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[ceitfianna]

Since its 9 am and no one's posted Daily Entertainment I thought I'd grab it.

How do your pups feel about the Window?

For mine, it makes Sameth feel pale and shaky since its just too many and too big deaths, Demeter doesn't like it because she's known it to almost happen a time or two.

Will, Tumnus and Jane all tend to not look at it and try not to think about it too much if they can help it. The Pirate King finds it striking and beautiful.

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[yakalskovich]

Tower likes to look at it. He likes the destruction.

Teja sometimes tries to see the time loop starting over. The Doctor had explained to him how that works, once.

Donovan finds it awesome in an 'has nothing to do with me' sort of way.

Sirona hasn't really looked at it properly yet. She's far too interested in people and electronics to think about the end of the world much.

Urquhart is at this time actively trying to come to terms with it. All sorts of medieval concepts that he only half believes in are churning in his mind about whatever it is that is happening out there. This is the real honest-to-god apocalypse???

[ceitfianna]

I like Donovan's answer, I think Demeter's not too far from that, because she can at least say no one in my family caused it this time.

[gorgonfondness]

Mia finds it both sad and beautiful as well as full of potential. After all, an end is only a new beginning.

[ceitfianna]

I'm always amazed at just how hopeful Mia can be after all she's been through. She and Will need to talk again, it feels like its been too long.

[dynastessa]

*waves* Morniiiiing, Kate!

My pups are divided into the 'Oooh shiny' and 'Window? What Window?' categories. A good deal of my pups are kidlets, and thus they're pretty chill with the window. (James actually enjoys staring at it. He may have had a bit of a scare the first time around, but now? He's a fan. The same applies to Sora.)

Annabeth may be skeptical - and she certainly isn't used to it. I don't think she's said a single thing about the Window since her first entrance.

Ned definitely tries not to think about it. That much never-ending space makes him jumpy.

[ceitfianna]

*waves back* Morning, I'm feeling more awake now that I've had my tea. I woke up with a stomach ache which is a pain but I have some tea and a piece of pumpkin bread from Starbucks to have soon.

Chill is nice, I think the only one of mine who's really fascinated and likes the Window is Tiwa since she just goes ooh shiny. Its one of those things about her that makes me go, you really are just human shaped sometimes.

I'd be curious some today to have a thread between Annabeth and Sameth about the Window, it could be fascinating. Also, I never got a chance to find out.

Did your package ever arrive?

[alpha-orionis-v.livejournal.com]

Jools doesn't understand what he's looking at. It's just a bunch of lights for him.

It makes Chandler sick. So does the whole concept of Milliways, so he just tries not to think of anything while he's in the bar.

Rusty sees it as a great source of power that needs to be harnessed.

Gus and Tim are both sort of indifferent about it.

[ceitfianna]

Poor Chandler, I hope he gets more used to the Bar.

[bethan-b-bad.livejournal.com]

Sam thinks it's beautiful. He finds it fascinating: he'll spend hours sitting in the window seat, and his ten-year-old self frequently tries to copy it. He's a son of Magic: order in chaos and improbable things all come naturally to him. He's wondered, once or twice, if it's what his father looks like when no-one can see him.

Molly thinks it's cool! She hasn't thought about it too hard, but I think she really figures that, well, the universe has to end some day, and it might as well be shiny.

Minerva finds it fascinating as an academic study: how is it there, how does it repeat (time-turner technology?), and how are they protected from it? Admittedly, focusing on it as an intellectual study keeps her from realising she thinks it's scary.

Edna thinks it is aesthetically pleasing. She's not scared by it: what apocalypse would dare destroy her genius? Anyway, she knows superheroes and they stop that kind of thing all the time.

[ceitfianna]

I love all these responses, they're just so much them. Sam's is especially wonderful, he's such a complex character.

[genarti]

River thinks it's pretty. Fireworks! Fireworks on an epic scale! Unlike a lot of my apocalypse-fighting characters, she doesn't think of it as a sign of something to oppose. I suspect she has it in the same mental category as a lot of her more random-but-pretty hallucinations -- and yes, she knows it's real, but that doesn't mean her hallucinations don't change what it looks like sometimes anyway.

Lan doesn't like it. SHOCKINGLY. He doesn't pointedly avoid looking at it, and he doesn't spend a lot of time brooding over it specifically, but it's definitely in his mind as a symbol of the Shadow breaking the world, and thus of what he's spent his life fighting against.

Piotr also doesn't like it, and doesn't ignore it the same way Lan does. Possibly in part because Piotr is a Marvel character, and thus has seen much more epic levels of destruction first-hand, as one does when one gets kidnapped to galactic wars and stuff. He can't do much about it, obviously, but it makes him sad. And determined. (He's probably used it in a painting or two anyway; it's a powerful sight.)

Trowa is neutral about it. Not a big fan, but it's not as if he can do anything to stop it, and it's not a danger to them, so. I think on some level for daily life he tends to categorize it as a dramatic light-show and move on, even though he knows perfectly well it's not. Trowa is pragmatic.

Regan finds it showy, but a little uncomfortable -- like somebody's well-executed artwork that's a bit disturbing for your tastes. I'm not sure she totally realizes/accepts that it is in fact a universe exploding out there, and not some vid-art on loop. Regan's good at denial sometimes.

Honey doesn't care about it. ^_^ Honey is enormously self-centered in a lot of ways.

Edel, same as Honey, for very different reasons. It's outside her scope; thus, she focuses on what isn't.

[ceitfianna]

Reading the first three, its really interesting how much what their normal is tends to define how they perceive and think about the Window.

That explanation of it as artwork I think really defines how Jane sees it too, she doesn't like to think too much about it since it makes her uncomfortable.

[whisper2ascream.livejournal.com]

Morning, morning, glad it's Friday.

Most of mine don't like it. Kate and George don't like it. Kate since she's working to avoid such destruction, and it makes George queasy.

Nathan and Johnny don't either, and yet at times are perversely fascinated. More because of the reminders of how their worlds have nearly ended at times.

Draco hates it, and hasn't looked at it much since he first arrived.

Pan is aware of it, but it's disquieting and goes against his nature.

The only one of mine who really liked watching it was Truman Burbank.

[ceitfianna]

Why does Truman like it?

[a1enzo]

Enzo probably wouldn't like it, since he's all about saving worlds and preventing destruction... except, with the way it ends over and over again, it's not really ending, is it? Besides, it's sort of reassuring that even with the universe shutting down out there, Milliways is still alive and well.

Therefore, he thinks it is wicked awesome.

[ceitfianna]

I'm curious about your phrasing that he probably wouldn't like it, since you say that he thinks its awesome. It is that you wouldn't think he'd like it but he somehow does?

[campkilkare]

Susannah doesn't have as strong a feeling about it as you might think--she lived in the bar for a couple years, and you can get used to anything, and the fact is there has to be SOME end, some day. But she finds it poor taste to watch the poor thing in its final misery; hasn't it suffered enough?

Monkey doesn't mind. Kalpas come and kalpas go; the Buddha is eternal. A reminder of mortality is probably good for everyone.

Harry tries not to think about it. It's way too big for him.

D'Hoffryn thinks it's hilarious. Or that's what he'd say if you asked, anyway.

Doctor Girlfriend finds it inspiring. I don't think anyone has told her what it is yet, but she's drawn to it anyway. It's the Mad in her.

[ceitfianna]

I love Susannah's response, because its just kind of sweet.

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

Ben doesn't believe it's really the end of everything and so doesn't think about it much. In his experience "The End of Everything" happens far too often for there to be a final end and he knows enough of Astrophysics to know that the universe isn't going to go out that quickly and in that bright a show. At least that's his story and he's sticking to it.

Val finds it fascinating and oddly comforting. Fascinating in a scientific way (entropy in action!) and comforting in a "my universe is gone" way. I hope that makes sense.

Grover avoids looking at the Window and thinking about it. It's too close to what he fears will happen to his world right now.

Usagi accepts it in the way that all true samurai accept death.

Artemus is being quiet on the subject. I suspect it gives him the willies something fierce.

Barbie doesn't know what it is yet. She just sees it as a great light show for now and she's more interested in all the squishy looking people.

[ceitfianna]

First off, that is a very odd icon, her face does weird things.

Val and Ben make a lot of sense with the world they're from, you get so many world ending explosions that you just have to learn how to take them in stride.

Poor Grover, Demeter would like to tell him that this ending is one her family for once has nothing to do with. They really should talk, I can't remember if they have or not. I know she's met Percy and Annabeth.

[kd7sov]

Felix, I think, tries not to think about it. After all, he worked really hard to prevent the end of the world. He doesn't base his life on avoiding the Window, but at the same time I think he's only ever tagged someone while they were near it once.

Frederic thinks it would make a grand background for a big dance number is kind of awed and a little scared by it.

Kain's is probably the least healthy of my pups' responses - he thinks of it as ... I'm having trouble putting words to it. Something along the lines of a good place to start contemplating futility.

[ceitfianna]

I just had this image of the PK and Frederic singing in front of the Window, its kind of fascinating in a terrifying way.

[bcgphoenix]

Mine are kind of all over the place as far as their opinions of the Window go.

Gaeta doesn't enjoy looking at it for too long. He's kind of got a thing about, you know. Worlds being destroyed. *dry* Aside from preferring tables and booths a little distance away from the Window, though -- if they're available -- he doesn't tend to go out of his way to avoid it; it's part of the bar, and he deals with it, even if he doesn't like it. (I also suspect he may still kind of subconsciously half-believe it's not really the end of the universe, if only to give himself a little extra distance: there's still a chance it's just a video. After all, that's the more rational option, and how could you prove otherwise?)

Mac thinks it's pretty cool. Yeah, it freaked her out at first, but those are the kind of views you can't get anywhere but on the Hubble. Besides, it's out there, she's in here...it doesn't really affect her, in the end.

Sylar has always had a strong affinity for the Window. (Is anyone surprised?) His thought process there goes along the lines of, "The whole universe is being destroyed and I'm still standing; I am strong enough to outlast everything."

As for the Trickster? That would be telling. *g*

[ceitfianna]

I love your Trickster, he's being very patient with Tumnus and aww Gaeta. Being rational can be so useful.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

*creeps back into Milliways after a four-month absence*

Uh. Hi there, Back Room, long time no see. How you doin'?

The window?

Shulkie: Likes the window, but she doesn't spend much time gazing at it because she usually gets swept up into talking to people at Milliways - she's so much of an extrovert that while a cosmic phenomenon like the end of the universe in technicolor is awe inspiring and all that, she much prefers conversing with people or having some peace and quiet so she can get work done. Plus, in Shulkie's home multiverse - "multi" being key here - looking at the window does not signify the End of All. Not until the Beyonder and the Avengers show up to tell her that Ho Shit Greenjeans, This Is It, Get Ready to Rumble. Let's say that Jen sees the window as a possibility, a thread in a vast tapestry of cosmic possibilities, and it's to be respected but not to be seen as a harbinger of doom or anything like that for her personally.

Hawkgirl: The window both attracts and repels her. It signifies such a disruption of her cosmology (there is only one are only two are many universes that got trash-compacted into one universe last year, but then that all changed six months ago her time so now we're back to a multiverse because 1) Batman said so and 2) there's an alternate Clark here, so it signifies confusion and a final destiny that she's not sure that she believes in. Poor Kendra.

Lockjaw: WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! One day he'll teleport outside and play millisecond tag with all the pretty lights and gravity wells. The Mighty Lockjaw never ignores a chance to play with absolutism.

Jack of Hearts: Jack hasn't formally entered the bar yet. But when he does, he'll be sitting by the window for extended periods of time and cogitating on the mysteries of spirit, soul, and particle physics. Also, it'll look good as a backdrop for his costume - next to the window, his costume might look subtle.

[ceitfianna]

Welcome back, you've been terribly missed. I'm in my second semester of library school and getting ready to head to my class about Archives.

I love that line in Shulkie's a thread in a vast tapestry of cosmic possibilities, its just really beautiful.

Poor Hawkgirl, the DCU is not a comfortable place for multiverses.

Hee, Lockjaw is wonderful.

[wickedtrue.livejournal.com]

I AM GOING TO BE BETTER ABOUT REPLYING TO THESE THINGS.

Let's us see!

Pam, of True Blood Vampire fame, doesn't care. Shocking. It is not Eric, another Vampire, shoes, a pretty woman, or relates to her in anyway. She could careless. As possessive as she is about her immortal existence, she doubts she will still be undead when it actually happens.

Leonardo the ninja turtle is disturbed by it, in a more abstract way. He is not at all comfortable looking at the window but fully accepts that this future is inevitable. He may of come to terms with the universes eventual destruction, but that doesn't mean he has to watch it while he drinks his tea and rubs his pregnant brother's feet!

I haven't let Susan Ivanova see it yet. I know what her reaction would be once she starts dealing with some of the higher questions of reality and morality of the Shadow War and the Earth Civil War, and even later when she becomes Ranger One (that death is inevitable but inevitable does not mean meaningless nor without greatness). I think that if she saw it now, she'd let her Russian sensibilities get the better of her and drink too much.

...I think the Pink and Blue Unicorns want to swim in it. ;_;

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

He rubs Mikey's Feet!
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

[alas-a-llama.livejournal.com]

Atton and Dalek don't really care about it, and Seamus and Victor both try not to think about it too deeply. Sparrow finds it interesting in how it relates to his world, and the Void there, and has been tempted to use the Fate Cards to ask about it. He hasn't yet.

Takumi probably has the strongest reaction - he's an Orphenoch, and thus very closely tied to death, and ergo he finds himself quite drawn to it and quite pleased by it - he's also fairly disturbed by the fact that he feels that way.

[danger_ace]

Annabelle is unnerved by the Window, although not as badly as she was the first time she saw it.

Saturday finds the view interesting.

Jake hasn't seen the Window yet.

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

When Raph first arrived he took the window as proof that his cynical views of the universe were DEAD ON. It made him kind of smug. When he was in the throws of his relationship with Death, that sense of smug found company in happiness. When they broke up, or rather when she just up and abandoned him, smug and happiness went right out the window...so to speak.

Now? Now he just finds it reassuring. And when no one's looking he sometimes raises a glass to the chaos and destruction.

Mike thinks it's shiny, and therefore he loves it. The downside of anytime he spends staring into the abyss is that he always finds that damn Semisonic song stuck in his head.
every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. yeah.

Ida? Doesn't feel anything. She's not some weak sack of meat that lets emotion lead her about by the nose. Morons.

The Loompas...are probably responsible for the Semisonic song.

[cameoflage.livejournal.com]

The downside of anytime he spends staring into the abyss is that he always finds that damn Semisonic song stuck in his head.

Thanks a lot, now it's in my head.

[not_that_spike]

After five+ years, Spike is pretty much "yeah, whatever" about the window. Of course, he's pretty much "yeah, whatever" about most things.

For Gren, what's going on out there is music on the level of a cosmic symphony. In that way, it's comforting instead of alarming.

Vincent is so used to being manipulated by forces beyond his control that he can only shrug and wait for whatever it will do.

HELLO, Reno likes explosions. He thinks they're pretty.

Howl knows there are worlds and worlds, so for him it's something of a manifestation of all kinds of magic rolled into one and it fascinates him for that alone.

And the Marquis de Carabas is still trying to figure out how he can personally profit from it. I have such faith he'll be successful, too.

[nocarename]

Jerry uses the power of denial. He's also a little convinced that if no one looks to hard then nothing's going to come through and eat him.

Yuuno's not so much on the display, what he wants the how to build the Window.

Tyler tries to ignore it, but the flashes just have him looking back again and again.

Ako doesn't get it, emotionally. It's to big, to far from her context, but if anyone asks she can recite what she's been told.

Robo is moving to join the ranks of those proclaiming 'Not my fault!'. Then he eyes how many are supernatural before sighing.

[likesthecoat]

Brian doesn't like it. It makes him twitchy.

Ianto thinks it's beautiful but scary, like watching lava.

1941!Jack tries not to let him bother him.

It reminds GreenJack of his eventual mortality. When the universe (or the Earth, possibly both) ends, so will he.

[aberration]

Elle knows what it is and just does not care. Occasionally it's something to look at. That's it.

For some reason, both Caprica and Sharon seem too self-obsessed and tied up in their on existential crises to give it that much thought, either. I think it may be that - well, there are all kinds in the Bar, but it's still mostly humans. Neither has encountered any A.I. that isn't built by and for humans, and even those that aren't just aren't really like Cylons. So the whole place is kind of inherently alienating, and the window is just kind of another part of that. Unlike Elle, they have some respect for its magnitude, and I think Sharon at least would generally position herself away from it, but there's still something markedly distant about it.

And Emerson pretends it's a very large television. The end.

[student_of_impossibility]

Oooh, interesting one.

Carrot--the rare times I hear from him--doesn't... dislike it, but also doesn't really think about it. He's got more important things to do than worry about it.

Dave Davenport, for the moment, is honestly kind of disturbed by it. It's kind of pretty, but there's something about it that shuts down a part of his head if he doesn't turn away. Now, after he turns into a full-fledged evil genius, he'll alternate from indifferent to rather fond, as he invents various world-destroying techs.

Giles is... a little bothered by it. It's beautiful, but he spends his life trying to prevent that from happening precipitously, and there's a vague sense, somehow, that either he might fail or it's ultimately not worth it due to inevitability. It's beautiful, but he tries not to think about it to keep from getting biter and down.

Kratos, on the other hand, is aaaall with the bitter-and-down thing. On the one hand, he really isn't frightened by it at all, and being a great believer in fate there's something almost comforting about seeing the inevitability play out. He doesn't like it per se, but between his fatalism and having lived in a comet, it is fairly familiar-feeling.

Tavi-- Uhm. Hmm. I don't really know how to put this. Tavi tends to unconsciously turn to look at the window when he slips into distant-seeing-the-possibilities kinds of moods. On the one hand, as he grows older, he's working so hard to keep his people alive and prevent the end of their world (though not even the physical destruction of the whole planet or anything). But there's also all that future between when he is and when the window is, and all the change involved in the Window and all the possibility of just what could be in it. I don't know that he likes it, or that he dislikes it--he certainly isn't afraid of it on any scale. He'd touch it if he could, I think. But the emotion attached to it is more complicated.

[cameoflage.livejournal.com]

Dave needs to be around more! Daaaaave.

[vivien]

For Ingress, it's just a background shiny. Maybe one day she'll learn what it's all about.

I don't think Tom really registers its existence anymore, either. Back when he first came in, I'm sure he thought it was a part of the magic of the place and contextualized in that respect.

Bela doesn't look.

[skidmo]

For Lorne it's just one more weird space thing that he (thankfully) doesn't have to deal with. Sometimes he likes to try drawing it, but he can never get it just right.

Mikey thinks of it as something out of a comic book, and therefore awesome.

Tolkien finds it beautiful and terrifying all at once. Kind of like the elves...

Fraser looks at it as a beautiful, natural phenomenon.

Nikola thinksit's fascinating. It's something every physicist dreams of witnessing, and he actually gets to. (On his more introspective occasions, he wonders if he'll still be alive for it in his own timeline.)

Bertie doesn't think about it. Not because it makes him uncomfortable, just because...he doesn't.

Captain Hammer thinks it's one hell of a lightshow.