FORCED HONESTY MEME

[devoutish]

1) Post your characters, one per comment
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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i apologize for his incredibly skewed family ethics

[coyoteking]

Okay so there are people who can do what you do, but do you see any of them doing it? Can and will are two different things.

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.]

[jumpthegun]

[There's a long pause because that seems to have opened up a lot of questions about Charles.]

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.

[coyoteking]

[He hears you Watson, but also consider: he's ignoring a lot of that.]

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.