A belief

[forthemayqueen]

I BELIEVE IN [ m e m e ]

- your character has been asked what their strongest belief is. what do they hold true in their heart of hears? their creed, their mantra?
- post it for all to see in your subject header.
- brace for the impact of all the naysayers.

Comments

[ministryproject5]

I don't know. I thought it was living but I don't know now.

[ricochetingbullets]

Were you just doing those bad things that you mentioned before?

[ministryproject5]

I was working to perfect the project that made me.

[Dominic couldn't reconcile the comments that breeding people was wrong but breeding people leading to his existence. He might never be able to reconcile those ideas in his mind.]

[ricochetingbullets]

What made you decide what you were doing was wrong and to stop doing it?

[ministryproject5]

I didn't choose. I was sent to be rewritten and one of the rogue children took me out of the facility when they were raiding it.

My partner tells me all the time that how I was treated is wrong.

[ricochetingbullets]

So in a way you still didn't get a choice. Just doing what other people still want you to do.

[ministryproject5]

No. Not when I was taken from the facility. [That response wasn't totally certain from the tone. To this day he still didn't know if he wanted to stay or go back to where he was before.]

I choose who I'm with and I'm learning what I want to do.

[Dominic struggled making choices and understanding social norms but he was trying.]

[ricochetingbullets]

At least you get that now.

[There's an emotion in Dex's voice which is hard to pinpoint. Something a touch bitter, sad, and wistful all wrapped up together in the short sentence. Having a choice still doesn't feel something that is within his grasp.]

[ministryproject5]

I'm trying to use my genetic understanding to improve medication now.

[Dominic genuinely wanted to help people but he hadn't had that choice, or rather didn't know what he was doing wouldn't be considered helping people.]

[ricochetingbullets]

At least you know for certain that's a good thing to be doing.

[Dex tries a lot to do good but oftentimes he doesn't succeed, mainly due to his lack of conscience and empathy.]

[ministryproject5]

I don't know the person I'm trying to help thinks I am doing good. I understand because most people still see what I was before.

[ricochetingbullets]

So if everyone is only going to see the person you were before, why are you bothering trying to change?

[ministryproject5]

I don't know if my work was bad but I do understand than how I was treated was wrong.

[Dominic struggled with these questions, even in therapy with help to work through them. It does take some time to get an answer.]

If I do nothing, I prove them right, and I don't think I am completely the person they think I was or am now.