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

[therewerefifty]

[Holy shit, Cloud. Not that she's judging, she just wasn't expecting an oh, mood answer--]

She is. She doesn't even blame me. She's a little foolish like that. How was it complicated?

[therewerefifty]

It was more his willingness to defend me at the smallest provocation. My husband's killer is also in Folkmore. He knew. [Throwin' hands with a teenager on her behalf. It was endearing but Akechi please. She pauses, still going through her cupboard.]

I can't stop telling people things. That's... unfortunate.

[She doesn't acknowledge the cat-- let it explore where it may-- though a rueful look is most definitely evident when she straightens again, putting another bowl on the counter. Let's see, one for food, one for water...?] You're not one for ignoring things, are you?

[dohaeris]

Those are good concerns; most people have stupid ones.

I don't think she's hiding anything to look more powerful. I think she would rather look as if she didn't care about being powerful. It's likely she doesn't understand the danger, or that she believes if this place is destroyed she could only make another one. She might expect us to work it out for ourselves––for training, to make us better, or because she would rather see if we could do it than defend this place. She might not know what it is to find herself in danger, or she may believe she's defeated worse before.

She doesn't think like us. I've been trying to work out how she does think, but there isn't very much information about her that might help me.

[apuckalypse]

don't say that. everyone's different

[heyunderoos]

Am I supposed to just come in thinking everything sucks? I was promised this was a safer place than I was before. Maybe I wanted to believe in that?

Given we're trapped in her realm, and we either can't go home without forgetting all of this, or losing the people here, its hard not to care.

[semilethal]

DAMN IT APRIL

[heyunderoos]

I feel like the punching thing is growing more and more likely by the minute tbh. Some dumb part of me still wants to believe, but it feels like harder to give Thirteen the benefit of the doubt anymore.

I threw myself out of the train window, so, I think you can guess the annoying levels. I also know he's going to probably get me back like ten times worse later.

[moseyin]

Yeah

Do me a favor and don't ask me for details or I'm gonna have to smash my Relic

[moseyin]

Sub Woofer

[moseyin]

I'm not calling you specimen for gods' sake. [Bro like. Why the fuck would he even-

Okay. Fine. Yes. Sephiroth- the kid has issues connecting with people. Right. Vincent's implied as much and Cloud's very, very shaky memory supports it. Cloud takes a deep breath and rubs a hand down his face, thinking. He honestly cannot imagine another name for the kid in front of him, at least not right now, so,] I'm gonna stick with just 'kid,' then. I'm...if I'm calling you by your full name all the time, it's gonna be harder to not...look at you the same as- as him. Make sense?

[moseyin]

[mother FUCK. he can't even blame her, he'd demand details after a confession like that too]

The kid is younger version of the guy who I hate the most and took almost everything from me
Almost destroyed our entire Planet

Some weird Trial shit made him look like his older self and I lost it
We were fighting and I figured it out but it still
I wasnt just

Something happened and I just did it

[miniroth]

[It's the only other thing he's ever been reliably called! And he didn't like it much for all the things connected to it, so at least Cloud's not so cruel to use it after pointedly being asked not to ... though perhaps Cloud's own experience with being nothing more than a specimen would make that unlikely too.

And after a long, long moment, he nods.]

It's sensible.

['Kid' is pretty neutral, and if he wanted to not be blamed for things he hadn't even gotten to do yet, then it was a small price to pay. Neutral was better than he could hope for given the circumstances.]

Even though I'm not a kid. I'm fifteen.

[That's thoroughly unnecessary and has the grudging tone of something he really didn't intend to say at all.]

[decohere]

"That doesn't worry you any, that you can transport a living being into another dimension using a payment system that's derived from complying with behavioral expectations?" Ava asks, because she finds the whole thing disturbing on levels she can't fully articulate.

"I'm not interested in plotting revenge," Ava sighs out tiredly. "Not against you. I spent what I expected to be my last few months of life holding onto a grudge inherited from my father, and pursuing revenge was not as satisfying as I hoped. My family was still just as dead." Ugh.

"Why'd you want to come back?"

[decohere]

potential can go off into several directions. we're not all on one straight path. not sure which one they're trying to push us toward. or why.

i was just barely saved from the brink of death. but i was a criminal, a fugitive from the law. not sure how much of a free life i had ahead of me. but here... most i've heard anyone talk about is a few years. people vanishing. how much of a future are we actually allowed? we're still on borrowed time at the whims of another.

[apuckalypse]

i won't

thank you for your help i really appreciate it

[white_widow]

That's a complicated question. "If you mean does the actual transportation worry me, no, because I do not feel harmed by it and it was not on the list of things Natasha told me to be concerned about. The currency system here I do think is stupid, but I don't have any more issue with it than I do capitalism. Humans do need to speak to each other, if someone wants to pay me for that, fine. The income is the same whether I am nice or insulting. Being forced into those Trial things is more worrying. And I also originally paid the adoption fees with money I had earned for killing a man, so. Comparatively..." Yelena shrugs. "I would do worse, to have her with me. I am not as worried about being selfish as you are, I'm okay with it."

At least, in this instance. There was a line, somewhere, that she wouldn't want to cross. She just doesn't quite know where it is yet. "But! If you mean do I trust the individual running this universe, no, absolutely fucking not. Extremely suspicious about them and their motivations."

"Well. It seems like you are very good at knowing what you do not want, which is a good start. Really, what made you fight to stay alive until now? Because if all you wanted was to stop being in pain, there were quicker methods available to accomplish that, and permanently, no less. Not that I am saying that would have been a better choice, it wouldn't."

"I enjoyed arguing with you. I thought you were keeping up well, it's more fun when someone bites back, and many people don't. It wasn't about hurting your feelings, I really did not think anything I said would matter at all for more than a minute, at most. And, yes, although I do not think desperate an accurate descriptor, I did enjoy your attention." Another shrug.

[idratherdie]

I meant it tho... I changed my mind, and was still telling the truth, the truth that I didn't want to bother you with my dumb question.

[ It's okay, Angel isn't offended. Honestly, they're surprised that they're still talking to them for as long as they have. Must really need the lore to put up with Angel. ]

You were obsessed with one of these? That's kinda sad, ngl. I mean, if I was you, looked like, acted like, sounded like you I would be out and about hanging out with people, instead of being on this thing.

I get accused of not talking at all. I do it so people get bored or frustrated and leave me alone. I can believe you talk fast, you seem really cheerful and chatty.

Oh, you did? A real Angel? You say that like you don't believe thats what I am.

[zacrifice]

def didn't know it, wasn't gonna risk it. i had cloud to look after

[miniroth]

Honestly. What IS a sin anyway. I know the religious version but he does not strike me as a Planetologist or Goddess-worshiper.

Actually I don't really want to know, it's probably depressing and things are depressing enough with this compulsion to truth thing going on. I can't even not write about cheating on midterm exams because I wanted to go home and finish watching a movie.

[zacrifice]

yes
no
fu

[zacrifice]

mako is liquid lifestream and lifestream is the souls of the dead apparently soooo
i wonder how many souls turn into materia
like between the three of us we have like six by now?? how many dead people we carrying around lol

that one sounds weird too. so your world has two dead-people fuels??

[zacrifice]

[Zack lifts a hand to smear it over his chin, glancing down to find the red flakes of dried blood on his palm. He'd known he had bled, could taste it in his mouth, but he didn't realize he'd done it enough for some to seep out. Shit.]

...No. 'm okay. [Aerith might be able to coax it out of him too, but truthfully (ha ha) he just hadn't wanted to blurt everything out while this whole truth thing was going on. He'd wanted to at least control the narrative somewhat.

...Saying he's fine isn't going to cut it, now. But at least he knows he can say it. Maybe this thing's wearing off.]

Sorry. [He pats his hand against the blood on Cloud's shirt.] That was fucked up.

[supersmashbro]

there's a union if i got anything to say about it. change starts with us!!

i think maybe there's nothing that feels worse than not being able to keep your family safe. especially if it's partly about a bigger picture. sorry you got that one on your plate.
idk about the help offer. that kinda sounds like a brain thing and i got too much brain invasion history for all that. not that i don't appreciate it.

oh are you like a mutant teacher? that's cool!
(my bros are mostly immune to my threats. i think its overexposure.)

[steepwithdead]

[Ahaha... yes. The truth telling issue. He's trying very hard not to take advantage of that. Her husband's killer in Folkmore... oh, that is tempting, though.

He's quiet for a long moment, politely holding his tongue, but her question merits an answer just as truthful from him.]

No, I'm not. My family is one of gift-givers and problem-solvers. Sometimes giving a gift solves a problem. You're lonely and I found a cat with no one to care for it. I don't believe in coincidences for every situation.

[supersmashbro]

╰（‵□′）╯ YEAH

oh are you doin therapy now? good for you bud, tell me if you need someone to beat up your therapist for you.
i don't really like pushing touchy stuff is all. tough love is a fine line to walk and you gotta learn the lines different for everybody. i'm working on yours.
helping vs bullying is the classic brother's lament

ah you didn't shove my face in it its fine. brain you is part of you. Mind Casey.
all your brain parts deserve to get their say. sometimes mad feels like the easy way to get it said yknow? sometimes that's all a guy's got.
idk what my point is.
so let's just both try to cancel out each other feeling bad until one day it's reality that we stop feeling bad for it. like champs.

right like i'm already a bad liar on a regular day what do we need all this extra magic jazz for???