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

[apuckalypse]

I don't know if it counts for much, but I can't imagine anything you'd say that could make me think differently. I've done some awful things, I don't have room to judge anyone. I do understand what you mean, though. The same thing happens to me when I talk about my old life a lot. People are surprised or horrified because it's not normal, because it's hard to hear. All they can say is sorry. It's not a bad thing, but it still feels weird. it hits different when someone can accept it without making it weird.

what's something you wish somebody would accept you for? something that makes you lonely to hide

I'm sorry about your brother. killing somebody you're supposed to be working with is always terrible but that's an extra awful reason. if you disagree with someone close to you, you're supposed to work it out without hurting them. or at least not hurting them with more than a good punch or two. some people need that.

[dohaeris]

Thank you. I thought you might feel similarly. Ezra would say it's my intuition, but I don't know if that's any good, because I trusted so many people who betrayed me, but I did know you had a more difficult time than the people in the videos about high school parties and things.

I don't always like to talk with people who haven't. It's like talking to children, sometimes. Some of my friends come from more gentle worlds, but they still have their own troubles. It isn't as easy to tell them what's happened to me, though.

I do have friends who accept everything about me. I don't know what I'd do without them. It frightens me how easy it is to lose people. I haven't told them about Sweetrobin and the medicine, but I don't think they'd blame me for it. I didn't mean to hurt him. I was very frightened that if he had fits in front of his men, they'd think him weak and things would go badly. It was Littlefinger that made me feel that way. It was all his design. I know they'd blame him for it, like everything else.

Is there anything that makes you feel lonely? I hate to ask in case you don't want to tell me, but perhaps you might feel better if you do.

[apuckalypse]

I'm not really subtle about this stuff, even without some magic honesty spell or whatever this is. I think you have good intuition for when somebody needs a kind word though, that's more important than a lot of things it could be good for.

I've never thought of it that way. I wouldn't say like children, but maybe that's because I didn't spend much time around kids. There weren't that many where I came from. but you want to be kinda gentle with them, I think that's why? because the truth is horrifying. you don't want to ruin their belief in good things by sharing all the bad. sometimes people look at me a certain way and I feel bad for saying anything.

you did what you thought you had to, right? I get that. there's a lot I don't like to talk about for the same reason. a lot of deaths that maybe could've been stopped if we tried harder, or if we just died with them instead maybe it wouldn't feel this awful afterwards. like people who were infected and had to be killed before they killed others. or people who had to be left behind during attacks because they couldn't be saved and we had to save ourselves. or
there's
there's lots.

I'm from the future and was sent into the past to stop something terrible from happening, which means my timeline is the bad end and everyone's dead
I met my family in the past, theyre the same people but they're very different, 20+ years of war never happened to them
my sensei and my uncles and aunt are brothers and sister now. so it's like my family is dead but alive, they know me but they don't
I feel lonely sometimes bc I miss my family. but I also feel selfish about it because they're still around, in a way. I'm lucky. but it sucks how much it hurts

[dohaeris]

I'm sorry for your loss. I always wanted to go back and stop us ever leaving Winterfell. I'm glad you had the chance. When the traitors took our home they broke things, and killed and tortured most anyone who hadn't gone south with my lord father to be killed alongside him. It's as if my home is gone, too. I don't think I'm anything like the girl my brothers and sister remember. I think the ones I've spoken with like me better this way, and I expect Jon will too. It makes me uncomfortable; I suppose I'm sorry I wasn't much use to them when I was little.

It sounds as if you always tried to help, and that's very brave and honorable. I tried to help whenever I could, but Littlefinger only used it against me. He was ahead of me the entire time, and I never thought to be wary of him until I was alone with him in the Vale. Then I thought if I was good enough at being his daughter he would keep me safe, and he had a plan to get me my home again. I thought my little brothers and sister were dead too, so I didn't have very much to fight for, anyway.

If you had died along with anyone, then wouldn't be anyone left to remember them. It's better to remember them. I promised to raise statues of our dead in the crypts of Winterfell once I had it again. It will have to be the other girl that takes Winterfell back, but I have statues of them in my dreamscape. I can't make them talk, though. Every time I try to make a person in my dreamscape it's just my omen talking through them. It is funny when he pretends to be them, though. His Arya is very good.

Would you like to light candles with me for the people you've lost? We do it in the Faith of the Seven, and in Ezra's jewish faith as well. It's a comfort to me; perhaps it will be a comfort to you as well.

[apuckalypse]

im sorry for your losses, too. it's really hard to think about what could be different in retrospect. sometimes you want so badly to change things but that's not how it works. knowing what's gonna happen, time travel, it doesn't fix your life. it just changes it

when you don't have anything else to fight for, you have to fight for yourself. it took me a while to figure that one out. you'll find more things, or people, over time. but if it's just you, then it's gotta be you.

you're right though. we have to remember them, or they're really gone forever. i'd love to light candles for them with you, that sounds really nice.