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

[fogsong]

Yeah, because it's something you want. I did the same shit with my dad when I had to.

[zacrifice]

[Does Cloud have any idea how healing he is to be around? He probably doesn't. Probably doesn't get told enough. Mental note to work on that.

He thinks on those words. Gotta be here. He sure tries to be. Physically, he's moved in, has been for months and months. (The other house is collecting dust. His smoker's in the yard. Why did he ever think any of them would need space?) He loves seeing them every single day, bumping into them as they cross paths in the hall, catching quick lazy kisses in the kitchen while someone's cleaning or cooking, stealing bites of each others' foods or picking up a towel to dry while someone washes. The sunny smiles and warm looks when eyes meet. He loves it. He loves it.

Mentally, emotionally, he never wants to leave their sides for long. Nothing gives him as much joy as waking up with them, hearing their voices throughout the house, the little hum Aerith utters when she gardens or the huff of Cloud's breath when he trains nearby. The way they each look at him in turn. The way he is loved, every single day, and he can see it, he can feel it.

Cloud's hands on him are warm, the arms around him are so protective and all-encompassing. The sound of his voice as he says those words is so beautiful.]

I love you, [He whispers back. How can he not? How could he ever not?] I'm here. I'll be here. I promise.

[He may be dead, but he's alive. Sharon can be mad if she wants, but he can be grateful for this.]

[nativized]

Well, in my defense, I didn't know that to say it that way.

[ Is what he types. In reality, he's sort of puzzling out the logistics of that in his head versus the age she had on that Pandora's Fox. ... Sheesh, that's rough. ]

When this meme went up, Viktor is fresh off a canon update lol

[scienceofthearcane]

I haven't been back in Folkmore for long enough

[fogsong]

[ Her age on PF is technically correct. You know, as long as one only counts her current body. ] And now you do.

[steepwithdead]

[Clocking in on that self-deprecation, gurl. Joke or not, people don't say that sort of thing for no reason.]

May I be especially candid with you?

[velocityraptor]

Do they? I wouldn't really know.

[ And he can't lie - he truly believes that. ]

[zacrifice]

hmm
guess that's okay if it's what you like
it's true that pretty girls make for better leads though

[cursedwords]

It's true. I know I complain a lot but it's not like I had nothing to do. I could listen to music pretty often, or play video games. Passed the time.

[therewerefifty]

I hadn't thought of it that way. I suppose if we grew complacent and didn't talk among ourselves as much her Lore would slow down...? [She certainly hasn't been out of her house much.]

This thing that forces us all to talk, then, is another way of generating Lore.

lmao whoops

[hollystrike]

[Oh, there's the piece of the puzzle she was missing. She thought he seemed different from their first meeting, but Katie's new enough the idea of people leaving and returning is novel. She'll make a note.]

Well, I've never seen a hydroponic garden before. I shall visit to take it in some time soon. [And offer him a magical checkup while she's there.]

[miniroth]

[A cost that is too high is not one to even be considered, a 'choice' that was anything but. He could let the world wither as seemed to be its intended fate, but then all those lost would be directly because of him. Again.]

There isn't time for 'eventually'. You know that.

[The longer he waited, if opportunity ever presented itself, the more likely it was it would become more difficult, not less, to try to change things. To try to steer Shinra away from its course, to try to save countelss lives.

A war was coming. Could he even stop that?

They have spoken before about involving others. Everyone who knew the future that awaited him did, and yet none of them seemed to also think he'd balk at the cost of THOSE lives either. By the surge of irritation, the reminder was enough 'pressing further'.]

I have been told that when I decide to end the world, I had a friend there. One I should have been able to trust to aid me. Who did not. I am told I had other friends before that, which would fight by my side. Where were they?

[Food is pushed around instead of eaten.]

I get the impression that when the time came and I faced my alien mother, I was alone. And if they can't be relied on, who else am I supposed to make allies of, knowing what's coming?

[therewerefifty]

I would prefer it.

[But she's just bracing herself regardless.]

[fogsong]

Music and games are good. I was more a movie girl to pass the time. And sneaking out.

You sneak out?

[steepwithdead]

Like a blade, your will must be tempered and tested to grow strong. If you think you can't do something, the answer is not to shut yourself away in your house waiting for it to leave. It will not. Temper yourself.

[Go the heck outside.]

[cursedwords]

Only once. Didn't end well. They were torn up about sending me to school too. Can't let someone with my powers out of their sight, in case I do anything.

But the Elders decided it, they didn't have a choice.

[dreamfyres]

[ helaena never knows how gentle and sweet she is ]

You may copy me. I wouldn't mind.

[aquilasshadow]

Storms you just had to ask that when I can't lie didn't you?

I'm a magical being whose very existence damages the fabric of the world around him. It's all part of a manipulative bitch of a nameless goddess's plan to escape her magical dimension and rebuild the world to be kinder to mages like us, although she doesn't care about the countless lives that will be lost or how agonizing it is being her unwilling pawns simply because we still want to live.

I can't believe I ever cared for her.

[therewerefifty]

[Touch grass while she's at it?

For a moment, Makie just stares, lips parted slightly in some faint surprise. He's picked his words in a language she well understands.

Then she smiles a little.]

I see. I had meant merely to make life easier for Rin, but I see the point you make. [She did, after all, spend many months here without trying to murder the girl. Including when they were stuck in a library together and Rin told her he was dead and she killed him like a dog. Fun times.

She doesn't feel particularly like leaving her house right this second to frolic in the trees, but. She can work up to it. ]

Perhaps I'll resume my playing in Never Fade. That served a purpose, and I shouldn't abandon it. [And it's a place Rin never goes. She can work up to that part.]

[alovelyvoice]

[Oh. Well. Alicent is not emotional or welling up or anything. Someone is just chopping onions. That's a saying she understands now!]

That is very sweet of you to say, Helaena, thank you.

[moseyin]

Not so much anymore. But I try not to talk about it anyway
Having to check whats real and what isn't can be kinda
unnerving. to some folks

That's wild you can just 'let it go' like that
Fix my brain for me thx

[moseyin]

Are you like one of those weirdos that stuff dead animals

[lunchboxs]

And you sound like you could benefit from that.

[lunchboxs]

It is a shame, and I'm more upset over it than I'd like to admit. But I've also accepted it! Sometimes, that's just life for you!

[steepwithdead]

[YEAH GURL TOUCH GRASS but like, gently. Also ask first, consent is important.

He smiles gently at her suggestion, obviously approving before he even speaks.]

I think that's a wonderful idea. Don't wait too long, else you might never do it. But here's my suggestion: just before you think you might be ready for it, you do it then.