Test Drive for April 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!

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YUH HUH D:

[writerjinrou]

[Without a doubt, Seishin would have been crushed to learn of Toshio being killed. Just from hearing he'd been shot, Seishin had felt a knot form within the pit of his stomach.

Knowing him as long as he had, Seishin could see the tense nature of the man before him. His own expression tensed a little as he heard the part about his father.

So, his father had finally been released from his suffering? He didn't have time to think on that, however, as he was met with two options:

He could tell Toshio the outright truth, or he could just...walk away. Not that all of him wanted to go with either one. Lying wasn't an option, because Toshio would be able to tell. As frustrating as it was, it was yet another reminder of just how close they once were.

He wanted things to be okay between them- if even for the pure sake of not losing over twenty years of friendship. Still, though...a part of him couldn't help but feel he didn't owe Toshio the explanation. And maybe he just really didn't want to see Toshio's face after he told him?]

No, ...I can't tell you that. [Because he had known. In the end, he had known what she would do. And that same part of him that had wanted to see the village burn to the ground, hadn't cared even a little about becoming something other than human. It had wanted it to happen, for the sake of him being able to say that he had chosen his path in life, ...finally.

He went quiet, after that. Even with all of his reasons? He, for some reason, couldn't look Toshio in the face, anymore.]

[doctor_ozaki]

[Twenty years, where the only time they'd been separated had been during university. And back then they had talked about keeping it that way, of moving forward with their own lives and never looking back.]

[Now the circumstances where completely different, but Toshio couldn't help but hope that this was another false alarm of a “final farewell”]

[But another part of him felt obligated to do something about Jinrou. After all, wasn't he the one that told everyone to not think of these things as human anymore? That those people where already gone and the creatures they faced where nothing more than monsters?]

[Could he really allow himself to become such a hypocrite? But then again wasn't he already one. He was a Doctor, a man born to save lives, and yet he would lead the charge to the genocide of the shiki's.]

[It wasn't until the last of the cigarette in his mouth had burned away and the ash dropped to the floor that he would speak again, or even dare to move.]

[Toshio lets out a sigh and tosses the rest of his wasted cigarette to the ground, stomping it out as he moves forward to close the space between them. ]

We made our decisions and we’ll both have to live with them. But as I watched the village burn I decided that was the end. [At that time he had also realized that his battle hadn’t been with the shiki at all but something else, something he couldn’t really place his finger on even now. But he knew he had lost, and rather than feeling crushed he had felt relief. And he knew one thing, that he didn’t want to go back.]

This place offers you a new beginning, and I plan to take advantage of that. I’m not a leader, nor am I important in anyway here. I’m just another guy whose aim is to keep everyone from dying before we get home. [Although he already failed at that with a certain little girl, the memory of which caused him to look away from Seishin. And for a moment his mask was gone, even now when he lost a life he would blame himself. He was going to say more, it was clear by the way his mouth opened, but in the end he just closed it. He just didn’t know what to say.]


....


[Other then I don't want to loose you. But hadn't he been selfish enough? He would leave that decision to Seishin himself.]

[writerjinrou]

[Seishin had stood there, quietly, the entire time Toshio seemed to be battling with an unseen, unknown internal dilemma. The Jinrou made a few guesses as to what could possibly be going through his head. With a gaze being shifted upward to scan the town, he realized that the feeling was returning. It was actually starting to become...a little difficult to ignore. There was a dryness in his throat, a pressure in his chest.

And...go figure, just as he was about to tell Toshio that he really needed to go...

Suddenly the space was being closed and Seishin felt his entire body tense a little. He was so close, and Seishin could feel the pressure in his chest building. Maybe if he just found something to eat...

Seishin attempted to focus on Toshio's words. As soon as he was hearing them, however, it became a little easier to focus. Seishin's expression softened a little, and then he turned his head to look to the side.]

A new beginning, huh?

[He slowly exhaled and closed his eyes a moment. Put that way, Seishin could admit that it was an exceptionally tempting thought. A new beginning at life, in a place where he could start over. There was just the faintest lifting of the corner of his lips, before he opened his eyes and rested them on the doctor's face.

He'd seen the look on his face, prior to looking away. He'd seen the way Toshio had appeared to want to say something.]

Did...something happen? [It was his attempt at maybe...reaching out? It was all he could think to do, in that moment. In spite of that feeling in his chest, he still cared. Even with the bitterness that lurked in his heart, in the back of his mind...he still cared about Toshio. Enough to push pride aside and make sure he was okay.

Especially with him right there in his face, feelings...right out in the open, like that.]