Would You Rather? Meme

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Would You Rather? Meme

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Reflective surfaces are showing more than Star Children's reflections. It's still there, smiling, winking, or waving back (hey, did you do that? It's fine, don't worry about that). More importantly, a question appears with the reflection. It might be spoken aloud by the tree behind a Star Child or appear in a thought bubble off their reflection. However it appears, it will not disappear until it's answered. It asks: Would you rather...

Should a Star Child avoid answering the question, it follows them around. The environment continues to speak it aloud. It's in the book they read. It's written in the clouds. It's everywhere. The longer it's ignored, the louder, larger, more intrusive it gets—so that it might draw attention or an audience.

As soon as a Star Child answers, they're connected with another Star Child who hears their answer. They may see each other in their reflections, talk or text over their relics, or be near each other when it's answered. Regardless, at least that one person will hear the answer, and with it comes the compulsion to explain the answer. To give at least a little reasoning. Oh, and the urge to ask them a question in return. This compulsion may only last for one question each, or it may last for many. Perhaps it's forgotten altogether in an easy conversation.

For some Star Children, but not all of them, they may find themselves presented literally with completing the situation they are asked about. A non-permanent change situation. Suddenly they're streaming on their relic or in conversation with a friend or at dinner with Thirteen. Who knows! The initial questions appear before Star Children, but they can take it wherever they like. Star Children who complete at least one challenge receive a gold star anywhere from 1 inch to 1 foot across. Touching it gives Star Children a better sense of certainty in themselves. It may be kept, exchanged at Cutting Edge for some other metal, or turned into Thoth for her answer to a would you rather question.

• This meme is game canon unless marked otherwise at the start of threads! Threads can be used for spoons and application samples.
• Characters are presented a 'would you rather' question first in their reflection, then if unanswered around them wherever they go.
• Characters face a strong compulsion to explain their answer... and to ask their partner at least one 'would you rather' question of their own.
• Characters may have to complete the question they answered. If they do, they receive a gold star (once only!), which gives them a sense of certainty. It can also be exchanged for metal at Cutting Edge or to ask Thoth a would you rather question.
• Meme is open for three months!
• Please include and answer one (or more) of the following questions (or your own) in your top level. You can also ask one for whoever tags in, if you'd like:

• Would you rather have dinner with Thirteen or your worst enemy?
• Would you rather be famous, recognized wherever you went and remembered after death, or unknown, unrecognized and unremembered?
• Would you rather have conversations over voice or text?
• Would you rather have a perfect day or a good week? A horrible day or a bad week?
• Would you rather perform before a huge crowd of strangers or a small group of friends?
• Would you rather retain your current body or mind indefinitely, immune to aging or illness?
• Would you rather know how you'll die or when?
• Would you rather have a stranger or your closest person identify aloud what you have in common? Would you rather do it to a stranger or your closest person?
• Would you rather share three things you're grateful for each day with everyone on the network for a week or share what you're most grateful for with someone not of your choosing?
• Would you rather be raised the way you were or another way?
• Would you rather meet, share coffee, and talk with a stranger for an hour every day for four days or tell someone as much of your life story in detail, sparing no secrets, for four minutes?
• Would you rather wake up tomorrow with a new ability or without one you currently have?
• Would you rather know the answer to something about your past or your future?
• Would you rather try to do something you've dreamed of or explain why you haven't tried it yet?
• Would you rather share your greatest accomplishment or learn what your greatest accomplishment will be?
• Would you rather share your most treasured memory or your most terrible memory?
• Would you rather return to your life unaware of Folkmore or with your memories?
• Would you rather be close to your family or distant from them?
• Would you rather see your father or mother again? Or which of your parents, more generally?
• Would you rather share what is needed to be a close friend of yours or an embarrassing moment in your life?
• Would you rather share when you last cried and why or what is to serious to be joked about?

Comments

[faceblocks]

No difficulty, here. Just ...well, the idea of it never quite fucks off for me, I guess. That suddenly maybe there won't be any, for me or for ...anyone else. Sure, I could power through it. Until I couldn't.

[no real idea what the breaking point there is - and no wish to find out. though, the idea of it happening to others is worse, honestly. it's why she'd asked for sansa's lunch tin instead of her murder horse when it came down to it. trying not to dwell on that just now, and caught between having a drink about it and ...not doing that.]

Yeah, I like to eat. I like when it's an adventure.

[desperately trying to shift her thoughts toward all the things she's tried, both great and terrible, and landing on a trench memory of a hot sauce challenge with her sister. it quiets the questions that circle in her mind for just a moment, and elicits a smile. also: she remembers that tavern so fondly. and a little sadly, too.]

[obeir]

Because you know what it's like to go without.

[ Call it an educated guess. Between Viktor's extensive descriptions of what life was like in Zaun, and Vi's own words, it isn't hard to infer she's likely speaking from grim experience. That casts a new and rather sad light on this whole exercise. Starvation may not be something K's had to worry about, but he can relate in his own way; he's no stranger to deprivation. He's quiet for a moment, choosing his words. ]

As it happens, I like to cook. Used to handle most the cooking back at the Roost tavern. Then here, I'd make sure Viktor and Jayce were getting regular meals because otherwise they'd simply forget to eat. But Jayce is gone and Viktor no longer needs to eat...

[ A hopeful look. ] Don't suppose you're in the market to be a taste tester?

[faceblocks]

Ding ding ding, and we have a winner. [it's less smartass than it could be.]

Jayce is gone and Viktor doesn't need to eat. There's a sentence.

[had she been drunk during jayce's appearance? it's possible. that's all she'd been doing for a while, and it hasn't been the best look. the stumble from 'problem solver' to 'being everyone's problem' still stings, and she's not sure she's even seen her way through to the other side of it yet. she's still not sure what's happened to viktor, but it's not like she tried to ask him - she's been too fucked up for that. or at the bottom of the water. or a baby wolf.]

Fuck. Everything's weird now. I ...hate it.

But I'm never not hungry, so. [an attempt at a joke, but it's too sad to really land:] How can I say no to that look?

[obeir]

[ Oh... That may require some elaboration, K realises. ]

Jayce vanished long before you got here. More than a year and a half ago at this point. And Viktor— [ How to explain the radical change Viktor's undergone. Is it even his place to? ] He was returned to your homeworld recently, and came back... changed. Have you seen him?

[ Because she will definitely know what he means once she does, he thinks. ]

He says he doesn't eat now. No more romantic dinners, I guess. [ Also a weak attempt at levity. Not that Viktor's ever seemed to be much of a fan of romantic gestures in general. At least not when it comes to K. And he's just going to... carefully not examine the worried thought of having been settled for. Back to (marginally?) happier topics. ]

When you say adventure, do you mean trying new things? [ Hopeful thinking, really. He suspects she may mean something entirely more ill-advised. ]

[faceblocks]

[interest piqued - and a little bit of trepidation.] I don't think so. And the way you say it, I'm gonna go with definitely not. I haven't been...

...yeah. [she hasn't been a lot of things.]

Doesn't eat like it's a choice? [headtilt. there are tons of guesses why someone might not need to eat anymore, ranging from bad to sad to just weird.] Huh. Well, the way to someone's heart isn't always through the stomach. One door closes and you find a window? [she tables it for a moment to answer his question.]

Oh, yeah. That's exactly what I mean by adventure. [good to see he's picking up what she's putting down.] What you got?