TEST DRIVE MEME: The First (Fixed Setting)

[thecrows]

TEST DRIVE MEME
HOW TO: Post with your character in what will be a fixed setting for the first round! Do a top level, respond to others! If your thread is substantial, it can be used as a first-person on your application! Remember that this is not game canon, and everyone is welcome!

You were just ushered into a large park by a murder of loud and insistent crows who somehow manage to get the gate shut behind you before they fly off. The park is awfully green for such a dead-looking town. It's dusk, and things are starting to get a little noisy at the edge of the tall iron fence that surrounds the area. There are gazebos, cobblestone pathways, gentle slopes, and of course, the lake and the island with the large, dead tree. It's full of crows, and if you stare at them, they'll all stare back. Feel free to take a load off on one of the many iron and wood benches, but the gates to the city are closed!

This does not, however, mean you are barred from ghost-watching as night progresses. Remember, they won't see you!

Comments

[poisonousflame]

[ Axel's gotta admit, it is a nice spot. But he can't very well take the kid up on his offer. First off, because it was offered, which — in Axel's mind — means there's something wrong with it. Exactly what's wrong with it, he doesn't know ... but offering up a perfectly good spot to a total stranger sure sounds suspicious to him.

[ Not that he's paranoid or anything. Just cautious. That's natural, right? He'd be stupid not to be cautious, considering his current lack of abilities that were once as familiar as the back of his hand. Or ... glove. Whatever.

[ And secondly, if he did take the offer, this kid would know exactly where he was. And he can't have that.

[ (Totally not paranoid, though. Not at all.) ]

Nah, you're fine.

[ A casual refusal. Just as casual as the way Axel follows the kid's gaze, trying to figure out what he's looking at without actually turning away from the boy.

[ Okay, so the second feat is actually a little more awkward. But he manages — and is immediately way more interested in not turning his back on that thing. ]

[nottame]

[And momentarily snap out of it he does. Looks back at the stranger - and follows his shift in attention back at the thing.

He subtly-as-possible pulls his weight back, keeps his eyes on it, pushes himself up onto all fours and leans back on his legs, crouches into position to push himself up off his knee and move, if he's got to. He turns his head to open his line of sight more evenly between the stranger and that. His eyes stay flicked over to the latter the longest.]

...You see that? [It's hesitant and softened. Nowhere near a whisper - it's not doing anything, yet, and he can't tell if it's going to, so he can't and frankly doesn't want to see any need to.]

[poisonousflame]

[ The movement doesn't go completely unnoticed, but neither does it register as a threat. Axel's eyes return to the kid for just a moment at those words, then snap back to the figure just as fast.

[ Heartless come in all shapes and sizes. To Axel, the light is definitely a potential threat, even if it's not doing anything particularly threatening at the moment. He counts it as a bigger potential danger than the boy — though Axel is far from unaware of how powerful "kids" can be. ]

Yeah, I see it.

[His voice is low in turn; not whispering, either, but the words aren't intended to carry. ]

Any idea what it is?

[nottame]

[Maintaining softness - shakes out his head a bit.] Heck if I know...

What do you think?

[He's trying to hold his eyes on the stranger for now. They very regularly shift back to the light-shape-thing between blinks and bouts of questioning staring.]

[poisonousflame]

[ Green eyes narrow as the shape moves, and one gloved hand instinctually reaches out....

[ ... And grasps nothing. Not even a single chakram will appear.

[ He really, really doesn't like being vulnerable. If this thing is a heartless, he shouldn't be in too much trouble: it's not like he has a heart (or a Keyblade) to attract it. But heartless aren't known for their predictability, and he's been smacked around by too many to take them lightly.

[ ... Then again....

[ His eyes turn to the kid once more, really looking at him this time. If the strange shape is actually that of a heartless, it should be going for this boy. Unless the kid is like him: something that only looks human on the surface. ]

Well, I guess that depends.