THE FORCED HONESTY/ASK ME ANYTHING MEME

[ceasetoexist]

THE RULES:
-Post with your character
-Others ask your characters questions (ICly or OOCly)
-Your character has to answer whatever they're asked completely honestly!
-That's it! Them's the rules!

Comments

[revolutionfalcon]

I wasn't. Your guess is as good as mine on why it took an eye.

[He'd honestly like to know, because as far as he can tell he's the only person here cursed with such a godawful, crippling location.]

[ironicoolly]

Weren't able to get any insights on that from Kotsu?

[revolutionfalcon]

I don't think she knows. Her experience is the gems themselves, not the positioning.

[Besides, if she did know she probably would've hung it in front of him to try and get him to do something for her. Kotsu's cunning, he'll give her that.]

[ironicoolly]

Makes sense.

[But one thing doesn't make sense where Kotsu is involved, and that's her impression of Shun.]

What's the deal with the two of you, anyway?

[revolutionfalcon]

[...shit.

There's a significant pause, but he can't really worm his way out of this one, so he answers. It's probably not an answer Strider will like.]

I sealed her teacher in a card. She and her friends tried to attack me, and I crushed them and nearly did the same as I did to her teacher before someone intervened. That person wiped her memories of me being anything but a friend and fellow student.

[It's bland and toneless; lacking remorse, but also lacking any malice.]

[ironicoolly]

Okay so ignoring the fact that you're just rolling with this and taking advantage of her fucked-up memories, why did you seal her teacher in a card?

[revolutionfalcon]

I've been interacting with her in the hope it'll break the memory wipe.

[Otherwise he would've just left her to it and not interacted at all. What Akaba Reiji did still leaves a bad taste in his mouth.]

I thought he was associated with Academia, and I needed an incentive to draw out someone I needed to take as a hostage. Sealing his employees in cards was the best option.

[He never claimed he wasn't pragmatic.]

[ironicoolly]

You ever consider just dropping the bombshell? Skirting around's clearly not getting you anywhere.

[Wow, of all the reasons to seal someone in a card.]

Did it work?

[revolutionfalcon]

If it doesn't wear off on its own, I'll consider it, but she already treats me differently here than she did completely memory-wiped.

[And that's indication enough for him to think it's working, at least a little.]

Yes, but it turned out the hostage would have been useless for what I wanted to use him for.

[ironicoolly]

So you essentially ruined a guy's life because you leapt to a lot of dumb assumptions.

[revolutionfalcon]

If Akaba Reiji wanted his employees back so badly, he would have worked out how to unseal them. He has the means and motive.

[He doesn't mention the fear that underlies this - the fear that there might be no way to unseal people, and that his hometown truly is gone and dead forever. He doesn't want to have to consider that potentially being true.]

[ironicoolly]

And if he can't? You're just going to let them stay like that.

[revolutionfalcon]

[There is a long, long pause before he replies to that; it might even look like he's not going to, but...]

If that process isn't reversible, I'm as good as in hell already.

[ironicoolly]

Yeah?

I might be joining you there.

[revolutionfalcon]

[There's another pause, but it's not as long or as dangerous as the last one.]

And you wonder why I took an interest in your wellbeing.

[With sentiments like that at your age, is there any question?]

[ironicoolly]

[Well. Not quite the response he was expecting, and he's more than a little taken aback.]

You have enough on your plate already.

[revolutionfalcon]

I'll be the judge of that.

[As far as he's concerned, he doesn't have "enough" on his plate until he's running himself into the ground with exhaustion, and he's not even close to that point.]

[ironicoolly]

[There isn't much he can say to that, even if he's not sure he understands why Shun even cares.

They've done more than their fair share of arguing.]

Dunno if I feel comfortable leaving that up to you. If your fashion sense or taste in tunes is any indication, I get the feeling you're a pretty shitty judge.

[revolutionfalcon]

[He argues with Yuuto all the time. That doesn't mean he isn't important to him and that Shun doesn't care for him.]

I could say the same about you.

[And then they'd be here all day, wouldn't they?]

[ironicoolly]

See, this is exactly what I'm talking about.

Didn't know you had a problem with my threads, too.

[revolutionfalcon]

You act like I don't argue with Yuuto just as much.

[Honestly, Strider, he's just an argumentative sort. Everyone he knows is aware of that.]

I've seen worse, and they're not as bad as your music.

[...Backhanded compliment go?]

[ironicoolly]

Has anyone ever told you your mastery of the pickup arts is downright resplendent? Better raise your arms up to catch me, Kurosaki, 'cause I'm just about swooning over here.

[revolutionfalcon]

I'd worry about the effectiveness of "pickup arts" if I ever was intending to pick someone up.

[That's rather dry. He barely knows what "picking up" is supposed to mean and that's because he's heard others here use the term, but either way he's still an emotional brick.]

[ironicoolly]

Well damn. You ever heard of letting someone down gently?

[revolutionfalcon]

Maybe when you stop turning everything anyone says into jokes about them trying to hit on you.

[...That's the term for it, right? It's not one he hears or uses very often.]