(meme) TELL THE TRUTH...

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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

[coolerjunpei]

Yeah, well, any interview that tries to suck you in with upward mobility promises from the start is probably a scam.

Anyway, I worked in a supermarket in college, and then I did some private investigator type stuff for a while.

[conflictresolution]

That's smarter than most I've encountered. Everyone starts at the bottom unless they are born somewhere to close to the top.

What sort of private investigating did you do and how did you enjoy it?

[coolerjunpei]

Definitely not me... I'm a real start-at-the-bottom guy.

[And man, he really would rather not... but, Honesty,] We were mostly the finding-missing-persons kind, and it was awful every day.

[conflictresolution]

And do you enjoy staying at the bottom?

Ah, such cases can't be easy to have to endure. Still, I'm sure for some it would be comforting to know you are looking.

[coolerjunpei]

I never really knew what else to do with my life... Haven't thought about it much.

[.......] Thanks.

[conflictresolution]

So you have no ambition, is it?

[coolerjunpei]

I mean, if you want to get technical about it...

[conflictresolution]

Hmm, I've known many with no ambition. I suggest you find something that you want in your life otherwise you may regret the time you weren't aspiring to be something or someone.

[coolerjunpei]

Yeah yeah, guidance counselor, alright...

[Hmm.]

Can I ask you something, though? What's wrong with just, I dunno, being a normal person with a normal life?

[conflictresolution]

What's your definition of 'normal' wrapped in this question? Is anyone truly normal, or does toiling away with nothing to look forward to how anyone wants to spend their life?

[coolerjunpei]

I look forward to plenty of things. What am I supposed to look forward to? Fifty years of the grind before I get my cocktail on the beach somewhere? Is that any better?

[conflictresolution]

Do you want the grind? Or do you imagine something more, something that inspires you?

[coolerjunpei]

Can I be inspired by having a house and a dog, or is that too ambition-less for a guy like you?

[conflictresolution]

I don't define what gets you out of that single bed of yours in the morning, and if it is a house and a dog, so be it. Once you have it, you'll simply have to move the post to somewhere else.

[coolerjunpei]

"Move the post," my ass... That sounds like more grind to me. When do you stop moving the posts?

[conflictresolution]

When you lose the will for it, are content with your life or you die.

[coolerjunpei]

That's a two out of three losing scenario. I don't like the odds.

[conflictresolution]

Then change them or deal with them.

[coolerjunpei]

Hey, I already said the house and the dog are going great for me.

[conflictresolution]

Do you have those things yet?

[coolerjunpei]

Yeah. Dog just kind of showed up one day... From home, I mean.

[conflictresolution]

So you are set for the rest of your life. Dog and house acquired.

[coolerjunpei]

That's what I'm saying. It's fine, right?

[it's an honesty meme, not an "unpack why you keep needling people for approval" meme, this is fine--]

I guess it's whatever. Where are your posts?

[conflictresolution]

If you say it is fine, it is fine.

Securing my future and that of my family.

[coolerjunpei]

Hmm.

Really didn't peg you for a family man... You got kids?