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{The Road Trip Meme!!}

It's that time of the year again! You decided to take a road trip!
Either to your friends, relative, or perhaps an event,
but oh, my goodness, what will happen along the way?
• Post with your character name/fandom/options preferences.
• Use RNG to pick your possible scenario - or just go with what you'd like most.
• Reply to other people's tags. Use RNG, mix and match, or just wing it!
• Enjoy!

Situations:

1. BREAK DOWN

Oh, snap, your car decided to break down out in the middle of nowhere. WHAT DO? Is that Leatherface? Will this be "Children of the Corn"?2. TRUCK STOP

You've stopped at a gas station. They're out of gas, snacks and the bathrooms are out of order. Wat do. (Zombie attack optional.)3. HITCHHIKERS?

Is this even a good idea? Why is their backpack leaking suspicious substances? Go wild.4. WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST HIT?

Dude, I hear deer mess up cars... or I think that was a deer.5. DON'T MAKE ME TURN THIS CAR AROUND!

Alas, you're the parent or the disgruntled friend who has had it up to here with all the fighting in the back.6. OMG, I WANT TO TAKE A PICTURE OF THIS LANDMARK!

No, no, and no. You tell that person that they're going to be driven around and they're going to like it.7. THE GREAT ESCAPE

Either dinosaurs or the mothman is chasing you. Don't stop now.8. MAKE OUT~

You're now parked in one of the make-out points in this town. Did you know? Well, that's up to you, as is what you do next.9. WE'RE SO LOST

The map blew away when you were stupid enough to open the windows earlier. You know that old stereotype about how men never ask for directions but women will? Time to see if you're going to prove it right or not. Try not to fight over it too much, driving partners.10. BUT OFFICER...

Those flashing lights in your rearview mirror? Definitely not just for decoration.
Relationship (optional):

1. BUSINESS PARTNERS: The jet was undergoing some heavy repairs, so you have to drive to that big meeting.

2. BFFS/ROOMIES: On your last hurrah before you join the 'real world.'

3. NEWLYWEDS: You're a young couple on your honeymoon! Hope this doesn't ruin your relationship.

4. SIBLINGS: Whether this is a trip to reconnect or to fix things or to just deepen your bond as epic sibs is up to you.

5. PARENT & CHILD: It's like a family vacation for the two of you. try not to get on each other's nerves too much?

(taken from memeonic & arspaulina @ lj)

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[ This is fifty shades of illegal and Ryuutaro knows he should never ever have agreed to it. The only upside to this is that the road is so empty that even when they crash - they inevitably will crash, won't they - they probably won't have the misfortune of crashing into another car.
Speaking of fortune... He tries to tell himself that they won't die, because fate would warn him, he would have a vision if that was about to happen. It's just... a very spectacular car ride, nothing more.
And a car is unarguably faster than a manually drawn carriage and well... Driver's license be damned, they ended up here.
Ryuutaro tries to seem more at ease about Gokudera's driving than he could ever be in reality. The map in his hands grows increasingly more useless with each mile they go without any sign in sight at all. ]

I would ask if we are still within the tempo limit, but the last sign for that vanished along with the last signs of civilization...

[Gokudera honestly couldn't have given half a shit about any of Ryuutaro's concerns. Driver's licenses didn't mean shit, speed limits were for pansies, and being smack in the middle of bumfuck nowhere just meant there weren't any cops to stop him.

Now if the car had any sort of sentience, it would probably disagree with Gokudera's point of view. It was not exactly the newest or fanciest car out there, and the sheer abuse Gokudera was putting it through was taking it's toll.]

Tch! Speed limits don't matter. I took the license plates off the car anyway, so the cops wouldn't be able to pin anything on us. [Gokudera shifts the car and makes a sharp turn going far too fast. The tires skid, and the car fishtails for a moment, then he slams his foot on the gas to send the car shooting forward once again.]

Edited 2014-07-11 21:39 (UTC)

[ Ryuutaro tries to suppress a startled yelp and fails spectacularly. He wishes he could just smack his fan onto Gokudera's head for stunts like this right away and hope to train him into better driving - but it's a bad idea to disturb a driver, especially one who seems hell-bent on getting them off-track and into a ditch or worse anyway. ]

I am not worried about the cops, I am worried about my - our - physical safety.

[ And I really really don't trust you with this car, that you are not allowed to drive. Only his pride keeps Ryuutaro from digging his hands into the seat for support.
He likes road trips. Road trips are nice and quiet and you get to see a lot of the wide world.... this is not a road trip at all, this is just the highway to hell. ]

Oi, don't be such a whiner. I'm shaving off 46% of the the travel time.

[He snickers, failing to notice a funny burning smell coming from the car, and maybe some ominous rattling noises. But hey! He was doing complex math in his head to come up with that percentage. That's totally why he hasn't noticed that the car is quietly screaming in mechanical agony.]

I bet you drive like a grandma don't you?

[ Normally people don't drive cars without a license!! he wants to yell, but he's fairly sure that'll just make him fall even lower in Gokudera's eyes and he doesn't need that. ]

In case you-

[ Is this car okay? ]

In case you forgot, I do not own any motorized vehicle so-

[ No seriously. ]

Do you smell that?

Yeah, whatever you say grandma. I don't own one either. [He just borrows them without the owners consent.]

[Though he does pause for a moment to try and smell whatever Ryuutaro was smelling.]

Hm? Did I drop a cigarette butt in here somewhere?

I hope not!

[ Ugh, how dirty could he even be. For a split second this is more relevant than the offense of stealing cars and even potentially crashing the very stolen car they are inside now.
How could he just drop cigarette butts anywhere? That's just....

Ryuutaro's inner rambling is interrupted by another creaking sound. ]

A-actually, never mind, I hope that is it because I do not like the other implications...

[ Which speed are they driving now?! ]

OH quit worrying, it's fine. See? Watch this-

[And to prove the car is JUST FINE (because really cars just need to walk it off like like people) he goes to pull another stunt like he had earlier. He slams on the breaks last minute, while turning the wheel making the car skip through a sharp corner... or was SUPPOSED to make the car skid through a sharp corner.

Instead there was a snap followed by a bang... then a clatter. And despite hitting the gas to make the car speed forward again, the car simply kept going with the skid- which landed it off the road and nose first into a ditch. The hood of the car billowing smoke.]

[ He's going to kill him. If they survive this, Ryuutaro is going to kill him. But first he's yelling rather pathetically while the car spins out of control and for a split second he loses all faith in fate to keep him safe.

When he opens the eyes he had tightly pressed shut, Ryuutaro is relieved to find himself able to do so at all. His body is aching from the sudden impact but he doesn't seem to be hurt seriously. Bless fortune. He's alive.

And despite all death threats still looming in the air, his next thought is to look over to check on Gokudera. He justifies his relief to find the other more or less okay with the thought that anything else would just have meant more of a hassle for himself. ]

I really hope you are happy now.

[Out of instinct when they had gone into the Ditch, Gokudera had put his arm out over Ryuutaro's chest to keep him in place- granted it was unnecessary as Ryuutaro was wearing a seatbelt, but he did it all the same. And now that his pulse was no longer going a mile a minute he tried to take his arm back still looking as cool and uncaring ~~and scowly~~ as ever.

Nope. He wasn't worried at all. Not a friggin' bit okay? He's too tough for that shit.

He huffs and crosses his arms indignantly over his chest.]

Tch! It's not my fault this car's a piece of crap! It probably had some problem before I got it.

[ Luckily Ryuutaro is willing to let that arm go - for now. He's too angry at Gokudera to be ready to acknowledge something like that in the full. ]

You could have just stolen a better car then!

[ 'If you're already going to be a thief at least make sure it's worthwhile' - to think that people actually pay Ryuutaro money for life advice...

He wants to yell at him some more but the smoke is distracting. As he reaches to get the damn seat belt off, he finds his hands shaking unpleasantly much. ]

Let's get out of here before it sets itself on fire or worse.

Yeah, yeah. Like you could have picked a better one.

[Gokudera unceremoniously kicked his door open (because he's too ~~stupid~~ cool for seatbelts) and went to the front of the car to take a look under the hood. He took a moment to let the smoke waft out so he could get a better look at the damage. His face scrunched up in thought and he rubbed the back of his head.

He started poking at this and that, trying to find the source of the problem.]

I found where the smoke's coming from, but that shouldn't have made me skid outta control like that.

[Then he circled around, about ready to get under the car to take a look when some debris in the road caught his eye- then he looked at the tires of the car.]

Oh... the brakes came off.

[That'd do it.]

[ Ryuutaro gets out of the car too and takes a deep breath. Honestly, he's just happy to be on solid unmoving ground again. His legs are still shaking, even though he's doing his best to seem cool and totally unaffected.

While Gokudera checks out the car, Ryuutaro makes his way back a little towards the road, trying to figure out where they are.

What he sees is... nothing. A bit of road. And then mostly nothing. Squinting north harder, he thinks he can make out a building, but it doesn't really look like much. Ugh.

They'd need the car to get away from here, but the idea of letting Gokudera drive anything ever again is not appealing. He turns back to his companion. ]

Is that something you could fix or...?

Probably not, but I could fix it up enough to drive anyway.

[Safety is for losers. Luckily for Ryuutaro there's the sound of thunder over head. And what feels like a few raindrops beginning to fall.]

But I ain't hanging around a big heap of metal in a thunderstorm. Let's get outta here...

[ Great. This is literally the last thing he needs right now. For someone who spends most of his life outside, Ryuutaro sure hates most weathers irrationally much. ]

Agreed, for once.

[ The first thing they agreed on since getting in that car, likely enough. ]

Except there is nowhere we can quite get out to.

[ He motions with his fan - and subsequently the map because he's got them in the same hand - in the direction of the building he spotted earlier. ]

Let's go that way, I think I saw a building.

[Gokudera looked the way Ryuutaro was fan-pointing and shrugged. He didn't give a shit where they stayed really, it was all the same to him.]

Yeah sure, whatever. Lead the way.

[ Ryuutaro sighs. ]

Then come along.

[ They could get this piece of trash that used to be a car some other time. Or... never. What value does some stolen broken car have to them? If there is any other way to get away from wherever on planet earth they had ended up, it would be preferable. ]

I just hope the rain will not start fully until we are there.

[ ... but he has the bad feeling he'll be totally out of luck. ]

Why? You allergic to water or something?

[Gokudera continued to follow Ryuutaro, ONLY NOW HE'S BEING A TOTAL DICK AND WALKING SLOWER.Just to see what happens. Ryuutaro, you have a terrible taste in friends.]

[ Gokudera shouldn't push his luck any more today or he might get strangled after all.

Ryuutaro takes another deep breath because Gokudera isn't worth to lose his cool over, clearly. That's why keeping calm is so hard. Ryuutaro smiiiiles twitchily. ]

Getting soaking wet is the last thing I need to make today even more splendid and fantastic.

[ The only thing he's allergic to are your five year old antic. Ryuutaro is not going to slow down with you, Gokudera, do whatever you want.

There are more raindrops. Great. ]

Right, why am I not surprised. I'd say you're a delicate flower but even those don't give a shit if they get wet.

[Gokudera is very used to not having any luck to push, so he is totally content being a big bag of dicks for thing more than shits and giggles.

He just causally strolls along, hands in his pockets, taking his sweet time even though the rain is starting to come down a little harder. He looked over at the building in the distance. It looked pretty run down, but maybe that was just the distance. Not like he cared, he's spent his fair share of time living in dumps.]

Flowers need rain to grow. I do not.

[ Even though he certainly wouldn't mind growing some more - but rain won't help him with that at all. So as it starts to become more unpleasant, he just uses the map as a rain shield for his head. It helps for the moment being at least.

He was surprised to find the building being really just a single building and not even a complex of a few. What would even be out here all on its own? ]

Well it looks like you need something you're not getting. [He snickers] Maybe some miracle grow.

[Gokudera looks up at the building, not even bothered that he's getting rained on. REAL MEN GET WET OKAY? He totally won't be regretting this later or anything. Nope. Not a bit.

It did seem pretty run-down, but the lights were on, and there was an old faded 'Motel' sign out front. Seems legit.

So he just mosies on in.]

[ He's not small, excuse you, do you see these ten centimeter plateau heels?! Those obviously negate him being tiny entirely. He's not small, get your eyes checked.

Ryuutaro angrily snaps his fan in response, but refrains from discussion because there is... no reasonable argument to counter with. He's just taking it with confidence, yeah. ]

Uh... are you sure this is even still running?

[ A place as run-down as this can't possible be in business, right? ]

whut, would you rather sleep outside?

[Gokudera looks around the lobby. No cameras, no one at the desk...

So he leans over the counter, pops open the register, takes out a handful of twenties, closes the register, and stuffs the twenties into his wallet before ringing the bell for service.

Soon the clerk made his way out from the other room. He was tall and slender, his dark here slicked back. His face was pale and stern-looking, though he was dressed neatly. He raised his eyebrows seemingly unimpressed with the boy's appearance. He was quiet for a lingering moment before asking "Can I Help you?"

For the moment Gokudera was eyeing the guy up and down. Looked like a total prick.]

[ Ryuutaro watches this scene play out before him with raised eyebrows. He's not a person with high morals but he has some and this is... wrong. But it also solves all their problems so he can hardly complain.
His life just boils down to constantly being in bad company.

He smiles brightly at the motel clerk. ]

Good evening! We would like to stay the night. Do you have any free rooms for us?

[ "Indeed" was the droll reply. While the clerk got the keys for the room, Gokudera pulled out his wallet to pay with the money he had just stolen.

The clerk handed over the key and gave Gokudera a look and added on "I trust there will be no trouble. We like to maintain a quiet, peaceful atmosphere here."

And of course Gokudera picks up on who that comment was directed at right away, and went right on ahead to prove the statement true.]

What the fuck is that supposed to mean?

[That may be your cue to pull him away Ryuutaro.]

Edited ("snall" is apparently not an HTML code.) 2014-07-13 19:38 (UTC)

[ Gokudera's skill at manipulating people subtly is painfully low and Ryuutaro cringes internally. His fan shoots over to the side, vaguely hovering in front of Gokudera's mouth to stop him from speaking.

He smiles again, first at Gokudera then at the clerk, with a sweetness that could lead small animals to a sticky doom. ]

It's supposed to mean that we're going to get a good night's rest.

After all, a quiet atmosphere is just what we'd expect from a respectable place as this one fortune led us to... Thank you very much for your services.

[ He takes the fan away from Gokudera, finally, and opens it, still smiling. ]

Let's go.

[Hayato grumbles and reluctantly starts to follow Ryuutaro to their room. Eyeing the clerk on more time, he can't help but get the last work in.]

Yeah, yeah, whatever. Get a friggin' tan while you're at it. I've seen cadavers with a better complexion than you.

[And he'll just be grumbling the whole way to their room about how much he does not like that guy.]

[ Such hostility - it's not like Ryuutaro thinks that guy looked any good either, but he firmly believes you get by better when you keep all that inside and give people a smile anyway. It's more controlled, efficient and clean in his opinion.

For the same reason he doesn't feel like picking a fight with Gokudera now either - but he rolls his eyes at him anyway. They know each other enough to know they disapprove of a lot about another - there's no need to hide that.

More to worry about than their state of relationship is the state of the motel. The light bulb in the hallway of their room is literally hanging from only one naked power cable. ]

At this rate, the atmosphere won't only be quiet, it will also be quite dark....

Shit's dark every night. I hope you're not planning to sleep with the light on or something like that.

[Gokudera heads to the room number that's on the key, and opens the door. He flicks on the light and looks around the room. It looked as though it was once a very nice room, but lack of care and age had deteriorated it into an eerily dusty ghost of it's former self-

which of course, was the first thing Gokudera noticed, despite their only being one bed. He'd bitch about that a little later.]

Jeeze, this place looks like a haunted version of the friggin' Bates Motel. Ten bucks says that guys got his dead grandma in the basement or some shit like that.

[ Ryuutaro sighs. ]

My home doesn't even have a ceiling light to leave on, remember? I do not have a problem with darkness. I am just convinced that if a place already has lights, they should as well be working - or else it'll give off a horrible impression.

Speaking of horrible impressions-

[ He steps into the room and wrinkles his nose. ]

this is not getting any better. If we encounter any spirits here, they surely will not be friendly. Who could be, in such conditions.

[ Seriously, this is such a gross room. He's kind of insulted they charge money for it - but then again they didn't.... really pay. So it's fine. He is starting to see more and more of the benefits in Gokudera's lifestyle and that's a problem. ]

[Gokudera sauntered into the room, eyeing this and that. Then Ryuutaro says something that catches his interest, and he has to try to hard not to let his inner fanboy take control.]

Wait, you think there actually might be spirits here or something?

['Cause a fortune teller would know that shit, wouldn't he?]

[ He opens his fan and shrugs. ]

I do not think it is as likely as finding spirits at more... spiritual places like temples, but it is not impossible either.

If so I doubt it would be alike to any horror movies though.

[ Ah yes, this is the kind of thing he can lure Gokudera in with, he should make note to use that some day. It's not like he considers finding spirits impossible either - but he doesn't think it would be too spectacular. As if spirits had nothing better to do than spook random humans. ]

S-seriously!?

[And Gokudera looks around the room with a new found interest and appreciation.]

Hey do you think someone died here or something?! I mean that guy out front was totally creepy, maybe he's some sort of psycho creeper or something!

If someone died here, I would hope the killer is no longer in close proximity.

[ Or the corpse for that matter. What do you take him for, a necromancer? ]

You get awfully excited about horrible things.

[Oh. He hadn't quite thought of those things as horrible. They totally are, but now he feels like a weirdo. So now he has to ~~pout~~ scowl about it and get defensive.]

Tch! I do not! It would just be a really important scientific breakthrough if we did discover one!

What now? If we discover a corpse or a killer, it would be more of a criminalistic minor success.

[ Ryuutaro chuckles and opens his fan. ]

And if we found a ghost searching vengeance, I doubt it would like you to perform any science. Real spirituality and science do not go so well together.

[ Fake spirituality is all science though, but it's not like he's going to speak about the many ways to fake being capable of magic. That's a business secret, you see? And a lot of hard work.

He looks over to the bed, contemplating to sit down on it, but then decides he doesn't trust it yet and sits down on a wooden unstable chair instead. ]

Edited (not the icon i wanted pfff) 2014-07-19 17:31 (UTC)

[Well, Gokudera sure as hell isn't hesitating the bed for a moment. He's been in worse places so he feels right at home. So he flops himself on the bed, and only once he is on the bed does he bother to kick off his shoes.

Bed's his now. It's officially claimed. He has left his mark on it.]

Tch! I'd only need proof that it exists! I could take a picture of it on my phone or something! Then maybe I could try and get it to help the Vongola!

How though?

[ Ryuutaro closes his fan thoughtfully, resisting to complain about Gokudera's attitude once more. ]

If the spirit could leave this foresaken please, I am sure it would - so if you find it now, then it likely can not leave and be of no use to the Vongola either.

Well, I'm sure if I help it, it'll be grateful to me. So it'll owe me a favor, obviously.

[He let's out a 'hmph!' as he folds his arms behind his head. Clearly that was such an obvious answer! What kind of fortune teller are to not know that much!?

Of course he was so preoccupied with his ~~stupidity~~ supernatural logic he didn't really notice the sounds of scraping and dragging coming from the room above.]

You are quite optimistic.

[ At this rate, he's almost wishing they'd encounter a cost, solely to see how an interaction between it and Gokudera would play out.
He leans back a bit, discovers his chair is unstable and almost falls over before he catches himself. What a wonderful place. It effectively distracts him from listening for a few seconds but when he gets off the treacherous chair he finally just stops mid-movement, silently, listening. ]

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I want this to end in a break down at a godforsaken place

omg it should, then they wind up in some shady haunted hotel or something cliche like that

yes please, this is a great fucking idea

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WELL THE DS GAME MAKES HIM A MONSTER HUNTER / EXORCIST SOMEHOW SO

LMAO! OMG seriously? DOES HE FIGHT DEMONS!?

HE CLAIMS TO; AT LEAST

LMAO ARE YOU GOING TO CLAIM TO BE A NECROMANCER TOO NOW RYUUTARO!?

IF IT GETS HIM WHAT HE WANTS?! no jk necromancy is too dirty tbh

Ryuutaro you are hilarious

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