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There's something I've been thinking about for a bit now and I wanted a bit of advice for it.

Let's just say you're hiding a secret from someone. A big one. This secret does involve them, but they're not aware of it. It's something that would probably get me into big trouble if I told them back home.

So I guess what I'm asking is: should I tell them here?

[ OOC / While this post itself won't reveal any Heaven Burns Red spoilers due to Megumi continuing to be vague, please let me know if you're okay with spoilers at all! ]

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In my opinion, yes. Unless somehow it would harm them more to know. Not you, them.

I learned the hard way that hiding shit never, ever ends well. Especially in a place like this where the unexpected isn't exactly uncommon. You might get bitten by a neon orange singing frog whose venom forces you to tell the truth or something.

And I dunno, I never feel good when I find out that someone's been keeping something from me. The deception, even by omission, always feels worse than whatever the news is.

Which would hurt them more: knowing the secret or not knowing it?
Is it something they would even want or need to know?

Sometimes it's better to leave people in the dark about things. Some secrets are supposed to stay secret.
Though it also depends on your motive for telling them.

Back home, it's a secret that could get me killed if I told anybody.

[ That being said. ]

I don't know if it would hurt them. When I found out myself, it was really painful. But the person I want to tell this to is... well, I don't know them very well. We've only spoken a few times before all of this, really, and they're my senior, but...

To be honest, I don't have a clear answer. The person I want to tell this to, potentially... it ain't someone I know that well.

As for why I'd want to tell them, I guess I felt that it might be unfair of me to be telling other people who aren't from our world the secret and not her.

Ah, that kind of secret. At least you'd have a good excuse for not telling them.

It might help to get to know them better, you could figure out whether or how to tell them. Right now, it's all guesswork. But the longer you keep a secret the harder it is to come clean and the more they're going to be bothered that you kept it. Unless they're one of those extremely understanding types who forgives everything immediately.

Well other people here knowing changes things a little. There's really no guarantee it won't get back to her in one way or another, y'know? Whether people want to keep it a secret for you or not.

So it's more like do you care if she hears it from someone else instead of you.

They said they'd keep it a secret, but... you never know, with this place. It wasn't as if I necessarily wanted to tell them, either.

And yeah, I do care. I feel like she has to hear it from me, or at least from one of us from back home, if anything.

Yeah.

I've been wanting to, at least. They're the only other person from home here, after all. I'd like to think they're understanding, but I can't be sure.

I'm sure they wouldn't but...yeah. You never know what could happen.
These worlds and the people brought to them are always pretty unpredictable.

And there's your answer.
Secrets that seem as serious as whatever this is are usually easier to swallow from people you know rather than strangers from completely different universes, so that's probably the best choice.
Even if it'll still cause problems.

I wish I could agree, but... it's the opposite, I think.
The kind of secret I'm holding is something that's easier to tell the people here because they are from another universe.

It doesn't involve them at all, or affect them at all. Not in the same way.

Man you're making me super curious about whatever this secret is now.
But you should really be careful with that belief.
One day you're gonna run into an empath and you'll be filled with nothing but regrets.
Tell them one sad thing about your life and suddenly they've forgotten what happiness even is or how to feel it and will never remember!
｡･ﾟﾟ*(>д<)*ﾟﾟ･｡

It's good to share your burdens, though, so I guess that's not a bad way to view things.

Edited 2026-02-15 06:50 (UTC)

I'm in something of a similar situation.
In my case, I chose to tell most of the truth. I omitted only the part that would be most hurtful, or unbearable, to the person.

If he were to ask me, I would be honest... But otherwise, I feel it might simply be best for him not to know.

I hope that helps.

Absolutely.

[No if ands or buts about it!]

In trouble with like... your boss, or their girlfriend, or someone else?

[Rumi considers writing this anonymously, but it would be very easy to figure out who she is, so...]

As someone, who has always been hiding a really big secret about myself back home from my best friends and almost everyone else too for all the reasons ever... I may have written a similar post if they had arrived here from around the same time as me, especially since I'm hiding even more secrets from them in my time and I wouldn't have known what to do in that situation here.

But then they arrived here from my future, where they already knew about at least most of my secrets including the biggest thing.

Yes, you should tell them.

Boss.

It's a kind of secret that if they found out that I told them and certain things happened... they could get rid of me.

Can I ask why?

The thing is that the secret in of itself is something that could hurt them. That's why it's hard.

It ain't like I'm going around telling everyone about it. The only times I've had to have been in circumstances beyond my control.

To be honest, in most circumstances I would tell them.

Back home, it's a secret that could get me killed by my higher ups if I said anything to them. They aren't here, so that isn't an issue, but...

I also don't want the revelation of what it is to hurt them.

That's terrible, just for that? It sounds like the City!

It is pretty awful.

But they kept it a secret for a good reason. From most others.

You're not there, though. So if something bad happens, then doesn't that mean you can fix it, and then it won't go wrong back home?

It's not something that can or can't be fixed. It just is.

That's really great. I always wanted to do that too, tell them, but I never did that despite how I had many, many, many chances and situations to tell them.

Technically my orders to keep what I am as a secret back home came from our higher up too and who knows what would have happened if I had told about it to them there before they eventually found out but... Been there. She isn't here either, so it's an entirely different thing / experience / life here without her around making sure I do as she says.

That sounds like what I thought when I was trying to decide between to tell or not to tell them for years back home. But I really should have trusted them to stay by my side despite of what I am.

It may hurt them, no one can know or promise that... But they may also understand why you didn't tell them until now and most likely it will hurt both of you even more if you continue hiding it from them even here in this completely different situation. I know it's scary. It's so, so scary, I was absolutely terrified of hurting them and losing them and all the worst scenarios that may have happened from me telling about my secret to them...

But as someone, who really should have told my friends, who are more like sisters that an only child like me never had, I'd say tell them. It's easier to be yourself in their company after that too and that's always better than all the hiding, avoiding and (in my case) lying.

Sorry, this ended up becoming kinda long but I guess I have a lot of thoughts and experience of something like this.

The thing you wanna talk about or the thing that could happen if you talk about it?

The former.

It's fine.

I'm not close to this person, to be honest. They're my senior, in fact. But I don't want to be the one to potentially break them with information that they didn't know about themselves.

Then I guess if it is what it is, then it's something you guys gotta live with either way. So it's probably important to say it!

You're questioning it, aren't you?
That means you're doubting the justice in holding said secret against this person.
So you feel it must be unfair that they do not know it, correct?

You tell them.

People keep thinking if you don't tell people things about themselves, that things will just be fine. Its ridiculous, utterly ridiculous.

It involves them.

One day they will find out.

You can be the way they did, or you can be the person who stabbed them in the back until then.

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