Character Q&A - Hekate

Hey all!

I decided to do Hekate for the Q&A this month. It's been a while since I've done much with her character, since she was the first of the Chapter Seven routes I wrote, so I felt like spending a bit of time with her, so to speak. Here's her questionnaire. :)

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1. You’re minding your own business when the person you least want to see walks into the room. Who are they, and how do you react?

Quite impossible, I assure you, as that person is long dead and gone. In the more permanent sense in which gods die, you understand.

2. How would you react if you witnessed a victimless crime?

Well, I am theoretically Chief Minister of the Underworld, so I suppose it would be my business to interfere somehow. Anywhere else though, and I doubt I’d do anything much at all.

3. What would you do if someone brought up your biggest insecurity in front of a crowd of strangers?

Be very surprised that someone who knew what my biggest insecurity is would bring it up in front of a crowd of strangers, no doubt. But in all seriousness, I do have the ability to hold my composure in unpleasant situations, and I suspect I would be able to handle that one in the same way. ...Mostly.

4. How would you respond to an apology from somebody you still can’t forgive?

The ones I can’t forgive are all dead, too. It makes thinking about this kind of question frustrating in a way that’s hard to describe. Can I not forgive them because they’re dead, or are they dead because I couldn’t forgive them? Both might be true, actually. I have… mixed feelings about all of it, I think.

5. How would you feel after a one-night stand?

I don’t tend to be much fussed one way or another about those. My propensity for them has… tapered off, over time. I don’t regret them, but I also don’t congratulate myself, as perhaps some people tend to. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course. I’m just looking for something a little different, now.

6. How would your best friend describe you?

Hm. I have a few of those, these days. But perhaps my oldest best friend still knows me the best. I think he would say a lot of things, all of them true, some of them too honest, but most of them kind and flattering. He’d start with my intellect, because he knows it’s what I’m proudest of.

7. Are you more likely to ask for permission or forgiveness?

I rarely need either. But when either would be necessary, I do prefer permission. Consent is important, and I don’t like acting without it unless it’s an emergency of some kind.

8. What criticism could your worst enemy would make of you, that you would secretly agree with?

Worst enemy? I wonder whom I’d choose for that dubious distinction. Imagining a hypothetical person of such character… I suppose they’d say I’m not good at seeing the, forgive the idiom, ‘human’ side of things all the time. I can be cold in my logic, and too quick to brush aside the emotional considerations to be had, including my own. I would be a hard person if not for the influence of my friends, and sometimes I still am, a little bit. Ruthless efficiency isn’t that far from ruthlessness full stop, and I do have to mind the line at times.

9. If you were to enter into a romantic relationship, what would you expect from it?

Call me an idealist, but I want the kind of love that shakes the world and makes the stars tremble. Empowering, shattering, impossible love.

I do know how to manage my expectations, however.

10. If you needed advice about something, but the topic was embarrassing or shameful, what would you do?

I’m embarrassed about almost nothing. However, on those few occasions when I have needed advice on something I would prefer to keep close to the chest, I have gone to Hades with it. Something I would recommend to anyone in the same boat, at it were.