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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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[saviorsoul]

[ Setsuna winced a bit at the reminder of how cowardly he'd been during that last meeting. He had actually ran too...

But that sheepish reaction was immediately overcome by quickened breath and an even faster heartbeat, as Sara took hold of his hands. Their warmth was all too familiar, as was the utter glee in her voice (his reward for bringing back that beautiful smile) and he couldn't stop his instinctive need to close his fingers over hers.

The touch wreaked havoc on any thought he might have had about dissuading her from believing in him. He was going to ruin everything. Why did he have to be so weak? But just that phrase ("Together, we can do anything"), it was enough to make him believe in the possibility, even if just for this moment.

Thankfully, he didn't have to flounder for a proper response, as she was already tossing a different question his way. One that he was wholly unprepared for. ]

"Unexpected... ?"

[ He blinked, wide-eyed, once or twice in confusion. This felt a lot riskier than it would have coming from anyone else... He attempted another shrug. ]

"You know me. I'm great at rolling with the punches. Unexpected crap keeps things interesting. Better than the same thing day after day."

[unswervingly]

Sara wouldn't have expected any other answer from Setsuna. Not her Oniichan. She wouldn't have expected any different answer from him, and staring down at the way his fingers interlaced with hers and rested over them, she couldn't help feeling a strong, warm, pleasant feeling. They could do this.

"I agree," she said. She wrinkled her nose, but the expression was still mostly directed down at her hands. She didn't want to separate them or direct her gaze anywhere else. "If you have to do the same thing all the time, you'll stagnate. Then you can't grow. Right?"

[saviorsoul]

[ Setsuna smirked a bit at the expression. So Sara. He squeezed lightly at the hands holding his. He hadn't really expected to have this luxury again for a very long time. And as frustrating and worrying as her presence was right now, he couldn't deny how much he wanted to just bathe in it. ]

"Yeah. Our pilots wouldn't be as awesome as they are now if they hadn't gone through a few growing pains. I'm ready for some new challenges!"

[ He glanced down, less to focus on their interlocked fingers and more so he could actually think of a question instead of getting lost in seeking out his sister's gaze. Maybe it would at least look less obvious. ]

"All right, my turn. What are you most looking forward to about piloting?"

[unswervingly]

There were a lot of possible answers to that. Sara ran through them all in her head, trying to consider which might leave the best impression on their observers. As a fundamentally honest person, Sara would never have outright lied, but she was shrewd enough to think about which true answer would put her in the best light. In the end, though, she realized she didn't know what they might be looking for, and pure impulse won out.

"I guess the chance to prove myself. To really show what I'm made of! And the chance to make my life mean something..." She took a deep breath. "What about you? Same question."

[saviorsoul]

[ Setsuna smiled awkwardly at Sara's response. It really did capture all facets of her from her determination to her need to reach others. ]

"You didn't need to come all this way for that, Sara."

[ Her life meant more to him than she would ever know...

He, on the other hand, couldn't claim anything even remotely altruistic surrounding his thoughts on the Jaegers. His reasons for entering the program were one thing, but his desire to drive one of those beasts of metal was entirely based on one thing. And he wasn't afraid to admit it to their observers. ]

"Me?"

[ He turned his head to the mirror and shot it, and the people behind it, a dark smile, as he answered. ]

"I want to personally make those ugly bastards things pay."