are you alive you haven't sent a meme in a while

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IC TESTIMONIAL MEME

HOW TO PLAY:

STEP ONE: Post a top-level for your character!
STEP TWO: Tag around and provide IC testimonials to other characters! Feel free to sign them as ~anonymous~ or not, in the case that your character doesn't want to own up to their Shakespearean description of "a grade-A dick" or "MILF MILF MILF".
STEP THREE: HAVE FUN!!!
BONUS: Bonus points if you can link to actual IC gossip that your characters have been doing about others -- we all know it's out there!

Now, get that gossip out!

Comments

[leicesters]

He's a good guy, but very hard on himself.

[forgeabettertomorrow]

...I try but...

I admit, ever since I was a kid I've had a bad relationship with survivor's guilt.

[leicesters]

At least you're self-aware? I can't imagine what terrible thing must've happened to you as a kid, though.

[forgeabettertomorrow]

Let’s see…

My mom died giving birth to my brother and I.
My father and brother were murdered when I was five and I only survived because I pretended to play dead under my father’s body.

After that, for a little over a year I was in an orphanage. No one wanted me because they thought I was cursed. Kids and adults alike told me it was my fault my family died.

So…yeah.

[That’s rough, buddy?]

[leicesters]

I'm sorry you went through all that. But then... If you were only there for a little over a year, someone did want you, right? Happy ending for little Darin?

[riiiight...?]

[forgeabettertomorrow]

Oh yeah, things got better. I got adopted by the town’s blacksmith. Taught me everything I know. He was the only one who believed I was a victim and not the root cause of everything and it didn’t matter what I looked like, I deserved someone.

It wasn’t always roses and sunshine. I had to work to become seen as someone trustworthy and it took everything I had just to get allowed into the smith’s guild. But in the end, I was the youngest person in the history of the guild to reach the rank of a master and I’d managed to carve a nice little spot for myself.

…then I got framed for murder. So.

[leicesters]

You certainly know how to lead a life filled with highs and lows. What happened next?