TRUTH SERUM MEME

[continuousgroaning]

TRUTH SERUM MEME!

Step 1: Post with your character(s)
Step 2: Other characters come along and ask them questions. Anon is OK!
Step 3: Your character is obligated to answer truthfully.
Step 4: Discuss the answers ICly. HAVE FUN

Comments

[knaval]

...There's usually other motives for stuff like that. Usually suicidal or spiteful ones.

I guess it's good you were genuinely trying.

[flightforfreedom]

Not actually caring about dying isn't the same as being suicidal.

I don't think.

[knaval]

I'd say they're under the same umbrella.

I'd also say you need to go to therapy, and I'm seriously considering picking you up, taking you there, and blocking the door so you can't get out.

[flightforfreedom]

It just honestly-

I get how it affects other people, now. I do. Odin got that message through to me pretty damn clearly.

But in the end, death here just isn't death. And pain is something I've been through a lot of. I know I can take it.

I'd rather it'd be me, before anyone else.



But yeah I promised once I would go to therapy just never ended up doing it. Feels kind of stupid, to try to talk to a native about the fact that I've died like, what, ten times here?

Six thanks to a bomb and four thanks to a house run by a crazy person.

Pretty sure people are only supposed to die once.

[knaval]

[OPTICS...NARROW...]

You say you get how it affects other people, then go on to say how you still don't think death is death. What's the truth, Poe? You can't have one or the other. You either understand how it affects other people and realise you need to change how you're behaving and start caring again, or you continue to blow the seriousness of dying off and the effects it has as a result.

[flightforfreedom]

Can't lie to you here, bud. Both things are true.

Just because I don't think it matters doesn't mean I can't see that it matters to other people.

[knaval]

Oh, right.

[he frowns.]

Okay. I take that back. Sorry. I'm gonna be more positive then: you're on the road to realising it? You took the first step. Good job, buddy.

[flightforfreedom]

Yeah.

Wish I could have figured it out on my own without having it illustrated, but yeah. I get it now.

[knaval]

How'd he convince you?

[flightforfreedom]

[Oh.

Oh, fuck.

But he finds himself answering because fucking truth serums--]


... He blew up my plane to stop me from going up in it and got himself killed in the explosion.

I don't think he- I don't think he knew that it would blow up, like that, I didn't have time to warn him--

[knaval]

Sounds like the kind of thing Odin would do.

[riptide should probably be angrier, but unfortunately he's far too used to his friends dying.]

I gotta say, being right about something doesn't feel as good as I thought it would?

[flightforfreedom]

He wouldn't have done it if I would have listened.

And then the Porter just--

Took him right out of my arms.



He's back now, but yeah, I.. Get it.

Not sure this is a realization anyone would be very happy about.

[knaval]

Yikes. Sorry it came to that. Though I would've thought the like, two hundred people yelling would've done it...

Whatever. As long as you don't let it go that far next time? 'Cause if you did, then he died for nothing! That's an incentive if I ever saw one.

[flightforfreedom]

I'm used to people yelling at me for being stupid.

Almost every other time it turned out I was doing the right thing anyway.

... just turns out the two times I wasn't, Odin got hurt for it.



Fuck.


[And just the flattest stare.]

Thanks. For that. Riptide. Like I wasn't already aware.

[knaval]

You'd think half the imPort population would have a point, right?

[riptide is not being passive aggressive, here. he does not have any tact; he is being genuine.]

No prob! If you get bad I'll remind you again, but I trust that you won't.

[flightforfreedom]

Lots of people think they have a point, doesn't mean they always do.

But I'll... Try to be less stubborn. [That's as much as he can truthfully promise.]


[He gives a sort of helpless look.]

I think 'Poe, if you keep doing this then Odin died for nothing' is probably... that's probably the ammo you only bring out if I'm really, really bad.

[knaval]

That's better than what most people would promise.

[look at you!! moving on in a good direction!!]

That would be the point, mate. To avoid getting to the point where it has to be used.