The Future Freaks Me Out

[bitten_notshy]

So, children, what do you want to be when you grow up?

Half marks if you say "redeemed" or "good" or anything cliched like that. No one makes a living just by being redeemed.

[OOC: Because Tara's talking to Kennedy about it and I demand Friday OOC-but-ICness.]

Comments

[thinkbetterofme.livejournal.com]

Someone who does not disappoint.

[bitten_notshy]

What if making yourself happy meant disappointing someone else?

[longislandiceme]

Well, I will be an accountant. How's that?

[bitten_notshy]

Sounds a little dull to me, but I'm not the one doing it, am I?

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

It's not my own goodness or redemption I'm worried about.

As long as there are adventures to be had with Xena, as long as I can tell about them, as long as someday I can get her to believe redemption is possible for her and that the guilt of everything she did as the Destroyer of Nations doesn't have to weigh her life down forever, I don't mind whatever the future has in store for me.

Just as long as she's part of it.

[bitten_notshy]

That is a genuinely loving answer, Gabrielle. I like it.

[weetuskenraider]

A Jedi. Not a Sith, not some hollow shell of who I used to be. Not a bounty hunter like every other fallen-but-reformed Jedi ever WTF, writers.

Definitely not someone who's spent so long hanging on to a memory from the past that I forget how to let go.

. . . and definitely not someone who ends up in prison on trial for treason, assassination, and conspiracy against the government.

[bitten_notshy]

A jedi's more than a respectable thing to be.

The rest of it ... doesn't even sound like you.

[whateverknight.livejournal.com]

Left alone.


(But I'm lying to myself about that.)

[bitten_notshy]

What would you say if you weren't lying?

[bamf-tastic.livejournal.com]

I don't get much of a choice, do I?

Either I go back to the X-Men, or... I join a circus or something.

[bitten_notshy]

You and Jono should have a talk, I think.

[svetocha-blooms.livejournal.com]

I have no idea. I'm still trying to figure out what this svetocha thing means.

I suppose right now I just want to survive to grow up.

[bitten_notshy]

It's hard to do anything else if you're dead, isn't it?

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

Human. A mechanic or something absolutely inane where I don't have to worry about losing myself. Where I won't come second.

[bitten_notshy]

No one likes being second.

[likexmasmorning.livejournal.com]

Oh, I want to be a mom.

And I want to drag John here, but I'm afraid he might not want to come.

[bitten_notshy]

Do you want six multiethnic children like Ms. Jolie?

Well, a husband would help if you wanted to start on the children...

[endsthegame]

Far away. So far no one remembers me. So far that there aren't any people within lightyears.

[bitten_notshy]

Ah, the escape fantasy. I suppose you'd do day labor if you needed money, for ultimate anonymity?

[swordsandsoccer.livejournal.com]

I... don't know any more. I used to know: I was going to go to high school, get a pre-university high school degree, then study history.

And then I used to know otherwise: I'd be with the children until the very end, no matter what.

But I've been there, too. And now I just don't know. I don't even know if I'd fit back into my normal life back home anymore. Part of me just wants to keep on walking.

[bitten_notshy]

Here's not a bad place to keep walking from. Maybe eventually you'll figure out where you're going.

[exspeedydotcom]

Clean and sober. And not Ollie. I haven't figured the rest out yet.

[bitten_notshy]

You have time. There seems to be a lot of "not my father figure" going around.

[bitchprince]

Not a disappointment.

[bitten_notshy]

From the outside, I don't understand how you could disappoint anyone.

No doubt I would if I met your father.

[nohaircutsplz]

Queen.

[bitten_notshy]

That should work as long as you aren't going after Karla's territory. I'd hate to see the two of you in a catfight.

[chosehumanity]

Fuck if I know right now.

...

One part of a benevolent vampire rulership. Making things better for people. That doesn't soud that bad, right...?

[bitten_notshy]

I suppose it depends how large of a territory you see yourself ruling, and who you think the other parts would be. But no, on the face of it ... not the worst thing you could want.

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

Married.

[bitten_notshy]

Sweet. With or without children?

[onapalebicycle.livejournal.com]

I don't get to grow up.

I know, that sounds emo. I feel emo. Fuck it.

[bitten_notshy]

All right, what do you want to do with the time you have while you aren't growing up? Reaper duties aside.

[momslilassassin]

A Jedi, which shouldn't be shocking to anyone.

[bitten_notshy]

I'm almost as surprised by your answer as I was by Karla's.

[angelo_wings]

A good Sorceress. One that no one is afraid of, because I am in complete control of myself at all times. I protect the innocent, and I only use my powers when necessary. And when I die to pass on my powers, it's at a very, very old age, asleep in bed, surrounded by children and grandchildren.

[bitten_notshy]

That sounds like a wonderful life.

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

A doctor. Forensic pathologist. And an Fbi agent.

...except I already am, and I want my career back, damnit.

[bitten_notshy]

Hmmm. I don't suppose you could tell them about your unfortunate shrinking accident?

[thatsamilkshake]

Part of a family that doesn't fall apart.

[bitten_notshy]

I don't know much about that. But it sounds lovely.

(Sebastien's family, I suppose. But in a tricky way.)

[squire-hand.livejournal.com]

Reformed? Good?

I want to be even worse.

I want to be the Duke of Krondor and run the place.

[bitten_notshy]

How will you treat those under your rule?

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

A WAITRESS!

I have high ambitions.

[bitten_notshy]

.... yes. Yes, you do.

You could be a Realtor and make lots of money instead!