OOC Memes: When Writer's Block Attacks

[blond-bondshell.livejournal.com]

Wishbone's chocolate made me remember an old meme that had been kind of fun.

Your character has been force-fed a truth potion and tied to a chair. There's no hope for escape, so don't bother trying. Yes, even for you, Bond. I see you working the knots. No, Lezard, you can't turn us all into tribbles.

Both characters and muns can ask questions. The characters have to answer truthfully, but if they're skilled in verbal gymnastics, they can try to talk their way out of answering. Make a post with the names of the characters up for play, and we'll interrogate them suitably.

Comments

[serrulata.livejournal.com]

...Your brutal honesty. I might not enjoy being subject to it, but it is an admirable trait. You don't lie when the truth suits much better. Discounting, of course, the times when 'truth' can be altered by individual perspective.

[necrobird.livejournal.com]

My "honesty" provides a...clearer reflection. What can you see of yourself in me?

[serrulata.livejournal.com]

"And since you know you cannot see yourself
So well as by reflection, I, your glass,
Will modestly discover to yourself
That of yourself which you yet know not of." If you are to be my Cassius, then I see in you all the times I have betrayed, failed, and wronged those who needed me most.

[necrobird.livejournal.com]

Lovely poetry, but always lovelier falling from your lips. Do you believe that I've ever betrayed or wronged you?

[serrulata.livejournal.com]

No, I believe that you have always been straightforward with me. But then I know that you have destroyed so many lives, interrupted so much promise, that instead of seeing the lives you ended, I see the lives I destroyed. You take death and embrace it with all your being, you accept it and love it. That's something I want but can't bring myself to accept, because I fear it.

[necrobird.livejournal.com]

Death is inevitable, Kurama...and misunderstood. If life ends, all life ends, why does the end need to be feared? We've all seen it. And we'll all face it someday. It's the culmination of life...the absolute most we can do for anyone we love is to bring them death. Let them pass into eternity at the peak of life, without the withering tongue of age and disease, without being sullied by the hands of a murderer who knows nothing of the color of their soul or the sick humor of some accidental end, contrived by the whim of fate. The fear is only for the unknown, the passage into death, not death itself. But we both have the knowledge, the experience of death now. It's no longer a blind faith...we now both know there really is nothing to fear.

[serrulata.livejournal.com]

I won't accept that. I've cheated death twice; I will cheat it again. If a tree is strong enough, it will keep growing until it is cut down, or something stops it. If I don't let myself be cut, then I'll ...

I don't know what I'll do. But I won't let myself end.

[necrobird.livejournal.com]

You think you'll be able to cheat death for eternity? Eventually everything ends, Kurama. No tree has ever lived forever, nor will ever outlive time. Even if you manage to evade death for thousands, millions, billions of years eventually everything will end. And by then you'll die alone, old and jaded with the world. Do what you want in life...do everything you want in life. But the end will come for you, as it will for everything else in existence. You are not above this rule, and neither am I. My resurrection here is just a temporary Eden in a life that has no care for me. I will end again. Permanently. And you'll follow me...you know you have no choice. Once life begins, it's destined to end. It that wasn't the truth, the inherent truth of existence, then no one would have a will to live.

You can't have life without death, just as you can't have death without life.

[serrulata.livejournal.com]

It's the ending that I'm afraid of, the inevitability an finality of it. I know that I can't avoid it, that I'm drawn to it. I wish I could embrace it, like you, and that I wouldn't have to live in fear of it.

[necrobird.livejournal.com]

You can embrace it, Kurama. You can see through my eyes...you can hear my voice, and you know what I say to be true. You understand. If we don't see death as beauty, we'll lose everything we love in life. If we don't take control of death and submit to death, we'll lose ourselves in the truth. And if we don't accept the truth...death will kill us. All of us. And we'll never know an eternity without fear. The only way to keep...to hold on to those we love...is to see them through to death. To be their final memory. To...see them through to darkness, and let it embrace them as we long to do, but can't lest they...lose themselves to us. To mortal life. To a false eternity. To...a lie.

[serrulata.livejournal.com]

I can't deny that truth. But it still frightens me. I am a thief, a treasure hunter; the things I have I want to keep. It's the same with the people I love. When they die, when they are destroyed, there is nothing left. Everything I do revolves around keeping, not being a mere memory.

[necrobird.livejournal.com]

*whispered*

I wish I could take away your fear...

[serrulata.livejournal.com]

I wish it could be taken.

[necrobird.livejournal.com]

*long silence*

It's not possible...to live without fear. Once fear is gone, you are lost...and nothing...can ever save you.

[serrulata.livejournal.com]

*mutual silence*

Then if my only choice is to die, then what choice do I have? Fear... or oblivion.

[necrobird.livejournal.com]

If there was another choice, I'd have chosen it. But as it stands...

*pause*

...there was nothing else I could do for you.

[serrulata.livejournal.com]

... I see too late, it seems.

[necrobird.livejournal.com]

Kill me again.

*takes a breath*

If you can find a way, kill me again. And...when I die, let me know you understand. Let me know you understand...what I want for you.

[serrulata.livejournal.com]

And if I can't?

[necrobird.livejournal.com]

Then I will kill myself.

[serrulata.livejournal.com]

I suppose I'll have to find a way, then.

[necrobird.livejournal.com]

...will you enjoy it?

[serrulata.livejournal.com]

Considering that it wouldn't be forced upon me by circumstance, probably yes.

[necrobird.livejournal.com]

Don't hold back. I want you to indulge in everything you've wanted to do to me.

Though, of course, I'll fight back. It wouldn't be fun if it was easy.

[serrulata.livejournal.com]

Of course I'll hold back. At first. After all, it's no fun if it's over too quickly, is it?