Daily Entertainment: Transportation Edition!

[damncompass]

Hello, Milliways. I hope you all are having a wonderful Wednesday.

In honor of my Committee's sign staring me in the face as inspiration, I give you as today's question:

What is your character's preferred mode of transportation? Do they have a vehicle? What kind? Do they take the bus or walk everywhere, or do they have something special and world-specific (like a TARDIS or a X-wing or a teleporter)? Is there some specific thing that they wish they had?

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[damncompass]

Joshua just wants his Compass back, ok? More practically, he takes the bus when he's in Geneva, and at the moment is realizing that he probably needs to get a car. It's likely going to be something flashy and convertible because he's a brat (Not a Prius, thank you corporate sponsorship. He wouldn't want the same car as his sister anyway).

Helena knows the fine art of walking. Living in London in the 19th century, she would take the occasional cab or train to the outskirts, but mostly she just found her own way around. Now, she does actually have a drivers' licence, thanks in no small part to MacPherson hacking it for her, and she is a somewhat-decent driver, but she doesn't have a car of her own. Generally she'll get a ride to the Warehouse from whoever happens to be going. Previously, it was Myka or Claudia, now likely Joshua or Claudia.

[the_gene_genie]

70s!Gene has the Cortina. 80s!Gene has the mighty Quattro.

And if anyone so much as looks at them funny, never mind damage the paintwork, or *gasp*, ask if they can drive them...he will end that person, with extreme prejudice.

You wouldn't catch him dead on a bus, or a train, or walking anywhere, if he can help it. He's a petrolhead through and through.

Bruce Wayne has the Batmobile, and the plane(s), and the bike, and a Rolls Royce, and a Lambourghini et cetera, ad nauseum. They are all tools, or necessary to assert his playboy persona. He's not attached to any particular mode of transport. He'll just do what is necessary to get around. Sometimes this means throwing himself off buildings, but so be it.

Bruce Banner - you know, I just laughed out loud. It occurred to me that in The Avengers, Bruce was all D: over the possibility of being in a submarine. Then he said that flying was 'much worse'. And in The Incredible Hulk, he loudly decried the idea of using the subway in New York. So basically, he avoids any mode of transportation that might aggravate his condition. He drives, he walks, he gets on helicopters or planes when he has to. Like everything else in his life, he's not attached to anything. He doesn't own a car. He just does what he has to do to get around.

Having said that, he does run an awful lot. Again, necessity - but it could be counted as 'preferred mode of transportation', in that it's the least likely to make him Hulk out. If we're being honest to the letter of the law, then it could be claimed the Hulk is his preferred method. Because he enjoys all that jumping and running a lot more than he thinks he should. And it beats sitting in traffic.

[sdelmonte]

Don't forget that Dr. Banner knew how to ride a motorcycle well enough to get into Manhattan during an alien invasion.

[sdelmonte]

Kirk has a starship. Which is tremendously useless on a local level. Otherwise, I suspect he teleports. And of course he rides horses, which is also rather impractical when going from his apartment to Starfleet HQ. I would guess, however, that he walks a lot since San Francisco is walkable.

Knox owns a pretty good car from his era, and drives as a matter of convenience when outside Gotham. And as a matter of "avoiding the subways" in the city, even though parking is terrible and the car theft rate is high. He does use the commuter rail to get to work, though, since he can walk the rest of the way. He isn't really attached to his car.

Charlie loves driving. At the end of his life, he more or less lived out of his VW van. In his youth, he owned a vintage VW bug with a Porsche engine that he made do a lot. He misses that bug. He too walks a lot, though. Good exercise.

Cy has the T-Car. Which he built (and rebuilt) himself. He loves that car, and treats it like a member of the family. And drives anyplace he can. He is also the pilot of the T-Plane but doesn't like that as much.

Howard flies. Yes, he is a great driver and owns more than one fine automobile. But he is happiest behind the stick of a plane.

And Gibbs? The Black Pearl. Duh.

[a1enzo]

Enzo has his surfbaud, which flies very well, but eventually he's likely to get a car or ship as well (one of his world's flying ones). He does have his license already.

[camwyn]

Gordon used to do downhill mountain bike racing, but he didn't consider that a form of transportation. The bike involved weighed fifty pounds and he had to armor up for the ride, so he thought of that as recreation that happened to involve being in a different place at the end than at the start. He generally relied on public transit and rental cars before Black Mesa and on the local tram system when he worked there. These days he walks a lot.

Shephard saved all his money from his first job to buy a rustbucket rattletrap of an old Buell motorcycle and restore it to working condition. He wound up finding it again when he and Raphael went through the Lost and Found box. He will be using that a lot when he gets back from Brazil.

Ray has Ecto, who is happy to drive Daddy and his colleagues around so long as she can fit down the streets- she's kind of got a wide turn radius.

Although Bioware assures us that there are horses in the Dragon Age world, we never see them in the video games, not even as pack animals. Far as I'm concerned Varric walks a lot because that's what you do.

Mordin spends a lot of time on starships. He's good with that.

Medic... I've seen fancomics for TF2 that have RED and BLU transporting their people from battlezone to battlezone in oversized RVs. I'm going with that as his most common means of transport and saying he doesn't much care one way or the other otherwise. Herr Engineer's teleporters are nice on the battlefield, though.

Santo has a silver convertible the fans have dubbed 'the Santomobile'. I am not sure if it is called this in canon, but that's his preferred means of transportation.

Ellen walks, or rides her cow. The Brotherhood has Vertibirds, but very little fuel, so they're only used for major engagements. Bicycles have been suggested to her as a means of transport several times, but I have yet to see a bicycle made that will allow you to balance properly when wearing a suit of power armor, or that has tires capable of standing up to Wasteland scrub desert 24/7/365 under the kind of loads Ellen routinely carries, or that- and this is important- that won't cost you several precious seconds to stop and secure your position before drawing your gun and firing if someone tries to attack you. Thus, Ellen walks, or rides an armored Brahmin. Gene Hunt has tried to convince her to learn to drive a few times, but she sees no point to making the attempt given the infrastructure and fuel condition of her world. Walking works. So does the cow.

[seat_five_girl]

For Ellen I'll admit that I didn't think much about the requirements of pulling a weapon suddenly. For that I recommend a heavily reinforced tricycle with solid tires. Possibly with a cargo trailer and a rifle holster.

Because Fallout is like that.

[not_my_sandbox]

Amascut, Fairy Fixit, and Evil Chicken all come from a canon where teleportation is the perferred transportation method for almost everyone, at least over long distances. There are some people who are allergic to teleportation, somehow, and people who straight out refuse to teleport. As for favored manner of teleportation, Evil Chicken seems to have his own brand of magic teleportation, but it shares a lot in common with how imps teleport. Fairy Fixit likes the fairy rings, and Amascut uses a broad variety of magic teleportation, but when she wants to exit dramatically, she hitches a ride on a tornado.

Over short and medium distances, Evil Chicken still prefers teleportation. Fairy Fixit has her wings, so she'll fly, and Amascut will walk when necessary. In the time period I am playing her from I think there is a restriction on magic carpet travel, but she probably has done it and will do it again. As a side note, Amascut, despite being a not!cat, handles boats just fine so when it is required riding a canoe down a river or a ship to cross a sea is doable.

As a second note, I don't know if horses are an actual thing on their world. There are unicorns and pegasi, though. Camels exist as well, but no one is seen riding them. Mounts aren't a thing in game; the only people who ride on animals are the gnomes on their terrorbirds (Yes, the American prehistoric megafauna variety) and wartortises. Mounts don't really make sense in game mechanics-wise because of the compressed view of the world the game presents and canon-wise teleportation is a common thing. Amascut may have ridden a camel for dramatic purposes though. Who knows, she has a lot of backstory that hasn't been told yet.

[vivien]

Tom attempted to drive a car once. It was hilaaaaaarious. He'll stick to opening, apparating, and walking, thanks so much.

[minkhollow]

Cata and Sam: Walking or horses. Those are the options.

Claudia: Would use mass transit if there were any around - she has nothing against it. But she's also taken a bus to Univille and walked the rest of the way to the Warehouse once, and she's never doing that again. (Also known as: Explaining why they took Artie's car to the lab.) Currently she has an El Camino that I Millicanoned she fixed up in the Milliways garage, but even with all that work it's starting to outlive its usefulness and she's... maybe wanting a car that began its life in her world. (Also known as: Unfortunately, I'm stuck explaining some corporate sponsorship. But if it means we get all the music relicensed for the DVDs, I'll take it.)

Apollo: Only takes the Sunmobile places if he actually has to, given its tendency to scorch things if it's too low. Otherwise, teleporting does the job. He's a god.

Imp: More used to walking than riding in a cart, which these days also tends to remind him of that godsdamn tour.

Regulus: Prefers floo to portkeys to walking, currently; when he's old enough to Apparate that'll be pretty high on the list, as he has a strong stomach. Has never been in a Muggle conveyance (in his mind, the Hogwarts Express hardly counts anymore).

Red: Pretty much has to walk, as horses haven't liked her since he was in her early teens (and that makes so much more sense now that she knows why, THANKS FOR THE EXPLANATION, GRANNY. OH WAIT).
Ruby: Has a car (I believe it's an older-model red Camaro). Storybrooke isn't big on public transit.

[777thdegree]

Balthazar has his Rolls Royce Phantom Coupe, which he adores (he repaired it post-Pinto-dom in time for Dave to steal it, didn't he?), and of course, the eagles. The eagles are classy.

Ace has a Triumph Thunderbird, which she may or may not be modifying for space/time travel. ... Hush. She does still miss her TARDIS dearly.

Thanks to Clint, Oswin has discovered a love for cars. Kinda all cars/trucks at the moment, give her a bit to find a favorite.

Bones would like to know what, exactly, is wrong with taking the shuttlecraft. Every time it's that damnable transporter, and that thing has already caused so much chaos on board ship. Just say no to transporters.

Haymitch will walk, thanks. He utterly despises trains.

Glorfindel likes riding horses, he really does, though he's not adverse to walking. Carriages/carts/etc are boring.

Katya really has no preference, though she's not a huge fan of flying when she can see the ground. Really, Skellig. Really. She had a motorbike stored at her house in the country when she lived in Moscow - Anton took it once. Maybe he has it now.

[bjornwilde]

Oh I forgot about the bike! I'll have to think about what he did with it. I'm tempted to say he gave it back after that case since he's always getting rides in future cases.

[misslucyjane]

Merlin walks (most often) or rides a horse.

Lydia has a car of her own. Can't remember the make and model at the moment. To the wiki!

The Ice King flies by flapping his beard.

Steve rides Iron Man uses a motorcycle quite a bit, or uses other regular modes of transportation--walking, subway, etc.

Bilbo walks or rides a pony.

[gavin62truck]

Tommy drives a red early/mid-90s Ford F-150 pickup truck -- until he doesn't, when he then drives a silver Cadillac Escalade pickup truck (gifted to him, 'cause he sure as hell wouldn't have been able to afford it), and then a blue Dodge Ram pickup. All pickup trucks, because Tommy is a manly man guy, and he wouldn't be caught dead on public transportation.

At the height of Lou's mid-life crisis, he acquires a motorcycle, because that is what you do when you're having a mid-life crisis.

[herr_bookman]

Autor bought himself a flying carpet on the moon and uses that; otherwise he walks everywhere. He is terrified of cars and horses, and cannot swim.

[aberration]

Elle has been trained to use any modern mode of transportation, though at this point she usually prefers the anonymity of ground-based mass transit. Though right now, a lot of the time her means of transportation is Hiro Nakamura.

Asami is the heir to a company that made its name through its pretty much ubiquitous automobile, so... she likes cars! She can pretty much figure out anything she gets behind the metaphorical wheel of (as long as it's mechanical), but she definitely prefers to be the driver. She personally has a scooter and Satomobile for her own use, but she has access to pretty much whatever. Maybe because of this, she has the privilege of not being too attached to any one vehicle.

Katara rides on Appa, and on one occasion borrows him from Aang. Other than that, the main modes of transport in the South Pole are sled, canoe/boat, and on foot.

Leslie pretty much drives everywhere. I think she occasionally tries to dedicate herself to the Pawnee public transit system, but it never lasts too long. Her only attachment to her car is that sometimes she sleeps in it when she's stayed at work too late.

Manny sells modes of transport for a ... not-living, but is rather limited in that area himself. Most cars can only be driven by demons to keep those who have to stay from leaving El Marrow, though I imagine within the city there's demon-operated mass transit. He does eventually travel on foot, by car (with the help of a demon friend), as captain of a ship, on a dogsled, and by train. He really preferred the train. Though being a ship captain was pretty cool.

Marceline can fly wherever. Though one time she hitched a ride on a giant's hand.

Hiccup will have a dragon!

[againsttherules]

For Alfred: See Bruce Wayne (well, excluding the batmobile, and jumping off buildings). He tends to prefer the Rolls himself, but he certainly isn't adverse to using the plane or the yacht if appropriate.

Max has a car. He also enjoys walking around Dublin, and certainly isn't adverse to using public transport if appropriate.

Bean walks (or runs) everywhere he needs to get. (Give him time).

When Erik was in New Mexico, there was a jeep (or something like it) and the equipment van/minibus/thing which he used, but those were Jane's (or possibly, technically Culver's). I'd imagine that he has his own car, somewhere, but we've not seen it yet.

And finally, Jack. Jack walks most of the time. Or runs. You know, marathons with a heavy pack on his back: easy. So, no car for Jack. He can certainly drive, but he's been in the army, he's never needed to own his own vehicle, and he doesn't expect to be living anywhere for long enough for it to make sense for him to get one at the moment.

Jack also has a 747. It's not technically his (you know, he nicked it from Saddam Hussain, like you do), but in practice, it is.

[mnt_mike]

Mike prefers both his skateboard and the train to walking. That would be the outside of the train, just...to be clear.

Raph has his motorcycle, and while he and Cloud have been travel buddies for years, he feels bad riding on the poor aging pony, and so they usually walk.

Aang has Appa and his glider.

Bumi prefers to travel by ship.

Splinter is a walking kind of guy.

Ida loves her some roller skates.

[whatisastiles]

Stiles has a blue Jeep. It gets beat up a lot, and fandom likes to ship the Jeep with Derek's Camaro.

Also, the Jeep has a Twitter.

[damncompass]

... that is kinda best. *gigglefit*

Now I'm wondering how it would get along with the Impala from Supernatural.

[genarti]

Thor flies! For longer distances or with large groups, he'll go with what the group is doing -- horses, or a Helicarrier, or whatever. So far all we've seen of MCU Asgardian transportation devices is the Bifrost (now broken) for getting between worlds, and horses for shorter distances. I am assuming that for local transport Thor mostly rides horseback if he doesn't fly, although Asgardian horses probably bear about the same resemblance to Earth horses that Asgardian people do to humans.

Millicanon based on mythology says chariots pulled by various animals used to be the trendy thing around Asgard, but Thor hasn't traveled by goat-pulled magic chariot in ages. (The goats are dead of old age, for one thing.) I like to think Freyja still has her cat-pulled one, though. Norse myth: making it way clearer why Thor thinks cats, dogs, and birds large enough to ride are viable things to request.

Clare walks. Everywhere. Her world doesn't seem to be big on beasts of burden anyway, but Claymores walk.

Trowa is from a techologically heavy world, and is an ex-pilot and a mechanic, albeit a pilot and mechanic of giant battle robots. Word of God in the backstory manga, IIRC, says he can pretty much pilot anything; we see him onscreen operating a truck, a motorcycle, and various kinds of robots, and I think it's safe to include planes and space shuttles in that. On a daily basis, he mostly drives one of the circus's trucks, or takes public transport wherever he is. He'd like to have a motorcycle, but doesn't consider it worth it to lug one around his nomadic existence.

He's probably learned to ride horseback since taking up with the circus, if he didn't already learn at some random point in childhood. Whenever it was, he caught on really really quickly. But that's a recreational thing in his world, barring maybe in some really mountainous areas that he has no reason to be traveling in.

River lives in a spaceship! When they're on a planet, the crew usually walks around the docks, or takes the mule (i.e. a four-wheeled cargo hauler thing) for longer distances, or flies one of the shuttles if they're going longer than that. River is capable of operating all of these, but usually she's a passenger.

Regan enjoys driving... whatever is the commonly driven thing (shuttles of a flying-car sort, IIRC), but doesn't get a lot of chances to drive herself these days. Usually there's a chauffeur.

[1nv1nc1ble]

It seems a bit obvious, doesn't it?

[seat_five_girl]

I thought the pogo stick was... but I've said too much.

I kid, I kid.

[varadia]

Raven has wings! And sometimes I guess he rides Coyote's motorcycle. Sometimes he gets reality to cheat for him, too. It's a mixed bag.

X uses public transportation sometimes, Pixie and Warren when it's necessary for a mission (or something is time-sensitive), and her yellow motorcycle all the rest of the time.

Dean Winchester has his baby, the Impala. I have carefully excised the season without her out of my memory. So has Dean. *solemn*

Wonder Woman has her powers of flight! And the Invisoplane. And at one time the sandals of Hermes. Man, I miss when the Invisoplane was sentient and then became a city. *sad*

Michael the Archangel flies! And teleports. And exists in multiple places at once. It saves time.

Galadan teleports a lot. He also has a spaceship in Firefly-verse. The Tacitus. I blame Mary Lennox's kidnapping.

Nynaeve al'Meara Travels using saidar and also has a horse, Loversknot. She thinks she is a better rider than she is. At least horses do not make her seasick!

Sam Tyler does not have anything near as spiff as Gene's Cortina. You will never hear that except for in this comment. FYI.

[bjornwilde]

Ben has the sky cycle as well as any number of Reed designed vehicles. He also really enjoys walking the streets of New York or riding the subway. He's been known to take cabs as well but not lately.

Andrea has a mule or jeep for transport, depending on if the tech or magic is up. The mule is Mabeline and one of the few of the Order's steeds that trusts her. I think the jeep is modified to run on enchanted water as well as gas but it's temperamental. Yes, even worse than a mule.

Anton hires or calls for rides when he needs them. I can't even remember if he ever drove in canon.

Hank will have the Blackbird and she is a sweet ride.

I think Jess just walks, runs, cabs or gets a ride from Carol.

Val just teleports and she is never late.

[mighty_avenger]

@*#$ flying lawnmower!

[kd7sov]

They walk.

Well, okay, that's not necessarily true.

Felix, if it's in the area, can basically ask Piers to take him just about anywhere in his flying ship. (Not, notably, an airship as the term is often used; it's much more at home in the water, it just so happens to have functional magic wings.)

Fluttershy can fly, although she often prefers not to. She has also ridden in trains on more than one occasion, and various other forms of land-based vehicle (and at least one air-based) definitely exist.

Kain, at certain points in his canon, has the use of airships. Including one that can go to the moon.

[baptizemyself]

Helena has a custom motorbike and her baby: a silver Lamborghini.

[stole_a_time_lord]

Meg Ford mostly walks and gets around with public transportation, but enjoys driving when the opportunity presents itself.

Amy walks when she can, but also spends a lot of time riding (side-saddle) or in carriages. Unlike certain visitors to Ambergeldar, she does not travel by dragon.

Lily Evans, in the Muggle world, generally walks. I think she's going to rely a lot on Apparition now that it's an option. And, honestly, that's probably about the way Remus Lupin gets around, too, though I think he uses Floo powder more than she does. Both are capable of riding brooms, but neither owns one at this point in their lives.

And the TARDIS is her own means of transportation.

[cameoflage]

Thurlow is fond of hansom-cabs and their own feet, or at least doesn't have much else in the way of options at this canon point. They will later acquire an old-timey bicycle, or a velocipede as they're known in Fallen London (I'm hazy on whether the nomenclature is historically accurate but I haven't done a lot of research in this area). And a couple of horses even later, but they prefer transportation that they don't have to feed.

Aradia can fly and timewarp. Hooray! And when she's not in the Bar, she hangs out in the Furthest Ring, where time powers are just as useful for navigation as space powers due to the odd properties of the area.

[mighty_avenger]

Carol flies!! Or walks, because on a normal day in New York City that's less likely to attract attention. ETA: Carol has her own plane now too. It's small and a little rickety, but she loves it just the same.

Mary has a car and driver for short journeys, and the rail system for longer ones.