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

[heliophilic]

Why are you always raring for a fight?

And I don't mean of the pokemon or impocreat variety.

[halloflamer]

[Tiny puff of air. Man, screw this forced truth thing, right?]

It's way easier to start a fight you're ready for than to take a hit you didn't see coming, you know?

[halloflamer]

I know you don't gotta worry about that, but...........

[heliophilic]

So then I take you're so used to people coming after you that you just start things first?

Also, though I do a wonderful job of pretending I'm omniscient, I regret to inform you that even I've been blindsided before.

[halloflamer]

I didn't say that... [Well, it's not exactly...] It's not fights I'm starting in the first place. I guess it's on you if you see it that way.

It's more like... "any attention is good attention"?

[And acting 'cool' will get him more attention, right?]

Oh yeah? ...Did you get hurt?

[heliophilic]

Wouldn't you rather be seen for who you really are, instead of some mask?

[It's a question that M grappled with from personal experience. There's a reason he goes by M instead of a more normal name.

At the question, he nods.]

By my ex. Turned out not only were we in the same library in regards to our relationship, he was the guy I'd been trying to hunt down for months. Found this all out the second he slipped a kitchen knife into my insides.

[halloflamer]

A coward and a crybaby. Yeah, I'm sure they'll love it.

[There is no winning, from his point of view. Not with anyone but the one person who knew him before he became too afraid to be himself.]

[Also, cringe. Extremely cringe. Blue isn't made for this kind of soldier-spy-hero stuff, okay?] G-gross. Um, sorry.... I guess.

[heliophilic]

That why your pokemon like you?

[He's not sure why, but he feels like it's the right thing to say. Being a jerk is easy, being nice is hard.]

Too much? ...Sorry. I forget not everyone lives as colorful a life as me.

[And thank goodness for that. He loves it, but he would never wish it on anyone else.]

[halloflamer]

...I don’t know why they like me. [Hey thanks for pressing the guilt button, M, that you probably didn’t know was there] I’ve done nothing to earn it after how I misraised them.

Colorful... I don’t if that’s the right word, man.

[heliophilic]

[Oops.]

You say that, but I've met your Eevee, remember? I saw how much she cares about you. You gotta earn that level of affection.

I figured it was a nicer way of saying my life's got a lot of red in it.

[halloflamer]

Because... Eevee's always been there. Through everything. He saw all the bad stuff. The really bad stuff.

But that doesn't mean I wasn't really bad to them... I trained them to be loyal to me. I don't know anymore whether I can just believe that their trust is something I ever earned.

I don't get that kind of life either, but I also don't know if I wanna ask.

[heliophilic]

Bullshit, kid. Yeah, you can beat someone until they know better than to disobey you, but they're never gonna look at you like that. There's loyalty through fear and loyalty through affection, and that Eevee cares.

[At the part about his own life, he just shakes his head slowly.]

If you ever wanna know, my life's an open book. I'll tell you whatever you want. If you don't... I won't be offended. I get it. I work hard so that people like you don't ever have to see what people like me do.

[halloflamer]

It'd be easier for them to just hate me than to have to keep wondering why I can't stop hating myself.

All of them.

[heliophilic]

[M grows quiet, trying to find the "right" words to say in this situation. Punching things is easy, but consoling people... it's still something he has to work on.]

You think that maybe they see something in you that you don't?

[halloflamer]

[WHOOPS guess that’s what happens when you ask about people’s emotional masks, M!!!]

I guess that’s the usual explanation, yeah....

Frolicked if I know what. People don’t got the same reasons here to suck up to me that they do back home...

[heliophilic]

[He'll learn one day!!]

Let me guess, you're a real somebody back home.

[halloflamer]

...Yeah, but....... My gramps, more like.

I mean, me too. I'm a Kanto region Champion, a former Gym Leader, World Tournament Invitational Runner-up and a head of the Alola Battle Tree. Honestly speaking, I'm probably within the top 10, top 5 trainers in the world, all-time wins ranked.

[Just a humble brag.]

But what they're after, usually... [Grumble]

Gramps is... the foremost authority on Pokémon research. Responsible for a lot of the base-classification system used in modern Pokéology. He also invented the Pokédex- that's that device I use all the time, an electronic Pokémon encyclopedia and information recording device. In addition to that, he's the Kanto region's official starter Pokémon distributor. Any new trainer in the whole region who's going off on their journey, they have a choice of Pokémon from him. And those Pokémon, they're rare and endangered, hardly seen in the wild, so you can only get such Pokémon from a certified researcher like him.

Plus he's a famous veteran trainer in his own right, widely known for his talkshow and lecture appearances........

[Talk about a chip on the shoulder.]

[heliophilic]

Living in the shadow of your grandfather, then?

[halloflamer]

[Stupid forced truth!]

I love him, but I... gave up a long time ago on expecting people to react any other way when they hear the name 'Oak'.