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folkmore mod ([personal profile] folkie) wrote in [community profile] folkmeme2025-04-23 08:12 pm

Would You Rather? Meme

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?
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[personal profile] apuckalypse 2025-05-01 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, yeah, that makes sense. Since they're permanent and all.

[Now he's wondering what kind of face she'd have picked to keep on her forever... but that doesn't seem like the sort of conversation vibe she's after, so. Next question.]

Uhh, hands for feet, please! I could hide them in boots, and what the heck would I do with feet for hands?
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[personal profile] faceblocks 2025-05-15 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
[it's not off limits, she's just veering away from it at the moment because she can't check her impulse to ask the thing.]

I'm sure someone's probably got a spell for that or a power or whatever, but not counting it. [the tiniest bit of gravitas slipping through:] As soon as you count on something? Poof.

[she's quick to laugh, but it's more of a tired huff than her usual.]

Somersaults? [that's ...a visual.] Double up on boots, I guess? It'd be pain in the ass to do anything, wouldn't it? I'm gonna file that away for like, 'things to curse my worst enemy with'.

You ever think about getting inked?
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[personal profile] apuckalypse 2025-05-15 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Ouch. he can't blame her for the cynicism, all things considered. Lots of things gone "poof" in his life, until he got here. (It's been significantly less poof since.)]

That'd be a good curse. Though my mortal enemies didn't have hands or feet, just tentacles. I don't know how they did a lot of what they did either.

[Stupid Krang and their genocidal wiggles.]

I thought about getting a tattoo recently, yeah! But I really can't decide what I'd get. How do you choose yours?
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[personal profile] faceblocks 2025-05-15 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[sudden feet on the end of tentacles is also a visual. unsure if it would be as much of a curse, but ...maybe?]

Step one: have way too much time to think about it. Weeds out the potential bad contenders, though I know a couple people that might argue that.

[she's thinking about bakugo's commentary regarding her cheek tattoo - he's not totally wrong but she doesn't regret it. her ink's possibly the one thing she doesn't have regret tied into.]

I don't rec the whole prison as a think tank part, but definitely put some thought in. Maybe a little less if you find someone that can magic them off, but still...

My face aside, they were all about my sister. [she holds up her forearm to the screen, revealing a less-faded inking of a pipe. Until this one, but he was family, too.

[is step two 'make sure they're family?' maybe for her. if it weren't she might have cheesy fries, noodles or pizza slices tattooed on her arms.]
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[personal profile] apuckalypse 2025-05-16 06:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Curse the Krang with feet and make them tapdance eternally, that would be a good curse.]

Huh... family's a good one. Like, a way to keep them with you forever, right? I could... [The gears are turning a bit more than before, now. It's the best suggestion he's had yet.] -oh! But I really like your tattoos. I'm sure your family would be honoured that you're carrying them like that.
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[personal profile] faceblocks 2025-05-17 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
[oh, her smile's gone sad - it's a shot through the heart, there - not any easier to take when she's sober. there's a fine line where it doesn't hurt and she doesn't like where that line ultimately leads her.

but she likes that her answer's a good one, that it seems to resonate, that he gets< it.]


Yeah, it's exactly like that. So far, yeah. [softer:] Yeah.. [and her gears follow his gears.] It's probably time for another one.

Did I just kick-start an idea?
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[personal profile] apuckalypse 2025-05-18 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
[rip, sorry Vi. He knows not what he does.]

Maybe. My family has sort of an emblem that's carried through generations. I could do a stylized version of that… dunno where I would put it, though. The usual places I see tattoos are kinda covered by scale patches right now.