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

[headinjuries]

Bats? That's your schtick?

[batmotif]

[FROWNING what's wrong with bats]

...Yes.

[headinjuries]

How'd you pick that?

[ He actually...doesn't know how most heroes pick their thing, honestly. He inherited Nova. His closest bros are also legacy heroes. Where do people get these things when they're starting from scratch? ]

[batmotif]

[It feels as if the answer to this should be more complicated. Perhaps in some ways it is. But Bruce prefers to be straightforward if he must be upfront.]

I wanted something that would instill fear in the criminals I faced.

[headinjuries]

Are people in your city that afraid of them? I've had to get lost ones out of the kitchen a few times and the worst part was always just listening to Mom yelling about rabies.

[ #arizona life ]

[batmotif]

[rabies

Way to make his chosen theme sound lame out of context, Sam. (Though it's not like a random bat sometimes got stuck in the kitchen in Wayne Manor, either...)]

Even if they're not, people are usually startled to run across me in the middle of the night. [understatement of the century.] It's all a matter of theatrics.

[headinjuries]

You have a big swooshy cape and everything, don't you.

[batmotif]

And if I said I did?

[headinjuries]

[ shrug. ]

I always thought capes looked kinda dorky, that's all.

[batmotif]

[can you hear the gears turning in his head as he quietly debates whether or not this is a conversation worth delving deeper into....]

You haven't seen mine.

[headinjuries]

There's only so much you can do with a cape, dude.

[batmotif]

There's plenty you can do with a cape if you're creative enough.

[headinjuries]

Making it look cool is not up there, though.

[batmotif]

And what exactly do you consider "cool"?

[headinjuries]

Iron Man manages to make the hero thing look pretty boss, I guess.

[ Techno-armor beats the hell out of capes and tights. ]