Q&A - Alekto

Hey everyone! 

As mentioned last month, I've got a new set of questions for the characters that I quite like, and this month, it's Alekto's turn to answer them. I hope you enjoy. 

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1. What is your greatest desire?

To be useful to the people who have given me everything.

2. Who was the most important person in your formative years?

I hate to say this, but in some sense I suppose it would have been Apollo. Not that he was all that far past his own formative years at the time, mind.

3. What would you tell the younger version of yourself, if you could talk to him/her/them now?

Just don’t get involved with it all. Well, no. That’s not true. But I’d tell her to guard her heart, and to never be afraid to be who she really is. Who she knows she is.

4. What sorts of people are you most easily drawn to?

It feels insipid to say aloud, but people with good hearts, I suppose. I don’t care that much about whether someone is funny, or clever, or beautiful, or even ‘nice,’ as long as they are good. I suppose by that I mean accepting, considerate, compassionate, with strong convictions.

5. How would you say you react to stress?

By knuckling down and trying to ignore it, I suppose. I don’t recommend it, but it does have its uses.

6. Of those in your inner circle, who do you feel closest to?

This is a difficult question. I am close to them all in different ways. It’s either Hades or Pyri, but I couldn’t tell you which.

7. Of those in your inner circle, who do you find yourself clashing with most often?

Most often is probably Hermes, but that is usually over inconsequential things, or him trying to get a rise. When it comes to clashing about consequential things… that’s harder. It might still be Hermes, but it might also be Charon. He often takes the stance of extreme mercy, and my job demands that I make arguments for punishment, so generally speaking we come to odds over important things. There’s no enmity to it, though.

8. Do you have any daily rituals or routines?

Very many. I like to keep a reasonably-regular schedule that includes time for training, patrols, reports, and a break or two, as well as some time with my sisters. I also try to find some time every day to do do something artistic, though my definition of this term is broad.

9. Of the four humors, which one or two would you say are most dominant in your personality?

You mean which temperament? I suppose choleric, followed by melancholic.

10. What part of your personality gets you into the most trouble?

Trouble? I suppose in the past it was my sense of justice. Nowadays no one objects to that, and I don’t really get into ‘trouble.’ However, my directness is sometimes inconvenient in communication with others, because I am not able to control my tone finely enough to take the ‘edge’ away from it, so to speak, and can thus come off as abrasive when I do not intend to.