Why do this?
If you want to be truly seen
Hardly anyone gets to hear how they actually come across. You catch pieces of it. A compliment someone tosses off, a look you can't quite read. But nobody sits you down and tells you the whole of it, plainly, the way the people closest to you could.
Aletheia does the asking for you. Your people answer a handful of questions, and the answers get woven into one portrait of how you're seen. Every line traces back to something somebody actually wrote. Aletheia means un-concealment: what was there all along, just never put into words.
What comes back is the version of you that already lives in the people who love you. Not flattery, not a performance review. Just that.
If someone asked you to answer
Someone you know wants to understand what they mean to you, and they've made it about as easy as it gets. That's really all this is.
You answer a few small questions in your own words. Sign your name or don't, whichever lets you be honest. It won't take long, and there's no account to make.
And yes, it's friend homework. Friend homework is good, actually. It's one of the few times you get to say the quiet thing out loud and have it land.
Anonymous unless you sign it · a few minutes · no account needed to witness · your answers are only ever used to make the portrait.