I actually have no preference on how you post your essay, but if a large Gundam is holding a cannon to my head, I'll go with the single post so I don't lose track of the other piece(s).

I went with Alec because (I suspect, from evidence in Privilege of the Sword) that we have certain disturbingly compatible scholarly interests. We could talk about mathematics and stuff. Also, he would be someone I could bitch to about how irritating small children are, and he would agree with me. And yeah, so he's erratic, temperamental, and self-destructive, but I'm not in any position to complain of those qualities in someone else.