// TEST DRIVE MEME_

[eluviomods]

// TEST DRIVE_ Welcome to Eluvio's Test Drive Meme! Whether you'd like to try out a character in the setting, get some samples for your application, or just mess around and have fun, this is the place to do it. If you're getting samples together, remember that you need at least four comments made by you in the thread for it to count. Pick any of the scenarios below or make up any of your own. This is space! There are infinite worlds and possibilities. If you'd like to thread out hijacking a ship, do it! If you'd like to get stuck on a remote planet with only one other person for company, do it! Take the wheel and guide your own adventure! The most important thing is to have fun! ➣ SCENARIO 001. Welcome to Oros! It's no vacation destination and you're in for an interesting ride. While the planet is big, there's not much to explore beyond the vast, stretching reaches of a boiling hot, red desert. Which means it's fun for the whole family! There are hostile aliens on the planet who aren't taking kindly to you, an alien on their planet. They're stronger than you and you're out numbered. Likely out gunned, too. But, really, good luck! You'll be coming back alive. For more information on the planet and things that may be found there, please go here and give it a read! There you can also find the missions completed in game should you need any additional prompt. Whatever you can imagine that fits with the setting itself works! [ PLEASE NOTE: Threads taking place on Oros cannot be used as game canon, as they required prior signups to participate, but the setting is provided so that you can get an idea of just one of the kinds of events that will be in game! ] ➣ SCENARIO 002. Congratulations! You've been selected to be part of the team being sent down to the planet around which the fleet is currently orbiting. Initial scans of the surface show that oxygen is in abundance, temperatures support carbon-based life-forms, and there aren't any large quantities of poisonous gases that might pose problems. Your mission is to secure a landing site, set up a camp, and locate edible flora and fauna. Stores aboard ship are running a bit low on food and it's projected to be another three weeks before the fleet reaches a station large enough to replenish supplies. Once identified, larger parties will be sent to the surface to help hunt and gather. The good news is, scans show fruits, vegetables, and animals are plentiful. The bad news is that once your ship lands on the planet, everything goes sideways. An unexpected ion storm sweeps through the solar system, shorting out communications between the fleet and the team. It wreaks havoc with the electronics planet-side too, temporarily shorting out the smaller craft's navigational array. Until it passes, about six standard days, you're stuck down there. And the bountiful harvest isn't without its dangers. Even the most docile looking animal will attack. Sampling the fruits and vegetables will cause temporary paralysis, hallucinations, and psychosis. Inhaling pollen will bring out a person's baser instincts. The planet itself is predatory, you see. Everything on it has evolved to entice visitors from nearby systems and kill them. And the fleet's unwittingly taken the bait. ➣ SCENARIO 003. It's been a rough day. Everything's going wrong. Machines are breaking down everywhere. The owner of your favorite business wasn't there today and the store was closed when you stopped by to pick something up. A coworker didn't show up for work, leaving you with an interested workload. And now it feels like you're being watched. It started about ten minutes ago, but whenever you turn to look, there's no one there. The feeling doesn't go away, though. No matter where you are, it feels like eyes are watching. Did you hear something? A quiet, scuffling scratching sound just for a second? Maybe you did. Maybe you didn't. But it came from the misshapen monstrosity that just punched a hole through the bulkhead right beside you. The creature makes a low, wet gargling noises and darts toward you: six to seven feet tall, vaguely humanoid, and covered in strange growths over which is stretched bubbling grayish-brown skin. Maybe you notice tatters of familiar clothing hanging off of it. Or there's enough left of its eyes to recognize the shape and color. Or maybe something about the noises it's making sound familiar. It's your missing coworker and it looks like the unfortunate soul ran afoul of that weird slimy creature the science team brought back from that jungle planet a month ago. The good news: you can kill it. The bad news: it can kill you. It's fast, it's hungry, and it reproduces at an alarming rate. A single bite can transfer the parasites in its bloodstream to you. Then you'll be just like your buddy. And that shop owner you like so much. And all of the people on Level 12. And... ➣ SCENARIO 004. You're welcomed and encouraged to make up your own scenarios. As you can see, there will be a wide variety of the types of things your character will encounter in this game. So feel free to make your starters as horrific, sexy, lighthearted, action-packed, or slice of life as you'd like. Make up a planet, make up a location on the Eluvio, make up a ship in the fleet, fight off a zombie alien invasion, there's no limit to what you can do on the TDM.

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[ex_copy236]

[ Unlike a certain slacker, Kakashi is actually helping out around camp. To be fair, it's mostly to keep himself busy and because he doesn't mind the task he's decided upon for himself; he's always liked fishing. Granted the strange-looking fish here are weirdly aggressive and present more of a challenge than they would back home, but that hardly deters him.

If he's noticed Obito watching him, he shows absolutely no sign of it. But they both know better. Kakashi is very much aware of his presence, he's just fine with keeping the situation as is and pretending that he doesn't know for now. Things are ... awkward between them. As awkward as things can be when your friend tried to take over the world, died, reconciled after the fact and was then found alive again while trapped in space. It's been strange, to say the least.

Still, a part of him does want to reach out because— well, how can he not want to when Obito has been such a huge influential force on the course of his life? He can't ignore him nor does he actually want to.

Which is why, after he's caught a fair number of fish to bring back to camp plus two extra to cook on the fire he's set up nearby, he turns around and holds up his latest catch, casually calling out and to the unobservant eye seemingly addressing the tree that's there like a madman. ]

Want some?

[nakama]

[ As it is now, their haphazardly mended bond is fragile. Obito is well aware that being alive can easily and dramatically shift things between them; their resolve to work together, the much needed closure -- it all seems like their efforts to make right of their grim past have been nullified. He doesn't deserve the man's forgiveness regardless, and to readily expect or accept it seems foolish. Obito dying had spared them from having to reach that point, where they'd have to talk about where they stand with one another. They no longer have a common enemy to forcibly unite them, only shared regrets and a complicated history. It doesn't seem like it'd be enough to build or renew a bond.

He's hesitant to approach him. It's easier to keep a distance and keep a watchful eye on his old friend, which is almost too reminiscent of his habits as a teenager (he remembers lingering longer than he should have in Konoha, curious about Kakashi's progress as a ninja - he got over it in due time because the risk of getting caught wasn't worth sating his obsession). In his head, while he observes Kakashi go about his business, he mulls over ideas on how to have him sent back home, where he belongs. He's even a little annoyed that Kakashi seems content working when he should be worrying about returning to Konoha and fulfilling his duties as Hokage.

He's Hokage, isn't he?

At some point, Obito realizes that Kakashi has caught on, but he doesn't come out from behind the tree until he's deliberately called to. How funny. Didn't something like this happen when they were kids? He leaps down to the ground effortlessly once he realizes keeping distance between them would be... well, uncomfortable. Might as well get this over with. ]

Save it for someone who actually needs to eat. [ His voice takes on a snide sort of lilt. He won't mention that just because he doesn't need to eat, doesn't mean he can't. ]

The white zetsu sustains me on its own. [ His left hand shifts over to his other side, gripping his right arm lightly. Beneath the black fabric of his uniform, the stark white build of his arm isn't visible, but the gesture is intended to be a reminder of its existence. ]

I can help. [ Not that he knows how to cook, but it doesn't look hard. He'll just fucking copy Kakashi's techniques with the sharingan. ] Not that you need it.

[ Mister Chef. ]

[ex_copy236]

[ Kakashi really doesn't know how to go about navigating this strained relationship between the two of them when he isn't even sure how to act around Obito. He's not that strict, rule-obsessed kid anymore, but being his usual seemingly laid-back self seems wrong somehow. Obito would see right through that. Not to mention that it's hard to be casual when everything about Obito leaves him feeling off-kilter.

It doesn't help that he still can't quite reconcile the boy he knew, the idealized picture he's painted of him over the years of talking to a memorial stone, and the man that is now physically standing in front of him who went against everything his younger self once stood for. Thinking back on it, they were never even truly friends. Their friendship had only really begun the day Obito supposedly died and that adds to the uncertainty of the whole situation.

But he's trying here — after all, shouldn't the real thing be better than a ghost and a cold slab of stone? — and that has to count for ... something.

He raises an eyebrow at the snide tone, unperturbed after having had Sasuke as a student and realizing that it's an Uchiha thing with Itachi's polite demeanor really having been the exception to the norm. He follows the gesture with his eyes and it's not like he forgot, but ... ]

Just because you don't have to eat, doesn't mean that you can't. [ If Obito won't mention it, then Kakashi will. He's changed in many ways, but his penchant for effectively calling out bullshit when he sees it hasn't. ] Does it?

[ At least he's more gracious enough now to offer an out, should Obito feel the need to keep being stubborn and lie. The question is accompanied with a slight questioning head-tilt before he shrugs his shoulders and turns away to move toward the fire. ]

Can you even cook?

[ It's not asked in a mean-spirited way. It's just that Obito has had the white zetsu sustaining him since he was a kid so obviously there hadn't been a need to learn. ]

[nakama]

[ Obito stubbornly refuses to acknowledge the fact that Kakashi points out. While it's still a bit awkward between them, it almost feels natural to snap something back at him. He always did hate letting Kakashi get the last word. But after so many years without talking, he isn't able to discern what natural really is to them.

They can't go back to how they used to be, though a part of him yearns for something familiar, something to hold onto while they clumsily try to find footing with one another. ]

What does it matter? [ He produces a kunai from his pocket as he makes his way down to the river, feet treading over water and supporting his weight by a layer of chakra sticking to his heels. The least he can do is gut and prepare the fish for Kakashi. ]

How hard can it be? [ He flips the bladed weapon over his hand expertly as his eyes flash, shifting from their normal, deep black colour to a vivid red. A little dramatic for cooking fish, but the Uchiha have a flare for theatrics. ] I'll catch my own to start off with. And then I'll copy your technique.

[ex_copy236]

[ It's the kind of reaction he would have expected from a much younger Obito and in the fleeting moment in which he thinks 'typical', painful nostalgia grips his heart and squeezes. If only they could go back to that, to something so much simpler. But they can't.

They're very different people from how they used to be, making it impossible to fall back into the same dynamic that they once had. This exchange is reminiscent of that though, and it's familiar ground that he can roll with. At least it's a start in finding some sort of new equilibrium between them.

He watches Obito go, resisting the urge to point out that cooking can, in fact, be quite difficult when there are those who dedicate their entire lives to mastering the art of it. The theatrics are a little harder to pass up on however, his faint amusement bleeding through in his tone of voice. ]

You hardly need the Sharingan for that.

[ Neither catching the fish nor learning how to prepare it require the use of a doujutsu; it's overkill.

But he'll leave Obito to it while he goes to set things up. Rather than settling for anything as crude as spearing the fish on a stick and calling it a day, he has come prepared with a pan and some utensils that he swiped from the ship which he retrieves from his backpack. Being Hokage means being stuck in an office for majority of the time, buried underneath piles of paperwork, so it's nice to be able to enjoy mundane things like fishing and cooking outdoors again. It's one of the few good things about being accidentally kidnapped into space. ]

[nakama]

[ As an Uchiha, Obito is somewhat dependent on the sharingan. Once a too-proud boy, he is now a practical man. Though he's fully capable, things are just easier when you can rely on a great power.

Plus, ] I don't want to have to listen to your shitty, half-assed step-by-step instructions.

[ He grins at the other man, deciding to leave him to his own devices and focus on his own task. Catching fish is the easy part, but he'll take the extra time needed to search for one bigger than anything Kakashi's managed to dredge up from the rushing water.

When he spots the perfect specimen, he crouches low to take his attack. A kunai is launched first before he follows up with an under-water tackle.

He's very extra.

But it's a big fish. Kakashi will definitely notice when Obito emerges from the river, drenched, and lugging a ten-eyed, tentacled monstrosity over his shoulder. ]

[ex_copy236]

[ Kakashi can see the shadow of the boy who saved his life and changed it forever in Obito's grin and hear the echo of a younger voice in the statement that accompanies it. It's cause for another bittersweet pang, yet it also makes him smile; a private smile to himself that's obscured by his mask, only traces of it to be found in the crinkling corners of his eyes. Maybe there's hope for them yet and they can make this work after all.

Maybe some things don't have to change, no matter the time or selves lost.

He'll hold on to that small hope that things don't have to be so agonizingly awkward between them as he neatly lays out his supplies. He briefly wanders away to find a smooth stone big enough to prep his fish on in lieu of a kitchen counter-top, but he makes it back in time to witness Obito emerging from the river with a— well, something that can only be called a fish if one considers every creature that lives in water to be a fish. Which is to say it hardly seems like a fish at all.

Kakashi can only stare. ]

... Is that even edible?

[ It has way too many eyes to even look the slightest bit palatable. Obito, why? ]