the truth serum meme.

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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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[sensitively]

Are you in love with him?

[erbier]

Yes.

[sensitively]

 




...Why?

[erbier]

Because I understand him, the way he hurts, and it is precious to me. There is a man in the maelstrom, and I am strong enough to weather such a storm and remind him of it.

[ Whether that's what he wants or not is a bit beside the point. ]

I am his. He is mine.

[sensitively]

[ that gives her something to chew on, but her opinion of Ren hasn't changed overnight. ]

Does it matter to you whom he's killed? What he's done?

[erbier]

No.

[sensitively]

Why not?

[erbier]

There are things worse than death.

[sensitively]

There are. There's watching someone you looked up to like a father be killed right before your eyes. There's holding the lifeless body of someone you cared about, and failed to protect.

Ren took both of them away from me.

[erbier]

[ Ilde stares back at her, immovable. None of those words touch her, even as the emotion twists Rey's face. ]

Then revenge yourself upon him.

[ Airy, unconcerned, as statement of fact. If it troubles Rey so deeply, she should do what she thinks needs to be done. ]

[sensitively]

[ the most perplexed of looks. ]

...I thought you said you loved him.

[erbier]

[ Why does everyone say that to her? ]

Your actions are your own. Why conflate them with my feelings.

[sensitively]

[ lfmksg because wow, your perceptions of love, Ilde. ]

They are, but why would you encourage me to take revenge upon him when you profess to love him?

Don't you want to protect those you love?

[erbier]

[ YOU KNOW WHO IS CONFUSED NOW? ]

He has managed perfectly fine protecting himself thus far. We don't protect each other.

[ And she sounds a little disdainful of the idea: that she might need protecting. ]

[sensitively]

But you want him to hurt?

[ THIS STILL MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE OKAY ]

[erbier]

[ Sigh. ]

You are a very simplistic girl.

[sensitively]

And you're a very warped one.

[erbier]

It has kept me alive, thus far.

[ So she's not going to be sorry about it. ]

[sensitively]

Perhaps it has.

But it's also kept you alone.

[erbier]

[ A slow blink. ]

What does that matter. I could have lived alone or I could have died alone.

[ A frown crosses her features, incensed by this stupid self-righteous statement the other girl has made at her. ]

You cry and mourn for those he killed, but I say at least he killed them swiftly. You cannot even imagine what my death would have looked like, how many times I was forced observe the slow tortured deaths of those around me. Day after day after day after day.

[ Her back straightens, eyes blazing. ]

Keep your judgments to yourself lest I enlighten you to how much more unpleasant your dealings with the world could have been.

[sensitively]

[ ...someone touched a nerve. ]

Slow or fast, it doesn't matter in the end. All that's different is time and suffering - something I've had extensive experience with.

[ Her own eyes are hard and dark. ] You know nothing of my dealings with the world I'm from. Just as you know nothing about Ren.

[erbier]

How complicated can it be, when they call you Scavenger?

[ Really. ]