Passing for mortal.

OOC: Crossposted from theatrical_muse today.
Prompt 294: Passing.

If you want to know the truth, it's really not my favorite thing, passing. I've done it, of course. Any Q who wants to interact with mortals does it, fairly frequently. If you can't walk among them in the form of one of them and pretend you're one of their kind, you're not going to be able to pull off any other kind of direct interaction -- your ability to impersonate their gods or simply present yourself as a powerful alien being depends at least in part on your ability to pretend to be one of them. Otherwise you're going to end up like a Thasian or a Melkotian, appearing as a shadowy form or a big ball of light or a glowing disembodied face or whatever, and honestly? That's completely lame.

But I don't like pretending to be mortal. There are things I feel very, very comfortable about lying about, and there are things that I don't, and my status as an unimaginably powerful being of pure thought is one of the ones I'd rather be honest about. I really would rather interact with mortals in a way where they'll know what I am... which, since I'd also rather interact with mortals in a way that doesn't result in them *worshipping* me like besotted idiots, often results in me getting myself declared a demon, or at the least a very untrustworthy god. (They call me the God of Lies on Brax, which pleases me. If I'm going to be a god, let me be known as a trickster god, at least, not some sort of benevolent deity.)

( Going a little too far with the passing thing. )

Muse: Q
Fandom: Star Trek TNG/VOY

Plan B

Crossposted from muse_academy, today.
Muse Name: Q
Fandom: Star Trek: Voyager
Prompt Numbers:
Week 18.1.A - When have you sacrificed for something you really believe in?
18.1.C - If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No." - Margaret Smith
Title: Plan B
Warnings/Disclaimers: Up through the phrase "cease fire", all of the dialogue comes verbatim from the script for "The Q and the Grey". Everything after that is original, as is all the explanatory text around the dialogue.
This is an AU (well, obviously, but it's an AU to the version of Q I write in this journal as well), which belongs to a fanfic story arc.
Word Count: 2769 total; 2236 original

( How the plan got changed )