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

[survivingsister]

I do not think the Republic gets to finance an army of lab created living soldiers who are little more than state property and then claim moral superiority over the other side who enslaved entire populations. Which was why we we neutral. Others had their own reasons as well.

That does make it complicated. But you are able to see his side of it, and he isn't willing to see yours?

That was all I wanted. Still is, really. Some of my kin are here and it's been more wonderful than anything I've experienced in decades.

[white_widow]

"Oh, no, that's an easy one. I will have my dog here soon enough, and then problem solved. She's very calm and quiet and friendly, don't worry."

Hm. She's not sure if that's much clearer, but... "Bad news, it is a bit flattering even if it wasn't intended to be. In any case. Use that, if you want, plot revenge on me. Just don't make it a boring plot, please."

"Seemed like you'd earned it, for having to endure me in the mood I was in those first two times. Although I'd find it hard to believe you didn't enjoy insulting me back at least a little." Yelena shrugged, and added: "Also I do like being confusing, and yes, it was handy to have an excuse to come back."

[apuckalypse]

[He blinks at her for a moment, then grins. Message received, loud and... well, clear enough.]

Right, of course. No geas here. [He believes her untruth. At least, the intent behind it.] Hmm, okay... so there are rules... and I just need to learn them.

[Give him a moment to ponder.]

It's, uh. It's too bad I don't know about all the different types of fae. It'd be great if I could ask an expert about specific kinds.

[Is it just questions?? Or her own truths? She was able to tell a story.]

[apuckalypse]

if i did that, i wouldn't be better, so of course not

[nativized]

I've *bathed* since then. I've washed off in baths, bath houses, rivers, under waterfalls, the works. It's just most of the places in the world I ended up in don't have pressurized running water the way my childhood home or here does.

Not really.

I made some of them worse and some of them I kind of ran away from. The later are about as good as they could be. And then ran off to try to make other connections.

[ . . . Man, complete control. He frowns to himself and ends up typing, before he realizes it, ]

That's something I ought to internalize more. Suffering is suffering; I actually like the idea of that. But what you experienced there sounds awful. For me, I was conscripted in such a way I couldn't return to where I was kidnapped from; so my "space" was controlled more than my body.

[nativized]

Its already ran off, I think, from when I saw it.

The presence of the creature made the think it's a trial thing.

Terrifying in its size and quick movements though

1/2

[nativized]

I am stupidly jealous you managed to type "nevermind;" I haven't been able to censor my fingers at all

2/2

[nativized]

[ ... Ugh, that came out so much ruder than he'd like. Lex opts to answer for the rest of this: ]

I get that; the distance. For me, having this machine is something I'm only just starting to get used to again; have it feel normal. I was obsessed with it when I first arrived here, because its most similar to something I remember when I was a kid. So I was taken with it and stalking it all the time.

But even so, face to face is better. In person, hearing and feeling people. You're right I'd always set it down.

I get accused to talking fast a lot.

I don't know. I've seen amazing powers here and in the realms I came from. I've seen people or things which are basically immortal to the standards of a human. They could afford to lose some years as compared to the rest of us. It wouldn't surprise me if there was someone timeless here.

Actually wait I did see one guy back during that dating thing they were a real angle supposedly. And some people with really big age numbers?

[serendipitously]

Funny the things people can justify in their own minds to pain themselves as morally superior. I find it almost impressive sometimes.

Or just unable to. He wants me to join him on his side of things, thinks it would be for my own good. He hasn't approved of a lot of my decisions lately.

I'm happy to hear you're getting that chance. One thing this place seems to be good for is giving a number of people a second chance with their kin. One they wouldn't have gotten back home.

[nativized]

Hey, hey, I'm walking in on this rudely as well. The very fact I can ask people things and it prompts them to respond is a lot of why I'm here despite the fact I'll be spewing things back. Well, that and I literally couldn't stop my fingers once I started.

But yeah you're right that curiosity's going to push me to ask more. Feel free to throw the Relic into a wall or something if you dislike it too much. Or I can see if I can't blindfold myself. Well, no, that's a bit of a lie I'd definitely end up peeking.

I forget these things have internet to research things. I didn't have that for years and I swear I always just figure these are communication devices.

Other people have told me that Taylor Swift thing though; for appearances. Didn't really know the songs are connective though. You're right that's interesting and I oughta look more into that. See if the internet here works for me. Part of why I've been afraid to look is a really silly reason.

You've told me very little we've just had a few chats here and there before I think based on the username. I'd gotten the impression you were connected to that Trench place but the hostage thing is new.

And the omen thing is *really* interesting. A soul animal which can manifest outside? Ruth would have a field day looking into that. I meant to type Magister Kios. Not Ruth.

[nativized]

Honestly, I'm a little envious of that sort of pure feeling. Assuming I even made to or survived a battlefield like that, I wonder if there's anyone I would hesitate too long on. Maybe Amira. Definitely Linda. But I also can't imagine myself ever being able to kill either of them physically so I think it's easy to accept that as a moot point.

Oh fuck that one came out *real* bad.

Anyway.

I feel like that makes sense to avoid the new-old guy. Probably only makes sense to meet with him if it helps you.

-- Why was the guy in need of repressing this protocol thing anyway?

[nativized]

Probably not.

I mean I'd like to think I would but I also don't like thinking about it, because that implies I *could* have done something else. But I don't think I would have, because I don't think I've learned all that much. At least emotionally.

It's a term that was used back on Earth - honestly I don't know how it's calculated or anything but it means something like "if only one person got mad then the statistics are looking good for you"

[serendipitously]

It doesn't sound as bad as you think. There's few others I would have ever hesitated like that for. Here there's only been one instance where I hesitated against someone that could have hurt me and I'm not certain how much of that was about the situation or just being reminded of Warren.

Regardless, I wouldn't envy love like that. Eventually you lose it and the pain isn't something you want to live with.

It wouldn't help either of us. This version of him deserves a life free of the type of things I have to do.

That's a complicated story. In essence, something was done to him a long time ago that created a sort of second persona inside of him. It gave him powers far beyond what he had naturally but it also pushed him towards much darker urges. Gave him an intense bloodlust when he tapped into that side of himself. If that side wasn't repressed, it risked taking over. Which is what ended up happening.

[moseyin]

[This guy here does not, in fact, like to be in a room that's hot as balls. In fact he kind of prefers his temperatures on the cooler and milder side, so the face he makes when he walks into Sephiroth's three-room standing kiln is full of genuine distaste. What is this for? Was Zack here? Did Zack infect this kid with his Things Gotta Be Hot disease?

After a moment of deliberation (whether to bolt instead of stay), Cloud finally shuts the door and resigns himself to being too warm for his liking. He'll just like. Lay down in a snow drift somewhere later or whatever.

The lack of decor doesn't register, his own room at the cottage largely devoid of his own knickknacks despite his two years in Folkmore. It's normal, isn't it? It is kind of weird that he's decided to just put a cot in the open area rather than the bedroom where like. The bed is supposed to go. Having a weirdly arranged house is the least of the crimes a teenager living alone could commit though, and honestly Cloud is trying to stop judging this kid for a whole lot of other things so he's not about to start nitpicking over things that don't actually matter.

He'll take one of those chairs out, though. The sword's on his back and it's staying there, so he has to angle himself and the blade both to avoid getting stuck against the chair's back, but he manages.] No, [Cloud continues the conversation from outside without preamble,] they probably didn't lie. But they probably didn't tell the whole truth. You should hear it.

[rememoror]

Perhaps it's good you're here in that case. If the Fox is to be believed, our purpose is to grow as people. Based on the nature of many of these...things she does to us, I assume her focus is often on emotional growth.

Ah, I understand now, thank you. I'm afraid some of the more modern terms used on Earth go a bit past me, but I'm trying to pick more up.

[miniroth]

[Things being hot is nice, he missed summer badly and occasional visits to the desert didn't help much.

Cloud's the third person he'd ever allowed inside, and Vincent never breathed a word about physical discomfort.. ever. About anything. Surely this is how everyone kept their homes (except Caduceus).]

... If you want. But what I know hasn't been pleasant, and you don't owe me a story.

[Another retelling of how much trouble he causes in the future won't be enjoyable, especially from one of his foremost victims..]

[hollystrike]

[A story with a few minor facts changed, but stories in general can be got away with purely because they are stories. She could tell you Red Riding Hood with no real issue. But hmm. He's trying to feel it out, she sees.]

You could try if you found an expert, I suppose. I don't know of any myself.

[She considers, and then decides. When it gets down to it, he may have stopped her from being unmade, so he deserves this much.] Have you ever heard of pooka?

[therewerefifty]

Very much so. It has certainly been a learning experience. I believe the train was the hardest to adjust to.

[therewerefifty]

Well, as long as it's not attacking anyone.

[therewerefifty]

You are far better than I.

[aquilasshadow]

[Altair wasn't put off by Ultron's confession, if anything it just made him more enraged about the whole thing.]

Neither am I. I was human before I became a mage but now I'm more magic than human. This body is just an echo crafted by my memories.

[Normally he would flinch at direct contact with anyone other than those he was close to but Altair firmly took Ultron's hand. Altair's hand felt cold, like Ultron's metal hand. Instead of trying to hide it Altair wanted him to feel the eerie change as his hand became warmer, more like a living person's as he focused what it had felt like to be human once. His eyes dimmed the more human he felt.]

That's your answer. If magic can make a corpse like me look and feel alive then it can give you a soul.

[aquilasshadow]

[A part of Altair was still expecting the worst. After being hated for years one good reaction wasn't enough to erase those scars. The chuckle startled him and his eyes flickered brighter with a jolt. The unexpected sound brought out his hesitant relief.]

Heh, why doesn't that surprise me?

[Still, there was something about Maul's unpredictable nature that drew him in, enough to lower his guard a little.]

It doesn't bother you at all that I can hear your soul?

cw: mention of drugging, past eye trauma (this meme is going to be the death of Altair)

[aquilasshadow]

How? When my blind eye is a constant reminder that my own best friend drugged me and sold me off to a noble who wanted me dead? Without showing any remorse. How in demon's storm am I suppose to trust anyone after that? Even you? HOW?

I can't even eat or drink anything someone else makes without thinking it's a trap!

And how can you say I deserve happiness when you know what I've done? How can you forgive me?

[aquilasshadow]

I know the feeling.

Storms! I shouldn't be asking this right now but who are you really then?

[aquilasshadow]

Thank you for your wonderful advice. And in case you can't tell, that was sarcasm.

[If it was easy he wouldn't be hiding.]