The Forced Honesty meme!

[goateese]

THE FORCED HONESTY MEME



➠ comment with your characters confessing their deep, dark secrets
➠ comment to other characters with questions, reactions, confessions, whatever
➠ hideous conversations in which there are no brain-to-mouth filters happen
➠ no one is late, everyone wins, this text mostly stolen from leah

Comments

[viced]

I talk to machines.

I just know every intimate detail about your life through a sad childhood of being a nerd.

[hedera]

That is remarkably unsettling. You do look like a nerd.

[viced]

Bullshit, I do!

[hedera]

Liar. You look like the type to read under your bedcovers with a flashlight. I can tell.

[viced]

When I was nine.

[hedera]

Childhoods stick, long after you grow out of them.

[viced]

I'm sorry, did you change your name to Dr. Crane when I wasn't looking?

[hedera]

Don't you dare compare me to that quack.

[viced]

Sore spot? Don't talk about childhoods, then. You're not the psychiatrist.

[hedera]

I don't like being lumped in with the rest of them. Most of them.

[viced]

I hate to break it to you, but Gothamite is an umbrella that you're under too.

[hedera]

Unfortunately. That doesn't mean I have to associate with most of them.

[viced]

Too bad. You're stuck with them. And they're stuck with you.

[hedera]

I have not killed nearly enough men to deserve this.

[100% serious]

[viced]

Wow, really?

Maybe it's the fact that you don't give a shit about people that makes you deserve it?

[hedera]

Why should I care about them? I'm only giving them what they deserve. Men aren't worthy of living on the planet they abuse and despoil.

[viced]

And women are any fucking better? Or is this "man" we're talking about? Humans do that, and it's not going to fucking change by socking it to them.

[hedera]

I don't like humans as a whole, but women tend to have more empathy and awareness of their surroundings than men. I've met women I've liked; I've never met any men.

And that's why they need to be stopped in the most permanent way there is.

[viced]

If you're predisposed to hate them, it's not going to matter who they are, you're still going to fucking hate them.

Besides, who died and made you god, because I'm pretty sure talking to plants doesn't mean you can decide the fate of the world any more than any of us.

[hedera]

What do you do when your home has an infestation, Mr. Mayor? Do you let them take over, let them destroy it? Or do you do your best to eliminate the pests and the vermin before they can do even more damage?

I wouldn't kill them if they weren't killers themselves. Or if they weren't in my way. [very small but important addendum]

[viced]

Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't mean they're worthy of being killed. Shit, if I had that liberty, there wouldn't be anyone left.

[hedera]

This is what you don't get. This is what everyone doesn't get. They're not just disagreeing with me; they're killing my children!

[viced]

By just existing, right? It's not the system, it's each individual person who goes out of their fucking way to kill them? Shit, I understand feeling sympathetic to something that isn't normal, but I don't think every broken, run over iPod is a dead baby in the streets!

[hedera]

Your machines aren't alive. My babies are. And I'm not going to feel sorry that a few heartless men aren't alive to deforest the Amazon anymore.

[viced]

Someone once told me that St. Paul thought that buildings had souls, and I don't think machines are as dead as you think they are.

And look, I'm not into deforestation any more than you are, but condemning everyone for some jackholes isn't exactly fair.