Over at the Pursuit of Happiness blog my blogging mate gave a challenge called Our Ways. Among the questions that could be addressed were the following:

Does each of us know what she or he wants to do? Do we have realistic plans? Do we work hard to carry them out?

At the time that I noticed this I was performing a bit of a personality deconstruction of my villain. When I started writing this piece I then noticed similarities between my villain’s direction and motives and my own. Albeit I have no intentions to dissect people. The funny thing is, I had not noticed this similarity til today.

You see, my villain wants what he feels is his heritage. This consumes him and drives him forward. His mother was a half-breed Gnosian. These are a witch people. Aurelia and her sister Portentia abandoned the Gnosians during their rite of adulthood and escaped into the thousand