FORCED HONESTY

[monster_san]

1. Post your character
2. Post to other characters: ask questions! Give unsolicited opinions! Confess!
3. Everything must be honest! No lies here.

Comments

[baetiful]

What would you do to Lucifer if you could?

[slightlyoffchilt]

Force empathy upon him. Make him feel that. It would be quite the trick.

[baetiful]

Have you done something like that before?

[slightlyoffchilt]

No, not with empathy, but I'm willing to experiment.

[baetiful]

You do seem like a man who is open to many possibilities. If only I could have shown you my brothels back home.

[slightlyoffchilt]

I would be curious to know what flavor you would showcase to me.

[baetiful]

That all depends on your tastes, my friend. While I, personally, would enjoy seeing you humiliated, I always cater to my customers and their coin.

[ Since we are being brutally honest here. ]

[slightlyoffchilt]

[That catches Chilton by surprise -- Baelish's smiling veneer had fooled him efficiently.]

I -- me, specifically? Have I offended? [He knows he has a habit of doing that.] Or is this a personal affinity?

[baetiful]

Oh no, it's nothing so personal. It's merely that everyone here is a plaything, there for my own enjoyment.

[slightlyoffchilt]

You are far more sociopathic than I gave you credit for.

[baetiful]

Come now. You say that as though it's a bad thing -- as though you do not delight in having friends of my specific personality type. I'm giving you your own little slice of power, aren't I?

[slightlyoffchilt]

It is a high price when that power given implies you have far more power over me.

[baetiful]

I will always have power over you, Dr. Chilton. How long did it take you to achieve the career path you sought in this world? A year? Two? I got what I was after in only a few short months. Your problem is that you hold yourself back. I imagine you could be quite the formidable opponent if you did not.

[slightlyoffchilt]

And is that what you want from me? A formidable opponent? Because if it is -- well, how would you go about achieving that?

[baetiful]

I do not imagine it to be very difficult. Even now, I am sure you're filled with a desire to take me down. But to truly ignite that fire inside of you, I must first fuck you over. Is that not what Dorian or Lucifer did to you? And look at how much you are driven to destroy the two of them.

What I want from you, truly want from you, is for someone to fulfill the role Varys once held. Someone I greatly admire to be the one to challenge me. Someone to be a friend and an enemy all at once. Of the people I've met here, you are the only one with that much potential. I respect you, Dr. Chilton. And it was no lie to Rincewind that I do view you as my dearest friend.

[ It's just that even friends, or maybe especially friends, are not immune to being fucked with. ]

[slightlyoffchilt]

The sort of behavior evident within narcissists. You use people before they can use you -- a defensive mechanism, a preconceived advantage. And yet, Petyr, you like a good challenge. You need it. You have to make yourself a little vulnerable sometimes to get it, don't you?

[baetiful]

Ah, I am not so certain that is true. I understand that in order to use at times one must allow themselves to be used. Most men have their pride and ego to get in the way, but most men also fail. I will do anything to get what I want. And when you are prepared to showcase your weaknesses -- physical or emotional -- do they really count as vulnerabilities any longer?

[slightlyoffchilt]

So then it about returns. You're willing to bend over -- as long as you control the context, the degree of your spine bent -- assuming that you will be able to utilize the experience for your own favorable outcome. Submissive manipulation.

A weakness, however degraded and rendered less virile, is still something to abuse.

[baetiful]

Do you not do the same, Doctor Chilton? You so often place yourself in close proximity to dangerous, powerful criminals. Do you not submit to their terms so that you may obtain control?

[slightlyoffchilt]

I prefer to assert my dominance first.

[Which is, of course, a walk around the question.]

[baetiful]

You're not a man of strength, no matter your preference.

[slightlyoffchilt]

[A beat.]

I am not above what you suggested I would do for power. I know.

[baetiful]

Are you afraid to admit to it? Or afraid of what that says about you? Only by embracing who we are can we get what we want.

[slightlyoffchilt]

And who am I in your opinion?

[baetiful]

There are the men who are warriors and the men who are scholars. But then there are the men who scheme and fuck. You, my friend, are the latter.