Cordelia Chase (helpinghopeless) wrote in museprompts, @ 2011-02-23 13:23:00 |
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Muse / Fandom: Cordelia Chase/Angel & BtVS
Prompt: 2. Are you afraid of the dark?
Word Count: 331
Open to roleplay: Yes
Am I afraid of the dark? Hello, I grew up in Sunnydale. Duh. I could probably be the poster child for the public service announcement about why exactly any smart and reasonable person should be afraid of the dark. There's a lot of things that go bump out there and if you've had the good luck to not grow up right above a hellmouth? Maybe you're not aware of them yet. But you can't escape hell, especially not in Southern California. I mean, there's no hellmouth in LA last I checked but it's still teeming with both the creepies and the crawlies.
The short answer is yes. I'm afraid of the dark. I'm half demon now, can usually see when something truly terrible is going to happen ahead of time and battle trained by the most remarkable vampire I've ever known and still I'm afraid. The thing is, I'm not afraid of the demons, the vampires and the evil lawyers that hang in the LA area like its the next set of a bad Wes Craven movie. Don't get me wrong, those things are all plenty scary and if you're smart? You'd be afraid of them too. But I've seen scarier things.
The dark outside? You can fix that. Turn on a flashlight or a nightlight or any kind of light. Sure, it probably won't save your neck from a scary vampire but in that case its the vampire that's scary and not the actual dark. What I'm truly afraid of? It's the darkness inside of a person, or in some cases- the darkness inside a vampire with a soul. But you don't even have to be a vampire to turn into a monster. Just ask Wesley and the girl he kept chained up in his closet all summer long.
The higher you are, the harder you fall. And if you let that darkness consume you? You might never come back from it and that is the scariest thing of all.