pixieledmemes | Test Drive Meme #2

TDM #2 - March/April 2025

🦋 Introduction

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🦋 The Party

You wake up at a party.

You're not sure how, exactly, you got here. You may have just been walking in the woods or at a meeting for work or doing any other normal activity for you. But you know you weren't supposed to be at this party, you're fairly certain.

Anyone you ask about it will say the party is for you. You and the others also waking up and looking confused. Further questions will lead to the partygoers insisting you have something to eat. You're starving and others are eating the food without repercussion, so you figure there's no harm in a bite. You finish your portion.

It's a garden party at the crack of dawn, with the sun still in its early stages of climbing through the yonder, casting a good mix of pastel hues of blue, pink, and beige on everything. Heralding the first day of spring, the Ruler of the Spring Court has found it fitting to arrange this gathering where guests can feel the blades of grass touching their ankles, as well as the rich soil beneath their feet. Flowers of all kinds surround the party as if they were carefully curated. With spring as the "dawn of seasons," which marks a transition from winter's latency to the resurgence of life everywhere, the Ruler of the Dawn Court has also seen it fit to host aspects of this party during the one time of the year that dawn occurs the whole day. Tall candles and torches grace the outskirts of the garden party, providing warmth and an orange glow everywhere. Not one flame goes out even with the occasional wind, the Duchess always makes sure of this.

There are also freshly picked blossoms and branches with leaves on every table accenting the festive spread of food and drinks. This time, a lot of the food prepared for the Adopted guests are familiar to them with a little bit of a twist. Burgers might come in small packages and in toothpicks, while hotdogs in buns are also diminutive. Cookies look delectable but they have a flowery flavor to them, as if eating freshly picked daisies or daffodils. Fruits that may have been present in an Adopted's home, such as pineapples and watermelons, have seeds in odd places. Picking this selection of food is an attempt to be more welcoming and to appease the lovely guests the fae have invited.

As the party winds down and everyone's eaten, a tall, stately woman stands up and speaks. You feel her voice more than hear it.

I am the Lawspeaker of the Fae, elected by Seelie and Unseelie alike, and you are all, now, subjects of Faerie. You cannot leave this realm once you have eaten our food, and even if you could, there is no saying how much time has passed back where you're from. Your loved ones are likely dead, your problems have likely played out. We require assistance in various matters, and each of you has been chosen for your talent and skill. You will be adopted by one of the Seelie or Unseelie Courts based on your strengths and personality. Your Court will decide what to do with you from there.

As suddenly as she stood, she sits back down.

🦋 Chance at a Dance

A party is not complete without dancing, of course, and while during the last gathering held for the Adopted, different fae danced to music exclusively for them around a glowing tree, this time they are insisting their guests to join in.

This is a party for you, after all.

If the prodding of the different fae hosts won't convince you, perhaps the music will. They play easily recognizable tunes that their wonderful guests must have heard before. These melodies have certain unique effects to their mortal attendees, which are as follows:

Upbeat Music: You will believe that you and your dance partner have been friends forever and have known each other a long time.
Romantic Music: You will become amorous and flirtatious towards your dance partner.
Slow Music: You will develop some tension with your dance partner. It may be negative or sexual; completely up to you.
Quiet Music: You will assume your dance partner is a threat and try to fight them.

🦋 Flower Power

At the Spring King's behest, every Adopted should wear a flower corsage or boutonnière to the gathering. After all, this is to celebrate the coming of spring and what better way to do that than to honor everything in bloom.

The thing is, though, the King of Spring, while amorous and friendly, also has a penchant for playing with mortals' memories, if not also affect their desires and despairs.

So, mischievous as he is, he made sure to enchant the different flowers present in every corsage and boutonnière for the party with the effects below:

Rose: You will recall a horrific trauma
Carnation: You will see a vision of your future, whether it's good or bad
Orchid: You will remember a time you lost someone
Chrysanthemum: You will believe someone among the Adopted is your soulmate
Dahlia: You will believe you betrayed someone important to you, whether you actually did or not

It is perhaps a good thing that no one but the Adopted are allowed to see these visions and memories, but everyone who wears a corsage or boutonnière will be able to see each other's memories and visions when in close enough physical proximity to the vision-haver, for better or for worse.

🦋 GEIS

You feel a vibration in your pocket sometime after the Lawspeaker addresses everyone. When you search for the source, you will pull out your Leaf, the device the Fae use to stay in touch with each other. Anyone who's used a smart phone will easily recognize how it works.

Greetings, Adopted. This is your Lawspeaker.

Tell us all of a time you gave someone a gift. Perhaps a bouquet of flowers or a box of chocolates. Was it appreciated or not? A reward might await the most meaningful gift given.

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Okay but like - not secretly a robot? Hologram? Mutated human?

Definitely not a robot or a hologram. I saw it bleed.

[Unfortunately.]

Mut--mutated human?! Why is that one of your first thoughts?!

............. No reason! None at all! Definitely not something I've ever experienced!

W-what'd you say your name was again?

That's even more suspicious!!

[God. Is this just a thing for superheroes, even young ones?

Tsukasa props his hands on his hips, frowning a little bit, but for now, he lets it go. Thankfully, he's so thrown off by this that he doesn't even think to do his favored dramatic self-introduction.]

We haven't introduced ourselves yet, for what it's worth. It's Tsukasa. Tenma Tsukasa!

[ Phew. Bullet dodged, for now. Hiro's still deciding how much superhero stuff he wants to talk about. Clearly more than the absolute secrecy required by being back home, but perhaps not everything all at once. ]

Hey, uh. Tsukasa. Nice to meet you. I'm Hiro Hamada.

[ He pronounces the Japanese names with a native fluency, but uses the Western name order for himself. ]

[Oh, so he does. Tsukasa's gotten used to people saying his name a certain way, and has gotten used to names he himself isn't that familiar with pronouncing, so it's always a bit of fresh air to hear something so familiar.]

Nice to meet you too, Hiro!

[He just props his hands on his hips, steering the conversation to hopefully safer territory than mutated humans.]

So! How long have you been a superhero?

Uh -

[ Shoot, should he be keeping this under wraps? He's frankly not fully convinced it's real. If it is real, he's a real long way away from San Fransokyo, so maybe he should talk? And if it's a dream, then who cares right?

Right. Whatever. He'll deal with it if this is a bad idea. Later. ]

Like a year and a half? It was summer of '32 when I started, and now I'm halfway through fall semester again.

Oh, that's a long time.

[Not, like, relatively. But Hiro seems pretty young, and he's already been hero-ing for that long...

............]

Hang on.

'32 as in... 2032?

[ Yeah like. He's got a baby face and does not look older than fourteen, despite actually being like. Fifteen and a half. (Thanks TV show for never giving him a character design change despite CLEARLY covering over a year of material - ) ]

Uh, yeah? What else would it be?

[Poor Hiro being stuck in baby face purgatory forever now--]

... Well!

[Well. Well! Well. Okay, no, Tsukasa. Don't make this weird. This isn't as weird as half the things you've seen here.]

You're about a decade beyond me in terms of the year.

Wait, seriously? So you're from like ... 2022?

[looks away in vague gacha timelines and years but--

SURE CLOSE ENOUGH.]

Strange, isn't it? Granted, it isn't the strangest thing I've seen here by any means, but...

I'd be... [Hm!] ... nearly thirty in your timeline.

Yeah, and I'd be like four in yours.

[ He waggles his fingers. ]

So I guess I should be careful about future spoilers, huh?

[He snorts at that, an amused noise.]

Is that really how it works? Like in all of those sci-fi stories? The whole "learning spoilers about the future will change the timeline" concept?

Honestly? I have no idea. And unless you're from San Fransokyo, it probably won't matter what I tell you anyway.

[... San Fransokyo?

That must be in America somewhere.

Wow. He's bad at geography. It sounds kind of familiar. It's fine.]

I'm not! I'm from Tokyo. [... wait that's why it sounds familiar--oh well. Weird coincidence.]

So it's fine. No need to walk on eggshells around me.

Tokyo Japan, right? I've heard of that. Never been though.

[ So that's probably an indicator he's from America somewhere. ]

So what kinda thing do you do in Tokyo?

[He's going to interpret that as a "you, Tsukasa, what do you do?" and not a "what does a general average person do in Tokyo", because he really has no idea how to answer. Also, he likes talking about himself. Obnoxious.]

Ah, yes! I'm a stage actor! Though my troupe doesn't only perform in Tokyo; we've traveled to put on shows for quite some time now.

[ Honestly? That's what Hiro meant anyway, so it works out. ]

So like ... musicals and stuff?

That's right! Of course, we put on all sorts of shows, but we've done our fair share of musicals as well.

[Sometimes you're just a theater kid kidnapped by the fae. It's fine.]

[ Hissss theater kids. (Okay no, Honey Lemon is an art student on the side and Hiro thinks that's pretty rad actually.) ]

Is that fun? Do you get paid for it or is it still - like - school stuff?

[Aha! An opportunity to brag about his troupe! Something Tsukasa will never pass up!

So he strikes a pose (embarrassing) and beams.]

Ah, my troupe is no mere school drama club production! We were once ambassadors for an amusement park near where I live, putting on shows to bring smiles to everyone's faces all across Japan, and to spread the name of Phoenix Wonderland, of course.

We've since gone freelance, which simply means we have all the more freedom to hone our craft and put on the performances we want to create!

[He beams then, all enthusiasm and sparkles.]

So yes! It's incredibly fun!

[ Nerrrrrd. Hiro laughs a little at the pose, but honestly? That all DOES sound like fun. ]

What's Phoenix Wonderland? Some kinda theme park?

That's right! It's an amusement park near where I live, in Shibuya. It's where I was initially hired as an actor.

[He's moved beyond it now, but he'll always be fond of what it represents and for the kickstart it gave his career.]

It's one of the best, I'd venture to say! [Biased.]

Huh. Never heard of it. But I'm not really a theme park guy, I guess.

Where's the coolest place you've been?

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