call me out v. 12.0

[misheard]

Call out one of the characters from my muselist with a starter, a prompt, a general 'hey can we do something with these characters' comment, a smoke signal, etc., and I'll get back to you with some kind of RP thread!

Comments

[maidofmistakes]

That's adorable, actually! Does that mean all kinds of aliens would be showing up?

[thesettingsun]

All kinds of aliens with all kinds of pets.

[maidofmistakes]

Maybe you could come up with a bunch of imaginary species. Stuff that's not like humans at all!

[thesettingsun]

Of course I can. I'll come up with something so weird even Retrospec users will be surprised.

[maidofmistakes]

What about something that's mostly water, like a jellyfish?

[thesettingsun]

Or pets that live on gas giants...

[maidofmistakes]

Does that mean they'd float?

[thesettingsun]

They'd have to if there's no ground to walk on.

[maidofmistakes]

Maybe they're incorporeal. Like ghosts. I mean, not-you ghosts.

[thesettingsun]

But then you couldn't pet them?

[maidofmistakes]

Oh, right... This is harder than it sounds.

[thesettingsun]

Well, you can't pet fish either, and people still keep those.

[maidofmistakes]

Yeah, I guess so. I mean, you technically could pet a fish.

[thesettingsun]

Does anyone really do that?

[maidofmistakes]

Weird people? I don't know, kids do a lot of stuff.

[thesettingsun]

Kids don't count. I had a classmate who ate paper.

[maidofmistakes]

I guess so. Can you think of any more alien animals?

[thesettingsun]

I'll need a little more brainstorming time.

[maidofmistakes]

Sorry! I'll try and think of some. I mean, I'm the alien, right? How about... lots of real pets these days are kind of wild so they'll be exotic, right? Like lizards that get stolen out of the jungle, or those foxes they were trying to domesticate so they could study how it happened to dogs in ancient times.

[thesettingsun]

Wouldn't those normally go to the zoo or to biologists or something instead of a shelter? It's bad to keep wild animals in confinement, even more so if they aren't even your pets.

Alien poaching is probably pretty wild, though.

[maidofmistakes]

Yeah, probably. Maybe we should just check out the humane society and see what it's like at a real one.

[thesettingsun]

Maybe we can get really crazy and do a little volunteering?

[maidofmistakes]

I guess so. I think you have to be 16 to walk dogs there, so we could do that. Or cleaning cages, cat grooming... They went to our school the other week for the volunteer fair, I have a brochure somewhere around here.

[thesettingsun]

I never volunteered as a teenager. I have no idea how I got into college, honestly.

[maidofmistakes]

Seriously? I thought it was, like, a requirement. That, good grades, and a dozen afterschool clubs.