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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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"That's not a bad point." Very mild praise, but praise nonetheless. "But if this is what you want to do, you have to find a better balance between giving people space and facing them head-on. It's alright to try and change a person's mind about you, but only your actions can do that."

Luke opened his mouth to say something, then closed it. Looking off with faint of embarrassment. He had been about to say he'd been trying, but looking back on it, had he really? Sure, he'd tried to argue his point a lot back in the beginning, and no one had listened. But hadn't he also kind of been an asshole? And had he ever not given up on it almost immediately? The only reason he was even around Yuri right now is because Yuri had made a point to invite him to stay, and then still spoken to him even when he tried to leave.

Maybe he'd be focusing so hard on how understandable it was for everyone to hate him he'd completely given up on the idea that maybe some wouldn't. Maybe just a few would think he was worth something other than being his father's son.

But he didn't really know how to put that into words, and the idea of it made his flustered blush increase, so he just manages, after a long moment to work out; "Okay. You're right..." And then, rather quietly. "Thanks."

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Yuri watched Luke turn this over with a raised eyebrow, almost, not not quite, smiling at Luke's obvious reaction.

What the hell was he getting himself into?

"You're welcome." He pauses, looking out over the compound as he starts putting his uniform back to rights. "We should head back. Tuck in your shirt."

"Huh?" Luke blinks, he'd gotten lost on his thoughts for a minute there, but when Yuri pulls him out of it he starts off, away from the fence. Looking down at himself he automatically starts doing as he was told, straightening his clothes.

And then once his clothes are straight, which doesn't take long, he hadn't undressed far, he continues to fiddle at it unnecessarily, looking anywhere but at the other man.

"Hey, Yuri?" He paused... it sounded strange to call someone else by their name. He didn't have a lot of conversations that got that far, lately.

The pause went on a little longer than he liked as he tried to find the right way to arrange his words, and in the end he just forced them all out, flustering, but not wanting to lose the opportunity. "Thanks. I know you don't... I mean. ...just... thanks. You're a really nice guy."

"Hm?" He says, half-distracted un-rolling his sleeves and making sure his jacket is straight. When Luke's statement catches up with him, he grimaces, biting back the immediate retort that comes to mind: Your father wouldn't say so.

Though he had certainly tried to appeal to Yuri's better nature, just before he'd killed him.

Mouth set in an neutral line, he looks back at Luke, jerking his remaining sleeve down and buttoning it with brisk annoyance. "Just keep what I told you in mind." Dammit, he had to have something more than that. He'd killed this kid's father; he didn't have any business making nice with him. He should have left him alone to start. Now... now he would have to figure something out. Later, though. For now, he gave Luke a curt nod, and used his longer stride to out-distance him back to the compound.

Apparently he'd said something wrong... Luke sighs, not exactly surprised, but not particularly bothered either. Whatever, he hadn't been looking for anything, he just wanted to tell Yuri thanks. He follows along at a deliberately slower pace so that Yuri doesn't feel like he has to jog to get away from him.

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