No More Secrets Meme

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Good evening meatship, I bring you your Friday meme!

No More Secrets

1. All of your character's darkest and most embarrassing secrets, the ones that they have been holding back from the crew, are now common knowledge.

2. Since not everyone knows everyone's canon, comment with your character and a bulleted list of the things they have been holding back from the crew. These can be funny things (that time I ran around with my underwear outside my pants), embarrassing things (Little Black Book-type secrets) or the dark things they never wanted anyone to know.

3. Other characters react to these sudden revelations about your character. Will it change the way people feel about each other?

IMPORTANT: PLEASE POST WARNINGS IN THE SUBJECT LINE IF SOMETHING IN THE COMMENT IS TRIGGERY. This meme has the potential to be a lot more dramatic than our usual fare, and I want to make sure everyone is comfortable.

Muns, have fun! Characters... well, I'm not sure "fun" applies.

Comments

Re: Maydril val Mandrian

[drowpaladin.livejournal.com]

I do not think you are bad? Either of you? Some people cannot have their curiosity sated by reading about things. You and Ben just need to *do*. Does that make sense?

Re: Maydril val Mandrian

[farfrom-tree.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess so. But we kinda attract trouble a lot. Or I do, at least.

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

[hugs.] Thank you, Devlin.

[farfrom-tree.livejournal.com]

I wish you didn't have to go through all that. I wish NOBODY ever had to.

Re: Maydril val Mandrian

[drowpaladin.livejournal.com]

With no offense to Nura, my mother used to say that some people do not look for trouble, but have trouble look for them. It is no fault of your own.

Re: Maydril val Mandrian

[farfrom-tree.livejournal.com]

I guess so. Though with Ben at least, he definitely makes at least SOME of it.

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

I became a Legionnaire just for that reason.

[at-a-peak.livejournal.com]

At least something good came out of it.

[i-saw-myself.livejournal.com]

Is that some kind of biological thing with Andalites? Getting disabled means you have this urge to go hide? Because nothing about losing my leg has given me this inherent urge to hide myself from the world--other than worrying about what people might think. Those kinds of things.

[tricks-of-trade.livejournal.com]

But there's more... action involved! Someone needs to be the moving party.

[i-saw-myself.livejournal.com]

That would be why raising the dead is a bad idea. In general. How, if you're the most powerful smartest...whatever, were you not smart enough to see why that might not be the best idea? When is raising the dead ever a good idea?

[gifthasacold]

It - he -

You would have to have met Roger to understand. I was... manipulated. He knew how to use my ego against me. Vicariously, while already dead. Which gives you some idea of the amount of charisma he wielded.

[bonnypiperlad]

It was all meant to be in fun, Katara.

[i-saw-myself.livejournal.com]

It was also your own arrogance, let's not forget that part. You're so used to seeing everyone else as being beneath you, you needed someone as an equal, right?

The only part that worries me is you still seem unbelievably arrogant. And I wonder where that might get you in all this. Being powerful clearly doesn't mean you have any sense.

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

I know, I get that, but...

At the same time, I hate Billy being so awkward and flustered like that. It's hard enough for him to come out of his shell.

[bonnypiperlad]

Good.

[in-venting.livejournal.com]

♥

[bonnypiperlad]

[gifthasacold]

Roger understood me!

[Oh, now we're getting at the heart of it, and now Thom is yelling.]

Nobody could hold a candle to me, in all my years! That isn't arrogance, it's truth- Alanna could best me in strength, but in magic? I was the greatest! I still am!

[in-venting.livejournal.com]

[...Kind of horrified forever, Dad.]

[found-myway.livejournal.com]

It would be because your society shamed them.

Guess how I know this.

[i-saw-myself.livejournal.com]

He didn't understand you, he used you. Subtle but distinct difference.

[And obvious even to him. Duh.]

None of that makes you better than anyone else. None of that makes you into someone that can't be understood, some special creature that's all alone in the universe.

[You are not a special snowflake, Thom, just very, very powerful. But there are other people here that can blow up whole planets, so what does that power mean in comparison?]

Why put yourself on that pedestal, in that place where you're all alone?

[i-saw-myself.livejournal.com]

I can't see how, unless they have some instinct to hide when they're lame, that they'd want to hide. Who really wants to hide unless they're worried about what people will think?

[gifthasacold]

You don't know what you're talking about. You don't -

[Deep breaths. Lots of deep breaths. Losing his temper is not helpful.]

Earning Mastery at eighteen, passing the exams out of nowhere... No-one would speak to me before because they thought I was a bumbling fool. After the exams, no-one would speak to me because they were afraid. After the Ordeal of Sorcery they began to make the Sign when I passed them in the hall.

I was alone through their making, not mine.

[found-myway.livejournal.com]

No, that's just it.

You want to hide, because people will know that you weren't strong enough. That you were defeated.

But if you don't even have the option of getting over your . . . whatever you've lost, if all you're supposed to do is just stay in exile and be nothing and no one -

You can't live like that. Unless you've got something else to live for. But if you don't, if you've lost everything and there's no chance even your people will ever take you back, for whatever reason -

It doesn't work like that.