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Mel has a high score in Ninja Twister that is in the thousands. And Ninja Twister wasn't a scoring game in its original format.

Mycroft's changes almost weekly, and while he might like to make it seem as though it has something to do with the most recent civil war he's started, or government he's toppled, it more often than not involves keeping Sherlock out of trouble.

Rusty's magnum opus also changes almost weekly, and is usually some old project of Jonas Sr's that has been smeared with a new coat of paint.

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Hmmm. I honestly don't think Gene thinks he has one. He's fully aware of what an ongoing job policing is and that, at some point, you just have to admit that you've done all you can. (There is more to it than that but he doesn't know about it yet.) He also canonically states that he doesn't think of what they do as heroic, even when they've done something brilliant. He knows the next case could be a total failure and they could utterly fail to save someone/catch someone.

Of course, if he were asked this question directly he would likely say, 'bein' a magnificent bastard'.

Which, y'know. Looked at in certain lights, and taking his ego out of the equation, isn't all that inaccurate.

Let me an early-morning masochist and try to answer this for all the characters I actually have in Milliways.

Jacob: Becoming a Storyteller rather than an Incubus. He's a Pathfinder because of his affinity for the living world, but he'd a Storyteller in a larger sense because his death didn't diminish the light inside him.

Micah: Surviving on the whole is a pretty huge thing to Micah, but managing to find a Mate in Anita is something he considers a very, very great work.

Nori: It's hard to tell with Nori, but I think not getting anyone killed ~~yet~~ is the only thing she's even really trying for. So that counts for her by default.

Pavel: Getting into Starfleet, definitely. For an organization where not everyone of the normal-aged candidates gets in, and even fewer get in on the first try, being accepted on his first go when he was fourteen is a pretty damn big accomplishment given what the entrance exams are made of.

Charles: This is the one with the hardest answer. He's not a major character in the books and so the author doesn't really give him a whole hell of a lot of story I can play with. (In canon it's marrying a woman he loves, but we do not have one in Milliways, not that I think he'd go for her if we did.)

Kida: Fucked if I know.

Finvarra: Ditto the above.

Ganymede: Finding Dorian. Making things work, and having a semblance of normality with someone who actually gives a damn about him as something other than a sex toy is a really, really big accomplishment.

I totally love Gene for this answer, you know.

Hee! He is, in fact, quite lovable once you get past all the bullshit. *pats him*

Gene: *goes not thank me for this comment*

Don't worry, Gene. Chekov still thinks you're tough.

...This may be a compliment. >_>

Gene: *certainly takes it as one*

Which reminds me! I totally meant to put a comment up re: my slows - I absolutely haven't dropped that thread (squealed like a girl when he tagged!) but am bogged down in a Uni essay at the moment. I plan to tag everything up on the weekend because I will hopefully be finished with it by tonight but if you want to fade, I totally understand. Sorry for the utter fail at giving you a heads-up. :\

I am cool with slowtimes! I can be such a damn flake about them, but I will totally try to finish that one. I've been utterly surprised that so many people like him, given the lukewarm reception he got in the trek comms.

Raven: The world!

Michael the Archangel: Her brother came home. WIN!

Nynaeve al'Meara: Possibly getting Lan, the Light-blinded fool, to finally marry her. And the part where everyone from the Two Rivers is still alive. *knocks on wood* That one will replace the first one after canon is done, depending. So.

Jordan: Getting Benny trained. Dogs are silly.

Wonder Woman: She's still working on her magnum opus. It's one of those lifetime things.

X-23: Her success record in keeping people safe.

Dean Winchester: I. Um. This one is. Um. Hard. Um. Keeping Sammy alive. Guess how long that lasts!

Sam Tyler: By the end of canon and all, and after -- his relationship with Annie. Or the 70s in general. It's . . . . there are things, that is all I am saying.

Galadan: That is still being written! One day I will show it to the world.

But he's adorable! I look forward to continuing it. :D

...I will apologise in advance for any Russian jokes Gene comes out with, or, y'know. The inevitable naming of him as 'Boris' at some stage. :\

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I will so die of hysterical laughter at both of those happening. Pavel will also do the 'inwented in Russia!' thing, yes, but he has a sliiiiiiightly different motivation for it this go round.

:D!

Knox hasn't done his magnum opus yet. It will either be the novel about Rapunzel's true story, or the definitive book about Batman and Gotham.

Kirk's career is one giant achievement. Jim at once doesn't point to any one thing as being more important that the rest and looks at everything he's done with pride.

Charlie would say that taking a hand in reshaping Renee into his successor is his one great work. Then again, that is a bit pretentious to say, and also unfair to Renee since she had a hand in the process, too.

Cy's best days are ahead of him. There is so much more he can and will do.

Gibbs is going to write his memoir some day. Maybe after the eight, ninth and tenth films.

*GRIN*

It'll be fab! :DD

This is a hard one for most of mine since they either haven't figured out what they want to do yet or there are issues involved. Oh and it is far too cold out there, but I have tea.

Will's is really being part of Robin's men and knowing that in Sherwood and other worlds through Milliways, he's saved a few lives.

Demeter's is her daughter and all the children and families she's helped grow through the years.

Jane hasn't written hers yet, get back to her in five to ten years.

Moist doesn't really think about his jobs that way but every job he gets out of alive is worth celebrating.

Sam doesn't have one yet, he's another one to check with at the end of canon and then in a few years.

William's is to hopefully see his brother grow up and doing well.

Tumnus' is being a part of Narnia thriving.

The Pirate King's is his ship and at one point Frederick.

Teja's magnum opus was the battle at Mount Vesuvius. He seems to have spent years predicting the eventual outcome, planning, stashing resources and picking the one ideal spot for a last stand. He had guestimated the inevitable outcome of the war with Byzantium so well, things turned out exactly as he had engineered them, even to the point of the best possible outcome he hadn't even dared to seriously hope for. People followed along with his desperate plans, and the majority of them walked away alive. He himself was dead afterwards, but that had been his life's work, and he had won at it.

I guess Moist's magna opera are going to be the things he achieves in canon, inventing stamps and paper money, but he isn't there yet...

I feel like at this point Karkat's answer is predictable; his magnum opus is the human universe, which frequently makes him pretty depressed.

True. Oh you might be interested in one of the prompts I filled recently.

I wrote a little canon era Moist drabble, its below the prompt you gave me. Slowly I'm filling those.

This one?

Oh yes, that is lovely! Poor Moist so isn't made for a steady life of daily sameness.

Yes, the prompt just fit really well for that era of his life.

Hee, no, he's not, he knows how to act like he is but that's not the same as actually being.

Even posts that bring golden looking chains don't cut it. After all, he used to prefer that kind of people to run rings around, in his earlier life. Even running the bank is probably not going to keep him permanently busy. If Vetinari does add the tax office at some stage, that might.

Oh, certainly the triple-bluff against the Triumvirate of Hell.

You know, I'm not sure. The defining point of Felix's life is the Alchemy Quest, but he doesn't see it as his big thing. It was something that needed to be done, and it was difficult, and he's glad he did it, but...

Kain's greatest accomplishment - indeed, perhaps the only time in several years that he was actually happy - was being named a Dragoon.

I like how reading these answers changed my own answer. I had one for Mia but now she thinks it is too small to be considered. She now says, when forced to pick her runner up magnum opus, that it's her teaching career at the Magic Guild. Her actual magnum opus is named Cepheus.

Lucas feels his magnum opus so far has been keeping his mother's sunflowers alive. He knows helping Tazmily is going to be good, too, but he can't think of anything more personally important than Mom's sunflowers.

Ben: The Grimm Youth Center on Yancy Street.

Ultimate Ben: Sacking the Quarterback six times in one quarter.

Jessica: Taking out the HYRDA cell that killed her parents. She did this before any training what so ever. Or defeating Morgan Le Fay so many times.

Santo: His rockin' bod. This is actually pretty impressive since he makes his own body as he is really a psychic entity.

Usagi: His skill in the sword and it will never be completed.

Barbie: No clue. She would likely say each film or production she has completed as she throws herself fully into any roll.

Val: The device she made which got her out of Milliways. This would be more impressive if she could get back to Milliways and figure out exactly what she did.

Artemus: A production of Henry the VIII from way back when or the shoe derringer.

Thalia: Her last stand at Half-blood Hill. At least so far.

Jenks: Kids that are not only surviving but thriving. I know this breaks the rule but pixies in his world have a huge infant mortality rate. It's so bad they don't even name the kids until the child is a year old. He and Matalina have only lost nine out of sixty-three.

Charles: And you say you don't have issues.

I'd have to agree. That was one hell of a swindle.

Alex would have to say Molly, who is an amazing human being in her own right. After that, the book (which I haven't decided if it is her first or a subsequent publication. I suspect it may be her second title, and the first is some obscure academic text.)

This does not surprise me, as I'm sure Mike and Mel have found a way to score...well to put it delicately, scoring.

Oh man, the greatest thing they've ever done/will do?
I was going to say Mike's would be Magellan, but...you went and nixed that right out of the gate.

Splinter: Avenging his Master's honor. It's not the same thing as just being proud of raising four boys alone...

Mike: It's no where near done yet, but Mike is going to write Milliways: A History someday. And it may very well look an awful lot like the Milliways_Bar archive.

Raph: I think, for the time being, it's going to be his bike.

Ida: Her restraint against forcibly blue-screening the entire world's information system. It refreshes daily.

Eh, I don't think Jenks is breaking the rule. I might be bending it but he's not breaking it.

It's one thing to say your children are your magnum opus as a knee-jerk reaction of affection, which is what Mia did in my mind when I was writing this question. While parenting is hard work and worthy of the title magnum opus, at some point the child isn't the parent's work anymore. They become their own person. Rather than argue when exactly that happens, I wanted to go with something a bit less ambiguous. Jenks has an accomplishment, however, that is more than just evidence that his reproductive organs are functioning properly, something he's presumably had to work harder on than the average Milliways pup parent. I think that's what makes it count.

I might let Magellan count due to the unusual circumstances (to say the least) concerning the birth. It kind of qualifies for the post I made above about Milliways pups going above and beyond the normal call of parenthood.

But holy hell, Milliways: A History? Excellent runner-up magnum opus.

Teja: No, I don't. The battle was planned as well as possible, lost as was inevitable, and bought life and freedom for the survivors. It could only be achieved by putting my life on the line first and foremost, along with everybody else's, and losing it, so everybody else didn't have to. It worked. Any personal issues involved are irrelevant!

Heheheh. It's so true. I think Magellan might just be the crackiest thing I've ever participated in at Milliways. And that's kind of saying something.

In comic canon Mike becomes an author, so I see no reason why he wouldn't do the same thing in Milli-canon. In the future he writes all kinds of things, but is most famous for his romance novels...which bear a striking resemblance to his exploits with Mel.

At some point he'll get his hands on a Wizarding Pensieve, and then the archiving will begin.

Carl: Getting through the events of canon alive.

Larry: He wants to say Nick. Runner-up to his kid would probably be getting the museum exhibits to work together, at this point; whenever I put him through between-canon stuff, actually being a successful inventor will give that a run for its money.

Cosmo: Is grumping that he never actually got to do his, dammit Marty. In terms of what he's actually done, bankrupting small countries For The Greater Good (as he sees it).

Cata: Her first job after being whitewashed for seven years. Or surviving a year of teaching without actually harming any of her students. (Interestingly, while she's had children, she wouldn't even consider that. That was while she was whitewashed, so she doesn't think it counts, as it wasn't something she would have done in her right mind.)

Moist: Doesn't think he has one. He probably does, though, in connection to one of Doc's heists.

Conflict Diamond: Her first jewel heist.

Sam: KILLING MIZZAMIR. And saving the world, but mostly KILLING MIZZAMIR. For a number of reasons.

Claudia: ...I'm gonna have to go with hacking the Warehouse here. Getting as close to saving Joshua as she did on her own is also impressive, but since she had to go and kidnap some help, I don't count it, but hacking a giant not-exactly-government-but-sort-of facility that's not on the grid definitely qualifies.

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Alba: If she survives past her thirty-fifth birthday, that would be her greatest accomplishment.

Josie: If she manages to live without seeing the inside of a jail cell. Years of getting away with countless crimes is a great work, right?

After having spent far too much time trying to think of a way to say "my children" and still follow the instructions (he couldn't) Elrond has settled on "Imladris".

The last homely house, open and welcoming to all. And the starting point of a couple of important things.

Good point. His is more providing for and keeping safe as opposed to just making them. = ]

I suspect that the get very competitive over that, as well.

No, Brain. You will not draft up rules to Full Contact Sex.

You will NOT!
*whimpers*

It is actually considerably less complicated than Non-Contact sex, or the middle ground, touch-sex.

I'M NOT TOUCHING YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!

I now decree that Mike's Magnum Opus (at least to date) is The Night of A Thousand Times.

Ava's magnum opus--

Is so close to being Cold Oak. Jake Talley ruined a near-perfect record.

D:

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