Test Drive Meme!

[avengermods]

TEST DRIVE

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» » » 07.11.16

Welcome to Avenger Academy RP's first ever Test Drive meme! This is for people to test out their characters, and get a feel for how they will work in this AU setting. Please read the Rules, and keep in mind that the first round is for people on the mod's Plurk only, though you are still free to post in preperation for next round. If you have any questions, please check the FAQ for answers, and leave questions there if they are not already answered.

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» » » Ares

The God of War presents himself as a mean, no funny business gym teacher, and lucky you, you're right in the middle of his class. Since the Arena of War is lost to the Time Fog, you're stuck doing drills at Avenger's Stadium. Expect to be put through sword fighting, take off and landing, shield practice, and of course the more mundane running laps and doing push ups. Magic is only to be used for shield practice, and anyone causing mischief will have to deal with Ares himself.

Doesn't mean you can't try, it just means it won't end well for you.

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» » » Nick Fury

Avengers Assemble!

Octobots are attacking a lab space in downtown. Their target: a new chemical compound that is apparently more efficient in powering the wriggly bastards. Get to your assigned teams and get out there before they can make off with that compound, or the octopi will be having the city for dinner tonight!

And Director Fury doesn't give a damn if you don't like your teammates; work it out or don't, just get the job done.

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» » » Hank Pym

Class is in session, and considering it's Professor Pym's class, it's probably going to blow up in a few minutes. It might be best to make sure your homework is finished and handed in before your lab mate goes for the chemical cabinet, because there's a high chance it'll be on fire otherwise. While your at it, be careful what you touch in the lab; you might end up having an electrifying experience.

...this lab has no safety precautions whatsoever, does it?

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» » » Odin

Sucks to be you; looks like you just got caught getting into things you shouldn't have been getting into, and the All Father himself found out about it. Now you're stuck in detention in the Timeless Archives, whittling away at a report that no superhero deserves to be put through. It doesn't look like Odin stuck around to make sure you finish it, though; is it worth risking the All Father's ire just to get a few hours on the dance floor at Club A?

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» » » Wild Card

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Comments

[shiningrabbit]

Yeah, it's definitely not. [... Not that he sounds much better, honestly.]

It's still better than most... hmm. You'd be a middle-schooler still back home, right? [He's ball-parking it based on the lower limit on ages here. Sorry, Nagisa, you look pretty darn young!]

[theserpentsmiles]

I'm surprised I don't have a slight Russian accent, actually...

And yeah. But the American school system switches grades in summer, so I guess I'm in high school now. [At least Hibiki didn't say elementary school. Nagisa's gotten that before. Short...]

[shiningrabbit]

... Russian accent? [Does he want to know...] Anyway, yeah, your English is definitely better than the standard middle-schooler, I think!

The American school system is weird. [A sentence he punctuates with a sagely nod.

... And to be entirely fair to Nagisa, Hibiki's worked with a high-school-aged guy who was barely taller...]

i don't have enough smiling icons

[theserpentsmiles]

Well, my teacher was Russian. Or thereabouts. [Somewhere Slavic anyway. They never really asked...then again, she didn't have much of an accent anymore.] There's still a lot I don't know. She focused on conversational English.

Isn't it? This is still ninth grade, so I guess I'll have a couple extra months of being a ninth grader, in the end. ...Having Saturdays off is nice, though.

[shiningrabbit]

Nothing beats practice! This'll probably do wonders for your English anyway.

Haha, right? I like having another day to do... non-school stuff. [He's putting back the book on WWII he swiped before pulling a couple of his own books from his bag--though these are books on military tactics rather than history.]

So hey, what's your name, anyway? Mine's Kuze-- [He takes a moment, clears his throat, then gives a sheepish look. Looks like someone almost forgot he should probably use western order there...] Hibiki Kuze!

[theserpentsmiles]

Probably! I'll probably be even better than Nakamura when I go back. [...If he goes back. Hm. That's a question, and also something to be thought about later.]

Nagisa Shiota. Nice to meet you. [He's already well-practiced with this part.] You're still pretty new, huh?

[shiningrabbit]

Nice to meet you too! [And his grin is back.]

I've just been here a month or so. I was supposed to be over here earlier but Director Fury-- [man what a silly last name, but he's not saying that part out loud] --kind of had a tough time negotiating with... ah, I guess you could call him my old boss? For me to be brought here.

[theserpentsmiles]

[A lot of Americans have weird names.]

Two weeks for me. I wonder if Japanese transfers are common... One of my teachers arranged this for me, it's a little complicated. [And he's not allowed to talk about it. ...He thinks. Does that still apply?] Your old boss, huh? The stubborn type?

[shiningrabbit]

Stubborn's a nice way of putting it. [Possessive is slightly more accurate.]

He really didn't want to give me up, I am... was? Kind of his favorite for some reason.

[theserpentsmiles]

...Oh. [Sounds like a worse case than Korosensei...] That sounds troublesome. He's not going to try and get you back or anything, is he?

[shiningrabbit]

After all the trouble that was gone through getting me here, I should hope not. And I think he knows better than to argue with Director Fury.

[He shrugs, sighing a little.] Boss isn't a bad guy, just... kind of stubborn, little bit of a control freak. Really particular about the people he trusts with stuff. A little lacking in the social graces department. [A beat.] ... Really lacking in the social graces department.

[Funny how Hibiki seemed kind of fond throughout that entire description... in an exasperated kind of way, at least.]

[theserpentsmiles]

Oh, he's that kind of person...

[Bitch-sensei would probably be all over the poor guy. He actually sounds a little bit like Karasuma, even. So not at all bad, just....a character. He glances over the other's books.]

You're interested in military tactics?

[shiningrabbit]

Kinda, yeah! I was kind of the lead strategist in my unit, so Boss started me off reading about them... and before I knew it, I was looking up more of my own accord!

Stuff that could be applied on a smaller scale was more useful then, but the big stuff is fascinating.

[theserpentsmiles]

[...He should probably get used to everyone here having as weird a life as his, huh? Unit, lead strategist... Sounds like this guy was pretty much a soldier even before he got here. Well then.]

Have you looked much into Hannibal's tactics?

[shiningrabbit]

[Even with that wording, Hibiki would probably deny being a straight-up soldier if asked. Less a soldier, more of a ragtag misfit who got roped into fighting aliens.

This is probably the part where Fuwa would comment something about that ragtag bunch of misfits fighting a huge threat thing being common in shounen manga...]

Hannibal... Hannibal of Carthage, you mean? Not extensively, I'll admit. But he's on the list.

[theserpentsmiles]

[It's a good thing Fuwa isn't here, we like our fourth wall intact.]

Yeah. I have a friend who's an avid student of his work.

[shiningrabbit]

[Or at least cracked rather than punctured.]

Huh! I'll have to look into him, then. Could be useful... Having a big library like the one here makes studying this kind of stuff a lot easier.

[theserpentsmiles]

Having easy access to a library at all is pretty nice...

[Without having to reserve a table, fight tooth and nail to defend the reservation, keep the distractions to a minimum to optimize study time while other students actively try to sabotage.... Nagisa frowns briefly. He hopes his classmates - former classmates, he has to remind himself - are doing alright.]

[shiningrabbit]

... you didn't have easy access back home?

[That's almost alarming... Sure, JP's didn't have all that extensive of a library, but it was at least free to be accessed by all the members...]

[theserpentsmiles]

Not...exactly. Officially the school library was open to all students. Unofficially....

[It was bad.]

Unofficially my class wasn't really welcome.

[shiningrabbit]

That's... really kind of weird and also kind of awful, yikes. What school did you even go to?

[theserpentsmiles]

Kunugigaoka Junior High.... It's a well-known private school in Tokyo. It's...a little different than its reputation.

[Nobody outside the school talks about the discrimination. It's obvious why: if word got out, it wouldn't stand, and Asano couldn't have that. There's a reason even the students of Class E don't reveal the extent of it.]

[shiningrabbit]

Yeah, I've heard of Kunugigaoka... My parents wanted to send me there but we couldn't really afford it. [He leans back in his chair, leaving it to precariously teeter on its back legs.] Different how?

[theserpentsmiles]

[Yeah, the price tag keeps a lot of students out. It's probably for the better, considering the damage the system does...]

My mom was determined to send me there, despite the price. It's...a little complicated. Asano-san created a system in which ninety-give percent of students achieve way higher results than normal at the expense of the five percent who don't.

[shiningrabbit]

... Well, that description's kind of immediately worrying.

[Part of him's honestly not sure he actually wants to know but the other part of him's teeming with morbid curiosity, like an onlooker at a terrible wreck.]