have seen reality shatter and collapse around you, in the depths of the void you found a Crystal and now you are in the city of Aqures Ixen, surrounded by Moogles and people as lost and confused as you are. On the bright side, everyone thinks you're a hero! On the downside, they expect you to save the world. Maybe their expectations are a bit too much. Thankfully, you're not abandoned to your fate as a Moogle explains to you everything you need to know. Maybe it's time to get to know your companions in misfortune. Besides, it seems this has occurred past month already-- Maybe some people who have been here for longer than you may help.
2/ Do you like your new life?
No? Well, either way, you better get used to it, to your new powers, to your new house, to the ball of fur that follows your every steps—Who knows, maybe you'll even make some friends here. Besides, even if everyone expects you to save the world, fighting isn't the only way to do so. Maybe you could open a shop to help and properly equip your friends who are actually eager to fight. Maybe you could try and gather people who think diplomacy can stop war, you could even start your own researches on the Crystals— Or you could make sure your house is the prettiest in all of Aqures Ixen. Anything is possible.
3/ Neighborhood woes
The government of Aqures Ixen is very sorry, but it seems there are too many of you Heroes of Light. Hence why there is no free houses left in district dedicated to housing you. This may also be why you're not alone in the house that was given to you. Hopefully you're not living with a mad villain plotting to take over the world late at night, and hopefully your neighbor isn't a singer who doesn't know how to sing. On the bright side, you may have someone very cool living with you and an artist next door! It's just not likely.
4/ Crystallis de Chocobo
Upon arrival, your Moogle gave you a map of Crystallis. This world may be a bit big for you to explore, so why not go to the Chocobo Farm and ask for a Chocobo? These big birds can't fly, but they're much more efficient than horses when it comes to travelling. Maybe it's your first time riding a Chocobo; it might be a good idea to have someone with you in case something goes wrong. Or maybe the old man at the farm didn't have any Chocobos left and gave you some Chocobo Lure© so you can go and capture your own. You can find details on Chocobo Capture here.
5/ A thing called Mognet
Hopefully you weren't used to Internet and cellphones back home. Otherwise, you might be a tiny bit confused when your Moogle returns to you with a stack of letters. Or maybe someone else's Moogle is coming to you with a voice message it learnt by heart and is now going to recite to you with a lot of Kupo. That's how the "network" works here.
6/ A thing called Strike
In spite of how old-fashioned it is, Mognet is very useful and odds are that you may have become dependent on it. Hopefully not, because one local tradition seems to be Mognet Strikes. Nobody knows any more whether the Moogles have legitimate reasons to go on strike or if they are just lazy. But today, Mognet is down, and to get information you have no choice but going to the public board in the third district or in taverns.
7/ I believe I can fly~
You are on an Airship! Airships regularly depart from Aqures Ixen and stop by most major cities in the world, so they're the perfect means of transportation for you to go and explore this world. You can go anywhere in a matter of hours — One can only hope you don’t have motion sickness.
8/ Exploration
Enough expository banter. Now is the time to explore. Maybe rather than spending most of your time in Aqures Ixen, you'd rather spend it living in Balicea, or betting on Chocobo Races in Trano Golsaucia. Or maybe you'd rather go and explore some ancient ruins that may hold some precious information. With Airships and Chocobos at your disposal, you can go nearly anywhere that isn't under imperial control; unless you have a death wish of course.
9/ Random Encounter
You were minding your own business walking around, and suddenly monsters attacked you! Time to put to use the skills you've learned with your Jobs! Alternatively, maybe this encounter isn't random at all, and you have been sent on a mission to kick some imperial asses in the war confronting the Heran Empire and the Republic of Esdham. Good luck!
10/ Getting Jobs is hard
It all started when you asked Cid to give you a new Job. What could and should have been a formality, quickly turned into a trial. All you wanted was a Job, and here you are in the wild, hunting for a Malboro Vine. Or maybe you are in some ancient and decrepit ruins looking for an artifact. Or yet again, maybe she simply asked you to assist her in her researches on the Crystals. Getting new Jobs is not easy. Consider yourself happy though, at least you don't have to do that alone.
11/ The world is subject to unrelenting pain and suffering…
This is why you should play a game. After all, there are things a lot more important than saving the world: Blitzball is one of them. Triple Triad is another. Why don't you take a break and do something different for once; anyone wanting to play Blitzball is given a special potion allowing them to breath underwater, whereas someone who wants to play Triple Triad should have no difficulties finding veterans more than happy to get rid of their low level cards.
12/ Events of the Past
Missed an event you would have liked to participate in? The Test Drive Meme is the perfect place to play this event without being restricted by the game's chronology! Maybe you would have liked to capture a Chocobo during Crystalis de Chocobo, maybe you would have liked to be lost and attacked from all sides in the creepy Magitek Research Facility, or maybe you'd like to celebrate the Christmas of Crystallis. Yet again, maybe you would have liked to regain your true power and subsequently be on your path to death, as in The Night of the Thirteen Moogles. Or how about participating in Christmas at Crystallis or fighting in a war for the warriors among you?
13/ Wild Card
Don't like the options offered here? Go crazy and choose what you want to do in this world!
You have seen reality shatter and collapse around you, in the depths of the void you found a Crystal and now you are in the city of Aqures Ixen, surrounded by Moogles and people as lost and confused as you are. On the bright side, everyone thinks you're a hero! On the downside, they expect you to save the world. Maybe their expectations are a bit too much. Thankfully, you're not abandoned to your fate as a Moogle explains to you everything you need to know. Maybe it's time to get to know your companions in misfortune. Besides, it seems this has occurred past month already-- Maybe some people who have been here for longer than you may help.
2/ Do you like your new life?
No? Well, either way, you better get used to it, to your new powers, to your new house, to the ball of fur that follows your every steps—Who knows, maybe you'll even make some friends here. Besides, even if everyone expects you to save the world, fighting isn't the only way to do so. Maybe you could open a shop to help and properly equip your friends who are actually eager to fight. Maybe you could try and gather people who think diplomacy can stop war, you could even start your own researches on the Crystals— Or you could make sure your house is the prettiest in all of Aqures Ixen. Anything is possible.
3/ Neighborhood woes
The government of Aqures Ixen is very sorry, but it seems there are too many of you Heroes of Light. Hence why there is no free houses left in district dedicated to housing you. This may also be why you're not alone in the house that was given to you. Hopefully you're not living with a mad villain plotting to take over the world late at night, and hopefully your neighbor isn't a singer who doesn't know how to sing. On the bright side, you may have someone very cool living with you and an artist next door! It's just not likely.
4/ Crystallis de Chocobo
Upon arrival, your Moogle gave you a map of Crystallis. This world may be a bit big for you to explore, so why not go to the Chocobo Farm and ask for a Chocobo? These big birds can't fly, but they're much more efficient than horses when it comes to travelling. Maybe it's your first time riding a Chocobo; it might be a good idea to have someone with you in case something goes wrong. Or maybe the old man at the farm didn't have any Chocobos left and gave you some Chocobo Lure© so you can go and capture your own. You can find details on Chocobo Capture here.
5/ A thing called Mognet
Hopefully you weren't used to Internet and cellphones back home. Otherwise, you might be a tiny bit confused when your Moogle returns to you with a stack of letters. Or maybe someone else's Moogle is coming to you with a voice message it learnt by heart and is now going to recite to you with a lot of Kupo. That's how the "network" works here.
6/ A thing called Strike
In spite of how old-fashioned it is, Mognet is very useful and odds are that you may have become dependent on it. Hopefully not, because one local tradition seems to be Mognet Strikes. Nobody knows any more whether the Moogles have legitimate reasons to go on strike or if they are just lazy. But today, Mognet is down, and to get information you have no choice but going to the public board in the third district or in taverns.
7/ I believe I can fly~
You are on an Airship! Airships regularly depart from Aqures Ixen and stop by most major cities in the world, so they're the perfect means of transportation for you to go and explore this world. You can go anywhere in a matter of hours — One can only hope you don’t have motion sickness.
8/ Exploration
Enough expository banter. Now is the time to explore. Maybe rather than spending most of your time in Aqures Ixen, you'd rather spend it living in Balicea, or betting on Chocobo Races in Trano Golsaucia. Or maybe you'd rather go and explore some ancient ruins that may hold some precious information. With Airships and Chocobos at your disposal, you can go nearly anywhere that isn't under imperial control; unless you have a death wish of course.
9/ Random Encounter
You were minding your own business walking around, and suddenly monsters attacked you! Time to put to use the skills you've learned with your Jobs! Alternatively, maybe this encounter isn't random at all, and you have been sent on a mission to kick some imperial asses in the war confronting the Heran Empire and the Republic of Esdham. Good luck!
10/ Getting Jobs is hard
It all started when you asked Cid to give you a new Job. What could and should have been a formality, quickly turned into a trial. All you wanted was a Job, and here you are in the wild, hunting for a Malboro Vine. Or maybe you are in some ancient and decrepit ruins looking for an artifact. Or yet again, maybe she simply asked you to assist her in her researches on the Crystals. Getting new Jobs is not easy. Consider yourself happy though, at least you don't have to do that alone.
11/ The world is subject to unrelenting pain and suffering…
This is why you should play a game. After all, there are things a lot more important than saving the world: Blitzball is one of them. Triple Triad is another. Why don't you take a break and do something different for once; anyone wanting to play Blitzball is given a special potion allowing them to breath underwater, whereas someone who wants to play Triple Triad should have no difficulties finding veterans more than happy to get rid of their low level cards.
12/ Events of the Past
Missed an event you would have liked to participate in? The Test Drive Meme is the perfect place to play this event without being restricted by the game's chronology! Maybe you would have liked to capture a Chocobo during Crystalis de Chocobo, maybe you would have liked to be lost and attacked from all sides in the creepy Magitek Research Facility, or maybe you'd like to celebrate the Christmas of Crystallis. Yet again, maybe you would have liked to regain your true power and subsequently be on your path to death, as in The Night of the Thirteen Moogles. Or how about participating in Christmas at Crystallis or fighting in a war for the warriors among you?
13/ Wild Card
Don't like the options offered here? Go crazy and choose what you want to do in this world!
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"Alright. You know anyone who can explain what's goin' on here?" How he missed Squall's calm, straightforward personality at this time. He would get this done.
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"I can." She's grown up some and if he really wanted to know what was going on she didn't mind explaining it to him. "..but it's a really long story. Can we... like find a place to sit?"
If not Yuffie was going to plant her butt on the ground.
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"Better make it comfortable, we're gonna be there a while." He waves a hand, gesturing he would follow her in whichever direction she chose. "If you got a place in mind, let's get goin'."
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She waved at him and then started walking towards the two person home that her and Vincent shared. He wouldn't be home anyway and unlike some of the more crowded homes it was small and cozy and they could talk. Yuffie was also pretty sure that there was stuff to make hot chocolate there and it was cold and chocolate was awesome. She was also wearing shorts and a tank top despite the weather turning to the harsh frost of winter.
Yuffie didn't say much to Cid during their walk. She wasn't the tour-guide sort of person and she's been here so long it just feels like home now. When they reached her home she walked in the front door, she had forgotten to lock it earlier so it was easy to walk in. Mooshoo, as if taking a silent cue, went off to his room to work and leave the pair be.
"So! Were do I start?" There was to much stuff going on.
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"The beginnin's as good a place as ever," Cid responded, choosing to stand with legs spread and arms folded. He could kill for some tea (no milk, please Aerith, no more milk) but would settle for anything Yuffie offered. The truth be told, he wasn't pleased by the weather either. "Where ya from? I'm from Hollow Bastion. It's where you're from too, last time I checked."
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"Ah, see the beginning is a really far place." Hollow Bastion sounds like a weird name for a city. "I'm from Gaia. I am the Princess of Wutai. You were from Rocket town." Or at least she thinks that's what it was called. Really she was only sort of paying attention through that whole journey.
"I need something to drink..." She got up and disappeared into the kitchen not letting Cid get in a word. Yuffie decided to make tea, it was a basic green tea, nothing compared to what Wutai has but she liked it. She placed a cup in front of Cid when it was done letting silence fill the small home.
"You sound like Sora. You know that?"
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"Good kid. A little airheaded sometimes," he joked, giving the cup a small wave so as not to spill. "Can't seem to stay out of trouble either. But a good kid." He dared another sip but the tea still hadn't cooled enough. "But if you know Sora, you can't be some... princess." What a strange thought, that Yuffie could be royalty. "Ya gotta be from Hollow Bastion, same as me. We met 'im in Traverse Town."
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"So I don't know."
Yuffie was not comfortable with not knowing. "And why can't I be a princess?" Her head turned to look at him with a slight pout. Seriously Cid, you're so mean!
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"But this Rocket Town." He raised his eyes from his drink to peer at Yuffie with unrestrained curiosity. For a town to earn this name, it must be one hell of an engineering playground. "What's it like?"
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"Well I'm not the princess of Hollow Bastion anyway." Just in case he didn't know that. "What committee?"
assuming he'd eventually answer her she went ahead and answered him first.
"There is a giant rocket in the middle of it." They weren't really creative when they thought about that one. She forgot how it got there but she knew that it didn't work. He should probably ask Vincent some of those details since tall dark and grump pays more attention.
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"The Hollow Bastion Restoration Committee. We're rebuildin' everything." Watching his world come apart at the seams never tampered the hope he'd return someday, but having it happen to him twice now, and this time without his ship... "Or we were until it happened again." He scowled, holding his cup level with his chin. "Should've seen it in its heyday. It was beautiful. Flowers and fountains everywhere."
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"It sounds nice."
She'd want to see that besides, after her trip to Crystallis she's entertained world hoping. It'd be cool to go to other places. It's better than going back home anyway, considering how complicated things there are getting.
"As for the bonehead... I was pretty sure it was Cid. The you Cid from that world."
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"What kind of idiot is this Cid you got? I'd like to give him a piece of my mind!" He no longer waved his tea in the air, but he looked downright furious. "Leavin' rockets around... He's lucky someone hasn't blown 'em all up yet!" At this he took yet another sip, his eyes narrowed. "Sheer dumb luck, I tell ya."
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...that'd be embarrassing.
"I've been here for over a year." She wasn't alone but it wasn't the same. She had spent a lot of time with Cid and Red before. Not having them here was like having part of her family missing.
"Rocket stuff aside. Tell me about how you know me?" It sounded nice.
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"I told ya, we're from the same town: Hollow Bastion! Open yer ears already." He again used his cup to gesture, motioning it in her direction as he gave his order. "It went by a different name back then. Radiant Garden, it was called. It was gorgeous until the Heartless showed up."
His eyes grew hard as he recalled the day they came. It wasn't a difficult topic so much as it was an infuriating one. "I found you before they could get to ya. You were little then, about..." Leaning to the side, Cid held his free hand parallel to the ground at the height she would be at around seven years of age. "This short. I picked you up, put you in my ship with Leon and Aerith, and got the heck outta there. We've been together ever since."
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"Is he cute?"
It was definitely an important question that needed to be asked.
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She felt as if it was an innocent enough question. If they spent a lot of time together maybe he was like Zack... though she didn't know and she couldn't really ask Cid because he wouldn't know.
Her mind continued to untumble a few things, her thoughts skipping around before she smiled brightly.
"You'll be here for my Birthday!" She wasn't planning to have a party but with Cid here she wanted one.
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"Is that comin' up already? Hot dog." He squared his jaw in thought. Time sure flew by. "What're you gonna do for it? Dinner and cake? Maybe get a few decorations in here too, simple things, like a 'Happy Birthday!' banner."
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"I was thinking something less childish." She glanced over at Cid for a long moment, her lips slowly forming into a wider and wider smile.
"Since I am turning nineteen." And that smile continued to grow. "Like a party at the bar."
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"A bar. You wanna have a party at a bar." Was it getting older mixed with watching a kid grow up that was doing this? "Well... Ah, to heck with it. You're old enough now, ain'tcha? Alright, a bar it is!"
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One older person agreed which means that the others can't possibly argue. If she was still on speaking terms with Tifa she'd get her to bartend but that relationship was still a little stressed.
Yuffie realized that she hadn't told Cid anything about the past or what he wanted to hear but she didn't really care. It was easier just not to think about it. Cid was here which was all that really mattered. She was more excited about the future than the past anyway.
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“You’re no fun.”
She had drunk more than that already though he didn’t need to know that. She couldn’t help but wonder if feeding him alcohol will bring out the Cid she knew more; the crude, sexist, jerk who she’s come to look up too. It really wasn’t any wonder that Yuffie came out a little messed up considering those she hung out around. Cid had his work cut out for him if he was looking to look after the girl.