Forced Honesty

[endcaller]

FORCED HONESTY MEME




You know the drill:

Post with your character.
Your character has to tell the truth and nothing but the truth!

Now interrogate each other.

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Dante | Limbus Company

[followyourstar]

((Note: Dante's canon involves a lot of dark/heavy themes and topics that are more likely to come up thanks to the whole forced honesty thing. Please make sure to hit the opt-out up if you need to or hit me up if anything veers in a direction you're not comfortable with.))

[chimericalclaw]

What kind of life do you think you had before?

[followyourstar]

< That's a tough one... I've been told I was "bigwig," but the fact that I don't have much combat experience means I probably wasn't with any of the Associations back home. So... maybe someone higher up in one of the Wings? >

[chimericalclaw]

Oh? Someone who might have had a lot of secrets, do you think?

Though—are you sure that lack of experience is a result of your life or the fact that you're lacking experience in general?

[followyourstar]

< Probably. If it wasn't something secretive or important, I would have been told already, wouldn't I? >

< I'm not sure, actually. I guess there's always the possibility I could have been someone powerful in that way. >

[And yet somehow they can almost hear one of the Sinners shooting that idea down. As if it happened in some part of canon they've yet to be updated to.]

[chimericalclaw]

I suppose after a year it's likely you would have found something if there was anything easy to find. If you had the time to search.

[Alas! The future revelations!]

Do let me know if you rediscover any martial talents. I'm sure they'd come in handy here.

[followyourstar]

< Oh, well, I've been learning how to shoot if that counts. Don't think I'll be able to pull off anything fancy, but I'm hitting what I aim at pretty regularly now. >

[chimericalclaw]

[wow... pretty regularly, huh...]

Ha... I was making a bit of a joke regarding the strange powers everyone seems to have, but—that's good. Are they moving targets?

[followyourstar]

< ......No. They're still, uh... regular targets. Mostly paper. >

[chimericalclaw]

[..............]

Progress is progress, hm? Keep at it. When you're ready for that, I'm sure we can sort out a course for you in the Danger Room at the mansion.

[followyourstar]

< ...Right. That's there too. I probably should switch to that. >

[chimericalclaw]

It would be a good way to measure your consistency, by running through the same programs. I believe they have a few monitoring systems for that purpose.

Where are you practicing now?

[followyourstar]

< And if I'm making enough progress, I can see if it's worth bringing up back home... Even if it is a pretty big ask. >

< Right now? On the inn roof, with Vincent. >

[chimericalclaw]

What makes it a big ask?

[followyourstar]

< Ammunition is expensive back home, and I think it's pretty heavily regulated too? So I imagine they'd want me to be a good shot if I keep something on me, or else make absolutely sure it's a last resort. >

[chimericalclaw]

Ah, I see. Still, there must be a way for you and others to practice and improve? Surely your company would see it as a boon for you to have another way to defend yourself.

[followyourstar]

< Usually we just head into the Mirror Dungeons for that. >

[...!!

Oh boy, those ticking noises sure are getting quicker.]

[chimericalclaw]

[eyebrow raise...]

That's an... interesting-sounding place. Delving into "dungeons" is a regular practice of your team?

[followyourstar]

< Ah... It's... It's a place we enter through a door in the Corridor at the back of the bus. >

[Why are they still talking??? If they can just... try and steer this...]

< Not sure what it is, exactly, but it's a pretty common sight at this point. >

[chimericalclaw]

Just when I think I've gotten used to the newest concept from your world...

Another dimension, perhaps? Is training all you use it for?

[sorry. he's made of questions.]

[followyourstar]

< I don't... know? A gathering of fragments of possibilities, which only grows the more we encounter. Sometimes we get information or resources from it, but I don't understand how all that works either. >

[chimericalclaw]

Possibilities... [he looks like he's seriously trying to consider the concept, hand over the lower half of his face.] I can't begin to guess at all the applications...

[oh no he has more questions]

How do you know this information you gather there is worthwhile, if it only comes from a possibility?

[followyourstar]

[They're trying to cover their "face" with their hand, but there's no mouth to cover!!!]

< The information is mostly on the way different enemies fight in different situations. Particularly any Abnormalities we end up encountering there. >

[chimericalclaw]

[ignoring the obvious distress for a moment or two—he mutters to himself]

Mmh... strategic value. A simulation in its own right...

[and okay fine, he'd like to ask about abnormalities too but]

... Classified, is it?

[followyourstar]

< V-Very... >

[They hope no one knows they've said anything of this.]