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[usedlaserbeam]

Seeing as how it's been about seven months since the last time we did this, it's high time for another...


TEST DRIVE MEME!

Post with the characters you're thinking of apping in to see how they do! Either they've been here a while, are just arriving, or anything you want!

Have fun!

Comments

[shslasshat]

[Spoiler alert, Togami is used to getting his way because of his name. Taking that away from him is like taking... Well, it is taking his family name. He needs that!! Without his family name, he's just a Super High School Level Prat.

He raises an eyebrow at the offer, pushing his glasses up the bridge of his nose.]

Are you asking if you can travel with me? [He considers the offer.] If you wish. I could use an assistant.

[ardent]

[OH COME ON, WAS ANY OF THAT NECESSARY...]

We aren't illusions, Togami-kun - and anyone who's engaged in proper debate would know that insisting that your opponent needs to prove a negative results in a loss! Unless you can prove that this is such an illusion, you're just going to have to take my word for it!!

[... ... ...]

And be nice to her! ...it! ...both Fukawa-kun and whatever that is!

[throw_stone]

[He shakes his head. Ramza is still getting used to not getting special treatment, abandoning his former name - but this was his choice.]
Not just that. As I said, I was a sellsword - I wish to help you, at least against the monsters on the road. [You don't look like you can fight - yes, Ramza fights Pokemon alongside his team. He's curious about what it would be like working for a noble... even though he won't get paid. The experience is enough.]

[shslasshat]

[Your ass better not be Hermione in this fanfic, Kirigiri.

Besides fuck you, he's totally Draco Malfoy in this analogy.]

...

[ok so you got him there.]

[ardent]

Paranoia isn't objective!

[oh god he's phoenix-wrighting again]

[cluesandploys]

I'm committed to finding the truth, Ishimaru-kun. That's my obligation!

[Jesus christ you'd think their arms would be getting tired after awhile.]

[maddyragequits]

[There is the same thoughtful expression as he takes in the others' cries and demands, his heated passionate speech.]

Your allies... they might defend you even if you don't expect or demand them to. This is what allies are for. If you can trust them, they can trust you and vice-versa.
[The tone earns respect from him, and his expression grows steely as he listens to him telling him he would keep the word even though it may have consequences. Then after the pause, he is asked a question he wastes no time in answering, dark gaze as piercing as a cold night.]

I raise weapons for my Clan, I raise them to protect my brother... and I raise them so one day we find peace. [Which certainly would be different from anyone would expect having met any older version of him.]

throws myself at you

[dueltails]

That's not what you're supposed to do with these things.

[ Things... Only one person can be condescending enough to use that term, right?? Maybe not so much that as it is she wants to keep them at a distance because BONDING SUCKS.

All things leave in the end and never return, blah blah blah, internal angst she keeps wrapped up by sharp words and walls of snark. ]

What good is a pose if your thing is weak. [ Squatting down to stare the Blitzle in the eye. ] Hey, weakling, are you listening to me?

[shslasshat]

[HE DIDN'T LEARN THE VALUE OF FRIENDSHIP WHILE YOU WERE ALIVE, BRO, SORRY.]

And only an idiot would blindly ignore other possibilities in clinging to the illusion of Peace and Safety. That is the sort of thinking that can lead someone to willfully overlook the truth that's been confessed in front of his eyes for sentimentality.

[Low blow, Togami.]

You can proceed however recklessly you wish - I will be proceeding with proper caution until I've seen more for myself.

You said there were many of us here. Whom?

[yeah he's not dignifying that last thing with a response.]

[throw_stone]

[He nods.]
That trust is something I must build, by treating them as equals.
[But at his answer? Ramza gives a smile. Of course, clans are different in his world - but he gets the general gist of it.]
You wish for peace, as well? My land was in a dangerous time - even though a war had ended, there were still many who called for blood.
[And his brother had - those traitors had... no, he cannot tell him the true story.]
I wish to protect my sister, as well. She is the only one of our family without proper training. We seem to have quite a bit in common. But I suppose you do not hail from Ivalice.
[Ramza has picked up a new smooth rock now, and is skipping it.]

[ardent]

[have you seen how much ishimaru flails around tho]

Kirigiri-kun, we've been given a second chance at life here - I'm not going to allow you to be sent back to that school to be tortured any more than you have been already!! It's not an issue that we need to worry about anymore - we know what happens, and it's not going to be in our future anymore!!

[shslasshat]

[Togami doesn't bother pointing out that it's supposed to be the pokemon doing the fighting. If nothing else, the sight will be entertaining.]

Very well. Your offer is accepted.

...I have no way of compensating you, however. At least, not at the moment.

[ardent]

[...well, thankfully he hasn't experienced that one either; he'll flinch a little, but he'll hold his ground.]

Well, if none of us exist, I doubt the answer really matters for you!

[...because he's a hall monitor, not a saint, and he will gladly sass at you for the time being.]

But if you really want to know - my brother is here, as are Naegi-kun, Fujisaki-kun and Asahina-kun!

[throw_stone]

[puh-lease you will marvel at the power of thrown rocks and shouting at things and by marvel i mean probably think ramza is nuts]
That is fine.
[He gives a pause.]
It will be interesting seeing nobles of different lands. But, in exchange, I may leave if there is something I must attend to, without proper warning.
[He looks a little ashamed at this. Because he's sort of interested in that bug-catching contest, and so if he gets close to it he is going.]

[maddyragequits]

Iva--who? [A blink. No, he does not.]

I hail from, uh... Hn. [He still has much difficulty stating things such as this, since it was uncommon to speak your clan's name to strangers.] I hail from the Uchiha's dwellings. [Which were pretty much all over the place. Clans were nomadic mercenaries fighting for whoever paid them the most to protect their lands.]

My world was- is always at war... [He states belatedly, looking at the stone as it skips to the shore. He too, picks one up and flings it at the water's surface.] I was going to try and find a way to make everyone understand.

[cluesandploys]

[WELL THAT'S JUSw-wait, what

wait you guys you

you solved all the mysteries without her?

...

well gently caress what's she supposed to do now]

...!

[shslasshat]

[He's not going to dignify that with a response, either. Finding out who was chosen to be brought there could prove who was targeted, if this was a plot if the Mastermind's, or even if it was a plot at all.

But there's something else interesting in that list.]

Oowada and Fujisaki in the same place... I wonder, do you think Fujisaki holds a grudge?

[shslasshat]

[Goddamnit he thought he got away from the crazy people.]

That's fair.

[He doesn't need your company, after all, he's gracing you with his.]

[throw_stone]

Ivalice. It is the name of the country I came from.
[But he gives a nod - a man who just lives on the road? Well, a young one. He understands...] I don't stay still, even within the country. I am but a sellsword - a mercenary.
[...But his eyes narrow. A war-torn land, his hands tighten.] That is no way to live, people fighting for their own selfish reasons - using the many soldiers as pawns. There must be a way.
[...]
Perhaps that is why you came here. This land seems calm, but it may carry answers for both of us from our worlds.

[ardent]

[...ohhhhh no what'd he do]

...Yes, well!!

[Um. Um.

Right, figure out what you did, Ishimaru, don't just do what you used to do and assume it's their problem and storm off - ]

A-Are you all right?

[cluesandploys]

[Isn't Draco/Hermione like super popular on the internets?

Stop googling yourself, Togami-kun.]

Besides, I was the one who went to retrieve him. So I can confirm firsthand that he survived it.

[throw_stone]

Very well.
[Ramza does give a nod, before looking back down at that Sableye. He can't resist any more...]
That creature - is it some sort of demon?
[Yes. He sees his metal bird as fine, his pancake-thing as fine, but creepy gemstone thing? Nope.]

[ardent]

[...uh]

Of course not - they've already discussed it!

whoops i must go to all the rumps this is my life

[throw_stone]

[...Yes, that is a little unsettling. Don't mind Ramza stopping, still mounted on his Skarmory.

He is just staring himself, starting to dismount. He seems experienced with dismounting, at least?]

[cluesandploys]

A new life? Here?

[WHAT HAPPENED TO GETTING OUT OF MURDERSCHOOL THOUGH

okay again that point is kind of moot for you and your cold dead ass but how can you say something like that so flippantly]