sylph_fics

0 Introduction

I already did that. See here.

1 Do you feel that you were born with a predetermined role in society? If so, how do you feel about it?

I don't believe in destiny, I refuse to believe in the Fates (as if I did, I might petition them for redress of whatever I did to make them curse me so. I really should not read Greek tragedy). We make ourselves, and claiming otherwise is a coward's choice. Now, if you're asking if I was born to be a soldier... the answer is yes. I don't think I could be happy in any other role. Civilian life has always been at best a poor fit for me, as anyone who knows me at all would tell you.

2 What is your New Year's Resolution?

I never bother to make them.

2004

3 Is there ever a good reason to get blinding drunk?

~~Hell yes.~~ There have been a few times when I certainly believed so. And as on at least two occasions, Wintergreen seemed perfectly content to hand me the bottle, I still consider them justified. ~~After I got out of the hospital, after Grant's death...~~

Now, the last time I let myself get blinding drunk, on the other hand... Well. I'll leave it at saying I deserved the beating, and the lecture, he handed out. I can't think of any other time he'd ever been that harsh with me, and honestly, thinking of how close I came to having him walk out of my life frightens me. I'd never been able to push him away when I wanted to, that he would have left then...

But he was right, I was putting him in danger. And he always has known what I need to hear, rather or not I want to.

4 Do you believe in love at first sight?

I've looked up and felt my heart gone on two occasions, so how can I not?

5 What's more important - self preservation or forgiveness?

First rule of combat: Don't Die.

6 How did you lose your virginity?

...right. I'm going to talk about that publicly why?

[locked]

Also, that entirely depends on if you mean with a woman, or a man. The second I'm still not discussing, the first... I was sixteen and in the middle of a war zone, and I still have no idea what her name was. It was far more simply physical than anything to remember fondly.

[locked]

7 What's your favorite guilty indulgence?

Dreams of my past, before I wake.

8 If you could have dinner with anyone in all of history, who would it be, and why?

I have no idea. Wintergreen's the student of history, not me. Though I would not mind the chance to have a long conversation with Sun Tzu--oh, don't look at me that way. The man isn't studied in every war college for no reason.

9 What makes you laugh?

Any number of things. Often, Wintergreen's wit.

10 What do you want on your tombstone - and why?

That assumes I'll ever have one.