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

[doesntsing]

You thought I still looked good?

[woenesday]

Give me a list of the most commonly used ones and their meanings. I dislike feeling as though I'm missing something in interactions. That I don't understand something another person easily does.

I understood that capitals are meant for emphasis. I've had to suffer through blog posts that use them all too frequently.

A less depressed version of yourself I would imagine.

Another situation where Thirteen forces us to dance to her whims. In the past she had a much stronger penchant for forcing people to talk to each other without any barriers. I hadn't missed it.

I put a boy I have a complicated relationship into prison once. Why were you there?

[miniroth]

[Sometimes being an agitated fog cloud is easier than being an agitated guard hound. It did mean Casimir wouldn't get hit by anything Sephiroth might just happen to throw - like the relic, which he looks awfully like he's winding up to do when Vincent makes his appearance. Expression dark, he hands it over.

No compulsion to keep it, it seems.]

Yes, that seems fine, I'm sure there's other ways I can make this miserably awkward even without it. Why does nobody ever want to know something nice? Instead it's prying into things I don't want to talk about! Why couldn't it be about spaceships? Nobody wants to talk to me about spaceships! I have designs!

[powerandresponsibility]

You're a very beautiful woman. I don't think there's many times you're not beautiful.

[decohere]

"Of course I'm miserable," and she looks even more so for having to confirm it. "I don't want to say it to you at all. I don't even know your name, and yet I remember every word you say because they're so-" a deep breath, because she has no idea what word is actually going to come out.

But she has to finish the statement. "Provoking. Like no matter what I say, you're just going to twist it and make me feel even worse for it. And I keep replaying it in my head and no matter what alternate responses I try to come up with, I always lose."

[coffinturk]

I'd offer to look at them now, but it'd probably be misplaced. Hm. Got anything new though?

[ He's seen other ones. But it wasn't a lie that he was mildly curious over anything since he last saw them. Settling back against the wall near Sephiroth's spot, he starts browsing the conversation. Hrm. Hrm. ]

I think I would have preferred you punching me at the time I told you.

[ It's a little dry. There's a renewal of old guilt through the bond, though. Well, the truth is written there plain as day after all. And he had ignored how his deception would impact Sephiroth. ]

[doesntsing]

[ She’s blushing now. ]

I’ve heard that before, but it’s particularly nice coming from you. I’m not really sure why. Maybe it’s because you’re kind of cute.

I always thought you were the better-looking Peter Parker, but the other one is also way too young for me. I feel like his mother.

[fogsong]

[ Look, she had a lot to say, but now she's confused. Some of her anger ebbs. ] What do you mean 'incapable'? [ And then comes the realization... Fuck. ]

Goddamn Thirteen.

[powerandresponsibility]

Well, I'm very flattered you think I'm kind of cute.

I appreciate the compliment though as out of the three of us Peter Parkers I'm the only one that's single.

[miniroth]

No, I've been distracted with trying to figure out if the planet has dilithium on it and thus if it can be used as a power source, and potential engine specifications therein, but it seems to be a dead end.

[Like most things. The technology he can bring back needs to be something that their level of knowledge can DO something with or it'd be utterly wasted.

He knows it's a distraction, but it seems the lack of filter didn't really care what the subject was, so still radiating grumpy irritation, he picks up one of his notebooks to potentially continue with homework. Ordinarily having someone go through personal things like his relic would be a problem but it's been some months since he had a conversation that really needed to be kept to himself.]

At least you knew what the ice cream was and what it would do. I don't know where this came from. I don't like it.

[zacrifice]

[Oh fuck indeed. he sure doesn't like this.]

I don't want to be pissed at the person who saved our lives. her motives are screwed but she still got us here.

five years and all I wanted was to see aerith again. see cloud wake up. she gave me that

[decohere]

the why was more clear before. i had something i was actively trying to achieve, to save myself. everything else just felt in the way.

here? because it's a path i'm more familiar with navigating. when it's me against everything else, and i can survive through spite.

when i don't have something to fight against, it's just me that's the problem left to deal with.

[doesntsing]

There are three of you?

You seem like kind of a nerd too.

[ welp. ]

Sorry.

[powerandresponsibility]

It's a long story that involves the multiverse and parallel realities.

I probably seem like kind of a nerd because I am a nerd.

Text continues from Sephiroth's relic - hi there

[coffinturk]

Guess I'm not the only one that needs to be punched.

[ Guess who. And... he's not talking about Thirteen when he mentioned someone might need punching. Maybe he is a little angry. ]

I'm going to hold on to his relic for a while.

[ Is he going to say it was given to him? No. ]

1/2

[coffinturk]

Never heard of anything called that. What's it look like?

[ This is... well, not helpful exactly. Dilithium could be called something entirely different if it existed on Gaia. But there's a nuance behind the tone that suggests the curiosity is a little more invested than just... well the advantage of this being something to distract Sephiroth from his ire.

About then, Sephiroth's relic, if it bleeps with a message arrival, does in fact bleep. Vincent looks down at it. And... types something. A trickle of agitation crosses the bond but it fades quickly. ]

I'm telling Sharon I'm holding onto your relic for now.

:3

[fogsong]

[ It takes her a moment to realize who it is. ] You and Thirteen, yeah? I'm happy to deliver it if you want.

[ She's still feeling spicy. ]

[dohaeris]

I don't know what it is to be good. My lord father was killed because he tried to help the wrong people. I couldn't be like him. A very bad man took me in and taught me how to make people do what I want. I didn't think I had any other way to stay alive and win back my home. I tried not to hurt anyone, but I did anyway. I made the Maester, who is like a doctor, give my cousin more medicine than he thought he should. It was what my foster father wanted. I think he wants my cousin very weak, so he might die without making anyone suspicious. I was to marry his heir, and then I would be lady of the North and the Vale if he died.

If my foster father comes, or anyone else very dangerous, I won't fight them honorably. Even if I killed them, they would only come back, and then people would be frightened of me. People hate what frightens them. I would have to make everyone hate my enemies, instead. I would have to play the game of thrones, and in truth I wouldn't be sorry. It's a lot of fun, so long as you're winning. And that's what frightens me the most.

Well, the Others are also very frightening. We call them White Walkers, sometimes. They're like men made of ice, who can raise the dead, and they hate all that lives. They only seem to want to kill everyone and make them part of their dead army. I don't know what they mean to do with it. My ancestors built a giant wall of ice to keep them out of our lands. I thought they had been dead for many thousands of years, but the Patrons in Trench kept sending me visions of their return. I fear they may be right.

[white_widow]

This is more confusing with every successive answer. "I don't understand. If you don't want to, why not just stop?"

Okay, well, "I don't know what difference it really makes, but one of those things is easy enough to address. My name is Yelena Belova. Well - it is complicated, I have used so many that I don't remember them all, and I do not actually know if it is the "real" one, the original one I was given, but it is the first one I remember being called."

"What the fuck. I don't know why I said all that, either. Provoking is generous. I would have just said I was an asshole. What would winning look like?"

Re: :3

[coffinturk]

I'm not the adult who kept needling an obviously distressed fifteen year old just now.

My choice might have been wrong. I don't mind that Sephiroth is angry at me for the deception. He has a right to be. But I have no interest in humoring your mother bear act when you just bullied him under the pretense of 'tough love'.

[ Oh. He's not just being spicy. He's actually upset. ]

[doesntsing]

Oh. I only know anything about any of that because of being here.

You admit it pretty freely. Not that it’s necessarily a bad thing.

2/2

[coffinturk]

[ ....Make that actually angry. ]

[serendipitously]

Fair enough. I hope you were able to save yourself in that case.

Very self aware of you all things considered.

So you'd rather create problems than look at yourself as the problem? I think I understand that.

[dohaeris]

They said at Kuma Lisa the genes degrade faster if you clone them. I think there's magic and things you can do to preserve them, because the clones didn't do that in the Clone Wars. Likely that's what happened to your clones, though it's strange to me that they wouldn't think of that. Perhaps it's something else.

Pthumerians are the people that made Trench. One of them ruined Earth trying to make a girl who was human and Pthumerian, and the others had to come and fix it. It's very complicated, and I don't want to explain it all, which is rude of me. I'm very sorry.

[miniroth]

It's a rare naturally occuring crystal that exists in four, possibly five dimensions. I can't verify that and it sounds like nonsense but that's normal here. We have mako, I think we'd know if there were another powerful crystal type waiting to be found.

[he can hear his relic's alerts, and one is ignorable, he did hand it over but more than that..

The teen frowns.]

Don't pick on her, if that's what you're doing. I almost got her vivisected by the Professor a few months back, she has every right to say things to me I don't like.