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.

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mynockdude

[batmotif]

aka brucie

[snaphiss]

Have you ever been caught?

[batmotif]

[A moment passes before he decides he needs some clarification.]

"Caught" at what, exactly?

[snaphiss]

Breaking and entering, a hobby with which you clearly have storied experience.

[batmotif]

[He'll answer her question soon enough, because technically the answer is "yes", but-]

Are you implying that I'm a criminal?

[snaphiss]

Don't tell me you're the sort that would prefer to be called 'entrepreneurs'.

[batmotif]

No.

[ugh.] I'm a vigilante. [...which is technically a crime, too.] However, to answer your question, yes, I have been caught breaking and entering before. But I've never been brought in.

[snaphiss]

...You broke into places to stop crime.

[batmotif]

Sometimes detective work requires access to otherwise restricted areas. I'm creative in my problem solving.

[snaphiss]

And when guards happen upon you during your 'problem solving'? What happens to them? When you steal information and disappear, who gets blamed?

[batmotif]

Depends on the guard. If you think I'm of the inclination to go around beating up civilians or police, you're wrong.

People can toss the blame towards Batman. Bruce Wayne makes sure to stay out of that kind of spotlight.

[snaphiss]

So when you're caught, as you've admitted you have been, you never attack the people who are just doing their job? And you always make it obvious that this... 'Batman' has stolen information, so blame won't fall on innocent workers?

It used to be my job to capture people like you for just these reasons.

[headinjuries]

Is there a sense of humor in there somewhere.

[batmotif]

...I've been told there's something resembling it from time to time.

[headinjuries]

By people who weren't trying to suck up to you?

[batmotif]

You mean by people who are actually close to me? [read: practically just one. Maybe two if you count Harvey.] On occasion, yes.

[headinjuries]

Wow.

[ So it exists. Theoretically. ]

Who's actually close to you?

[ Between that and the festival, Bruce has definitely given off the "everybody just wants something" vibes. ]

[batmotif]

[Wow can we talk about something else now? No?

Fine.]

My butler.

[An answer that might seem like a joke, if not for the fact that it totally, totally isn't.]

[headinjuries]

...

That's it?

[batmotif]

That depends on how you're defining "close". He's the only one who knows me through and through. As for the rest? There's always a few things they're not going to be privy to.

[headinjuries]

Define "a few."

[batmotif]

[Okay, mostly one thing, but it's a Big Thing.]

Being Batman.

[headinjuries]

Bats? That's your schtick?

[sensitively]

...Why bats?

[ are they your spirit animal, Bruce ]

[batmotif]

[they're his favorite thing to cosplay as]

...They're a symbol of fear.