Prompt 123.5 - Charity Set

[lilyleia78]

Five principles Vala follows (or thinks she does)

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[a_blackpanther]

Five principles Vala follows (or thinks she does)

1. Always liberate treasure from the non-deserving

And there’s no one more deserving than her. She’s had a hard life, okay? Her father was a con-man who was never around, she was taken as host by a cruel and greedy goa’uld, and when she was finally free her own people turned on her. A girl deserves a break, you know? Of course no one is going to give you that break, so you just have to make it yourself.

2. Never stick around

Sticking around means getting caught, and that brings about a world of hurt, so really, the best solution is to always put as many light years between yourself and your last mark as possible.

3. You can never con a honest man

No really, you can’t. Dishonesty is what makes a mark a mark. Luckily for her there are very few honest people in this galaxy (and any other, she suspects). And usually, they’re not the rich ones.

4. Don’t kill

This one brought her a lot trouble over the years, but if there’s one thing she’s learned while being host to Qetesh is that life is precious. Getting first row tickets to the murder of hundreds of people will put you off killing forever. Of course, that means that she has quite a few enemies out there that are jumping at the chance of getting her back, but there hasn’t been a sticky situation she hasn’t been able to get herself out of. Yet. And it usually has something to do with rule #3.

5.Don’t worry about the rules

Because survival is all about adapting. When you really get down to it, you have to do what you have to do to survive, including throwing away all of your rules. Survival is ruthless and it is neither “good” nor “evil” and principles only get in the way. And then you met Daniel Jackson and all of the rules went out the window anyway.

[archersangel (from livejournal.com)]

Getting first row tickets to the murder of hundreds of people will put you off killing forever.

i bet.

[anotherdreamer5.livejournal.com]

Oh, I just really, really enjoyed it. It captured so much of Vala's voie--casual, flippant, but earnest, like these are just truths that everyone should pretty much accept.

A girl deserves a break, you know? Of course no one is going to give you that break, so you just have to make it yourself.

And I really liked that, the sense of independence and self-reliance.

And then this was just funny:

You can never con a honest man

No really, you can’t. Dishonesty is what makes a mark a mark.

As was the idea that it leads to all sorts of problems. :)

[rinkafic.livejournal.com]

Oh, poor Vala. My heart breaks for #2.

[fallon-ash.livejournal.com]

Love this, #4 is interesting, and #5 is just so perfectly Vala. Thanks! :)