Proust Questionnaire
1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Exploring dark magic with an endless supply of opium to keep me happy, in home in Rome by the ocean.
2. What is your greatest fear?
Sentiment. Particularly falling in love, it turns people into idiots.
3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
In myself? Perhaps vanity, I would get more done but then again, I’d rather be dead than plain.
4. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Judgement. People are so quick to say what is wrong without looking at their own wrongs.
5. Which living person do you most admire?
I would have previously said that it was the Seelie Queen but she’s dead now, so I couldn’t really say.
6. What is your greatest extravagance?
My greatest extravagance? I could write a list. Probably my supply of opium, it truly is a chore to get good quality opium these days.
7. What is your current state of mind?
I’m in a curious state of mind, I want to know how this is all going to work out. Soon enough though, I will be bored.
8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Piety. As someone to was a priestess, I know first hand that piety only matters to people when they want something whether it’s wealth or redemption.
9. On what occasion do you lie?
I lie whenever it suits me. If I need to lie or twist the truth I will.
10. What do you most dislike about your appearance?
I have an unsightly scar on my left shoulder blade in the form of a Christian cross, burnt in there by Christian seeking to convert pagans as I moved from Rome to Gaul. Very few people have seen it.
11. Which living person do you most despise?
I don’t care enough about people to despise anyone wholeheartedly, it takes too much energy.
12. What is the quality you most like in a man?
Confidence, a little cockiness – not too argumentative but certainly not a pushover. A little charm also goes a long way.
13. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Intelligence, ambition, someone who clearly shouldn’t be underestimated, feistiness.
14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
Sarcasm and cynicism is what I overuse.
15. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
What? It would have to be my carefully collected library that I have cultivated for myself over the years.
16. When and where were you happiest?
As a child working in the temple, it was when I was able to exercise my powers as freely as I wished.
17. Which talent would you most like to have?
Musical ability, it’s something I’ve never had the patience to learn. At least, I can appreciate it.
18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Nothing, I am perfectly contently as I am.
19. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Surviving the mass conversion to Christianity. That was a task, especially given that I worked in a temple to Neptune at the time.
20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
I would like to come back as an osprey, I would see these bird flying from a villa I have in Sicily.
21. Where would you most like to live?
Paris. Athens. Rome. Barcelona.
22. What is your most treasured possession?
I carry with me an amulet of Athena that was given to me by one of the priests at the temple when I became a ‘woman’.
23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Self-loathing. I went through I period of it when I was younger, since then I have learnt my lesson.
24. What is your favourite occupation?
I haven’t had many occupations over the past millennia unless you count being a black widow as an occupation.
25. What is your most marked characteristic?
My natural eyes, my green-blue snake eyes. Otherwise, I know some people would say that I am manipulative, I prefer persuasive.
26. What do you most value in your friends?
Information or potential information.
27. Who are your favourite writers?
Homer and Virgil, although it’s upsetting that the no ones know Ancient Greek and Latin proficiently enough to recite it properly.
28. Who is your hero of fiction?
Morgan Le Fay and Medusa. There’s always something about their portrayal that I love. Also, Lady Macbeth … if it weren’t for the madness.
29. Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Artemisia and Olympias, they are two women from antiquity that I admire and think I relate to, even though I don’t rule over any land.
30. Who are your heroes in real life?
I have no real life heroes, except for myself.
31. What are your favourite names?
I like names like Amelia, Cassandra, Juliana and Livia.
32. What is it that you most dislike?
I like anyone who has the gall to presume to tell me what I can and can’t do, what I have to do.
33. What is your greatest regret?
Regrets? Actually having met my father. Did nothing to change me, only made me realise that he’s as vile as I imagined.
34. How would you like to die?
I have come close to death many time, not experiences that I care too much about. If I were allowed to choose I would have to say something clean and quick, throat slit perhaps?
35. What is your motto?
“Quid pro quo”, it’s something that I live by. Everyone wants something and everyone has a price that they are willing to pay for it.














