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[maskormods]

TEST DRIVE MEME

Considering apping into MASK OR MENACE? Want to dip your toes into the setting and get a feel of whether your character will fit into it? Or maybe you're just cruising and want to play around? Then you've come to the right place!

Pick any of the following scenarios below or feel free to make up your own, but don't be afraid to throw yourself at someone else's thread, either!

And remember to have fun!

01. The city of Heropa is what one might expect from a small, bright and cheery place, where locals are friendly enough and local shop owners might offer a free drink to welcome you to their fair city. Some of the locals might thank you for always lending your service to the nation and others might not say anything. In fact, some people might back away from any imPort who quite obviously looks like they aren't from around the neighborhood. Once in a while there's a look of disdain on someone's face and hushed voices. An upset voice wonders aloud: "More of them, when we already know they can't protect us? That's just painting a bigger target on the city's back!" However, they're quickly hushed with a judgmental: "They helped save the cities, and it's the Soviets you should be angry with anyway! The imPorts are here to protect us!"

02. De Chima, Virginia, is a large city with a healthy economy, and though it's quieter, there are just as many citizens awed at your presence. Many people are out and about taking care of their regular business, but that doesn't distract them from crowding you in excitement if you're obviously from a different time or world, or just let it slip that you're a newcomer. Children and young teenagers are especially likely to ask for an autograph and a photo.

Some locals seem less enthused to see you. They never make an approach, but they can be overheard scoffing and muttering something about spies. "How can we trust any of them now?"

03. Maurtia Falls, Pennsylvania, is not as friendly and its citizens tend to go out of their way to avoid walking down the same sidewalk as the more obvious looking imPorts pass through. Local cops say nothing, but they scowl at those imPorts and mutter under their breaths resentfully about "vigilantes". However, not all locals turn the other way seeing imPorts; some of them will offer a polite enough smile and thank them for their help in overthrowing the trespassers. They don't stop to clarify what they mean, though.

04. Nonah, North Carolina, is the liveliest of all cities; loud, busy and there's some kind of energy in the air that gets everyone buzzing with excitement. Anyone who they come to determine an imPort is bombarded with all sorts of offers; job offers, advertising gigs, spokesperson for advocating children stay in school, etc. Anything and everything! You name it. Shops offer discounts for food and clothing, whatever they need. Advertisements are abound for imPorts to make appearances at various, televised celebrations, luring them in with promises of free food, merchandise, and payment.

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Adrien Agreste/Chat Noir | Mirculous Ladybug

[pawdonnemoi]

🐾 01 HEROPA AS CHAT NOIR.
[He's only just arrived but that doesn't stop Adrien from slipping right into the comfortable skin of Chat Noir and strolling about Heropa. It takes him a moment to get used to the fact that people aren't flocking to him to heap praises on him for saving the day along side Ladybug. People are curious enough, but it's not like back home.

Some of the whispers are the hard to ignore. He actually starts to wonder if he should have stayed Adrien while scoping out the new city. However, that's a notion he quickly shoves away. He is Chat Noir and people will have to get used to that.

After a moment of thought he finds an open enough space to start doing acrobatics with the use of his staff. He might not have any crimes to stop, at the moment, but at least he can entertain folks. Some may seem him as acting a fool but he's enjoying himself.]


🐾 01 HEROPA AS ADRIEN AGRESTE.
[Having seen how the city takes to Chat Noir he decides to go incognito. And, boy, is he ever invisible as Adrien. Back home he's something of a celebrity so going completely unrecognized by people is strange, to say the least. And, perhaps, a tad bit refreshing. It's almost peaceful, until Plagg decides to complain about being hungry causing Adrien to stop and open up his outer shirt enough to hiss at the Kwami.]

Can't you keep quiet? You'll be fed soon enough.


🐾 04 NONAH AS CHAT NOIR.
[Now this is more like it! Everywhere he goes people shower attention on him. It's actually a bit more than he expected to find in this world, given he's new and hasn't yet made a name for himself. But the costume has them coming to him in droves. Naturally he can't stop himself from flirting with any cute girl, or just about anyone around his age, that speaks to him.

But as more people arrive and job offers start coming his way his realizes it's a bit too much.]

Actually, yes, I used to do some modeling back home but, ah... [He starts only to be cut off by someone else with some other offer. He looks to be a bit overwhelmed and lets out a little laugh before using his staff to propel himself up to a nearby rooftop.

At least there he can find some peace, a moment to breath.]

Geez. It's not this crazy back home. [He rubs the back of his head as he glances back down toward the disappointed crowd.]


🐾 WILDCARD.
[Anywhere, anytime, as Adrien or Chat Noir.]

M'gann M'orzz/Miss Martian | Young Justice

[wifeonmars]

A: Heropa

[It's kind of weird walking around in her actual skin. Well, usual skin. M'gann doesn't think the city is quite ready for the sight of an actual Martian wandering the streets. But for the most part, everyone's been very nice and welcoming. The worried looks and whispers though... they bother her. Is this what it's like to be Batman?

Or maybe it's just what it's like to be Uncle J'onn. Did someone just say she might be a Russian spy??]

I promise I'm not here to invade or anything! Just... just shopping!

[M'gann decides not to mention that if she were a spy for the Soviets, they wouldn't see her coming.]


B: De Chima

[M'gann is the master of the selfie. Shifting her arms to be longer so everyone can be in the shot is a breeze, and the kids seem to like it. With their parents' permission she even gently juggles them through the air with her telekinesis. They especially seem to like when she mimicks their faces and those of some imPorts she's seen on random merchandise.

Probably not the best way to lie low.]


C: Nonah

[Nonah is... overwhelming. M'gann isn't used to being recognised like this, never mind all the crazy offers. At first she tries to be polite, gently declining the more outrageous suggestions but some civilians are especially persistent. Eventually, she resorts to running away, turning invisible and flying into the nearest secluded alley.]

Note to self: only come here as Megan Morse.

01 Chat~

[radioclub_jp]

[It isn't long before Paprika's exploration leads her to the small group gathered around somebody in the park, and curiosity leads her to join them. And, you know, sure he may be dressed a little weird, but the kid's definitely talented! As he's finishing a routine, she applauds, smiling brightly.] Very cool! Encore~!

Elena Fisher | Uncharted

[storyseeker]

1. Heropa
[Well, at least she's in Florida; that's one familiar thing, and familiarity isn't something Elena would expect to find when yanked into another world. (Not that that's ever happened before, but thinking hypothetically.) It seems crazy, but is it really any crazier than discovering the truth about El Dorado and Shambhala?

Yeah actually. But she can deal with that.]

Excuse me. [Once a reporter, always a reporter; rather than silently explore or wait to be approached by the locals, Elena goes up to whoever looks like they might have a story.] This city's heroes, the imPorts—you know more about what's going on here, right? Would you mind sitting down with me to answer a few questions?

Nonah
[Elena is blonde, pretty, and distracted by everything going on around her in this bustling burg. That makes her an easy mark for the pickpocket...or so he thinks, because as soon as he's slipped the wallet from her pocket, she's spinning in place to face him.]

HEY!

[Oh shit. The thief might have some experience with this, but he's also a skinny teenager; he takes off running, but Elena is sprinting after him, and a block and a half later they're both on the ground after she's tackled him. Quickly, she snatches her wallet back.]

Get a real job and stop picking on newcomers, kid. Geez... [She gets up and brushes herself off.] Guess they weren't kidding about the super strength.

[She's caught the notice of the crowd, though, which catches her unusually off guard for someone who's job it is to get up in front of people and talk.]

What?

A

[flynnnotjunior]

Yeah... I'm pretty sure that's not convincing. [ Green lady. ]

Jefih’ir Zherma/Six | Final Fantasy XIV

[irassible]

( 1 ) Heropa
[ This land - the Land of Florida - is terrible. It's warm, and it's crowded, and it's humid, and it's warm, and it's loud, and it's warm, and from a little past mid-morning, Six was already doomed. He'd told himself that exploring was his best and only option until he knew more, as long as he didn't draw too much attention to himself. That meant keeping his face hidden, keeping to the back streets, and leaving his chocobo behind at the house (to the woe of the house).

It also meant that at a little past 2 PM, he's swimming in his own sweat because stubbornness outweighs common sense. He might've just given up the ghost and found himself a cool place and something to drink, but that presents a whole new problem: where? And with what?

At a little past 3 PM, anyone happening by might find a masked man(?) with his head down on a table outside of a small, closed (Hours: 8 AM - 2 PM) coffeeshop. He may have, in fact, passed out, or is coming very close to it. ]

( 2 ) De Chima
[ This is better.

Well, it's not worse.

And, as far as Six can tell, there's nobody watching - which is odd, considering the amount of children here. The building itself is striking, all chrome and blinking colors, gaily outlining a word he doesn't recognize: ARCADE. He'd stopped, intrigued, only to start to attract, one by one, Hyur (or "human", he'd been corrected, more than once) children of every age. He doesn't understand half of what they're talking about - "Great costume, man!" "Are you a mutant?" "Are you an alien?" "Did you fight the Soviets?" - but other than one small girl that keeps insisting on grabbing his tail, it's not so bad.

So there he will be, a man (???) standing amidst a gaggle of kids and teenagers outside an arcade, posing when asked but having zero clue what they're doing with those little shiny squares of theirs, because what is a selfie, exactly? ]

( 3 ) Heropa: Bonus!
[ There's no man in black to be found.

Instead, minding its own business, is a bird. A big gray bird with a saddle and a bridle, with said bridle currently tethered to a tree. The bird is close enough to one of the complimentary trashcans that it can, and is, sticking it's head down into the bin to rifle through its contents. ]

Yuichiro Hyakuya l Owari no Seraph

[dejerate]

Heropa:

[Okay, so this whole hero thing in theory isn't. All that different from being in the military, and Yuu is often running headfirst into situations when he sees someone in trouble anyway. But that still doesn't mean he's exactly thrilled about this situation. Free drinks or otherwise. Which he might be sipping on as he wanders around, exploring and trying to take this place in, keeping an eye out for any potential familiar faces.]

The Soviets? Just what is going on, anyway?

[This seems. A lot more complicated than back home. Where it was just humans versus the vampires, on the whole. This seems like a much larger scale issue, war between countries. Sure, fighting to defend others and stop the 'other side' isn't foreign to him at all, but at the same time, this still has him wary. Distracted. Sorry if he accidentally bumps into you and that drink of his spills?]

De Chima:

Wait, spies? H-hey! I'm not....

[A spy. Certainly not for Russia. He's never even been outside of Japan, outside of the orphanage, with the vampires, or at the military base/school. But of course, he's a stranger. These people have no real reason to believe him, do they? Aside from the obvious of his distinctly not-Russian uniform, his Japanese. But it seems just like back home, these people, these Americans are just going to use him as well, if it means they get rid of these spies and he can help stop this war with the Soviets.]

Nonah:

[Okay, so Yuu really. Isn't used to all this attention, as people crowd around him in his obvious uniform, proclaiming him to stand out as an imPort rather easily. He's actually getting a little frustrated at having any sort of progress exploring and figuring this place out being halted with the crowds.]

Ah, no....no thanks. I was never that into school myself anyway. Look, I just want to....oi, watch it, waving that pamphlet in my face!

Wildcard:

[Basically, the 'free for all' option. If you want him somewhere I haven't put a prompt up for or whatever. Go for it.]

[wifeonmars]

If I were invading, I'd do a way better job of it.

I mean! No spies here!

C

[pawdonnemoi]

[Chat Noir, himself, had been using the rooftop to escape the adoring crowds but he really wanted to actually see the city. As M'gann enters a secluded alley, Chat Noir does the same, only from above. He's about ready to change back when he realizes he's not alone.]

Is someone there?

[flynnnotjunior]

You know, I could go get you a shovel.

Paprika | the movie has the same name as the character but I don't want to write it twice

[radioclub_jp]

01

[It's not an uncommon thing, in dreams, for the setting to change wildly from one moment to the next, so suddenly finding herself in the Porter lab wasn't as distressing for Paprika as it is for most people. What's weird, though, is that she was pretty sure she wasn't asleep, and there was only one time she could name when she'd been awake and looked like this. Something felt off, somehow, something wasn't right about all this. Something was missing.

Despite that, though, she's finding that she's... not too worried. What's rising to the forefront of her mind is that she's never been to Florida before, much less the Florida of another dimension, and there are flying cars, and everything is just so different and new. Who could blame her for being a little excited? Well, Atsuko could, but...

She happily takes the offered ride into Heropa, and gets straight to exploring. But she's hardly oblivious to the tension in the air. At one point, she gets to overhear most of a somewhat heated argument about imPorts, between two people who have no idea there's one standing right next to them. ("... but after everything that's happened 'cause of them, we shouldn't be letting them live this close to us, at least." "Well, like, what do you want 'em to do? Round 'em up into camps? I mean, who'd even be able to?" "That's not what I'm saying...")

Hm. You know what, maybe she should find out what she's actually gotten herself into here. Asking about recent events will totally blow her cover, though, because how would you not know, right? She ought to find a like-minded individual, instead. Another imPort? Yeah, let's find another imPort. So, if you look out of place, she'll just sidle up to you wherever to say hi.]

'Scuse me - do you live around here?


04

[Weeeell not sure how she blew her cover here, but the cover, it is blown. And suddenly, a wealth of opportunities is not so much laid at her feet as shoved in her face.]

Oh! Well, I'm flattered, but y'know, I just got here...

[She tries politely refusing at first, but it just keeps happening, so she tries to change the subject and slip away, but she can't... Unnoticed by most, her reflection in a nearby store window (independent of what she's actually doing) starts making desperate "HELP ME" gestures at anybody who looks like they're thinkin' about it.]

Aerith Gainsborough | Final Fantasy VII

[23wishes]

02. De Chima.
[There's no escape from this crowd of people, is there? Everyone's excited to meet the new imPort... whatever that is. Her, appaarently. It's fine, mostly. She's handled more people than this selling flowers, but they don't care about lillies. They're asking about her abilities. And that's less fine. How do they even know about her powers? About what she is? But they're too busy asking her questions to answer her own.

If you look carefully, you can see Aerith's looking a bit overwhemed now. She just needs a way to get away from here, politely, without making a scene. If only she'd drawn these kind of crowds for her flowers...]

04. Nonah.

[Now, this. This is more Aerith's thing. This is her element. Big cities offer a certain degree of anonymity, and it's something she's relied on her entire life. If Aerith doesn't want to be followed, she won't be. It's a skill she's honed for years. And, no, she doesn't want to be followed.

This is all unsettling. Back home, at best, her powers made her a freak. At worst, they were something to be used by other people, whether she wanted that or not. At worst, she was pursued for her whole life because of them. But here... they were desired? Celebrated? It's not something she could have ever imagined.

This is all how she ended up here, in a back alley, catching her breath in the shadows. She'll be fine. She just needs a minute to think.]

[wifeonmars]

[For a moment, M'gann debates not revealing herself. But whoever it is looks like another superhero, so she slowly phases into sight.]

Hi.

B

[kryptclonian]

[ Conner is just standing idly by, watching M'gann interact with the children. He... doesn't really know what to make of the scene. Overall, he guesses that you could call it cute? But all things considered...

He's not going to walk up to her just yet, but just stand and watch. He's not hiding himself or anything, at least. So M'gann is free to notice him. ]

[pawdonnemoi]

[Paprika isn't the only one calling for an encore and Chat Noir is happy to oblige. He laughs, stopping in mid-bow as people ask for more.]

Very well! [He goes through another routine, this time using his staff to go even higher than before. Somehow the weapon is seems to remain rooted to the ground, without wobbling, no matter how high he extends it. There's several flips and flourishes before he's back on the ground, sinking into a low bow.]

Thank you! Thank you!

(1)

[radioclub_jp]

[At a little past 3 PM, Paprika happens to be happening by and finds... you get the picture. Strange place to take a nap, though. She'll come over and gently lay a hand on his back, leaning over to try and get a proper look at him.]

Hey - are you okay?

[pawdonnemoi]

[His eyes go wide as she appears from, seemingly, no where. But the surprise fades quickly as a large, toothy grin overtakes his features.]

That's quite a trick! Must be very helpful.

[wifeonmars]

Really think I'm doing fine on my own. Just... fine.

Not a great first impression, huh?

02

[protects_the_small]

[Ah, this is a scene Kel has seen and been in a few times herself. Sometimes it's nice she was blessed with height, it makes pushing her way through so much easier, and she doesn't even have to use her elbows.

She puts a hand on Aerith's shoulder and lets her voice raise slightly more than technically needed]

Excuse me, Lady, but we're late. [she turns a bland smile on the crowd]
Some other time!

[Inexorably, she steers them both to a side street]

[wifeonmars]

[That's... a very familiar mind. Maybe too familiar. M'gann doesn't immediately show that she knows Conner's there. Eventually, the crowd of kids disperse. She thinks for a moment about just flying away, but that's probably not very heroic.

So she turns to Conner and puts on her best smile. This won't be awkward at all.]

Hey, Conner. Nice to see a familiar face.

[leonized]

Uh ... no. I live in Maurtia Falls.

[He takes another look at her. Wait, shit, she's probably new.]

— If you're looking for directions around Heropa, you should ask someone else.

[wifeonmars]

Oh y'know. Just Martian things.

[Not the usual response to her shapeshifting, but she'll take it.]

Stephanie Brown/Batgirl || DC Comics

[ichoosefight]

[ 03 - Day - Civvies ]

[ Steph is comfortable in a town where vigilantes aren't welcome. She listens with interest to the talk of passers by on the local state of affairs - she has a lot of catching up to do. The cafe seems like the best possible place to do that.

From her seat in the corner she reads a newspaper and subtly reads the lips of those customers she can. Most of them are pretty boring, but while she's here she can load up on caffeine for a fun night of running from cops and not being mobbed by 'fans'. She can also make up a way more interesting conversation for that awkward blind date happening two tables away. ]

[ 04 - Night - Batgirl ]

[ It was the first time she had ever drawn a crowd taking down a mugger. Steph had to wonder if she was being punked, especially after the man she saved from being his head bashed in started cheering the moment she appeared. Now the two perps were unconscious and somehow five people had emerged from the darkness to watch. They pelted her with questions - and offers, and suggestions, and advertisements. It was bizarre. ]

Yeah, um, I'm not really-- Where did you guys even come from? It's 2 in the morning. Don't you ever sleep?

[ Naturally that prompts someone to ask if she sleeps, and if so, where? ]

Not really... I'm not-- look, what about me wearing a mask makes you think I'm going to tell you where I live?

[radioclub_jp]

[Legitimately impressive! Paprika can't really do anything more complicated than a handspring, herself. There's something odd about the staff he's using, though, like it's too stable for what he's doing with it. I mean, it's still cool, don't get her wrong, but she's wondering if there's some kind of trick to it.

As it ends and the audience starts to disperse, she sticks around.]

That was awesome! Say, are you an "imPort"? [If this were an RPG, that word would be highlighted.]

[pawdonnemoi]

[It's neat, he likes it. He can think of a dozen ways such powers would come in handy, especially when all he can do is destroy things. Well, that's not all he can do but it's his one big power.

What really surprises him is the Martian bit. He blinks at her, gaze drifting skyward before returning to her.]

Martian? As in the from Mars kind of Martian? [What other type would there be?]