doctorwednesday
@doctorwednesday

"I know! It's absurd on the face of it... some fat academic in a turtleneck and blazer... what possible terror could I hold for you or anyone else? I might upbraid a student in the middle of a lecture, or unleash a particularly cutting bon mot at a stuffy faculty function... but for men like you, who deal in lead and blood and honor, what possible threat?

"I seem to have an ingenuity for ruination... a daemon, if you will. I never deliberately cultivated it, nor asked for it... it just came to me, took hold of me. Like some arcane ritual, the proper combination of improbable factors coalesced around me, and I just... became this. I wouldn't know how to be anything else, and if I'm honest with myself, I'd admit that I don't want to be. It isn't that I have the greatest talent for murder-- the world is awash in trained killers who could put me down in a heartbeat --and it isn't my unsurpassed genius, for sadly I must confess that I am not always the smartest person in the room.

"I suppose what it is is that when pressed I never stop to count the cost... the mayhem isn't a means to an end, it becomes the end, and the stated reasons merely an excuse to unleash. In fact... the greater the folly, the more precipitous the fall, for myself and everyone else, the better I like it. I crave disaster, and I seem to have an uncanny talent for bringing it about... and talent yearns to be used."


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