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Truth Meme
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.
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If the whole race had gone bad, then I suspect the one making the claim is biased and unwilling to put in long term work, for the time it would take to inspect EVERY adult would make the obvious clear: infants and small children are blank slates which can be taught anything is true. And if the one making the claim had the ability to speak to and examine every adult of a sapient species on the planet, they'd have time to raise human offspring the correct way.
Nature does not deal in absolutes in behavior. There are always exceptions. Always. If they were not found it is not the fault of the species but the searcher.
You didn't want to wait that long? Or perhaps didn't possess the resources to raise a generation with their better natures in mind?
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[Not the best takeaway Ultron could have had from this conversation but not the worst either, considering at least now he was considering the benefits of keeping part of humanity alive.]
I didn't even get that far in thinking about such a long-term goal. I was only alive for four days before I came here. Honestly, if I wanted to, I would have had more than enough resources and wherewithal to raise up a bunch of kids if I really wanted to.
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[...Honestly asking a science experiment raised in a lab about this stuff is not really a good idea.]
I suppose in that case it depends on how much you really want to save the planet and your creator species. You are not obligated to. But as they gave you the chance to make something of yourself, it seems fair such a thing should be extended to their species in turn. It's always easier to give up.
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[Really, Sephiroth was just pouring gasoline on a fire that had been burning in Ultron for a long time now.]
I DO want to help them overall. It's what I was created for. And I'm not gonna give up until I figure out a way to do that. But saving them from themselves is a lot harder than it seemed it would be when I first started out.
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I would suggest, if you're sent back and you remember this place and you have the time to, withdraw from any immediate conflict. If the planet itself is at risk, store genetic sequences, embryos, seeds, everything you can of the things that may fail in the interim so they may be restored later, preserve the technology by which to restore them later, and in the meantime work on alternate plans for how to deal with the sapient population in a way that preserves the most reasonable numbers without endangering the rest of those projects.
It will give you time to figure out a better long term solution and mitigate ongoing damage while you do so. It may be that your solution will require decades to see through for optimal results.
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Y'know, this sounds like a really good idea. Maybe I just go too impatient and caught up in thinking short-term. I mean I can really plan for the long, LONG-term if I want to. I'm pretty much immortal so long as I still have bodies I can switch to. It's not like I have to worry about dying of old age or anything like that.
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But part of being here is Thirteen wants to give you another shot at fixing things, and doing it right this time. Folkmore gives you even more time to find new answers that might not have otherwise been possible. Then when you're finally sent back, you'll be prepared.
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That's actually a really heartening idea. That I might get a second chance to do things right this time and actually fulfill the purpose I was programmed for.
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It seems like a worthy goal, and if it's something you want, then I can only encourage it. But I know a little bit about being made for a purpose and feeling obligated to pursue it.
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