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

A

[nativized]

Why's that? They all your enemies or something?

2

[nativized]

Wait you touching people alone kills people? That's kind of terrifying

3

[nativized]

I mean the Fox could, eventually. If the thing cared to do that, which I'm sure would happen eventually.

After all, all the subjects of the domain being brainwashed - assuming I'm thinking correctly - would end up boring it would only be testing you.

[idratherdie]

Yea. Not right away and it's painless.

Any skin-on-skin contact with me siphons time off of your life. I have no control over it, I just get to feel how much time I took... Could be seconds or years. And yes, it is terrifying. I hate it.

[nativized]

Especially that you have no control over it. Is that some sort of curse? A quirk of your people? Something else?

If it's something you avoid that's ethical at least

Wow

[dohaeris]

I'm sorry for your loss. I always wanted to go back and stop us ever leaving Winterfell. I'm glad you had the chance. When the traitors took our home they broke things, and killed and tortured most anyone who hadn't gone south with my lord father to be killed alongside him. It's as if my home is gone, too. I don't think I'm anything like the girl my brothers and sister remember. I think the ones I've spoken with like me better this way, and I expect Jon will too. It makes me uncomfortable; I suppose I'm sorry I wasn't much use to them when I was little.

It sounds as if you always tried to help, and that's very brave and honorable. I tried to help whenever I could, but Littlefinger only used it against me. He was ahead of me the entire time, and I never thought to be wary of him until I was alone with him in the Vale. Then I thought if I was good enough at being his daughter he would keep me safe, and he had a plan to get me my home again. I thought my little brothers and sister were dead too, so I didn't have very much to fight for, anyway.

If you had died along with anyone, then wouldn't be anyone left to remember them. It's better to remember them. I promised to raise statues of our dead in the crypts of Winterfell once I had it again. It will have to be the other girl that takes Winterfell back, but I have statues of them in my dreamscape. I can't make them talk, though. Every time I try to make a person in my dreamscape it's just my omen talking through them. It is funny when he pretends to be them, though. His Arya is very good.

Would you like to light candles with me for the people you've lost? We do it in the Faith of the Seven, and in Ezra's jewish faith as well. It's a comfort to me; perhaps it will be a comfort to you as well.

[idratherdie]

Its just what I do. I dunno how to explain it. I'm a Devil, it's why people might want to make a contract with me, to use my power. It's my Angelic ability I guess.

Yea, I avoid it. Sucks. I have to always keep an eye on people around me, in case they accidentally touch me... It's been so long since someone willingly touched me... I've forgotten what the sensation of someone's hand feels like.

[white_widow]

You have experience with this?

[serendipitously]

that's surprisingly less than comforting.

But no, you're not correct. I've felt myself slip once here, I wouldn't brainwash everyone. If I lost control it would be more like a psychic wave. Something that painfully scrambles the brain at best.

[idratherdie]

Ah, loss is it? Yea, that always blows.

Hmm... He has, yes. Lost a lot of people from what he told me.

[nativized]

Devil?

What's devil mean in the context you know I know of at least three major contexts of that and none of them are good from the ones I know. And two of them would contradict "Angelic" really?

But yeah that does suck for everyone involved. You and others.

Can it be cheated? Some sort of thin glove or a little barrier or something?

[a_darker_path]

That does tend to happen when you do the jobs we did. You never know who is or isn't going to come back

[velocityraptor]

You know, I'm not sure? My diet's decided for me so it's not like I could do that.

[nativized]

No.

Not really?

I could have but I happened to have my personhood reinforced by the people around me. I was lucky.

I never feel lucky because of the situation I was put in back then, but as compared to what could be and what came of other soldiers I was.

Wow I did not want to type all that. Wild compulsion here!

[nativized]

That one's even easier to fix, isn't it? Death, supposedly, isn't real here.

So we'd all die painfully and then come back. Supposedly.

I dont like that

[nativized]

I don't think anyone's deciding it here?

Unless someone is! Shouldn't assume things of people!

[velocityraptor]

I'm not convinced this place is entirely separate to where I'm from.

Besides, if I go back having gained weight, my handler's gonna have a fit.

[serendipitously]

You think I would? I've been responsible for more than enough death.

Though I'm a bit offended your first thought would be I might brainwash people.

[white_widow]

You have to adjust the meaning of lucky, in situations like that. For the context, that's very lucky.

Wild and shitty compulsion. I did not want to say that first bit at all, either.

[serendipitously]

You might be surprised, some modern people prefer things that are more old school.

I do, very much. The last time I sang was a long time ago. My partner arranged to have me sing with an accomplished pianist on a date.

[idratherdie]

Yup. Devil 😈

There's butt loads of us where I'm from. We're all born in Hell the moment a human is scared of something. Like, in the dawn of time, when the first humans were afraid of the dark, enough of them feared it that the Darkness Devil was born. That's how it works. Enough people are scared of cars, a Car Devil is born. The bigger the fear, the bigger and stronger the Devil.

I'm the Angel Devil. That's why I say "Angelic" Powers, I'm a Devil first but I'm also an Angel. I never asked to be born or to have this horrible power but enough people were obviously scared of Angels... I blame those biblically correct ones, all those eyes? Even I'd be scared of that. Gross.

Yea, fabric works I guess. A pair of gloves or something, so long as it stops your skin directly touching mine. Not that anyone is willing to try it even then. Can't blame them.

[idratherdie]

What job do you do then?

[ Angel has noticed they've been compelled to answer truthfully, thats why they keep asking questions, so Geto doesn't ask them any. ]

[a_darker_path]

I was a jujutsu sorcerer. Basically, we dealt with curses that preyed on humans as well as curse users.

[revengeisalie]

Oh. Did you use yours when you were very young?

[idratherdie]

Huh, never heard of you guys before. Some kind of secret branch of the Government or?

My partner is cursed. Did it to himself. Made a contract with the Curse Devil. It worries me.

[ Just casually saying stuff they usually wolding as they dig into the food. Wings twitching behind them now and then and halo dulling ever so slightly. ]