Proust Questionnaire: Alyssa Darkling's answers

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On Thu, 25 Aug 16 04:16:32 UTC Alyssa Darkling answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: When fun is done. When the toys are broken. Must find new toys to break.
Where would you like to live?: In all the nightmares.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Wringing the last tears from a broken man.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Faults?
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Heroes are dreamers. They all learn my reality soon enough.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: The history I make is the only story that matters.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: I decide what is real.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: This is tiresome. The ones with spunk and enthusiasm and hope and dreams. They are the most delicious to crush and to squeeze dry.
Your favorite painter?: I paint in blood and woe.
Your favorite musician?: Grown men wailing in despair. That is my music.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Self-delusion.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Sex is arbitrary. Fear is all that matters.
Your favorite virtue?: I enjoy my work. I think that is important. I'm detail-oriented. Before I destroy a village, I like to destroy the souls of the villagers first. Simple death is just no fun.
Your favorite occupation?: I destroy. I don't really know why. I was made this way. Someone took a little dark idea and expanded it and empowered it. They point me towards a village and very soon, there is no village.
Who would you have liked to be?: Stupid, stupid question.
Your most marked characteristic?: My sense of humor. When I break someone, there should be some art to it. I need to be laughing at the end. Sometimes my playthings laugh with me after they break.
What do you most value in your friends?: The others like me are mindless beasts. They don't know art.
What is your principle defect?: My resting periods are too long. I wish I could wander the world non-stop ripping through its hearths and homes. Until they are all gone.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To know pity or mercy or remorse. It must be so limiting.
What would you like to be?: I can be anything. If you can be afraid of it, I can be it.
What is your favorite color?: That color that people make when you play with them too hard.
What is your favorite flower?: No.
What is your favorite bird?: No.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: The stories I write are based on your nightmares. You could say that we are collaborators. I prefer to decide on the endings myself, though.
Who are your favorite poets?: I once made a poet speak only in rhymes. He soon ended his life. With a knife.
Who are your heroes in real life?: I love the heroes. They are so sure of their quest. So sure of themselves. They are the most fun to play with.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Whatever, whoever made me what I am. That is my hero.
What are your favorite names?: Some have called me Legion, or The Darkling. I'm not a ling-thing. My favorite is The Laugher in the Shadows.
What is it you most dislike?: I don't hate. I love. I love my toys and so I must give them the best ending possible. (It hates music. Hates it.)
What historical figures do you most despise?: I am history. I said so. Are you not listening? (It hares being ignored. It hates feeling like a mere tool. Which it is. It doesn't even know why it does what it does.)
What event in military history do you most admire?: The time I convinced an army to attack itself. Genius. (It thinks it is clever. It hates being out-thought.)
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Omnipotent omnipresence. It's been promised to me. (I'm here. I'm in here. I'm getting weaker. It won't be long before I'm all used up.)
How would you like to die?: I won't die. But if I did, I'd take the world with me. (If only you could hear me. It must be stopped.)
What is your present state of mind?: I've found the perfect plaything. She can reach me through her thoughts. She lets me in unawares. I already know what she's afraid of. (Alyssa, is that you? Stay away! It's too powerful.)
What is your motto?: Make it last. But not too long. (Alyssa. I feel you. Please don't come for me. It'll make you hurt. So badly.)

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