Lieya HanelinOwner, Dance Masters Performing Arts · Professional Actor/Filmmaker. Business owner.

Choosing Not to Become the Villain

23 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this spoken‑word monologue, the speaker frames their personal hero’s journey as a fairy‑tale choice between becoming the Evil Queen (the villain) or the heroine. They assert that they possess the freedom to decide their role, acknowledging that they could have easily slipped into the villainous position that the story’s hero would later confront. The speaker describes an internal battle among the different “parts” of themselves that played out as they made this choice, and they set the stage for a deeper discussion of that inner conflict.

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For me, the arc in my hero's journey thus far has a lot to do with, you know, choosing, I guess, in a nice, like, fantastical fairy tale sort of way, whether or not to be like the Evil Queen or, you know, the heroine. At the end of the day, I know that I have the freedom of choice to go either way, and I could have very easily become the villain that the hero was meant to one day defeat. And I think there was a battle amongst myself and all my parts, and just that happened. And that's what we're here to talk about today.