Veeky Forums grilled by Marcel "The Masturbator" Proust

I compiled a short list of questions from The Proust Questionnaire. Do you dare answer truthfully, Veeky Forums?

Reveal to us your nature

>What is your idea of perfect happiness?

>What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

>When and where were you happiest?

>What is your most marked characteristic?

>Who is your hero of fiction?

>What is your greatest regret?

>What is your idea of perfect happiness?
I don't have an idea like thay

>What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Hair loss

>When and where were you happiest?
Swimming alone truant from elementary school.

>What is your most marked characteristic?
Chronic alcoholism

>Who is your hero of fiction?
Heroes don't appeal to me.

>What is your greatest regret?
Ever using pornography

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t. redditor

>What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Being surrounded by friends and family.

>What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Laziness

>When and where were you happiest?
Back in college, when I was hanging around with buddies.

>What is your most marked characteristic?
Sibilance, especially with the ā€œSā€ sound

>Who is your hero of fiction?
Adjunct Tavore Paran

>What is your greatest regret?
Being too shy to tell that girl I was also crushing on her, 12 years ago.

>What is your idea of perfect happiness?
I believe that happiness is unachievable.
>What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Vanity.
>When and where were you happiest?
Can't remember any moment when I was truly happy. Hanging out with my crush in high school comes close to it though.
>What is your most marked characteristic?
Hard to awnser, really. I don't know how people percieve me. My friends say I show off my intelligence a lot and I'm often too sarcastic.
>Who is your hero of fiction?
None. I don't read fiction to sympothize with characters.
>What is your greatest regret?
Je ne regrette rien.

>Swimming alone truant from elementary school.

Very literary. Bonus points if you almost drowned.

i cant answer any of these besides the second

cant even post the correct wojak, fuck
thought this was a sad one

>What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Living in a somewhat secluded house in the Pacific Northwest forests with my now-girlfriend, then-wife, helping each other write books and composing music
>What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
My extreme executive dysfunction
>When and where were you happiest?
When and where I'm with the love of my life
>What is your most marked characteristic?
I'm told I speak like a cross between a Herge character and a foul-mouthed Boston shipyard worker
>Who is your hero of fiction?
Job
>What is your greatest regret?
Joining a shitty experimental project-based learning school in seventh grade and testing out in sophomore year

>What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Complete control
>What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
How exhausting I am to be around
>When and where were you happiest?
The times before university where people would affirm that my passion would lead to success
>What is your most marked characteristic?
Obsessiveness
>Who is your hero of fiction?
Heathcliff
>What is your greatest regret?
Pretty bog standard, I never asked the first girl I loved what she thought of me in a romantic light. Tied with not being lovable.

What I have.
Narcissism. All sorts of narcissism.
Don't remember.
I'm somewhat awkward.
Jeanne D'arc.
I met this dude recently and forgot to ask his name. Still, I have a general idea where to find him.

>What is your idea of perfect happiness

Living mostly apart from society and engaging with it when I choose and in a manner which I see fit

>What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

Melancholy

>When and where were you happiest?

Smoking and drinking with my friends around age 20-21 in the wilderness of Upstate New York. Alternately, visiting a National Park with my father for a day in the American Southwest just before I turned 13

>What is your most marked characteristic?

Sloth or irritability

>Who is your hero of fiction?

Prince Andrei Bolkonsky

>What is your greatest regret?

Waiting until my mid-20's to seriously pursue what I actually want

>What is your idea of perfect happiness?
To be able to fully accept my fate
>What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
My foolishness
>When and where were you happiest?
During school holidays in the summer of 2007 reading nietzsche on a hot day alone on a farmers field drinking some wine from a bottle
>What is your most marked characteristic?
endurance
>Who is your hero of fiction?
Young Werther
>What is your greatest regret?
i regret nothing

Did this post really need to take up this much space?

>What is your greatest regret?
Spending so much time here, when this site is just worth at maximum one refresh. (Or none at all)

Death
All of them
When I last slept
Sunken eyes with dark circles under them
Levin
Being born

>What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A simple life, wife and kids and not having to work 5 days a week.
>What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Laziness
>When and where were you happiest?
Walking through town with my best friend, smoking weed in every place in town, talking about whatever.
>What is your most marked characteristic?
My humor or maybe the way I debate/argue
>Who is your hero of fiction?
Don't know
>What is your greatest regret?
Not making the most of my youth out of fear

Yes, my real defining trait is vanity

>A state of constantly shifting equilibrium of challenge and accomplishment

>My inability to properly express my emotions

>Sitting in a small clearing when I was but a child, overlooking the trail I had reached the end of and preparing to return

>My overwhelming confidence

>I don't read fiction with easily defined heroes

>Failing to reconnect with my father before his passing

>What is your idea of perfect happiness?
I have a good wife and healthy children with a nice house and no worry about money.
>What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Where I don't work harder than everyone
>When and where were you happiest?
When I was exploring and meeting new people this last summer during an internship. Tired of my current friends and nothing more fun than getting new ones.
>What is your most marked characteristic?
I'm the opposite of neurotic, people say I'm unnervingly calm, was stoic before I'd even heard of stoicism.
>Who is your hero of fiction?
maximus decimus meridius
>What is your greatest regret?
I regret everything and nothing. Regret is a retarded feeling that achieves nothing.

All of these regrets seem to be in situation where you has little control. Its better to think of yourself, viewing as an observer and not thinking about what you did. Don't be overly harsh on yourselves.

*pats you on the back*
No worries, pal

>XD This is literary because I read it in Gene Wolfe XD

I didn't almost drown. It was a pool at an hotel and noone was there. It had a chain linked fence around. It was in phoenix az so the sun blasted everything white. I had a mock silver portable cassettee boom box but i dont remember what i played on it. I skipped most of first grade because I was bullied, my mom didn't find out until CPS showed up. They decided to advance me to 2nd grade the next year regardless.
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Literally whomstve

>i cant answer any of these besides the second

we can make him sad if you want to

sounds gorgeous mate

wow fuck i replied to the wrong one

>What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Not working, no responsibilities, just pursuing what I want when I want. Basically being independently wealthy.
>What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Laziness and wasted potential.
>When and where were you happiest?
I don't remember ever being very happy. Possibly wandering the fields around my house as a kid but I would never go back to that time.
>What is your most marked characteristic?
Creativity, maybe. Possibly my looks.
>Who is your hero of fiction?
Don't really have one. Joyce is my literary role model tho.
>What is your greatest regret?
Majoring in STEM and only discovering my love for the arts in my mid-20s.

>What is your idea of perfect happiness?
No idea
>What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Indolence
>When and where were you happiest?
No Idea
>>What is your most marked characteristic?
Indolence
>Who is your hero of fiction?
Wilhelm Meister
>What is your greatest regret?
Didn't read enough when I was younger, now I'll always be catching up and insecure

>What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Simple serenity.

>What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Laziness.

>When and where were you happiest?
When I was a very young child.

>What is your most marked characteristic?
Awkwardness.

>Who is your hero of fiction?
I don't have a hero.

>What is your greatest regret?
All the time I've wasted.

Well it was the last time i can clearly remember happiness. Thanks.

>What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Financial security and a loving family

>What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Lack of Motivation

>When and where were you happiest?
At Gencon with my friends two years ago

>What is your most marked characteristic?
My sense of humor.

>Who is your hero of fiction?
Sam Vimes

>What is your greatest regret?
Not following up with that cute guy I met at a con.

All these lazy people here
How do we overcome laziness?

>What is your idea of perfect happiness?
some goddamn peace and quiet

>What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Slothfulness

>When and where were you happiest?
as a child on vacation with my family in Tuscany

>What is your most marked characteristic?
I hate to disappoint people, going so far as to deny my own motivations.

>Who is your hero of fiction?
difficult question, outside of fiction Napoleon, in fiction maybe Galahad or Parsifal?

>What is your greatest regret?
saying no to that one girl in high school that had a crush on me

>What is your idea of perfect happiness?
An idiot gazing placidly into a pool of water

>What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Timidity

>When and where were you happiest?
Playing make-believe by myself in the backyard of my childhood home

>What is your most marked characteristic?
Melancholy is what others seem to most frequently notice and mention.

>Who is your hero of fiction?
I don't think I have one. I do admire Growth of the Soil's Isak though. And Batman

>What is your greatest regret?
Worrying about the opinions of others

By setting yourself at least one small goal every morning. It doesn't matter if you accomplish said goal. If you work towards accomplishing it, that is more than not doing anything at all.

>What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Offering my soul on a plate to my loved one, who will do the same in return
>What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Either the lack of motivation or the lack of empathy. I really really wish I could be more receptive to people's wishes and needs.
>When and where were you happiest?
When I actually thought I have a chance to make any friends, which put social pressure on me and helped me achieve great things
>What is your most marked characteristic?
Really hard to tell, since I almost never act. I think it's laziness after all. Or escapism.
>Who is your hero of fiction?
I've seen one Werther and one Wilhelm Meister in this thread. Mine is Faust. No idea why are Goethe's characters so popular in this regard
>What is your greatest regret?
Not having done enough work when I had the chance. And I had one stellar chance. Just fuck my life already.
Woah, usually it was I who gave that advice here. Maybe I should start following it too.