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slowpoke_gif2012-12-02 07:53 pm
memesock) wrote in slowpoke_gif2012-12-02 07:53 pm
Forced Honesty Meme
1) Post with your character, including name and series in the header.
2) Reply to other people asking questions ICly.
3) That character is forced to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
4) Insert 'the truth will set you free' joke here.
Carmen Sandiego | Where On Earth Is Alex's Ability To Take Title Bars Seriously
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[Yes, totally using the opportunity to cheat. He's figuring it out on his own in the game either way, so he figures he might as well sate his curiosity in a meme before he gets plopped back in the game again.]
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Because of everything else you are along with it. You have good intentions, a noble outlook, strong moral fiber. You bake pies to do your part for a cause. You buy a chess set because you're willing to play along with a game whose rules you barely know. You teach. You innovate. You have complexities and facets well in excess of the ways you're quick to define yourself. You're interesting. You're familiar. And you're entirely too entertaining when you're flustered.
I told you your problem is that you're missing the forest for the trees. It's not that you have a trait that makes me like you; that suggests that without that trait, I wouldn't. The analysis is that I like you — and therefore, everything that comes with it.
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Also, those were a lot of compliments. Compliments he hasn't really heard before. He does not know what to do with these compliments. So, uh, give him a second to formulate a response.]
I-I... I mean, that--it wasn't as if...
...It was never any trouble.
[Yep. That's the best he can come up with. Look like a startled puppy and then promptly downplay anything that could have provoked the compliments. SOMEONE GET THIS BOY SELF ESTEEM.]
SHE LIKE YOU, BRO
[That's okay, she's got enough self-esteem for three people. Possibly four, depending on how scrupulously you divide it.]
If you content yourself with living out your life as a number on a test result or a library of facts, you're sidelining yourself from everything else you could be. It would be a disservice to the achievements of the greatest men in history to confine them to any one category of their pursuits — limiting da Vinci to a great painter or Franklin to a great diplomat. I don't see any reason to constrain you, either.
HE DOESN'T GET IT. B|
[He bites his lip. He does not know what to do with this. He knows what to do with insults, but he doesn't know what to do with compliments.]
Well, I wouldn't consider myself constrained. I dabble in a lot of different disciplines when I'm not working at the BAU. [Fwoosh. Right over his head. Still defining himself with intellectual pursuits for the most part.]
for someone so smart he can be p. oblivious
What do you like to do, Dr. Reid?
He maintains that he's a genius, not a people person :|
[Oh, right, has he mentioned he has a godson?]
Practice makes perfect. B)
Tell me about your godson. When you set out to teach him something, is it because, as a genius, you're clearly the most qualified person for the job?
What if he doesn't want to practice? :<
[Beat.]
...Three, actually. His birthday was November 12th.
Then she will mercilessly inflict the flirts upon him anyway.
[She's had kids like that, too. Never her own, naturally, but the ones who chase her. There's no denying she does it for the fun, but there's a certain sort of pleasure in watching them keep up with her and learn from doing it, too.]
He's a lucky boy, to have you in his life. Is he reading yet?
...You know, that doesn't sound too bad
He smiles proudly, crossing his arms over his chest.] Starting to. He's the only child in his daycare who can read along during story time. [Reid, JJ, Will, and Garcia all obsessively reading to him probably helped.]
FLIRTATIOUS BARRAGE
[There, see, now he's opening up. Excellent.]
When does he get his first Holmes novel?
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I was thinking his fourth birthday. He'll probably want me to read it to him, but I plan on making him try to solve the mystery himself. [Yes, he has put thought into this. Because he is that into the idea of helping raise his godson. (You should have seen him when Henry was still a baby. So much cooing to be had. SO MUCH COOING.)] He's smart enough to.
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I'd recommend starting with A Scandal in Bohemia. But it might endear him more to the good Mr. Holmes if you pick one where the detective comes out ahead in the end. A Study in Scarlet would be the logical choice, but not if you want him to have enough clues in the narrative to solve the mystery himself. The Copper Beeches, possibly.
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