Truth or Dare: Nexus Edition

[the_rebel_son]

Lucifer isn't quite sure how this madness started. The angels had opened up the council chamber for visitors and of course Beelzebub had started them drinking, then they got rowdy and people started joining them. Who had brought up the idea of Truth or Dare was unknown but it rippled through the amassing group to a uniform good idea, despite the objective nature of it being a disaster.

Then there was some vote that Lucifer missed where Galahad, Prometheus, and Belial were made judges to keep things in line. That might have been the most reasonable and sane thing since this conversation started. Chairs were rearranged to a big circle.. and all the chairs from the villa had been taken. It was crowded, specially when they decided the judges should have chaises to lounge on. This was some true ancient Greek style madness with the drinking and the topics that were sure to come up. Still, it was all fun and games, right?


Rules of the Road:
1. Top level with your character.
2. Note if you are opting this in as canon for Nexus. This may be done in top level or in individual responses (If there is any questions about this please seek out players OOC.. Discord, PM in Dw etc)
3. A character may only ask truth or dare of the same character once.
4. However, a character may ask as many different characters as they please.
5. Characters may ask questions without doing a top level. However the 1 per the same character applies
6. If your character is crossing threads for a dare, please link back to the original comment where the dare was issued.
7. When in doubt ask?

Comments

[solobutnotalone]

"How is it you always manage to inspire me?" Even in what was a deeply emotional conversation, he manages to turn it into something that lets her refocus on the main cause she held dear.

"I'm a firm believer in hope. When you have nothing else, hope is the light you move toward." As she had done, as she tried to inspiring others. Hope is a spark and the flame it can light can blaze the way and burn down the tyranny they all faced.

[the_rebel_son]

"I am the first rebel." He laughs quietly. "I have been accused of holding a fool's hope. Perhaps we have more in common than we yet understand."

[solobutnotalone]

"My hope has been called foolish more than once." She laughed with him, and it felt good to be able to.

[the_rebel_son]

"You are in good company." He smiles and turns to look at the other angels. "They were without hope and ready to fade and die when I called them to hope. I would not choose anything other than my foolishness."

[solobutnotalone]

"We were a handful of worlds willing to take a stand against a galactic empire with a tyrant's grip. The odds were against us openly, but I knew no one wanted to live under that yoke. So I stepped up to lead, hope was our call to arms. It remains so. The last thing I can cling to when everything else is gone." The last thing she had when her own home was destroyed. Hope that they had not died in vain, that others might be spared the same fate if she succeeded.

[the_rebel_son]

It was instinct alone that had Lucifer's hand on her cheek, gentle and warm. "When I turned on our tyrant I was willing to do it alone, the rest joined on their own without asking. I am king because they needed a leader, not for want or desire."

He kissed her forehead between the brows and pulled away. "For what it is worth being creations apart, you have my blessing on your endeavors, and my help if it is wanted."

[solobutnotalone]

"Seems we've found ourselves as leaders to a cause of liberation." It was another commonality they shared.

"Thank you, I hope yours continue to well. I can't offer the same sort of blessing. But you have my best wishes on it." He seemed to have the interests of freedom at heart and that is what she felt was the most important liberty.

[the_rebel_son]

"Few better causes than freedom from oppression, even if I would prefer not to be a king or leader."

"Thank you. The blessing of a human is no more or less important than an angel's. I have abilities you do not but encouragement has the same weight no matter who it comes from."

[solobutnotalone]

"I think you are well suited to your position, even if you'd rather not. Sometimes those of us who would favor a quieter more simple life are fated to be leaders." She felt sympathy for him, but couldn't argue with his people looking to him for guaidance.

[the_rebel_son]

"I have always thought the best suited are those who do not want the high positions." Lucifer contemplated this many times before. "They are among the few that are unlikely to turn the position into a power vacuum." He smiled at her, patting her hand. "It is something else I believe you and I have in common, that makes us good for where we are."

[solobutnotalone]

"That is possibly a universal truth." She had to agree, often those who had no desire for power were the best to wield it all other things being equal.

"Agreed, so a devil and a princess, it sounds like a child's story doesn't it?"

[the_rebel_son]

"I am sure that means you are an even better ruler than I am." Lucifer can't resist a complement.

"Indeed." He smiles at her. "I have a princess, my daughter, and you have a lot in common. She would write the kind of children's story I can imagine you have in mind."