Forced Honesty Meme

[ua_duibhne]

Forced Honesty Meme

was there something in that tea? spell gone awry? either way you suddenly feel the need
to tell everyone everything you never wanted to admit!

• post your characters
• reply to other characters with questions or confessions!
• spill the tea

Comments

[zewu_jun]

Well, isn't it their choice?

[gunsmithed]

If you already know what the answer is, would you really want someone to suffer through figuring it out for themselves? It seems kinder to save them the trouble.

[zewu_jun]

But are you sure you know the answer? Not everyone feels the same way.

[gunsmithed]

I know many fewer answers than I like to pretend.

[zewu_jun]

If you don't allow anyone to get close to you, then how will you know for certain? I'm sure there are people that will not be unhappy near you.

[gunsmithed]

I have. I still think they'd do better without, half the time.

[zewu_jun]

But is that what they think?

[gunsmithed]

I wouldn't know.

[zewu_jun]

Shouldn't you let them at last make the attempt? Perhaps what you do not know is that they find it worth the effort.

[gunsmithed]

I'm not preventing anyone from doing anything.

[zewu_jun]

Really? [Okay, even Xichen can't maintain his neutral expression for that one.]

Aren't you?

[gunsmithed]

I haven't told anyone that they can't.

[ Being a pedant is useful sometimes. ]

[zewu_jun]

Young Master Percival, I'm sure you are aware that one does not need to tell someone they cannot do something to make it impossible for them.

Or at least very inconvenient.

[gunsmithed]

What would you suggest, then?

[zewu_jun]

You could at least take one step. Not halfway, I would not assume anything so bold, but a single step to ease the walk and to see where it might lead?

[gunsmithed]

A step towards what, precisely? I have friends. I could count you among them.

[zewu_jun]

I'm honored to be considered among your friends, Young Master Percival. I hope that you know I consider you one as well.

I suppose as such I am concerned with making sure you are content.

[gunsmithed]

I think contentment is more than I can ask for.

[zewu_jun]

But I still hope you can have it. Is there anything that you want? Even beyond your reach.

[gunsmithed]

I want my family back. I want to have not unleashed something dangerous and unstoppable on the world out of my own fear and ignorance. I want to be more than a coward.

[zewu_jun]

I... am sorry for your loss. For the past, there is little that can be changed, but as for what you are, I believe you are already quite more than that.

[gunsmithed]

I'm really not. But I pretend well.

[zewu_jun]

You are a good friend and a skilled craftsman at the very least. That is already twice more than what you claim to be.

[gunsmithed]

I can do that and still be a coward.

[zewu_jun]

I do not think you are a coward. But why do you believe so?