timetrappedooc | Test Drive; December

Test Drive; December

Test Drive

Welcome to the test drive for Time Trapped. This is an open forum to test out your characters to see how they would fit into the game and if you might be interested in apping them here. We want you to feel comfortable and, of course, test drive threads can be used as samples on your application to join.

First, a few housekeeping things before we start:

∞Apps will be open as of Dec 10th at 12 AM, and will reopen on the first of every month. They will remain open until the 10th of each month before closing.

∞Both first and third person prompts are allowed in the test drive. We encourage both. We also encourage making multiple prompt options in your post.

∞Finally, you will be allowed to transfer your test drive threads over into the game canon should you apply and be accepted.

∞If you have any other questions please feel free to refer to the FAQ or contact the mods directly.

Aside from that, happy test driving.

Instructions:
Post with Character you'd like to test drive using Name and canon in the subject line.
Receive comments.
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Prompts

1. Acclimating to the environment
While Gideon has a part of the area sectioned off for now based on her calculations of where the time anomalies are going to occur the area is still large and confusing. It’s easy for a person to get lost or overwhelmed in this big mish-mosh of a world. Perhaps you are lost, or maybe you are just settling in.

2. Reach out and touch someone
Gideon has been kind enough to provide you with a way to communicate. Whether that be a device or a simple SIM card. Why not try it out by sending a public message. Of course, you could also be sending it by accident.

3. Make peace, not war
While LA has become a hodgepodge of different times it has also become a hodgepodge of different areas as well. Exploring the downtown LA brings you to a section of Greenwich Village in New York. Unfortunately what was once a peaceful protest has grown into a fight between Mogul hordes and peace loving hippies who just want to protest. Local enforcement is, of course, trying to sort out this mess but it seems they might need a bit of outside help.

4. What's this strange building?
The 'Hall of Justice' stands in a sorry state as nature is trying to overtake it. Vines are crawling up the walls and there is Dimetrodon sunbathing in the courtyard, or what's left of it. Inside, any technology seems to have been destroyed and there is no sign of life. Still, it is a ruin left to be explored and the local archaeological society is willing to pay good money for relics from inside. Be warned that there may still be some rather nasty traps active inside and around the hall. If you happen to be a from the DC world you might see a few familiar faces among the broken statues that once adorned this building.

5. Let’s dance
The Verdant. A rousing nightclub in 'bad neighborhood' of what was once Starling City circa 2013. There seems to be a wide variety of patrons here tonight, anything from Greek Scholars to some Greasers. What a great place to grab something to drink or maybe cause a little trouble.

6. Dressing in style
Perhaps you arrived in less than ideal clothing. You may have arrived in no clothing at all. It might just be about time to look through some clothing stores and find what is right for you. Of course, it’s never that easy though. There are pickpockets and thieves all over the streets. You may just become their next victim.

7. Home for the Holidays
Little old London town is high in festivities right now. It's Christmas and the area surrounding Big Ben is snowy, though it's a bit melty due to the climate in LA. Festive decor and foods for sale circa 1885 in england and emotions are cheery and positive. Take a horse and buggy or attend a christmas party.

Just hope the mongols don't show up. Or Amazons.

8. Wild Card. Go nuts.

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Yes, he understands. Once the concept of dopplegangers is an every day concept it's easy to understand why someone might be distraught about finding one of someone they know, love, or even hate.

"Jesse Quick, actually, is a speedster on Earth 2 as I understand. Johnny Quick not quite familiar with. As for Max Mercury, I don't think I've ever heard of him." Odd, that this world has so many absentee heroes. He wonders why as they enter the museum.

"Johnny was her dad," Bart said. "But Jesse hasn't been using her speed for a while, not since she took up her mom's mantle as Liberty Belle instead. She's good friends with Supergirl and the rest of the Society."

He thought about it. "Jesse and Piper were two of the people Wally tended to ask to come babysit for me when I first came back. Before he dug up Max to take over mentor duty. Wally may have kept the Speed Force from killing me, but Max taught me how to be a speedster, even if I didn't really appreciate it at the time."

...John Harrison Wells? Harrison John wells? Neither of those really ring true to him, not that he's going to go through every possible combination. He supposes he could always ask. Then again, different dimension, different names were possible.

"So, Kara? You know her too?" He asks, as Supergirl was a name he knew. This kid was a living encyclopedia.

"You know, its really quite fascinating. There's really a legacy here. I mean, even here in this reality, there's a museum dedicated to the Flash? Not something I'd expect to happen in 2017." Let alone for Oliver or any other heroes. The Legends? They wouldn't be remembered like this.

"You should see some of the stuff they do for Superman," Bart said, smirking a little. "But it's just the relationship between a city and its cape. They're all pretty different. And it's also a reflection of what people see them doing.

"After Green Arrow shot Green Lantern, or when Wonder Woman killed Maxwell Lord in front of cameras, nobody really wanted to trust them any more, even though they saved a lot of people by doing it."

It's just a way the people can try to be close to their heroes. "You really should see this place on Flash Appreciation Day. It's a zoo. I always ended up getting roped into juggling a huge number of random objects or racing Superboy for charity or something."

A beat. "I know SB better than I know Kara. Grife, I know Krypto the Superdog better than I know Kara, and he barely tolerates me or anyone else except Kal and Robin."

"Krypto the what?" Oh, he is totally gonna ask Kara about that one... Or maybe not. But that is enough to bring a smile to his face in amusement. Aaand the smile disappears immediately after he processes all that information, specifically the bit about the Green Arrow.

"Hey, Bart? Remember that thing you said about not sharing that much about the future? It occurs to me that everything you've told me up til now kinda counts as over sharing. Though, uh... Not that I know which events are even remotely relevant to our timeline. I think it might be best to relax a little. You nervous?" Not meant to put you down, Bart, just a cautionary measure. He adds that last part to try and see if there's anything going on that he can actually address or help with.

He looks up to a series of panels, of the flash family.

"It must be rough to see everything so different from what you're used to."

"I'm not talking about anything that didn't happen years ago. Like from 2017 years ago. I wasn't even Kid Flash yet when Hal died," Bart said, shaking his head.

"It feels like ancient history to me. Like a lifetime ago." He stops at that. Because, well, no, not talking about his death, or how he came back. He's still not entirely clear on either aspect, and the memories of his older self are distant at best.

Instead, he looks up, seeing the pictures, and frowning. "And I thought it was weird with him not being blond. Who are the others? Is that really Wally?"

"Yes, but it hasn't happened yet in this timeline, which means it still could. Or won't. It's almost impossible to say." Not without the occulous which they destroyed but even if they had it they probably wouldn't use it.

Time travel is weird. That is all he can take from that.

"Yeah. That's Wally." A pause. "Don't recognize him?" Also, Barry, a blond? Weird.

"My cousin has red hair and freckles," Bart said, shaking his head slightly. "I spent enough time with him before he pawned off the mentor mantle on any speedster he could."

Wally West, a red head. Well, from what he's seen the West family certainly had the spirit in common with the personality trait having red hair was famous for.

"You mentioned before, about kids in costumes. Seems like you've kinda been a product of the rougher end of that." He says with sympathy.

"I wouldn't know where to start addressing it."

"Actually, not so much. I mean, Deathstroke had some personal issues he was working through, and I kinda had a thing with his daughter," Bart said, and he can't help grinning at that. "It was good, really. Between the Titans and Young Justice, I was never alone. Max and Helen taught me what it was like to have a family, and Jay..."

Bart shook his head, remembering. "If I'd had to pretend to be normal all the time, it would never have worked out. The one thing an Allen never does well is run away."

A nod, he listens as he starts moving along towards the next exhibit. From what he can tell, the life of a teen hero like this one is almost more complicated than that of an adult.

"Tell me something. Your teams, they're made of sidekicks? That assumes that the adult heroes are on their own team, am I right?" Because that woul be irresponsible otherwise.

"How established where they when you guys formed?"

"Teams, really," Bart said, thoughtful. "But the first Robin was twelve when he began, and I don't think Speedy and Kid Flash were that much older. And yeah, we all have home cities and mentors and stuff, well, Arrowette didn't, but that wasn't her fault, and she's retired, anyway."

He shrugged. "Usually we don't go anywhere without some kind of backup, but the point of the Teen Titans was to have a place where we could go where folks like Superman and Batman weren't always looking over our shoulders. I'm just glad not the be the first generation of that, as it were."

First? Hm.

"Aside from the Justice Society, whatever you call this age that we're in, the new emergence of super humans and heroes? That only started five years ago. At least as far as I'm aware." He explains.

"I think your universe has everything spread out over a longer period of time, so I can't be sure that if there are any teenaged heroes, they won't be coming for a while." Which is good because they're not prepared for that at all.

"Pretty sure the world would lose their minds over something like that."

"You know that superpowers don't just pick grown-ups, right?" Bart pointed out.

He was a little taken aback by the comment about how short a time it's been. "Grife, you're still wet behind the ears. I've been around almost that long."

"Of course, but the difference is that it's one thing for a someone like you to be knowingly put in danger by an adult. They have laws against that and that's generally the biggest concern." He smirks a little, more out of self deprevation.

"I know, right? Leave it to us adults to make it overly difficult. I get it. I do. But just he idea of it, making me think of all my friends and team mates's reactions. It's gonna be interesting." Seriously. Who knows what Sara is going to day. Or Oliver if he shows up.

"Oh, right, the reckless endangerment thing," Bart said, chuckling. "There's always adults around. Although I'm not sure Snapper really counted."

He paused. "You mentioned a team, but I didn't know the names. I don't think there's anyone calling themselves Legends back home. Sounds like some prank Booster Gold would try to sell people on."

"Can't say I've met anyone named Booster Gold. Is that really what he calls himself?" Booster isn't even here and he's being mocked and Ray has no idea who he is or why he deserves it, but he sounds like he deserves it.

"I suppose that does make it a little better." Here's a line up of the rogues. Mirror Master sure did get a costume upgrade. He wonders if this is the same one he's heard about?

"Yeah, we're the Legends. We're basically the heroes who don't really fit in anywhere else and are trying to fix this whole timey wimey anachronism stuff." He does not have the same delivery as David Tennant but he sure is quoting him.

Bart can't help looking at the Rogues with a shiver, because he remembers that part of being adult far too clearly.

"Sorry, I'm not going back to the future, McFly," he said, dripping with sarcasm. "So who do you work with, exactly? I wonder if I know of them."

Ray catches that shift in body language when they see the Rogues, pretty sure that meant something. These guys weren't exactly the best representatives of humanity after all.

"Hm. White Canary, Firestorm formally, Zari, but she hasn't picked a name out for herself, Vixen, Heatwave, and Steel." Ray replies, knowingly leaving out all of the old members aside from Firestorm because he figured that name might have meaning to Bart.

Bart spins, backing away a step. "You're working with Heatwave?"

And here he was beginning to like you, Ray.

Right. A rogue.

"I almost forgot he was a villain once." He said, then pauses. Well, okay, he's still a criminal and a rube, but he trusts hi- wait, no he doesn't.

"Mick might be rough around the edges, and honestly, I can't trust him as far as I can throw him because he is who he is. He has betrayed us, but he came through in the end, and that's what matters." He really can't look past the fact that he can't trust Mick at the end of the day, not completely. Ray just accepts this fact and accepts Mick for who he is. It's all he can do. With Bart, all he can do is tell him the truth.

"Once?" Bart asks, incredulous.

Okay, so maybe he's a little judgemental where certain Rogues are concerned, but damn, that one...

"He's one of the people responsible for some of my worst nightmares. I remember dying because of him and his friends."

Ray winces, because he'd almost forgotten how bad Mick Rory really was. Sure, he brought up his past now and again, and sure, it was dark. But it was only once that Mick Rory betrayed them in a way that was 100% under his own volition.

"I don't... really know what to tell you. When the Legends were formed, it was the mission that mattered. And they had skills we needed." Maybe 'they' wasn't a great choice of words.

Still, he's trying hard not to burn this bridge before he's even finished building it. If nothing else, Ray himself is genuine.

"You needed a guy who would happily watch the world burn? There's something you don't hear every day."

Bart looks off. "I know him as a bad guy. One of the more dangerous Rogues, like Cold or Kadabra. Maybe worse because he's a more pure sociopath than you usually meet. Not Joker-level, but then, who is?"

It wasn't a good time, and he starts moving past the Rogues to try to find something a little less depressing. "Him being there that day wasn't a surprise, really. The chance to kill a Flash doesn't show up very often."

Pensive silence from Ray, as he walks behind Bart and listens to his story. Yes, he put his life in Mick Rory's hands more than a few times, and true, he had sociopathic tendencies. But he surprised them all, and has been consistent lately. However, that doesn't mean he's going to go about face here. He just feels empathy for Bart.

"If it makes you feel better, I've died legally once, and pretty sure future me was killed as well. Future me from another branching timeline more specifically."

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