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

[mynameisax.livejournal.com]

1. He simultaneously thinks the universe of Elfangor and resents being trapped in his shadow.
2. He once ate and entire tray of Cinnabon cinnamon buns in his human morph. The EMTs had to be called.
3. Ax once spent three days pretending to be Jake while the Animorphs starved a Yeerk out of his head. Right under Iniss' nose. Shortly after that, Jake's parents took him to see a psychologist because they thought he'd had some sort of nervous break-down.
4. If given conflicting orders by Elfangor and Jake, Ax would obey Jake.
5. He once ran into a war hero so hard that the older Andalite fell over and bruised an eye-stalk.
6. He still retains the unfortunate Andalite views on people with disabilities -- namely, that they should keep themselves hidden to preserve what dignity they have left.
7. Shortly before Stacy picked him out of the timeline, he played a game of 'chicken' with a nuclear warhead and the Animorphs' home town.
8. His favorite TV shows are 'The Young and the Restless' and 'These Messages' (AKA commercials).
9. He could not bring himself to kill Visser Three's Andalite host when he had the opportunity, even though Alloran begged him to.
10. He once killed a T-Rex. The only reason he was able to was because it was distracted trying to eat Marco.
11. He is secretly impressed by how fast humans learn things. He will never, EVER admit this.
12. For all he is super-advanced by Earth standards, he's only a mediocre student. But he did NOT fall asleep in class (he just became restful and not very alert. Shut up, Marco).
13. He has eaten all of the following in human morph: dryer lint, vinegar, motor oil, cigarette butts, the box that movie popcorn comes in, pizza that may or may not have been taken from a garbage bin, various candies off the floor at a movie theater, a paper plate, and basically anything else that the other Animorphs didn't tell him not to first.
14. Things he have almost eaten include a plastic fork, Marco in fly morph, and a cow pie.
15. He once blew up an entire continent. No joke. He is also kind of responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs.

[i-saw-myself.livejournal.com]

Sooo I should just go hide myself in a hole somewhere rather than shame my people by being seen in the light of day, huh?

[mynameisax.livejournal.com]

< I understand humans see it differently. >

[i-saw-myself.livejournal.com]

What do you personally think of humans that don't follow that line of thinking?

[mynameisax.livejournal.com]

< Humans are permitted to follow whatever line of thinking they desire, although frankly I prefer the lines of thinking that don't result in them becoming voluntary Controllers. >

[i-saw-myself.livejournal.com]

That's not what I asked.

[mynameisax.livejournal.com]

< That is what I personally think on the matter. >

[i-saw-myself.livejournal.com]

So you don't think ill at all of a human that's maybe...lost a little something they'd rather not have lost still trying to make themselves useful, right?

Even though, even though with the little secret up there, it doesn't say "Andalites," it says "people."

[mynameisax.livejournal.com]

< I don't think ill at anyone who isn't a Yeerk. If someone can still be useful, there is no shame in continuing to be so. If they were Andalites however, they would be more comfortable in isolation. >

[i-saw-myself.livejournal.com]

Is that because they honestly would be or because all the rest of their society shamed them into it?

[mynameisax.livejournal.com]

< Because they honestly would. >

[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.

[found-myway.livejournal.com]

It would be because your society shamed them.

Guess how I know this.

[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?

[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.