Thursday What Is This Feeling?

Give us a hundred words about confidence.

A.N.: Future fic, set not long after Victor's gone Creative. This was an interesting prompt -- Victor's never had much confidence in himself or his abilities before. He knew he was good at piano, and he knew he had more-than-decent drawing skills, but those were pretty private activities for him. He never thought he'd really feel confident about anything else in his life. And then, he becomes a Touched. . .

Prompt: Confidence
“Are you sure this will work?”
“Of course! I have complete confidence it will!”
Victor abruptly paused, the mad smile on his face replaced with surprise. Alice blinked. “What?”
“. . .I do. I have complete confidence this will work.”
“So? That’s good, isn’t it?”
“Yes, but – it’s a bit of a new feeling for me. Normally the only thing I’m confident about are my piano or drawing skills. To be confident about science, it’s – it’s. . . .”
“Yes?” Alice prompted.
Victor smiled again. “It feels good.”
“Finally found some self-esteem, then?”
“I had to eventually. Now, could you hand me that tube there?”