Call Out Meme: Version 4.0

[oathshackledbird]

Edit:  As with the others, this one is starting to get big so I am closing it to new threads now.  Please post all new threads here!  As always feel free to continue any threads that are still on going.
Have a new "Call Me Out" to break in since the old one is starting to get big again!




【the ❝CALL ME OUT❞ meme】 IV
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 journal in the subject line! (I have too many Lancers to just go by name! X.x ) ♛ 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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[oathshackledbird]

"It...is a terrible place," a frown crosses Diarmuid's face as he thinks about it. "There is much we don't know and much we only sort of know. Our worlds were destroyed by something and a boy managed to save one person from each of those worlds. However, he was unable to pull more than just our souls to the Tower. This..." he motions to his body, "is not my real body. It is a construct made of gel and wire. We are currently fighting to find a way to fix all the worlds that were destroyed, but it is not an easy task. Not when the people in charge of the place routinely do all they can to torture and break us."

[swordofzero]

Suzaku blinked, looking shocked. Their worlds had been destroyed, their bodies were not real. Torture... He had though Rakuen City had been bad, the city... Manhattan, that Lelouch had been in before had sounded awful, but this...

"I am sorry..." He blinked, "It sounds like a terrible place..."

[oathshackledbird]

It is, but it is not all bad.

[An oddly gentle look crosses Diarmuid's face.]

I have met people I should never have met and now call family. I have seen again those who I should never have seen. I should be dead and yet I still live and have the chance to make my life mean something this time around.

[He laughs softly.]

Most of the time, I hate the Administrators, but sometimes...sometimes I want to thank them.

[swordofzero]

[Suzaku blinked sadly as the meaning of Diarmuid's words dawned on him. Life to mean something this time around, meant that his last life had ended. He knew it was possible to bring those who were dead into these strange other worlds. Diarmuid did not seem very old, older than Suzaku but not that much... he should have known. Those as passionate and noble as Diarmuid never lived long.]

You can appreciate such things and still hate them for what they have done.

[oathshackledbird]

[Diarmuid is confused for a moment by the sad look on Suzaku's face, before realizing just what he has told the man without thought of the child he knows who still has so much life ahead of him.]

Forgive me. I am so used to death being...something else that I forget it not the same way for everyone. Try not to let yourself be sad for him. He will be challenged all of his life, but he will do great things as well. His life will have meaning.

[It's making sure his second--or should that be third--life has meaning that he is still working on.]

[swordofzero]

I am glad for that. [Sometimes the best you could hope for was that life had meaning, even if it was short.] He is a great child, and I am certain having met you that he will grow to be a great man.

[oathshackledbird]

[Diarmuid looks down for a moment, blushing ever so slightly.]

I do my best, but I am by no means perfect. I just do what I believe to be right.

[swordofzero]

You have good instincts. Unless you have changed a lot from when you are a child. He is good at knowing the right thing to do.

[oathshackledbird]

I...would not say that I have changed, at least not in that way.

[Diarmuid frowns slightly.]

It is merely that the choices have gotten harder. Sometimes now, there is no real 'right' answer.

[swordofzero]

I am glad for that. [He nods, understanding that far too well.] There never is, right answers don't really exist.

[oathshackledbird]

I don't know if I would say that. Things were much simpler when I first lived. Black and white. It was easy to know what to do back then. Well, unless the Fae were involved but that is another story completely.

[He laughs a little sadly.]

The modern world is different. Everything is so much more complex. As you say, there is no clear right answer sometimes. I do not like it. It has caused me to hurt people when I did not mean to. I just did not know better.

[swordofzero]

[He nodded, understanding that far too well] I am sorry. I can't really give you much advice though, I am no expert in not harming people.

[oathshackledbird]

[Diarmuid waves a hand.]

It is all right. I'm not asking for any advice. Believe me, I have already been given much advice on the topic. Right now, I need to decide what parts of that advice I wish to make my own.

[Which is to say, he needs to finally make a decision about what it is he wants to believe.]

[swordofzero]

I understand that. [It was sometimes hard to make advice fit your problem] I wish you luck in it.

[oathshackledbird]

Thank you. I appreciate it.

[He laughs softly.]

Since you know a version of me, even just a young one, you will know luck is something I can always use more of.

[swordofzero]

Yes. Diarmuid is not the luckiest...

[oathshackledbird]

Sadly, no.

[Diarmuid smiles, though when he says that. It seems he's gotten used to the bad luck. In as much as one can anyway.]

Blessed with many skills, but not with luck. I guess no one can have it all, though.

[swordofzero]

I guess not. He does well despite the luck though.

[oathshackledbird]

I am glad to hear that.

[Diarmuid smiles, before getting a curious look on his face. That look...probably looks familiar to Suzaku.]

You haven't really told me yet. What is the world you two live in like?

[swordofzero]

It's... alright. It's a city that had ran into some energy trouble, so they have brought us there to help.

We have to generate power by physical touch, hugging, holding hands, things like that. No one has hurt us though and apart from the fact we can't go home we are not prisoners.

[oathshackledbird]

Power generated through touch?

[Diarmuid repeats what he has been told, questioningly, and then smiles.]

He must be in heaven. If there is something he loves, it is hugging others and being hugged in return.

[swordofzero]

Yes, he finds the work very easy. [Unlike Suzaku]

[oathshackledbird]

And probably makes it just a little easier for ones like you, yes?

[He knows you, Suzaku. Or, at least a version of you.]

[swordofzero]

[He looks embarrassed and nods] It is not work I find easy, but Diarmuid helps

TMW, you realize like 10 tags ago you changed the format on accident. Sorry! X.x

[oathshackledbird]

Good, that will make him happy.

[Diarmuid can't help but grin. It makes him feel good to know that not only does his younger self have Suzaku to watch out for him, he is there to help Suzaku through whatever pain he is facing.]

Do you know what trouble he gets himself into when he's not setting things on fire and giving hugs?