I Resist the Muses

Character: Celena Ducayne
Word Count: 206
Prompt: Reasons you do the job you do
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Prompt #44: What will they say about you after you're gone?

Prompt #38: Write about your muses favorite food.

Prompt #43: Reasons you do the job you do

Muse: Piper "Les" Allison
Fandom: Original Character

Character: Ray Vecchio
Fandom: due South

Prompt #38 - Dinner

Prompt #39 - Where you've been

Prompt #40 - Confidence

Prompt #41 - Happiest Moment

Prompt #42 - Betrayal

Prompt #43 - Reasons I do my Job

Character: Benton Fraser
Fandom: due South

Prompt #41 - Happiest Moment

Prompt #42 - Betrayal

Prompt #43 - Job Reasons

Prompt #44 - After I've gone

Prompt #45 - Question

Prompt #46 - Worst Enemy

Reasons you do the job you do.

To protect regular decent folk from the villains. There's always those who want to prey on others. It's wrong and it's my job to stop them. Sometimes I can't stop it but I can track the villains down and make them pay for what they done. Justice isn't always done but I do my part as best I can.


Sgt. George Carter
The Sweeney

Reasons you do the job you do.

Your pardon. Perhaps I didn't hear correctly?

"Job"... ma cos'è questo? I'm sorry, I don't think I understand. Job, as in the poor wretch from Scripture, much-tried, oft-tested? Hm, no. Mi dispiace.

Oh, you mean my occupation? Well, that is a calling. Destiny. There is no way around it, is there? It's true, I don't have to work the soil, break my back at the loom to put food on the table; that's what benefices are for. Don't believe for one second though that wielding the baton of Captain General of the Church means I can spend my days dozing, with grapes growing into my mouth, moors in pretty livery fanning me. Far from it. It means wearing some seventy pounds of armour and sloshing through mud (or searing heat, or both), enemies and assassins lying in wait left and right, and me having to be quicker than the rest. But such is my calling, my star to follow.

I don't have much choice in the matter, now do I.

You may think this is obvious. World domination is the good ol' standard villain trope, right? Of course I want to take over the world. I'm evil! And how do you know I'm evil? Because I want to take over the world.

Nobody ever seems to stop and consider that there might be good reasons for an evil dictator to be in charge of everything. Nobody ever thinks about how much better off a world ruled by an evil but (mostly) fair dictator with absolute power world be.

Why me? Well, because I don't think anybody else can do it.

Really, when you think about it, I'm just another starry eyed idealist looking to make change in the world. The difference between me and the college kid with the petition to legalize pot is that I stand a chance of actually doing something.

Reasons you do the job you do.