mercy meme

[magnitudes]

forced truth meme

1. Post your character(s)
2. People respond to your character with a question

3. Your character must reply, and they must reply honestly
4. ????
5. Have fun. Fun is obligatory. Lack of fun will result in severe repercussions.

Comments

[ewenique]

My mission is to find the people who hurt my sisters and to make them pay. I will find the man who killed Niki and I will burn him alive.

I know how to have fun, but fun is not important. Safety and security and rules are important, and Niki is the most important of all. She was fun. She was happy and fun.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Fame. I wanted to make history in my field. I wasn't important enough up to that point.

I had always been. Excluded.

[drizzle]

...I know this is going to sound selfish, but...after everything that's happen, I want to know even if it'll hurt...

[With all that said, she'll decide to ask him plain and simple.]

Am I a bother to you? Is everything I am doing for you...does none of it matter...?

[There will be a light pause as she lowers her head a bit, then shakes it.]

No, that isn't what I want to know. Not really. Forget any of that. What I really mean to say is...or rather ask is: what are your true thoughts about my intentions in wanting to help you?

[slightlyoffchilt]

Sometimes I get lost in the moment, so no. But at this point -- help you. Mostly. Though the sort of help I have in mind would ruin a few aspects of you.

Vast improvements, in my professional opinion.

[slightlyoffchilt]

You were a little overly lethal.

[magnitudes]

Did you honestly expect that to be a revelation for me?

Different people, different ways. I don't even really know how people get under my skin. Spark, I guess. Having some spark and being... complicated and human.

[allforyuu]

[There's definitely an indignant sound escaping his throat when she asks. How could you, Nike. :( Mika grits his teeth and crosses his arms, but the response comes out of his mouth anyway.]

....I don't like you less because of it.

[He is pointedly looking to her side, because this suddenly gets too real.]

It was the first time I'd ever had a big sister. I miss the hugs. You give really good hugs.

[magnitudes]

Robbing a grave seems like a rough decision at the best of times. I'm sorry your friends and you got screwed over, known risks or not.

( Sarissa isn't so good at hugs, right now, but have a gently shoulder pat. )

I don't reckon you're doing too bad at wisdom. Appreciating experience and what you learned is wise all on its own, yeah?

Persephone | The Wicked + The Divine

[pummelgranite]

[ SHE WILL NOT HAVE FUN AND YOU CAN'T MAKE HER ]

[darkimitation]

[There's a long pause before he gives in to respond.]

You're only helping me because you think you know what's best for me. You don't know anything.

[magnitudes]

I reckon that depends a whole heap on a bunch've stuff. Definitions of hurt and if we're counting physical and emotional. There's the things we do that we never know the consequences of, just because the person wasn't someone closely tangled up in our lives. If their thread got all frayed and ragged and may snapped 'cause of us, we might never know just because the weren't woven into our tapestry.

The people we care about, if they're also the people we keep in our lives the most? We get more chances to hurt them, and more chances to realise when we've done it, accidental or not.

[notsheepish]

No, I just wanted it out there, officially.

But yeah, I guess that makes sense... How necessary is "human" for it though, out of curiosity?

[dirtyredneck]

You consider anyone a friend?

[devoutish]

Different worlds, for one.

[devoutish]

You'd pick the option not given?

[beneathbluerafters]

... Maybe Yang. She was one of the friendliest people here, when I first arrived. She was... nice.

Either that or Stephanie, she would want to get it over with as quickly as I would.

[magnitudes]

So you're kind of an ass, too. Seems petty.

I'm not excluding aliens and that, if that's your question. I mean human like— capable of empathy and emotion and understanding.

[drizzle]

[It definitely does get too real as he says that. The tears she usually held back with all of her power, it'll slowly begin to form as she feels real relief to know he didn't hate her or her hugs.]

...t-thank goodness. I was afraid you felt awkward about that. About how we were siblings struggling to survive, but we were happy regardless of the struggles. You have no idea how happy I was there! I always wanted a little brother to dote and do all the things an older sibling does with a younger!

[As much as her older sisters teased her after gaining the ability to summon the wind and rain, she was very much ignored by them when she failed to do the first time around, so she definitely has a soft spot in wanting to have a younger brother to spoil and guide to make up in having been alone for so long.]

Hugging, especially. [There may be a small smile forming.] Will it...be okay if I can...you know...do that once in a while...?

[magnitudes]

I'm contrary, sorry.

I don't like laying out the option of self-sacrifice. It's too easy for some, too brutal for others. Might mess with people in bad ways.

[devoutish]

And what is it for you?

[devoutish]

Who are you, really?

[drizzle]

You're not wrong about that. In believing that I do.

[All said without a second thought after hearing him say so. There will be no hurt in her expression. His words, to be honest, were comforting even if he said the last part.]

I will admit that you're half right. Over not knowing anything. I can't fully understand your struggles in being different. A replica, a copy of someone. But there is one thing we can both agree on as a common ground: we aren't as different as you may believe.

[Taking a seat on the floor they were standing on, Nike will use her foot to tap on the ground in front of her.]

So, why don't we finally have an honest and goodness chat about it? What about you do you believe I don't understand?

[devoutish]

How often do you speak honestly?

[magnitudes]

Fame? That was more important to you than... empathy? Human life? Was it worth it?

I'm struggling to have a lot of empathy for exclusion as an excuse, right now.

[aojona]

Um, what made you decide to be a cop?