theatrical_muse

[i_vanquish_evil]

What is the one thing about yourself that you don't want anyone ever to know?

Hold on just a minute there. If this is something that I don't want anyone to ever know, or anyone ever to know, then why would I write it HERE? How much sense does that make? Even if this is secure and no one else can read it, do you really think that I would write down - on paper, via electronic media, in braille - the answer to this question? If it's something I don't want anyone to know, isn't it safer to keep it in my own head, than to put it in a format that anyone can find? I suppose I could write it in code, but it wouldn't take long for some genius computer hacker to figure out the code, reformat what I'd written and send it shooting out across the world in a matter of seconds. Honestly, I'm a little behind on things, being trapped in the world's most technologically backwards job, but I'm not that slow.

Muse: (AU) Van Helsing
Word Count: 162


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What is your greatest strength?

My incredible ability to piss people off?

Canon!VH pushes AU!VH out of the way...

Conviction. That ever - present, underlying desire to do what must be done, no matter the consequences. Even if that means pissing people off. Even if that means that someone has to die. Even if that means that I may die. It's always there. I know what must be done. It's never pleasant and no one tells me that I've done a good job or saved the world or gives me a medal when I'm done, but I do it anyway. Few know what I do; fewer know why I have to do it. Most of the world gets by just fine every day without knowledge of the creatures that I face... that I fight... that almost kill me. If they knew, my job would be even harder. They know nothing and it's better that way. My greatest strength - conviction.

Muse: (AU) and (canon) Van Helsing
Word Count: 154



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If you could take back one thing you said in anger, what would it be and why?

Can it be an action? I can't think of anything I've said in anger that I'd want to take back, but I do remember one thing I've done in anger that I really wish I hadn't. I don't recall all of the details, but I know it was in 1462 - winter. I won't recount the events immediately prior, but they weren't pleasant either. Just know that a young woman was in the hallway, horrified at what I'd done and had sent word to an authority and that is what angered me. That she would presume to know my reasons for my actions and feel it her duty to step in and take action herself. The actions of mine that followed were not pleasant. I grabbed the woman, yelled at her, she scratched my face, I grabbed her again... and broke her neck. Thinking back, I wish I hadn't done that. After I had, I really couldn't remember why I did it, or why I thought it was a good idea. Anger is not the best motivation for action.

Muse: (AU) Van Helsing
Word Count: 179