Xavier Daily

Lie Detector

[zanexpatel]

“I get it. Yesterday was the day to smoke. But in my world, we smoke every day.” Zane took a large puff of the blunt and then held it for a bit before blowing out the excess smoke. “Want a hit?” He asked with a smile. “Come on, one time won’t hurt you.”

[dailytruthseeker]

Truth. An elongated sigh left his lips, as if he held the breath in for a longer amount of time. Zane was a pretty questionable person at times, but at least he hadn’t lied to Xavier’s face. At least, not that his inner ticks exposed him for it. “Hmm.” His gaze flickered from the joint to Zane’s face, the wrinkles indent his forehead to add to the narrowed eyes full of scrutiny. “No, but being under the influence could harm someone else.” He admitted truthfully, and his face relaxed as he continued to weight the pros & cons.

[jadexroberts]

Jade was searching for something in her purse as she walked into her nightclub. While it was technically owned by the Government, she ran the place. She stopped dead upon seeing a pair of shoes before her. “You do realise this is a nightclub, boo? You can’t be here at,” she paused to check her watch, “two thirty in the afternoon. Well I guess since you’re here, you can do me a favour. I need someone to man the bar tonight - want the job?”

[dailytruthseeker]

Xavier tilted his head as he glanced around the club, and then turned to Jade. A blank stare locked onto the woman. “Oh, how foolish of me.” He muttered with his same cynical baritone voice. “You don’t even know me, but you’re offering for me to take a bartender job? Why is that?” He pushed onward and waited with the pessimistic outlook that the woman in front of him would probably lie. He didn’t lie himself, so he glanced around the nightclub. “I was treating someone outside with minor abrasions, so I was borrowing your floor.”

[luciexlu]

Lucie stood outside Rendezvous, resting briefly before starting her walk back to Point. She was cutting it close on time, she always did, but she really liked to push her limits with curfew. She was more than tipsy, looking around the city in the dark, scanning for anyone to walk with. Noticing someone, she perked up, “Hey!” She shouted, already walking toward them. “Are you leaving? I have to walk back to Point, and I didn’t want to walk alone.” Sure, she had Lu, but Lu was pouting about her choices at the moment. “It’s okay if you’re not going over there, but strength in numbers and all that, right?” Even if she just ended up walking them back to their house, it was good to have a little company. 

[dailytruthseeker]

Xavier didn’t have to groan aloud, instead he felt his stomach do a flip. He had hoped to avoid people, but part of him always skated on the line of introvert & extrovert. He stared at the younger girl with a thoughtful sigh. If he had just let her go on her way, it was likely he would have to approach her under different circumstances. Inebriated people rarely did anything gracefully, and this included walking alone back to the point. He hummed, but nodded to her. At least, she hadn’t lied about her destination. Though, she did seem rather young to be at Rendezvous.

 “I’ll walk with you.” At first he didn’t engage in small talk, but the silence made him almost forget his inner pledge to get the young woman home. ‘Don’t ask a question she can lie about.’  Xavier’s subconscious chimed in, as he cleared his throat. “Did you turn twenty one recently?” It’s a simple question, one that he didn’t think the young woman would lie about.

[cursedinvisibility]

OPEN STARTER. Location: Gym Time

Jace could have made it big. He was the number one recruit for a dozen football teams, and he’d proven that he could keep up academically. But things happened, and his life got off track, so the closest that he got to that now was this: yelling at people to train harder, to lift heavier, to run faster. Otherwise known as a trainer at Gym Time. It was a far cry from his dream, but he enjoyed it. Most days. “C’mon, you got this,” he encouraged, bending down to near eye level with the person forcing their way through push-ups.

[dailytruthseeker]

Xavier didn’t mind the gym as much as he minded wanting to be away from people. The slight boil to his blood and feverish cloak that overtook his body at the mention of a lie he heard near him. He didn’t know the extent of the lie, unless he was part of the conversation. The symptoms only became harsher on his insides the closer the lie was told to him. He thought perhaps he would get lucky when he came to the Gym at an odd hour. However, his peace of quiet & truth was instantly interrupted by Jace in front of him. “Are you sure about that?” He grumbled.

[olliexwest]

Ollie sat on the bench outside the grocery store, bag of frozen peas pressed to the now black eyes he had from busting his face on a the ground. The Beast had broken free last night, rampaging through the woods, luckily avoiding town. However, Oliver himself was not as lucky. He tried to fight the Beast, harder than ever, and he still lost and was extremely banged up in the process. He’d fallen on rocks, run through tree branches, he was covered head to toe in scratches, bruises, and cuts, some deeper than others. 

He had never felt more defeated than he did at this moment. Sure, he was glad they were stuck inside Lake Grimstone still, but everyone here was still at risk. Honestly, he wished Dr. Matthews was able to do something to help him faster. He was tired of fighting. Pulling the bag away from his eyes and nose, he noticed someone. Sighing deeply, looking down at his tattered clothes and semi-bloody figure before placing the frozen bag back on his face. “You don’t happen to have any ibuprofen on you, do you?” 

[dailytruthseeker]

Xavier always kept some medical supplies on his person, that was part of his job. Though he was rather introverted and didn’t discuss with many what his profession actually was. He passed by the bench and paused as his eyes dragged over the younger male. A slow blink and he reached into the pocket of his jacket to produce the small bottle. “I do, but..” He paused looking over the semi splatter of blood with the frozen ice pack. “Maybe you should follow me, and we’ll get you cleaned up a bit too. I won’t hurt you, but will you hurt me?” He concentrated his powers to be in tune with the answer.

[harleyhidalgo]

Harley had a negation bracelet on, and though he’d made it seem like a punishment to those who had put it on him, but he couldn’t be happier. Of course, he was nervous, but he would just have to speak to someone in the science department to see if it was truly working - stopping his ageing. Even though he’d told Zane he wouldn’t, he had harmed himself only slightly on his hip to see if it stopped his healing… And, well, it bled and it didn’t heal, and now he had a bandage over it. “So why do you think they started dishing these out as punishments? Feel their losing control, maybe?” Harley asked, indicating to the bracelet on his wrist.

[dailytruthseeker]

Xavier hummed with lacking amusement as he regarded the bracelet with a glare.  Half tempted to pop his earbuds in and walk away from the conversation, but he stayed. Head canted to the side as his hand slid over the top of his head in thought. “It’s all about control.” He mentioned with a slow nod of his head, as he tried to wrap his brain around it. The old administration he had trusted what they said, but lately he felt.. uncomfortable to say the least. The foretelling signs of lies didn’t strike him, but that didn’t mean he trusted anything going on. “Why else?”

[zanexpatel]

To try to get his mind off of things, Zane made his way to the club. He needed to release some energy without using his power so much. To calm his mind down, get drunk, and try not to worry about what was going on in the world. There was nothing he could do in that moment, after all. There was no point in worrying about his brother. He was a doctor, he could take care of himself, right?

Zane walked into the club and automatically grabbed a drink from one of the serving trays. He downed it, set it down on one of the tables, and grabbed another. He turned towards the person nearest him. “They must know how much of a shitty situation we are all in.” He chuckled as he motioned towards the people that were carrying drinks around to everyone. “They can’t actually believe we are going to pay for all of these.”

[dailytruthseeker]

The plan hadn’t been to go to the club, because even with the boisterous energy - lies were always afoot. His expression jaded under the cast of light from above them. The trick about the club was, most inebriated people at least told the truth. So at least he was rest assured that he wouldn’t feel the familiar tingle in his bones when someone said something that was a fabrication of the truth. Zane was a familiar face, and he furrowed both brows towards him. Xavier turned to look around towards the others with pessimistic pursed lips. “I believe their sole purpose is profit here, Zane.” 

[jazzy-martinez]

Jazmine’s phone fell on the green grass beneath her feet and her legs almost gave out on her. Was this real? Was the outside world really that bad? If that was the case then why hadn’t they found out sooner? The thought that what they had just witnessed was really happening terrified her. 

“Do you… can it be true?” She asked the person next to her. 

[dailytruthseeker]

Xavier didn’t know the truth of the situation, and that gnawed on his nerves. He glances to Jazmine pensively as her phone hits against the blades of green at her feet. He was always a pessimist, but he hadn’t been close enough to know if the third-hand reports were lies or truth. Nothing that mattered to him existed on the outside anyway, but he tried his best to not be an asshole about it. “I.. don’t have any reason to think it’s not the truth.” He murmured grimly.

[charlotteokayjones]

JESSE GOD DAMN WILLIAMS

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[dailytruthseeker]

The Winter Wonderland fabricated out of a million lies if he were a betting man. Xavier watched the tree lighting ceremony with pessimistic scrutiny. Holidays weren’t a good time for him, really these days there were coated with lies and betrayal. Secrets that fell from the sky in the form of snowflakes. Before his parents had split, and before his powers had seen the light of day they had joined together one time. Christmas when he had turned 10 to teach him how to ice skate. It was one of his most prized memories, but as he got older he found himself criticizing even that.

Xavier skated across the ice with ease and bottle of beer in one hand. He didn’t pay attention to anyone around him, and found himself drunkenly betting himself that he couldn’t do a full spin on the ice. This was his third bottle since he had come out to the festival. If he had his way, he wouldn’t stop either until he blacked out. 

The spin started out well with expertise, the blades scratched against the ice as he spun. Grip lost on the bottle as his spin came to a halt. Xavier blinked as the bottle ricocheted off another person causing an elaborate domino effect. His brows knit together with slight concern as he watched the trail of bubble amber freeze over the ice.

He skated over to the first person it hit, finding it hard to concentrate as he heard the bottle ping off in a distance. 

“Sorry about that. .. Fuck is it still going?”

[lilpieceofmyworld]

[bob-belcher]

[director-patterson]

It had been twenty-four hours since the announcement had been made and Thomas still could not believe it. There was no way that The Rising Power was keeping their word, right? No, of course not. He had never trusted that group and his gut had never been wrong before so why would it start now? Wait, he had to take that back because it had been wrong before, just once, but it had been his biggest regret. 

The man stood in line at the coffee shop and could hear almost everyone discussing their soon exodus out of Lake Grimstone. “So you actually think that TRP will keep their word?” He asked the person next to him. 

[dailytruthseeker]

Xavier thought he hated his life, but the announcement had reinforced that he REALLY hated his life. The power spiraled into chaos in his bones with each little lie over the announcement. Small from the “I don’t believe” to the “I knew we could count on them” sent the familiar jets of power through him. He knew they were all goddamn liars. The announcement itself however, he wasn’t completely sure what he felt. Before his shift he had popped in the earbuds at the coffee shop, before he did something drastic. Maybe offer his jugular up to the barista for exchange for quiet. He wasn’t a dick - so when he saw the man in front of him start to talk. Xavier popped out one of the earbuds to listen. “I’m the wrong person to ask that, buddy. What do you think?” There’s a tiny pep of aggression in his tone, more from dealing with the crowd noise than the man himself.

[marcelleking]

When the noise of the speakers was heard, Marcelle cursed, knowing that this would not mean anything good for her of anyone working as a guard. And she had been right. Closing the town, moving everyone out, Marcelle had no idea how they would manage such a thing. Just the logistic, it sounded like a nightmare to her. Did they even think about what would happen to people once they were back into the real world? Some of the resident had been here for so long, there would need to be a transition, rehabilitation. And what about the powers? “No, I can’t tell you anything about what they are planning, I’m not assigned to anything regarding them.” This was something Marcelle had been telling everyone that stopped her and she was tired of it.

[dailytruthseeker]

The noise across the speakers was processed with skepticism in his bones. He waited to see if he could feel the backlash of a lie vertebrate through him. However, it didn’t seem to kick in as he thought it would. Xavier blinked slowly, one of the only residents that hadn’t minded the government order. Just because someone told the truth didn’t necessarily mean they were good though - it just worked in their benefit. He turned towards Marcelle with a blank stare through her. Focus. Silently he commands himself as he listened to her little comment. He waited for the distant chime or the numbing to circle at the pit of his abdomen. Once neither seemed to occur he let out a humorless chuckle. “I don’t believe I asked you.” Xavier’s eyebrows furrow before he continued. “What is your opinion on the announcement?” A little test for himself to know if she was truthful or not.

[lakegrimstonerpg]

“No matter how white your lie is, a lie is and will always be a lie.”

XAVIER DAILY

THIRTY-FIVE

LIE DETECTION

JESSE WILLIAMS

OPEN

Xavier was just six when his power came to him. Of course being so young, he never really gave it much thought. Instead, he thought that he was just good at reading people. As he got older his power grew with him, at times making things easier for him but other times it just showed him how much people really lied. Realizing this made Xavier the cynical person that most people now know. He saw how people lied for no real reason,  they just did it because they could. When he turned fourteen he was told the biggest lie and the one that shaped his life. His parents were getting a divorce and instead of being honest with him about what was going on, they decided to lie to him and tell him that they had just grown apart. In reality, his father had been unfaithful—something Xavier found out years later.

Even though he didn’t know the truth at the time, Xavier did know that his own parents had lied to him and it was at that moment that he swore he would always tell the truth, no matter how hard it was. Xavier started focusing on his school work knowing that at least there he would not be lied to. He graduated at the top of his class and went on to one of the best medical schools in the country. He lead a pretty normal life, minus the always knowing when people were lying to him, for a few years until one day out of the blue two government agents showed up at his doorstep to take him to Lake Grimstone. To this day Xavier is unsure of how exactly they found out about his power.

While most people hate the government for keeping them locked away, Xavier does not. Sure he doesn’t feel like the situation is ideal but at least the government has never once lied to him. Even with everything that is going around the town every single time that he has gone up to a government official they have given him the truth, or at least he has never detected them lying to him. Xavier has been in Lake Grimstone for a few years and even though he is trying hard to make it home he is still uneasy at how easy it seems to be for people to lie. Since being in Lake Grimstone his sixth sense, as he has come to call it, does seem to be less active. What Xavier doesn’t know is if that’s because people in there lie less or if it’s because they also have powers somehow they are able to override his power? He’s determined to find out the truth, but until then he’s focused on his job and being there to help the people in need. When The Rising Power took over the town, though, it started to go off again. Seeing that they were lying–and he wasn’t sure about what–he began to seek out more information about the government. After all, some lies are worse than others.

POSITIVE: honest, hardworking, open-minded. NEGATIVE: cynical, guarded, hotheaded.

KHIANNA MALIK

Khianna has to be one of the people that Xavier is closest to in Lake Grimstone. She’s not only his colleague but also his friend. When he arrived she was the first person that  really took the time to talk and get to know him. The fact that she has never lied to him is also a big reason as to why he feels so close to her since honesty is a big thing for him.

ZACHARIAH WONG

Xavier is in no way impressed with how Zachariah uses his power. He sees the lies in Zach’s words when he confronts him, but because the other male is so careful about what he says around him, knowing his true stance on things is difficult. Xavier doesn’t know whether his words are helpful or if he really just doesn’t care. He thinks it’s the former, but he just can’t be sure. One thing he knows is that he’s not going to stop trying to convince the male to use his power for good reasons.

ISABELLA DI MARIA

While most people tend to lie he has noticed that Isabella does not. Not to him or anyone else that she has come across whenever he is around and that’s something that he likes. Whenever something is going on and he needs answers he goes to Isabella what he doesn’t know is that Isabella has a power that negates his so even if she was lying he would never be able to tell.

ZANE PATEL

It’s likely that the only reason that Xavier talks to Zane is because of their mutual friend, Khianna. If Xavier is honest, he doesn’t particularly think that Zane is a good person. However, Zane has never lied to him so Xavier isn’t sure if maybe he is just being overprotective with Khianna, since the last thing he wants is for someone to take advantage of her. For the time being he is friendly with Zane but the minute that the younger male screws up Xavier will be there to call him out.