TEST DRIVE [SMASH RONPA]

[monoguests]

Smash Ronpa Test Drive

Smash Life of Mutual Killing

Guidelines
Welcome to Smash Ronpa's test drive! In lieu of a Mock Trial, due to this round's length, we'll be keeping this test drive open until the opening of the game on September 28th. Reserves will be happening on September 18th, and you can use 20 comments (from your character) on the game's application! Otherwise, this TDM is here to help you figure out how/who you might want to play, and can help you get to know some of the players in the upcoming round. Don't feel like you have to apply just because you play on the TDM!

This post is, however, exclusively open to characters who fit the round's character guidelines. In other words - Nintendo characters and other video game characters who have appeared on a Nintendo consoles. Please check out our FAQ for more detail on this, or hit up smashronpa if you have any questions about character choices or anything else!

1) ARRIVAL
You wake up comfortably enough in a nice-looking, despite the overabundance of pink everywhere. It's well-furnished and decently roomy - there's even a little fireplace in there! The only problem is that even despite the sense of familiarity some might feel, this clearly wasn't the room you went to sleep in the night before.

Welcome the Monobear Training Camp! It may take a few minutes to gather your bearings, but you'll eventually stumble into the wide open world of the camp. If you look hard enough, you might find an odd electronic device somewhere on your person - giving you access to 15 different "student profiles". It's time to figure out just where you've ended up, now isn't it?

2) LIFE IS QUITE ABSURD
By now, you're acquainted with everybody here and you're sloooowlllyyyy growing bored. Bored enough to kill? No. Bored enough to actually try and entertain yourselves in this place? Yes. Yes, you are. Thankfully, this place has plenty of ways to entertain! You might just try to cook something up in the kitchen, play around in the well-stocked arcade, and even a neat little library! There's even a large movie theater, but your enjoyment of that might be hampered by the fact that there's only one movie playing on repeat. At all times. Remember, we're trying to cause despair here.

What some might find creepy, however, is that all the rooms are far bigger than they should be. The layout of this place is...it doesn't make any sense. There are windows and pathways where there shouldn't be, and it seems as though the rooms are almost overlapping each other. Don't think about it for too long.

3) WHAT'S MY MOTIVATION
IT'S MOTIVE DAY! What's going to drive you to kill? Drive you to end of the chain? CONGRATULATIONS, IT'S HAPPENING TODAY. Either nab a motive from any of the previous rounds or invent your own!

4) AND DEATH'S THE FINAL WORD
It was bound to happen eventually. Either you're dying, or someone close to you is about to make it up the great big Warp Pipe in the sky. Either try to get a few last words out before you go, or go off and investigate in the wake of their death.

5) WILDCARD
Who even knows- do whatever you want, man! Unless it's pissing off the headmaster. Don't do that.

Comments

[theothersissel]

...You have, Sissel. You have.

[And now he's sniffing because his nose is now runny and ugh, he hasn't felt this human in quite some time. He's used to being a living corpse, an object more than a broken creature. He rubs behind Sissel's ears, letting out a sigh. The annoyance and frustration with what happened between them can wait. His only friend, his dearest friend, is here.]

[The question is a fair one, however, and Yomiel frowns.]

You are smaller than I saw you last...I wonder why that is?

[cantread]

[Yes, ear-rubs are perfect. That gets Sissel to purr.]

You smell different. You smell like you did back then, at the park.

[Sissel's memory might not always be the best, but smells he can remember. Yomiel smells 'alive', and not just in the 'moving and talking' way. He has that scent of life to him, like other humans do. Sissel doesn't completely understand what happened to Yomiel that day, but it changed him, and now he's back to how he was before.]

Maybe we got changed back, to how we were all those years ago. I'm like I was then, and you're like you were then. But we remember things that happened after that.

[He doesn't have all the answers, but it's a theory.]

[theothersissel]

Do I? Gods, it's been so long...

[There's a feeling of happiness, of relief, but then again, what was the cost of this "new life"? He's not anywhere he knows. Maybe he just hasn't figured what's going on, yet. Maybe this is all just a blessing in disguise. He has to take things one at a time, just enjoy the feeling of his heart pumping blood for the first time in years.]

[It is a good theory, though, but he wonders how in the world that country would be able to do something like this. He was expecting to be transported to the country he made a deal with, not just suddenly awake all...alive.]

Yes, maybe, but...why you? I didn't...I didn't bring you with me. I don't understand. [A pause.] I'm not complaining, but I just don't understand it at all...

[cantread]

Don't be silly, I was right there with you.

[As far as Sissel remembers, he was always right there with Yomiel. They hadn't gotten separated at all, even if he had been 'asleep' for a bit. He sleeps all the time and Yomiel is never too far away when he wakes up, so this is no different to him.]

And even if you did leave me behind, I would come find you. You feed me and keep me in warm places, nobody else does that for me.

[This is cat affection.]

[theothersissel]

No you weren't. You...

[He can't say it. He can't bring himself to say those words. Sissel had died. All by his own ghostly hand...]

[He feels is chest shuddering with another rush of emotion, and he walks a little to the bookcase so that he can lean on it with a hand, afraid he'll collapse. This is all too much to take in, really.]

[He lets out a short laugh.]

Well, I'm glad you found me now. I'm really glad...