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[hellburner]

THE THESE ARE MY CONFESSIONS MEME

Does your character have a deep dark secret that they don't want out? Well, too bad. Something has just forced your characters to reveal their inner most secrets, true identities and even elements of their own past that they've tried to forget. What shouldn't be known is suddenly known. What shouldn't be said is suddenly exclaimed.


No one can lie in a thread, you lack the capacity to. All confessions are truthful and sincere. It's uncontrollable what you say to a person.

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[hellburner]

I am Francis Drake. All that has been credited to his name, I accomplished with my own hands.

But I was not born 'Francis Drake'. So depending on how you look at it, I was never Drake at all.

[croibhristeoir]

I don't consider myself a hero. I'm amazed I ever qualified to become a Servant in the first place, and even now I think it was just a twisted method of punishment for all I did in life.

All I believe I am now is a hate-filled, resentful spirit pretending to be a knight. And I think if Oscar, Oisín, and the rest of the Fianna could see me now, they would rightfully be disgusted by how far I've fallen.

[technologic]

My parents threw me away into the wastelands to die when I was 15, because they discovered I wasn't human. I've hated them ever since.

I have nightmares almost every other night because I've seen and done a lot of horrible things over the years. I consider myself a monster at times, because of the things I've done. [... Erk. Yeah, she hates this meme.]

[puppet_show]

I'm not a high school student at all. I'm a spy who was hired by a man to support his younger brother in any way possible no matter what the situation. "Hiyono Yuizaki" is just a character he made up; I just play the role as I was told to.

Here, have massive spoilers.

[truthsnomiracle]

My life changed when I was nine years old due to being trapped in an elevator for hours with my father and a bailiff due to a massive earthquake. Things grew tense when the air grew thin; the bailiff tried to strangle Father. In a daze, I grabbed the nearest object, a gun, and threw it at the struggling men. It misfired just as we all passed out. When I came to... F-Father was dead from a bullet through the heart, which... which I feared I had put there. While I couldn't consciously recall the part of the incident I described, I had nightmares concerning it almost every night for fifteen years.

In the wake of a corrupt trial in which the bailiff was falsely accused and nominally acquitted on an insanity plea rather than the weakness of the case against him, I became consumed with outrage and hatred over the injustice. A legendary yet corrupt prosecutor took advantage of my weakness, taking on the role of both legal guardian and mentor, instructing me in both law... and how to twist it for the sake of finding all defendants guilty for my entire adolescence. While I didn't cross as many lines as he did in the process... I did go undefeated in court for forty cases over the course of four years, including trials in which execution was the sentence. It's highly probable that I have blood on my hands.

If Wright hadn't intervened, I would never have been forced to reconsider my ways. Even after reforming my outlook and methods, however, I haven't reexamined my old cases. I fear that I would be disbarred, and... and I see no reason to continue living if denied my work. Some irrational part of my brain insists that my being here, where in some cases justice is a literal impossibility no matter how hard I might try, is my punishment for my misdeeds.

[soulsborderline]

Literally my entire personality is a front to cover how insanely worthless I think I am! I've been wishing I was dead for the last ten years thanks to my mother's suicide, and I've shoving anyone and everyone away because if I got that hurt again I really would kill myself.

Are you happy now?

[truthsnomiracle]

Wh-what -- why on earth would anyone hire a spy for such a purpose?!

[truthsnomiracle]

...Ultimately, I would consider one's deeds to be more defining of a person than one's name.

[truthsnomiracle]

I suppose that explains why your attempt to define what a Heroic Spirit is was so deeply confusing.

[hellburner]

Then I essentially flipped off a whole country in changing my name. What d'you have to say about that, mister philosopher?

[croibhristeoir]

It's a convoluted concept to begin with, frankly.

[truthsnomiracle]

That your statement needs further elaboration for it to make any sense whatsoever.

[truthsnomiracle]

It isn't the strangest claim I've heard a kidnappee make, nor a difficult one to grasp. My confusion is at a far more personal level.

[hellburner]

What do you know about Queen Elizabeth?

[croibhristeoir]

I'm not sure I understand.

[truthsnomiracle]

Primarily that her reign was a landmark one. She was careful and tolerant, and many great men were her contemporaries.

[hellburner]

Like Francis Drake, for example.

[truthsnomiracle]

Your description was so broad as to include nearly everyone to achieve greatness... er, arguably including myself.

[truthsnomiracle]

Indeed.

[croibhristeoir]

...No, that's still accurate to my knowledge. It takes a great deal of notoriety for one to qualify, but I believe it's possible for a great range of individuals.

[hellburner]

So now tell me this. You know that story about the peasant that changed places with royalty?

[want_a_vacation]

As much as I seem like one of the most normal people here, I'm actually not. My father owned a successful business and was rich enough to buy anything he wanted, but all he really cared about was the future of his business. That's why he raised me and my six brothers to be able to run it and encouraged competition between us, not to mention teaching us some more underhanded tricks.

It's...also why he had us all genetically modified before we were born. I have enhanced intelligence and can normally project my consciousness outside my body while I sleep. When I'm like that, I'm invisible unless I try not to be and intangible no matter what. It was supposed to be the perfect ability for spying on rivals, but the idea of using it like that makes me sick. Even just being what I am...there's a lot of stigma attached to being a modified human where I'm from, and I've been ashamed of it for most of my life. I was even afraid that I'd lose my job if people found out.

[truthsnomiracle]

Do you mean to imply that was the role you were born into?

[truthsnomiracle]

That doesn't help.

[hellburner]

What if I said yes?