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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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[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)

What? I-- no! That's not why I suggested it, I don't want to do that!

[Jataro...both of you know that Nagisa is the smarter one. He doesn't have to show that off, it's just a fact.]

I just thought...well...a game is more fun when all the players enjoy it, right? I like trivia, and you like bugs... I-it just made sense.

[When will you finally understand that he doesn't hate you, Jataro?]

Edited 2017-01-14 22:40 (UTC)

[Of course he knows that. And Nagisa knows that. That's the point! Isn't it fun showing off how smart you are?? Especially over someone like him?? Because you definitely hate him. All the Warriors hate him!]

...I guess that makes sense, yeah. I don't wanna ruin your fun or anything, so doing it that way makes a lot of sense. Then again, if I ruined your fun, you'd hate me a little bit more, so maybe we should do a snake guessing game!

[No, it's not fun!! Don't you know him at all?? He is humble and refined as a true leader should be, not boastful and overly proud.]

I wouldn't hate you for that. [He doesn't hate you at all. He never has. Sure, you can be a little annoying and weird sometimes but that's nothing to HATE you over...] If you want to keep making snakes, that's fine too. I just thought...you would enjoy bugs more.

[He knows him!! He just thought maybe that'd be fun!]

Should I pick something you don't like...? I could make a bunch of different kinds of worms and make you guess those. Would you hate me then?

[After he says that, he seems to give it a little thought before moving to finish his snake tooth.]

Actually...I won't do worms. When I'm done we can do bugs, if you still want to. Or we can play something else too.

[Assuming no one else comes along and interrupts them by then of course. Who knows when the other Warriors will find them, or some of the Remnants. Or if they'll have to leave by then. But he's also working pretty quick, so maybe they'd have time?]

I still wouldn't hate you for that. Remember? I can tell the difference between real worms and sand worms.

[But he's still glad Jataro isn't going to make them because ew.]

[Jataro doesn't say anything to that. He just continues working dutifully on his snake, turning some things over in his head. You know, you're really hard to crack, Nagisa. It's so easy to make everyone else hate him! It's kind of unsettling. But...as much as he doesn't like it, he kind of does too? It's weird. That's why he decided not to do worms, though obviously now it would have been pointless anyway ugh.]

...hey Shingetsu-kun, what would you do if you had three noses?

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