hitching a ride

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hitchin'

Going my way? When you find yourself on some lonesome strip of road with no way to get where you’re going, you stick out your thumb and hope the kindness of strangers pays off. It's a hitchhiking meme. Find a lift or offer one.

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as a hitchhiker or a driver. or both.

Hitchers tell your potential driver where you’re heading and see if they're willing to make some room.
Drivers pull over and lay down some ground rules for riding with you.

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on the hitchers you’ll stop for or the drivers you’ll hop in with.

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Jason Todd/Red Hood | Titans

[nomorefear]

[ Jason's going anywhere. Away from here. Doesn't matter where, just away. ]

Yota | Maple Town: Palm Town Chapter, OTA, on the right post this time…

[bitternessoflife]

[A.
If driver, the cat’s got some shady-looking, windowless truck that’s definitely stolen. It’s probably a kidnapping or hostage situation, so good luck with that.

B.
If Yota’s the one hitching a ride, prepare for the most pitiful sob stories and pleading and big, teary, dewy eyes. Bonus points if his younger brother Guta’s there too, who’ll probably alternate between looking dazed and mirroring his brother’s gestures and adding emphasis to various words by repeating them, until a certain point...]

Please, sir/ma’am, do you have it in yer heart to take us poor lost souls to the nearest town? Put a roof over our heads? A place to sleep for the night? A warm meal? Just one’s all we ask for! We haven’t eaten in three days! I can take it, but not Guta here! He ain’t long for the world, now…!

[Guta does seem about ready to sleep under the minimal shade offered by the stopped vehicle, though…]

B

[death_calling]

[Of all the people Yota had to stop, it happens to be a well-dressed woman driving a hearse. Technically, there's no casket in the back of the vehicle, which would only make this interaction weirder, but she's not exactly comfortable escorting two cats in a work-issued vehicle. How did a simple trip to a car wash and the gas station turn into this?]

I really shouldn't...I was about to head back to work.

[Curses. She'd normally be better at repelling begging strangers, but it's two talking cats wearing suits and they're slowly weakening her defenses.]

My vehicle isn't exactly normal either. But if you and your friend really need a ride, I can get you to the city.

[this'll be fun!]

[bitternessoflife]

Please, ma'am, we can wait inside your car, just get us outta this sun!

[Guta's sole concern is that it provides shade, his eyelids keep drooping and his head nodding... the younger cat genuinely looks exhausted!

Excited she was giving in, Yota gives Guta an elbow ("ouch!") to wake him, and both lean in with identical begging and pleading gestures, looking over their dark sunglasses with the most pitiful eyes.]

Pleeeease?

[I agree!]

[death_calling]

[There's a moment where she looks to her left, then to her right, realizing that no one is going to help get her out of this situation. Any sane person is staying away from the begging cat duo, leaving her to deal with the situation. Finally, she caves, raising her shoulder in an exasperated sigh.]

Alright...You're going to have to share the front seat since there's nothing in the back.

[The car door is opened, and already it's a few degrees colder than the outside because she's been running the AC almost non-stop. Guta is right about one thing, it's a scorcher and she doesn't want to spend anymore time in this heat than necessary. Beside a half-full water bottle in the cupholder, and her purse tucked behind the passenger seat, there's really nothing unusual about the interior of the car.

She'll give them a few minutes to get situated before moving the car out of park.]

1/2

[bitternessoflife]

[The cat brothers eagerly climb in, easily sharing the front seat as it’s big enough for a human, and both enjoy the air conditioning with blissful expressions.]

2/2; sorry for the trouble, Olivia…

[catinspats]

[The younger one, Guta, finds his voice for more than a word at a time now.]

This is a really big car, ma’am! Is it some kinda limousine? [He naively asks, meaning the empty back of the car.] Never rid one before!

[The older one, Yota, makes a face, but doesn’t correct him.]

Cassian Andor | Rogue One | OTA

[seenitbefore]

[ you have your choice of:

one mild-mannered, slightly twitchy young man who's headed in whatever your direction may be, offering the space equivalent of gas money and/or a hand around the ship for a lift;

OR

one thirty-something dude in a car that's probably half his age, looks like your sporadically employed computer geek next door, has a couple mildly inflammatory bumper stickers and a plush parrot hanging from the rearview. ]

Gabrielle || Xena: Warrior Princess

[potedeiabard]

[ Definitely hitch hiker. She looks like she came out of ren-faire and has no idea what the hell is happening in this world with huge metal chariots. ]

Felix del Bosque | Amber Diceless TTRPG OC | OTA

[hellride]

[Driver. He'll pick up any hitchhiker and take them basically anywhere, he just loves to drive... though please be prepared for high speeds and the car maybe being stolen. Also if you complain about his music it will be played louder.]

[bitternessoflife]

Hey! Can I hitch a ride? Doesn't matter where you're goin', just gotta make tracks!

[That sure is a hurried-looking, rough-talking cat in a suit, fedora, and sunglasses...]

[hellride]

[If Felix even looks twice at the cat it's just because he didn't realize he'd found himself in a reality where that was the norm - he must have been especially black out drunk after his last hook-up because he definitely wasn't in one yesterday. But his aunt's main black market contact is an eight foot tall sarcastic space hamster named Lemtaro so it otherwise doesn't even rate on the weirdness scale enough to acknowledge.

He doesn't bother to turn down his music even when he pulled over to idle, but that cover of Anaconda happens to be one of his favorite songs. He doesn't turn it down for anything.]

Yeah, sure, get in.

[He can recognize being on the run easy enough, too. This car wasn't stolen in this reality though so it's probably fine.]

[bitternessoflife]

[… definitely not that weird at all compared to the giant hamster! This guy’s not much taller than the average cat, just walking on his hind legs, and his forepaws look an awful lot like human hands, just furry and hiding claws.]

Thanks! I owe ya one.

[He ducks away in the back seat, easily disappearing from view. He’ll probably stay quiet and hidden for a little while, unless addressed.]

ranpo edogawa | bsd | ota ( note: set shortly after the ada's established )

[greatestdetective]

[yes indeed that is one 16-year old Ranpo Edogawa dressed in his cliche detective-garb flagging you down and immediately ordering you to hand over the wheel on the insistence of a certain emergency!

that or he has possibly stolen the vehicle for some reason. no, he absolutely does not have a license, but this is an emergency... so if he's stopping, your muse must have more pressing matters?? can adapt to anything!]

venti / genshin

[wimdy]

[ hitchhiker!! a wandering busker (hobo) with nothing but the clothes on his back and a guitar, happy to tag along a driver to any destination. will cheerfully offer a song or good company. ]

Yoon Taemin | What Lies At The End

[startfromnothing]

[A couple of different options:

-You've found a badly injured young man on the side of a busy road after an accident. Conscious enough to wander away, he's now just trying to get home regardless of how bad things seem.

-A kid around highschool age with a bag and his thumb out, wearing clothes too large for him and a look about him as if he's recently been getting into fights.]

Hans/Deemo | Deemo

[deemo]

[Comes in Deemo or Hans flavor, your choice!]

Ann Takamaki | Persona 5 Royal/Strikers | ota

[menaretrash]

[ Ann can't drive. Hitcher. Calgon, take her away. ]

[just_a_minute]

[This little number comes squealing to a halt only a few feet away from the stranded teenage girl. Climbing partially out of the the window is a spiky-haired brunette that's not looking towards her but around the road in a sweeping arc. When he doesn't see what he's looking for he slaps the top of the car violently with a loud thud]

They got away?!?!

[Not bothering to explain who "they" are he blinks a few times when he sees the girl. Eh, at least he didn't hit her, looks like it was kind of a close call though.]

[menaretrash]

[ Ann's just about to call an Uber when the screeching of tires startles her away from her phone. She's been walking down the road for hours so honestly, trying to summon an Uber isn't even going to work but at some point, a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do. But there's a car here, suddenly, and it's come within INCHES of hitting her. She can only stare for a few moments, as what appears to be a young man suddenly crawls halfway out of the window and starts yelling. ]

Uhhh...

[ Is this like the documentaries about American serial killers she's watched? They kinda start out this way. Didn't Ted Bundy drive a car like that... ]

Hey! If you're a psychopath, you're messing with someone whose at least TEN TIMES crazier than you, dude!

[ This is definitely not true. Probably. And he's also probably not a nightmarish serial killer. But it doesn't really matter because she's going to MAKE SURE. ]

KD6-3.7 / Joe | Bladerunner 2049

[konstant]

OTA

[hippie_ninja]

He doesn't usually stop for hitchers. You know what a good way to get robbed, beaten up, and left for dead is? Let a stranger into your car.

But this car is stolen, he's on his way home so people are watching for him, and the guy looks to actually be alone. Jesus has been wrong before, but he's also been right, so...

He pulls over, leans over to roll the passenger window down a bit. "Where are you headed?"

[konstant]

It's been days since K has heard a vehicle of any kind, and honestly, it's unnerving. The insects out here are deafening, the wind could drive someone mad, and the sun is too bright in an unbroken, unclouded sky.

He feels a little sick every time he looks at it, so when he'd first run into the walkers, it was almost a relief. Even when they attacked him, but that, too, was almost a relief and he has the score now. That much is obvious by the way he stands, warily, just off the road.

He still holds out his thumb when what he really wants to do is run out into the road and wave his arms until they stop, no matter who they are. He'd done it ironically, mainly, and he has no real idea what to do with the fact that he's now speaking to someone - a real live someone - for the first time in a week.

He blinks, waiting for the sounds to make words, then gets briefly distracted by when he fell into that particular stupor. He shakes it off, though - literally - and shrugs as he squints down the road and points.

"That way. It's negotiable."

[hippie_ninja]

Something in what the man said makes him smile. (It's the word, negotiable. No one negotiates anymore. No one uses the word negotiable unless they're trying to strong arm you into doing something, but this man said it earnestly.)

"Hop in." He unlocks the door, pulls the handle, and gives it a little nudge.

Bumblebee | Transformers G1

[courageousandfocused]

[voice testing]
[The Driver]