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test drive meme

Have a whole bunch of stray muses kicking around? Ever wondered about how one (or more!) of them would play out here at

poly_chromatic? Well, wonder no more! Welcome to the test drive meme! Here's how this is gonna roll.

Start a thread with your test drive character! You know the drill, just mark the character's name and canon in the comment subject, and/or...

Tag around to other people's threads! Play it like your character has just arrived in the City, as if you've already met, or...

Pick from the list below - or use an RNG if you prefer - to hit a character with one of the City's curses! Is one character cursed? Both? Are they cursed with the same or different curses? That's all up to you!
1. Did It Hurt When You Fell From Heaven? Whether they're suave, awkward, good, or just plain horrible, citizens find themselves unable to stop speaking in the language of pickup lines.
2. Average Joe Day Those in the City with supernatural skills or powers, suddenly find themselves quite normal.
3. My Dirty Little Secret The one thing a character never wanted anyone to know is the one thing they feel compelled to talk about all day.
4. 5 7 5 Citizens will find themselves speaking only in the 5-7-5 syllable format.
5. Caffeinated Day All affected citizens will find that any liquid they drink has much more caffeine than usual.
6. It’s a Boat, it’s a Bug, it’s Ours Citizens realize they’ve given birth to a child, regardless of their sex - only the child is an object, which they treat as if they were their own flesh and blood.
7. Sing and Shout! Citizens burst into song of pop, rock, opera, or musical caliber.
8. Handcuff Day Citizens wake up to find themselves handcuffed together, and no key nor force will unlock that lock!
9. Truth or Dare Affected citizens are compelled to play every preteen girl's favorite slumber party game for a day.
10. [Not] Awesome Powers Today, affected citizens have...new powers! ...Amazingly useless ones.

Or just roll however you want in the game environment. Don't sweat the details, let loose, have fun - and enable, enable, enable!

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In a fascinating case of Eric was not drunk last night, he's still woken up in the bed of a stranger. While this could be interesting in and of itself, it's the handcuffs that make it even more interesting. He gives them a tug and looks over at the girl in the other cuff.

"Er. Um. Do you happened to have the keys?"

"Huh?" Kat opens large, blue eyes, blinking sleepily at the stranger for a moment. With the extra person in bed, part of her almost thought it was Dante. Not that they'd ever...but he wasn't in the City and she was and she'd hoped...

Never mind. It's stupid. Instead, Kat shifts focus from the stranger to the handcuffs on her wrist and she gives them a half hearted tug.

"Shit. No. They're not even mine." Kat sighs, sitting up carefully. If Eric is paying close enough attention, it's her right arm she'll use most in this situation. Her left arm is a tiny bit useless and she clearly favors it. There's also a tattoo of a star and three dots on her forehead and more arcane designs and swirls on the back of her hands, up her arms and possibly across the back of her shoulders. It's hard to tell with the t-shirt. There's a scar on her left shoulder, an obvious sign of a bullet that went clean through the back and out the front, hence the care with her arm.

"The City's, I think. We may have to wait until midnight."

And then she's looking at Eric, smiling a bit sheepishly and a bit apologetically. "Hi. I'm Kat."

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Fortunately they're both dressed, right?

He does notice the tattoos and designs and twitches, almost imperceptibly. For himself, he's a bit scrawny for someone his size, the underfed look of someone who's missed quite a few meals for quite a few years. He also has silver flecks in his eyes and the barest hint of silver streaks in his hair. It's silver not gray. Other than that he looks perfectly normal, though his clothes are a wee bit too big for him.

"Oh. Lovely." He gives them an experimental tug. "I'm Eric."

Yes. Yes, they are. Kat's in her typical short shorts and a plain white t-shirt. Her normal lavender and orange hoodie is slung over the back of her bedroom door and her boots sit just by that. She's barefoot, but that's as bare as the girl is right now.

Her brunette hair sticks up slightly more than the usual short and jagged a-line bob typically does and Kat runs fingers through it, trying to tame it some.

"It's nice to meet you, Eric. Even if the circumstances aren't our own choice." A pause. Oh. Oh, that sounded...off. "Not that I'd ever choose to handcuff myself to someone."

"Some people like it," Eric says offhandedly. He's not indicating himself, but there are people he knew that did.

He sniffs the air, fingers twitching nervously. She feels magical. No. No. He didn't need that.

Taking a deep, steadying breath, he continued. "It is nice to meet you as well."

Kat smiles, bringing her knees up to rest her chin on them. There's another moment of her running her fingers through her hair, watching Eric.

"Are you alright?"

"Sorry. You look good. I ... um. Different. Um..." he flails mentally trying to figure out how to explain this.

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Kat || DmC (Devil may Cry)

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