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

[batmotif]

So how did you end up being a "superhero"?

[headinjuries]

An alien and a trigger-happy talking raccoon showed up in my hospital room and told me they needed me to go spy on an invading armada.

[batmotif]

[That's... something.]

Somehow you've managed to string all those words together without actually telling me anything, Sam.

[headinjuries]

Sure it told you something. Maybe not the part you were angling for.

[ For example, you now know there was a raccoon involved. See? ]

...it was Dad's thing first, anyway. But he went out after a Chitauri fleet and never came back. So I...finished up.

[batmotif]

[There's a clear pause.]

...Were you close with your father?

[headinjuries]

Not before he disappeared.

[ Which is what makes it worse, really. ]

...I always thought he was full of crap. He'd talk about the Nova stuff and I mean, he was a high school dropout with a drinking habit? So I figured he was just trying to make himself feel better about being a loser. I used to get pretty mad at him.

[ But then he wasn't full of crap, and he was gone before Sam got to apologize or try to make up for it, and...there they are. ]

[batmotif]

It isn't unusual for teens to get upset with their parents. [He's not as good at this consolation stuff as he'd like to be, especially when it concerns... this particular subject. But he can try.] Even if you were wrong in retrospect, you shouldn't regret feeling that way.

[headinjuries]

Yeah, if I never see him again, I'm totally not gonna feel like a douche about that, no problem!

[ Seriously, Bruce? ]

[batmotif]

[Don't look at him like that, ok, he's useless at this. Not to mention someone who can't take his own advice.]

What I'm saying is don't spend time beating yourself up about it.

[headinjuries]

Right. I'll try.

[batmotif]

It's not much consolation, I know.