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

[nativized]

It's a worst case logic of what I knew of your powers. You can fly and make energy do all sorts of things, but I don't know the range. You can remotely sense my location and communicate with me from miles away. In that regard, my first thought would be that your ability to communicate and read minds are your most powerful abilities.

I didn't consider the idea of remote death.

So my first thought was to apply the sort of things I'd think a great spirit could do.

- I also wouldn't word it like that and trying to deflect my own thoughts normally.

[serendipitously]

I tell very few people the range. Precisely because I'd like to avoid people being concerned over if I'll simply take them over one day.

I won't. That requires focus and even when I've been in danger here myself I've avoided doing that to someone.

For the record, I may pick up a stray thought occasionally if it's loud enough from you, but I don't hear everything you think. I have my own mental blocks to keep people's thoughts out and I try rather hard to do that.

[nativized]

You've said that repeatedly. I don't disbelieve you and I trust that you don't have any reason to delve too deeply into my head. I can't be that important to you so as to spy on me in the grand scheme of things. It's more like I know the potential is there so the thought lingers in the back of the mind.

I don't like either thought though.

I'm sure its painful, actually, to hold yourself back like that. I don't like the idea of that being how you live either, really.

But oh yeah, huh? Killing people is easier than controlling them?

I guess that makes sense.

[serendipitously]

I would say people are more important to me if I go to such great lengths to make certain I respect their privacy.

It's work I'm used to doing, holding myself back. It is painful knowing I make so many people uncomfortable.

Of course it's easier, killing would only require my psychic knife up close or a brief surge of energy from a distance.

[nativized]

What's the point in a psychic knife? Disguising its existence? Or does it get some special capabilities?

'of course' she says.

That's the curse of power, probably. At least in terms of the response of weak people like me? I really hate that I can't help it, honestly. Because there a re very few people in this realm I've trusted with and *trusted* more than you with emotional responses to things.

[serendipitously]

It's a way to channel the focused totality of my telepathic powers into a weapon that can be thrust straight into the brain. Along with being extremely effective, I also simply prefer close combat.

It's the response of people who aren't weak as well. I appreciate the trust you have placed in me. I'm sorry I don't trust others that easily.

[nativized]

Sheesh, that sounds like a rejection, you know!

I said as a bit of a deflection. I'm always doing that and I know you are too, even if I'm not psychic.

Oh, that came out a little sarcastic.

[serendipitously]

A rejection from what?

Fair enough. Deflection is often far easier than actually speaking on anything. Particularly for someone like me that would rather people not know how I'm really doing.

There's nothing wrong with sarcasm.

1/2

[nativized]

That was also said in sarcasm.

No it wasn't actually, not really.

Well no it was? And wasn't?

It's covering for me putting that trust in you and feeling a little hurt you don't feel similarly. That and me finding you very attractive on a base level

rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

2/2

[nativized]

rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[ . . . ]

I threw my Relic but then I felt the need to pick it up

[serendipitously]

It's nothing personal against you, I'm this way with everyone here. It's easier to give half truths about my life than to go into the details. Knowing them would change how people see me.

I also simply don't like talking too deeply about my issues. If I do I just feel like I'll drown under the weight of all of it. Easier to ignore it.

I'm considering seeing if I can destroy mine with my tk. Or how far I can toss it.

[nativized]

I didn't think it was personal. It just... bothers me a little, I guess? Mostly you saying it because I felt like we'd discussed a lot of things here and there.

You know?

I've always been too sensitive. Doomed to be who I am, like I said the other day.

Honestly testing if you can destroy it is a good test of power vs the Fox if we go back to the original topic?

[serendipitously]

It's not to say I haven't told you some about my life, I've just always left a few things out.

Perhaps to prevent you from thinking too horridly of me and perhaps to keep myself from thinking too horridly about...myself.

I suppose it would be. Or to see what happens if you throw it away somewhere. Like the ocean around Tides.

[nativized]

That's an experiment I should have done a while ago but I was afraid of it just not coming back. That i'd be cut off from this sort of contact

I can't promise I won't think worse of you depending. Though I also don't think it's likely?

[serendipitously]

I suppose I could give it a try. I don't need this sort of contact to talk to people.

I've done some very terrible things, Lex. Both to protect my people and in the name of revenge.

[nativized]

See, now you've put me in the rough position of me basically being compelled to ask "like what?" or something. It almost reads like you're looking for someone to ask that contextually

But obviously that's just this effect from the moose lion thing

[serendipitously]

Maybe I am. Maybe I want people to judge me like I think they should.

Moose lion thing. I'm going to stick with calling it that from now on.

[nativized]

Does it have a name? I didn't get one.

[ and it's like a lion... moose... vampire... crocodile... thing. Based on appearance. ]

[serendipitously]

It reminds me of a kirin. Though they're meant to bring luck and this feels like anything but that.

[nativized]

Kirin? No idea what that is

It must not have been in the Manual of Monsters

fuck me

[ That's embarrassing... ugh, oh well. ]

[serendipitously]

You wouldn't want me to.

....

You have a manual of monsters? Is it just a book that describes them? Do you carry it around?

[nativized]

Don't put words in my mouth.

- It's a a book from my childhood. For a roleplaying game. Some of the stuff from it had applications in the world I came to after and some of it didn't. I tend to reference any creature through both of them

[serendipitously]

I take it back then. I simply meant that it just tends to be complicated and I tend to be terrible for people to get too close to.

I don't think I've ever actually played a roleplaying game. Remy may have. Do you have the book here with you?

1/3

[nativized]

Nah, nah, I've not seen the book in over ten years. Not since I ended up on in Vanengardt, because I didn't get to take it with me.

2/3

[nativized]

[ ... that is all he intends to send. And then he feels it. the compulsion, his fingers crawl to the Relic again, and- ]

-I didn't mean that to be crass. I meant that you're one of the people I trust the most here for better or worse and I think you're attractive. So naturally the thought has crossed my mind. But you know as well as I do how hung up I am on stupid things right now even apart from your own issues.