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Test Drive Meme The Pan Pacific Defense Corps was usually offered any of a variety of local buildings to set up their testing centers. For reasons of access and availability, most testing clinics were set up in central areas for any given community. Those of the PPDC staff on hand vary in their personal intensity. Some of the men and women wearing Strike Group insignia seemed overly serious, to the point of frowning with intensity at some of the youngest checking in for this testing round. Those from the K-Science division are tight with nervous energy as they direct prospective cadets through various activities. Everything was meant to measure potential, looking for that spark that meant they had somebody who was Drift Compatible. The majority of people were turned away after the first series of seemingly random tests, officials looking in eyes, placing odd looking contraptions over heads, asking for people to play a series of short games, one even in a virtual reality set-up.

	( SCENARIO ONE ) If you are still here now, you've made it past the first cut. You'll be sat down in a room with the rest who have made it this far, then systematically led into smaller interview rooms as pairs. If you came with a partner, they're your first interview candidate. If you came on your own, all your interviews are random assignment. All who have been asked to stay are required to sit through and conduct a series of short peer to peer interviews. The questions are straightforward. What is your least favorite color? Which tool in a standard toolbox is most useful to you? What time of day do you accomplish the most? Do you have children? What do you believe the Drift is like? Peer to peer interviews last for half an hour to an hour, and each person is asked to participate in at least three peer-to-peer interviews. There is no punishment for going off script. There is a one-way mirror looking into each interview area, and one door leading into the room with a small panel of glass located on the door. There is a clock on the wall in each room. The time they report is odd, when examined. These are not digital clocks, but timers, counting up time since the last Kaiju attack.

	( SCENARIO TWO ) Congratulations! You have been judged Drift Compatible, and sent home to pack after giving a definite yes to the Pan Pacific Defense Corps. The next thing you face down is the flight into Santiago, Chile, and the subsequent drive in to Valparaíso's Shatterdome. You and the rest of the crowd of soon to be PPDC Ranger Cadets have been gathered together to wait for the old bus scheduled to take you to the Shatterdome. While waiting in the open air, those from any Northern Hemisphere countries may find the summer weather strange. Today's high is going to be in the upper 80's, and there's not a cloud to be seen that's not clinging to the distant mountains. Welcome to Chile. When the bus arrives, it's another hour ride out toward the coastline to get to the Shatterdome. Even better? The bus Air Conditioner is broken. Safe travels, Cadets!

Please set up your own scenarios as you like. The above two scenarios are suggestions. Anything goes!

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James flipped through the next patient's papers on the clipboard, skimming the details of the nurse's notes as he tried to swallow down the nervous butterflies in his stomach. Clinic visits were old hand by now, but being part of the PPDC was still new and he was always vaguely worried that the next visit would be something he'd never seen before and then what would he do? It wouldn't do to show his new employers that he couldn't live up to his resume. The best thing he could do was to learn about his new patients and put all his skills to use in their favor.

With a quick glance down at himself and a smoothing of his tie and labcoat, he put a hand on the doorknob, took a deep calming breath, and pushed his way in. Immediately he flashed a polite smile he hoped was comforting and not awkward at the person waiting inside.

"Hello. I hope I didn't keep you waiting long. I'm Dr. Wei, what brings you in today?"

IV?!

It was a quiet morning, one of the rare ones. There were no Kaiju actively roaming, and most of the cadets hadn't arrived yet. The hangar crew were mostly buzzing about doing maintenance and repairs, and the few pilots on base were scattered here and there, either eating or resting or in the Kwoon Combat Room. It was the perfect time for James to poke around and explore, familiarize himself with the layout of the base and the academy before things got busy again. After all, at any moment the alarms could ring and everyone would immediately move to their stations.

But for now? It was (relatively) quiet, and it gave James a chance to wander about with his mug of fresh coffee in one hand and his labcoat draped over his other arm. Take in the sights as it were.

> If he's maybe a little absent-minded while walking, well something had caught his eye and it wasn't you until it was too late. "AHHHH!—oh damn it, I'm so sorry, here let me check you—"

> What's a medical doctor doing in this room anyways?

In spite of all the cold machinery Joo Mun typically surrounded herself with in her career, there was something about the metallic surfaces in a doctor's office that never quite sat right. Maybe the fact that everything was so clean, without a speck of dust or wear on it. It made her shift in her seat a little, idly reconsidering the necessity of a check up for the headache she'd been haunted by a while now. It was just a headache after all, it'd go away, maybe all she had to do was walk into another sheet of metal and everything would go back to normal-

And then of course, the doctor arrived before she could follow through with her new life choices.

When the door finally opened, Joo Mun turned her head up... and met the doctor's totally-not-awkward smile with a completely blank stare, Followed by the slightest head tilt and squint, as if she were trying to discover the secrets of his identity on his cheek. Wei- she knew a Wei, didn't she? Not personally, not among her friends but a distant friend-

Somehow, in the midst of the cluttered mind of Joo Mun, recognition hit. A flash in her memories of a young man standing next to her younger brother in photographs sent back to the family...

"... You!"

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James paused and looked at her more closely as he mentally scrambled to try and remember. But nothing came up. Certainly this engineer's name didn't ring a bell when he looked at the paperwork. Maybe it was just a case of mistaken identity.

"Is... everything all right, ma'am?" he slowly asked, carefully working out the words as he tried to think of what to do next.

If James had been making an attempt at calming and pacifying, he'd be quite saddened to know he'd failed miserably.

His face, though more matured than she'd last seen it, had been blatantly familiar to her. All that time she'd spent during her... house-sitting years, to put it nicely, carefully memorizing the faces and names and general lives of every possible friend of the family and relative had paid off in the weirdest way, mostly in gaining her the connections to get the job she held now. Her mother had been the one to suggest it initially; that every good wife should be able to place a name to a face no matter how long it'd been.

Obviously the requirement hadn't been applicable to every one else in the world, but that didn't keep it from stinging a little whenever people didn't remember her back.

"Yah," she snapped, a scowl dropping onto her face, "Is that how you talk to your colleague's sister? You even stayed at my mom's house!"

James snapped the clipboard up like a shield, tensed up defensively and stared blankly at his patient. Colleague's sister? Stayed at her mother's house? When had he...?

When had he done...?

And yet a vague recollection of someone looking similar to her from a photo flashed through his mind. From a long time ago when he was still only in high school on a foreign exchange program. An older girl who—

"Ah!" He pointed at her, eyes wide in recognition.

"Don't point at your elders like that," was the immediate response to the finger being pointed in her direction, though if her memory served her correctly, the man in front of her wasn't that much younger than her. He was somewhere around her own younger brother's age, but Joo Mun had been raised to respect even a single year's worth of age difference. And that was one thing she was intent on making sure other people respected too.

Leaning back in her seat with her arms crossed, she regarded the man once more, squinting at him a little during her examination.

"So you ended up joining the PPDC too?"

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James Wei (no not that Wei) | OC | Medical

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