A Little Wild Cherry (lane) wrote in museprompts, @ 2011-02-17 18:13:00 |
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Current mood: | working |
Entry tags: | lois lane |
Prompt #1 - What's your worst character flaw?
Muse/Fandom: Lois Lane/Smallville.
Prompt: 1. What's your worst character flaw?
Word Count: 409.
Open to roleplay: Sure.
My worst character flaw? That’s a tough one. I suppose I could say it’s my ability to put my foot in my mouth or maybe it’s how I dive headfirst into things without always thinking them through. There are a lot of things to consider here. But for the sake of argument I guess I’ll have to go with my impulsiveness. It seems to me that most of my flaws stem from that to their very core.
My sense of social graces have a tendency to be hindered by whatever alcohol I may have impulsively downed, as seen by my stellar maid of honor speech at my cousin Chloe’s engagement party. I flew off the handle and completely degraded her relationship with Jimmy, for what? Because I had a few too many. If Clark hadn’t stepped up to the plate, who knows how long I’d have gone on.
There are other times where I’m so involved in a story that my investigating leads to trouble. I jump into the fray with barely any long term thought at times. I’ve been stabbed, bound and gagged (more than once), and nearly blown up on several occasions. But the worst times are when someone else pays for it. When I close my eyes I can see the day the VRA took us in for questioning. God, I should have never gone to Oliver’s office. In hindsight, I’m still not sure what I expected to find there, but my impulsiveness got a good man killed. He saved my life twice that day and while I know he’s on his way to a better place, I know that I can never ever repay him for what he did.
The problem with character flaws is that sometimes they’re also the best of us as well as the worst. My impulsiveness led me to Smallville and even though my life changed forever because of it, over all I wouldn’t change it. As bad as our flaws can be, they make us who we are. Sometimes they take us just where we need to be. I doubt I’ll ever really be able to overcome my impulsive behavior in the long run, I wouldn’t be me without it, but I can at least take the lessons learned from it and channel it into better ways. At least I hope so.
But then again I’ll probably end up kidnapped or unconscious next week while working on a story again.