I DROPPED THE SCREW IN THE TUNA

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SECRETS REVEALED

- No blank comments. Top levels should include your character telling everyone their biggest secret, that little piece of knowledge they've kept quiet for whatever reason. Positive or negative, embarrassing or devastating, about themselves or someone/thing else, every whisper counts as long as it's about a secret you'd rather die than tell. - What happens, then, when the truth gets out? Will it set you free...or set every prospect you had on fire?

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Iren Suto | Original | OTA

[soulfusedinn]

[She tries to resist saying it but.]

...I have a demon locked up in my attic!

Goro Akechi | Persona 5 Royal | OTA

[pancakeboy]

I—[No, fuck that. He tries to swallow his own tongue, or give himself a brain haemorrhage, or otherwise spontaneously die, but it's no good.]

I was tempted to stay in Maruki's reality. And don't look at me like that. Everyone else did the same. [Yeah, but you—]

Everyone else did the same. [Fin.]

[poesmasquerade]

[ For some reason he didn't see this coming. Even though, as Akechi says, everyone else did it. ]

Hey. Akechi.

Max Mayfield | Strangers Things

[beyourzoomer]

My step-brother died and a small part of me was relieved.

[pancakeboy]

What?! [Because fuck, this is just perfect.]

Sora Yumura | OC | OTA

[thevelvetglove]

[ He examines his fingernails as he speaks. It's going to come out one way or another; he can struggle fruitlessly against saying it, or he can keep his dignity. ]

The only reason I didn't ruin my uncle or have him murdered is that after considering it, I decided it wouldn't serve my goals. To this day, I retain all the knowledge I gathered of how to do those things.


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Chigiri Hyoma | Blue Lock

[hairspeed]

I'm scared I'll hurt myself again, so much so that I would rather fail at my dream than to dare experience that pain...

jill valentine | resident evil | ota

[torsion]

I still can see him in the shadows sometimes, like ink on black paper. Just red eyes.

[ It brings something twisted up inside of her, deep inside past sinew and into bone and marrow. She was a part of him, of what he created, and that could never be escaped. ]

[poesmasquerade]

[ He lifts his hands placatingly. ] I just wanted to say it's okay.

[ He watches warily to see how badly that will go down. ]

[activated]

[ This sounds vaguely familiar, enough where it strikes a nerve with him. ]

Yeah.

[ He's the worst at comforting but there's something in his eyes that says he's trying in his own way. He doesn't really know what to say to it since it could be anything. His answer will depend on what he reveals about his own secrets and he's definitely not ready to go there. The vault is still sealed shut. ]

You got someone messing with you?

[ Surface. Bucky wasn't the type to back down from a fight and if she was in trouble, he'd probably back her. She seemed the type to be worth the trouble to say the least. ]

[pancakeboy]

[Oh, that's—actually, that could have been a lot worse. It takes the wind out of his sails. Some of it, at least.]

No, you didn't. You wanted to say "what the fuck, Akechi", and you were too scared to set me off.

[poesmasquerade]

[ That gets Akechi a flat look, as Ren drops his hands. ] When have I ever been scared of you.

[pancakeboy]

[It springs to the tip of his tongue: about thirty seconds ago. But—no, Ren is right, as much as Akechi hates to admit it.]

Then you had some other excuse. And it would have been that that—[tiny air quotes at the tip of two fingers]—"set me off". [Not dead, still a dick though.]

[poesmasquerade]

I was surprised for a second. That doesn't mean I wanted to... get in your face and act mad about it. If I'd wanted to say what the fuck, Akechi, I'd have said it.

[ What the hell is this fixation on the concept that Ren is tiptoeing around Akechi, trying to keep him from exploding? What in their history has given Akechi the idea that Ren can't handle an Akechi bomb? ]

[pancakeboy]

[The answer's simply that Akechi perceives Ren as sometimes protective of his feelings. Which he absolutely does not have, by the way. Not so anyone would notice. The whole idea is insulting.

He catches his breath.] No. Nothing would make you mad about it, would it? Nothing I said, nothing I did.

Regardless, you owe me a secret. [Enough about him, Ren; let's talk about you.]

[poesmasquerade]

I didn't ask to hear yours. [ He's not going to just open his mouth and spill that stuff, Akechi, are you joking? ] I was just—worried. When I heard it. That you think it's that serious. No one else blames themselves for being tempted, and you had the most to lose. It's not a big deal.

[ No one else blames themselves anymore, is what he's not saying. And what he's definitely not saying is, no one but him blames themselves anymore. ]

[pancakeboy]

[Yeah, it was worth a try. And in fairness to him, he knows all of that haunts Ren to this day, and would have settled for something like "I don't enjoy curry", or "Morgana's fur makes me sneeze".

He folds his arms, pressing his lips together. Eventually:]

I meant what I said. Almost all the time. That whole business was a horror. If I could have shot him it would have been a relief. [Sorry, Ren, he didn't lie awake at night dreaming of you. Though you did feature in his processing.]

[poesmasquerade]

[ He tilts his head. ] When didn't you mean it?

akutagawa gin | bsd

[cloths]

I think of this now and again, and I don't regret it but the Port Mafia isn't what I would have chosen for myself. Not that there ever was much of a choice, I wanted to stay with my brother. He's my only family after all.

[frenziedazure]

Mm, in the end to stay with family I can understand that. Family is still precious and important, something that I even keep close in my heart. For me one of my worse open secrets was how much I sadly enjoyed what I did when my mind was lost; I hated every moment of that, truly.

I like to think were I open sooner then maybe I could have avoided that suffering of mine but some things only seem as though it delays the inevitable with how it was going for me.

[pancakeboy]

[He just laughs under his breath, harsh and quick.] You know me better than that. Everything I said was correct. [Including all the times he berated Ren for acting like December—the ship, the things he'd said and done at the very end—had been real, or happened at all.]

But—you get used to things. When you don't think, you get used to a lot. That reality ran on people not thinking. Perhaps I would have learned to like it. [Or if, as seems more likely, he wouldn't have been him—perhaps even that shallow, shadow life would have been better than no life?

Little questions and temptations, that whispered in the dark, that he fought back.]

rui kamishiro | project sekai

[hyperfix]

I'm not sure what I'll actually do, when we all have to part ways. I don't want to stagnate, and I don't want them to stagnate either, but can I actually leave everyone behind?

Will I even be able to go to the SEKAI if I'm far away from Tsukasa-kun? Will we stop seeing them, one day? Will I remember everything they've taught us?

[Look, he'd miss his silly little Vocaloid clown found family almost as much as he'd miss his actual friends. Especially KAITO. Man's a real g.]

[cloths]

[ she's clearly embarrassed to have him of all people hear this from her.

so, of course, she changes the topic to latch onto his secret. ] You can't really be held responsible for what happened when you were not in your right mind.

Does your suffering haunt you often?

[hyperfix]

Physically, mentally, or both?

[He gets it, either way.]

[hairspeed]

...both.