I Resist the Muses

Up until recently, I was Belthazor, one of the most powerful demons in the Underworld.


Muse: Cole Turner
Fandom: Charmed (late season three)
Words: 552

( Reason. Order. I'm a detective. )

What are your thoughts on love?

The Jedi are not celibate. The Jedi are cynical.

Padawans crying in the creche for parents they do not even remember; Knights weeping over the bodies of fallen Masters; Masters drinking in the dark because of Knights they cannot have. I have seen all of these things, and they are the reasons my Order forbids attachment.

I have not always followed the ways of my Order.


66 words, comments welcome.

Language issues, as usual.

( Love. What a thorny, nuanced thing. )

Comments, etc. welcome here.

Family.

My family are the Marrok. No matter how much the women of the pack don't like me, Bran has been more a father to me than anyone. I never knew my real father. The one that passed down to me the ability to shift to coyote. My mother gave me to the Marrok after she found a coyote pup in my crib where I should have been. Bran raised me among the werewolves. Samuel showed me the joy and heartache of love. And despite the heartache he caused, I still love him. And I know that he'll always be there to protect me, no matter our personal conflicts at the time. And then there's Adam and his daughter Jess. I'm still not sure exactly where they fit in fully, but they are family. I know this whole-heartedly.

My mother? Well, yes, she's family too. After Bran sent me back to her at the age of sixteen she welcomed me into her home. Her and my new step-father and their kids. They made me feel welcome and part of their family as much as they could, to which I'm grateful.

That's...my family. A handful of people, but most of them I know I can trust with my life. I know that if I run to them for help, no matter how late, or how deep the shit is, they will be there for me. To help and protect me.

Commets/RP welcome

I've been told many things about love. That it's more powerful than anything I have known personally, that was from Albus Dumbledore of course. I've also been told that love is useless unless you stand to gain from it. I tend to fall in the second camp.

I will be honest and say that I don't think I've ever truly experienced what this love thing is, but it seems to be a pretty pathetic thing when it just seems to override one's sense of self-preservation. You know, when people claim that they'd die for another. I don't think I could ever die for another because I treasure myself too much. I am too selfish to love and perhaps that is a good thing.

However, it would be foolish of me not to believe that love and self-sacrifice does have power. After all, that is what caused me to lose my body when I tried to kill Harry Potter. His muggleborn mother sacrificed himself for him (I told her that she need not lose her life, but mothers are complicated things) and her love and self-sacrifice...well, let's just say that brat seems to have had far too much luck since then.

So I know it exists, but it is not the most powerful thing in the world. Or so I would like to think.

Still, I would rather live than die for someone else.

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Character: Celena Ducayne
Fandom: Original Character
Word Count: 572
caution for strong language
open for roleplay or comments
Prompt #3: What are your thoughts on love?

Family is a complicated thing for me. I divide family into my father's family and my mother's family because I have different relationships with both sides.

( Please forgive me for the length )

[locked from other Veronica Mars characters]
I don't know if I believe in love. I've seen too many things and been betrayed too many times to believe that it's possible for anyone to love someone unconditionally. Oh, but parents all love their children unconditionally, you say? You must not live in Neptune. My mother sold me out for fifty grand. Twice. Logan's dad beat him with a belt for any minor 'infraction'. Meg's parents locked her little sister in a closet. Dick and Beaver's dad skipped the country to avoid being charged with fraud. Wallace's mom lied to him about his biological father's identity. There's a reason why there are no "Parent of the Year" awards here.

As for romantic love? That's the biggest scam of all. I thought I loved Duncan and where did that get me? Waking up with no underwear and no memory of losing my virginity. Logan thinks we have some sort of epic love. And I'll give him that he's got the 'lives ruined' and 'bloodshed' parts right. Don't get me wrong, I do love him. But do I think we have some sort of pre-destined fate to be together? To beat all the odds and live happily ever after? I'm pretty sure that only happens in movies and Danielle Steel novels.

You can say I'm too young to be this cynical, but if you've lived through what I've lived through, I don't think you'd be any more optimistic.


[open for comments from anyone that's NOT a Veronica Mars character.]

I do not have much contact with my biological family due to my busy schedule, but it does not matter because I consider the whole of the galaxy to be part of my extended family as I should look after it as if it was my own family.

I have a huge responsibility to the galaxy and I have always believed that one should consider their constituents as part of their family as to treat them fairly and evenly and with the care that one gives to their own family.

One should not be limited by the blood ties they hold and should consider others not of their blood family as well for it will foster understanding between each other. Unfortunately, we had failed in keeping these things in mind and we now have a war dividing us, but trust me that in our waging war, we are trying to keep the republic alive rather than dividing it.

[OOC: As of the moment, I am writing him primarily as a politician while I get more of a hold on his character.]

Family

When Xena and I were in Ch'in helping Pao Su defeat Khan, Lin Qi asked me if I ever thought about settling down. He didn't mean marriage, but he was asking about where I put my roots down. I told him that people think that a home is a place, but I believe it can be a person. Xena is that for me.

I have my parents, my sister Lila, and my niece Sara, and they will always hold a special place in my heart. Xena is my soulmate. She completes me in ways that I never thought possible, and allows me to be who I was meant to be.

That's what I think family is. People that love you unconditionally, whether it's through blood or though other bonds. Sometimes our journey took unexpected twists and turns, but through it all, Xena has always been there for me. Even with the mistake that cost Solan his life. Xena is my home and my family.



Muse: Gabrielle
Fandom: Xena the Warrior Princess
Word Count: 164





Comments/RP Welcome

Name:Vincent Valentine

Fandom: Final Fantasy VII

Prompt 1: Who are you?

Word Count: 100

Comments welcome

When I was younger, I’m not ashamed to admit I was really idealistic about love. I was in love, and I was stupid enough to think it would last forever. It didn’t, and I learned to see it differently. I miss her, and yeah, sometimes I still wish things had lasted. But I’m not so idealistic that I believe there’d ever be a chance with her again.

Since I came to Atlantis, I’m not really that sure I’d want to anymore.

Love, I’ve learned, can be tricky. And it’s not something I can say I’ve always known. There’ve been a lot of years in my life where I’ve chosen to be alone. But these days I’m really starting to learn that there’s more to love than just being involved with someone. I love a lot of people in Atlantis, in different ways. I don’t think I’m about to go on about who and how. There are a lot of things I do, but saying I love someone isn’t one of them.

Sometimes it’s not by choice, and I’ve always thought maybe that’s what happened.

Why is it so hard to figure out my own thoughts on this subject?

Of course I loved my mother. She gave me everything she ever had. She looked after me even though my birth was somewhat unique.

Qui-Gon was like a father to me. Never had any adult male given two shits about me when I was growing up. After his death,and as I grew up Senator Palpatine seemed to step into that role.

Then my wife, Padme. From the moment I saw her I knew she would be mine. Though I met her when I was merely nine years old, I thought about her everyday until I saw her again when I was nineteen. For me, it was love at first sight.

And my former master... I would do anything to keep him by my side. We are The Team and we will be for the rest of our lives.

Gods - love.

Well, knowing the goddess of love personally I thought that this would be an easier question to answer. To be the most simple there are those we are born to love and those that we choose to love.

In the beginning we are given our family, so we learn, if we are lucky, unconditional love. Mothers, fathers, sisters brothers - all teaching us how to love. When we grow up we all discover that we have a choice in who we can love, and that is when we picks our partners.

Not all of us are so lucky to find a person who loves us in the same way that our first family did - but I am one of them. In Gabrielle I have found those things - unconditional love - as well as a best friend. With her I know that she will walk beside me for the rest of both of our lives.

And I am very lucky woman indeed.



Comments/RP welcome.

I don't think I've been in love, romantic love that is. I've had crushes on girls in high school and university, but I never actually acted on them as I was too shy. I never felt that I needed another to feel complete.

[Besides, the other me in my mind would get jealous. I don't particularly like what happens when he's jealous.]

Familial love, I'm not very familiar with either. I suppose the love Granny had for me could be considered tough love, but it didn't feel that way to me at the time.

This is hard for me to write actually, I don't really have much to say on the topic. I know a lot about it from a psychological standpoint, but I have no personal experience with the emotion. Well, I do love knowledge and various other things.

[Like seeing others scream in terror.]

There's not much else to say.

It is in the nature of Quendi that we love only once, and eternally. It's said, and I truly believe it, that those we are bonded to in love are chosen long before we are even born, and that by falling in love we are merely answering to that predestiny. Once bonded, that bond is unbreakable, and it will endure for all eternity, even after rebirth.

Once an elf has found his true love, he will never find another.

Sometimes, the bond of love is found in unexpected places. As a child, I was sure of one thing; that I would fall in love with a beautiful elven maiden, marry her, and eventually succeed my father as king, and she would be queen by my side. It never occurred to me that the one to whom I was to be bonded would be my own cousin, a male cousin. The Noldor of the First Age believed such a union to be perverted and monstrous. My answer to that is, that if our bond was chosen by the Valar themselves, then clearly they did not disapprove.

The trouble with an unbreakable bond is that you can't break it even if you want to.

The one to whom I am bonded is gone, and I do not know if I shall ever see him again. Perhaps not, in this lifetime, until we are reborn again. But the strength of our love is that I may never forget, and may never love another in his place.

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