HONESTY MEME

[cactusy]

1) Post your characters, one per comment
2) Go around with your characters and have them ask other characters questions-- anything goes!
3) Forced honesty time! Lying is impossible because of reasons
4) ICly discuss the confessions and revelations

Comments

[in_extremis]

We started this with you saying that you're tenacious, and you're telling me you don't believe in the future? What are you hanging on for? You lose an arm, I'll make you a new one, that's going to be a whole new you.

[cactusy]

Replacing a limb isn't the same thing as fundamentally rewiring a brain. It would make me into a different person, and just because it sucks sometimes doesn't mean I want that.

[in_extremis]

Sure it is. I uploaded a virus in my brain that rebuilt my whole body. If I wasn't, you know, actively dying at the time, maybe I'd be able to fix some of those personality defects, too. It didn't seem like a priority.

You're already a different person than you were yesterday. You'll have to tell me if there's a good reason to get precious about it.

[cactusy]

I'm definitely not a different person than I was yesterday.

Reason one, just because being like I am sucks sometimes doesn't mean it wouldn't suck even more to artificially change my whole personality overnight. No thanks. Reason two, I've had enough of people poking around in my brain. Double no thanks.

[in_extremis]

You've made more of an impression than I have, then.

You qualified that, 'artificially' change. What's a natural change, and, just so you're prepared, I'm going to ask you to make the case that it's somehow more agreeable than doing it by hand.

[cactusy]

Natural change happens naturally due to life experience. It's usually subtle, or if it's not, it takes a long time. Trust me, you have no idea how much I've heard these weird-ass existential arguments before; I'm never gonna be totally convinced.

[in_extremis]

Life experience isn't natural. You did that, you made all of those choices, and the big ones that you can pinpoint, they were painful and came at you fast, and you, Miss Tenacious, didn't lay down and die.

You're going to have to give me the weird-ass short version so I'm not boring you.

[cactusy]

Who said anything about lying down and dying? I'm here, I'm alive, I'm moving forward. Got a whole new job and everything. Aliens hired me.

Weird-ass short version: I like things simple and straight-forward.

[in_extremis]

And none of that changed you?

That's on me, that's not information I was lacking, I kind of worked that one out about eight years ago. Okay, straightforward: I think the thing you're calling natural takes way too long, and I'm going to die some day so I don't have that kind of time to wait around for things to change.

[cactusy]

So do sketchy brain surgery on yourself all you want. I'll take the scenic route.

[in_extremis]

What if that doesn't get you where you want to go?

[cactusy]

I work around it. Same as I always have.