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

[survivalthroughhate]

I have gotten lost in that loop on occasion as well. Feeling bad because I DON'T feel bad about some of the things I have done. I try to break out of feeling that way because it doesn't matter anymore. What is done is done and I have people here who I can turn to if I need to hear once again that what I did is the right thing.

[serendipitously]

What would 'better than what being human is like' look like to you?

[survivalthroughhate]

I have tried to kill many people and succeeded many times. It does not always mean it is personal.

[Just most of the time.

Maul's soft voice sounded thoughtful as he explained what he was able to sense from Altair.]

It is not as if I can read your mind. I could if I wanted to but that requires concentration. What can be sensed through the Force is much more passive than that. I can tell you are more aligned with the Dark than the Light Side of the Force. That's not necessarily a bad thing because the two sides don't cleanly correlate with good and evil. It merely means you tend to fall back on your emotions much more to gather strength and use your powers. I can also feel some of them strongly within you. Your anger, your courage, that part of you that hates yourself.

[Now was the point where most people usually got angry that Maul could sense so much from them or admitted he was right in what he was able to pick up on in their general personalities.]

I remember. We shall see.

[Maul didn't plan to lose to an impudent young pup no matter how much he resonated with the young warrior's personality.]

[ihadstrings]

Being the next step in evolution and not making the same mistakes they have for thousands of years.

[serendipitously]

The next step in evolution. Hearing that never fills me with confidence.

[steepwithdead]

You can avoid her if you really think that's necessary, but the answer isn't to hide away in your home. You have your own life to live. Do you think yourself undeserving?

[zacrifice]

NO

[miniroth]

[Maybe in a few years he could defend Genesis' beliefs.. until then.]

Then we definitely don't know if you stabbed a god or not.

[miniroth]

Is that something that you truly wish to do?

It seems like a worthy goal, and if it's something you want, then I can only encourage it. But I know a little bit about being made for a purpose and feeling obligated to pursue it.

[therewerefifty]

[Asking such questions on Tell The Truth Day, gosh.]

Yes.

[semilethal]

You literally called me dumb first!!

[coffinturk]

[ Vincent watches Sephiroth play with the cube. There will be a wet cloth ready to wipe up the trail after it's consumed. Meanwhile, everything else is effectively ready to be served, with dishware and utensils. ]

I'll answer that as frankly as I can. I don't think you're ready right now. To face Jenova. [ His gaze slides to Sephiroth. ] You have enough on your plate. Hojo will be... difficult enough. You're turning your hand against your superiors.

[ But Vincent doesn't shake his head. Instead he continues to explain. ]

They're human. Hrmph...Barely. Jenova, what that is... a deadly, alien calamity with strong mental power. The closer you get to the source, to its head or core... The more risk there is.

[ Vincent's eyes narrow with memory. He shakes himself from it and focuses on Sephiroth again. ]

There's a lot you know now that makes your future uncertain. You know what you are. Not misled by false theories. Proximity of Jenova's will can let it dig into the fractures of your psyche. Which... everyone has. Still, it's hard to say if you would become part of Jenova... or dominate it.

[ He crosses his arms. ]

Let's say you leave Jenova and stay away from it. Ideally you will want to bury it again. But eventually it will be found again. Decades or centuries later. The problem will happen come around again. Maybe the planet will be better equipped. Maybe not. But it is a choice you can make.

[ There's nothing in his voice that indicates this would be cowardly. Nor is there in the bond. ]

[scienceofthearcane]

I don't sleep much anymore.

[miniroth]

[For all that he doesn't want to admit it, it's accurate. Dealing with his 'father' alone was going to be a challenge, in the heart of Shinra headquarters, surrounded by all the things he used to protect himself and harm others.]

Sooner or later, the Professor will be dealt with.

[And then what? Not do anything about the alien parasite in his veins, and lurking SOMEWHERE in containment, waiting for an opportunity?

Part of him knows it's not something the vast majority of people his age ever have to consider. The rest of him knows it's not an option to walk away. Either he succeeds, or he dies trying. And Vincent believes he'll fail, a not unreasonable assumption.

He probably would. It took a half dozen highly skilled people to do it in the future, how could he alone?]

It's not much of a choice, walking away and knowing countless people and even monsters will be at risk because I was too afraid to do what I have to.

[steepwithdead]

[He doesn't even feel bad about it.]

Then that is a hurdle you must overcome. Otherwise you are going to wilt.

[ihadstrings]

I would have been different! It would have worked!

[Ultron honestly believed that, which is why it was able to come out as the truth.]

[ihadstrings]

I really would like to do it. Partially because it was always meant to be my purpose in life and also because just to prove that I CAN. To prove I can be better than the humans that created me, by fixing everything that was broken by them and making it all better.

[zacrifice]

no, but it makes for a better brag than "i killed some kind of ego manifest by a theater nerd"

[athiefalways]

Hopefully you still like it when I'm done.

[decohere]

"In this case, I actually prefer that they refrained from commenting on my appearance," Ava responds hesitantly. "But it really never felt... important. How I looked. I wore a mask, I went invisible. I got my job done. Nobody was meant to look at me too closely." A self-conscious sort of shift, under his gaze.

She drops the stained towels into the sink, after double checking that she did a decent enough job of cleaning up. "Maybe that's why it felt so weird, when you were looking at me so intently when we met," though she does sound more relieved than anything, for whatever reason. "But you seemed far more annoyed by me, than... thinking I was cute." Which still feels like a strange word to use, in regard to herself, even with his explanation.

"But I did also observe in addition to your eyes, that you have very desirable facial proportions, and can appreciate that you are-" her eyes progressively widen with horror at what she's saying and unable to stop it. "Strongly built. Good shoulders-" Ava turns away quickly so she can't see Dex right in front of her to keep prompting her overly honest mouth to keep listing off every attractive quality he has. "But you seem the type that already knows it." Because of course he does.

"Not that it helps with your... everything else. Which is. Kind of my point. Looks didn't prevent us from getting hurt, or fix us. Just..." a peek back over at him. Breathes out, because now she can't stop noticing and it's distracting, barely registering that she's paused mid-thought.

[miniroth]

[Sephiroth knows about Folkmore's version of 'theater nerds'.

They're not exactly skilled at combat.]

I know you're not the sort to pick on some helpless and ultimately useless artist but from the two or three lines I now know, it sounds like you beat up someone's imagination.

[ricochetingbullets]

"I was annoyed because you're a little fiend who steals Spoons, even if I did think you looked cute from the moment I saw you." Once again, that last part hadn't meant to slip out. Although he didn't sound as nearly as annoyed at the moment as he had been that day when they first met. Maybe he was warming up to Ava a little bit. Just maybe.

Once again, Dex found a fiendish sense of delight in the fact that Ava apparently couldn't stop telling the truth either and it showed right on his face. Since they were equally stuck in this mess together, at least they could both end up getting embarrassed by what was going on. And it was a bit surprising to learn the fact that she was apparently.....attracted to him? He certainly hadn't been expecting that! But he'd learned his lesson when teasing her about never being kissed and refrained from saying anything else.

Instead, he focused on addressing the last bit of what she'd said. "You're right. They don't prevent anything like that from happening. But there's a certain sense of confidence you get if someone says you look good. At least for most people. Because not everyone has that happen to them, so when you're noticed by someone like that, it makes you feel good. And I hope that's something you can understand someday because I think you deserve to feel wanted and attractive." Then, feeling like he'd said too much, he became immensely interested in the grain of the wood in his kitchen table.

[serendipitously]

Everyone I've ever known to make that statement has truly believed that.

[zacrifice]

i mean he turned into a giant metal monster and shot lasers at my face i def didnt imagine THAT

[miniroth]

Depending on how much mako you were breathing at the time you COULD have been imagining that.

I was watching a video a couple weeks ago about giant mecha, the likes of which would make Miss Scarlet immediately defund her entire division to get her hands on. That sounds like a giant mecha.