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big_damn_questsTitle: Heroes
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hopefulnebula (hopefulnebula@livejournal.com)
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Summary: Saffron's answer to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
big_damn_quests round 2, challenge 1: "Who did you look up to most as a child, and why? Do you still admire them?"
You expect me to say I’ve never looked up to anyone, don’t you?
Well, you’re half right. There’s no way from here to Heaven I’d look up to the people who took me in and called me their daughter. Not that I’m not glad I had a roof over my head for the first few years of my life, but I couldn’t stand them. Still can’t. Of all the people in the ‘Verse who could have taken in the poor newborn found outside Mercy Hospital, they had to be the two most pretentious, showy, trashy people I’ve ever met.
They did have a large library, though. They never even opened the books, but every other estate in the area had a library, and God forbid they be the only people without one. Every expensive book they could find, they bought, tallied, told me not to get dirty, and forgot about. Of course, I read everything in there before I finally got out. Everything I could reach, anyway. Even the ones from Earth-that-Was that I wasn’t allowed to touch. Especially those.
Anyway, the characters are what I admired. Rochester, Huckleberry Finn, Moriarty, Lyra Silvertongue--I liked the liars, the cheaters, the adventurers. If I could have kept the books when I left that place, I would have.
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hopefulnebula (hopefulnebula@livejournal.com)Rating: G
Summary: Saffron's answer to
big_damn_quests round 2, challenge 1: "Who did you look up to most as a child, and why? Do you still admire them?"You expect me to say I’ve never looked up to anyone, don’t you?
Well, you’re half right. There’s no way from here to Heaven I’d look up to the people who took me in and called me their daughter. Not that I’m not glad I had a roof over my head for the first few years of my life, but I couldn’t stand them. Still can’t. Of all the people in the ‘Verse who could have taken in the poor newborn found outside Mercy Hospital, they had to be the two most pretentious, showy, trashy people I’ve ever met.
They did have a large library, though. They never even opened the books, but every other estate in the area had a library, and God forbid they be the only people without one. Every expensive book they could find, they bought, tallied, told me not to get dirty, and forgot about. Of course, I read everything in there before I finally got out. Everything I could reach, anyway. Even the ones from Earth-that-Was that I wasn’t allowed to touch. Especially those.
Anyway, the characters are what I admired. Rochester, Huckleberry Finn, Moriarty, Lyra Silvertongue--I liked the liars, the cheaters, the adventurers. If I could have kept the books when I left that place, I would have.
