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theatrical_muse today.
Prompt 240: Discuss an individual who has scared you.
No.
A long time ago there was an incident in which a good friend of mine did something unpleasant to me, which... led me to do something even more unpleasant in return... and the Continuum was a trifle concerned with my sanity. They told me not to think about her, or the incident, at all. Which is possible, if you're a Q. I'm aware that for mortals this is essentially the swordfish dilemma (sit in a corner and don't think of a swordfish. Whoops! You thought of one just now, didn't you?), but since Q thoughts have an unpleasant habit of becoming reality, we actually do tell our fellows not to think of things, and it actually works.
Except when it doesn't.
Objective observers of my behavior told me that I was behaving in ways that the Continuum considered even more problematic than usual, and they suspected it was due to trauma related to the thing I wasn't allowed to think about. Now, we don't have therapists. In fact the entire Continuum runs on the fiction that no Q ever needs emotional support, ever. Since this isn't necessarily true, we would on occasion turn to mortals for the sympathy we weren't going to get at home. In particular we tended to go to a species called the El-Aurians, nicknamed Listeners, because they were in general uncannily good at listening to people's problems, hence the name.
It was suggested to me that I might avail myself of the services of a Listener. So I picked one. And we... didn't get along.
No, actually, I thought we were getting along just fine. She routinely told me that I was a force of chaos, that I should go away, and she didn't want to deal with me, but *every* mortal tells me that. It's par for the course. I thought things were going swimmingly. She was, in my ill-informed opinion at the time, a fascinating creature in her own right -- an Adept, with powers over time and fate that even the Q didn't fully understand -- and so I thought I'd kill two birds with one stone. Make some conversation, and also study this nifty power of hers. She didn't like that so much.
So she locked me out of the universe.
Have you ever been in a place where there is literally no time, because it is outside any temporal dimension? I have. The Q carry their own internal chronotons; we generate sufficient time for the purpose of continuing to have consciousness, whether there is time in the dimension we're in or not. But it is quite possible to go mad when you cannot lose consciousness and you are, literally, nowhere.
The above-mentioned incident with my friend had led to me being thrown into a pocket universe (where there *was* time, just not anything else) by the Continuum, alone, so I could heal free of external influences. I... didn't do well with it. Which is why, in fact, the Continuum was questioning my sanity. When this *person* locked me out of time and space and left me in nothingness, still able to think and feel but unable to do anything because there was nothing there *to* do... for the dire crime of not leaving her be at the exact moments she wanted me gone, and being just a trifle more curious about her powers than she was comfortable with... You know, it was one thing when the Continuum did it, because even as badly damaged as I was when they did it I had some distant knowledge that this wasn't supposed to be banishment, that they would come and get me someday. I had no such knowledge this time.
The Continuum was actually forced to *negotiate* with these creatures for my return... ransom me back, as it were. They agreed -- and I was bound by it, because I'm part of the Continuum, even though I technically wasn't there when they worked out the treaty -- that the Q would not interfere with the lives or possessions of the El-Aurians in any way without explicit permission. And then she brought me back. I was, um, having a slight bit of a panic attack, given that I had no idea that I would ever be allowed back in to the universe, and not only did the entire Continuum see it, which is kind of like your older brothers and sisters seeing you cry even though you feel that you are certainly old enough not to act like a baby around them anymore... but *she* saw it. And smirked.
I have a healthy respect for/fear of the entire Continuum, given that my life literally belongs to them, and I was quite reasonably concerned about the Calamarain when they were trying to kill me the day I was mortal, and I had a few moments of fear during the war... but I have never been frightened of a *mortal* before the way this person treated me.
I got her back, of course. Turns out her entire species was on the Borg's hit list. And, you know, we possibly could have saved them if they hadn't made us sign that treaty... but non-interference is non-interference. I got her to directly refuse me permission to save her world, and now she has to live with that. I'd still be giving her a wide berth, though, if it weren't for the fact that for some inexplicable reason she's a close friend of my favorite human, which means every so often I can't avoid running into her.
Muse: Q
Fandom: Star Trek TNG
theatrical_muse today.Prompt 240: Discuss an individual who has scared you.
No.
A long time ago there was an incident in which a good friend of mine did something unpleasant to me, which... led me to do something even more unpleasant in return... and the Continuum was a trifle concerned with my sanity. They told me not to think about her, or the incident, at all. Which is possible, if you're a Q. I'm aware that for mortals this is essentially the swordfish dilemma (sit in a corner and don't think of a swordfish. Whoops! You thought of one just now, didn't you?), but since Q thoughts have an unpleasant habit of becoming reality, we actually do tell our fellows not to think of things, and it actually works.
Except when it doesn't.
Objective observers of my behavior told me that I was behaving in ways that the Continuum considered even more problematic than usual, and they suspected it was due to trauma related to the thing I wasn't allowed to think about. Now, we don't have therapists. In fact the entire Continuum runs on the fiction that no Q ever needs emotional support, ever. Since this isn't necessarily true, we would on occasion turn to mortals for the sympathy we weren't going to get at home. In particular we tended to go to a species called the El-Aurians, nicknamed Listeners, because they were in general uncannily good at listening to people's problems, hence the name.
It was suggested to me that I might avail myself of the services of a Listener. So I picked one. And we... didn't get along.
No, actually, I thought we were getting along just fine. She routinely told me that I was a force of chaos, that I should go away, and she didn't want to deal with me, but *every* mortal tells me that. It's par for the course. I thought things were going swimmingly. She was, in my ill-informed opinion at the time, a fascinating creature in her own right -- an Adept, with powers over time and fate that even the Q didn't fully understand -- and so I thought I'd kill two birds with one stone. Make some conversation, and also study this nifty power of hers. She didn't like that so much.
So she locked me out of the universe.
Have you ever been in a place where there is literally no time, because it is outside any temporal dimension? I have. The Q carry their own internal chronotons; we generate sufficient time for the purpose of continuing to have consciousness, whether there is time in the dimension we're in or not. But it is quite possible to go mad when you cannot lose consciousness and you are, literally, nowhere.
The above-mentioned incident with my friend had led to me being thrown into a pocket universe (where there *was* time, just not anything else) by the Continuum, alone, so I could heal free of external influences. I... didn't do well with it. Which is why, in fact, the Continuum was questioning my sanity. When this *person* locked me out of time and space and left me in nothingness, still able to think and feel but unable to do anything because there was nothing there *to* do... for the dire crime of not leaving her be at the exact moments she wanted me gone, and being just a trifle more curious about her powers than she was comfortable with... You know, it was one thing when the Continuum did it, because even as badly damaged as I was when they did it I had some distant knowledge that this wasn't supposed to be banishment, that they would come and get me someday. I had no such knowledge this time.
The Continuum was actually forced to *negotiate* with these creatures for my return... ransom me back, as it were. They agreed -- and I was bound by it, because I'm part of the Continuum, even though I technically wasn't there when they worked out the treaty -- that the Q would not interfere with the lives or possessions of the El-Aurians in any way without explicit permission. And then she brought me back. I was, um, having a slight bit of a panic attack, given that I had no idea that I would ever be allowed back in to the universe, and not only did the entire Continuum see it, which is kind of like your older brothers and sisters seeing you cry even though you feel that you are certainly old enough not to act like a baby around them anymore... but *she* saw it. And smirked.
I have a healthy respect for/fear of the entire Continuum, given that my life literally belongs to them, and I was quite reasonably concerned about the Calamarain when they were trying to kill me the day I was mortal, and I had a few moments of fear during the war... but I have never been frightened of a *mortal* before the way this person treated me.
I got her back, of course. Turns out her entire species was on the Borg's hit list. And, you know, we possibly could have saved them if they hadn't made us sign that treaty... but non-interference is non-interference. I got her to directly refuse me permission to save her world, and now she has to live with that. I'd still be giving her a wide berth, though, if it weren't for the fact that for some inexplicable reason she's a close friend of my favorite human, which means every so often I can't avoid running into her.
Muse: Q
Fandom: Star Trek TNG
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