Test Drive Meme!

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TEST DRIVE MEME

♥ Comment in with your characters's name, canon, and universe. Or, comment to others who have posted. ♥ Your characters are now in Equestria. They are also ponies, or creatures of Equestria at the very least. ♥ For those who desire to design themselves a pony for reference, here is a FiM Pony Creator to help out. ♥ The scenario can be anything you want, so long as it takes place in Equestria. ♥ Come on in, characters already in the game! Let's help out potential newcomers! ♥ These test threads can be used for application samples. Commentspam or prose is fine. ♥ DANCE DANCE DANCE

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[nailed_it]

[At least if Coco were to wander into the Market proper, there's a pony standing off to the side of one store chatting up the shop-keeper.

The overly long blonde mane might seem a little familiar, as does the pony's tan, orange, and yellow attire.

...Doesn't she kinda resemble one of those four nerds first-years involved in that huge swarm of Grimm that attacked Vale?]

[chanelyouranger]

[Oh hey, yeah. Time for some information-gathering.

But instead of approaching like a friendly reasonable person magic horse she's going to just sort of walk up next to her and clear her throat. There's not an ounce of panic to her voice, just...slight irritation, maybe. maybe.]

Hey, first-year.

[nailed_it]

[Her ear flicks back at the throat clearing, even as she continues talking. Excuse you, random citizen, she's currently in the middle of a-...hold up.]

First year?

[She turns and gets a good look at the pony that just addressed her, her expression getting caught somewhere between surprised and amused. Because pony.]

...Coco?

[chanelyouranger]

[She would respond by looking amused if that was. A thing she did.]

In the flesh.

... sort of.

[nailed_it]

[Yang laughs, at least.]

The "Pony" look's not half bad on you though.

[She genuinely means this; all the people she knows from Remnant look really cute as ponies. ...It's kinda concerning.]

[chanelyouranger]

[You get a very slight nod that she hopes you understand means "thanks."]

Not a fan of the tattoo, but. [A slight shrug.] Mostly I'm concerned as to why I'm a horse.

[nailed_it]

[It's cool. She's got plenty of practice at non-verbal responses thanks to Blake.

That said...]

I can cover that.

Do you want the short, simple, happy answer? The medium-length "okay that doesn't explain everything but I'll roll with it" answer? Or the in-depth "Gawd I wish you hadn't told me all of that, it's like listening to one of Port's lectures except it doesn't end when the bell rings" long answer?

[She says completely straight and with a cheerful smile at that.

...Okay, maybe she's having a teensy bit of fun here.]

[chanelyouranger]

Let's go with size medium.

[There's even a small curl at the edges of her mouth that could someday grow into a smile. Mostly at thinking about Port as a pony, but you know. She's dealt with Port with no bells to constrain his intellectual fury.]

[nailed_it]

[Port would make a hilarious pony, she'd totally agree there.]

Humans don't exist here. Everyone's either a pony, or a bear, or a dragon, or some other kind of animal like that and if they weren't one to start with, then they're changed into one before they're sent here.

[Well, that doesn't sound so bad...]

And the thing that brought you here and changed you into a horse is some super powerful, nigh-omniscient former pony with a humongous god complex currently living in a nearby pocket dimension or something that's almost impossible to get to and she's keeping everybody here as part of some "experiment".

[Again, said completely straight and with a smile. Except this time her smile is more like the one she might get before she, oh...blows up a nightclub or something and she sounds more like she wants to hit somebody in the face. This will never not make her angry to think about.]

[chanelyouranger]

[Coco remains stoic, but there's some anger to her next words.]

I assume you've tried killing it. Or someone has.

[nailed_it]

I wish. I don't have the magic required to travel to her dimension.

[Yes, she did just say magic.]

And the ones that do seem convinced she's just lonely and needs friends or something.

[At least she's not forcing her enthusiasm anymore. It's just good old-fashioned sarcasm now.

Coco, please tell her she's not the only one who thinks that's completely ridiculous.]

[chanelyouranger]

Alright, so mission two is figure out their magic and use it to go kill a god horse. Why not? How many from Beacon do we have?

[Mission... two?]

Oh, and what's with the off-center horse tramp stamps, anyway?

[nailed_it]

[Why not, indeed. She can get behind a plan like that.]

Four. Jaune Arc and Pyrrha Nikos from Team JNPR and then me and my sister, Ruby. We had both complete teams here for a little while but...not anymore.

[She keeps her tone purposefully neutral there, simply reporting the facts, although Coco's other question gets a snort of amusement out of her.

Give her a second for that "mission two" to actually sink in.]

I've been told they're supposed to represent the special talent of the pony they belong to. Kinda like a Semblance, I guess, just in tattoo form. Only the ponies here get 'em though, and that's after they've figured out their talent.

...Wait, did you say "mission two"?

[There it is.]

[chanelyouranger]

Alright. Any other allies you trust enough to bring along?

[She turns that over in her head a bit.]

So it's an off-center tramp stamp of destiny. Sure, okay.

[She smirks a little.]

Mission one is find where the best clothes are. That's always mission one. [And a rare moment of uncertainly hits her voice TREASURE THIS, FIRST-YEAR] They're not... I don't have to wear a saddle, do I?

[nailed_it]

[Basically everyone she's made friends with is a wuss worrywart who'd tell her this is a terrible idea so...]

None that I can think of off-hand.

[A shrug and a smile.]

Something like that.

[And then she laughs. SHE IS HONORED, COCO.]

Nah. Not unless you're into that kind of thing.

[She ain't gonna judge. ...Also rodeos are apparently a thing here. ...She's not even going to get into how that's supposed to work.

Instead, she grins.]

Mission one's no problem. You can't go wrong with Dame Rarity's boutique. Combat-worthy clothing with style.

[chanelyouranger]

[She nods.]

Just us, then. Got it.

[Annnd she regains her composure.]

Well, I like the sound of that. I should probably figure out a way to get some money first... Ponies do have some kind of pony money, right?

[nailed_it]

Pretty much. Plus Zwei.

[Cuz you better believe they're bringing that dog.

She nods.]

Yeah. They use things called "bits" here instead of lien. They're like actual coins.

[People actually use those still?]

There's a stipend available through the local bank for newcomers though so you won't have to start off with nothing.

[chanelyouranger]

Mm. I'll check into it.

... Zwei?

[nailed_it]

My dad's dog. He was staying with us at Beacon and came here with Ruby.

[...Wait, was keeping a dog at Beacon Academy against the rules? Oh well...]

[chanelyouranger]

And he's still a dog? Not a very small horse?

[The dog gets to stay in its own body??? Rude.]

[nailed_it]

Well, sure. Dogs exist here.

[Because that's sound reasoning right there.]

Just some talk and some don't.

[Have fun figuring out which is which.]