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

[the_caped_crusader]

To make you all wake up from this fantasy world that you're living in before you kill yourselves or someone else.

1/2

[pummelgranite]

Eugh! You're so sure you understand what I am and what I need! Because obviously you already have it figured all out, after all of five conversations and reading a couple network posts.

[pummelgranite]

But y'know whats really some shit?


. . . I thought you could understand me. Maybe. Or maybe you could have? What you said to me when we first met, and at Chilton's party. What you said about my song . . . I thought . . . it might not be so lonely. Maybe someone could actually get it. But I don't know that you even ever wanted to.


That's why you're a prick.

[the_caped_crusader]

[There's a long issue.]

So, tell me then. What are you really?

[pummelgranite]

I am beyond explanation.


[ She tilts her head back, looking at the sky instead of him. She rubs at her face, trying to figure out how to answer. ]


I'm the Destroyer. I'm a goddess. I'm human. I'm dying. I've died. I'm a corpse. I'm immortal. I'm nineteen and I'm- I dunno, thirty four hundred, maybe? And I'm way the fuck older than that too, and also I haven't even existed for six months. I'm the Destroyer, the end of the world, the anti-christ; I'm the death of the light, Betrothed-to-darkness. And I'm the girl with the mouth full of ash- I'm an angry ghost who'd been murdered for being born more times than I can remember, and I can remember more than you'd think. I am something that the world- any world is probably better off without. And I'm something that was made for humanity's own benefit. I'm a carefully selected and groomed and manipulated human sacrifice, and I'm the most powerful of the gods, and I don't know why.


There's a lot I don't know about my power or my circumstances, but I know I'm more than a deluded child. If that's really what you see in me- no matter how much other flattery about potential you want to hide it in, then you're no help to me.

[the_caped_crusader]

Lied to, confused, scared, hurt. Nobody said deluded. This is as honest to me as you've ever been, beyond the bluster of whatever you think being a part of has made you.

[pummelgranite]

[ She snorts. Not going to deny much of that, though. ]


A lot people have said deluded. You said I was living in a fantasy world less than an entire minute ago. You think I don't know what this whole thing looks like? You think you're the first concern-trolling skeptic I've met?

[the_caped_crusader]

Listen to yourself for a minute. Destroyer? Betrothed to darkness? More a recitement of a story you were told once than something that you actually know.

But you have to believe it, don't you? Because after losing everything else you don't have anything else to hang on to but that.

[pummelgranite]

Περσεφόνη is an epithet. Persephone has always been the Destroyer, and I've always been Persephone.


Maybe I don't have anything else, but that doesn't make it less true.

[the_caped_crusader]

I know what it means. I've also heard the story. But your experiences are yours, not hers.

[pummelgranite]

Uh, yeah, no shit!? When the fuck have I said it isn't? I know I'm fucked up! And that all- whatever, everything, it fucked me up worse! I know!