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Welcome to Folkmore's monthly Test Drive Meme! Please feel free to test drive any and all characters regardless of your intent to apply or whether you have an invite or not.

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🦊 New Star Children meet the Fox still in their worlds, and she brings them into the new realm of Folkmore. As you follow her, your body begins to change and new characteristics emerge. These may stay for a while, or perhaps they will hide away after. And during all of this, the Fox explains to you where you will be going: to Folkmore.

and then... you fall like a shooting star, falling to the land in a burst of starlight.

🦊 Experienced Star Children are already familiar with this time of the month. There are shooting stars all across the sky, and some fall to the land, which means the Fox has brought new arrivals. These newly arrived Star Children will face some tests, but Thirteen wants the more seasoned residents to participate as well.

Perhaps you follow the falling stars on your own, or perhaps the Fox simply teleports you there, but it appears you too will be part of this.

[ Prompt One ★ Prompt Two]

Thirteen Knows What You Did Last Summer . ★

Content Warnings: School Detention, Time Not Passing, Forced Reflection/Confession, Potential Violence

Welcome to detention. Star Children, whether they're new arrivals to Folkmore or old hands, find themselves sitting at two person desks in a library. Perhaps there's only two Star Children, perhaps up to four or five. Regardless, each Star Child has a slip of paper in their hands which spells out why they are in detention, a secret detention slip no one else can read. Which, whew, because the reason any Star Child is in detention is for something they've never been punished for, something they might reasonably have thought they got away with, something they know was wrong.

The door to the library opens, and Kuma Lisa enters. She explains that Star Children will be in detention for four hours, and by the end of detention, they will need to reflect on what they did and express contrition. The headmistress gives no further guidance before leaving and closing the doors behind her.

Four hours is a notable chunk of time, but it's not so long, is it? Surely it's possible to wait it out without making good on the assignment… Or perhaps it's enough to write about it in one of the notebooks on the table in front of each student, without explaining it to another soul. Star Children are welcome to try whatever they want. However, they may notice an oddity with the clock. Namely, no matter how many times the second hand ticks around a circle to mark a whole minute, the minute and hour hands don't progress. It's the same minute over and over and over—

Detention is four hours, but how long four hours takes is entirely up to the Star Children in detention. Read every book in the library. Throw a dance party. Get high. Pull weapons out of the books. All matter of non-magical weapons. Nothing immediately happens upon pulling those weapons—no monsters to make detention less boring. Unless people make progress reflecting on their transgression, communicating about it with another Star Child, and showing penitence for it, time won't pass. Reality warps to stay in the same minute, minute after minute, hour after hour.

What's it going to be? Never ending detention or personal accountability?

However long it takes, it only takes four hours in the realm of Folkmore.

A word of warning to those who grabbed weapons, they will be attacked on their way home after detention. They will be attacked by creatures out of storybooks. Star Children will need to know the literary weaknesses of these creatures, good luck, or the help of someone else coming along who does know their weaknesses. At least there's some excitement in the day after four long long hours.

🦊 Star Children, new and old, in groups of 2-5 are in detention for something they did wrong & haven't been punished for.
🦊 Kuma Lisa explains detention lasts four hours, and people have to express regret for what they did by the end.
🦊 Time doesn't pass unless Star Children make progress toward that assignment.
🦊 It always takes four hours in Folkmore time.
🦊 Star Children who draw weapons from books during detention will be attacked on their way home.

To Prank or to be Pranked . ★

Content Warnings: Theft, Glitter Bombs, Minor Power Nerfing

There's a problem with the nonexistent mail delivery system in Folkmore. Gifts are being delivered to residents' addresses—their correct addresses, even if they live in the woods—but those recipients, written on a fat cream label, cannot pick them up, teleport them, or otherwise move them under their own power. These gifts sit in garish and contrasting colors that make certain to draw attention to themselves. Hello, here they are.

Anyone else can pick these packages up, from the person next door to a stranger walking by. There's so many gifts around it's easy to pick one up, remove the label, and go on one's way. Few people are home all the time, and even if they are, what are they going to do? Pick it up themselves? Ha! It's free ~~real estate~~. Star Children with abilities to see inside the packages can see something they want badly within as extra motivation to go for it.

When Star Children open their ill gotten gains, these packages explode in a glitter bomb that coats everyone within a ten foot radius. This glitter is impossible to wash out, magic away, or otherwise remove for twenty-four hours. Walk, swim, fly, or otherwise go about with glittery evidence of the crime committed.

Almost always. If it were guaranteed, where would the fun be in that?

The rare fortunate criminal or the original recipient, helped by another Star Child, will receive an item from home. This may even be a weapon or magical item. Those who receive an item will stop receiving gifts on their doorstep, whether they stole the gift or received it from a package addressed to them. They can keep stealing other people's gifts, but they will only receive a glitter bomb from then on.

Mischievous Star Children can even prank each other by changing the label and redelivering packages to someone else. Should that person get help to bring the gift inside, it still isn't their gift, not really, so it too will explode in glitter.

🦊 Gifts appear outside Star Children's residences, even those without residences.
🦊 Recipients cannot pick up the gift but any other Star Child can.
🦊 Almost all stolen gifts explode in a glitter bomb that leaves glitter for 24 hours.
🦊 Star Children can receive an item from home, even a weapon or magical item.
🦊 Star Children can prank each other by changing the labels/moving the packages.

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March... so the better part of a year? Poe's a little fuzzy on the details, let alone whether or not time works the same here as what he's used to, since he's not taking anything for granted, but it sounds about right, considering how she's handling all of this. It's both easier and harder, knowing these things, that they come from drastically different points in the war and, most of all, that she doesn't really know him at all. It shouldn't get to him as much as it does, he thinks, and for now he's just skimming past the awkwardness of it all. But it'll catch up to him sooner or later.

"Finn told me, yeah. It's hard to imagine her as just a kid, but I bet she's cute." He offers up a grin, knowing that at least they have this much in common. Rey took to Leia very quickly, understandably, and she's much more than just a mentor to him. Honestly it's probably for the best that she's just a kid, that's a lot less awkward than it would be if she was around the same age as they are.

"But tell me about you, what have you been up to here?"

Finn's settled in, but it's harder for him to imagine what Rey's gotten herself into.

Rey has seen some things. And is currently in an odd balancing act with Be--Kylo Ren as she tries to make him understand that yes, she did care for Ben, but she had to make sure it was Ben she was dealing with. Not Kylo Ren. But he seemed to be determined to be Kylo Ren, as if to spite her.

And she wants to get to know Poe since Finn has spoken glowingly of him and it seems like they should be friends. Even if in her time, she's acting like a liason between Ben Solo and Kylo Ren.

"Oh, she's adorable. Just the cutest, most spunky little girl you can imagine. Though, we need to be careful, this Leia already knows she has the Force and is using it. So in-nay on the other-bray. And Vader. No mentions of Vader, ever." And Rey could so easily see how the little girl she is could grow into the strong, brave general she is in Rey and Poe's time.

"I, um. There are a lot of us from our galaxy. A lot from different time periods. And some very un-Sithlike Sith, at least according to our knowledge of the Sith."

She's been throwing herself head-first into local goings on to keep herself from worrying about what's happening back home.

Poe does frown at the mention of Darth Vader, less because she's just brought him up and more because of the fact that if a much younger Leia is here then someone like that could be drawn here too. This place is enough to deal with as it is without the Empire running around, though it's not as if they'd have any more power here than anyone else. They're not much without their armies of Star Destroyers.

"I probably wouldn't mention a lot of details to her at all. She's just a kid, right? A Jedi kid, yeah, but she doesn't need to start worrying about all of that now." A normal life was probably always out of the question, no matter what universe she might be from or how different her life might be from the one he knows. Still, a kid deserves to just be a kid.

Her answer about what she's been doing is vague, it's not hard to tell that she's being careful about what she tells him, but it's hard to say why. He's leaning back in his chair now, arms loosely crossed, as he's not interrogating her. Not that he thinks he would get anywhere if he tried.

"Do I need to worry about any of the un-Sith Sith?"

He's had some very bad experiences with those in the past, though she might or might not know about that.

To Rey, despite her closeness to his two children, Darth Vader was a boogeyman. A scary story to tell children to keep them from getting out of bed in the middle of the night. Kriff, she'd told herself those stories when she was a child, sleeping in her AT-AT. The notion of him actually being brought here was almost laughable.

...famous last words.

"I'm not! I'm not saying a word. There's...there's far too much at stake for her to not live her life the way she's supposed to. As awful as it is." The destruction of Alderaan. The Hosnian System of Leia's time. A full display of both the power of and moral depravity of the Empire. The First Order.

A son, seemingly lost to darkness.

And Rey is a terrible liar. She'd be amazed that she hadn't given even more away to Poe.

"No. Cipher Nine is...intelligent. Well-dressed. I think they want us to focus on the well-dressed and miss the intelligent part. And there's another, but I haven't interacted with him personally. If he meant harm, surely he would have tipped his hand by now, right?"

She honestly didn't know.

Even if they did try to warn Leia about what would happen in the future Poe's not sure it would accomplish much, if anything. As far as he knows Leia saw a lot of this coming long before it actually happened anyway, sometimes just knowing isn't enough. Sometimes even someone like Leia, speaking with the wisdom and experience of an entire life fighting for peace, wasn't enough to sway a whole government paralyzed by infighting. He does wonder sometimes how things would have been different if more people had listened to her back then, like he did.

There's no real way to know, and he tries not to get caught up going in circles with those 'what ifs.'

Right now he's thinking about those Sith. Most of those First Order guys wouldn't worry him at all in a place like this, they're pretty useless on their own, but all it takes is one Sith to make a lot of people miserable. And worse. He makes a noise that's distinctly skeptical.

"Maybe. I'd still prefer to keep an eye on them."

He's not sure he likes the fact that she's not mentioning another name, but he's also being careful with her than he would have been with the Rey he knows. Because she doesn't know him, no matter how many stories she might have heard.

"So what's your detention for anyway?" He asks, raising an eyebrow and nodding toward the paper in front of her. "Apparently we have to deal with that before we can get out of here."

Rey knows next to nothing about politics, but she can imagine the fact that Leia was Darth Vader's daughter wouldn't go over well. There would always be whispers. Doubt. Suspicion. And finding out the truth about her son would only make matters worse.

It's hard for Rey not to, since it seems like she's the only one from her version of the galaxy.

She honestly doesn't think Cipher Nine would really want to impose their will on everyone. They described Sith studying in academies, much like the Jedi in their temples. That there were Sith who simply wanted to be left to their own business and Jedi who saw slaughtering all of them as a sort of holy act. Now. She's not completely convinced. It would take seeing all of it for herself, which is probably impossible. But they've been downright cordial in their interactions with Rey.

But Poe's question bring's Rey's thoughts to a screeching, crashing halt. How? How is she going to tell the Resistance's golden boy that she made a deal with the assumed devil to save him and the rest of the Resistance?

"Well." She bit her lower lip briefly. "It's calling me a traitor. Because I agreed to stay with Kylo Ren if he spared the Resistance shuttles. Which he did," she said in a long, breathless rush.

That's not a word that he was expecting from Rey. Confusion quickly turns to furrowed eyebrows as he's backtracking to the incident she's talking about, almost mechanically placing it before he considers how he feels about it. It's ironic, maybe, that it happened so close to his own 'wrong,' and he does wonder now if some mystical being actually read their minds or if this was just some reflection of a guilt they haven't dealt with yet— whatever the case, the way they got here doesn't change much about how they're supposed to get out, presumably.

It almost doesn't want to stick, the idea that Rey might have stayed behind, sparing their shuttles, and the battle that happened on Crait, but leaving them to go on without her. As much as he can't put a value on one life over another the coldly tactical tallying is laid right out in front of him, but he's not diving down that tunnel. Yet. The idea of never meeting Rey face to face at all, at least not the Rey that he knows, very similar to the one sitting across from him, sits heavy in his gut.

"So he let us all go." He's not angry, though a lot of other emotions are trying to jostle for attention, making his eyes flicker with a more colorful gleam as he grapples with them, unknown to him. "What's the long term plan there? He couldn't have promised to end the war."

He hopes that Finn would be impressed to see him talking this out rather than getting frustrated and stomping off to collect himself. Not that there's much of that to be done here, when they're both trapped in this one room.

She doesn't entirely feel that the word fits in a weird way. That she took steps to protect her friends by taking an...unconventional path, was that treason? But Rey can't bring herself to look at Poe, sure that he must be angry because she knew from Finn's stories that no one was more dedicated to General Organa and the Resistance than Poe.

Rey had no idea which planet the Resistance was fleeing to, only that it looked big. Surely they could find ways to hide themselves, take care of the wounded, and rally for more help from there? Because she knew that the fight wasn't over, that it couldn't be over as long as each side still stood. But that was something she'd taken into account. She knew that there was still good in Kylo Ren. Ben Solo. She knew she'd been getting through to him, that his harsh words after the fight were if anything proof that she had shaken him and his resolve.

"Yes," she says softly. "He let you all go." Now she had to put it into words again, the why behind her reasoning. "There's good in him. Kylo Ren. I know there is, when I was on Ahch-To, I was so lonely. But...he empathized with me, he told me I wasn't alone. Because we can sense each other in the Force, just as clearly as you're here with me."

But she wasn't going to tell him that they could touch through the Force as well. That moment, so fleeting and almost perfect, was her secret. Their secret.

"I'm not just--just taking a wild guess. I've had a vision, a vision where Kylo Ren turns back to the Light. I know it's true, I saw it as clearly as though it had already happened. I'm going to make sure it does."

And now all she had to do was wait for the blade to drop, for condemnation.

There's no explosion of anger, or even a cold shoulder, whatever Rey might have been expecting from him, he can't tell. Just a heavy exhale of breath, accompanied by his arms folding over his chest, with one hand diverting to rub over his face. He has to remind himself, again, that this isn't what happened to him, honestly what she does or doesn't do isn't any of his business, it just feels like it is. He's vaguely aware of how all this works now, and the idea of taking every single version of their war personally is impossible, and regardless of all that there's nothing to be done about the past. She made her choices, whether or not he agrees with them isn't actually all that relevant to her.

He's also aware that he's one of the worst people to talk to when it comes to making a case for Kylo Ren being anything but a lost cause. Maybe Rey doesn't know about his short stint in the custody of the First Order, Finn might not have mentioned those details— and even if he did, Finn wouldn't have any way of knowing what happened before he came along, would he? It hasn't come up, not least of all because Poe doesn't want to revisit those memories.

If he's honest he never doubted that there was still something of Ben left in Kylo Ren, but after what he went through, and after Starkiller, he just couldn't see that sliver of humanity being enough to turn the tide. Rey obviously does.

"Maybe it will. I just hope you get there before the First Order gains control over the whole galaxy. They'll do it without him if they have to."

Thank the Force that there wasn't. She didn't want to get in a fight with someone she'd just met but who obviously knew her. And probably knew her well enough to judge what she would and wouldn't do. But what she did do was a leap of faith. One she'd defended before and was willing to do again, if she had to.

And she has no idea any of that happened. Finn had never told her and obviously Kylo would have a good reason to not say anything about it. And there's a very good reason for Poe to not say anything about it. No one wants to relive past trauma.

It was difficult to explain without saying simply 'the Force did it.' Which was probably impossible to explain fully without the other person also being Force-sensitive.

"Not if I do whatever I can think of to sabotage them from within."

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