insertmeathere | The Return of the Actor Meme!

Reviving a meme for great justice! Quoted from the original post:

It's Transmigration 9 Studios. No, the name doesn't make any sense, except that the owner, Stacy, has owned eight studios before this and they've all crashed and burned. Which feels so great for the actors and their sense of job security, let me tell you.

As soon as they're done with their scenes, the characters stop playing their roles and make it real. The scripts are tossed aside, and they can relax now that the cameras are off of them.

What does this mean? Well, perhaps Billy is an actual college graduate, who is disgusted with the scientific inaccuracies and techspeak mumbo-jumbo of his character. Perhaps Kang is a fit Japanese man in a rubber dragon suit. Maybe ~~Renne is a former theater actor that speaks with a posh English accent?~~ Who knows, perhaps Nehaa is a conservative Catholic who finds her role as a stripperiffic space goat horrifying! And it might an ongoing joke off-screen that Leon can't fight for shit, Steve's actor stands in for him during action scenes.

So, what are you waiting for? Let's have some fun!

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Sasami flopped on her chair, a look of exhaustion on her face. The decision to be more action oriented was welcome, but not like this! She looked at the costume the designers cobbled together for her "battle armor". It looked light, but the various pieces altogether made it weigh a bit more than it should.

Doffing off her shoes and shin guards and letting her hair loose, she let out a sigh.

"Well... at least I'm no longer really pigeon-holed into anything..."

"Kinda hard to pigeon hole you though, right?" She had already taken the purple wig off, was already in her preferred clothing: black jeans, boots, red t-shirt and her hair in pigtails. She would likely have been cast aside were they not looking for the perfect girl for Hit girl: loud, rough, willing to swear, willing to get dirty. To her, it was a dream: no more playing some docile little girl on a kid's show, or being shoved into some dumb soap opera.

Thank God. That just didn't sit well.

"What would they put you in, you think?" She got along with her, in character and out. She was nice enough, sweet, the opposite of her.

Sasami turned to face the other girl and smiled. Her in character persona wasn't something she enjoyed, but seeing her like this made her close.

"Well, seeing as I made a fool out of myself all those months ago, I thought they were gonna let me stay in that "Child Liaison" thing forever. I'm surprised that I got as far as I am now."

She chuckled. "You needed way more development than that. The Kain thing was kinda cool: you get to look strong and vulnerable at the same time. And you know how I feel about playing Hit Girl."

She couldn't have asked for a better part: a girl so young yet had seen enough it aged her pretty badly.

"I know... I wish, though, it hadn't taken so long to get that way." Sasami admitted. She did let out a sigh.

"I guess I was just too stubborn for my own good."

Mindy chuckled. "Hey, I admire you, you know? With me, I got my dream character. However crazy she gets, its within her character. Yours, she was there longer, and got to have all this character development. That, and she has this whole family thing going for her. You can't help but like Sasami now: hell, I like her now, and my character admits it too, though begrudgingly.

"Good characters usually ARE stubborn for awhile."

"Thanks, Mindy..." Sasami said, smiling at her friend. She couldn't help but reach over and hug her briefly. Her character might not of liked it, but she'd still do it anyways!

Mindy would have been the first to tell her that her character still had no idea how to react to things like that: she was too worried about losing someone she loved if she opened herself too quickly.

"Anyway I can help, just let me know," she said, winking. "Hell, I might even do a horror flick sometime in the future, just to shake things up."

"Hey, Sasami. Haven't seen you in a while." Zouichi peered over at her, curious about the new costume. "Why're you looking so down? I thought you finally bribed ~~GLaDOS~~ Gladys into giving up her famous cake recipe."

"Oh! Zouichi! Hi!" Sasami said, turning to head and smiling. "Oh, no, I did! Just a little tired. I didn't expect them shunting me into a little more adventurous role was going to be this tiring."

Zouichi laughed a little, lightly. "Well, tired or not, I think you've been doing a great job. Haven't your fan mail numbers been going up lately?"

He motioned toward the direction of the trailers. "Anyway, tomorrow's a day off, right? Rest up a little, you've been working hard."

Sasami couldn't help but blush - they really had ever since that major shift. She felt, well... proud. Happy, even.

"Yes, it has. And I'm glad for that...!" she said, smiling. "And don't worry, I will...! Though, I can't help but help out here just a little..."

He nodded. "Just don't overdo it, okay? I'm sure your fans wouldn't want you to get sick or anything."

Then he handed her a package -- a white box, undecorated except for a closed envelope taped on one side. "Anyway, someone left this at the desk for you. I thought I'd bring it by."

Sasami blinked in surprise as she took the box. "For... for me?" she uttered. She looked back and forth - letter or box, letter or box - before deciding to open the letter first.

He smiled a little. "Yep. I don't know who dropped it off, though. A secret admirer, maybe? I'll go ahead and let you open it by yourself." After all, it was addressed to her personally.

Zouichi gave her a little wave as he moved off. "Take care!"

The Return of the Actor Meme!

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