alphabet challenge - g
2013-Mar-11, Monday 10:36 am G - Curse
The trick to being cursed is to make sure no one knows what the curse is. Vampires, werewolves, they tipped their hands too easy, and look at them–hidden, cowering, in the shadows trying to manipulate human media to instill fear and instead they get glitter.
Honestly now. It’s enough to drive a monster to drink.
Of course, it’s easier for no one to know your curse if you don’t go blabbing about it to the first human that shows a bit of sympathy–really, what was Dracula thinking?–and, in fact, it’s much more difficult to protect oneself against what one doesn’t know too. It works out for the best all around.
That way, when they do encounter you, right before you kill them, right before you feast on every thought and dream and nightmare in their head, they don’t have the faintest idea how to defeat you.
An ideal world indeed
(Because a curse is a weakness, and a weakness known is a way to control, contain, tame, and knowing how to tame means they aren’t afraid, and then…
well then you starve.)