I Resist the Muses

How deadly is your character? What could make him kill someone, and how would it happen?

How deadly is your character?
A perfect day.

How deadly is your character? What could make her kill someone, and how would it happen?

Muse: Elle Greenaway
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Word Count: 202

Isabel is a very deadly enemy to have.

If she's not in a feeding frenzy, which are rare as she does have a strong sense of self-control, Isabel has and will kill to protect herself, her own interests, and for those she loves. In the course of doing her familial duty, she will also have people killed to underline a point, as death doesn't defeat the purpose of that when the wayward soul is chained into servitude as a wraith.

How would it happen? Isabel's preferred method is poison, although she is not adverse to using swords or guns if called to. Oh, and we can't forget exsanguination. She also will use trusted ghouls to eliminate those who need to be eliminated, generally whilst she has an iron-clad alibi at her disposal.

Deadly? Thank you for noticing, I am flattered. I won't spare you should your death be necessary, mind, but I will remember your recognition of my prowess and dispatch you accordingly.

What could make me kill? Nothing. I do so because I enjoy it, it is needful for my plans, it's a valuable object lesson, or all of the above. How would I do it? Oh, it depends on the person and situation, I assure you. I have used fire, boiling oil, swords, stakes, guns, magical artefacts, my bare hands, rope, chain, and zombies. If I think of any more, I'll be sure to inform you, unless I plan on dispatching you that way. I wouldn't want to spoil your surprise.

How deadly is your character? What could make her kill someone, and how would it happen?

Cesare twists and cranes his neck. "Who are you talking to? Her? Have you eaten bread from bad grain, that you should see mysterious women floating about? How deadly is whose character, hers, mine? Caterina Sforza’s, Isabella d’Este’s? Isabella of Aragon’s? Murderous, greedy bitches all, if you ask me."

Sagging forward a bit, he rests his elbows on his knees, studying his open palms. "As for me. I’ve killed and have had killed, yes. But then people die all the time, especially in Roma. They float down the river, undulate through barrages, lap at the shore of Ripa Grande with water rats in their hair. Some even swim upriver, unlikely as it sounds. Others find a wire around their neck, or a piece of ribbon, a slash of silk. If they’re lucky, it’s a chain with heavy links that break their neck rather than choking them. People die in prisons, in the bowels of Sant’Angelo. They die at night in lightless alleys, a sword stuck in their gorge before they can cry out or cry murder," he says, matter-of-factly, before adopting a more pensive tone. "I’ve heard it said, the tears of strangers are only water, and perhaps that’s the most reasonable way of going about it. Let’s not forget that there can be a profitable side to prelates and potentates passing. Such cases would call for a more discrete approach and are, I believe, best left to professionals."

Then he looks up, cocking one eyebrow. "What was that? You think I am evading the question? No, not really. It may be true that I’ve ordered more deaths than I have effected myself, with my own hands, but yes. I’ve killed. Out of anger. In the fury of battle. For honour, and for my family. Some scholars say anger clots the blood and chokes the brain, making us see red - quite literally so. I do not know whether that is true. But I have known both blinding anger and blood-curdling jealousy, and those were indeed the moments in which I found killing quite easy. How? With a knife, or a sword. Or with my blood."

How deadly is your character? What could make her kill someone, and how would it happen?

Deadly? Well I reckon I am if you are a gun carrying villain or a bug.

It's not like I've killed many people, nor is it something that I enjoy doing. I remember each one. I think the worst was that nutter Cook. He'd got Jack by the throat with a chain. Me head was still reeling from where he'd given me a good knock but the sight of Jack being choked to death by that mad killer... well I put three shots right into him. Bastard.

Generally, I don't shoot until I'm shot at, but that's happening more and more.

How deadly is your character? What could make her kill someone, and how would it happen?