Lois generally harbors no regrets. It is not a Lois Lane way of life. Smallville flavor, she honestly didn't have a life plan and then stumbled into journalism; every other version, Investigative Journalism Is Her Thing. So she's exactly where she wants to be and delighted with it.
Tavi: tl;dr is not doing even close to the job he wanted or expected, and his list of regrets is headed by "none, but if I had time or right to them they would start with SCIENCE! and HISTORY!..."
The longer version: honestly, when Tavi was little, all he really wanted to do was prove he was useful to the Realm even without furycrafting by going to the Academy, getting a patron, and making himself Useful. However, when it came to specific jobs... not so much planning. He never intended to be a spy, that's for sure. By the time he'd found his niche he was already a spy and being carefully groomed for Other Pursuits. Being a Legion captain was nowhere on his radar. Of course, his post-canon job... yeah. He never wanted it and never dreamed he might have it. But he says explicitly that he's had everything and he's had nothing and made his peace with both. So not exactly a regret, but an 'if things were different,' which he sees as slightly different, he'd be an archaeologist/engineer. He doesn't allow himself much time to wallow in regrets.
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Lois generally harbors no regrets. It is not a Lois Lane way of life. Smallville flavor, she honestly didn't have a life plan and then stumbled into journalism; every other version, Investigative Journalism Is Her Thing. So she's exactly where she wants to be and delighted with it.
Tavi: tl;dr is not doing even close to the job he wanted or expected, and his list of regrets is headed by "none, but if I had time or right to them they would start with SCIENCE! and HISTORY!..."
The longer version: honestly, when Tavi was little, all he really wanted to do was prove he was useful to the Realm even without furycrafting by going to the Academy, getting a patron, and making himself Useful. However, when it came to specific jobs... not so much planning. He never intended to be a spy, that's for sure. By the time he'd found his niche he was already a spy and being carefully groomed for Other Pursuits. Being a Legion captain was nowhere on his radar. Of course, his post-canon job... yeah. He never wanted it and never dreamed he might have it. But he says explicitly that he's had everything and he's had nothing and made his peace with both. So not exactly a regret, but an 'if things were different,' which he sees as slightly different, he'd be an archaeologist/engineer. He doesn't allow himself much time to wallow in regrets.