test drive meme: pre-game opening #1

[jumpscare]

___test drive meme: dead weight edition. Step 1 → Post with the character and journal you're wanting to play. Leave the message blank with your Character's Name | Character's Canon. Step 2 → Other people respond to your thread! Fight zombies, deal with the "fictional character" news, whatever you please. Step 3 → ??? Step 4 → PROFIT! Step 5 → Spread the word! Bring a friend! Make a random announcement on D_M! Get this post to crack the hundreds! It doesn't matter if you end up apping or not! This is a place of fun and meeting new people before the waiting!

Text somewhat shamelessly stolen from assguardians.

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[hydrostatic]

[Korra's decided to take the long way back to safety, cutting through a gated construction site rather than risk running into the zombie hoard through town. Totally because it's better to avoid fighting, not because her bending isn't quite on par to what it used to be, definitely not because of any moral conundrums over killing someone, nope nope. Does it count if they're already dead? Who knows. Tenzin might, but he's not exactly an option and it isn't really fair to wish he was here.

Doesn't stop her, though.

In any case, she's got a sack slung over her shoulder loaded with goodies; snacks, canned food, water bottles, the works when BAM. Korra doesn't quite stagger, instead hopping back quickly and taking a defensive position-but... Oh, that silly hair looks familiar. Hey, Tahno.

Uh, wait.]

Tahno? What are you doing here?

[Despite the question, she's actually grateful to see a familiar face. Almost grateful enough to crush him in a hug, but she'll settle for dropping her hands to her side.]

[movesillegal]

[He follows suit in dropping out of a defensive stance which he'd automatically assumed. Though he'll deny it later, he's visibly relieved to see her and to see her ALIVE. Still panting, Tahno swipes a hand through his hair to smooth it.]

I'm trying to get out of here. One of those— those things came at me! [He pauses to just breathe for a moment. When he next speaks, his voice is softer but no less concerned.] Korra, does your bending still work in this place?

[hydrostatic]

Well, you don't wanna head the way I was coming. Getting too close to town probably isn't a good idea.

[She readjusts the sack on her back to reach to fiddle around for a water bottle. Running from zombies may be great, if not terrifying exercise, but it isn't exactly easy and Tahno looks like he could use it. Korra hesitates in her search at his question, eventually finding what she's looking for and tossing the bottle over.

Her expression pretty much says it all.]

No. I mean, it isn't completely gone, but... [Here she demonstrates by trying to produce a flame. It takes some time, no longer something she's a natural at and the flame is weak, flickering in the wind. She sighs, and snuffs it out.] It isn't the same.

[movesillegal]

[The bottle is caught in one hand without a single glance directed to it. Her expression indeed says it all. Tahno can hardly bear to watch the sad flame flicker out of a dismal existence and casts his gaze downward soon after. The look on his face closely mirrors hers and if she were to guess that it told the same story, she wouldn't be wrong.

He deliberates for a brief eternity on what to say but nothing remotely helpful comes to mind. Finally, he speaks just to break the silence.]

Hey. Let's find some way to go. And it's gotta be a way neither of us came from, because the chick who was following me? Wasn't pretty.