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BUCKLE UP: A TEST DRIVE MEME

Been feeling as if you'd sort of, kind of, maybe like to consider a new character at Poly? Haven't had the chance to figure out whether they work for you in the setting or in general?

Just start a thread for them here with:

character name | series

- in the title, and tag around! Alternatively, just comment to someone else's thread, either doing your own thing, assuming characters just met in the City, or maybe working off one of the following premises:

i. ...it's raining people! The character whom you're tagging missed the memo about perfect Fountain landings and ended up falling on your character instead.

OR

ii. ...ah, a lovely evening at a City shop or bar, when you've just realized you don't have the currency to pay your tab and you have to beg or steal it off someone else!

OR

iii. ...your characters are running up an endlessly high hill from a herd of rabid pandas.

Naturally, the meme is more than open to people who aren't currently at Poly, so pimp this to poor souls you're hoping to enable, it's the perfect time to lure'im in ♥

Comments

Charley Brewster | Fright Night (2011)

[manlypuce]

incomiiiiiiiiiiing

[badgeandgauntlet]

Shouldn't you be in school right now?

[Babyfaced and it is a weekday.]

Hey.

[manlypuce]

Look, I don't even know where I am. [beat] But yeah, I should be.

c:

[badgeandgauntlet]

You got a name?

[He doesn't know either. Great. Well, this could be a dream. Except it is lacking dead presidents and seems pretty linear.]

[manlypuce]

Brewster. Charley Brewster. [Shit, that never sounds as cool as it does when Bond does it.] How about you?

OHAI

[socoolbrewster]

Oh, if it isn't the king of the douchebags. Like this place couldn't get any worse.

[Shut up Ed, you're having a grand old time and you know it, there's no need to be an asshat because he hurt your feelings for the billionth time.]

OH SHI--

[manlypuce]

Ed. [Fuck, and he was just starting to get over all of that guilt.] Hey man, I'm not here to fight.

PREPARE TO BE....SNARKED AT. BECAUSE YOU BROKE HIS HEART. ...only not.

[socoolbrewster]

No, of course not. You never fight. Mostly because that would involve actually talking to me. Kind of goes against that whole "tool" look you're going for.

[You will notice he's not trying to attack you! ...Yet. Hey, he's grown. Ish. ...He's also eaten recently, which helps.]

Sorry about the messy breakup, dude.

[manlypuce]

Look, I'm sorry about that, okay? I was a douchebag. I was the fucking king of the douchebags.

[As he sets his backpack down, there's... rattling? It almost sounds like Charley's packing stakes.]

i had to. i had to. it wouldn't get out of my head.

[charring]

[Pay no attention to the redhead as she accidentally bumps into you. And then looks at apologetically at first. But then...confusion.] Pavel, who dressed you today? Did you let Howl pick this out?

it's all gooood.

[manlypuce]

Jesus, sor--what? [This is not the face-twin you are looking for.] Pavel? Howl?

[He shakes his head, reminding himself that this is a fucked up place--like the Twilight Zone, only with Evil running around.]

Charley Brewster, and-- [pause to look down at what he's wearing] --my girlfriend picked this out.

this is how it will happen when he gets here, too.

[charring]

[Oh. Oh, damn. And also, she recognizes you, good sir. Even though they've never met.] McGee.

[Sure, why not? That's what Ed calls her.] Sorry. You look like a good friend of mine.

When? >_> I sense enabling.

[manlypuce]

[He's trying to be casual. It's not like he just walked into bizzaro-land or anything.] McGee. Hey.

No, it's cool.

[likeboudica]

Pavel?

[manlypuce]

[That's not the first time today Charley's been called Pavel. He sighs.]

Sorry, lady. Charley Brewster. [But she looks nice, so he smiles at her.] Hey.

[likeboudica]

Oh. [ Now that she's looking more closely, there are differences. ] My apologies.

[ Dropping into the briefest curtsy. ] Miss Theresa Gray. Nice to meet you, Mr Brewster.

[minigolfandsushi]

Charley! What are you doing back here?

[manlypuce]

Hey, Peter. [He looks around the City. Um, no, he doesn't remember being here.] Back? I'd have to've been here to come back.

[minigolfandsushi]

Right. Of course. What are you doing here, now, for the first time?

[jawstheme]

What took you so long, guy?

[manlypuce]

[Shitshitshitshitshitshit...]

You're supposed to be dead. Guy.

[jawstheme]

You're a little late, Charley, but I'll give you that. [Have a smile.] It hurt. Boy did it hurt.

[fatally]

[ Red isn't sure where she is or how she got here but standing in one place staring isn't getting her much, so she tucks a few strands of hair behind her ear and glances around, scanning the crowd for likely help.

Proximity wins out though, really.

She taps the nearest young man on the shoulder. ]

Excuse me, can you tell me...where we are?

[manlypuce]

[That young man all but jumps out of his puce sneakers. Once he realizes that his attacker isn't actually an attacker--or, more importantly, a vampire who wants to kill him--he smiles awkwardly and runs a hand through his hair.]

Uh... hey. We're in the City, but I have no idea which one or what that means.

[fatally]

[ Her teeth grind together absently, a sharpness to the look in her eyes though not so much in the nod of her head, acknowledging his answer as she says, ] So you haven't been here very long either then.

Strange magic.

[ A pause as she gets another look at the people milling about but also at Exhibit Closest to Her A. ]

Strange...clothes.

[ Though really the reverse is closer to the truth. ]