Daily Entertainment: Bosses Edition!

[damncompass]

Due to a derailment of my morning by people appearing earlier than expected Totally not while I was playing Plants v. Zombies, I bring you today's Daily Entertainment:

Bosses! Most of us have them, some of us even like them! Does your character have a boss? Do they have multiple bosses? Do they like their boss situation? Why or why not?

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[sunbaked_baker]

Sunshine is the only one of my characters with a boss, and her boss at Charlie's Coffeehouse is her step-father, Charlie. He is one of the major positive forces in her life, and she couldn't ask for better. He hired her mother when she was six or seven and immediately gave her a raise upon learning she had a sick kid at home. Charlie was even the one who gave Rae the nickname "Sunshine." He convinced her not to drop out of high school, and gave her major incentive to rethink her life choices and get clean. He built her bakery for her, fostered her love of baking experimentation, and gave her the position of Head Baker at the coffeehouse when she graduated. He even helped talk Sunshine's mother into considering letting Rae get her own apartment. He wants her to be well and happy and safe, but also can tell she was meant for something beyond the ordinary. He has always been a force of support and positivity for Sunshine, and she loves him dearly.

[fairy_fixit]

The only one of mine that has a boss is Fairy Fixit, and I believe her immediate superior is Co-ordinator (Haha, fairy names, go figure). Co-ordinator is more of the Zanaris boss, and she coordinates the weather control service that the fairies provide as well as the teleportation network. Co-ordinator is either a bit racist against humans or just has very little patience in dealing with customers. Co-ordinator is ultimately responsible to the Fairy Queen and everyone loves the Queen. Well, maybe not the male fairies, but they are almost always out of the picture, especially since the coup attempt. Fairy Fixit also has bosses on the Abyssal Services Department side of things, but I have no idea who they are or what she thinks of them.

Amascut would probably like to claim Destruction was her boss, but no, she has to navigate this cold cruel world on her own. *tiniest violin*

[damncompass]

Joshua's boss is the Head Regent, going by the name of Adwin Kosan. He's actually one huge troll and Joshua really hearts him. He hasn't actually figured out the dynamic with Mrs. F. yet, but maybe one day he will.

Helena's boss is Artie. He's still not comfortable with her being around, what with the whole formerly-a-statue thing, so she's very slowly bringing him 'round to accepting her.

Fantine has no boss, and is keeping it that way.

Valentine has parents, schoolteachers, and sometimes Peter. She doesn't see Peter as her boss, and probably would say that she doesn't have one. She's twelve and all.

[street_sparrow]

Fantine has no boss, and is keeping it that way.

Well, after the way her last immediate superior behaved...

[minkhollow]

Well, Joshua's boss has had a lot of practice at trolling...

[camwyn]

Medic has a boss; he never sees her. That's pretty much the way he likes it.

Stacker Pentecost reports to Secretary-General Dustin Krieger as his commanding officer (I'm not sure whether that's the UN Sec-Gen or a PPDC position- I have to look that up). Unfortunately he is also subject to the decisions of a council of PPDC member nations plus the UK. He is not happy about this. Things change come the start of movie canon.

Adrian Shephard reports to Alyx Vance. He's okay with this. It's taken a while to get him there, but he's okay with this.

Ellen currently reports to Senior Paladin Tristan, who is a pretty decent and supportive commanding officer despite looking and sounding like the kind of person that most movies or video games would cast as incompetent or otherwise problematic. She likes this; he knows what he's doing. It has not occurred to her yet that the fact that at least one higher ranking officer has requested her for critically important missions might indicate a change of position or status. She will deal with that when it happens.

Mordin is currently working on a VERY TOP SECRET PROJECT and can't say who his boss is. Later this will change to Commander Shepard, who he likes.


Gordon unfortunately has a lot of people who think he's the boss. Varric cheerfully ignores all such claims by his brother. Santo has no boss, but occasionally international organizations call him up and ask him politely to please help them with moon Nazis or worldwide counterfeiters or the like.

[souffle_girlek]

Katya: Likes her boss! Or rather, her old / could be current boss it never does pay to count out Gesar. While she doesn't understand the moves he makes sometimes, she does respect him, and is loyal.

Ace: If one counts the Doctor as her boss, she rather likes her boss, and will always take some level of active concern in regards to his welfare. If one counts, like, say, Rassilon... dude's a douchenozzle. She's just as happy to never see that idiot again.

Glorfindel: .... He personally likes very much the entirety of Turgon's line, though it'd be hard to say who he considers his boss in the end. Probably the king, since in the end that's who he's going to answer to. Elrohir and Elladan? Not the boss. Not really, not the way Elrond has been.

...

His views on people being the boss of him are complicated and usually involve a lot of elvish doublespeak.

Balthazar loves and respects Merlin. Though he does want to know if Merlin knew that the Prime Merlinian wouldn't show up for a couple millenia. If so, Merlin has some 'splanin' to do.

Haymitch.... hahaha no. Um. No. Omg. Has a boss, hates his ever-loving rose-scented guts, would never, ever say so. Probably even long after the man is officially dead. Just. No.

Blakeney's boss is Captain Aubrey, who can Do No Wrong. This boy exudes hero worship.

Oswin had a boss, on board the Alaska - he died in the crash, became a Dalek puppet, so really, no, she harbors no lingering fondness.

Clara is the boss, according to the Doctor. :D

Bones' direct boss is Kirk, whom he rather likes and admires and sometimes wishes to hit over the head and/or sedate into the next century. His other direct boss is Starfleet Medical Command, whom he... respects, at least, even if they make some of the oddest choices sometimes. It depends on the situation which one he reports to, but once he's chosen a path, good luck getting him off of it.

[a1enzo]

Enzo's ultimate boss is Turbo, the Prime Guardian. He mostly respects him and recognizes that he has an enormously tough function to perform. There are, however, certain aspects of official Guardian protocol on which they do not and never will see eye to eye. Turbo, in turn, thinks Enzo is a good kid and a promising Guardian, but the whole User thing also makes him a source of many ulcers.

More immediately, for the next week(!) Enzo will continue to answer to the Academy Admin. After that, higher-version Guardians will outrank him, but there's a lot of autonomy in the field; mostly he will receive posting and mission orders from coordinators (who are not Guardians themselves but are part of the organization) and execute them as he sees fit.

[genarti]

Trowa has the ringmaster/owner of the circus. They get along fine! Trowa trusts him, although in the way where they both know there are aspects of Trowa's life and other work that they just don't discuss. It was a bit of a a rocky road to get to that mutual trust, but mostly the kind that time takes care of, nothing full of dramatic arguments or anything. (Well, there was some dramatic stuff in the war, but the ringmaster took a giant battle robot ambushing his big top much better than you might expect. Mostly, there was a lot of stuff they don't discuss, and time took care of getting the ringmaster to see Trowa as reliable again and getting Trowa to see the ringmaster as a person in his life instead of a random bystander civilian.)

In his Preventers consulting work, Commander Une is his boss. And... hahahaha um. Trowa has authority issues anyway, by which I mean he generally nods obediently to authority and then goes and does what he wants anyway; Une knows this full well, because back in the war he was a double-agent infiltrating her battleship and they played a lot of mind games which Trowa ultimately won. Now they're sort of friends! Ish. Sparring friends? Something. Anyway, they work together just fine, but it's with a lot of undertones and the whole chain of command issue treated as something of a deadpan running joke. (Trowa is a giant weirdo. So's Une.)

Thor has his dad, who is also his king. He loves his dad and he's loyal to his king! Aaaaand he's mad at both of them right now about everything to do with Loki, which is the unfun kind of complicated.

He also has his mom, who is his queen, and there's some of the same conflict there, but it's much more muted. Partly because Asgard is patriarchal enough for the king to be primary, and partly because Thor is a lot more like his dad personality-wise, and the family dynamics mean that Frigga is the peacemaker and Thor and Odin clash a lot more.

Clare hates her bosses. She continues to work for them for now, because a) not doing so would get her hunted down and killed, and b) she knew that she hated them when she went to work for them, and chose it anyway for what she'd get out of the job.

Enjolras doesn't really have any bosses, and didn't when he was alive either. He had professors, but that's not the same thing, especially not a) when you're a student radical in a university that prefers to serve the government over its students in any conflict between the two, and b) when you attend a law school which lets its students drag out their degrees for years of not bothering to do the work if they want to, so long as they keep paying their fees. Enjolras never had a normal job, so he never had a boss to go with it.

River has a captain. Not really quite the same thing, although on another ship it could be. For other members of the crew he's more of a boss, even, but for River... no.

Regan also doesn't, although she has in the past. She does fine with the standard corporate chain of command system, and is reasonably good at navigating personality conflicts and dynamics within that.

[leeshajoy]

Most of mine are bosses. Luna is a Princess, Vanellope is a President, and Alyx has no official title but is the de facto leader of humankind, at least in the Americas.

D0G answers to Alyx and would do anything for her.

Twilight answers to Princess Celestia at least for a few more episodes.

The cat, like all cats, is his own master.

[gavin62truck]

Tommy technically has two bosses: Lt. Kenny "Lou" Shea and Chief Jerry Reilly. Tommy and Lou were already on the same crew and good friends before Lou became lieutenant and therefore his superior officer. And he's always been perfectly fine with that as their friendship has never suffered and he'll follow Lou's orders just fine. Sometimes they do clash when it comes to making decisions on the job, but for each time Tommy goes against Lou's orders, Lou ends up letting him because ultimately they trust each other 100%. And every time Tommy gets into trouble with the Chief or the department brass, Lou is always there to back him up. On occasion, Lou does find it convenient to pull rank on Tommy to get him to do what he wants.

As for Chief Reilly himself, Tommy and the whole crew respect him as a veteran firefighter and as a leader. Even though he takes no bullshit and can sometimes be a hardass, to them he's one of those guys who's great to hang out with even though he's their boss. He's stood up for the crew multiple times, like when they'd attracted unwanted attention from the press or violated a departmental rule or somesuch, so both Tommy and Lou consider him an ideal chief.

[jjprobert]

Bean has no boss. He's too young. At battle school he has no real issues with the teachers there, who are the closest thing to bosses there. Then he gets to pick his boss. So...

Alfred has Bruce. Yeah, he likes him. He doesn't like the situation at the moment (you know, what with Bruce having disappeared for several years and all).

Max is practically his own boss, so he's cool with that. He does report to a few people, but, as all he does is basically off his own back, it's more of a 'yeah, here's how it's going' type meeting, than an 'okay this year x, y, z' type.

Jack's boss is Max. And Lieutenant General Peter Cosgrove. But then LG Cosgrove has basically ordered him to: do what is necessary to save the world, by aiding Max Epper. So, Max is Jack's boss. Jack is not complaining about this situation at all.

And finally, Erik. Erik is easily my most complex. On one level, it's quite simple: He has his bosses at the university, and his place within that structure. Right now, though, it's not so simple, as he's also working for SHIELD, and reporting pretty damn near directly to Director Fury. He's not keen on this, but sees it as better than someone less scrupulous than himself being in charge of the experiments with the tesseract.

[bbq_platypus]

Jim: Jim works for Mel Brooks. Pretty good gig.

Borgel: Nope. He doesn't answer to anybody.

Leela: Leela didn't get along too well with the leaders of the Sevateem. And while she likes and admires Romana, she finds the Time Lords as a whole to be a bunch of officious dickheads. (The Doctor is less a boss and more of a weird uncle).

Kane: Yeah, unsurprisingly, Kane is the guy who gives orders, not the one who takes them. He has, however, on occasion, passed as the subordinate of a particular authority figure he wanted to manipulate. Stalin made a terrible boss.

Caius: Caius answers to his immediate superior in the Blades in Cyrodil, as well as to the Emperor. He has nothing but admiration for both.

Garyn: Garyn is NOT going to like working for the Blades. Whether you admit to having committed a crime or not, when the Empire throws you into a dank stone dungeon to die slowly, you aren't exactly eager to work for them. His relationship with Caius is going to be contentious and...interesting. This is the aspect of the Morrowind RPing I'm really nervous about getting right.

Additionally, he's going to have an assortment of bosses/CO's in House Redoran and the Legion (which he joins in a desperate piece of bargaining - "Let me do this instead, I'm much better suited for it!"), which he'll have varying opinions about.

[minkhollow]

Cata and Sam both technically answer to the head of the Guild, but they have some autonomy within that; the Guild doesn't do much in the way of enforcement so long as you keep to the rules. And not many people want to question Sam anyway, since without him the Guild would still be defunct. (Well, and the whole world would be gone, that's also a bit of a problem.)

Claudia: Artie, who's become a bit of a father figure over time; Mrs. F, who she still finds mildly terrifying; and the Regents, but mostly she goes to Joshua if she has that big of a problem. Joshua's pretty much the top of that food chain.

Apollo technically has to listen to his dad, and mostly does because it's more trouble not to.

Imp... doesn't hate his boss at the fish and chip shop? He's just getting on the point where he wants to move on and just about has the means to do so.

Regulus wouldn't consider himself to have a boss in the traditional sense. His mother's becoming less important in that category, of late, and there are people at Hogwarts who have authority over him.

Red DOES WHAT SHE WANTS doesn't understand the concept. Ruby DOES WHAT SHE WANTS works for her grandmother and resents it for most of the length of the curse.

Woolly would probably say his boss is Josephine, who's a more hands-on Caretaker than Mrs. F. He likes her.

[alexiscartwheel]

Lady Mary - Hahahahaha. Nope.

Stiles - Nope!!

Carol - Uh, who's in charge of the Avengers these days, anyway? (I swear it changes like every other week.) Is it Steve right now? I think technically they've both been the other's boss at times? Anyway, they're bros. Even if Steve is sometimes a butthead.

Basically Carol is less concerned about who is technically in charge of the Avengers so long as they are working for good and she gets to punch things.

[sdelmonte]

Joss Whedon.

[street_sparrow]

Most of mine either don't work as such (Giovanni, Nancy) or run their own businesses (Harry Callahan, Sharpe, Michael Carpenter).

Jonathan's boss is either Angel or the senior Watchers, depending what he's doing at the time. He gets on reasonably well with both, most of the time.

Roshaun and Gavroche, as wizards, technically their boss is the Powers or the One, but they're really very hands-off bosses! There are senior wizards, of course, but they're really more there to help and only occasionally chastise.

Norrington's boss is Will Turner and he's surprisingly happy with that fact.

[yakalskovich]

Oh, are we going to see Norrington again as well? **hopeful**

[street_sparrow]

He pops up every once in a while. :) If the Dutchman's here, so is he.

[yakalskovich]

Hurrah!

[kd7sov]

Boss monsters, perhaps? Two of mine have (or had) those, though they're not all monsters.

...Though come to think of it, if Fluttershy is officially employed, rather than just filling a role, then two of mine also have job-type bosses, too. Hmm.

[fluffiest_archadian]

Yugo's boss is - er. That's complicated. I'm going to have him start working at a flower shop soon, so he'll have a boss there. As far as the Kamen Riders go, though, there's not really any kind of firm leadership: They only barely, barely tolerate working with each other if a crisis absolutely demands it, so any kind of organisational structure more meaningful than that is doomed to failure.

With that said, Kamen Rider Ichigo, Kamen Rider Nigo, and the rest of the Seven Legendary Riders are generally held up as figures of respect amongst the Riders. They're not, it was revealed all of three weeks ago, though, the first: The very first Rider is Kamen Rider CrossFire, who has never been seen by anyone and who derives his/her power from the Cross of Fire, the source of all evil and monsters. So s/he might qualify as their leader, but an absentee one.

For Yugo, he pretty much takes orders from Soukichi/Kamen Rider Skull and Yuriko/Kamen Rider Tackle. They're more mentors than bosses, though, and he has pretty much the final call on what he does.


Sherral is much simpler! He has his immediate superior in the form of whoever leads the entirety of the garrison, and a few more people nearby who can tell him what to do with some degree of authority in the form of the Consul, the Ambassador, etc. Dalmasca is technically under the purview of the Imperial 8th Fleet, though, so his boss's boss is Judge Magister Ghis, who Sherral really, truly, deeply hates, but obeys anyway.

Sherral probably butts head with his aforementioned immediate-superior-in-the-form-of-whoever-leads-the-entirety-of-the-garrison a little, but not too much: He's a loyal soldier of the Empire. He might question his orders or raise an objection, but if there's no room for a change of orders he'll follow them.

[ceitfianna]

Will has the utmost respect and love for Robin Hood and would die for him and has come close to it many times.

Its not that clear for Charles who's actually in charge in the CIA facility. Technically Mr. Black (Oliver Platt's character) is the man in charge but Charles and Erik only kind of listen to him, more they bargain with him. Charles respects him but in his mind, he and Erik are in control of Cerebro and anything that comes from it.

Sameth's boss would probably be either of his parents, it depends on which role of his you're looking at. As prince, Ellimere as heir and his father as king are above him but as Wallmaker, no one else is. He respects all that they do and has no desire to be involved in politics.

William is the head of his family so basically his own boss, which he finds daunting as he tries to manage everything.

Moist quite enjoys being his own boss though he'll act like someone's subordinate if it gets him farther along with a plan.

Jane doesn't have a job but her mother bosses her around which she doesn't appreciate.

Demeter doesn't have anyone who she listens to in terms of telling her what to do.

Tumnus is happy to follow the Pevensies.

The Pirate King loves being his own boss and bossing others around.

[redintheledger]

Natasha has Nick Fury. While SHIELD is hers now, her loyalty is way more to Fury personally than any ideals or agency. It's a situation she's used to, so it's familiar, and she has no objections, and prefers it that way.



Okay, she also has the head of the Chicago field-office as her immediate head's up, but Fury is the Boss.

[inlovewithwords]

Henry is a kid. No boss. He has Regina? ~Complicated~

Eriond, it could be argued, has UL and the universe, maybe even the Purpose. But the first two are parents, the latter is... thing. Anyway, 'boss' is not a term which applies.

Lois right now has... whoever her editor is, on up the line--ultimately Lex owns the Planet right now, I think. So... doesn't mind immediates, hates the ultimate. Likes Ollie when he owns it, eventually can deal with Tess. And, of course, once Perry's her boss, she's delighted.

Tavi's immediate boss may or may not be Sir Cyril (whose injury left Tavi in command). Tavi really likes him, and the two work well together. He's had other immediate bosses before--his teacher Killian, various superior officers. He liked Killian, variants on the others. They, uh, all die, leaving him in command. Later his immediate commander will be Senator Arnos. He loathes the man. Arnos also dies, leaving Tavi in command.

Ultimately, Tavi's boss Gaius Sextus, both generally as First Lord and in a personal sense for the spy Tavi ex Cursori and Princeps Octavian. Tavi respects Sextus, and associates serving him with serving Alera. He likes Sextus personally (not many do), as much as Sextus will let him. He knows Sextus has faults and doesn't always agree with his decisions. Still, they get on oddly well. This does not stop Tavi from ignoring orders or improvising outside them more often than Sextus would like, but all in all, it's a very good liege-subordinate relationship.

...Then Sextus dies, leaving Octavian in command. (Do you sense a theme?)