Horror 101, Monday

[chosehumanity]

"Today is the day of your final," Mitchell intoned, then clapped his hands, grinning. "We'll be starting off with a few written questions. But after that, I've got something else for you."

He dumped a stack of papers on his desk. It, and several other flat surfaces in the area - including some of the students' desks - had acquired a cup of tea.

"We've talked about a great many fears over the past few weeks," he continued, "But the main one, the most quintessentially human one is the fear of death. The fear of being gone from this Earth, from what we are, the whole lot. Most of our fears come down to that: death."

"So to finish up your final," he continued, sitting down, "I've invited a friend in to talk about it. While you're writing, I want you all to come up with one question you'd like to ask about death, and she will answer it." He peered into the room, searching for Chloe if she was there and smiled slightly. "Don't worry, she doesn't bite."

He tapped his pen on the desk. "Now, get started! You've got thirty minutes."

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The Test - Question One

[chosehumanity]

Which monster do you identify with most? What does it stand for? Which part of their myth seems most plausible to you, or even most fitting?

Re: The Test - Question One

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

Alex took some time with this one before deciding he identified most with a werewolf. He didn't particularly like the comparison but with the way his temper was, it worked. So, he wrote a semi detailed answer about wearing two faces, being mild mannered (for the most part) most of the time and then having some trigger flip his switch and sending him into angry outbursts that small percent of other times.

The myth part threw him a bit since he really didn't think it sounded plausible to be triggered by the moon but he could see even a monster, even a werewolf still holding onto some of his old feelings and recognizing someone he or she might have loved or cared about even at their most violent.

Re: The Test - Question One

[awakestheghosts]

Chloe was having a really hard time figuring out the right way to answer this question as there were difference in her mind between monsters and myths now and she needed to reconcile them.

Finally, she decided to just start writing and let what came into her mind come out in the test.

The monster that part of me identifies with the most is not what people called the monster in Frankenstein. I'm afraid that I identify with the Dr the most and that scares the hell out of me that I might one day become that twisted that I don't care how I use my power or what it does to people. To most people anything that happened in the story wouldn't seem plausible or possible, but I know better. I've seen it happen firsthand. Monsters are real, but they're not always the ones we call monsters.

Re: The Test - Question One

[icecoldfrost]

Emma was tempted by a flippant answer, but decided to go with honesty instead. Heavily edited honesty, spun to her own advantage, but honesty all the same.

There are days I feel like Frankenstein's Monster, she wrote. Cast aside by my father and beset on all sides by the pitchfork wielding mob for being different. There's nowhere 'safe' for people like me, and never will be, if you listen to people supposedly from my future. Even the North Pole isn't remote enough to allow us to live in peace. And why should we have to hide? After all, are we not in the likeness of man, our forefathers? We were -- are -- children reaching for our parents, who would rather destroy us than acknowledge their own offspring.

Re: The Test - Question One

[furnaceface]

Jono stared at the paper for a long while before actually coming up with a response to this one.

Frankenstein's monster. Not really the innocence that he's got to him, or the lack of true understanding of the world around him. More the lack of understanding that the world has about him. There's something very real about being feared for being different, and something equally real about those who are different causing harm that was never truly intended, and then feeling the repercussions in a most serious way.