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

[magnitudes]

Maybe chuck in a squint to make people either uncomfortable and guilty or over-confident, before reality hits?

[catchacold]

Oh yes. Whatever way I can make them feel bad about their lack of originality.

It's in the details.

[magnitudes]

Nice. Always a good way to go - unless it's me that's been unoriginal, then I gotta say it's a terrible way to go.

[catchacold]

No need to feel insecure. If you tried again you might hit on nostalgia. Like, Leonerd. Haven't heard that one since primary school.

[magnitudes]

I feel like the cooler way to go would be to push it into Leonardo and get you a little blue eye mask thing. Maybe a shell suit. I might even be dedicated enough to knit you a sweater with a shell design, but then I'd lie and say I didn't knit it because I never admit I can knit.

( eAe ) Christ.

[catchacold]

Tough situation for you, isn't it?

Actually I'm into it. Watched the movies about a thousand times, my partner's into ninja. Leonardo's up my alley.

Why not admit to knitting?

[magnitudes]

Sometimes. And everyone should like ninja turtles. They're reptiles that fight crime, it's bloody amazin'.

And I lie about knitting 'cause I like to pretend I'm cooler than I am, and I like to project that I don't care when I do, although I've been told repeatedly that I'm bad at both. It's a combination of me being silly and my crushing insecurities and fear of rejection. If someone doesn't like a dumb sweater you saw in the store for ten bucks it's not the same sting as if they don't like a sweater they know you spent hours working on.

[catchacold]

Take it from me, only thing that makes you cool or not is how much you care about being it. Don't really get why people comment on your sweaters anyway. Though they look good from where I'm sitting.

You do anything else or just sweaters?

[magnitudes]

I'm a master of cableknit. I made my sister Ali a giant cableknit blanket for Christmas. Sometimes scarves. I'm gonna branch out into turtle cozies if Darlene winds up getting one.

[catchacold]

See, I ain't an expert on things like that, but that sounds damn adorable to me. Only thing I can do with my hands is take.

[magnitudes]

Ex-cops turned mercenaries aren't meant to be adorable, mate. Doesn't matter how many turtles I make look like hamburgers, I'm still more likely to break things apart - it's better people don't get the idea that I care, for their own sakes.

[catchacold]

I've seen worse people have their adorable moments. If people were that black and white, the world would be boring.

Hiding how you feel, yeah? Been there. Am there.

[magnitudes]

Boring, sure. Might make it easier to keep people safe. Good are good, bad are bad, lines could be drawn real easy.

I am in a permanent state of hiding how I feel and then bleeding how I feel so thoroughly "wet floor" sign. Why are you hiding?

[catchacold]

Think part of the issue is that people draw lines that easily anyway. Just ain't true.

My father thought I shouldn't show emotion, that it's weakness. Made sure I wouldn't even cry while I get broken. He had real good ways of teaching a lesson that sticks.

[magnitudes]

People are a bit shit sometimes, hey?

My old man was— well, I don't know enough to know if he was the same, but it sounds familiar enough. "Have a spoon of cement, toughen up," yeah? I'm real sorry he treated you that way. I won't ask more because I don't like talking about it when people ask me, but that doesn't mean I'm not sorry.

[catchacold]

Sounds familiar. Don't worry about it, I killed him eventually. Only took forty years.

Sorry about yours too. Hope you caught up faster than I did.

[magnitudes]

I tried very hard to be lawful good. Dickhead's still knockin' about. Almost blew up his office when I was a kid, but.

Depends what you mean by "caught up", I guess.

[catchacold]

Figured out there's no depth to how bad a father can be faster than I did.

But lawful good, huh? What's your alignment these days?

[magnitudes]

Dunno when I pinned it down. I was lucky. My uncle's a pretty great guy. At least I got a counterbalance, sometimes.

Idealistically? Neutral good, I guess. We need the chaos to keep our minds alive, and for that push of adrenaline, y'know? But law, if it functions right, that can help protect people from something worse than law being forced on 'em.

Practically? I dunno - chaotic neutral, maybe. I reckon I do too much damage to manage better than that. You?

[catchacold]

That can be worth a lot. Good on you.

Chaotic neutral too, but I don't know if I had any higher aspirations. Mostly all chaotic, perhaps evil or good at some points.