[meme] Test Drive

[citycouncil]

Tag into this post with characters you're thinking of apping to the game (characters who are not currently in-game or currently reserved by someone else). It can be just a tag, a brief EP, whatever you want. You can be new to the game, or simply want to test out a fresh pup. Tag each other with these characters or those already in game, and have fun.

Also, please include the name of their canon somewhere in or on the comment or on their profile page.

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[ahollowman]

Not so good, actually. Kind of ... horrible, in almost all the ways. But I guess every morning you wake up is a good one. Someone at least definitely said that once.

How's things?

[itsdarkcorners]

Well, if someone did, whoever they were, they were a serious optimist.

Things are... not great. They've been worse, but they've been better. But then, I guess that's usually the case, right? Especially when it comes to something like all of this.

[ahollowman]

I am ... genuinely sorry to hear that things have been going crap for you, too. Things should be going not-crap for at least someone.

You wanna talk about it? Lay it on me? I have like, two ears, and they still work. As far as I know. How that is, is anyone's guess, with all the, you know, Hulk roaring and explosions and stuff, but.

[itsdarkcorners]

God, I'm not sure I'd even know where to start. It's all so... convoluted, I guess, and everything started going to shit right around the same time, which didn't help.

Most recently, I... There was someone I'd put a lot of faith in, who I really wanted to think wasn't the person everyone else thought he was, and he did something that made it really hard to keep doing that.

[ahollowman]

Murphy's law. Kicks you right in the squishy parts every single time.

I'm sorry to hear that. Maybe you guys can work things out. I hope you guys can, because that's me. In another situation. I'm that person. I fucked up.

[itsdarkcorners]

Maybe. Maybe you are, maybe you did. But somehow I get the feeling you haven't gone on any murder sprees lately.

Body count back home's gotten pretty high.

[ahollowman]

Guess that sort of depends on who's doing the definition of murder.

[ he turned a little pale, a muscle in his jaw ticking. tony's body count was up there. sure, every one had been intent on killing him first, and it was easy to think they were all faceless mooks. but he'd done it without blinking. aimed a nuke at an alien warship and thought, sayonara you sons of bitches.]

Herd Hell's Kitchen's having a bad time of it, though. Got some enhanceds running around.

[itsdarkcorners]

Yeah. Yeah, we've seen better days. Or at least I'm assuming they happened at one point. I don't think I've been around for any of them. Between... the enhanced, I guess, and the gangs, and all the other bullshit, it just seems like the good guys keep losing. You think you've won, and then suddenly it all gets even worse.

[ahollowman]

Sorry. That's a very weird, depersonalizing word to use in a conversation with a very nice girl from nowhere. Bad Tony, leave Business Tony in the office.

It does. It does feel that way, Karen. But you know what, I would rather be on all the shit lists, and lose every single time, and be the sin-eater for the entire world if I have to, because I think one day we'll still win.

[itsdarkcorners]

You know, usually I'm the one giving that speech.

But thank you. Really. I — Most of the time, I agree with you. And I do, it's not that I don't, it just... gets hard to keep going sometimes. Which you probably know from experience.

[ahollowman]

Well, if it ever gets too hard to bear, you are cordially invited to my apartment. We can lay on the floor doing positive visualization techniques, and when that doesn't work because Bruce is a huge liar, we can watch The Breakfast Club on Filmflix or whatever and throw popcorn at the TV screen.

[itsdarkcorners]

That sounds like more fun than I've had in a long time.