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[supercilious]

【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. ♛ if there's someone on my muselist who isn't listed here, feel free to call them out! you might have to wait longer for a response though. meme code.

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[meowforbackup]

I had a... let's call him superior for lack of better word. He had a similar power to yours and although he got creative with it, I never felt like he did as much as he could.

[ There's a sadistic undertone here. A newly awoken interest for the finer points of torture. ]

[idkmybffpyramid]

[Reno cants his head looking for Ocelot's meaning, but he recognises that tone. He doesn't have quite the sadistic streak that the people he seems to attract do, but he'd be lying if he said it wasn't in him.]

Officially speaking I obviously have no idea what you're saying to me right now. [A slight smirk; Ocelot clearly has no idea of the full gamut of what Reno has available to him.] Hypothetically though? There's endless applications. Especially if you just happen to have a restore on you.

[meowforbackup]

So you have been holding out on me? [ Seriously, why haven't they had this conversation before? So much time to kill. ]

[idkmybffpyramid]

Can't just spill all my secrets in one go for a pack of cigarettes and some bandages, can I?

[You've gotta pony up at least a bottle of scotch for that.]

[meowforbackup]

C'mon, I did more for you than that, didn't I?

[idkmybffpyramid]

Oh yeah. You gave me a lot of great headaches too.

[meowforbackup]

You're welcome. [ This smirk on his face is not a good smirk. ] I seem to recall helping you out in more intimate ways.

[idkmybffpyramid]

[It takes a special kind of awful to make Reno feel physically uncomfortable, and even moreso to make him show it. Which he does, briefly raising his eyebrows and recoiling slightly before he gets his expression back under control, pulling it down from "uncomfortable" to "wilful misunderstanding."]

Are you making another offer to kill me? Because I'm not that hot on finding out if that whole "traumatic resurrection" thing is still in play right now.

I a-paw-agize.

[meowforbackup]

That would be a waste of bullets. [ And as light as his tone is, there's something very real about that statement. That was a good reaction though. Very satisfying. ] Don't tell me you don't remember?

never apologise (except for that pun)

[idkmybffpyramid]

[He's honestly struggling here. 'Intimate' implies a lot of things - and honestly he would've described their friendship as such back then. But it feels like Ocelot's reaching for something specific and he's coming up blank.]

Wanna enlighten me here?

[meowforbackup]

[ He snorts and lifts his hands, wiggling the fingers around. ] Still having issues with lighters and doorknobs?

[idkmybffpyramid]

[Wow.]

[Ocelot's probably pretty used to getting the "are you fucking serious right now?" Expression from Reno, who looks thoroughly unimpressed by this.]

Thankfully for the two of us, that hasn't been a problem in quite a while.

[meowforbackup]

[ Be as unimpressed as you want, Reno. He's having a fucking blast. ] Let's hope it stays that way then, hmn?

[idkmybffpyramid]

[God.] Remind me why I keep talking to you again?

[meowforbackup]

Same reason I'm still talking to you — it's this or the cockroaches. [ Take that as a compliment. ]

[idkmybffpyramid]

Maybe I should start talking to the roaches. [He scoffs and looks around the room, almost as if looking for a new cockroach buddy.] Least they don't give me all this attitude.

[meowforbackup]

Perhaps you should. I'm sure the conversation would be more on your level. [ His tone is light, though. Teasing, but not as malicious as it could be. ]

[idkmybffpyramid]

Ouch. [It's the most atonal 'ouch' he could muster, but he still puts a hand on his heart for effect.] See, this is that attitude problem I was talking about. Have you ever tried just being nice once in a while?

[meowforbackup]

[ Shit just got real. Real serious. ] Being nice doesn't get you anywhere. If anything, it gets you killed.

[idkmybffpyramid]

[Well he certainly wasn't expecting that shift in tone, and it shows on Reno's face. (Also his experience tends towards 'pride' and 'Sephiroth' being the largest causes of death around these days, but that strikes him as a particular cat not to be poked right now.)]

[Flippantly, (so much for not poking the cat,) with very much an air of 'I wasn't being serious':] Got me better food, free drinks. Favours to call in. [shrug] It's a useful tool.

[meowforbackup]

Not as useful as power. [ And that's what turns him on, in every sense of the word. It's not even political power or the kind of brute force that Volgin displayed — it's winning against all odds. It's being smarter, more resilient, tougher. It's doing things no one expected and gaining the upper hand through it.

It's Snake. Most of all it's Snake. ]

[idkmybffpyramid]

No, it's not. [He won't disagree there. He knows what it's like to feel powerful, but Discedo has a funny ability to take that away. Well, Discedo and some blonde asshole with a stupid sword.] Makes shit a hell of a lot easier though.

[Suffice it to say they may have slightly differing definitions here.]

[meowforbackup]

Easy? [ He snorts. Such differing opinions. Different backgrounds, too. ] Shooting a man in the kneecaps is easy. Getting what you want from him without proper... encouragement, that's a lot harder.

My work doesn't have to be any more difficult than it already is.

[idkmybffpyramid]

You might not approve, Ocelot, but it works.

[He gestures broadly, as if some evidence to that effect is going to drop out of the sky. It doesn't, but that doesn't really have any effect on Reno's momentum here.]

I'm not an idiot, I know when I'm outgunned. And I sure as fuck was when I got here. If playing nice with the locals lets me avoid having my shit kicked in long enough to get on with the task at hand, you can bet your ass I'm gonna do it.

[meowforbackup]

Fine, fine... we'll just have to agree to disagree. [ He waves it off with a nonchalant hand gesture, letting a moment of silence stretch before... ]

It wasn't kindness that got you off that roof, you know.