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snowblindmemes2016-11-17 05:05 pm
devoutish) wrote in snowblindmemes2016-11-17 05:05 pm
FORCED HONESTY MEME
2) Go around with your characters and have them ask other characters questions - anything goes!
3) Forced honesty time! Lying is impossible because of reasons
4) IC DISCUSSION AND CONFRONTATION, GO
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You're not even a shitty person.
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There are lots of other doctors out there who can do what I do. There are doctors here who can do the same. Sherlock once told me the thing I do best is inspire brilliance in other people. I'm no good on my own...
And I didn't really care when my parents died, which makes me a terrible son, my sister and I are on the rocks more often than not about her drinking--I can't help her and I don't know if I even want to, anymore. And that makes me feel like a bloody awful brother, as well. Sherlock's dead back in my time; everyone thinks he was a fraud and I was the idiot who believed in him or the accomplice who lied for him. I haven't spoken with most of the people I knew as friends for something like a month back home, and none of them have reached out to me. The only thing that connected us was Sherlock.
[Sorry, Charles. He's kind of a mess and being forced into honesty.]
i apologize for his incredibly skewed family ethics
Also? Sherlock's an asshole.
I don't know shit about where you came from, or your family but like... why do you have to be good at being a son? Or a brother? It's not like you picked those people. It's not your fault if they do shitty things or if you didn't get attached. And god you don't- You get to be a person whether or not you have Sherlock. This is really hypocritical coming from me, but you're not worth what other people tell you you are.
God, I can't word any of this shit right but yeah, your situation sounds rough, but it doesn't make you less of a person somehow.
[Combination "taking this personally" and "missing the point" achieved.]
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Claire's stepping up. I think some of the other doctors will, too, if I disappear. Someone has to keep writing prescriptions and looking after maiming victims.
And I know he's an asshole. He's still my best friend. And being compliment by him for anything is... it feels good. He didn't mean it to knock me down. [Even though it was a very backhanded compliment.] He's clever. Everyone's an idiot next to him. And meeting him was the best thing that happened in my life after I was invalided home from Afghanistan. I just mean I... bloody hell, this sounds gay. I was better with him. I am better.
I'm all right on my own. I don't think I'm less of a person. Other people matter more, but that's not the same as feeling inferior or something. I just felt like I was doing something important, making a real difference, helping someone else shine, and getting to share a little in that light. And he let me. He invited me to help him the first time. Sherlock doesn't work with people and he saw a man with a psychosomatic limp and hand tremor who couldn't find a job and still jumped at shadows some nights, and said to himself 'that's the man I want to work and live with.'
I never had anything like that with my family. I still should've... It doesn't matter if I chose them. They're my family. You're meant to love them, look after them as you can, respect them.
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To me it sounds like Sherlock's your family. People who like you even when you're fucked up? People that make you feel like you're a better person? That's family.
Just because somebody helped make you doesn't mean you owe them shit.
And for the record, you'd better not go disappearing on us.