Test Drive for February 2014 Apps

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Welcome to your monthly Test Drive for high_seas! Here is where new players can test out their characters' voices, old players can try out new muses, and everyone can help each other get some threads for their applications! Feel free to use one of the prompts below, or come up with something on your own! Comment around, have fun, and remember that any CR formed here does not carry over to the game!

See you during the application round!

♦ So you're new to this world and have just woken up in the Town Square. How do you react? What do you do?

♦ You're lost at sea. Maybe you got separated from your crew. Or perhaps you're on an abandoned island. You need help!

♦ "Pirates off the starboard bow!" It's an enemy ship! Attack!!

♦ You and your crew are hanging out on your ship. Just another day at sea!

♦ "LAND, HO!" Hey look, a new island! How about you go explore it? Tell us what you find!

Comments

[headfons]

[So, Luke's not...completely unfamiliar with the idea of there being multiple versions of someone. What he is used to, however, is uh...

Well, something slightly more permanent? So, as the redhead peers around the ship at all the versions of his crewmate he gives a surprised blink, reaching up to scratch at the back of his head.

How 'bout that...]

Wow...

[He isn't actually sure which one to talk to, actually.]

How's that even possible...?

[obstinates]

[He gets the one standing upside-down Spiderman-style on one of the cross-posts trying to work on some rigging.]

What? Hey, you talk to yourself a lot or somethin'?

brb needing better icons

[headfons]

[He blinks up at the blond, head tilting as he frowns at him a bit.]

Huh? Well, I was just wondering how it's possible for... [He glances around at the other blond-haired people.] ...that.

grab all the icons ever

[obstinates]

[Naruto, this Naruto, tilts his head a little and blinks a few times. Let it be said that Naruto has never been the sharpest crayon in the box, so he's a little too dense to realize what Luke is going on about without having it pointed out to him.

After all, this shit is completely normal for Naruto.]

Well, I don't really get it either, but Sakura-chan says that if you position the sails at certain angles and have enough of them in certain spots, you can catch the wind and that's how we can sail even when the wind is blowing the other direction.

[That must be what you're talking about, right?

The clone pats Luke on the shoulder.]

It's okay if you don't understand.

I have a million icons for him I just keep being too lazy to upload better ones. XD

[headfons]

[...

What.

No.

That's...

Luke gives sigh.]

No, I meant...there being more than one of you.

[obstinates]

Oh.

[He blinks again. Then he flips back down and lands on his feet to stand beside Luke.]

Why didn't you just say so? That's an easy question! They're just shadow clones.

[headfons]

[Well he kind of said that?

The redhead quirks a brow and blinks at the blond.]

Shadow Clones? How do you make so many? ...Actually, how do you make them, period?

[obstinates]

With chakra. It's a special jutsu.

[This... isn't really his area of expertise. Sakura is better at explaining techniques and how they work. The best Naruto can do is a colorful metaphor.]

It's like food. A jutsu is a recipe and chakra is the ingredients. I've got a ton of ingredients, so I can make a ton of food.

Hey, when's lunch?

[headfons]

[Oh. Well, Luke actually...kind of got it? Kind of.

This is the guy that had sort of just recently came to completely understand fonons back on Auldrant. So, tossing in...jutsus and chakras, on top of that...?

Maybe he'll understand it better, over time, or something. They are on the same crew, after all.]

Uh...okay... [To the mention of food.] I think they said it'll be ready soon. [As if tossing in its own commentary, his stomach growls, which is followed by a slight groan from Luke himself. He missed breakfast, due to oversleeping.] ...Hopefully, real soon.

[obstinates]

[Yeah, Naruto's stomach growls even if he's just a clone. Talking about food has made him hungry. It's made all of them hungry.

He looks down at his own stomach and frowns.]

Real, real soon. Anyways! I've got all the chores handled! Is that why you came up here?

[headfons]

[The replica cocks his head to the side and scratches the side of it with one hand, the other hand resting on a hip.]

Well, actually...yeah. [Laughing softly.] I came to see if you needed any help. Guess that's the last thing you would've needed, though, huh?

[With that, he's glancing around the ship at all of the clones.] I've gotta say...it's a pretty cool trick. [His tone lowers itself.] Wonder what he would've thought about something like this...

[It's not the first time Van has popped into his head since he arrived here, either. His former mentor, his former teacher, ...his former friend, and--more recently, his enemy...Luke can't help but wonder what he would have done with the power to make a bunch of clones at his hands.]

[obstinates]

[Oh, that's kinda nice. The chores don't really bother Naruto because, yeah, he can make a shitload of clones. There are definite perks to that jutsu, but it's nice to hear someone was going to check on him and make sure he was doing alright. At least the ship hasn't sunk yet!

He puffs out his chest a bit when Luke states that it's a cool trick, but then he reels it in again when he seems to voice his thoughts out loud.]

Who would?

[headfons]

[He blinks and glances at the blond, before he gives a sheepish laugh.]

Oh, uh... Just someone from back home. [He then adds with a smile.] It's a long story.