Elisheva's Questionnaire

Well love, if I'm being quite honest, people don't get to choose the most optimal place in the entire world for them to live in, now do they? Everyone's circumstances push and pull them in certain directions based on their situation in life. Now some are more fortunate than others in their ability to push back against their circumstances, we call them the wealthy elite, but even they have limits on how much choice they get to make because theirs simply too many other people for it not to have some sort of effect.

You'd think after a few thousand years I'd have enough wealth to decide for myself, but then you look at the top 1% of the wealthiest people in the world and the fact that if they lived my entire life and worked a middle class income job for all of it, and saved literally every penny by not needing anything at all, they wouldn't be as wealthy as they are now. I've never had a hundredth of a chance that they have, so how can I afford to match up love?

No, I live in a museum and curio shop out of a small manor house in Boston Massachusetts because that's where I can convince people that a deceased relative left me an inheritance for me to live off of sustainably, and that I use what was left behind to maintain a sustainable income with.

Well, ostensibly I get the entirety of my income from maintaining a museum of oddities with a curio shop attached that takes up a large portion of the manor house I supposedly inherited, but we both know that ain't true. Now don't we love? Oh, certainly it helps with day-to-day expenses, but it hardly covers it all.

No, I think you know that this type of work isn't the only contract work that I do. It ain't as glamorous as it sounds, but I also moonlight as a monster hunter. Specifically, when sapient or invasive preternatural species threaten mundane human life, I sometimes get called to take care of what is causing the problem. I am hoping to start taking contracts with OWL in the future, maybe that will pick up the slack after the ghoul fever cure was found. (God I wasted so much money I could have saved back then.)

I mainly spend my money on knick-knacks and trinkets that I can sell in the curio shop or add as displays in the museum, occasionally I'll find an actually useful piece that I shouldn't and wouldn't just display or sell to the public. I also enjoy a good pint and firing a few rounds down range a bit. Training is relaxing to me after all.

Sure it's all well and good to go kick some monster tail and call it a day, ain't it love? It get's the blood pumpin' after all don' it? But if we're being practical in don' solve nothin' in tha long run, now do it?

No, I'd like to maintain the balance, the peace, between this world and the world the mundane people were unaware of 'fore The Illumination. Yes, yes, I know, the Concert of Europe and Pax Britannica were fragile enough in the days before the supernatural was admitted to, and scientific leaps went bonkers, and all that ended when someone went and popped off on poor ol' Franz Ferdinand, but somethings are worth building for, and worth maintaining once you get there.

Knowing what I know, how most of the time piece is usually brought through superior firepower, and is usually just veiled bullying for personal benefit of the bigger empire, I understand that true peace is hard to achieve. That it's nearly impossible worldwide. That it takes the constant, careful, and very hard work, to maintain actual diplomatic peace. But it is worth it. It's worth fighting for, hell I fight for my life against gribblies with no chance of achieving any peace for myself on a regular basis. It's worth the risk of death, again, I do that on the regular for much less, hardly seems practical not to for the greater good, now does it?

But the greatest sacrifice would probably be not picking up a weapon to achieve it...

Well, there's that ancestor. Probably the start of all this. I heard he was doing something a while back, got in the news a few times. Gone dark since, does that occasionally I guess. You already know who I'm talking about there. Don't see a reason to go deep into that subject.

Let's see, I'm in my life, and obviously the most important person in it. Not sure why anyone ever answers differently. It's just a lie otherwise. Like, seriously, you may place more value in someone else's life than your own sure, but your life is more important because if your life doesn't continue, then valuing there's just ceases, now doesn't it?

Then there's you. What? You're in my life right now aren't you Mr. "Talent." Why don't you tell me a little bit about yourself? Oh, you didn't expect this? Why not? I've answered all of your inane questions, now it's your turn...