1. Tru Potential


    Date: 5/17/2024, Categories: Celebrities & Fan Fiction, Author: byZombiemaster42

    ... she now remembered seeing him through the peephole and sliding the chain across to let him in. Her photographer from Vegas. Adam.
    
    Various gasps from down the line of women as they also recognized their 'handlers', who helped set this whole thing up. A couple of angry cries and sliding chair legs as someone stood up.
    
    "Please stay seated" a disembodied voice said from somewhere on the other side of the doorway. "You're about to get the answers you want."
    
    He walked through the door into the room, and all eyes were on him. The suit was expensive - even someone who wasn't a fashionista could see that. He was clean shaven, with a $200 haircut and square cufflinks on his shirtsleeves. The tie was silk, the shoes shined to an even sheen. He commanded attention without saying another word, but he walked to the front of the stage and looked at each woman in turn, making sure each one knew he saw them, saw them well, and the look of knowledge and understanding made them sit still and pay attention.
    
    "Welcome, ladies," he started. My name is Morgan. Taylor Morgan. He pulled out a remote from his coat pocket and pressed a button, bringing two large TV screens behind him on the walls to either side of the doorway he emerged from to life, showing what Angie assumed was a company logo: A large gold key with the company logo. The key faded and words appeared: T R U Potential. The T R and U faded and were replaced withTheRealU.
    
    "My company, TRU Potential, is global, and ...
    ... although we generally work with international actors and actresses who want to expand their brand and their influence, we recently started to branch out into the Cosplay community, mostly in South America and the British Isles. This is our first foray into the U.S. Cosplay market." He paused, surveying his audience once again.
    
    "If you decide to join us, you may find our techniques...unique...in the short term, but it is the long-term benefits that you will be most interested in. As you know, cosplay can be expensive, and time consuming, and working with social media platforms can be grueling and confusing, with all the leaked content, trademark laws and everything else that goes with having your own branded business. Sign with us, and we will take all that over for you. You will be richly rewarded in the long-term. Each of you were chosen not for who you are today, but what you may be able to achieve in the future. You're all smart - very smart, and talented, and able to control yourselves in difficult situations when needed, as you've proven to yourselves very recently." He smiled a genuine million-dollar smile, showing strong white teeth.
    
    "What you have experienced today was designed by our team as a test of that resolve, and you are all sitting here because of that." He gestured to the two empty chairs. "As you see, there are two empty seats. That young woman and the gentleman were not able to realize their true potential and decided to go back to what they had been doing, ...
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