DE: Behind closed doors

[bjornwilde]

Sorry DE is running late. I just spilled the last of the coffee all over the kitchen so not only did I have to clean everything--well, nearly everything--I now get to wait until I get to work for the go juice. Bah!

Anyway, today's topic comes fromherr_bookman :
Due to this tag, where Oswin brought kitty!Autor into her room, inquiring minds would like to know: what do your pups' bedrooms look like? If they rent from the bar, have they changed it in any way? What's their living situation outside of Milliways?

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[sdelmonte]

Cy's bedroom is a computer lab. Whatever personal effects he has are lost in the clutter of the lab space. And he sleeps on a platform, while plugged in for recharging. Overall Titans Tower is what you might expect from five teens (edging towards adulthood) sharing space. The public rooms are a mess, and everyone's own space is zealously guarded. Cy (like most of my pups) has never taken a permanent room in the Bar.

Knox's bedroom bears both the thumbprint of a man's man and a woman's touch. Rapunzel helps keep it neat when she's there, but during the months she's been away over the years, clothes pile up everywhere. Think a milder form of Oscar Madison's room on The Odd Couple. (I had a roommate whose room was really that bad - he had old newspapers he seemed to bring from his previous apartment!) His space at Milliways is neater, since he's never there if Rapunzel isn't. But it's also more her place than his, since she was there first.

If you're looking for personal effects for James Kirk, don't bother with the Bar or with the Enterprise. He travels light and regards both spaces as places to sleep and rest and read, and little else. I don't think he even has his medals on board the ship anymore. His room in San Francisco is a bit more personal, with some antiques and a quilt passed down from his ancestors add a personal touch. His room in his nature retreat cabin is very rustic.

Charlie lives full time in the Bar, but has never been inspired to modify his space one bit. He prefers a spartan lifestyle, except for a well stocked bookcase.

Gibbs hasn't had a room to call his own at any point in his life. And you don't really get to decorate ships.

And Howard Stark...his master bedroom was decorated by a leading designer, and has been featured in the pages of several magazines. But it's really not very personal. It's more a very typical upper end bedroom of the post-WWII era, a bit retro but nothing that would offend the stylemakers of the day.

[camwyn]

Ellen's bedroom outside of Milliways is the upstairs room of a two-level metal-walled shack in Megaton, probably one of the nicer buildings in town. It came with a twin-sized bed, a prewar writing desk, and a filing cabinet. She uses the filing cabinet for her few actual pieces of clothing, and keeps her armor in the other room on the second floor because you cannot fold armor. There's a small window above the bed, overlooking the central crater of town, and a spotted Brahmin hide hanging on the wall partly for decoration and partly to keep out wind and dust. She's got a rag rug of sorts on the floor, made from whatever scraps of fabric she's found along the way that weren't fit to be used or sold to clothing merchants. Her robot butler keeps the place neat when she's out and about; he came with the house.

As far as her Milliways room goes, it looks almost exactly like a bunkroom in a Vault, except that it has a small bathroom directly off the bedroom rather than having to go out into the hallway and down to the nearest bathroom. I would say it's probably about the size of a second officer's quarters on a mid-20th-century submarine, which means comfortably usable for her and distressingly tiny for anybody who ever grew up somewhere that allowed them to go outside. She hasn't modified it because it reminds her of where she grew up.

Her Milliways room number is Room 101, and she sees nothing wrong with this, because Vault-Tec did not let the book into any of their Vault libraries. Other Orwell works, yes, because you had to be properly anti-Communist to get by, but one that was critical of surveillance society and restricted access to information, no.

[lifethatisscratched]

Voodoo's bedroom in-Bar has so many guns. No, really. So many.

They're of varying caliber and type, running the gamut from handguns to AT4s. All are stored with their respective ammunition and cleaning kits. I handwave the shit out of him bringing them into Bar from his world.

So many goddamn guns you guys.

Out of Milliways, he's got a bachelor pad near the Little Creek Reservoir. He has less guns there.

I guess Mako might start renting from Bar once he's got the money to spare. Right now, though? Uh-uh.

John Marston doesn't spend enough time in Milliways to justify renting. Right now, his living situation out of Milliways can best be described as transient.

Connor doesn't rent from Bar yet, and lives in a longhouse with Mother.

[hecu_marine]

I'm probably not going to bother with my other characters' rooms, except to note that Mordin doesn't have a bedroom on board the Normandy. The generally accepted explanation is that Mordin Solus does not sleep, he waits. Salarians sleep only one hour out of every twenty-five anyway, so my headcanon is that Mordin has learned to do the salarian equivalent of Edison's sleep habits- Edison slept about two or three hours at a stretch, then took minor naps at intervals during the day. Dividing along similar lines I'm pretty sure that when Mordin needs to sleep he walks into a closet and dozes off standing up for a couple of minutes.

That being said, Shephard's bedroom at Milliways is the only one I really know about for him. The majority of flat surfaces are taken up by meticulously filled notebooks, to a degree that one normally sees on crime dramas when the detectives have just realized they're in the living space of someone who has a really serious compulsion of some kind. The notebooks, upon investigation, are mostly extremely detailed volumes of military strategy and tactics written in very small but readable handwriting. The ones that aren't are biographies of Marines who died at Black Mesa or sometime thereafter. Shephard has his reasons.

There's a little space in the room for floor exercise and/or his dogs. He hangs his weapons in the closet for the most part. Occasionally the bathroom is used for tanning hides, as he periodically pays his Milliways bill in demon rabbit pelts or clothing items made from demon rabbit furs.

[genarti]

Enjolras's Milliways room is detailed in this OOM. (If you want to skip the grief parts, the first half is really pretty much a run-down of what his room looks like.) It's room 89, because Enjolras is a gravitational well of symbolism and the French Revolution (which began in 1789) is a huge deal to him and all his social circle. It'll get more lived-in, and acquire a rotating crop of books and newspapers, and maybe a copy of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen or something stuck on the wall, but he's really not a decorator.

When he was alive, his lodgings were pretty similar, but with more books and pamphlets, a second room and generally a bit more space, and no plumbing.

River doesn't keep a room at Milliways, although she's rented one at need. At home, she has a cabin on a spaceship, so it's fairly small, and everything needs to be kept tucked away. (It isn't always, of course, but it needs to be able to be latched securely in place at need, or else it's going to go rattling all over whenever they hit a rough patch. This has happened.) There's pretty much a bunk, a closet full of both clothes and keepsakes, some under-bed storage, some pillows and things with interesting textures thrown about. Mostly she sleeps or reads there and spends a lot of the rest of her time in common areas.

More later as work allows!

[genarti]

Regan and her husband Gabriel have an entire house, and quite a nice one. He's a Senator, which means that they have the money for an estate, and also that entertaining frequently at home is genuinely part of the job. So the whole place is kept very tidy and nice-looking (with paid staff), but the downstairs is more public space and the upstairs is more lived-in. They each have an office, as well as the shared bedroom. I haven't thought in detail about the decor; I have a vague impression.

Trowa lives in a small circus trailer with his sister. There's a bedroom for each of them, a bathroom, a kitchen/living room area, and that's basically it. His room is ruthlessly clean and tidy, both because Trowa grew up military and because that's what you have to do with a tiny space. There's a bed, a desk with a laptop OF THE FUTURE, a window, a door to the outside and another to the kitchen, a wardrobe or chest of drawers or some such (containing costumes and workout wear as well as normal clothes), maybe a couple of storage cubbies, a toolbox in the corner. He keeps a duffel bag under his bed with cash, his gun, ammo, his flute, some spare clothes, etc -- everything he'd need to just grab and go. If there are any decorations on the walls, they're minimal and they're his sister Cathy's fault. There probably aren't, though.

He never had cause to rent a room at Milliways, and then his boyfriend got a big fancy suite. So if he's staying over at Milliways, that's where he stays! Some of it was designed or decorated by Quatre with Trowa's presence in mind, but none of it's actually Trowa's doing. I think the only changes since he's started staying there too are the presence of some of his clothes and a gun or two (safely stowed with Quatre's) and a rearrangement of the bedroom so it's possible to sleep with your back to a solid wall (after Quatre noticed that Trowa was subtly twitchy about that, because heaven forfend you use your words, Trowa.)

Clare sleeps sitting up in the woods with her back propped against the flat of her sword. This is true at home, and it's true at Milliways. Claymores are weird.

Thor has palatial chambers at home, because... he lives in a palace! A palace built on a vast and extremely shiny scale. I haven't worked out the details, but Asgardian palace architecture in general tends towards low benches, low large furniture (Thor's bed is probably huge and only about knee-height), firepits and braziers and such, and places to put your weapons and armor. There's some drapery, but more gold and/or silver and stone. I decided the bathtub has a continuous flow of water, like an artificial pool in a stream.

He doesn't currently keep a room at Milliways, but when he did, it was sort of a mix of Asgardian and Euroamerican Earth styles -- more along the lines of an Earth hotel room than anything, but with enough in the way of low furniture and saturated colors to be more subtly familiar and comfortable to him than your average Earth room would be. That was all Bar's doing. Thor wasn't there long enough to make it his own, and in any case is used to other people arranging the bulk of that kind of thing for him.

[aberration]

Elle has a room in the bar as well as in her world. In her world, she lives in an underground bunker, and her room is basically an emptied-out janitor's closet with a mattress in it. Because she has issues. In the bar, she has a small bedroom with just enough space for a simple bed, desk, and bathroom (which as a dozen locks on the door). She's used it for storage, though now she also keeps some of that kind of thing at X's place, and generally trades off between sleeping in her room in the bar or on X's couch, if she's not in her world.

Asami always goes back to her world when she visits the Bar, and so doesn't have a room there. In her world, she's a super wealthy heiress, and so lives on a large estate with her father. Her bedroom is spacious (and now I'm making things up!!!) with large windows that look out onto a courtyard, a fireplace and mantle, a writing desk, and several shelves that hold both books, as well as schematics and even some mechanical pieces and tools. Maybe. We'll see! She also has a large closet, because clothes. Later on in canon, she'll move into a much smaller room at the Air Temple. Based on her comfort with this and willingness to do things like help out with chores, it's sort of millicanon for me that once he had the resources to do so, her father liked to travel and especially vacation in more rural areas, and so Asami isn't entirely unaccustomed to rustic surroundings.

Katara hasn't been bound or otherwise rented a room yet. At the moment, she's traveling with Aang and Sokka, so their living arrangements change day to day. This can mean anything from sleeping bags around a campfire, to staying in a castle as guests of the king. (Granted, it was King Bumi, so...). Growing up in the South Pole (and, in particular, late Hundred Years War-South Pole), Katara lived mostly in sealskin tents during the warmer months, and (I think) heartier huts during the colder ones, as well as sometimes in quickly-constructed igloos, especially while hunting or immediately after Fire Nation raids. Because of this, she's not really accustomed to having a "room" to herself.

Leslie now shares a house (and bedroom) with Ben Wyatt. It's nothing huge (yay government salary, though Ben might be making more money now), but comfortable enough for a small family. Their own bedroom is spacious enough for their bed and dresser, and a writing desk. (Making stuff up!) It's in a constant state of war between Leslie's clutter and ... Ben's attempts to contain Leslie's clutter, which usually means books and old magazines/newspapers are stacked on Leslie's nightstand, pantsuits that need to be dry cleaned are hung on hook's he's stuck on the door, and her stash of candy is now kept in gallon-sized plastic bags in the bottom drawer of their dresser. Their closet is full of plaid and pantsuits, and their's a model of the TNG Enterprise on their dresser, and a stuffed snowy owl that gets left on, and then kicked off, the bed a lot. While it was mutually agreed there would be no TV allowed in the bedroom, the floor is strewn with extension cords and chargers for their phones, laptops, and tablets.

There is actually an episode of Adventure Time called 'Marceline's Closet.' She's lived in a lot places, including the tree for where Finn and Jake currently reside, but at the moment has a nice, suburban-looking house inside a cave. There's a picture of her room in it here. It includes a lot of weird decorations (such as mounted mutant heads and a Madonna-child painting), string lights hung from the rafters, a TV and sofa, and a recording studio, as well as access to its private bath. It also has a trapdoor to the roof, but no windows.

Hiccup lives with his father in a large wooden house in Berk. (Old village, all new houses.) He has his own room in the sort of top floor/loft space, which in addition to his bed (which basically looks like a wood frame with some animal skins on it, ow), he has his own desk, which is covered in various mechanical sketches and books he's filled with similar notes and drawings. Eventually he'll share it with Toothless.

Manny has his own room, though skeletons don't really need much - most comforts are carryovers from life. The only time we see a bedroom for him in canon is in his large office when he owns a gambling joint in Rubacava, which pretty amounted to a small sofa in the back. As he's basically constantly planning to leave, he doesn't see much point in accruing a lot of personal things.

[souffle_girlek]

Absolutely not related to topic because I actually have to go, but. Was reading the 'news' (AOL does not fully count) and ran across an article about how an old shipwreak off the Jersey coast from the just-before-Civil-War-eaa was formally IDed. It had crashed into a bigger ship before going down, according to records.

And in the comments someone was ranting about how everyone on board the wreak had to be drunk because the stars were brighter and you could see really well at night back then and our eyes were better adapted to seeing at night and so there was no reason to hit another ship.

...

In the past we were elves. And there were never storms or fog off the East Coast. Ever. The lighthouses are there as decoration.

[gavin62truck]

What?? We WEREN'T elves?! Everything I've been taught is a LIE

[hecu_marine]

If our eyes were better adapted to seeing at night back then, why did we invent the lightbulb in the first place.

What.

[damncompass]

... there are so many things wrong with this that I don't even know where to start.

[vance_prime]

Dude. Never read the comments on an online news article. They are the absolute dregs of the Internet. They make YouTube comments look well-reasoned and insightful by comparison.

[moonandstar]

Ridiculous. We're not THAT good at sailing.

[gavin62truck]

Tommy lives in a cute apartment in Brooklyn. It's cute because his ex-wife picked it, and had its walls painted apple green, canary yellow, and baby blue. But now that she's left him and took most of the furniture, he gets to deal with it. The master bedroom is nearly bare, with just a dresser and a stripped down bed. Tommy doesn't even sleep in this bedroom anymore since his wife left, because he has Issues. He now sleeps on the couch in the living room. Or in Kate Barlow's room. He doesn't keep his own room at Milliways because he doesn't have the time to live in it. (I know that's a silly thing to say when time stops outside your door, but Tommy is too tied to his own world to see Milliways as a second home.) His elderly father lives with him, and his two daughters visit every weekend.

Lou used to live in a garbage apartment, meaning that he is SUCH a slob, omg, and plus it was a shitty basement deal with lousy upstairs neighbors. For a while he escaped to Milliways and had a room here, which Tommy paid for as retribution for not telling him about the bar at the end of the universe sooner, and which the Oompa Loompas kept clean and organized while he wasn't looking. However, he moved out of it after the Slenderman incident there. Eventually he moved in with Tommy, and for now, they are currently roommates. His room is the guest bedroom, which has dark walls, bamboo window blinds, and soon, candles and a Buddha statue.

[damncompass]

Joshua and Helena most of the time share a room in Leena's B&B. (when Joshua isn't an idiot and sleeping on the futon in his lab in the Warehouse) It's more like a house than an inn, so the rooms are pretty cosy. Something like this, but more lived-in. The room is pretty chaotic, as neither of them are the most tidy people. It has a fairly large bookshelf, as well as a worktable with either Helena's tinkering or Joshua's papers. Because both of them spend more time elsewhere, (Helena at a worktable in the Warehouse in the middle of her inventions and Joshua in his lab) the room isn't really that personal. Most of the chaos is dirty clothes.

In London, Helena's bedroom was a fairly classic Victorian style. The most interesting feature is a secret panel with some of her inventions in it.

In-bar, Joshua has a room that connects to Claud's. It's mostly some spare clothes and spare books. It got a bit chaotic during the baton plot, but he's tidied it up from that. It's pretty basic, as he doesn't spend much time there.

Most of Valentine's life is in files on her computer, so her room's pretty tidy. It's just clothes and whatever actual paper worksheets the Enderverse has. She reads, but I have an inkling that's mostly on the 'nets too.

[not_my_sandbox]

Fairy Fixit's was established in a thread with Janet van Dyne/Wasp. To someone their size (at the time) it is a huge lab with a bed and bathroom fit for giants. At the foot of the bed there is a large planting bed in which a ring of mushrooms grows. This is the fairy ring Fixit uses to get in and out of Milliways most of the time. Her actual living quarters are up in a corner near the ceiling.

To someone human sized it will look like a uncarpeted hotel room with a large birdhouse in the corner, and of course the fairy ring at the foot of the bed. The reason for the human sized features is because Fixit is used to entertaining guests that are human sized or bigger anyhow. She doesn't have the money for a house that can accommodate such sizes back home, but exchange rates here are in her favor. There are water, sewer, cable, and electric lines running up to the birdhouse, of course. Oh, almost forgot the window and the balcony looking out back. They are both Fixit's size and not human sized, so the room doesn't get the amount of natural light that most of the rooms for rent receive (the ones with a window and balcony anyhow).

Evil Chicken - Hey! Who here remembers when Cam posted a link to the list of rooms at The Madonna Inn?

Anyway, I think Evil Chicken's is a lot like Rock Bottom. Except that there is a Big Bird-like nest instead of a bed,a treasure pile somewhere, and a pile of apples somewhere else. There is a brick wall blocking the front door as well. Evil Chicken needs no doors, only thieves do.

Amascut gets another room from the Madonna Inn because I'm lazy. The España Suite since it looks most like her/Sumona's house in Pollnivneach. She probably already has had those decorative holes in the plaster patched after making several loud demands aimed at the Loompas. She may be a destructive goddess but you just don't leave things half done like that!

[crabbycustomer]

Karkat is in room 869, which is fitted with troll-appropriate appliances. Most obviously, he sleeps in a big organic cocoon full of green goop that helps him sleep.

It started off as a pretty anonymous and impersonal room but has gradually accumulated stuff, since he's spent a couple years in the bar.

I have used this edited image from canon for it before:

[never_shall_yield]

The room Gene shares with Alex is, at present, a fairly generic hotel type room. The only modification he's made is a giant movie poster of High Noon above the bed. He is completely ambivalent about the room as a whole, as he is about most rooms.

70s!Gene shares a bedroom with his wife, and it's actually behind its time (and this is possibly a good thing). So while there is a severe lack of fashionable brown, and orange, and cream - there is chintz. He's mostly drunk when he falls into bed anyway, and the house is her domain, so he's not bothered. You will never find a man less interested in curtains than he.

Bruce Wayne has the master bedroom in Wayne Manor, against his wishes. But Alfred's hard to say no to when he insists. The furniture etc is all quality, but from his parent's time. Again, he just sleeps there, so it's fine with him.

Bruce Banner currently has no bedroom on his own world. He divides his time in the bar between a generic hotel room, which he hates, and the cell he's allowed to use for everyone else's safety. He hates that too, but at least people are safe when he's in it. As expected, it's Spartan.

Javert was offered a choice between a hotel-style room, and a replica of his room at home, with the number 24601. He chose the latter, despite the number. It has a narrow bed in it, wooden floorboards, a fireplace, and a tiny adjoining space acting as a water closet. There's a small table and chair, and a few candles.That's it. He has no mod cons.

[vojvode]

Poor Gene.

He's going to come back and discover Alex has redecorated, probably.

[never_shall_yield]

*snort* As long as she's willing to give him an earful, and then take her clothes off, he'll deal.

[ceitfianna]

Will's room in Milliways holds all the stuff that he's acquired over his years at Milliways. Its a simple space, mainly wood furniture, green and dark wood, chests and one wardrobe and then a modern bathroom. In it he has weapons he's been given, modern clothing and that kind of stuff. He hasn't used it a huge amount of late but he appreciates that its there. In Sherwood, he sleeps in a cave with the other men of Sherwood or they camp out, they travel light and try to not leave much memory of their passing.

Charles' room in Milliways is very like his home in Westchester, dark colors, books, a fireplace, he's glad to have it for those times when he's too tired to go back. At the moment he's living in the CIA facility in a room that I imagine is rather like a simple hotel room, its mainly a place for him to sleep.

William's room in Milliways isn't used that much, sometimes when he works too hard, he'll go there but he also uses it for storing books that he can't explain back home. Its a basic space with a wonderful bathroom. At home, he shares a room and a bed with his brother Mark, they mainly just use it for sleeping and sometimes reading. William thinks of it more as Mark's space since when he's been sick, he's stayed in bed more often than William. Their shared books and dime novels are in there and according to canon, the gun that's William's.

Sameth hasn't had a room in Milliways since going through canon and the Allpocalypse, he did have one when he was Bound for a while. Its probably still there, he can afford it but he hasn't put too much of a mark on it other than bringing in his notes for various projects. In Belisaere, he has a room and a workshop, both of them tend to be messy, bedroom more than the workshop. There's a description of his bedroom in canon, its a nice space, he lives up in a tower with his workshop above his bedroom.

Moist lives in different hotel rooms and sometimes other people's houses or a boarding house, it all depends on the job. He likes his luxuries and knows that staying in a good hotel gives him a proper sense of style to the people he wants to impress. In Milliways, his room is rather Uberwaldian with dark, carved wood and a fireplace, he appreciates having a space in Milliways. Its another caching spot for him but wherever he lives, he tends to leave little reminders of who he is around unless its part of a role.

Demeter lives in a beautiful house in Provence with her daughter that has a huge garden, rooms full of light and she never stays there during the winter. During the winter, she walks the world and to see her, you'd do better to look at the garden than the house. In Milliways, she doesn't have a room, if she wants to sleep with someone, she'll just get a room.

Jane has a small room with a bed against the wall, a desk and its all pretty simple. In canon, she's shown reading and writing in there. She has had a room in Milliways but not long enough to live much of an impression on it.

Tumnus lives in Caer Paravel and also still has his house by the Lantern Waste. Both spaces are full of books, writing and forgotten tea cups. His father's portrait was restored and hangs in his rooms at Caer Paravel. He's never had a room at Milliways.

The Pirate King has the captain's cabin in his ship and its a luxurious space with silks and gold and all his shirts in it. He doesn't have a room in Milliways.

[ashen_key]

Natasha's bedroom looks like a combined bedroom/sewing room/dressing room, because it is. It's where she stores her wardrobes of clothes (both persona and personal), props, and where she pulls out her sewing machine to repair or tailer things (when not in use, her sewing machine + table are folded up and rolled back against the wall). There are also a few mirrors. Only a few books live there (aside from her TBR pile next to her bed), but that's because her living room triples up as study/library. She does have a couple weapons in easy reach, but generally she keeps her weapons locked up - her first weapon is herself.

[And there is Nataliya from the 1950s, who lives in a communal apartment with her husband, and other people whom they didn't get any choice about. Yay Soviet Communism. Their room is combined bedroom and private living area, divided off by a paperscreen. The wardrobe and dresser are shared between the Shostakovs. There aren't as many books as you might think, but they've only been there two years. Instead of a sewing machine, there is a large sewing basket, but Nataliya has longings for an actual machine. Some things never really change]

Medusa's bedroom is a cave! But it's a cave that has mosaics, and candle-holders carved out in the walls, and giant circular pile of rugs that she sleeps with her two triplets on.

Trudy has a room in the barracks at Hell's Gate; it's pretty neat, but given the long duration of tours, they are allowed to personalize it up. So, she has photographs and sketches on the walls.

Kait is Bound, and working through PTSD with probably a bout of depression (hence why she's not around, because I can't deal with her headspace when my own is playing up), so the state of her room varies a loooot. It's gone through stages of being personalize, but fairly intermittently. She's shoved the bed against the wall, though, as it makes her feel better.

Delia has a suite of rooms in the palace, the colour scheme reflecting her family's colours of green and white. Her personal mark can be seen in that it's as feminine as she can make it - which takes a lot of persuading to manage. There is also a room for her personal maid, which is actually fairly decent, because Delia believes that loyalty is a thing that is useful.