Liar Liar, pants on fire

[artistwithasickness]

Oh yeah, time for a meme. Apparently this is our first one. What a tragedy.

You know what we got in this City? A bunch of repressed people, who are far too comfortable behind their masks of lies and half truths. Let's have some fun with that, shall we? A la 'Liar Liar', your character is compelled to tell the truth. The whole truth. Lies of omission are still lies.

Rules are simple
1. Post with your character.
2. Respond to questions, or avoid answering statements.
3. Go make other characters uncomfortable by poking into their personal business.

Comments

[thegreatestproject]

Depends on your definition of a 'good reason,' but I think most psychologists would agree that, yeah, it's bullshit.

[sleight_of_fate]

The usual, you know. To forget, to shut out the voices, to make the pain stop. Standard addict reasoning. I'm better at controlling it than most junkies, but that's like saying I bleed less than most hemophiliacs. It's still a problem.

[thegreatestproject]

At least you admit you're a junkie. I'm not even prepared to go that far.

[And that is way more than he would have said under normal circumstances. Watch the terror bleed into his eyes.]

I tell myself it's because of trauma. It was all fun and games until I had to do something so soul-shattering I thought I'd never recover. Or that recovery might be even worse than the thing itself. So instead, I stuff my endocrine system with anything that'll confuse it long enough to forget for a few minutes.

Then it wears off, and I still feel like shit, but hey, I've been traumatized. It's a way of shifting the blame off of myself.