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neathbound-fiends · 10 months ago

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copy pasting from DMs and expanding on this a little actually

Thinking abt the fact that Elliott is an unreliable narrator and will just outright lie about things about himself, or twist them so severely that they threaten to break in order to be palatable and not say anything he thinks people won't want to hear. Man who spent a lot of years lying about his family, and upbringing, and sexuality, all because none of it was something someone else would want to hear and he doesn't want to be seen as broken, or a bummer, or to speak ill of the dead. It's better to mangle the truth until it fits whatever narrative you want to spin than it is to say something that's going to horrify someone

#one of my genuine favorite bits was from the SUPER early days of RP and deciding I didn't like how I had written his backstory #and began to slowly over the course of several months dole out little bits of lore that directly contradicted something he had said #until his brother (prior to his death) smashed their childhoods open like a seed and said ''he has been lying and here is what happened''#love a dramatic backstory reveal #also loved the panicky desperation of a caged animal who knew he'd been caught but still was unwilling to admit it #your super open and honest and truthful friend has been LYING to you about every inch of his past short of why he came to the Neath #and the configuration of his family #anyway then his brother got murdered because he sucked (womp womp)#now instead of lying about his life on the Surface he just doesn't discuss his childhood or up until he came down almost at all #''why is most of the post in the tags'' I'm using my inside voice

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