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[ceitfianna]

I have a snow day today and am grabbing Daily Entertainment as no one else has.

How do your pups deal with unexpected scheduling changes? For example, Charles is quite adaptable and though he prefers having time to get a sense of the people he's meeting with, if someone's running late, he's always fair about it. He knows life can be unexpected.

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[bjornwilde]

Thank you for grabbing the DE, I am sick and needed to sleep in.

Hank uses the time to work on whatever experiment or invention he is working on.

Jess will usually seek out the other party, especially if the other party is a costumed hero as it's likely they are in trouble or could use help.

[ceitfianna]

Not a problem. I'm glad of my snow day as I'm also on the edge of sick myself.

[saphyria]

Yrael doesn't have any trouble with schedule-changes, for he makes no schedule (and likely wouldn't keep to it if he did make one).

Sudden schedule-changes might make Sunshine flail a bit - because such changes involve shifting mental gears and making time allowances, and she often has a lot going on at one time - but she can usually soldier on through by sheer determination. When you get right down to the basics, a sudden vampire threat to deal with on what was supposed to be a quiet night to catch up on sleep isn't much different than an unplanned coach-load of tourists suddenly arriving for lunch when the coffeehouse is already short-staffed. Only, in the case of the tourists, the red squirting goopy stuff is ketchup. :D

Zelgadiss likes to keep on schedule. He is very much a goal-oriented person, and surprise side-trips and diversions grate on his nerves something fierce, especially if he doesn't see the point in them.

My pups apparently cover the spectrum of the ability to deal with unexpected schedule changes.

[ceitfianna]

Well, you play a wonderful variety of pups.

[mnt_mike]

Mike's kind of crap when it comes to keeping a schedule, so he's really very understanding when someone's late for meeting him.

Raph is never on time, and a pain in the ass when other people keep him waiting.

Splinter is usually early. He's understanding when other people are behind schedule, unless those other people are his sons. A ninja must adapt after all.

Aang has the attention span of a fruit-gnat and as such is never on schedule.

Bumi is always on time, and if he isn't he's late on purpose just to rattle whoever he's supposed to be meeting. He expects those who serve under him to be punctual and while he can be understanding to extenuating circumstances, he can be strict.

[ceitfianna]

I keep coming across reruns of Avatar and Korra and thinking of how well you play Aang, he's adorable and weird.

[mnt_mike]

*wibbles*

Thank you. I...live in fear of fucking him up.
Everyone else, MEH! Whatever...but him I'm nervous about.

[ceitfianna]

*hugs* I feel that way about Charles and Jane, but you make him work.

[inlovewithwords]

Henry's the least adaptable, probably because he's a kid and needs to learn more about improvising.

Lois is more relaxed than Tavi, but they both like having a (fairly precise) schedule and are good and highly experienced at quickly improvising when it Fails. (Yes, capitalized.)

But she's Lois Lane and he's a field commander (later emperor). They need to be. ('Lois Lane' is actually the default way I define her. That's just sad.)

[ceitfianna]

That makes sense, knowing what to do when things go wrong is such a big part of knowing how to handle the world and both of them have dealt with a lot.

[nocarename]

Almost all my pups are better at it than me.

Tyler does well adapting, outside of a handful of fixed points. Mostly when he gets to visit his daughter.

Ako has ended up fairly lax, being Bar Bound, things happen when they happen.

Janet mostly wants her vacations clear, but bussmen and Avengers have holidays in common. So it goes.

Robo is long practiced at everything falling apart. His reactions are somewhere between switching to the next plan and wild improvisation. It can be hard to tell the difference from the outside when the person improvising is bullet proof and able to use a sedan as a club.

Artemis is good at improvising inside her comfort zone. Since her comfort zone involves shooting things with arrows, death defying gymnastics and snarking most people don't notice when she's outside of that comfort zone. Not anymore than a normal girl anyway.
...Robin is not most people. Just making that clear.

[ceitfianna]

All of yours have had some pretty hard lessons in learning how to adapt and that helps.

[heirtothechair]

Hard lessons are learned well.

That said, they'd all think along the lines of the Minister who prayed to God, "Dear Lord, I know you will not test me beyond my limits, but I wish you didn't have such a high opinion of me."

Well, not Janet, but she's crazy.

[heirtothechair]

And now, as a special event, two space pups who are currently sandboxed!

Marika learned to improvise the same way she learned to trust her crew: Thrust into the deep end without any other options. She does as much prep work as she can get away with though.

Jhrot learned a lot about how to adapt at the Academy, but it really crystallized when he ended up, as an ensign, the most senior surviving crew member in the chain of command and had to lead a counter attack against a Borg force. That was a very bad day.

[herr_bookman]

Autor considers himself the most punctual person earth and will work himself into a snit if the other person isn't similarly wired.

He is currently waiting for someone in particular to notice that he exists, and the wait (up to 18 plot-stopping days of it) is driving him up the wall.

[ceitfianna]

He does have a lot of really good petulant icons for having that snit.

Knickers, meet twist.

[herr_bookman]

I managed to find a set of 185 screencaps for him. There were two that weren't smug, petulant, or some combination.

ETA: What about your pups wrt punctuality?

Re: Knickers, meet twist.

[ceitfianna]

I'm still feeling a little out of it, so once I take a shower, I'll answer.

Re: Knickers, meet twist.

[herr_bookman]

Ah, fair. I hope you feel better. *hugs*

Re: Knickers, meet twist.

[genarti]

Ohhhh, Autor. I 100% believe that. *laughing*

[ladyoflorien]

Oh man, I used to be awful with abrupt changes. I was so OCD as a kid, my SiL used to call me Monk. I still prefer things to have a certain order, but I'm much more relaxed with sudden changes. In my day-to-day, if I didn't go with the flow and deal with the unexpected, I would spend all my time frazzled. Zen all the way, baybee.

• Leela - eyeeyecaptain - Leela prefers to be punctual, detailed, and thorough in everything. When someone's late, it makes her aggravated. Especially if it reflects badly on her. She's good at adapting when things change (and if she has fair warning, she marks the change in one or ten of her detailed lists), but likes consistency.
  
• Porthos - srspirate - Porthos doesn't dally when he is called to serve, but when unexpected occurrences delay or waylay, he doesn't grumble. There are many fine pursuits a man can occupy himself with as he waits for word.
  
• Grace Augustine - donthidemycigs - Grace has a No Stupid Rule in her lab. If you know how things are supposed to be done, do them. If you don't, get out. Nobody changes the rules but her. This applies even when she deals with Selfridge and Quaritch, but she's the only one who holds to that belief.
  
• Renee Walker - whathastobedone - Renee hovers between being by the book and off in that grey area. She comes from a military background, went through several training schools and classes, and is very motivated. So she likes being on time, meticulous, and stand-out. She's ridiculously adaptable, you rarely have to explain things twice. She feels better when she's going into something prepared, but when she's asked to do something she doesn't hesitate. She's good on the fly.
  
• Ray Carling - flickedmethevs - Ray ... yeah. Just let him know what's changed when he wakes up, yeah?
  
• Lily Bell - maidenofthewest - Lily once lived a very structured life. Now, as she lives on the frontier, she has to embrace change in order to survive. She rather likes it, in fact; though the majority of the men in her company would disagree, as she's off-puttingly strong-minded.
  
• Zoë Washburne - someonetocarryyou - You do the job, you move on. You keep flying. Gotta know how to think on your feet and work with change.
  
• Regina Mills - happilyneverafter - IMPRISON ALL WHO DEFY HER WISHES.

[ceitfianna]

Grace's rule is harsh but makes perfect sense for her.

[ladyoflorien]

Yep! Thank god for Max, who is luckily endowed with A LOT MORE people skills. It's not like there's a big hiring pool on Pandora. >_<;

[hecu_marine]

Grace's rule sounds like the standard briefing for anybody who used to have to fly with Shephard.

(He's so glad that's all in the past tense now. So. Glad.)

[donthidemycigs]

BWAHAHA, yes exactly. See, I knew there was a reason Grace likes him.

(Strike-through totally the pup's and not my own. She likes him. XD)

[death_gone_mad]

Amascut, I feel, has a fuzzy schedule. Well, more of a to do list. She's old so time isn't divided up into tiny pieces. Old old very old. Not achy bones old but still old. She acts like a brat but she's old. Gods :D

Fairy Fixit, who is still stuck in sandboxville, is employed in a very technical job, though that job involves maintaining a teleportation network and people use and abuse things like that. She tries to keep a strict schedule but obviously she needs to be flexible and adaptable because emergencies happen. She probably has a beeper of some sort because she's on call 24/7 or something, depending on how long the day and week is in Zanaris. If such concepts exist there, that is. Such is life on a borderworld/nexus.

[battle_butler]

Alfred handles change relatively easily. It's not ideal, and he'd rather keep to schedule (Indeed, he likes being early.) And he was far more stiff assed about it when he was in the military. Or indeed, when he had a staff to run, and other people depending on him and them. These days, he's far more relaxed.

Bean has no schedule at all at the moment. Adaptation to survive.

Max likes his schedules, and the University is good in providing that, but he doesn't need it.

Jack hates last minute changes. They cost lives. Once engaged, or when well away from a combat zone, he's flexible enough, within reason.

Erik, once again likes the fact that working at University means he has some times when others are dependent upon him to be there. There's stuff that's going to change that, but a good schedule will remain.

[ceitfianna]

Finally answering for my own pups as I got everything done that I needed to but not all that I wanted to.

Will's from a time where time is by the sun so he's never been that tied to time and is good at changing direction if he has to.

Charles likes to arrive places early to get a sense of them and if someone's late will never make too big a deal of it. He's all about adaptation.

William's another who lives by the sun and tries to be early, because he expects things to go wrong. If someone else is running late, he's understanding, he knows a lot can stand in the way.

Moist never makes a big deal of when other people arrive unless its in character for a job.

Demeter lives by the seasons so her sense of late and not late is very different.

Jane is from a time when being punctual was important but tries to be understanding when it doesn't work.

Sameth is awful about being on time as he gets pulled into things and so is forgiving of anyone who runs late, because he does it a lot.

Tumnus tries to be punctual but understands when it doesn't work.

The Pirate King has a fluid idea of timing and punctuality is something that Ruth worries about for him.

[herr_bookman]

Oh, wow, all of yours are fairly flexible!

[cameoflage]

Dr Thurlow prefers to operate with a to-do list rather than a schedule, as they get bored when things are too orderly. (And they don't have a steady job that would impose a schedule upon them, which helps.) But if they do have some commitment at a specific time and place, they'll try their best to keep it and get annoyed if the other person doesn't. (Although they won't hold a grudge about it, just gripe a lot.)

Aradia's a time traveller, so she has a lot more room to rearrange her schedule than most people.

[genarti]

Regan considers punctuality important. She's very heavily scheduled, and so is nearly everyone she works or meets with. Relatedly, in her circles there's a certain snub in deliberately making someone wait, and it absolutely gets used. (She has used it too, to be fair.) So, yeah, so far as Regan's concerned, if you make an appointment, you should keep it promptly; if you aren't going to be able to keep it, you let the other person know as soon as possible what's up so that they can rearrange their schedule with minimal disruption. She can work with delays and schedule changes, but that doesn't mean they're convenient.

Clare, now, is the complete opposite. She lives in a world where the only communication is either in person or by a note that some person carried, and where most people who travel do so either on foot or maybe by horse or cart. And she's a solo operative most of the time, with a lot of leeway to handle things as she likes. Punctuality beyond the level of "within half a day" is honestly a kind of foreign concept. So is the idea of a schedule more regimented than "go to this village, do this job, I'll see you in a few days," unless you're a trainee whose every move is controlled and watched.

River has a few things in her life for which schedule matters -- her meds, basically, and it's nice to have the major meals happen more or less consistently -- but beyond that, uh, she lives on a ship where the plans famously never go smooth. Most schedule changes don't bother her, if she even considers them relevant.

Trowa... hmm. Trowa is (shockingly) complicated. He grew up in guerilla warfare and piloting heavy machinery and now he's in the circus, which means there are some things that really need to stick strictly to schedule with everyone on the same page, or else lives will legitimately be in danger. But he's also a loner and an independent agent, and he's really really used to adapting on the fly to just about anything.

I guess it comes down to trust, in a way. If he sees himself as working with you on something, then it's important that you hold up your end of whatever it is, including any relevant timing. But if he's doing his own thing (whether or not you think he's working with you), then he's good with any and all curveballs thrown his way.

Thor is pretty easygoing. Most of the things in his life that are scheduled are, uh, the things he finds unimportant or else finds important but doesn't enjoy all that much, and the things that have a loose schedule are often more fun. So.