What Is Your Beast?

Question 1: Do you see yourself as more physical or more mental?

• Physical
• More Physical Than Mental
• More Mental Than Physical
• Mental

Question 2: Do you see yourself as more active or more passive?

• Active
• More Active Than Passive
• More Passive Than Active
• Passive

Question 3: Do you see yourself as more indulgent or restrained?

• Indulgent
• More Indulgent Than Restrained
• More Restrained Than Indulgent
• Restrained

Question 4: Life Is...

• A Game (To Win? To Lose? To never know the result of?)
• An Adventure (For Better. For worse.)
• A Burden (But it is a joyful one. But it is worth it. But you have no choice but to see it through to its conclusion.)
• A Joke (On all of us. But I am in on it. But I will be laughing until the end.)

Question 5: Stories Are...

• How we make sense of the past.
• All there is.
• A lens through which we filter the present.
• What we are.

Question 6: Which of these is eternal? (Alternately, which of these will never end? Which of these stretches on forever?)

• The past, where everything eventually ends up.
• The present. The here and now, what you can touch. There only is the present moment. The past and future are theoretical.
• The future. There is no end in sight. It all keeps going.
• The past, present, and future are all the same thing. Or, none of these things actually exist. Or, all of these things are eternal.

Question 7: The act of creation is:

• Destroying one thing so another one can exist.
• A reflection of the creator for better and worse.
• How we live. Every action we take is a form of creation. It is what makes us human.
• Joyful. It is what makes life worth living.

Question 8: I am ruled by...

• Anger
• Fear
• Perfectionism
• Apathy

Question 9: Anger is...

• Righteous. A response to wrongdoing. A force of change.
• An inconvenience. Something that clouds decisionmaking.
• Just part of being alive.
• A source of problems.

Question 10: Fear is...

• What allows us to care.
• An obstacle to overcome.
• What keeps us alive.
• Something that comes with existing.

Question 11: Apathy is...

• The only way to keep functioning when everything falls apart.
• A tragedy. The worst thing you can fall prey to.
• Selfish.
• Necessary in small doses. Dangerous and sloppy in excess.

Question 12: Perfectionism is...

• Even if difficult to deal with, a sign of my ambition and passion.
• Pointless.
• Detrimental.
• Admirable sometimes. Counterproductive other times.

Question 13: Pick an item:

• A jar of teeth. Somehow, they seem hungry.
• A sword that whispers your name.
• A shield that feels oddly familiar in your hands.
• A book which tells a different story each time it is read.
• An impossibly intricate wind-up toy. It is rusty, but its movements are eerily lifelike.
• A mirror which reflects the same place in a different time.
• A small piece of clay which takes any form you imagine.
• A puzzle box. You get the sense that something important hides within it.

Question 14: Pick a word:

• Consume
• Performance
• Eternity
• Oroborous
• Autonomy
• Multitudes
• Possibility
• Resourceful

Question 15: Make an awful choice:

• You will know the exact time, place, and circumstances of your death. You will not be able to change it.
• You will live a peaceful, boring, prosperous, and happy life. You will be forgotten by all who knew you.
• You will be great. Your name will be known by all. You will be respected and eternally remembered. Your life will be short and painful.
• You will achieve every goal you set your mind to. Every material thing you want will be yours. You will be despised by all.
• You will perfectly create whatever you wish, in whatever medium you choose. Your creation will be exactly as you envision it. No one will ever experience it.
• You will be listened to and respected in any interaction you have. However, every interaction will hurt or push people away.
• You will perfectly create a masterpiece beloved by everyone. You will never be able to experience or remember it.
• A terrible thing will happen to someone of your choice. You cannot choose what this terrible thing is, but you will get some sort of sick, satisfying, joy when you learn that it happened. Someday, the same random terrible thing will happen to someone you love.

Question 16: Pick an experience:

• Bruises and aching muscles.
• A pit in your stomach as you wait for the worst to come.
• Laying awake in bed until dawn, thoughts racing.
• The coppery taste of blood between your teeth.
• Bad, unexpected news.
• The feeling after you've cried.
• The feeling that you've failed, despite doing all you could.
• Complete helplessness. You knew what was coming. You couldn't do a thing.

Question 17: Pick another experience:

• The smell of your favorite meal, or the sound of your favorite song.
• The satisfaction of completing something difficult.
• Your most cherished memory.
• The sound of making someone laugh.
• The thrill of doing something you shouldn't.
• The first time you experienced your favorite story of any medium.
• The bittersweet edge of a beginning and ending. (A new stage of life. Seasons changing. Growing up.)
• Big, ambitious, stupid, beautiful plans.

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Credit to Dragonfly Cave for the quiz script!

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