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

[lunchboxs]

No, I said you're being dumb, not that you are dumb. Even the smartest of people can be or do something dumb.

[zacrifice]

[Oh, he's being spooned? Yeah, actually, he's cool with this. Zack makes a quiet noise, a weird mix between content and uncertain, enjoying the experience of being hugged and pampered but wary of the offer. If that kind of magic exists...]

Dunno if I could do it for real. Even if it was a choice... still kind of a big part of me, y'know?

[He can wish for it sometimes, but not want it gone entirely, right? Nibelheim changed the both of them in different ways. He came out the other side still himself, just a version that stepped sideways. Less naive about everything. More of a survivor than before (which he recognizes is ironic). He couldn't be quite so reckless, with the lives of other people on the line. It's not bad, right? Aerith still loves him. Cloud still loves him. He's still Zack.

...He was tired, though. Nibelheim and everything that came after made him so very tired.]

[fogsong]

We all have our weird shit, Lex.

[fogsong]

You should make me what you do remember sometime.

[hollystrike]

Can you still help people without the aid of magic?

[fogsong]

That's about the only reason I stop by Agrona. Even then, I prefer to go out to Exile and train there. Less people.

I feel you.

[survivalthroughhate]

Spite is close enough to anger to allow one to feed off its fire for a good long while before it goes out. You do not give yourself enough credit. You are strong than you think you are.

[Maul was honest in what he saw and the compliments he gave out, for he was not one prone to lies to manipulate people, not in the same way that his master had always done.

At the mention of settling this complicated thing between them, Maul grinned, showing off all of his sharp fangs.]

Very well.

[Maul took off his outer robe and set it off to the side before lighting up his double-bladed lightsaber.]

Defend yourself!

[He said before striking out with the top blade, swinging it much in the same manner as a wooden staff was used by other martial artists.]

[ihadstrings]

[Ultron didn't say anything else, just staring off into space. He was going to sit there for the next few hours, puzzling out the idea of his existence and his own personhood, and figuring out what this meant for his future. For if he really was a person, had his longing to create a new body combining flesh, metal, and an Infinity Stone been completely unnecessary the whole time?

Was even his desire to be something better than humanity really what he needed either? If he'd truly been like them all along, maybe he'd never needed to be anything other than himself.]

[ricochetingbullets]

Fuck "atoning for my existence." It's not my fault I turned out the way I am. That was always going to happen even if my life had been perfect from the very beginning. I just had bad luck and got dealt a shit genetic hand to end up the way I am.

If she does, kill her. There's something especially bad about people who act like they understand you and act kind but it turns out it was all lies and manipulations the whole time. They're worse than people who at least admit to who they are like you and me.

[ricochetingbullets]

"It really does seem like people either get powers or end up dead when controversial scientific experiments go wrong," Dex mused. Considering how often it happened in their world, there was a definite pattern to be found when people decided experimenting with unstable elements in their projects and go where no man had gone before started in with their experimentation.

"You and me both," Dex agreed. "I just resigned myself to being alone forever back home. Never letting anyone know the real me because it didn't matter." He paused for a moment and looked over at Ava again. "But I feel less alone here than I ever have before."

[ricochetingbullets]

Being a bodyguard for a self-proclaimed lazy slacker that helps people a lot more then anyone wanting to be lazy should be motivated to do so. He helps keep me on the straight and narrow and I keep him from harm in return.

[ricochetingbullets]

You're a good person, Rose. I'm glad we're friends.

[He paused and then added on another message.]

We ARE friends, right?

[Considering how few he'd had over the course of his life, Dex needed this to be spelled out for him so that he wouldn't misinterpret what he thought was going on.]

It really is an impressive use of his creativity. And amusing to watch.

[ihadstrings]

The stones first. Put that much power in one person's hands and bad things are coming for the whole damn universe.

But if the Infinity Stones didn't do it, people were just gonna figure out a way to destroy themselves on their own. They're like little lemmings intent on flinging themselves off a cliff to their deaths instead of just turning and running in the other direction to stay alive.

[decohere]

"It's unfair. And messed up. To experience something so traumatic and life altering, and then expected to use those abilities to the further detriment of my wellbeing. Don't know why anyone would willingly choose this sort of life, nobody sane or healthy at least. It's no wonder the Avengers got torn apart, became international fugitives." She huffs out a sigh. She's still torn on the whole Sokovia Accords deal.

She crosses her arms tightly over her midsection, nods along. "Guess we never would have met, back there. Opposite sides of the country. Funny how it's easier to feel alone the more people there are..." she glances away. "I like when it's just. Us."

"I should go."

[ricochetingbullets]

"Fair? Since when is life supposed to be fair? If it was, I wouldn't be the way I am either." The genetic predisposition towards his mental health conditions wasn't something Dex would have wished on anyone. He'd had one hand tied behind his back from the very beginning and it had shaped the rest of his life. "But I agree with the rest. People who get involved in vigilantism has a healthy mindset." Considering he'd put on the Daredevil suit to play at being a supervillain, he knew exactly what sort of people did this kind of thing.

"I like that too," he said, the truth easily slipping out again. "When you and me are together." He just sort of sunk down into his chair a little, wondering when this damn curse was going to lift. He wasn't leaving his house until it did. Fuck it, time to become the hermit of Puca Park.

Dex nodded. "You can if you want to. But I wouldn't mind if you wanted to stay longer." Despite the fact she'd gotten really angry, it hadn't turned out as bad as it could have been.

[aquilasshadow]

That's not what I meant! I was talking about someone else, not you. There's nothing wrong with you but it's different with me. My existence as a mage, that was chosen for me, is dangerous. I'm a threat to everyone just by existing. That's why I swore to protect people whether it's foolish or not. Too many people have already died because of me.

I could never hurt her. What if it's not all lies and manipulations? What if you had something real before they betrayed you? I can't just erase that. I don't want to believe the friend I knew was a lie. I can't.

[therewerefifty]

One could argue that our entire existence here is the trial, and that perhaps she doesn't want us to become complacent.

[therewerefifty]

...I don't truly know.

[But nOw yOu mAkE hEr ThInK aBoUt It--]

I know that the things I have done cannot just be forgotten, but I thought I could at least... set them aside here. Try for a life where such things are not expected. But I am also told that I am a villain's wife, and thus that is what I will always be, no matter my actions.

I think the person who told me that has a very narrow world view. I set out to prove him wrong and I end up nearly killing a child. So I don't... know what to do.

[scienceofthearcane]

If it was removed from my person, then I would be dead and the magical object that I was fused with would still remain in this world. So I don't think so, no.

[semilethal]

Your advice is already dumb so there's no point in me following it as if it were the intelligent thing to do

If Thirteen wanted to let us go home, she'd have done it already. Or made her own gate or whatever. You're just being simple about this, and I SUSPECT you're doing it on PURPOSE

[ricochetingbullets]

I appreciate the sentiment but I'm pretty sure there IS something wrong with me. Otherwise I wouldn't be so different from everyone else around me. Except maybe here. Seems like a lot of people here are just as fucked up as I am.

Maybe you'll get lucky and she'll turn out to be a genuine friend. Me? I couldn't take a betrayal from someone like that lying down. I'd have to do something about it.

[coffinturk]

[ In the future, they were also confronting Sephiroth himself. But it would likely have not changed the fact that they needed everyone to succeed as they did. ]

Mm, no. It's not. Whether you choose to confront Jenova immediately, wait until you're older or bury it again for another generation to contend with. Everything has a risk.

[ He closes his eyes a moment, knowing well of making a choice and its consequences. ]

And a cost.

[ When Vincent looks at Sephiroth again, it comes with a wave of empathetic sorrow. No one should have the choice. Least of all a child. It fades a little as it is replaced by something like resolve. ]

...Just because I don't think you're ready now doesn't mean that you won't ever be, Sephiroth. Ultimately, you have it in you. The sheer will to keep existing, even within the Lifestream itself.

[ Vincent lets out a quiet sigh. ]

You have the potential. Not as the hero propped up by Shinra's propaganda, but on your own merit. And... you don't necessarily have to do it alone. But we've spoken about that before. I know you don't want to involve others.

[ So he won't press further on the matter. ]

[steepwithdead]

[he he he he JUST AS PLANNED-]

We are all of us imperfect creatures. When you find yourself at a standstill, the best thing to do is better. You know how it feels now to nearly kill a child. Are you less likely to try again, with that knowledge going forward?

[It's a grim question, but the important ones often are.]

[lunchboxs]

The most special!

Or I assume it must. I've never been anyone's muse.

[lunchboxs]

Of course we're friends, Dex! [ She practically decided they were friends after their very first meeting! ]

It is pretty funny.