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

(cw: mentions of violence, murder and torture)

[aquilasshadow]

I know. I'm not blaming you, just wish I could've kept my mouth shut.

It's like I'm looking at a mirror when I don't want to see my bloodstained reflection. An older mirror by the sounds of it since I've only been struggling with this side of myself for a year. Or maybe it was always there. There's always been a part of me that wanted to make the ones who hurt me and the ones I care about suffer but I never acted on it. After being tortured myself I didn't think I could ever do that, to make anyone suffer like that. Turns out I just need to be forced into a situation where I had no other choice. Although I still tried to keep my kills quick rather than watch them suffer like Eclipse liked to.

Storms I don't want to think about any of this! But I get it, far too well. I'd like to tell you that it doesn't make you a monster, but I haven't been able to believe that myself yet. Although I am trying because others believe in me and I think that's part of it. It's easier to slip back into the darkness and give up if you don't have a reason not to.

[serendipitously]

Bit of both really mixed with a pinch of being bloody unlucky

To be honest, I'm working on figure that out myself.

The usual start is with an apology to those you may have wronged. The real essence comes down to proving you understand your mistakes and working to prove you won't repeat them.

[licensetocrane]

arrogant but true
actually im curious have you taken any of the relics apart do they break
does thirteen send you a new one

[ricochetingbullets]

Dex looked off to the side and then down as he spoke. He really didn't want to talk about this part of himself but the compulsion to tell the whole truth instead of anything vague made him answer in full no matter how badly he didn't want to. "I'm not normal because I'm a psychopath," he said quietly. "And I don't mean that the way some people call anyone just a little cold and narcissistic in their life a psychopath. I was diagnosed as one by an actual psychologist who spent years figuring out what was going on with me. She came up with Borderline Personality Disorder and Anti Social Personality Disorder. That's as close to the clinical definition of a psychopath as you can get."

Anyone else he would have felt even worse about revealing this information to but Ava seemed to understand what it was like not to be normal, so at least he felt like she wasn't going to run for the hills or judge him too harshly the way he felt almost everyone else did. If nothing else, he could always just kill her if she tried to use what he'd told her against him.

He wasn't surprised to hear Ava saying she had poor eating habits. At least getting them lunch would give him something to do for the next ten minutes. "C'mon then." He took her over to his trailer. Inside, there were two notable things which gave clues to Dex's personality: everything was in a color scheme of black, white, and grey. There was no color to be found anywhere or indeed any personal touches whatsoever. The other was how clean everything from top to bottom was. It barely looked like anyone lived there with how pristine every surface was and how everything was in its place, with nothing carelessly tossed off to the side.

He went into the kitchen area and looked to see what he had in the fridge before turning his head back to look at Ava. "Do you want anything in particular?"

[ihadstrings]

You must have the luck of Job to end up like that.

Guess that'll take a while. I owe an apology to like....the whole world. As for my mistakes, eh, I'm still kind of figuring all of those out.

[serendipitously]

It's felt that way at times.

What part are you trying to figure out? Whether or not you consider them mistakes?

[rememoror]

You have considerable faith in Alan to not be worried about such a thing. He must be an impressive warrior.

[miniroth]

Unfortunate. Sufficient planning for such a venture would be difficult without years to work on it, and in the meantime the Planet suffers.

If the whole race had gone bad, then I suspect the one making the claim is biased and unwilling to put in long term work, for the time it would take to inspect EVERY adult would make the obvious clear: infants and small children are blank slates which can be taught anything is true. And if the one making the claim had the ability to speak to and examine every adult of a sapient species on the planet, they'd have time to raise human offspring the correct way.

Nature does not deal in absolutes in behavior. There are always exceptions. Always. If they were not found it is not the fault of the species but the searcher.

You didn't want to wait that long? Or perhaps didn't possess the resources to raise a generation with their better natures in mind?

[white_widow]

"You assume correct. It is not a quick process, I'm sorry to tell you. Although maybe it will be easier in a place with less apocalypse events and work to do. I have not arranged things to have a lot of spare time before this, and I don't think I have made very much process on the who I really am question."

There has to be a way to sound not so hopeless about this, and still be honest. Yelena exhales, heavy. "But. What you want can be a little bit easier and like I said, figuring out what you don't want is a good start. Anything you do not want is an option off the list. Most of the rest you have to try, to know if you like it or not. I - well, we - fit as much of that as we could around freeing other widows, in those couple years between coming back to myself and the blip, but there is so much to try. What to wear, that is a fun one. You want softness but not touching people, you should start with that one. There are so many soft fabrics. None of it... oh, it is so strange to be giving a version of this talk to someone who is not a widow. None of it fully gets rid of the broken feeling. There have been short stretches I almost forgot for a little bit, though."

There's something simultaneously funny, sad, and almost sweet, about Ava asking for confirmation on that. "Not even a little. There is a new super person every five seconds, it has gotten so boring. Sorry. To me, that does not earn you any special points at all." Shrug.

[white_widow]

Seems like the Fox really likes collecting people this kind of shit is true for. You think it is just more fun to torture us like this or something?

[steepwithdead]

Ahh. Because of the one you nearly killed?

[Yeah, he didn't miss that, it was purposeful.]

[apuckalypse]

Oh, sure. Just water's fine.

[He's not fussy, he loves water. It's so clean here.]

Been a while since I've checked out one of these houses. I lived in one near here for a little bit- I think maybe two or three trees over? Do you like it here?

[supersmashbro]

we got some buffer time. yknow got everyone home, broke out the medkits, thumbs up that everyone's gonna live.

is that a question we shouldve been asking here??? i just figured everyone was from around then so i didn't think about it.

[supersmashbro]

well i think they're legitimate
my love for my brothers don't blind me to their crimes

[forhyrule]

Ah, I see how that would be awkward. I have not spoken of my own death with others; perhaps I should avoid that to spare anyone the discomfort.

[ Except that she just said it. Whoops. ]

This place brings both the deceased and their killers at the same time? That seems unnecessarily cruel.

[forhyrule]

One would assume you have good reasons to hide it, else why would you be so hesitant to share the truth?

Are those persecutions ones suffered in your homeland or here in this realm?

[forhyrule]

[ Trying to destroy a planet does make it difficult to see Ultron as anything but a villain. ]

Destroying a planet and all life upon it would have resulted in extinction, not evolution. That seems counterproductive to your goal.

[ She's putting aside the emotional reaction of "wow that's super evil" in an attempt to be pragmatic. Isn't that thoughtful? ]

[miniroth]

It had to have been worth SOMETHING if it could withstand SOLDIER strength at least. I suppose it'll depend on how much in the future is fixed and how much I can put aside as irrelevant. I think I could be an appropriately annoying powerhouse with most any weapon.

Something I can use indoors.

[thefinalpower]

BAH

next you'll be telling me to consume foul vegetables!

[zechs_isonfire]

I can’t help but tell you whatever truthful thing crosses my mind - so I’m also going to tell you things I want. But I’m often frustrated by my own ignorance of what that even is. The things we’ve discovered seem to be from trial and error.

[ Zechs felt a little relieved, frankly, that that’s clearly true and not an excuse. ]

I like being broken down to a point I have to give in. When things no longer feel like an option. It’s an illusion, but that illusion is - as if it is an excuse to give in, an allowance. I have figured this much out on my own.

Regardless of what we do, so long as we remain on topics which don’t distress us too greatly … [ He’s going to try and sneak in another kiss - ] … we can wait until this wears off. It seems illogical it’d be indefinite, nothing here is.

[betteroffred]

Less trial and error than you think- your excitement when I drew blood in our first bout was obvious. It was obvious you enjoyed challenges, not just the idea, but something that truly tested you.

The rest... I think I've come to understand the general shape of what you enjoy.

[Quattro catches the little kiss and returns with one of his own.]

This forced truth is a cruel mockery of what it is to truly understand one another. Both because it's difficult to know one's self and difficult to express all the complexity and nuances completely.

I wish I could have that again. I wish you could have that, even if it isn't with me.

[apuckalypse]

i thought so too but apparently "around then" is more broad
for me, we got to the lair and then i woke up here
april's from a month or two after invasion day so now im not sure about leo or donnie anymore

[ricochetingbullets]

[Dex would have fallen back on his usual platitude of 'That sounds hard. Really hard' when he heard about things that he knew required a sense of empathy he just didn't feel but he couldn't put that down because at its core, it was a lie. Instead, what he found himself saying was:]

You're doing better than me. It sounds like you still have something of a conscience and can actually still care about people. I don't have any of that. No conscience, no empathy, nothing that most people can feel on the inside. Everything I do that makes it seem like have that inside me is just based off of a lot of careful tutelage when I was young so I could at least mimic and just barely fake it.

I had a reason not to for a long time. But she died.

[Then he paused and sent another message right after that.]

She was murdered. And I lost control after I learned that. I thought maybe I couldn't find my way back but here in Folkmore, I think maybe I've found someone again to help keep me on the right path.

[zechs_isonfire]

That is entirely true and was just as obvious to me - after you had drawn blood. I hadn’t meant it to happen, and didn’t know before hand it would excite me so.

[ His eyes went wide as he spoke next, realizing something as the shape of it was voiced; ]

I wish I could give that connection to you, even if it unsettles me in many ways. You’re not meant to be shut off as you are, I would imagine. And at least you already, at least partly, understand me.

[decohere]

"Less?" Ava responds doubtfully. "I've been told this place can be quite a nightmare, by those that have been around longer." Which makes it feel difficult to trust that any reprieve isn't just to lull them into a false sense of security before the next... Trial, whatever those may entail. She's still not sure what to expect, based on the mixed sorts of responses she's heard.

"The one thing I don't want, most of all, is feeling obligated or expected or pushed to do anything. I do want to feel as if it's my own choice. And it's difficult to feel that way when there's incentives attached to it. I think that's why I... stole those spoons that I did. Because I wanted to earn them my own way, rather than through the system designed to condition me into behaviors deemed desirable. That and these interactions genuinely exhaust me." But not enough to ask Yelena to go, not yet. Because as much as she hates this, it is good to honestly confront these things about herself.

"Yeah. I suppose I am boring. But you've barely even seen the things that I can do yet."