(meme) TELL THE TRUTH...

[expiationmods]

IC TRUTH MEME...!

- Quite what it says on the tin, really.
- TL with your character
- Other characters ask questions from them, and they have to answer with honesty
- DRAMA!
- remember, the threads from the meme are not accepted as ac.

Comments

[laserguy]

Obviously??

[.......]

Wait. You do know that the X-Men is the actual name of the team, right? It's not because... everyone's a former dude or whatever. It's in reference to the X-Gene in us.

[nightwild]

... It is? But neither of them wear jeans?

[laserguy]

G-E-N-E.

As in, DNA and stuff. Get it?

[nightwild]

[She pauses for a second.]

... Maybe I... might have learned about that in school...? But I don't know about an X-whatever.

[mightymorphin]

Yes, seriously!

My Posh Spice impression makes for a great distraction when we're in NYC. I can keep civilians asking for autographs instead of wandering too close to a fight.

[laserguy]

I mean, you can technically do an impression of anyone. Can't you just distract them by becoming any famous celebrity?

Or the people of NYC just really like Posh Spice?

[laserguy]

X-Gene.

[Is this how his teachers felt?????] It's what gives mutants-- Morph, Rogue, me, our powers. Therefore, X-Men because of X-Gene.

[nightwild]

... I don't really get it, but I don't think I'm gonna. I dropped out in middle school, after all. So, that's fine.

You're mutants and you have a special gene and your powers come from that. I guess that's like your version of the Goddess?

[mightymorphin]

Monsters?! But -

[If it weren't for the conversation that they had with Nura about what it means to be a 'monster', Morph would've kept going instead of biting their tongue. Instead, they say emphatically,]

Don't go around turning people into things without their permission, got it?

[mightymorphin]

There was no lasting harm, so they'll get over it sooner or later. Look, if you don't give people a chance, they'll never be able to surprise you.

[nightwild]

-- I'm not! It doesn't- That's not how it works, anyway!

[She sounds... a little frustrated? But she manages to rein in her temper enough to calm down and explain.]

It just gives you power if you make a wish on it. But most people... You give them the power to grant their wish, and it consumes them. People lose themselves to the power.

If you can keep sight of yourself- If you don't let your heart get consumed by the power, then you can become like me, and control it. Otherwise... people just go crazy. Try to use their power however they please.

[nightwild]

Surprise me with what, exactly? Pity? Or getting told how wrong I am?

[mightymorphin]

Good. It's fine for people to be curious, but no one should be going overboard like that.

[mightymorphin]

The trick is picking a celebrity that's popular at the moment! Otherwise no one's going to give me a second glance, especially in the city. I have to switch it up every few months to make sure I get the maximum amount of attention.

[opheliac]

Both!

[traumaticus]

And you do understand that you are separate entity from those who you mentioned, correct?

[opheliac]

They know that I know what's best for them.

[traumaticus]

Truly so?

[opheliac]

Of course, dummy! That's how our relationships been going so strong.

[nuraridouman]

I'll drop by if there's a good reason for it. But I don't really like to impose on others too much.

[nuraridouman]

Hah. Isn't the answer to that "riddle" obvious?

That man wasn't Abe no Seimei. He might have been some distant relative getting a kick out of having inherited the name like a title and putting on an act, but I can assure you that his blood was far too mixed to be the real deal. That was a part-youkai if I've ever smelled one.

[nuraridouman]

Never? It's not like it matters here either way.

[Douman shrugs his shoulders, not looking at all bothered or sorry for withholding info about him. There's a lot he doesn't tell people on the regular, after all.]

Maybe another time. I still need to get an idea of who's behind all those names you keep dropping before I could really appreciate such a story.

[nuraridouman]

So you are going to shower and bathe with your costume on from now on?

[nuraridouman]

That's fair.


Once again, I can't help but envy you.

[nightwild]

"Too mixed"...? Part-youkai?

Everyone knows Abe no Seimei was a half-fox.