alasanon | The stories I like to tell. Version: On myself.

You should mostly know that I like mirrors, and quite possibly-probably think I'm one of the vainest people you know. But do you understand that, when I look in a mirror, I don't really see what you think of me? No one does, I suspect, given the number of personal health and beauty related disorders flying around in our society, but in specific, and what I'm thinking of -- when I look in a mirror, I see a collection of parts. I sometimes can manage to pull a whole out of the mess, but it doesn't identify as beautiful. I identify my features as alien. You know all those monster faces I make? I make those at myself first, to see what it looks like when I pull those parts into different shapes. I like scaring myself with the contrast of frightening and frightened.

So that's one story. I have a character who lives behind it, someone not myself, but she's not ready to show the world yet. There are more.