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

texting Zack instead

[miniroth]

apparently nobody can lie right now so I have a very important question i've been thinking about for months now and i'm pretty sure you're the only one that will actually answer me.

I asked Mr Valentine and he just stared at me

so do you think, since hotdogs are blended meat in a casing, usually intestine, that when we eat the hotdog, we become a hotdog as being chewed doesn't actually change the pureed status of a hotdog's origin

[zacrifice]

[this is a fittingly stupid question to ask Zack Fair, indeed.]

no bc once it's inside us it's mixed with everything else we ate and when its in the intestine its being turned to shit

and no one would eat a shit hotdog

[miniroth]

[Look he doesn't know a single other person who would even entertain this]

if you let a hotdog sit in hydrochloric acid for a while nobody would eat it then either but it still would be a hotdog.

[zacrifice]

no it wouldnt it would be former hotdog
it would be whatever a thing dissolved in acid turns into
once a thing is dissolved it's not that thing anymore dude

[miniroth]

It's still made up of the thing though. I bet I could put a hotdog in acid and still detect hotdog later.

Mr. Valentine's still staring at me. I don't think he's ever been curious about anything in his life.

[zacrifice]

if you make an acid hotdog i dare you to eat it and tell me its still a hotdog

hes a turk and turks are boring as hell what do you expect

hey is he affected by the truth thing too? ask him why he was sleeping in a coffin

[miniroth]

Okay I will.

Not every Turk is boring, I know one that can drink most P0s under the table.

I don't think he's affected but I'm going to ask him anyway just for you.

[zacrifice]

ok i will give you that. i knew 1 good turk

good! i was wondering about it when i realized it was the same guy

[miniroth]

[There's a good ten minute's pause.]

There's probably more than one good Turk, but they might have a high attrition rate.

He says he thought it was his punishment for the experiments that made him and other nebulous "sins", and that if he stayed in there it might help him atone. He didn't say why he does it NOW, I'm betting it's just habit.

Then again I don't know where he sleeps now, so maybe he has a bed.

What do you mean, the same guy?

[zacrifice]

ugh of course he'd say that

after we escaped the lab i was lookin around hojo's shitty basement and there was a room full of coffins
most of them were full of monsters but one of em had him sleeping in it
felt rude to wake him up and i had enough goin on so i left him alone
but i wondered!

[miniroth]

The sins thing gets tedious, especially when it comes right alongside telling me I can do this or that to make a change and shouldn't let the past hold me back. I'm pretty sure there's a word for that.

That's weird. Even if it's just somewhere Hojo's disposing of unwanted specimens, keeping them alive and putting them in coffins is strange even for him.

You should have bothered him, but I can see why you might not since you were running away at the time.

[zacrifice]

i know the word too but ill probably miss spell it so use your brain to thinky think

i dont know if hojo left them there or his lackeys did it. the manor lab was trash it kinda felt like it was thrown together last minute after it all went down. most of the experimenting happened at the reactor

dude i was in shit shape that day im lucky i made it up the stairs. you ever had a mako bath four years straight bc i'll tell you what it turns you into a noodle man
wasnt gonna pick a fight with the spooky goth napping in a sealed coffin

[miniroth]

I don't think he'd have started a fight, just decided you're one of his sins too, somehow. In fairness that's not something you'd have known at the time.

[zacrifice]

def didn't know it, wasn't gonna risk it. i had cloud to look after

[miniroth]

Honestly. What IS a sin anyway. I know the religious version but he does not strike me as a Planetologist or Goddess-worshiper.

Actually I don't really want to know, it's probably depressing and things are depressing enough with this compulsion to truth thing going on. I can't even not write about cheating on midterm exams because I wanted to go home and finish watching a movie.

[zacrifice]

i figure it's just his fancy way of saying "i screwed up"
if he wants to call it sin then w/e

you SHOULD cheat on an exam
you're a kid thats what kids are supposed to do
skip school and cheat on the boring shit and get sick on fries and ice cream
do all of it! at least once!

[miniroth]

I'm certain this is what most adults call "bad advice" and "terrible influence". You're supposed to be telling me to study hard and stay on the straight and narrow and never do anything interesting.

Source: Everyone else.

[zacrifice]

if everyone else wanted me to give you good advice and be a positive adult influence then everyone else shouldnt have locked me in a lab for the four years where i moved from dumbass teen to less-dumbass 20s

and by everyone else i mean shinra

[miniroth]

What about everyone not shinra?

[zacrifice]

i barely listened to ppl in the army what makes you think ill listen to anyone now

[miniroth]

You are a terrible role model.

Though I can't blame you on the former, I don't bother with listening to briefings because 1. dull and 2. it'll all just get said again later whether or not I go.

[zacrifice]

never said i was a good one lol

i could do that for joint missions but i ran a lot of solos so i had to pay enough attention to finish it :( but they mostly gave me like "go here and kill thing" missions anyway

[miniroth]

That's true.

As long as it's monsters, "go here and kill this" missions are the nice ones. Then there's no doubt you're doing the right thing at least, and saving people from getting hurt. I've never had one but Matt says they used to get those a lot, especially when scouting for new reactor placements.

[zacrifice]

yeah it was usually that. sometimes it was a bunch of clones or groups of wutai ninjas after the war
mostly monsters and rogue robots though

[miniroth]

I've only fought ninjas in simulations. I wonder if they stack up to the programming. The robots are just a waste of time, I assume at some point Scarlet actually comes up with a design that doesn't explode as soon as you throw some lightning at it.