(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

[conflictresolution]

There are the caves, and I expect you could force people to build you the necessary living arrangements that would suit such a form.

Do humans make you curious?

[nilhilistic]

That is a great deal of work with little payoff, even if it did succeed. I don't see the point when I have another form to use.

[ at silco's question, rafal pauses, perplexed. ]

Curious in what way?

[conflictresolution]

You have a place to live that fits your superior form. How is that little pay off?

Well, you take human form, speak our language, use some of our mannerisms. Those have to be learned. Does it inspire curiosity in us?

[nilhilistic]

I rather live without discomfort. Even food and security would be difficult.

What makes you think you did not learn it from dragons first? We existed long before humans.

[conflictresolution]

You're a dragon. What could harm you?

If we did, you wouldn't be imitating us but the other way around I expect.

[nilhilistic]

I said discomfort, not pain. Eating ice-cream as a dragon is annoying.

Dragons imparted a great deal on humans. It's why we are worshipped. Having a human form has nothing to do with humans themselves. It is simply a part of us.

I am a still a dragon, even now.

[conflictresolution]

I wouldn't know. I don't eat such things.

Is that so? Are you worshipped here?

[nilhilistic]

What do you eat then?

Not here. But on plenty of worlds, certainly.

[conflictresolution]

Not much, but what I do is generally seafood.

Do you want to be worshipped here?

[nilhilistic]

Now imagine the quantity and cooking needed to feed a dragon.

No. The worship and adulation of humans doesn't mean anything to me.

[conflictresolution]

I obviously falsely assumed you would fly around and feed yourself.

What does mean something to you?

[nilhilistic]

Again, it is much easier to feed a human than it is to feed a dragon. I get more out of it this way.

. . . Why do you want to know?

[conflictresolution]

Fair enough. We will let that sleeping dragon lie then.

Curiosity. Why are you evading?

[nilhilistic]

It is a rather personal question. Evasion is normal.

[conflictresolution]

Many people want to know what motivates another. It can breathe life into alliances if goals are similar.

[nilhilistic]

. . . I am only here to atone. I have no interest in possessing personal motivations anymore.

[conflictresolution]

Is that all? You sound like a depressed teenager.

[nilhilistic]

Depressed teenagers don't wipe out worlds.

It is my oath. I take it seriously.

[conflictresolution]

Why did you wipe out worlds?

[nilhilistic]

It was in the way. I needed power and I had to rid myself of humanity to gain it.

[ this is true. it's not the whole truth, but it is true. ]

[conflictresolution]

I see. I appreciate your candor.

[He can respect this requirement to gain power.]

[nilhilistic]

I have no reason to deny or hide it.

[ he does feel guilty about it. at times. but that's different. ]

[conflictresolution]

Most don't admit to genocide readily I have found.

[nilhilistic]

Those people are weak.

It does not cost me anything to admit what I've done.

[conflictresolution]

Well, few of the general populous enjoy getting behind genocidal authoritarians.

Perhaps future alliances. That is assuming that you need them at all.