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A Call Me Out Meme has been discovered!

Okay, yeah there's nothing special about this, it's just your standard CMO but your only choices are Dangans. I wanted to have some fun with it, execute me why don't you. ANYHOO, just put the character you want in the subject line and let's have some fun! Please don't feel like you're limited to dangans just because they're the only characters I feel like playing right now, as always I love me some cross canon interactions. Brackets, prose, former game universes...it's whatever floats your SHSL Party Boat here. Just put the character you want in the subject line, give me a scenario, and have at it! (just please nothing age-inappropriate for Nagisa because he's literally 10, thank you!)

If you can't think of (or decide on) a scenario on your own, feel free to nab something off bakerstreet. Some suggestions are: the random scenario meme, tfln, the hurt/comfort meme, the body heat meme, the beach meme, the childhood meme, you should have knocked, the soulmates meme, caught in the rain

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[An AU(??) where the children were adopted onto the party boat to have a grand sea-fairing adventure, eventually all boats must come to a stop for at least a little while. Presumably it needs to refuel and even if the boat doesn't, the people do! Which is why the kidlets, while the Adults take care of that, get to hang out and play around on land.

You know what kind of land is best for playing around on when you are a badass pirate kid? A beach of course.]

Hey Shingetsu-kun, look at the sand worm I made. You don't have to be scared of it or anything because it's just made of sand.

[He's standing over where his blue-haired friend sits, pointing to some big mound of sand a little ways off. With one hand, anyway, the other is raised to protect his eyes and face from the sun. Since he has to do that now that his mask is gone.

Though after a pause and some thought, he adds:]

I guess it could be a sand snake too if you wanted though. I could give it teeth and a forked tongue and scales...oh...but don't get it confused with a REAL sand snake. It's a sand snake, not a sand snake.

Edited 2016-12-31 01:20 (UTC)

[Not wanting to get more sand than was unavoidable on him, Nagisa has refrained from taking a seat on the beach. Instead, he removed his socks and shoes so that he could stand on the shoreline, letting the tide lap at his bare feet and idly flexing his toes into the wet sand. He'd allowed his attention to wander a bit as he stared out at the horizon, and as such, hadn't immediately realized Jataro was talking to him. He picked up on it quickly enough, however, turning his attention to his friend.]

Hm? [What is he rambling about now? Sand worms? Sand snakes? It's not until he catches sight of the sand sculpture that everything finally clicks. He looks suddenly indignant, face slightly flushed as he folds his arms over his chest and spluttering slightly when he speaks.]

O-of course I'd know it's not a real snake. [Give him some credit here, Jataro. He's not Masaru!] And I am not afraid of worms, I just don't like them. Th-There's a difference!!

[Ah, so that's the insinuation that really bothered him. Not the idea that he might not be smart enough to tell the difference between a sand snake and a sand snake.]

[There's a somewhat embarrassed pause before he continues, in a half mumble:]

If you want to turn it into a snake, though, go right ahead. It'd be interesting to see you make fangs and a forked tongue out of sand.

[He sat quietly through the indignation, watching him thoughtfully. And then he turns his attention to the worm with an equally thoughtful look.]

Okay. I'll give it fangs and a forked tongue and then come get you. That way you don't have to look at it while it's still a worm. Since you don't like them.

[Nagisa huffs a little.]

Like I said, I can tell the difference something made out of sand and a real animal. [He moves out of the water, towards the sand worm.] Even if it looks like a worm, it's just sand. And I want to watch you change it into a snake.

[Jataro turns, watching him move towards the work before following himself.]

It's not that fun to watch...nobody really wants to watch me work. Have you been out in the sun too long?

[Because that is kind of a silly thing for you to say!! He's still getting used to the idea that maybe not everyone hates him.]

I heard that staying out in the sun too long can dry up your skin like a raisin. You get all shriveled up and gross looking, and then nobody wants to look at you. But...if you stay in the bath too long, that happens too. I wonder why that is?

[And neither of these things have anything to do with him rolling up his sleeves and moving to start work on the sand worm. Gotta smoooooth out all the lines he had in it before to make it look worm like, so it's just a long, windy mound of sand. And then he can start adding mass to the head to make it more snake like.]

[Nagisa pointedly ignores the comment about nobody wanting to watch Jataro work and instead squats down on the other side of the sand worm, looking pointedly at Jataro's hands as he starts smoothing the sand. Who cares if nobody else wants to? He does and he's going to, so there.]

One would have to stay out in the sun for a very, very long time for that to happen. Actually, if it's only a matter of hours, the opposite is true. Your skin will swell up if you get a really bad sunburn. But...eventually, yes: too much sunlight can make your skin wrinkle. [He folds his arms on top of his knees so that he can rest his head on them as he continues to watch from his squatting position. He's still clearly trying to avoid getting sand on anything other than his feet.]

Your skin wrinkles in water for a completely different reason, though. People have been studying the effect for years trying to figure out why it happens. All the evidence seems to point to it being an involuntary nervous system reaction. It causes the blood vessels in your hands and feet to constrict, which in turn causes your skin to wrinkle and fold.

[Because you wanted the actual explanation, right Jataro?]

[While he continues to work, he does glance up every now and then while Nagisa explains.]

Ooohhh....

[He doesn't really sound like he fully 100% gets it. But it seems to satisfy his curiosity enough.]

You sure know a lot Shingetsu-kun. You always have an answer when I have a question...you're kind of like a magic-8 ball! Except I don't think I'm strong enough to pick you up and shake you.

[...maybe?]

The head's gonna be reaalllyyy big. It's gonna be really scary. I wanna make those girl de--er. The girls yell when they see it.

...let's just assume you're not strong enough for such a feat and move on. [Please don't try and pick him up and shake him. That's...he's okay with that not happening.] Though, I would like to think my answers are more helpful and less vague than those of a magic-8 ball...

[If it were anyone other than Jataro, he might have taken that as an insult. But since it's Jataro, Nagisa knows he doesn't mean it offensively. It's just...Jataro being the lovable little weirdo that he is.]

I bet you'll scare some of them. Like Big Sis Mikan and Big Sis Ibuki. [Because the latter is kind of an idiot and Nagisa can definitely see her thinking this is a real snake. And the former, well...what DOESN'T scare Big Sis Mikan?] It's gonna take way more than a sand snake to scare the likes of Big Sis Peko though...

Edited 2017-01-11 02:52 (UTC)

Oh yeah, your answers are always great. Though...they can be a lot more confusing sometimes than a magic-8 ball. A magic-8 ball just says yes or no or maybe...those are a lot easier to understand.

[Sorry Nagisa. No offense, but nobody is as smart as you are.]

I don't think Big Sis Peko is scared of anything. She's kind of like a robot, you know? Not scared of anything like a robot...doesn't have any emotions like a robot...her eyes are even red! I wonder if she's here to try and take over...I read a comic once where humans used robots for everything, and this one got tired of it and started a rebellion and enslaved all the humans. And then the humans were the ones who had to do everything!

[Even as he says this, he doesn't seem too scared of the idea that Peko may or may not be that kind of robot.]

Do you think she'd turn us into robots? Like...maybe she turned all of her friends into robots already and really we're sailing around with a robot ship crew!

[Okay...the head is looking much more snake-like now. Just needs a few details here and there and then he can start making the mouth and those sharp teeth!]

[Ugh, he tries to make himself clear? He really does. But it's hard when you're smarter than all your friends. It's hard and nobody understands.]

That seems...highly unlikely. [Jataro, what the hell...] I think she's just a very guarded person, emotionally. Honestly, I am surprised that the Remnants are lead by Big Bro Hajime when there's someone as dignified and reserved as Big Sis Peko around...

[She is the ideal leader he still doesn't understand why this is not the case. Maybe Hajime won rock-paper-scissors, just like Masaru did back when they were deciding who would lead the Warriors of Hope...]

[He shakes his head a little.]

In any event, I am certain that they are all completely human. Or, well...with one minor exception. [He grimaces a little.] Our former servant. You know, with that hand he has now. We cannot truly consider him "completely" human anymore, an we? He's definitely a cyborg now, at least on a very minor scale...

Maybe he won rock-paper-scissors? [Jataro's thinking like you are! At least a little.] Maybe you should ask Big Sis Peko and see what she says. I don't have any idea why he leads instead of her. Or instead of anyone else. Big Sis Sonia is a princess...Big Bro Fuyuhiko is a yakuza...wouldn't they be good leaders?

[Meanwhile Hajime is...what? Nothing, right??]

If he's not human anymore, maybe he really should be a servant. That's what robots are. But...I don't think I'd want him leading any kind of rebellion against humans...so maybe not.

Edited 2017-01-11 23:02 (UTC)

Maybe. Though, with regards to Big Sis Sonia: most monarchs are primarily figureheads in modern society. I don't know how it works in Novoselic, but that might be why she hasn't taken such a role among her classmates. Or maybe she thinks she doesn't have a right to do so, since this isn't her homeland and they aren't her subjects. And I am not certain you can call a yakuza a "good" leader...

[Though, he guesses technically that's better than nothing? Seriously, why is Hajime the leader. He just doesn't get it.]

Only his hand is robotic, Jataro. The rest of him is organic, therefore it is more accurate to consider him a cyborg. But, either way you're right. He'll take any opportunity he can to mess things up, and I wouldn't want him leading any kind of rebellion either.

They'd still be better...

[He likes Hajime and all but compared to Nagisa or Masaru...well that's not really a fair comparison. Of course Nagisa and Masaru are both better leaders. They're kids. But still! He's not gonna question it though, not to their faces anyway. Ultimately his loyalties technically lie with his fellow kids after all. If they want to do what the Remnants and Hajime want, he'll do it too. If they want to do something else, he'll support them. Who the Remnants decide on as a leader doesn't really concern him.

Nagisa's smart enough not to follow stupid commands if Hajime isn't any good in the end after all.]

He probably shouldn't lead anything at all. He wasn't very good at anything...

Now, that's a little harsh, don't you think Jataro? There were a few things he was very good at. I believe few could match his talent for being a backstabbing, interfering liar, for instance.

[To answer your question...no. No he still neither likes nor forgives Nagito. Because that was impossible to tell before now, surely.]

Edited 2017-01-14 18:36 (UTC)

[Absolutely impossible. This comes as a complete shock to Jataro, to be honest!]

...okay, I guess you're right. He was pretty good at that...

[More of a reason not to let him do anything. Jataro moves to start shaping a long, thing lump of sand out in front of the snake head. The start of a tongue. There are light lines in the sand where teeth will be, but he wants to get the tongue in there before he starts to really flesh out the rest of the mouth.]

[Nagisa scowls down at the snake, not really seeing it. He's not mad at the snake, after all. It's done him no wrong. But this conversation has gone in a direction he doesn't much care for. It's digging up some painful memories. His hands clench into fists atop his knees.]

He's seriously the worst...

[If only he'd realized Nagito was onboard before agreeing to go with the Remnants he...probably would have made the same decision. As much as he can't stand Nagito, it's a lot safer on the ship than it was in Towa...]

[...hm. Nagisa seems like he's getting pretty upset...what could he say to make him feel better?? He's tempted to suggest some great torturing ideas for their "servant". He could come up with some really awful things that Nagito really probably deserves, after all! ...but...]

Hey Shingetsu-kun, d'you know what kinda snake I'm making?

[Changing the subject is probably better. As much as talking about being really cruel to Nagito would probably help, he doesn't want to get a stern talking to if any of the Remnants walked by and heard him or something. Blech.

But the snake in question, while it doesn't have a mouth yet, has a pretty distinct face. Those depressions in the nose definitely make it look like a python (if the general shape didn't already do that.)]

[Good choice, Jataro. While Nagisa would definitely jump right onto nasty torture talk bout Nagito, it wouldn't really help. It would just get him more worked up and angry. Changing the subject provides a good distraction.]

Huh? Uhm... [He scoots over a little and leans in to get a closer look.]

Some...kind of python? A ball python?

[The ones with the weirdly cute faces...]

Wow, you can even tell something like that? You know everything!

[He nods though, finally finishing off that forked tongue. Look at it, ready to give you some kisses. Now to really flesh out those teeth.]

Ball pythons are really cool. They have like three noses instead of just one! Or I guess they aren't really noses, since they're just uh...heat sensors?

[Cool. Kinda gross, because they're just big holes in its face, but that's what makes it cool.]

[He looks a little sheepish as he moves back into his original position.]

Not everything...they just have very distinct faces. [He shifts a little, digging his toes in the sand.] It's a very good re-creation.

[Jataro's skill is the more impressive thing here, really. Nagisa smiles a little and nods.]

Yeah, heat sensors. They track their prey by following their infrared thermal radiation.

Infrared thermal radiation...

[He repeats that slowly as he works on one of the long snake fangs, clearly thinking about it. Or about something, at least.]

I bet you coulda guessed it if I'd made a different snake too. Though I don't know a lot of snakes, so I guess if we made a game out of it it wouldn't be much fun. [Now if you asked him to do a guessing game of making bugs out of sand that'd be different. He knows lots of those.] It'd probably just be boring, like everything else I do...

[Not that he seems too upset by this idea.]

Mmm...

[Nagisa lapses back into silence, watching Jataro work. After a minute or so, he speaks up.]

Well what if instead of snakes...you made bugs? You know more bugs than you do snakes, right? I don't think that would be a boring game.

What? Shingetsu-kun wouldn't think a bug guessing game is boring? But bugs are gross, right? Really gross! I know all the grossest bugs, too! So a bug guessing game with me would be the most grossest guessing game ever!

[Surely you wouldn't like a game about guessing bugs!!

...oh wait.]

Ohhhhh wait, I get it. It's not boring because you'd have lots to guess...but you wouldn't like playing it with me, right? Just because something's not boring doesn't mean it's fun or anything, right? I bet you just wanna show me how much smarter than me you are, right?

[That's what any sane person would want to do! He's gross and boring and stupid and everyone hates him for that, so that's gotta be what's going on here.]

Well I do know a lot of bugs. [A lot a lot! He moves to draw the outline of one said bug in the sand. It's not an artistic masterpiece, but the outline - much like the snake's head - is still pretty distinctive. Surely Nagisa will recognize the Rhinoceros Beetle.]

Do you know what that one is?

Edited 2017-01-14 21:38 (UTC)

GIMMIE NAGGY as if that wasn't obvious

finally gets around to nagging u. also: 1/2

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