The holidays have passed, but ATP approaches!

[these_guys]

TEST DRIVE MEME


➞ 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!


NOT SURE WHERE TO BEGIN YOUR TEST-DRIVE JOURNEY?
CHECK OUT ALL THE LOCATIONS WE HAVE AVAILABLE IN:

JOHTO | and | KANTO

✭ ✭ ✭


As usual, we've created a Google Doc so you can submit your wanted characters for a big Route game ad on this month's ATP!
FIND IT HERE
CUTOFF FOR ADDING CHARACTER WANT ADS TO THE GDOC IS:
6:30 PM, EST, ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27TH!

Comments

[shuttermouse]

I know better than to eat unfamiliar berries. Are they poisonous?

[preybeforemeals]

It's not as though I have firsthand experience! But not to my knowledge - they're just enough to ruin your day, and a few days afterwards.

[shuttermouse]

I'll definitely stay away from those things, then. [ She'd rather not have any of her days ruined, thanks. ]

What are we waiting for? Come on, let's go to a nice cafe so you can buy me a parfait.

[preybeforemeals]

[He just laughs a bit at that, shaking his head.]

One would think you hadn't seen a parfait in three years, either.

[That said, come on, you. He knows where to get some absolute shitkicker parfaits around here.]

It's lucky that we met up like this, either way; I've been here a while, I've gotten to know the area very well.

[shuttermouse]

How long have you been here? Kanae-kun didn't say anything about you going on a Pokémon journey.

[ Maybe he was too busy wailing dramatically to notice???? ]

[preybeforemeals]

[...]

...Why in the world are you consulting Kanae about anything?

[i mean ngl that boy means well but he's dumb as hell]

[shuttermouse]

You were busy being boring so I turned to him. He talks to his rose about you a lot.

[preybeforemeals]

[Well, if that fazes him any, it's not apparent in his response - it's prompt and about as flippant as ever.]

After so long, somehow I'm not surprised...so how old are you now? You continue to not look a day over sixteen; keep that up and I'll start having to ask you what your secret is.

[...okay and by "not a day over sixteen" he really means "not a day over twelve" but you know what no one needs to go there right now]

[shuttermouse]

[ ...thank you, Tsukiyama. ]

I'm twenty-four!

[preybeforemeals]

[...Ah.]

Really.

[That's...a little unsettling for a lot of reasons, actually.]

[shuttermouse]

Yes, really.

[preybeforemeals]

[Okay, so he can look forward to dying like hell a very short while after he returns to Tokyo. Good to know.]

I really ought to ask you what your secret is, then.

[...]

Although if you say it's parfait...

[he swears to god hori don't you even]

[shuttermouse]

[ Jokingly: ]

French fries with lots of ketchup.

[preybeforemeals]

[oh goddammit]

Life is short, n'est-ce pas?

[shuttermouse]

It sure is. And you haven't given up the random French, I see.

[ ...are they at the cafe yet because if they are she's going to order one of these disasters. ]

[preybeforemeals]

[HORI, NO

my god since coming here he has developed a greater understanding of two things

1. exactly how good those parfaits actually are, and
2. how utterly disgusting it is that you can actually eat all that in one sitting

i mean he'll let you do it but hell if he knows how]

Well, it seems some things never change for both of us.

[shuttermouse]

[ Guess who's shoving parfait in her mouth in a completely unladylike manner. ]

Ah, I've missed this... Parfait tastes better when you're paying for it.

[preybeforemeals]

I'm sure you could have asked Kanae.

[It's probably not what she's getting at and he knows it; it's just easier to disregard that part of it for now.]

[shuttermouse]

Nope. He doesn't like me.

[preybeforemeals]

And if he had any semblance of sense, he wouldn't let that stop him, now, would he?

[shuttermouse]

No, but he's been pretty crabby lately. It's no fun. [ And by crabby she probably means completely melodramatic. ]

[preybeforemeals]

My, it sounds like you've been positively suffering lately - a true tragedy, to be sure.

Ah, but not to worry, little mouse, you've got me around now.

[shuttermouse]

You'll keep me entertained, right, Tsukiyama-kun?

[preybeforemeals]

Don't I always?