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

[finished]

Hey, geez! Take it easy!

[Though he protests, he doesn't struggle and lets Dark Pit drag him over. And once the demonstration is over...]

Oh! You mean how this place has wonky architecture, kinda like the Labyrinth of Deceit? [Whoops. He did notice.]

Yeah, it's kind of like the sun. It hurts to stare at it, so... I'm just doing my best not to stare at it.

[effectivefacekicking]

Yeah, exactly. You know what that means?

[He crosses his arms, looking up at the ceiling, brow furrowed.]

Humans didn't build this place. This is god level power. Or at least something magical and really powerful.

[finished]

[He looks up in the same direction. But his expression is concerned.]

You're right. And I don't think Dyntos is doing contractor work on the weekends.

You don't think that bear is actually...?

[effectivefacekicking]

It would explain a lot of things. Gods tend to be focused on one thing to an obsessive degree. Death, nature... even your Palutena and Light.

And it'd explain how it was able to bring us all here, too. You'd THINK she'd at least be able to keep her so called Captain of the guard from getting kidnapped.

[finished]

Yeah, you mean their... domain? Dogma? One of those D words.

You're right, though. Skyworld is completely protected by Lady Palutena's power. On top of that, I haven't been able to speak to her at all since I found myself here. And that usually only happens when there's something very powerful blocking the reception. [Like Hades' stomach lining. Speaking of, let's never speak about that happening, ever.]

If he's that strong, then I don't think it's the God of Teddy Bears that we're dealing with.

[effectivefacekicking]

[He doesn't really wanna know the details of Hades' gut anyway. And while he's not surprised that Pit can't contact Palutena he had kinda hoped. But considering Viridi hadn't tried to bother him either... Not that he needed the help of either goddess, but of COURSE when they were actually useful they were gone.]

He does look like he's bound by some rules at least.

[finished]

Definitely.

I mean, he talks big about despair, but then he's set this up so that we still have some control over what happens. And... even despite everything else, that gives me a little hope.

I don't think he did that by accident, either. You know how it goes. Light versus dark, hope versus despair...

[Call Pit an idiot all you want. Thanks to his job, this is one subject he's been put through his paces on.]

[effectivefacekicking]

[Oh Dark Pit knows Pit can be amazingly competent when he tries. After all, he was made to be his match in almost every way. But in the end it just made him all the more frustrated by his double's contentment being someone else's lapdog.]

Right. Some kinda balance. After all, he said we could live here peacefully as long as we gave up our freedom. It has to be a choice.

[He scowls, resting his chin on his hand as he thinks]

Otherwise he could just kill everyone here. It wouldn't even be hard to do.

[finished]

[It says a lot about Pit's life -- Dark Pit might be the only one who doesn't treat him like a total bubble head. And he's like a physical manifestation of Pit's own deeply repressed self-esteem issues.]

You know...

Obviously we're not going to stay here under his rule. I'd never betray Lady Palutena like that, and you -- well, you're you.

But what if we did? If the batch he picked all came together and said, "Yeah, you know what, our lives kinda sucked before, living here doesn't sound too bad"? If he's actually that committed to despair, do you think he'd really just let them live in peace?

[effectivefacekicking]

Probably not. Depends on how devoted he is into keeping his rules. Gods are pretty fickle.

[He shrugs... then gives Pit's a probing looking, head tilted]

Though speaking of... What are you willing to do to get back to her?

[finished]

[Oh, come on, Dark Pit. Really? You're going to ask that? You're like the only person he'd ever talk to honestly about this, but this subject isn't the sort of dirty laundry you should go waving around where other people might see it.]

[He looks around, making sure no one else is in earshot. It's probably a moot point, since the last one they want to hear is Monobear -- and if Monobear is a god, he's bound to hear this anyway. You know what? Fine. Monobear can listen up and take notes. A slow breath, and he goes ahead and admits it:]

I've thought about it.

You know I have. It's not like... I mean, I'm already walking in here with a body count. It's not like I couldn't.

But there's a huge difference between stopping a god from exterminating humanity, and murdering an innocent human. If I did something as horrible as that, I don't think I could face Lady Palutena again.

And besides, if I put myself on the execution block... Pittoo, you know what would happen to you. Do you really think I'd risk both our necks?

[He should probably think harder about reminding Dark Pit how much he matters to him. There is a way Monobear could get to him, and he wouldn't even need to give Pit a motive.]

[It's just a matter of someone else going after the wrong target.]

[effectivefacekicking]

[If it helps any, he listens with a serious expression. He knew Pit COULD. He has human lifetimes of combat experience and his size and apparent age would mean a lot of their 'classmates' would have their guard down around him.

But Pit isn't that kinda person, like it or not. But his stoic expression breaks when he mentions him]

N-ngh, that's why I asked! So you didn't run off and do something stupid that gets me killed-!

[finished]

[Of course he was going to mention you, Pittoo. He's been worried like crazy since this game started. With your soul twin here, this whole game is rigged against you. If someone targets you, he can't even protect you without putting your life in a whole different kind of danger.]

[But when Pittoo starts getting worked up about it, Pit drops the serious tone and tries to reassure his twin with a cocky smile.]

How about this, then? You don't run off and do something stupid, either, and I won't have to do something even stupider to save you. Deal?

[effectivefacekicking]

I'm not going to need any saving from you.

[Again.

Still, he turns away, flaring his wings out, a feather jostling loose and floating down dramaticly... like he's about to fly away from this awkward conversation. Only to keep standing there, wings trembling a little. Oh yeah, he can't fly.

Pittoo just...stands there, wings still out, waiting with open arms for Hades to drag him down to the Underworld out of pure embarrassment.]

[finished]

[You know, and they wonder why the gods are always picking on them...]

[But shh, shh, it's okay. Your favorite brother isn't going to pick on you for being a dweeb. That's your job.]

[Instead, Pit plays dumb, pretending he has no idea what Pittoo was trying to do there. He follows Pittoo forward and throws an arm around his shoulder in a display of the mutual brotherly affection they obviously share.]

So... that means 'deal' in Pittoo-speak, right?

[effectivefacekicking]

[Dark Pit huffs, folding his wings back and not caring if he thwaps Pit with said wing while doing so.

But hey, he doesn't pull away. That says something]

Just until this whole thing is over.

[finished]

Sure, sure. I know. [You keep telling yourself that Pittoo. And then the next time one of them is in danger, it'll be just until that's over. Right?]

But hey, after we get out of here, [which carries the bold implication that they will make it out of here,] I wouldn't mind getting some victory ice cream together.

[effectivefacekicking]

[He smirks, obviously amused]

It's always food with you, isn't it?

[finished]

Gimme a break! Your body works the same as mine, doesn't it? So you should know how hungry I get!

... ... ...

Actually, come to think of it... why don't you ever talk about food?

[effectivefacekicking]

Maybe because I don't feel the need to broadcast every sound my gut makes.

[Though if he had a goddess dropping him snacks every 5 minutes he would talk about it more. But SOME people have to get their own food like an actual 13 year old looking 3 year old adult]

[finished]

Maybe you should start. I wonder if you'd still be in a bad mood all the time if you kept yourself better fed?

[Pit, your brother is not a Snickers commercial.]

[effectivefacekicking]

I eat plenty. Just because someone doesn't drop meat-on-bone for me all the time...

[He pauses, looking thoughtful. Oh man some meat sounds really good... that noise ttly isn't his belly complaining]

[finished]

[You're speaking Pit's language now, Pittoo!]

So, here's an idea.

Whaddya say we go raid that kitchen, and make that bear regret bringing the both of us in here?

God or not, between the two of us? I think we could easily eat him out of house and home.

[effectivefacekicking]

[He smirks, hand on his hip]

Wow, that's surprisingly spiteful coming from you.

[Maybe they aren't so different after all.]

Alright, I'm in.

[finished]

[Does he have to put it like that?]

[They really aren't, though, and that's probably the most aggravating thing about Dark Pit. Other than his attitude, he gets Pit on a level no one else can, and that lets him get under Pit's skin without even trying.]

[Like now. Even as they start walking, Pit starts protesting in his own defense.]

Can you really blame me? Look at what he's doing to all these innocent people. This isn't just wrong -- it's sick and twisted. He's more than earned himself some divine punishment.

But... I'm struggling to come up with a way to fight him. It'd be a lot easier if we were facing him on a battlefield...