Two Truths and a Lie meme

[singhelpers]

Two Truths + One Lie


— post a toplevel for your character containing two truths and one lie
— respond icly to other toplevels to try to figure out which one's fake
— everybody wins!

Comments

[desperate_times_right]

Maybe not for someone who knows what rat poison is. Try again.

[thefifthchild]

[He shrugs.]

Are you saying that they were actually Yetis or that that aspect wasn't factored into the statement?

[desperate_times_right]

They're the only kind of yetis my world’s got, so I'm counting them.

[thefifthchild]

That you know of.

[He clicks his tongue and thinks.]

Well - you have a pretty audible Australian accent, which makes that one the obvious truth. The second one has small details I could pick at like with the Yeti, maybe you came second, or it wasn't a christian school, or it wasn't technically a science fair.

Which is why I'm guessing you're not originally from Australia. You immigrated at an early age.

[desperate_times_right]

You got it. My mum’s Australian, but I didn't move there until I was ten.

[thefifthchild]

I didn't immigrate to America until I was ten.

[desperate_times_right]

I'm sure you had a worse time of it than I did.

[She means that, even though that's a feat: she moved because a militant group was threatening to kill her father.]

Where were you before that?

[thefifthchild]

Maybe. [Doesn't quite sit right with him.] I was extremely wealthy and well taken care of, but there were other circumstances.

We stayed around Arabia for the most part. But we had compounds all over the Middle East, South Asia and Eastern Europe. [If that sounds like a cult well...]

I'd consider myself Arabic though.

[desperate_times_right]

I don't know what I consider myself.

[thefifthchild]

[He shrugs.]

Where were you from before you had to move?

[desperate_times_right]

I was born in India - my dad’s Indian - but I didn't exactly grow up around the culture in Australia.

[thefifthchild]

I didn't grow up surrounded by Arabic culture in Arabia either. It's just simpler than explaining the rest of the context.

[desperate_times_right]

I went back recently and the way people talked about my heritage there… I guess I just kind of feel weird about it.