DE: I simply can not work under these conditions

[bjornwilde]

From genarti :

What's one luxury your character would hate having to do without? Nothing they need for their job or their health or their canon's plot, but something small they just like to have or do. If your character doesn't have any luxuries they value right now, what's one minor self-indulgent thing they'd really like to have or do?

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Comments

[ceitfianna]

This is an interesting question and one I've been thinking about for myself. What's the difference between the stuff that makes me happy to have versus what I need. I think for myself, the time and space to if I really want to read a book all the way through.

Will would say the access to hot water that Milliways provides, he can do without it, has done without it whenever he's in Sherwood but it makes life much nicer.

Charles grew up in luxury, so this is a hard question. I think the answer to this is Raven, she makes his life better.

William would be his books, they make him happy but he could do without them.

Sameth is another hard one because he grew up with most things he needed or wanted and now as Wallmaker, he has the time to spend his workroom.

Moist would be unhappy if he couldn't have nice hotel rooms and quality food, but if he's on the run, he can not have them.

Demeter is a goddess and so this question doesn't really work for her as she can get herself all that she needs. Time with Kore doesn't count as a luxury for her.

Jane would be paper, lots of paper and ink, she can write on older paper and be fine but paper is a need and a luxury.

Tumnus is a little odd but for him its being warm, with his fur, it takes him a while to get cold. Its just being warm is something he treasures.

The Pirate King is another one who's not used to doing without and I'm not sure for him.

[saphyria]

Sunshine likes have time to surf the globenet (her world's version of the internet) occasionally. She is less active in the Other-discussion forums than she used to be, now that she's actually in a position to be able to answer some of the long-standing questions discussed there, but she likes to keep a presence on the baking discussion sites and cos-zines (e-zines, really). Her Dark Sight means that focusing on the computer screen is difficult except in a nearly pitch-black room, so she's not online as often, but surfing the globenet is something that helps provide her with a sense of normalcy.

Yrael would hate to do without food and sleep. Even if he doesn't need either of them, he really enjoys them and gets irritable if he's kept from them.

Zelgadiss doesn't regularly have luxuries, as he is often traveling and there aren't always inns along the way. He travels light, but one luxury he'd like to be able to take with him is a guitar. He finds it very calming to play music.

[gavin62truck]

I wouldn't call this a minor thing, but it is self-indulgent: Tommy would really love to be able to drink alcohol and control his intake and his resulting impulses and behavior. Alcohol is a luxury he just isn't allowed to have.

[bjornwilde]

Andrea is kind of tough, not in what is a luxury but in what is still around in her world. I would say real Southern BBQ. A lot of other ideas I have--internet, reliable technology, hot baths--she already has to deal with on a limited basis.

Hank comfortable shoes...what?

[mnt_mike]

Raph hot running water. It's the one "thing" he misses when he's in Tortall.

Splinter is more than a little bit fond of the fancy shampoos and conditioners that Mike accumulates. Also the fact that Bar stocks his very favorite brand of sake.

Bumi has a finite amount of space on his ship, so there's only so much room for luxury items. It's why he prefers his care-packages/gifts to come in the form of food. Blubbered turtleseal jerky is hands down his favorite.

[thebesteverseen]

Danny
The beach in his backyard
The nearness of the ocean

[haole_cop]

You're a goof.

[thebesteverseen]

Just because you do not have a appropriate appreciation for the ocean, Danny, doesn't mean anyone else is laboring that delusion.

[haole_cop]

I have a healthy respect for how easily it can kill me. How is that not appreciation?

[bjornwilde]

Best luxury ever.

[thebesteverseen]

Right?

It's the best.

[haole_cop]

His sanity.

No, check that.

Steve's sanity.

Just ignore the icon.

[ladysingsthe]

Ava's major vice is hot chocolate. Many things about Milliways are an improvement over her own world--largely enforceable neutrality, limited battles to the death, a steady supply of weirdness and entertainment--but cocoa is the thing she really wouldn't want to do without.

[genarti]

Trowa: Coffee. And music.

River: Fruit! See also all the smoothies and bowls of berries and stuff she eats at Milliways.

Regan: Really good tea. Stylish clothes -- she really likes nice fabrics.

Clare: Uhhhh. Clare's life is not really replete with luxuries. I'm pretty sure her answer would be "friends."

I may have a better answer when she's a little further along in her journey of exploring things to actually do with her free time at Milliways. aka when I ever play her.

Thor: Is on the opposite extreme, with a ton of luxuries! Many of which he can do without just fine, but beyond that I have to actually ponder to figure out what doesn't count. General feasting/drinking/carousing, I guess.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Dogmeat.

Ellen can manage without him, and often does because she doesn't want him getting killed trying to rip out a robot's hamstrings, but she's really a good deal happier with Dogmeat around.

Aside from that, being able to turn on Galaxy News Radio or Agatha's radio station probably qualifies. I don't know if interaction with specific people counts for this, but the radio thing almost certainly does.

[alexiscartwheel]

Lady Mary knows that people exist who don't have servants, but she'd hate to do without her maid. (Coincidentally, this is very relevant to her current conversation with Mike...)

Carol has her own apartment, and a pretty nice one at that. She could live in Avengers Tower or Avengers Mansion full time, but she likes having a place of her own to retreat to, and she can afford to have it.

[aberration]

Elle has been trained to live without her creature comforts, but she does miss hot water and decent food when it comes up. She definitely prefers the jobs she can dress up nicely for.

Asami is pretty accustomed to luxuries. I feel like canon's answer of food-that-is-not-from-a-dumpster is a little overly minimal - she's also shown to not exactly be a light packer, though that's never really shown again, so... my inclination would be to say if choosing one, she wants to have what's necessary to feel clean and made up by her standards.

(And something to drive. I guess that's two.)

Leslie's answer is obviously waffles. And sugar. Generally. Even her outdoors supplies include emergency s'more rations.

Other than that... Manny likes alcohol and competition. Marceline always wants her axe bass. Katara doesn't like being without her mother's necklace. (Or hair loopies.)

[jjprobert]

Jack needs a book if he's going to be staying anywhere any length of time. Preferably a decent, non-fiction one, but he'll manage with trashy or not so trashy novels if he has too. Otherwise, he can get a bit antsy if he's not doing anything.

Bean wants to know what 'luxuries' are...

Max's is paper, to scribble ideas on.

Erik really, really values his internet access...

Alfred's is a cup of tea in the morning.

[cameoflage]

Aradia likes having something to dig up.

Dr Thurlow likes decent food -- especially fruit -- which is always difficult to find and/or rampantly expensive in Fallen London.

[hey35andholding]

Clem would rather die than live without pot. It's what soothes her nerves and gives her a sense of well-being.

Dixie would hate to live without a feather bed. She doesn't like the rigors of sleeping on the hard ground unless she has Brisco to use as a mattress.

Juliet's would be coffee.

Pinkie's would, without a doubt, be sugar.