Look at me and tell me who I am, why I am, what I am...

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body, to risk his well-being, to risk his life, in a great cause. - Theodore Roosevelt

I know I'm not worth much of anything these days. Let's face it; I betrayed the only family I ever had on Galactica, I hurt Galen who I loved so much and betrayed his trust, and I shot the Old Man.

I risked everything, all because I was a frakking idiot, listening to Cavil and his lies about Ellen, about Hera, and about me. I snuck onboard Galactica, impersonated Athena, tied her up after I beat the frak out of her, and then I frakked her husband right in front of her.

What sort of soldier does that make me?

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I died three times, at the hands of soldiers who I had trusted. Third time's the charm, right?

I deserved it, though. I wasn't a soldier. I never fought for a cause or was willing to give my life; I was always too frakking scared of the truth. No, I deserved to let Athena kill me.

Maybe, in the end as she handed Hera over to Helo and pulled the trigger, that was my cause.

Muse: Sharon "Boomer" Valerii
Fandom: Misc. TV/"Battlestar Galactica"
Word Count: 552
OOC Note: Prompt reply is canon and takes place during the series finale, "Daybreak, Part II".

Sharon knew a thing or two about dying.

She didn't want to think about how many times a version of her model had been killed and downloaded; it was enough to remember the one that had downloaded all of her own memories just so she could get closer to Helo was Sharon was away from him.

It was enough to remember how many times Boomer had died, only to come and kidnap her daughter and frak Helo right in front of Sharon.

Love, though? Now she knew very little about that. She loved Hera, certainly, and she loved Karl. But then there was Lee, who complicated everything in her life now that they were on Earth -- not that he didn't complicate things beforehand.

Being able to download into a new body was a form of immortality, she supposed, until The Hub was blown up and that ability was taken away from all Cylons. Permanent death. What did it mean? Some of the models thought it was a good thing and brought them all closer to being human, or to God Himself, even.

Sharon liked to think that the one thing that brought her closer to being human was love.

Sure, it was a frakked-up kind of love that she couldn't really figure out, but it was there nonetheless. So even without The Hub, Sharon had the love of her husband, her daughter, and her secret lover. She couldn't make much sense of it all, but it meant she wasn't as much of a "toaster" as everyone had originally thought she was... and that she was capable of so much more than simple Jumps in a Raptor.

She could be more. Sharon just never knew that thousands of years later, when the bones of her daughter were discovered, the immortality of her family would live on in the modern Earth society.

Muse: Sharon "Athena" Agathon
Fandom: Misc. TV/"Battlestar Galactica"
Word Count: 311
OOC Note: This prompt reply is based off the show's final canon ending as well as RP between Helo (callsign_helo) and Lee (arrow_of_apollo).

1. How much is your mother’s fault? I don't have a mother, so I wouldn't know. I'm a Cylon, so I guess it's my fault. Although if you want to get technical, whoever actually initially designed the Cylons should be at fault, so I guess that goes back to humanity. So really, it's your fault.
2. Do you have an “inner child”? Karl says so. It doesn't feel like it around here sometimes, though.
3. Polkas: Joyful dance or just plain dotty? Er... what? I don't even know what that is. If it's a dance, that's a frakking sorry excuse for a name.
4. Why didn’t Jesus turn the water into beer? Because it wasn't what the One True God wanted His Son to do.
5. If you had multiple personalities, do you get to add up all their IQ’s for your total score? Is this a joke? I'm a Cylon. Do you know how many Number Eights there are out there right now? I keep running into different models of me on a daily basis. I don't have multiple personalities, just multiple mes.
6. The Big Bang Theory: Fascinating science or just wondering if you’ll lose your virginity? If you're talking about evolution versus creation, then yes, it's fascinating in the sense of all of this has happened before and it will all happen again. No matter what God or gods you believe in, no matter if you have faith or science on your side.
7. If you arrest a mime, does he still have the right to remain silent? On Galactica, no one is ever silent in the brig. No one.
8. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around, do the other trees laugh? I would. Then again, I'd probably be projecting the falling tree...
9. Should Disney make animated porn? Should who? What?
10. Is Satan self-possessed? Who is Satan in this scenario? Gaius Baltar? I'm going to say he's obsessed and self-everything. The man's pure ego.
11. What is the level of importance that elevates a guy getting shot to an assassination? If he fraks around with anything political or with the military. Basically, don't piss off Roslin or the Old Man, ever. Or for that matter, anyone with the last name of Adama.
12. What happens if a baby falls into the Fountain of Youth? Does it disappear? Not unless it drinks the water, I guess. Seriously, this is a question?
13. Do vegetarians still bring home the bacon? Yes. Trust me, when you've been living on a battleship and you're lucky to get algae as food for years on end? Yes, they most definitely do.

Muse: Sharon "Athena" Agathon
Fandom: Misc. TV/"Battlestar Galactica"