Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no Lies

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The Truth Meme






→ Comment to this entry with your characters.

→ No matter the question, your character feels compelled to answer truthfully. Even if it's the most personal question they've ever heard, or a query about something they would normally refuse to talk about -- too bad.

→ Watch the madness unfold.

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Wilhelm | Xenosaga | OTA

[fliessen]

Considering...

[failsafegod]

Since you decided it was such fun to poke at me, tell me, Wilhelm, what would you feel if I ignored you altogether?

[fliessen]

I suppose turnabout is fair play.

[After that, Wilhelm is silent for an unusually long time. Such is the strength of his resolve.

Finally, he asks,] Can you imagine absolute nothingness?

[failsafegod]

It is.

[He agrees, although he supposes most of those he knows would be surprised at his holding enough of a grudge to do such a thing. But the answer is a bit difficult, though he has an odd feeling he might have an idea to some extent what is meant...]

In what sense?

[fliessen]

In every sense.

I might as well not exist.

[failsafegod]

[So he was correct. It's basically the same emotion expressed before by chaos, just in different terms. Yet unlike Wilhelm, he won't push much further, nodding to the answer.]

So then, it seems you would be unable to discard me, even if you so desired. Why act so easily as if you could?

[fliessen]

Because it's integral to the mask I wear around you.

[failsafegod]

Why do so? I see no reason for such a mask.

[Well, perhaps he will push a bit more. He has always been curious, and presently, that curiosity is turned on Wilhelm.]

[fliessen]

You don't see many things, Yeshua.

[Not a proper answer, it seems. Unfortunately.]

Everyone wears various masks in order to conceal their true selves.

[failsafegod]

[And certainly not what he wanted. But he ignores the seeming slight.]

So what is it you do not wish me to see?

[fliessen]

Weakness.

[failsafegod]

[Some part of him wants to react with a laugh at the absurdity of the idea that needing him about is weakness, but he remembers easily that this is Wilhelm, and Wilhelm, like him, sometimes sees things a bit strangely. But then, there are humans who see things this way too. And there's no helping the smile that comes to his face.]

You and I certainly see things far differently from one another. Needing someone else is not weakness.

[fliessen]

[Wilhelm can relate far too much to the darkest parts of the human condition.]

It's more than a "need."

[failsafegod]

The what would you call it, if not "need"?

[fliessen]

[Because the language they're speaking is insufficient, Wilhelm resorts to another:] Ya'aburnee.

[Arabic. Literally translated, May you bury me. It means if they are ever fated to disappear forever, he wants to be the first to go; he cannot imagine existence without chaos. It consumes him.]

[failsafegod]

[That's a language he has not heard in a while, not that there is an issue in translating it for him. Instead, any silence comes from taking in the meaning of the words, and deciding the best way in which to respond. Another question, or to let it lie there?

The answer will be easy enough, realizing such admissions would be beyond what Wilhelm is generally comfortable with.]

Again, this does not constitute weakness. You have always found trouble in understanding which emotions are truly destructive.

[fliessen]

Don't presume you can lecture me.

[Everything about this is uncomfortable for Wilhelm. It can't possibly get any worse.]

[failsafegod]

Why? Will you try to say I can be discarded again?

[What did Wilhelm expect? chaos to not say something to his obvious hiding?]

[fliessen]

[Thanks to the compulsion to be truthful, even Wilhelm's facial expressions are genuine: he's giving chaos a decidedly withering look.]

No. It's simply... annoying. Telling me I'm mistaken does nothing to change how I feel.

[failsafegod]

Then what would convince you, not that you're mistaken, but that you shouldn't feel in such a way?

[He looks perhaps a little apologetic, but not enough to stop asking. Perhaps it's just his compulsion to help, but it's probably more that, hearing what Wilhelm believes, he's not sure he likes the idea of him hiding so much of what he feels, or at least, thinking it's a negative thing to feel.]

[fliessen]

If I knew how to solve it, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

[Undoubtedly it's an endless source of frustration to Wilhelm that he can't simply erase all unwelcome aspects of his mind. What use are feelings when it comes to serving the Lower Domain?

Thanks to Zarathustra's revolutions, he's so emotionally numb to almost everything else.]

[want_a_vacation]

Why do you have such little faith in humanity?

[fliessen]

Mr. Ridgeley, you can't be this naïve.

Look to your blood-stained history as a species. Perhaps you'll learn something.

[want_a_vacation]

Of course we make mistakes. But we do learn. History is full of humanity changing for the better and the worse. Adaptability is one of our strongest traits as a species...do you really think there's no way we can develop in a way that would stave off the activation of the power of Anima?

[fliessen]

And who do you think taught you to be so versatile, so resilient?

[Allen wanted the truth, didn't he?]

Zarathustra was more than a tool to turn back time. It was a method of training humanity to be greater.