bridgescribble | Planes, trains, automobiles

The Traveling Meme

You're on your way from point A to point B, and you've chosen one of the many forms of communal conveyance to do so! Let's see what your trip looks like today.

Train: The Orient Express if you're feeling fancy, your standard intercity line if you're not, but no matter how humble the train there's always a little bit of romance to the rail.
Plane: It may be the type of travel we least look forward to. Go ahead and stuff your character in coach--unless they're one of the blessed few who can afford knee room in business class.
Ship: The heyday of the grand passenger liners, a tall ship (preferably with a star to steer her by), or the ferry.
Bus: Whether it's a school bus, a Greyhound, or your regular commuter ride... we know you're not wearing the seatbelt like you're supposed to.
Stagecoach: Some old-timey fun!
Airship: Listen, JRPGs had it right when they decided these should be a normal thing.
Spaceship: For that sci-fi feel! To boldly get Ubered where no one has Ubered before.

Scenarios

I brought a book for a REASON: You're just trying to make this journey in peace and quiet but for the person in the seat next to you....
Stalled: Well, now you're really not there yet, because your mode of transport has stopped working--thrown a wheel or can't get off the tarmac or lost the breeze. Better figure out something to do in the meantime.
Stand and deliver! Dammit, it's bandits, or robbers, or some other kind of ne'er do well--or maybe you're the one pulling the heist.
Running: Not literally, obviously, but you're trying to get away from something bad. Let's hope it's not catching up to you a few seats down....
Disaster! This isn't just inconvenient, it's catastrophic! Good thing you're here to save the day, right? ...Right?
Actually having a nice time: It's just pleasant to sit and look out windows while someone else does the steering, you know?

Threaded | Flat

[ Meeting a weirdo while travelling is a rite of passage and they don’t come weirder than Asura!

Also, he’s stupidly tall. ]

[ Only interested in #4-6 if it's in a jamjar/game setting! Otherwise open. ]

[ Any canon point is fine. ~~Just pretend the icons match.~~ ]

( a carriage ride or an oceanic journey out of arendelle for diplomatic, or perhaps a train ride out of new england. has the trip been stalled? is a storm keeping them at the port? what's going on? open to crosscanon. )

(ota: no spaceships for this vampire but otherwise good! I especially love the idea of a bus.)

[Choose your method of travel, and sit beside the weirdo wearing stripes. He smells like death and has a ukulele.

....there are probably no other seats available....]

[ Rose is either bored and staring out a window or texting on a late-2000s phone. Your choice. Have at it. :) ]

[ OTA, but if you need him to be in transit, he'll be sitting there flipping through paper case files, the most prominent of which is about a case in Kansas about a man who can control the weather. ]

[Military officer, aide to a much more well-recognized and important officer. Can AU him into other settings easily. I'm voicetesting, please help me out.]

[Well, traveling with a Sith Lord as a companion won't be awkward or alarming at all...]

{{While she can be traveling from the 1880s up to the modern day, she's still most likely confined herself to the most common and familiar modes of travel from her original times: trains, ships, etc. Could do airships if we're going for a slightly alternative history. Pref is for pre-WWII but flexible. As you might guess from the long timeline, she's a vampire but that need not be relevant.

Most likely reading a book. Or several books spilling all over what tiny workspace she's established at her seat or in a dining room. All of them will be of an...eccentric nature. There might be files too, on various cryptid, monstrous or mysterious topics.}}

[He's actually used to space travel! Becoming a giant alien being makes it all the more convenient for him.]

Edited 2023-07-10 07:14 (UTC)

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