Test Drive 001

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Test Drive #001 Welcome to Atonement's first test drive, and thank you very much for stopping by! Please refer to the prompts below for ideas, or simply make up your own, whichever is easiest for you. Prompts Arrival: You don't quite remember how you arrived here. It appears that you're suddenly in a dead land with eerily red skies. The grass is dead, the trees are dying, and there's absolutely no sounds of life beyond your own footsteps, even if it feels like you're being watched somehow. Eventually along the narrow path you follow, you walk through gates that seem to guard a quiet, abandoned town and a sinking feeling starts to settle in that you are far from home and there may not be an easy way back. The sign hanging above the gates simply says "Welcome to Penance: Home Between Homes" and nothing more. Within the gates, there are the leftovers of what may have once been a lively, welcoming little town, if it didn't look as if people either fled or somehow vanished in the blink of an eye. There are dusty shops that are still stocked with supplies, many with their doors busted out or left open. There are homes that haven't been touched in what feels like an eternity but they still have furniture and the remnants of the people who lived there previously. Cars and bikes are littering the streets that are in varying shapes of usability. The more you look, the more unsettling everything becomes... First Punishment: As a show of good will, your hosts will give you a very easy, albeit potentially embarrassing, task to carry out for your punishment this month. First: There will as few secrets in Penance as possible. Transparency is key to atonement. You will reveal at least one sin in a way that will be permanent, which means via tattoo, scarring, branding, or other permanent means somewhere on your person. For those who are unable to be injured or scarred, there will be enchanted items that will be able to pierce even the toughest skin, cut deeper than even increased healing can recover from. All necessary items will be available at the tattoo parlor in town. If desired, characters may also make an announcement on the network listing their sin(s) for judgement from their peers. Please note that if the character insists they are free of sin, they will be provided a list of what they're guilty of by their hosts. Settling: It's time to settle into a home in Penance, either alone or with roommates. There is comfort and safety in numbers after all... Do try not to fight over housing if you've both accidentally chosen the same home... Your hosts will be very unhappy if you start a fight this early on over such a silly thing. If settling down isn't something you feel like doing, you may go and explore anywhere that you'd like, including outside the gates. Please be aware that there may be demonic forms of all types of common animals living outside them that move swiftly and silently. They will vary in aggressiveness and tamability, so please keep this in mind. As a note, all threads may be considered game canon if all parties agree. Hope you have fun and thank you! Game is set to officially open February 1st or when we reach a minimum of 10 players. premise | faq | taken | reserves | apps | hiatus/drop | network | logs | ooc | mods | requests

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Eren Jaeger | Shingeki no Kyojin

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Arrival

Where am I? This place looks nothing like the place I have fallen asleep

Curious he looked around, searching for something familiar but all he saw was a surrounding he had never seen before.

The young man stood motionless, noticing that the trees were all dead and that there was no sign of live around him. Not a single bird was flying across the sky, which was of an odd red color. Again he asked where he was and how he got here.

The silence around him began to get irksome and Eren realized that he wasn't used to silence anymore. He didn't know why, but he thought about this silence as a different type of what he's used to. This was dead silence not a silence that was temporary. He didn't know why he was making this assumption or why he was so sure, that he was right.

Slowly he made his way through this odd place. He walked for a while, before he came to an abandoned town. A shiver ran down his spine and he had to remind himself, that he had seen other things in his young life. But there was still the nagging though on his mind, that something was rotten but he couldn't put finger on what it was.

Eren had no clue how long he had walked through this town, when he saw another person who was walking over to one of the shops. He stepped over to the person, warily checking the person out from head to toe, before he asked "Excuse me. Do you why exactly this place's called 'Home between Homes'?"

Punishment (TW: cutting)

Here he was, facing the oldest sin he had committed. Back then he had been merely a child of nine years. Everyone who had looked at him had seen a small boy with huge green eyes and a cheeky smile on his face, always together with his adopted sister.

None of them was aware that the boy was responsible for the death of two grown up men. Not even his parents had ever know his secret. The only person who knew it, was his adopted sister. She was the reason why he had lost his innocence at such a young age.

He didn't feel any pain as the blade cut through his flesh. He had expired worse things. This was really 'just a cut'. If the situation wouldn't be so serious he would have laughed, when he heard from the shop owner that he should do the marking himself. Didn't he knew that self-hard was something he had done countless times, when he had transformed into a Titan? Inside Eren shrugged his shoulders. Maybe this was the real punishment: To mark oneself on its own and not letting other to this.

I can't be the only one here who has taken a life. Isn't murder the sin number one humans commit?

The old question of whether he was a human or a monster crossed his mind. He had come to conclusion that deep inside he was a monster which was wearing a human disguise.

With a blank expression he looked at his the back of his right hand. The fresh wound was in the shape of the letter "M". He knew that it would take a few days for this wound to heal and leave a scar. It would be the first scar on his body in the 19 years he was living. This time is unusual healing ability wouldn't do him a favour and close the wound. He was like everyone human.

In the back of his mind he was asking himself, if he was still having his ability to turn into a Titan or if he had lost it, when he had entered his new life in Penance. Will I miss this ability or will I be glad that I got rid of this burden?