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]

From you, I assume.

Would you prefer me to stop asking?

[hardedged]

Yep.

[ on both counts. ]

[magnitudes]

I can handle myself.

And okay. You can tell me when - if - you ever wanna tell me.

[hardedged]

You don't know the kind of shit I put people through.

[magnitudes]

Likewise.

Shit, maybe you're right. Maybe we'd be like trying to use kerosene to put out a housefire.

[hardedged]

[ a scoff. ]

If we're playing the Asshole Olympics, I still win.

[magnitudes]

You can be a dick and still be a good person. You can play at being nice and be the worst there is. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and acting like you're helping people by just giving up.

[hardedged]

Better than putting them at risk. And fuck off. You don't know anything about me.

[ #matureaf ]

[magnitudes]

You think you're the spark and the rest of the world is doused in fuel. Exposure to you is a risk for the rest of the world that you don't want to chance. You're compassionate enough to save the world but you aren't nice. You've beem hurt and screwed over over and over and that's all you think most people that get close to you will do.

[hardedged]

Talking about me there, or yourself?

[magnitudes]

Both. I know you, Jessica Jones.

[hardedged]

[ a pause. ]

I wish you didn't.

[magnitudes]

Fine. You like that I don't go, but you don't like why I stay. That's really fucked up.

[hardedged]

Yeah well, you're preaching to the choir.

[ she knows she's fucked up. nothing new. ]

[magnitudes]

There is oen difference between us. You give up without trying because you don't want your feelings hurt more. I do it too, but at least there's lives on the line with my bullshit.

[hardedged]

That's where you're wrong.

[magnitudes]

Yeah? Enlighten me.

[hardedged]

[ she hates you so much rn, sarissa. ]

That devil I mentioned? Name's Kilgrave.

Back home, he killed innocent people. Because of me.

[magnitudes]

Oh. Shit.

( well, she hates herself too. )

I'm sorry. But that's-- never being close to anyone again ain't a solution.

[hardedged]

Whatever works.

And it's only half the reason, anyway.

[magnitudes]

And the other half?

[hardedged]

I don't deserve to be around others. To be... [ an exhausted exhale. ] Happy.

[magnitudes]

( OKAY. WOW.

The slowest exhale, and she is going to just take Jessica's hands TO HELL with whatever dramatic self-isolating nonsense Jessica might try to pull. Gently, but insistently: )

That is bullshit. You deserve to be happy, and to have good things, and you deserve better than bloody torturing yourself. And you know I'm not placating you because we're stuck in a void of bloody truthiness.

[hardedged]

[ she keeps her gaze low, glancing at their entwined hands, but doesn't pull away. ]

You don't know what I've done, Sarissa. What he made me do.

[magnitudes]

I don't need to. And if he made you do it? That's different.