the truth serum meme.

[batmotif]

The Truth Serum Meme
The cliche and tired trope used to create conflict or acts of realization.

And congrats, now your character is inflicted by such a trope! Be it magic, drugs, or other means. Regardless of how, your character has lost the ability to lie or be dishonest.

Are you going to tell your childhood crush how you really feel? Or maybe tell your best friend about the double life you live? Perhaps this is a good time to admit to murder... hm.

Leave your character's name in the comment section.

Characters ask you a question, you must reply truthfully.

Have fun, no lying.

Comments

[snaphiss]

No. He would have hunted us to the ends of the galaxy, ruined countless minds in the process, enslaved people to achieve his ends.

[batmotif]

Then maybe you weren't looking hard enough.

[snaphiss]

He was going to kidnap and lobotomize infants, and I didn't kill him on sight both times I met him. I tried precisely as hard as he deserved.

[batmotif]

But where do you draw the line, Mara? Would you kill a man who had committed only slightly less atrocities? Or someone whose crimes were exceedingly less, but cruel and calculating regardless? What makes one man deserve execution, and the other mercy?

[snaphiss]

I don't have the patience for sophism. I would kill anyone who shows no remorse when harming innocents, and a serious desire to continue doing so.

I cannot spare everyone just because I doubt my ability to reason. If I must make mistakes, I won't make them out of inaction.

[batmotif]

That's well and good for the here and now. But play judge, jury, and executioner too often and you're leaving a trail of bodies in your wake before you even realize it. Doesn't the notion of that bother you?

[snaphiss]

Yes. Lucky for me, I occasionally question myself and my motives.

[batmotif]

[Was that another jab at him?] Don't be so quick to write me off as thoughtless. Otherwise we wouldn't even be having this conversation.

[snaphiss]

You're obviously not thoughtless. Simply rigid, and stuck in your ways. Perhaps because you believe your particular methods are justice, but I'm not sure, and you couldn't possibly tell me.

[batmotif]

Then I'll make it easy for you, and take justice out of the equation.

It's a line I won't cross; it's a path too easy to stumble on.