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

[shifting]

You know, I'm still not sure whether you're out to help or ruin me.

Do you even know?

[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.

[shifting]

Guess we'll see if I let you. But if I had to guess, I'd think you better aim small.

Good to hear you're about as confused as I am, though. I'm almost startin' to enjoy snipin' with you. You might be growin' on me. Like a fungus.

[slightlyoffchilt]

A fungus. What would that make you? A corpse?

[shifting]

I run too hot for a corpse.

[slightlyoffchilt]

A corpse on fire, then. If we need to get specific.

[shifting]

This you "gettin' lost in the moment" again? We've gotta work on your focus.

[slightlyoffchilt]

And how do you propose that?

[shifting]

Games can be pretty good learnin' techniques.

[slightlyoffchilt]

As in, chess? Or something else?

[shifting]

You would say chess. [humored.]

Cards makes a little more sense. You've gotta throw in some chance.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Do not dare suggest strip poker, Merlotte.

[shifting]

Your mind went there first, not mine.

[slightlyoffchilt]

I am simply setting a boundary.

[shifting]

Didn't realize we were respectin' those.

[slightlyoffchilt]

You are respecting them. I have a doctorate.

[shifting]

Which I really couldn't care less about. This ain't a one-way street.

[slightlyoffchilt]

You don't possess the force to make it otherwise.

[shifting]

...You don't think I'd stop you, if I felt you were pushing too far?

[slightlyoffchilt]

Don't think you can, if I'm already in that deeply.

[shifting]

That's a dangerous way to think, Frederick. 'Cause I assure you I would.

And you might believe you're in my deep end already, but I promise your feet can still touch. It only looks that way to you 'cause I don't normally let swimmers in at all.

[slightlyoffchilt]

You do not normally allow swimmers to penetrate your depths? If I understand correctly?

[shifting]

[muffled by the hand on his face:] Every goddamn time.

[slightlyoffchilt]

You leave yourself open to interrogation.

[shifting]

And I'll bet you never miss an opening.

[turnabout's fair play.]

Which I'm curious about, while we're bein' honest with each other. How close to the mark was I in guessin' about your college days? [the ones which never quite ended, in Sam's estimation.]