#truth serums
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truth potion/serum 😌
“What’s that?” The hero murmurs uneasily under their breath, watching as the villain carefully inserts the needle into the soft flesh of their forearm, making them wince slightly. They watch it plunge into their vein, only daring to tug against the restraints once the needle is out of their skin.
The villain merely sends them a smile. “Nothing that’ll kill you.”
“Let me guess,” the hero growls. “A fate worse than death? Are you really trying this bullshit with me after all this time?”
“You don’t think our dynamic is a conventional one?”
The hero shuts their mouth, contemplating what the villain’s game was. If it was a sedative, it was a slow acting one, since they couldn’t feel any symptoms creeping up on them just yet. It was peculiar - they felt just fine.
“Let’s be honest,” the hero sniffs, and they don’t miss the way the villain almost laughs in amusement. They don’t know why that’s funny. “If our relationship was a conventional one, you would have killed me the moment you kidnapped me.”
The villain hums, their eyes roaming from their face languidly, kissing their teeth. The hero watches with a stubborn frown as they begin to circle around them, ever so slowly, and it makes them nervous.
They try not to shift.
“You’re right,” the villain sighs from behind them, and they want nothing more than to crane around to keep their eyes on them, but they can’t. Their heart races relentlessly in their chest, clenching their jaw. “Would you rather we adhere to the stereotypes?”
They roll their eyes. “If it means getting killed, then why would I?”
“You’re self righteous and selfless, aren’t you?” The villain teases. “Doesn’t that come with your job?”
“It doesn’t mean I’m eager to die. Dying means defeat, and I wouldn’t ever let you defeat me. You and I both know that.”
The villain stops beside them, a smile on their face that the hero doesn’t like. They send them a sharp glare for good measure, just because they can.
“So, is that a no?”
The hero wants to know where this is headed.
“No,” they confirmed. The villain stepped closer to them, their thumb gently brushing over a tender bruise on their temple. The finishing blow that had rendered them unconscious, making it easy for the villain to drag them here into their clutches. The hero forces back a wince, their eyes hard and determined. The villain loves that look.
“But you’re like that with others,” the villain comments, still stroking their temple. “Other villains, I mean. Especially Supervillain - the typical good versus bad. You know they’d kill you if they could. Stereotypes, after all.”
To hero resists the urge to lean keenly into that touch. “Because I know Supervillain is dangerous.”
“Dangerous?” Their eyes gleam mischievously. “You don’t think I’m dangerous?”
They shift. No dizziness yet, and their vision is completely clear, along with their mind. It’s not a sedative. What are they planning?
“No,” they respond after a moment, and the villain’s jaw ticks. It’s the only sign of irritation they’ve seen from them, but their tongue blurts more before they can stop themselves. “You’re dangerous in different ways.”
The irritation disappears, and the thumb slips down their cheek.
“Dangerous in different ways,” they muse, as if chewing the words that came out of their mouth. The hero’s heart is pounding against their ribcage, and they’re not quite sure why. The villain is incredibly close, feeling pinned down by their cold gaze alone.
“You’re easier to be around,” the hero speaks, trying not to stammer over their words. “I...” I hate you, don’t get me wrong. That’s what they want to say, but their throat closes up before they can. The villain’s thumb strokes the bottom of their jaw, and they shiver, as if encouraging them.
“Because I know you won’t kill me. When given the chance, you go easy on me.”
“You think I go easy on you?”
The hero gives them a disgruntled look. “You never torture me. Last time you kidnapped me, I slept in one of your guest rooms.”
“You were still a prisoner, or did you forget?” The villain scoffs. Of course they had been. The hero had spent all night trying to pick the lock, to smash the windows, but there was no point. They were a prisoner, but it never felt like they were in danger. Not in the same sense they felt when the supervillain almost incapacitated them. It was different.
“That’s not the point,” the hero snaps, unaware of their own rising irritation. They jerk their head away from the touch, feeling as though it was distracting them. The villain has this arrogant smirk on their lips, as if they know exactly what they’re doing. “If I ever kidnapped you, I wouldn’t stick you in a luxurious room. I wouldn’t let you sleep on a bed, I wouldn’t have you here and not torture you.”
The villain hums, their voice dropping low. “You like it when I treat you good?”
“Yes.” No. “I do.” It’s weird.
It takes a single, heart stopping beat for the hero to realise what they’d just said, their brows furrowing in confusion. They open their mouth to say something else, before their eyes flick down to the red pinprick from the needle in their skin. They release a shuddering breath.
“A truth serum,” they breathe. “That’s what you injected me with.”
The villain lets out a dark, amused chuckle. “I was waiting for you to figure it out.”
They lean back, creating a rift of air between them where the hero can still feel their warmth. It still feels hard to breathe, their wrists flexing under the restraints, and they grind their teeth hard together. This is dangerous. This was exactly what they were talking about.
“Are you tired, Hero?” The villain’s soft voice questions, enough to make the hero swallow uneasily. Their heart is racing now, so fast they feel like they’re going to throw up. They screw their eyes shut.
“Yes,” they say, feeling fingers under their jaw, tipping their head back. Their eyes open instinctively. The villain almost coos.
“And you love how easy it is with me,” the villain murmurs, admiring the embarrassed, shunted look in those cute eyes of theirs. “Love how I treat you.”
The hero’s fists clench. They desperately try to say no. “Yes.”
“And,” the villain purrs, their thumb brushing along their bottom lip with precious ease,” it’s dangerous because it’s so easy to shut your brain off. So dangerous to let your guard down around me. Easy to manipulate, as much as you wish that wasn’t true.”
The hero almost whines. “Yes.”
“Do you think I’m manipulating you?” They ask, their voice a hushed whisper, like a soft lull in their brain. The hero squirms, but they still can’t look away, not even daring to swallow. The villain leans in closer, their lips so close to theirs, and their voice turns dark. “Do you think it’s working?”
Who knew the hero’s weakness was simple acts of kindness. The villain had never thought going so easy on them would make them putty in their hands. But it did.
The hero bites down on the inside of their cheek, straining not to answer. The villain’s fingers curl around a lock of their hair, tucking it behind their ear tenderly. Too tenderly - the hero loves it.
“Better not fight it,” they hum. “It’ll hurt.”
“Yes,” the hero finally gasps, the throbbing pain in their head easing. They almost feel out of breath, trembling under each of their cunning touches.
The villain’s eyes gleam, leaning forward to kiss them. The hero had been so adamant they could never defeat them, and it almost makes them crackle. Maybe never in the stereotypical sense, but they had proved this was not a stereotypical rivalry; what was true defeat if they didn’t conquer them, after all?
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#bad things happen bingo#original writing#truth potion/serum#hero x villain#villain x hero#heroes and villains#villains and heroes#hero villain#villain hero#hero#villain#writing snippet#story snippet#snippet#hero x villain snippet#truth serums#writing#my writing#hero and villain#villain and hero#avvail
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Owl house is almost perfection!
I just wish we got some more potion-making lore! I know I keep going back to this, but potion making is just my favorite form of magic in fantasy universes, and so many fantasy universes just Downplay it! Even Dungeons and Dragons, it takes a huge back seat in terms of the magic system! (I could rant on and fucking on about the alchemist artificer. The fact it’s so fucking lack luster makes me so fucking sad.)
Eda and Lilith were right there in terms of what I want in terms of brewing witches, but... They fall just short. However, I don’t really blame Dana, because she was fucking kneecapped but the corporate fucks at Disney. I just we got more than the little we got in the show. Maybe in another life. Who knows?
#Vic speaks his mind#Like.#You can get so fucking creative with potions#But holy shit do people don't really do much.#For example.#In my world not only can you make medicine#but you can make things that have different spell effects#Give you temporary magic powers#Elemental damage#Status boosts#Truth serums#knock out gas/sleeping pills#the possiblities!#get crazy with it!
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One of my favourite fic tropes is “drugged and loopy on truth serum”.
Normally-stoic characters acting wildly out of character and professing the innermost feelings that canon has implied but is too chickenshit to address? Or fixing toxic canon dynamics because fuck it, fanfic is for dreamers?
Chef’s. Kiss. Mwah mwah mwah, mutherfucker.
Eg:
Bruce Wayne: “I love my sons so much. Even the large murdery one. He was just my tiny little guy, and now he’s so big and problematic but that’s just more to love.”
Or characters dropping absolutely horrific bombshells about canon traumas and giggling like a teenager drinking their first Bacardi.
Eg:
Tim Drake: “I’m so glad I made all those League Of Assassins bases go kablooey. It prolly killed hundreds of people but pssssh I wasn’t ready to be a dad to Ra’s babies.”
Drunk-seeming, loopy, hilariously honest and oblivious character rambles are my jam.
If anyone has any recs, throw them my way.
#fanfiction#truth serum#Batman#Jason Todd#dick Grayson#Tim Drake#ra’s al ghul#hand wavy science#Bruce Wayne#Bruce Wayne loves his children
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I really like “Truth Serum” trope in fanficion, particularly in Svsss fanfic because I think it’s can be a number of things- funny, angst, sweet.
HOWEVER, I feel like there isn’t enough where SY gets Truth Serum-ed, and his romantic partner, martial siblings and/or disciples get to see his absolutely unhinged thoughts.
Like, sure, you get a system reveal out of this, but I also think this is funnier if the bit where SY isn’t SJ isn’t revealed makes this so much funnier.
It’s the trial and SY is made to tell the truth, except it’s his whole thought process tumbling out and he just can’t help ‘Peerless Cucumber’ ranting and tearing apart OPM in front of everyone like the internet troll he still is deep down. Yue Qingyuan is just letting this happen.
It’s post canon and Luo Binghe is subjected to his husband’s feral thought process about him, and how great he is, and how he is definitely not gay for marrying him because come on. Look at Binghe.
It’s during the years after the conference and Liu Qingge is having to hold a ranting SY back from making the demons who got them in this mess cry, because SY isn’t going just a little too hard in his rant. Also he keeps saying how pretty LQQ is but how everyone must think that jeez, which is not helping the situation.
It’s at any point and Mu Qingfang is pretending to have a normal conversation with SY, under the cover of getting this truth serum nonsense fixed. Except SY just keeps saying the wildest shit about his health and what he does to manage it and Mu Qingfang just wants him to keep going at this point to learn the medical things that SY would never admit on a normal day.
I know this might sound like a normal fanfic with this trope, but I just feel like I have never seen one where the people who care about SY are forced to witness him being a bastard internet troll that we all know he is.
Anyway if anyone had some fanfic recs, I would love some lol
EDIT: I made a post with the fics that have been rec’ed that can be found here!
#svsss#shen yuan#shen qingqiu#luo binghe#liu qingge#yue qingyuan#mu qingfang#scum villian self saving system#truth serum#fanfic
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Good tier: under truth serum Batman talks about his rogues with respect because thats honestly how he thinks
God tier: under truth serum Batman will not shut up about how much he loves his children because he's always thinking about them
#hinacu dc#batman#bruce wayne#batfam#truth serum#both are great#but batman not shutting up about his kids in front of the whole JL is better#''damain's getting so big-'' ''father.'' ''he's my baby i dont want him to get any bigger-'' ''FATHER''
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Current favourite headcanon: Tim is supremely unbothered by truth serum/truth serum-adjacent toxins and spells because a) he's excellent at manipulating the caveats of an order/question and b) he has so many fucking secrets that broad questions only lead to the person asking getting traumatized by the answer
#villain: tell me your deepest secret#tim: *on truth serum* my cloning attempts had fruity undertones#villain: ???#tim: *on being asked about his worst fear* uhhh a toss up between becoming Gun Batman and figuring out the actual number of dead assassins#Bruce: W H A T????????#tim drake#tim drake headcanon#truth serum#feral tim drake
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*tim hit with a serum that makes him impulsively truthful. All whilst Damian and Jason are arguing about being the deadliest*
Jason: fuck you, you little gremlin I definitely have the higher body count. Did the heads in a bag mean nothing?
Damian: and I was raised by assassins and have taken down dozens of people for none of them to rise again
Tim: what are you arguing about?
jason: who in the family has the highest body count
Tim: oh that’s easy
*damian and Jason looking at him expecting one of them*
Tim: it’s me!!!
jason and Damian: what. How.
tim: you will never know
*smiles and walks away*
#tim drake#batfam#jason todd#damian wayne#he would never admit it if he wasn’t under some sort of serum#Idc his thought is that if anyone finds out Bruce will kick him out#truth serum#this was my first thing like this soo just trying it out
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Someone asks Eddie when he was doing a Q&A on his Tiktok account when Steve knew he was in love with him. Despite Steve being in the room, Eddie takes it upon himself to answer because, “That’s an easy one. The first time we made out without getting high. Knew he was a goner there.”
Steve: …You know that’s not true, right?
Eddie: Oh yeah? Tell me when you fell in love with me then, big boy.
Steve, like it’s obvious: When you asked if Dustin was cursed
Eddie:
Eddie: At Skull Rock???
Eddie: Steve, there is no fucking away that you fell in love with me when I smelled like anxiety and lake water!!! We weren’t even friends! I don’t think we’ve ever had a one-on-one conversation before that. I tried to cut your throat open the day before!
Steve: Yeah, like. Okay, so. I didn’t know what the words were for like, my feelings at the time. There was a lot going on. I figured the words out later, but that’s when I knew that we were gonna be in each other’s lives forever.
Eddie:
Steve:
Robin, there: That actually checks out. Trauma bonding, and also Steve couldn’t differentiate between the platonic feelings of friendship and romantic feelings back then.
#Robin: That’s why he thought he was in love with me#Steve: oh my god get over that. I was drugged#Robin: with truth serum!#meanwhile Eddie is having a mini meltdown over his huband’s endless capacity for love#eddie munson tiktok saga#steve harrington#eddie munson
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Truth Serum shenanigans:
Charlie: Do you like us?
Alastor: Some of you.
Vaggie: Who here don't you like?
Alastor: You specifically.
Vaggie: ...
Charlie: ...
Alastor: :)
Alastor: ...Granted, as of late, I dislike you significantly less than I used to.
Charlie: Aw, that's... sweet?
😭
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comic from a collab i did for the binary stars sheith zine, plus some stuff i did on the side for funsies lol.
some extras under the cut
keith's design. them galra features are fading in rly slowly lol
this is how i imagine shiro felt when approaching keith lol
just a dumb doodle lol
#sheith#voltron#it's basically an au where keith starts developing galra traits#and we wanted to go with markings and a cute lil tail lol#he also ends up exuding like a truth serum thing that makes things awkward lmao#it's a cute fic#watch this get flagged because of the butt tho lol#but look i needed to know how he was trying to hide the tail lol#myart:vld#myart#art backlog
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I think a nightmare situation (for someone) is Anakin getting dosed with truth serum in TCW
And everyone's like "Oh, he's going to confess to the Amidala thing," and he's just like "I have murdered babies"
In front of like. Half the council.
"Obi-Wan did you know about--" "NO"
"Ahsoka please leave the room while we figure out what the fuck is going on. You shouldn't be here." [sounds of the pedestal she put Anakin on just crumbling]
They were expecting Anakin to admit he's horny and stupid about Padme and maybe planning to leave for her post-war. They were not expecting 'yeah I did a massacre,' okay?!
"Oh, we'll finally be able to stop pretending we don't know, and he'll stop being really awkward and pathetic about his affair!" Nope, it's so much worse.
I've seen truth serum fics for Anakin before but it's almost always for a Romance Confession and like. No. I want him to fuck up his entire career by admitting to an atrocity he committed. He deserves to fuck up his career at the minimum. He has killed so many people. Please make him go to therapy or something.
Palpatine: I'd like to speak with General Skywalker.
Jedi: No, sorry, there's been an incident.
Palpatine: …what kind of incident?
Jedi: I'm sorry, but we can't tell you that.
Palpatine: I am the supreme commander of the armed forces. You are legally obligated to tell me the actions of a high-ranking military member.
Jedi: Technically it happened before the war, and outside of Republic space, so it's an internal Jedi matter.
#star wars#the clone wars#anakin skywalker#sheev palpatine#anidala#padme amidala#obi wan kenobi#ahsoka tano#Jedi Council#Tusken Massacre#truth serum#phoenix talks#when I say 'it's always for a romance confession' I mean it's always for ob*kin#which is like... I get it but I don't want that
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aww dazai go on buddy confess ! im sure nothing bad can happen !
Chuuya: "They've been bugging me about this all day. Just ignore it."
Chuuya: "Come on. Let's go."
Chuuya: "I guess you'd rather ask questions than answer questions in this state.."
Chuuya: "I'd rather not have you kidnapped while you're forced to tell the truth."
Dazai: "The idea of you going out with Atsushi-kun irks me."
Chuuya: "Don't be a hypocrite, Dazai."
Dazai: "I still don't particularly like it though.."
#ask#update#anonymous#bsd chuuya#bsd dazai#bungo stray dogs#skk#soukoku#(Sorry I did not follow the 180 rule here at all haha I think im getting ill)#(So I dont want to think about it too much.............)#(Also the topic has not been dropped I just dont think youd be able to get a direct answer)#(From either of these two honestly)#(Even with a truth serum)
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Prompt #8
cw referenced drugging & kidnapping??
The villain gave hero a truth serum and asked hero to tell their darkest secret, expecting a some sort of corrupt agency or a crime they did so the villain can use that to blackmail the hero.
Hero instead spilled the most horrifying, gut wrenching, traumatizing backstory known to man that they kept bottled up their whole entire life and villain just thinks. "oh.... you're kind of fucked up actually....you need to Seek Help how did you even get through those what the fuck."
#hero x villain#hero x villain community#hero x villain prompts#i love heroes that are mentally fucked up in the head.#“HAH! I JUST GAVE YOU A TRUTH SERUM! NOW TELL ME YOUR DARKEST SECRET >:)”#“i was having dinner with my family and some random people broke in and killed my family in front of me and forced me to watch it.”#“..oh”#lowkey a you're next reference for those 3 tags#lowk a vent 2
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Summary:
Mobei-Jun and Shang Qinghua, before they possess those names, share a celebratory drink and discuss their future. It doesn't go as either of them planned.
Happy New Year! I wanted to write something a little shorter and a little messy (a lot messy, maybe) before diving into other projects, so I thought I'd indulge myself this month with some classic tropes and try to twist them around a little bit.
Enjoy! 😘💕❤️
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Shen Yuan gets hit with a truth serum plot fic round up!
These are from the comments and reblogs of my previous post
Absolution by airplanelanding
https://archiveofourown.org/works/51587557#main
Summary: Luo Binghe stared back at him. There was something distant in his eyes, something Shen Qingqiu was too tired, too drained, to decipher. Then, Luo Binghe’s lips opened in a non-apology, a soft, murmured sentence—a quiet, “I need to know the truth.”
Shen Qingqiu frowned. He opened his mouth to question the damn-near imploring words, but he never got the chance.
He failed to notice something was in Luo Binghe’s hands until it was too late.
Or
Luo Binghe is determined to get answers this time, now that Shen Qingqiu can't run away. Even if he has to use a truth serum to do it.
aka A Water Prison Re-Write.
"open my lungs to let you in" by ghostybreads https://archiveofourown.org/works/37276570
Summary: Shen Qingqiu had a secret. So, naturally, it was only a matter of time before he was hit by a truth serum wife plot.
//
“How are you?”
“Horny. Kind of want Binghe to rail me, I guess. But it’s manageable.”
Liu Qingge’s hand on his forehead froze, and he was close enough that Shen Qingqiu could hear his breathing stop. He stared back expressionlessly, the mortification distantly crawling up the back of his neck. Honest One-Horned–
The frustrated scream that he usually vented in his head, came out straight from mouth.
“aaAAAAAHHHH GODDAMNIT AIRPLANE–”
no regret (i've been sorry all these years) by krmilia
https://archiveofourown.org/works/39006066
Summary: There is no actual way the System hated him so much, right? Right?
Recently a lot of shitty things happened to Shen Qingqiu. By that he meant sowers in Jinlan city, return of his wayward disciple – who, uhm, prepared him surprise by leaving the Abyss two years early – and now… Well, now he was poisoned with a truth serum.
(Or, Bingqiu finally talk.)
speak your mind (not that much!) by nyoomerr https://archiveofourown.org/works/38953875
Summary: Before the investigation in Jinlan City, Shen Qingqiu is hit by a curse that forces him to speak his mind. Unfortunately, this means that the first thing he does when he sees Luo Binghe for the first time in three years is to tell Luo Binghe that he's grown up to be really quite pretty.
Luo Binghe, not sure what's going on but absolutely enjoying the ride, abandons all his plans immediately. He has new priorities now, including but not limited to:
- get his Shizun to call him 'pretty' again
- steal his Shizun away from his (probably in existence) harem
- ???
funny how you just break down (waiting on some sign) https://archiveofourown.org/works/36742384/chapters/91657246
Summary: Luo Binghe’s hand is half-raised, and Shen Qingqiu is going to die and this is the hand that will—
“[Notice: In appreciation of your continued use of our services, System 2.0 is offering {Valued Customer} a complimentary Bonus Plotline! Do you accept?]”
aka, What if Luo Binghe could read Shen Qingqiu’s mind during the Jinlan City arc?
What is Seen by CavetteDracones
Summary: …is not [always] the real truth.
Truth-compelling artifacts in the hands of an enemy to one side, SYSTEM-mandated silence on the other, and Shen Qingqiu caught between the two. Is it too late to go back to the Water Prison?
BONAS:
Moshang
If It can be destroyed by Tossawary https://archiveofourown.org/works/53124079
I’ll probably add more as they are either found by me or suggested!
#truth serum#svsss#svsss au#shen qingqiu#shen yuan#shen jiu#yue qingyuan#mu qingfang#shang qinghua#liu qingge#luo binghe#fanfiction#fanfic rec
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Damian gets dosed with some kind of "truth serum" that turns off his brain to mouth filter. Bruce cries when he finds out Damian calls Bruce "Baba" in his head and only uses "Father" to sound more mature
#hinacu dc#damian wayne#truth serum#bruce wayne#batfam#batman#dc#now what does he call his siblings?#bc he absolutely has nicknames for them but refuses to admit it
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