I Resist the Muses

023 - Do you believe in an Afterlife? What do you expect to find when you get there?

*laughs*

You're asking me, the girl who was murdered by her boyfriend's father and is hanging around to keep an eye on her friends... if I believe in an Afterlife?

Yeah, I guess I believe in an Afterlife. I mean, there's something on this side of death, you know? Death obviously isn't the end of things, or else I wouldn't still be here.

I don't know what I was expecting of the Afterlife, but then again, I didn't expect to be exploring it this soon, either.

Right now, I don't expect to find anyone I care about in the Afterlife. They are still alive and I hope nothing happens anytime soon that changes that.

If anything -- or anyone -- does change that?

Well, I'm Lilly Kane.

I'll find a way to make them sorry.


Muse: Lilly Kane
Fandom: "Veronica Mars"
Words: 135

I've had a whole hell of a lot of times of need in my life, and each and every time? My answer's the same.

Jaenelle.

She is my life. She is Witch. But most importantly, she is my best friend in all the realms and the one person that I can always trust to never laugh at me for my troubles. (Well, not in a mean-sprited way, at least. I've had my share of troubles that even I admit are kind of amusing.)

She is the one person I know who would do absolutely anything to help me, whether I asked for it or not. In fact, if I need her help, I had damn well better ask for it or I'm likely to get a whole hell of a lot more help than I wanted in the first place.

Muse: Karla
Fandom: Black Jewels Trilogy

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I'm not sure if there is what you would call an Afterlife. If there was, there wouldn't be so much unhappiness and regrets over things that have happened and people that have gone on.

Some people that die become one with the Force... others move on. The ones with the Force can sometimes talk with you... others cannot.

Is that what the Afterlife is? I do not know. I have my hands full trying to keep things going in this life.

But... if it were something that exists, if it were possible...

...I would hope to see my mother there.


Muse: Princess Leia Organa
Fandom: "Star Wars"
Words: 100

That depends. Am I reliving it so I can change it or am I reliving it so I can just experience it again? Because those are two completely different answers, my friend.

If it's just so I can experience it, then I'd have to say the day that I passed my PI exam. I did it myself, without any of the dubiously-offered "help" certain government officials offered me. The accomplishment was mine and mine alone.

If it's so I can change it? I'd go back to that moment in the Ark, when everything fell apart and I lost my leg. I wouldn't change the end result, Aya and Eve being all right. No, I wouldn't change that. But if I could find a way to work things so that I wouldn't have something fall on my leg and damage it? I'd be all over that in a heartbeat.

But really, aside from those, there are few moments in my life I'd relive. The past is the past, the future is the future, and I'd rather just get on with living my life.

Muse: Kyle Madigan
Fandom: Parasite Eve II

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What Song Best Describes You And Why?

So we had Desprez, and we had Isaac, but I think Father was secretly frothing that Juan del Encina was working for the Catholic Majesties. (Please... Catholic Majesties. May I say that epithet is entirely undeserved and a joke to boot?) As a converso, del Encina would have been better off in Rome, and it goes without saying that it would have benefitted his music, too, heavy and dreary as it is with the sheer melancholy of the Spanish Court. Ma, bene. At times he hit a nerve, touched a chord. I've always liked his

Todos los bienes del mundo.

The lyrics go like ( this. ) I thought he was right, Encina, and I thought... my virtù would endure. My house, my children would thrive. My plans would come to fruition, my honour restored by the Emperor himself. Recently it has been pointed out to me that "a better song by far," my opposite insisted, was

The Man Who Sold The World

which they no doubt believed a clever commentary on a temporary reversal of fortune and my squandering the Spanish votes in that... that ill-begotten conclave. What can I say. Perhaps they're right. ( I thought you died alone, a long long time ago... )