Truth Meme

[folkie]

Truth Meme

Somehow, there is kirin on you.

Most likely, it is the fur of the kirin that was caught in the environment of wherever you’ve been; there is a stray hair on you because one was on the seat you sat on upon the train or because it blew onto the brim of your hat in the wind.

Or it may be because you met the kirin—a playful ungulate moose-sized spirit who prefers not to speak—and engaged with him and gave him a pat, or a scratch behind an ear. Maybe the kirin nosed or licked your hand because you made him laugh (it’s an adorable ‘keh keh keh’ sound).

Unfortunately for both you and the kirin (who had not meant to trouble your day like this, truly), this exposure to his dander has only one reaction, and it happens to 100% of Star Children: you are compelled to tell the entire truth. About what is less specific; you are compelled simply to announce things about yourself—your life, experiences, thoughts, opinions, feelings. No matter if it’s something silly and inconsequential, deep or secretive, life-altering or commonplace. Some may choose to do this by employing Foxi and their relic; others by finding people to exchange truth with to face to face.

When you have met the kirin’s subconscious desire for four hours, you will be free from the truth telling and the recipient of 24 hours of good luck. The good luck will be sometime in the next year rather than in the next day, and you may have no idea where it came from, but you’ll know a lucky day when you have it!

• This meme is game canon unless marked otherwise at the start of threads! Threads can be used for spoons and application samples.
• Assume all characters involved on this meme are affected.
• Characters will compulsively state truths about themselves/their feelings on the network or in-person. Top-levels may include either/both options.
• Please include prompts in your top level.
• All questions will be answered with complete and total honesty. No special abilities, half-truths, or omissions can avoid sharing all of the truth.
• Meme is open until the next truth meme!
• After one month, you may use the kirin mechanic generally in game. It can be one-sided! All truth-telling characters must consent.

Comments

1. un@nox

[a_gaggle_of_ghosties]

For what it's worth, I'd say that means you chose wisely. Likely in more ways than one.

[serendipitously]

You might. Or you might be a very different version. I've seen a lot of differences. Unfair, but often the reality of any superhero team. They always need people like us who do the dirty work, but they rarely want to acknowledge it in the daylight. I'm certain if my own main team knew of some of the things I've done I'd be facing a lot of problems.

You shouldn't have to defend it. Nobody knows what you've been through but you, if people can't respect how you choose to handle it then they're not worth your time.

Then by all means, give Exile a try at some point. Just don't complain to me if something eats you

[decohere]

what happened to me was a statistical anomaly and nearly impossible to have occurred twice. so either she's dead, or the accident never occurred at all. effectively neither outcome is me in any meaningful way.
i don't play well with others, so it was the right call. doesn't make me less bitter.

it's frustrating when people seem to think all your problems can be solved with their not so insightful advice. i don't care what they would do in my situation. because they are not in my situation and they have not struggled through it the way i have. it's honestly offensive and demeaning to suggest my life would be better if i behaved more in a way they approved of.

can't eat what's not actually there.

[decohere]

"I... want to... want to say yes," and that's a complicated sort of feeling. "But the answer is no. Because I don't think I can derive any actual comfort from it. Already saying these things makes me feel overwhelmed enough that it's going to take awhile to recover from before I'm going to want to see you again," which implies that yes. She does want to see Yelena again, and that surprises her. "But I do, actually, appreciate the offer. For what that's worth."

She looks quietly amused at the retelling of the encounter with her sister, because even without knowing much about their relationship at all, it somehow seems fitting. "Our lives are so tangled up in violence that we can't even-" a sigh out.

"I know. But it's that... lack of ability to reconcile now. The feeling that he is better off without me. How lost I feel lost without his guidance, without him here to tell me that things are okay. He's the only thing that kept me feeling secure and functional."

[powerandresponsibility]

It did actually, it helped a lot

Seeing another me-but-not me suffer with that guilt helped me not blame myself so much? I don’t think I’ll ever not carry that around but the burden is lighter now

Especially seeing old man Peter have a happy life

[powerandresponsibility]

Maybe? I only know him through the other Peter.

No. I feel like you use “crassness” as a seasoning but you’d be funny without it. I got the sense you did it less to be titillating and more to make a point that you should be able to say those things without it being a shock that it’s coming from a woman more than it would be shocking if a man said them.

[thefinalpower]

Maybe so, but it was well-timed, and I shall take credit for it!

[ if it weren't for the truth meme she would not admit to that! ]

[thefinalpower]

[ oh buddy ]

well

not HATE

in some ways I have more freedom here than I did at home

and I suppose I would miss some people

[decohere]

no, the unfortunate truth is you can do everything the right way. do everything you're told. follow all the rules. and still end up so absolutely fucked over.

[lunchboxs]

Because I wanted a fantasy. I didn't realize how good it all was until it was gone. That wasn't fair to him.

lmfao we always do it the hard way with html

[lunchboxs]

Well then, silly billy, it might be best that you get on that. Sometimes, the solution to our problems is simpler than we'd ever care to guess!

[serendipitously]

I have a friend who would tell you to look at the bright side there, it means you're unique. I rarely listen to him myself so take that as you will.

That's why I prefer to stick with either saying as little as possible or offering only the most basic half truths about what I've gone through. I don't want to hear how most may sympathize, or see the looks on their face that express how differently they might have done things. I agree, it's offensive that they think they might actually know how they would react in the moment. Easier to just avoid dealing with the possibility.

...you win that round.

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[lunchboxs]

Do you think you're a monster, Dex? You know the real you.

[doesntsing]

He was here for a while.

…You do get it. Not everyone does.

[white_widow]

A complicated feeling, but also one that makes sense. "I figured that would be the answer. I understand." In circumstances like this, yes and no were both equally good answers to receive, in her opinion. Difficulty came in when it was maybes.

Quiet amusement was good, but what was there to say to that, really? It was true, and, comfortable as the violence could be, it sucked. None of that was going to be news, or needed to be said again. A small sound of (judgmental) agreement would have to do.

"From what else you have said, I think he would be very bothered to hear you say he is better off. I am guessing, but I think he would argue." For the rest... "Missing people really fucking sucks. I'm sorry."

[zacrifice]

well maybe its both!! you can't say it doesn't happen because it did

[zacrifice]

ok good i wanted that anyway

[and then he talks to sharon, SO GOOD LUCK WITH THAT WHEN YOU GET HOME IG]

vague as always

[dreamfyres]

Do you think he meant it?

[alovelyvoice]

Do I think who meant what, sweetling?

[dreamfyres]

[ it’s not that she means to launch into strings of thought without clarification; her brain sometimes goes faster than her mouth, and she assumes others already understand until she realizes they do not. ]

Father, when he told you Aegon should be king.

[ricochetingbullets]

You too huh? I've been proven right every time anyone sees the real me. It always ends badly. So I've spent most of my life pretending to be normal just so I won't become a pariah.

Not that it mattered in the end. I still lost everything.

[ricochetingbullets]

Rose, I once killed a priest in cold blood. Didn't even give him a second thought as he lay dying there on the altar impaled after he took the blow I'd meant for someone else. And I was planning to do the same thing to a nun afterwards when I overheard two guys I worked with saying "What kind of a monster would kill a priest?" They didn't know I had done it. It stopped me dead in my tracks. Because I knew they were RIGHT.

[ihadstrings]

It might make me feel like maybe my life had more of a purpose than being just a flawed creation. I was made with one purpose in mind and I failed. But if I was MEANT to fail all along....that would be different.

texting Zack instead

[miniroth]

apparently nobody can lie right now so I have a very important question i've been thinking about for months now and i'm pretty sure you're the only one that will actually answer me.

I asked Mr Valentine and he just stared at me

so do you think, since hotdogs are blended meat in a casing, usually intestine, that when we eat the hotdog, we become a hotdog as being chewed doesn't actually change the pureed status of a hotdog's origin

[serendipitously]

Then why not just accept it? It sounds as though it could be a productive step forward.