PRIDE. -What is your muses biggest flaw? / DNA. -What was your muses home life like?
PRIDE
Virgil hates to "depend" on people. Once upon a time, he needed to cultivate this sense of independence. There'd be no Virgil Rusk as he exists, now, without that willingness to break off and be his own person, to define himself beyond bounds that'd been ironclad givens before he got brave enough to question them. But poison's often in the dose, and like all things, taken to extremes... "independence" can do some real damage. And it has, over the years. His present situation has done this particular struggle no favours at all.
DNA
He breezily dismisses those years with an "I'll spare us both the gruesome details, darling," but doesn't really offer much detail at all. He came up in a military family. Surrounded, he'd say, by all that a military family, in Texas, implies. (Whatever you take that to mean.) And he was who they expected him to be - including an enlistee, straight out of high school - for as long as he could survive that horseshit. But he was always somebody else. And what he had to do to chase that self down was accept the fact that, well, accepting who he could be meant he'd be cutting ties to who he'd tried to be. And all that implied. Which... he did, anyway, and a dishonorable discharge, thousands of miles, and a few decades later: look at him now. (Not now, now. Look at him a couple years ago, before life got so "super.")
