06-10-03 @ 9:56 am EDT

Yeah, yeah, I know...

What type of Seducer are you?
Created by polite_society

I am the Charmer

Charm is seduction without sex. Charmers are consummate manipulators, masking their cleverness by creating a mood of pleasure and comfort. Their method is simple; they deflect attention from themselves and focus it on their target. They understand your spirit, feel your pain, adapt to your moods. In the presence of a Charmer you feel better about yourself. Learn to cast the Charmer's spell by aiming at people's primary weaknesses: vanity and self-esteem.

Symbol: The Mirror. Your spirit holds a mirror up to others. When they see you they see themselves: their values, their tastes, even their flaws. Their lifelong love affair with their own image is comfortable and hypnotic; so feed it. No one ever sees what is behind the mirror.

http://www.users.bigpond.com/polite_society/seduction.html
http://www.users.bigpond.com/polite_society/charmer.html

Interesting...I picked the Crab as my symbol. I was tempted by Water--sometimes deep, oftentimes shallow, deceptively calm, get close to it and find out how stormy and rocky and enraged it really is--but ultimately, the Crab won out. Face it. Crabs are unattractive creatures. They appear very shy and retiring. Either they are too clingy, or they just want to be left alone. If somebody strikes them the wrong way, they strike back and pinch as hard as they can, but then they retreat into their shells and hide their heads as if in shame. They put up a hard barrier and scuttle away if anybody gets too close. Even their very name has become a synonym for a miserable, unlikable person. That just seemed a lot more like me than any of the other symbols. I always said I should have been born a Cancer.

A Mirror, I never would have imagined that...I'm too self-centered to be a Mirror. Mirrors must notice everything about other people, while disguising everything about themselves--or at least, they must appear to. Yes, I've noticed lots of things in others that I hate in myself, but that's more Shadowlike than Mirrorlike. And while I was curious I was in no way tempted to choose Shadow as my symbol. Mirrors must reflect the beauty along with the ugliness, and I can't do that. I can't recognize any beauty in myself; I would never be a true Mirror.

Libras are supposed to be the consummate Charmers, but as much as I've always wanted to think of myself as charming, I then look at my own writing in this journal and at the thoughts that float around in my head daily and there goes that pleasant illusion. Another reason I should have been a Cancer. I was going to be a Scorpio (I even thought I was, for a few years) but was born a month early and turned out as a Libra, but I think both of those would have been wrong. I'm not mysterious and seductive and alluring and dangerous. I am not peaceful and I am in no way balanced. And I'm not very charming either. What other people have mistaken for "charm" in me is really just shyness. As soon as they see my Crab side, then the truth comes out.

Other than that I can't say if it's right on or not...I haven't bothered to read the other results. How can one be a Seducer anyway if they don't bother seducing because they know they would fail? Did I ever tell you Cancers are supposed to be insecure pessimists?

In other, more accurate news, I have also just learned that I am a

...Cynical Virgin

You have low self-esteem and probably low esteem for the rest of the population as well. You don't foresee sex anywhere in your future and have a gloomy outlook on relationships in general.

http://quizilla.com/users/Saturnia/quizzes/What%20Kind%20of%20Virgin%20Are%20You%3F/

Yes, I'd say that one's right on.

Didn't I already tell you I should have been a Cancer?