Event Log: Speak Your Truth

[hadrielmods]

Who: Everyone in the city
What: The event log for the Speak Your Truth
Where: All over the city
When: April 3rd-April 9th
Warnings: None

There's a secret burning in your chest. It's hot behind your ribcage, and you need to let it out or else it might consume you- but who would you tell? Who could even begin to understand what you need to say? Your closest friend? Your significant other? Maybe even someone you don't get along with very well? It's hard to know who to trust and who will even understand, but in a strange way, neither of those things seem to matter- all you can think of is what will cause someone the most pain.

Maybe you're trying to get it out in the open so you can put it behind you. Maybe you just need to come clean because the guilt is eating you alive. Maybe you just really want to hurt someone- regardless of the reason, you're aching to tell someone else your darkest secrets.

Will they understand? There's only one way to find out, and it won't be pleasant for either party involved. Good luck, Hadriel!

► This log covers April 3rd-April 9th.
► Please tag headers of threads with content warnings where they apply
► Please put your character's name and open/closed in the subject line of your starters!
► If your secret gets a bit bloody, please let us know here.

Comments

[braveoff]

Gods.

[ Drake agrees with a little huff of... not disbelief, but amazement that this is their lives. This is their normal. But if he can make this happen, it doesn't have to be. Not forever. They could have a future somewhere else... together. It's a risk, but it seems worth taking. Even if it also still feels selfish, if he's gone back and forth on it for ages now because of that. Maybe he's allowed to be. Maybe this confession was the kick he needed to actually do it.

He presses his forehead against Ephemera's, ignoring that they're sitting on the kitchen floor for a moment longer, and finds himself feeling hopeful. That must be a good sign, right? ]

I can't remember the last time I said thank you, so I'm just gonna say it again. For never giving up on me.

[requiemshark]

[ That gets a little smile and Ephemera closes his good eye, exhaling. There was a time he'd assumed something like this would never happen to him, not after his squad. They'd been family, his notion of love - everything that mattered. And then he'd been the aftermath, standing alone. There'd been nothing left except the rage and he'd fully expected to burn along with his targets. There'd been comfort in the symmetry of it all.

But then, of course, there was Drake.

Ephemera knows he doesn't always get it right. He makes promises when their world is all uncertainty. But he has this moment, the two of them sharing space and intimate touch. And that's enough, in the end. ]

Right back at you.