the truth of the matter

[pyrogue]

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. Remember to check back later for people in different timezones!

Comments

[helpdesk_hero]

[He's known you FOREVER, man. He watched you scramble after any and every form of acceptance offered.]

Cat got your tongue?

[goldtoxicity]

I don't think I'd like who I'd become if I were all, like, successful and junk.

[ he's pretty successful here. ]

Anyway, you're one to talk.

[helpdesk_hero]

Josh, you are successful here. You're a wonderful doctor, you own your own house and car, among other things, you managed to get our house remodeled for free and launch me into a new career. You've made friends, you've found love. What isn't successful here?

[He's one to what now?]

Pardon?

[goldtoxicity]

You've been holding yourself back in one way or another for as long as I've known you.

[helpdesk_hero]

What's that supposed to mean?

[goldtoxicity]

You overthink literally every single thing.

[helpdesk_hero]

I really don't. I don't overthink doing laundry.

[goldtoxicity]

But were you overthinking something else when you were doing the laundry?

[helpdesk_hero]

No. I just put it in the machine and then went to talk to my agent about shooting schedules.

[goldtoxicity]

Yeah-huh. What were you doin' before that?

[helpdesk_hero]

[Dammit.]

Thinking about how I was going to put that soft sand colored sweater away in my closet because while I really do like wearing it, it was a gift from Damian, and wearing it with my powers different and him not around was weird. But how at the same time I had resolved in September that it was time to move on so I did the tree for him, so clearly a sweater wasn't really a needed gesture.

[goldtoxicity]

See?

[ he rests a hand on his hips. ]

Overthinking.

[helpdesk_hero]

Stop the sassy pose.

[No it wasn't. He indeed holds that it wasn't]

I wasn't overthinking. And even if I was, that doesn't apply to my life or success therein.

[goldtoxicity]

It screws you over in relationships all the time.

[ he shakes his head. ]

You either think you got the outcome figured out before it happens, or you like, think somebody wouldn't want you for basically no reason. Dude, you're your own worst enemy.

[helpdesk_hero]

Pretty sure that we both know Damian helped me get past the latter. And both of those things come from experience, mostly from Nori.

[At least he's learned better than trying to predict Tommy.]

Success in life doesn't mean success in romance. And hell, man, I'm still getting laid here.

[goldtoxicity]

Dude, self-improvement is a constant journey.

[ he lifted that from a self-help book. ]

You're a big sappy romantic though.

[helpdesk_hero]

I journey. A lot.

[Josh... isn't wrong at all. It earns a deep sigh.]

I'm a romantic, yes. And I long for someone to love me. But I don't EXPECT the world to give it to me just because I want it.

[goldtoxicity]

You don't, but you don't really put yourself out there to find it.

[helpdesk_hero]

I tried the speed dating at Fanport. It went horribly. I even did this blind-date thing with a native one of the makeup people from the show knew. It was awkward.

[goldtoxicity]

Speed-dating isn't your thing, and neither is dating people that don't, like, exist in your world.

[helpdesk_hero]

[Now he's getting annoyed.]

You and Laurie are the only ones here that exist in my world! Well, also Billy, but dude, I went to his damn wedding. Second wedding.

[goldtoxicity]

Not your world, I mean like - the superhero world.

[helpdesk_hero]

Yeah. Except I am not a hero here.

[goldtoxicity]

Dude, you know just as well as I do that you don't get to go back to normal life once you're in it. Not even here.

[helpdesk_hero]

Josh, please. What I want is just to be loved. To mean something to someone. To matter to them