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

[inquisitorium]

What was worth more than your parents' lives, then?

[ezra_of_lothal]

Yes.

They would agree. They chose to risk their lives, too, over and over.

[inquisitorium]

Then they are better people than most. Jedi included.

We haven't met; better for you, I think. Trilla Suduri, formerly Second Sister of the Imperial Inquisition -- but as my loyalty doesn't extend beyond death, I'm no threat to you unless you decide it would be fun to have an enemy.

[ Don't fall for it, Ezra. She'd enjoy it. ]

[ezra_of_lothal]

I wondered, from your screen name.

And no, I don't think we've met. It was the Grand Inquisitor, Seventh Sister, and Fifth Brother, who on my tail, mostly.

I'm Ezra Bridger, Jedi Knight. You can just call me Ezra, if you like.

I'd rather not be enemies.

[inquisitorium]

Fifth is still around? I can't say I saw him outlasting me by very long.

You may call me Trilla. I've spent the past year in an entirely different world from ours and old habits are difficult to see the point of here, even if this place were crammed full of Jedi.

[ezra_of_lothal]

Not as many Jedi as there *were*.

[Yes, he's still sad about it, and yes he knows that's attachment.]

Gotcha. This is like my third weird dimension away from home, and coming up on my fourth year, so I get it. I would not have been nearly so chill, if you'd messaged me with that introduction, when I was first pulled out of the galaxy.

I really want to ask a question you might not want to answer.

[inquisitorium]

[ She won't apologize for adding to that loss, though it's... complicated, now. In the moment of her death she understood herself to be another dead Jedi, too. ]

It might've been a fascinating challenge for us both.

At this point there is very little I won't answer as honestly as I can. Ask away.

[ezra_of_lothal]

Were you Temple raised at all?

[inquisitorium]

[ That's his difficult question? She was expecting far worse. ]

Yes. Why do you ask?

[ezra_of_lothal]

To get a sense of cultural background mostly? However you identify now, or whatever you believe, cultural stuff is formative, right?

I was *not* Temple raised, for the record. Adopted late.

[inquisitorium]

It was a long time ago. And the place I came here from gave us false memories of lives we never lived. That past was a lie, I know it, but it muddies things.

At least I never had the false one turned against me by my captors.

I can't say you missed much. Growing up with other Jedi meant I got to watch every last one of my childhood friends die in front of me.