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Test Drive Meme #2 - Overflow

TDM #2 OVERFLOW


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TDM #2 - March/April 2025
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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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notsogroovy: (Changed: Annoyed Raven and Charles)

[personal profile] notsogroovy 2025-03-25 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
"You haven't run over my toe yet," she sniped back automatically. "I don't see any reason to start."

She paused after she said it and just stared at him. "Are we dreaming? Because if so, I don't appreciate the unannounced visit." She'd once made him promise to stay out of her head because she didn't want him to catch on to feelings for him that had been growing inside her. That part of her life was over, but she figured he'd learned some basic respect in the meantime. Especially since it was something he was teaching the kids.

Ethics for Mutants.

"And if this isn't a dream..." And that's where she was lost. She wasn't sure what this was if not a dream.
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[personal profile] mutantrights 2025-03-28 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
"No, Raven," Charles says ruefully, "this isn't a dream. You are, in fact, in a land where the Fae rule. Magic is real-- and I'm afraid that if you've eaten anything, you're stuck here."

Yeah. It had taken a while for him to get used to the idea, too.

And now-- now that he's spoken with Erik, and shared his memories of their future, now that he's seen a future where Raven has moved back into the mansion as a leader of their movement and part of the X-Men, he finds his feelings on Raven to be even more complicated than they were yesterday. Largely, however, he just feels relief. Knowing that his sister is safe, and home.

"What's the last thing that you remember?" he asks carefully. "Because, I hate to introduce another shock, but there's a real possibility that we're from different points in our own timelines."
notsogroovy: (Changed: Raven 80's)

[personal profile] notsogroovy 2025-03-30 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
"Big thing? We defeated the first mutant. I moved back in." There were the smaller things. Conflicts she and Charles had because of how long they'd lived apart from each other. Eighteen years with him and twenty-one years after that without him. When she'd been with him, she'd been dependent on him. For her happiness and her security. And maybe that would have been transferred to Erik if not for his arrest only a year after leaving with him.

Since then, she'd been on her own. Her paths had crossed with other mutants and she had plenty of acquaintances and even friends, but none that she ever stayed with for any length of time. She'd lost too many people to really feel comfortable accepting more on a permanent basis.

Except now she had. And look what happened.

"What do you mean different points?"
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[personal profile] mutantrights 2025-04-06 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, they're not too far apart, then. Perhaps even only a matter of days.

"Well, from my perspective, the last thing I remember was talking to Erik in Cerebro, while he was in the company of En Sabah Nur," Charles fills in. "You had just arrived with a warning, so we went to go look." And then the first mutant had-- taken over, somehow, wrenching his mind sideways to control it. "And then I was waking up here."

Through Erik's memories, he knows that she had moved back into the mansion, and he wonders how their relationship had progressed from there. Erik hadn't shown him that, because he likely hadn't known. There's a big gap there that Erik has refused to allow him access to.

"But I'm told that we defeated the first mutant, so, it all ended well, I assume? Erik showed me the memory of the mansion being rebuilt." Charles sighs, wistful. "I wonder if he managed to properly reshape everything. My great grandfather Wilbur would be horrified if the candelabras were dented at all."
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[personal profile] notsogroovy 2025-04-12 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
She reached up and ruffled his hair a little. "That explains this," she said without going into what she meant by it. The bald look worked for him, but there was something about him having hair that was nostalgic. And it helped that it seemed he hadn't been fully tortured by that mutant.

"Really? You're going to argue about the candlesticks but not the oak that one of your students destroyed?"

She smiled a little. More nostalgia because she could remember playing on that tree when she'd first come to the mansion. It seemed like a lifetime ago.

"We defeated him. Erik saw reason eventually and he and Storm turned on the mutant." Erik still didn't know about his son or, if he did, he didn't want to know. Yet, at least.
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[personal profile] mutantrights 2025-04-14 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Ugh, not the bald thing again. Charles has seen it for himself, thank you, and while he thinks he looks quite handsome without hair, he still prefers himself with.

At least he knows he ages well, after communicating with his future self back during the Sentinel chaos.

"Yes, Erik showed me his memories of everything during that period, including the defeat of the first mutant. And," Charles slants a pleased look at Raven, "the official formation of the X-Men, with you at the helm."
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[personal profile] notsogroovy 2025-04-15 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
"And Hank," she added. "It was me and Hank who started it." She shouldn't have been surprised that Erik's memories featured her and left out Hank. The two men hadn't exactly been rivals, but she'd certainly been drawn to both of them over the years. To all three of them, if she were honest with herself. Any time she thought she could do it on her own, she always felt drawn back by one of three of them.

"It's been a few months for me since the last thing you remember. Mostly just settling in."

Figuring out how to live with the men she'd left. The students who'd admired the mutant who'd saved the president.
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[personal profile] mutantrights 2025-04-21 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
"I imagine it must have been quite the adjustment, being back."

As much as Charles would like to pretend that coming home would be easy for Raven, he's sure it's not. She's spent decades away, decades forming an identity distinct from himself and their childhood home. His mother and step-father are long gone, his step-brother only god knows where, and the entire mansion has been turned into a school full of children and teenagers.

He's just so, so glad that Raven eventually found her way home. He'd always hoped that she would.

"Unfortunately, now we have to settle into a whole new world," he adds, grimacing delicately. "At least until we find a way back home. I'm told a lot of people are working on that, but so far, no real progress has been made." He nods out at the party, where Fae and the Adopted are dancing. Many of the Fae are more than human looking -- with jewel-toned skin, or wings, or horns, fantastical combinations. "At least we won't be looked down upon for being mutants, here. Or so I assume."
notsogroovy: (Changed: Raven 80's)

[personal profile] notsogroovy 2025-04-21 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
"To say the least. I've been gone as long as I was with you." She'd spent nearly twenty years with Charles. And then she spent nearly twenty years without him. It was said that absence made the heart grow fonder. For her, it just served to open her eyes to the faults in him that she'd never let herself see when she'd relied on him. She had missed him, but she didn't feel the blind, frustrated devotion she'd once felt.

"Don't worry about it," she said gently. "I'll help you with the transition."

To be fair, they were in the same boat. But Raven had also been the one out in the world more. Charles had always been a bit of a homebody, minus the time when he'd searched for mutants with Erik. Sure, he'd had school and he was always up for a night out in the bar, but he always came back home. And now that he had the school, that was even more of a feature of his personality.

"We'll see," she said to the last statement. People still remained people. Once they got over the shock of being in a new place, she would see if they started giving people who were different a hard time.
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[personal profile] mutantrights 2025-04-24 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
We'll see. Ah, so Raven is still a pessimist, then. She still sounds like Erik in his early days; distrustful, wary.

Eventually, she's going to meet Erik as he is now. A changed man, ten years in the future. A man responsible for building something, and not just destroying. A man who has lost so much, and still works so hard to protect others. Charles isn't quite sure where he stands on some philosophies these days, but he's sure it'll be quite the shock to Raven. As it was to himself.

"Well, the good news is: we're not alone," he adds, injecting some cheerfulness into his tone. "Erik's here. As is Hank, and Alex. Along with a few other mutants from other worlds. We'll soon have quite the little community."
notsogroovy: (Changed: Raven 80's)

[personal profile] notsogroovy 2025-04-29 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
Which meant there were more people for Raven to look out for. But it was fine. She did better when she had a firm goal in mind, even when she had to impose one on herself. She needed to protect the growing community that he was talking about. Even though she knew that all the ones he'd mentioned by name could protect themselves.

"Are we talking about students?"

Depending on which ones they were, it was possible that they could take care of themselves nearly as well as the adults. She wouldn't like to send--

Raven's brain halted mid-thought as she realized something about what Charles had said.

"Wait, did you say Alex?"
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[personal profile] mutantrights 2025-04-30 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm. There's an interesting thought, actually. No, none of the mutants who have appeared are students. That's a comfort. Charles would hate for any of them to be subjected to this.

"No, just adults, so far. I can only hope the students back home are safe."

Is time continuing without them? Is the Institute simply without teachers right now? Or, if they ever get home, will they reappear in the moment they left?

Raven's question has Charles grinning, a lightness to it that he hasn't felt in years. He's grown used to death; resurrection practically has him giddy. "Yes, Alex. He remembers his death, actually, so he was taken from afterward. Somehow, he has been given a second chance at life."
notsogroovy: (Changed: With Charles)

[personal profile] notsogroovy 2025-05-01 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Raven let out a quiet sigh of relief when he said the kids were safe. She knew how resourceful they were. If nothing else, some of the older ones would look after the older and they would find... Well, they'd find someone to look after them or they'd look after themselves.

She flashed a smile at Charles's grin, even though she couldn't help but go to the worst-case scenario. What would happen if they found a way home, no matter what the creatures here claimed, and it meant that Alex would die all over again? Not an acceptable answer. So she'd have to make sure their way home included Alex.

"Any other pleasant surprises you have up your sleeve or is that about it?"
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[personal profile] mutantrights 2025-05-02 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
Charles laughs. "Unfortunately, that's the only card I have. Well-- perhaps another is that we can take solace in the fact that there are quite a few of us here. Strength in numbers, and so on."

Still, he worries about the children. If only he was powerful enough to reach through dimensions, but alas. That's not in his wheelhouse.

notsogroovy: (Changed: With Charles)

[personal profile] notsogroovy 2025-05-05 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"That makes me more worried, not less. Why did they bring here? And what are they going to do with us when they're done?" She pursed her lips and glanced at their 'hosts' before looking back at Charles. She touched her temple in the same way that he always seemed to when he was using his power.

"Can you..." She left the rest unsaid. If he could, she didn't want to reveal what it was he could actually do.