call me out v. 15.0

[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!

Old CR, new CR, assumed CR, canonmates, AU, crossover, whatever, it's all good.

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[strayleaves]

We're not supposed to, but we're all very bad at keeping secrets here!

[Not a hint of shame.]

[ghostsguysgyuudon]

...Right. So what exactly is this place? I was supposed to come out back where I came from instead.

[strayleaves]

This is a library, where the spirits of past authors are summoned to do battle with malevolent creatures for the protection of literature.

[ghostsguysgyuudon]

Wait, but -- but I never wrote anything myself! The most I did was -- I mean, a few people said I might have inspired their work, but that shouldn't be enough to send me someplace like this, right? And what do you mean, battle?

[strayleaves]

If you aren't dead, you shouldn't have to worry about being summoned the usual way? Whether you wrote anything or not.

[And they'd just established that she was treating him as a normal person who wouldn't necessarily know spirits, so...]

[ghostsguysgyuudon]

I'd better not be dead! And I assume you don't know Charlie-san, if he isn't going around sending girls to different time periods.

[strayleaves]

Not unless you mean Charles Baudelaire? That seems like the kind of thing he might do.

[ghostsguysgyuudon]

Is he a shady magician who appears and disappears when he feels like it?

[strayleaves]

No, that's Ranpo.

[And he means shady in the fondest possible way.]

[ghostsguysgyuudon]

Wait, you don't mean -- okay, you do mean, of course you mean. And he doesn't have weird facial markings, right?

[strayleaves]

Not the last time I looked?

[ghostsguysgyuudon]

Then it's definitely not the same person. I have to wonder... But I guess there are more important things to worry about. I'll see if I can find him. Um. It's nice to meet you, though, I guess! Sorry about this.

[strayleaves]

Pleased to meet you! I am Koizumi Yakumo.

[ghostsguysgyuudon]

Wait? But no, you're -- I mean, he didn't -- how does that work?

[strayleaves]

[Confused blinking?? Or confused winking, it's impossible to tell.]

[ghostsguysgyuudon]

I mean, you do speak English like he does, and you have an eyepatch where he has a glass eye, and you're both sort of "my pace," so I guess that makes sense, but how can there be two different versions of the same person?

[strayleaves]

Oh, it happens all the time! In books. I've met myself once, even.

[ghostsguysgyuudon]

That makes sense... Wait, no, it doesn't! You just said we weren't in a book, though, right?

[strayleaves]

The world is full of 'strange and mysterious' things! Maybe it will happen in real life, too.

[ghostsguysgyuudon]

How are you taking this so well?

[strayleaves]

I love this kind of thing. Tell me more about the other me, please?

[ghostsguysgyuudon]

Eh? Um... well, he uses English a lot, like you do, and he always seems to be popping up to say something. He used to be a Tamayori, like me, but he lost his powers when he lost his eye. I think that's why he's still so interested in ghosts, because he misses them.

[strayleaves]

Not exactly the same, but very close.

[He would've loved to have been a medium when he was alive, that would have been great.]

There might be even more people in common, if there's him and me.

[ghostsguysgyuudon]

I guess I do know a few other writers. Is your Kyouka-san angry all the time? And do you have Okita-san, too? He's a little awkward to be around, but I'm sure he doesn't mean any harm. And... [She looks away.]