Not haunted. Really.
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theatrical_muse today.
Prompt 360: What haunts you/what has come back to haunt you?
What an absurd question. The Q are immortal, omnipotent, and invulnerable. To be haunted is to be tormented by insubstantial things -- memories that evoke guilt, future thoughts that inspire fear. Well, there's no point to fearing the future when nothing can harm you, and as for memories, while I can remember everything that has ever happened to me in the past several billion years with perfect precision, I also have complete control over what I choose to remember.
So I don't have to think about the things that might bother me. Not that anything bothers me, anyway. I'm as immune to guilt as I am to fear. But if I *was* bothered by anything -- for instance, if it bothered me to remember how I destroyed my best friend's life, or how I executed another of my friends under the Continuum's orders, or the fellow Q I killed during the war, then I just wouldn't have to remember those things. And if it ever disturbed me that I might just have seen the creator of the universe end it out of boredom and I have no guarantee that she won't do it again, well, I never have to think about that either.
Nothing haunts me.
Unless I choose to think about it.
Muse: Q
Fandom: Star Trek TNG
theatrical_muse today.Prompt 360: What haunts you/what has come back to haunt you?
What an absurd question. The Q are immortal, omnipotent, and invulnerable. To be haunted is to be tormented by insubstantial things -- memories that evoke guilt, future thoughts that inspire fear. Well, there's no point to fearing the future when nothing can harm you, and as for memories, while I can remember everything that has ever happened to me in the past several billion years with perfect precision, I also have complete control over what I choose to remember.
So I don't have to think about the things that might bother me. Not that anything bothers me, anyway. I'm as immune to guilt as I am to fear. But if I *was* bothered by anything -- for instance, if it bothered me to remember how I destroyed my best friend's life, or how I executed another of my friends under the Continuum's orders, or the fellow Q I killed during the war, then I just wouldn't have to remember those things. And if it ever disturbed me that I might just have seen the creator of the universe end it out of boredom and I have no guarantee that she won't do it again, well, I never have to think about that either.
Nothing haunts me.
Unless I choose to think about it.
Muse: Q
Fandom: Star Trek TNG