bakerstreet | Take off the mask when we talk.

THE FALSE PRETENSES MEME

It's only a natural response to want to be shown love and affection, no matter how hard your exterior is. If not in those words - if you truly are that cold - perhaps what you seek is adoration or worship. Regardless of how you slice it, there's something invigorating to the ego in being the object of someone's ardor. And that's what you are now, to put it mildly; the way they look at you, you'd think you hung the moon and stars. In fact, their love for you has lead to a relationship with them. Congratulations! It's all going so well.

Except that it's all based on a lie.

You're not the person they think you are...maybe even literally. They could think you're someone else completely, as such, or it could be more abstract. They don't know what you've really done, do they? The crimes you've committed, the blood on your hands - what if blood they cherished? It's doubtful if they knew what you truly were, they'd look at you with such tenderness. That's not something you can deal with. You've grown used to them and don't want to let them go. Not now.

You love them. They've wormed their way into your heart, and you just can't lose them. You just...can't. Despite what your intentions were at the beginning (you were being purposefully cruel, you were playing along, you didn't want to hurt them, you wanted to give them what they wanted), you've bought into your own hype. Whatever you have to do to keep this ruse up, you'll do.

But, of course, what's done in the dark will be brought to the light. Soon, those eyes that look towards you will be filled with pain and doubt; you can't keep your little secret forever, and it will only gut your lover in the end.

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( deceiver. m/f preferred for smut. )

[Deceiver, probably, but open to double-deceit threads. Ghost who's been hitchhiking for over sixty years who lets everyone assume she's a near-helpless teenage runaway. Part time psychopomp and rescuer of potential accident victims when she can help. Mostly just grifts food and rides out of people.

Plenty of different ways to learn the truth, feel free to pm me with questions or plotting or tag away. Xcanon/medium/aus/ocs/assumed cr all fine.]

Edited 2021-03-27 21:27 (UTC)

[deceiver. m/m prefered for smut]

( 100% the deceiver but it can work both ways; it's hard when you're a pathological liar in denial about it. )

[ Deceiver; Peter is a medical doctor who specializes in forensic pathology. He uses his empathic ability to mimic the emotional demeanor of people around him to remain hidden in plain sight. Behind closed doors, he's a sadomasochistic serial killer whose preferred method is vivisection. ]

[deceiver always]

[The gullible one most likely, but open to plot ideas.]

Edited 2021-03-28 02:43 (UTC)

[Can go either way.]

( info + permissions in journal; she could go either way, deceived or (mostly unintentionally) deceiving. she cosplays normcore pretty hard for, essentially, a supervillain's widow still connected to a lot of things people might be very reasonably troubled by. )

( the deceiver. she's a god of love, after all! i'm currently post-Act 8 of the ooku event and voice testing, but am OK with JP spoilers! )

Edited 2021-03-28 08:46 (UTC)

( open to either role. as the deceiver, likely lying about her profession (assassin), claiming instead to be a child caregiver. )

( open to either role. as the deceiver, likely lying about the fact that she's a communicator, a subset of humans who can have psychic powers such as mind-reading (marked for major root double spoilers)! )

( open to either role. as the deceiver, may be impersonating her twin sister or otherwise lying on dahlia's behalf. )

[OOC: Bai Qian hid her status and gender for thousands of years as a disciple of Kunlun Mountain only to steal her master's body and return to her original status as a reclusive fox queen, so more likely the deceiver. She DID spend some years as a human with amnesia and was almost painfully gullible, so that's also an option.]

Take off the mask when we talk.

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