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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[circumspector]

What drives you so hard to hang onto yourself?

[snaphiss]

Anything less is death by another name.

[circumspector]

And have you? Faced your own death yet and accepted it as the price for your life and choices?

[ Not - sharp, just curious. ]

[snaphiss]

Yes. I was saved from that fate, but I would have let a man control me, use me as his puppet, to save a friend.

[circumspector]

I've heard a lot of heroic people say they didn't even consider it, they would have done it without even thinking about it? Was it the same for you?

[snaphiss]

No. I didn't want to do it. I would have done almost anything to avoid it, but... the people who would have been hurt if I hadn't didn't deserve it. I knew I could endure it.

[circumspector]

Huh... do you consider it brave, or just a necessity?

[snaphiss]

Necessary. True bravery is a quality others can assign if they like. To assign it to yourself is just meaningless egoism.

[circumspector]

[ she shouldn't be the shitty teenager she is so very deep down but - ]

Good luck telling my Dad that.

[snaphiss]

Whoever your father is, I can assure you, I don't care what he thinks.

[circumspector]

You know, if that was enough to stop him, I could have stopped him years ago?

[snaphiss]

Tell me about him? I don't know anything about fathers.

[circumspector]

Are you sure? He's the kind of guy that you probably wish you didn't even know existed in the galaxy?

[snaphiss]

Only a fool prefers ignorance.

[circumspector]

[ Alright, she picks a arbitrary Tuesday on Pandora, and - ]

He shot a six month old baby between the eyes because, in his words, "it was being a dick."

[snaphiss]

[That sure works, good job, Angel.]

What's the worst thing he ever did, from your unique perspective?

[circumspector]

[circumspector]

The password to the room where he locked me up as a child, let experiments be done on me, put a collar on me that let him electrocute me whenever I didn't do what he wanted, which usually involved my helping him kill millions of people and especially the only friends I ever knew and drugged my body to death was "I love you."

[circumspector]

- Oh, and I think I'm still addicted to what kept me in a living death for years, I wake up every morning nearly throwing up for how much I miss it?

[circumspector]

And he bought himself a Diamond Pony and named it Butt Stallion.


.... What kind of dad buys himself the Pony and not his daughter?

[snaphiss]

[Kind of speechless, here.]

I... didn't know fathers were supposed to buy ponies.

[circumspector]

It's when you're ten, it's kind of a stereotype. Every little boy and girl asks for a pony so that they can ride it, because horses are usually too big. They get to feel like princes and princesses, and it's supposed to be really special? Normally it's not really possible, granted, between living in space and whatever else, or expensive, normally it's way too expensive, so they go to like... parks, where you get to ride one for a little while.

[ And another thing. ]

But on my tenth birthday? "No, Angel, come on pumpkin do you want to blow it up like you did the neighbours dog when you tried to pet it? You're going to get Daddy into the systems that allow him to deploy a satellite so you can watch planets that are going to make him rich!"

Then when he becomes the head of an intergalactic corporation he's got blackmailed to embezzle whatever he wants from anyway? He's so rich he can get a pony made out of actual living, breathing literally worth multibillions precious stones, and he gets it for himself.