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OOC: Reposted from theatrical_muse from 12/31/2005, 36 of 50.

I'm not usually the kind of person to wax eloquent on the values of forgiveness and kindness. Mark your calendars, this may be a red-letter day.

( Forgiveness and kindness? If there was any more sap in this I could make maple syrup and pour it on my pancakes. )

OOC: Reposted from theatrical_muse from 9/29/2005, 34 of 50.

Most people wish that I...

...would go away and leave them alone.

I don't know why. I'm a funny, entertaining guy. An entity could get a complex from this kind of thing, you know.

What is the one thing about yourself that you don't want anyone ever to know?

Oh great and glorious creators of questions for this place, answer me one question: if I didn't want anyone to ever know something about myself, WHY WOULD I TELL YOU?

If you could find out one single fact about every person you met, what fact would you want to know, and why?

I already can find out rather more than one single fact about every person I meet. And whenever I meet someone, the first fact I find out about them is: are they worth my time?

I mean, I might be immortal, but I'm still never going to get back those ten minutes spent in the company of Z'oodra Lugorg. Or the day or so I spent on testing William Riker.

Have you ever experienced something you couldn’t explain? Write down your brushes with the mysterious.

I know everything. Therefore, no, I've never experienced anything I couldn't eventually explain.

Have you ever betrayed someone's confidence? Has anyone ever betrayed you?

The thing about betraying someone else is, they have to have trusted you in the first place before you can betray them.

( How to avoid betraying anyone, and still be completely hedonistic, impulsive and irresponsible )

OOC: Reposted from q_tm from 7/21/2005. Not directly a Theatrical Muse post.

I am letting the stress get to me entirely too much. It is ridiculous that I should get upset over a mere mortal's opinion of me, as ignorant and ludicrous as that opinion may be. Particularly since it's not as if I went out of my way to present myself in a friendly and positive light to this person, who is, after all, an idiotic and limited creature. And a voyeur. But... things haven't exactly been going well for me lately.

See, it all started when my kid blew up a solar system. Again. For the third time. And this one was inhabited. When you're a Q, "oops" does not cut it as the excuse for the *third* time you did something. And being as that it is a *royal* pain in the proverbial derriere to put an *inhabited* solar system back together -- you can't just re-assemble it, you have to roll back time and grab all the beings that lived there before they got fried and pull them forward to after you reassembled their world, and then erase their memories if they were sentient enough to have memories, and all that -- I was not happy with this little stunt at all. So I confined him to the Continuum, as I can't stick him in a black hole any more now that he can manipulate the gravitational constant with the best of them.

( So he makes matters much worse... )

OOC: Reposted from theatrical_muse from 5/15/2005, 29 of 50.

So I come back after several decades of your time spent trying to teach my boy how to teleport, and find that in my absence I was invited to a party. And that unfortunately during that party I was, in fact, present in this universe, and I can't actually be in the universe at two different moments without a lot more effort than I want to go through for a party thrown by mortals... and now I feel so damn old. I missed a party because I was with my kid. Goddamnit, I'm a soccer dad. This was not what I pictured when I planned to shake up the Continuum by having a child...

Anyway. ( Questions! )

OOC: Reposted from theatrical_muse 4/9/2005, 27 of 50.

If you could do one totally irresponsible or even bad thing with absolutely no consequences, what would it be and why?

Just *one*? My whole *life* used to be like that.

Which leads me into my next topic.

What is the scariest thing that has ever happened to you?

They say that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, right? But then, they never probably had to deal with losing friends and family, becoming crippled and blind, and facing death, all in the same day. I mean, if they *had*, and they still think it makes you stronger... well, they're idiots. Wiser, maybe. More cautious? Definitely. But stronger? No, I can pretty much declare that I was *stronger* before it happened.

I am, of course, talking about the single day I was human.

( Why being human is the SCARIEST THING EVER )

This entry refers to the events of Star Trek:The Next Generation episode "Deja Q".

OOC: Reposted from theatrical_muse from 3/16/2005, 25 of 50.

What can you say is truly yours?

I'm not sure I really want to think about this question.

The truth is... nothing, really.

It's the bargain we all make as part of the Continuum. Without the Continuum, we're powerful and difficult to destroy, certainly, but we would neither be as invulnerable as we are nor as nearly omnipotent.

We exchange a part of our individuality for immortality and power. Most of us aren't bothered nearly so much by this as I am, but then, most of us don't have the, shall we say, interesting relations with the rest of the Continuum I have always had.

I can have almost anything I want, instantly. But I don't actually *have* anything. Including myself. Everything I have, everything I *am*, is on loan from the Continuum, and they can take it back any time they want.

Which is why it's a good thing that I'm currently one of the people running the joint, but I don't expect that to last forever, or even more than a few dozen millennia.

What in your life are you most dissatisfied with?

That is. I'm glad I fought for greater freedom within the Continuum (and rather more glad that I won), but what I really want is to be *free* of them. To be wholly myself, and not of them, and to interact with the others where and when I choose. And that can't happen. A Q who is not part of the Continuum is crippled, and I wouldn't accept being less than I am, even if it means I must be part of something more than I am.

SO I accept it. I am part of the Continuum, and I always will be. I've stopped rebelling against it. But that doesn't mean I'm particularly happy about it.

OOC: Reposted from theatrical_muse from 1/24/2005, 23 of 50.

What would a description of your *exact opposite* be like?

Obviously, stultifyingly boring. Rigid, humorless, uptight, full of false modesty, nauseatingly cloying and falsely friendly...

You know, I actually know some Q that fit this description. But typically, that kind of combination of rigidity and overly solicitious concern for what everyone else is doing with their lives is more often found among mortals. Or perhaps Organians.

OOC: Reposted from theatrical_muse from 11/9/2004.

I have just spent what feels like several millennia dealing with Continuum politics.

Someone had the brilliant idea that we should implement representative democracy. I mean, really. I posted about the Continuum and democracy earlier, but let me briefly reiterate that the only form of government that works for the Q is full democracy-- *none* of us will ever be in 100% agreement with anyone we might choose as a representative, and unlike mortals, who will shrug and console themselves with the notion that nobody's perfect and there's too many stupid mortals to make true democracy work, we know better. When a form of government has worked well for five billion years, changing it just for the sake of changing it is downright idiotic.

Wait, did I just say change is bad? Dear me. I *need* to get out more often. Every time I do this political thing I feel as if more of my true self is slipping away and I'm changing into someone I barely recognize.

( A pack of silly questions )

OOC: Reposted from theatrical_muse from 9/5/2004, 19 of 50.
What is the most important value you can pass on to your child?

You mean I've been doing this wrong the whole time?!

Values? I don't think I have been passing on any values to my child! Have I? I mean, is "don't blow up the universe, you'll find you'll want it around to play with it later" a value?

I've been doing this all wrong, haven't I? But what was I supposed to be teaching him? I thought training him to use his powers-- and try not to cause untold devastation with them-- was all I needed to do. Was I supposed to be teaching him values too? What kind of values? Because if it's like "respect all life" or "be completely responsible and boring" then I'd just die of hypocrisy, and besides, he's a Q. He knows me far too well to fall for it.