☆ The "Call Me Out" Meme

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【the ❝CALL ME OUT❞ meme】
a roleplay meme to inspire muses.

♛ refer to the list above for active muses. ♛ post "calling" one of them out — you can do so by putting their name in the subject line! ♛ can be informal/formal/comment spam/crosscanon/explicit/whatever tickles your fancy! ♛ feel free to make up a scenario at the start, or wait to see where things go. meme code.

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[thegreatsaiyaman]

"I'm flattered that you'd even consider it, Risette, but kind of like you, I'm probably too busy for it. Even if I met someone who really liked me, I'd just be too busy." His smile is a little sad at that, "And I don't want to disappear for years like my Dad did." He shrugs, however, and the smile goes back to normal, "But, that's in the past, and he's gotten a lot better now that he's alive again."

He does not intend to explain that statement.

When Rise hands him the glasses and tells him to put them on, he looks at her for a few seconds, then reaches up to his helmet, undoes the chin strap and pulls it off, revealing a kind, if serious looking, face. It's easy to tell that he's trying to be comforting as he puts the glasses on, covering his black eyes.

"Risette, I trusted you from the second that I was able to really see you. I can tell that you're something special, and if you've dealt with this before, I'll follow your lead on it."

As he pulls open the door to look out, an aura appears around him, crackling and dancing in the air. He looks at her and gives a thumbs up, "Come on, lets get you safe and home."

[risette_truestory]

Rise has now officially seen the Great Saiyaman's face. He was young, like she expected. Maybe a little younger than she had first estimated. His build really made it difficult to make a more accurate estimate. She used to think that the biggest mystery about him was his appearance, however it seems there was still more.

What did he mean by what he said about his father? None of it made a lot of sense. If they survive this, she was going to ask him to elaborate that story.

If they survive ...

She really shouldn't talk like that because they were going to survive this. This did made her ask a few questions though. Why did this have to happen here? And whose shadow would she be facing? Reaching into her pocket for her other phone that housed her personal contacts, she checked if she had received any text from the others. It was usually on silent when she is working and she had been working non-stop for a few days.

Lo and behold, she did get a text from the others concerning the Midnight Channel.

Apparently, something or someone did appear last night. It wasn't someone they know though, but suspect she would be someone she knows. They sent her a picture and though it was blurry, she did find the figure familiar. However, it was the last person she thought to see.

It was a girl from her past as a trainee. Before Rise was Risette, she had been a trainee to join a girl group with a lot of members. Afraid that she was going to be buried under the hundreds of pretty faces, she accepted the offer to go solo. As a trainee, she had been close to one girl, Nananyan. She was cute and preppy, not surprisingly she went on to join the group. Rise hasn't heard from her since.

What happened?

She had no time to think more about it since she began to hear faint singing the further they go inside. All of a sudden there was a gigantic door in front of them with a sign that said: 'All of Nananyan! One night only!'

Before she opened the door though, she turns to Saiyaman. "There is something I need to tell you."

[thegreatsaiyaman]

Oh, there were a lot of Things (with a capital T) that Gohan would probably have to tell her about, some day. When they survive all of this.

It was lucky, he supposed, that they hadn't run in to any normal people after they left the dressing room, since his helmet was off so he could more easily wear the glasses. They were odd, these things. He was getting a slight headache while he wasn't wearing them, and that just wasn't something that happened...well, ever. Heck, he's never had so much as a cold, to be honest. The worst things that ever happen to him were broken bones, but honestly when he gets those, something's really going poorly for the world.

When they finally get to the door, Gohan stops and looks at it, puzzled. "All of Nananyan? Who's that? What in Dende's name is this place, anyway? The fog seems evil, there's nobody here, and I'm just worried that we might be lost in a maze of some sort. I can't sense any human chi around, either, aside from yours...and I'll be honest, I have some questions for you about that once we get out of here." He doesn't sound upset, just confused.

And then Rise starts speaking, grabbing Gohan's complete attention. "What is it, Risette? You seemed to be well prepared for this with the glasses. Have you dealt with something like this before?"

[risette_truestory]

Rise nodded. She was not in a hurry to open this door, but she knew she had to. If she wanted to get Nananyan back she had to go. Could she wait for her friends to arrive? She couldn't even message them that she was in trouble and there was no way of getting out from here.

She had to take the best chance she had. "My friend, Nana Akimoto is probably inside this door ... and you will see something called a Shadow." She began to tell him a brief description of what shadows were, the Midnight Channel and how this world works. She tried to keep it as short as she can then she also told him of her suspicions of Nananyan being possibly involved with the stalking incident. As she was from a completely different prefecture, it didn't make sense for Nananyan to be here. It was too much of a coincidence.

However, she couldn't answer why though. She had thought they were good friends when she left to go solo.

Now that she has told him everything she knew, it was time. Her heart was beating fast at the thought of doing this alone. But then she looked back at Saiyaman and realized that maybe she wasn't alone.

So, she pushed the door open. She found Nana passed out in the middle of a giant stage. But that wasn't the most pressing thing at the moment. They were surrounded by a concert room-ful of Nananyans. There had to be hundreds of them and all wearing different costumes, different faces and different dances.

The Nananyan on stage dressed in a school uniform took notice of their arrival. "Look who is here for the opening act! It is my best of friends, Risette!" With this, all of them stood still and turned towards them. "And she brought ... a date? Oh no! Risette-chan! You should know better than that!"

Rise knew those looks too well. She had them once upon a time too.

Their eyes were all screaming, Look at me!

[thegreatsaiyaman]

Her explanation about shadows gives him pause. He actually looks really interested in it, to be quite honest. This was definitely something that they'll have to discuss later, from the sounds of it. Heck, Bulma would probably be interested in it as well.

"So, this shadow...it's the manifestations of one's inner desires, both positive and negative? Though, I'd imagine in this situation it would be just the negative desires...well, we should be fine if it's just he..."

Gohan will follow Rise and enter the room, his voice trailing off as he sees the massive amounts of, well, person in the room. He almost reels back, but catches himself. To be honest, this wasn't the weirdest thing that he's seen, probably even this year.

He balls his hand up into a fist, staring straight at the figure on the stage. He points at her and grins, "I am a hero of justice, here to right wrongs and protect the masses." He strikes a pose, standing on one leg while putting his arms out in a v formation, "I am The Great Saiyaman!" Switching to another pose, he glances over at Rise and then back to Nananyan, "Risette and I are going to save her friend from you, Shadow."

As far as the date goes, Gohan will just blush for a moment, then shake his head. Honestly, he hadn't intended for this to go like this, but he was rocking the poses tonight, so who knows what might happen!

[risette_truestory]

The shadow had one brow raised at his array of poses, unimpressed. She scoffed his tacky costume and tackier posing. "Risette-chi, you have really strange taste. Are you really dating him?"

"Mou! This is not a date!" However, Rise was still blushing as she said this. Not that she would mind going on a date with him, but who in their right mind would choose to go on a date here? She might not have the most normal life, but that didn't mean she would mind having a normal date or two. "Don't talk bad about Saiyaman either! He is a hero! He is everybody's hero!"

But there was no time to complain about her strange dating life. She ran to where Nana was still lay unconscious and to her relief, Nana was breathing. There were two things she noticed about her friend. Nana looked almost gaunt and had dark circles under her eyes. She looked so different from the fresh and preppy trainee she trained with.

"Rise?" Nana opened her eyes. "Why? Where?" She suddenly gasped in shock to see so many people with her face around them.

"We are you!" The shadows answered the question they knew she was about to ask. "We are your many faces. You just hate being in a group, don't you? Why do you need a group when you can play every role by yourself? Cute? Sexy? Sporty? We can do it all! Isn't that more interesting? More interesting than Risette-chi."

Rise hugged her shaking friend tighter. This scene. All of this was so similar to her battle with her shadow. Her various images surrounding her and mocking her.

"That is not true," her friend whispered. "Rise is my friend. She deserved to go solo ... "

"But we all know that you think you deserve it more! We are you after all!"

"No! No! No!" Rise tried to shush her to keep her from saying the words she knew would lead to trouble. However, it doesn't work. Nana refused to believe. "No! You are not me!"

That was all she needed to say. All of a sudden, her other selves seemed to melt away around them and slithered towards the stage. Smoke began to gather around the stage and when it dispersed in front of them was a black, sludge-like monster with white masks all around it. "I am your true self!"

Of course, Nana chose this moment to pass out --- leaving Gohan and Rise to take care of this mess.

[thegreatsaiyaman]

Hearing Risette call him a hero made him blush a little bit, but now was not the time to dwell on that. He didn't like the look of those figures, and he especially didn't like the look of them converging upon each other to become...well, that monster slime.

Now was the time for Gohan to take action. In an instant, he is at Rise's side, a gust of air being the only sign that he'd moved at all. His normally kind face has a look of intensity on it, his brow furrowed and his teeth clenched. Whatever this thing was, this Shadow, he and Rise would defeat it together. He looked around the room, assessing the situation. He couldn't risk going to his full power: He remembered that Buu was able to rip open a hole in dimensions, and if this one was closer to our world than the Room of Spirit and Time, then that thing could get loose. The power of the Kais was not something for this fight.

Just the power of an angry alien race.

An aura appears around him, looking like a force shield. With a shout, the aura will turn to gold, with blue crackles. His hair will change from black to gold, and stick up very straight, and his black eyes will turn a striking green color.

"Risette," he says slowly. He is calm, calmer than one might think possible in a situation like this, "We are going to save your friend and take her some place safe. Together." And with that, he'll hold his hand, still surrounded by that sparking gold aura, out to her. They were a team.

[risette_truestory]

At first, Rise shook her friend to get her to wake up. "Nana-chan! Nana-chan! Don't do this! At least not here! Nana-chan! Wake up!" Unfortunately, no amount of shaking and shouting could do it. This was truly now, her mess to clean. The others would probably realize too late what just happened. The thought of doing this alone scared her. The responsibility and the consequence if she failed would be overwhelming for anyone.

However, before she could sink further into her fears, Gohan reached a hand towards her. She feared being alone? This hand told her otherwise.

'Together,' he proposed.

Maybe. Just maybe. She didn't have to do this alone after all.

Rise put Nana down and stood up. She had not even realized that she had been on the floor. "Together," she parroted. With him there, she was feeling stronger and bolder. "Saiyaman-san, call me Rise."

Lifting her hand in the air, she then shouted those familiar words. "Persona!"

Himiko ... was finally coming to play.