Daily Entertainment; Co-workers Edition!

[damncompass]

Good morning, Milliways! Spinning off of yesterday's DE, and a bit of personal frustration, I give you today's DE:

Co-workers! Most characters have people they work with, whether formally, or just as an informal team (Ex. Les Amis, The Avengers, school aquaintances, etc.). What does your character think of them? Do they get along? Would they rather be with another group?

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[road_to_calvary]

Gene - loves his team. Loves them, like they're his kids. He thinks they're pretty useless most of the time, and endlessly takes the piss out of them, and calls them names, and orders them around - but he still loves them. And he secretly digs it when a team-member shows up that is not a sheep, and stands up to him and gives him a challenge. he says it prefers it when his team just does what they're told, but it's not true.

Bruce Wayne - has no co-workers.

Bruce Banner - generally a lone wolf, in normal life. Within the Avengers, he's the quiet guy who more or less gets on with everyone - which doesn't stop him having opinions on his team-mates, of course. He has a lack of trust in people in general, in the motivations of SHIELD, in the potential for all these conflicting personalities to mesh in any way. So while he might personally like these guys - Tony in particular made an impact, by treating him like a normal dude - there's a reservation to him when he's among them.

Jean Valjean - complete loner, forced by circumstance. The only time he's ever had anything like co-workers is when he was in prison, where his character was described as 'vicious, gloomy, chaste, ignorant and shy' - so not the type to make friends. He turned inwards, said little, and thought about Things - about how much he hated everything - so I don't think he gave much thought to the people around him, or bothered to get along with them.

Later, when he's remade himself and is in charge of a factory, he still cuts himself off socially. People love him when he's doing good for Montreuil, but he doesn't try to work with people, per say; he does his thing, and they go along with it when they see it's profitable.

Javert - worked with the system of law enforcement. He was not a social being. He was proper in his job, down to the last dotted 'i', and no one could fault him - but there's no evidence of camaraderie, and a definite indication of setting himself apart. He wanted to be irreproachable, and that meant rejecting 'normal' human behaviour, in order to remain faultless. It won him respect, but no friends. And he was fine with that.

I will add that while he was never part of the 'team', as it were, he still has enormous respect for all his colleagues. He venerates people who work for the state in any capacity, so would never show a colleague disrespect. But he also isn't slow to order subordinates/soldiers around when he needs to - as evidenced in chasing Valjean through Paris, he is also willing to confer with co-workers while imparting orders. But ultimately, he works on his own, and only calls others in when he has to.

[lady_bols]

~points to icon~

[the_gene_genie]

*digs it*


*pretends he doesn't*

[camwyn]

Stacker Pentecost is very fond of his PPDC people, whether they're Shatterdome staff like Tendo Choi and Hermann Gottlieb and Newt Geiszler or Rangers like the Luu triplets and the Kaidanovskys. Being an extremely disciplined and steady man, he isn't effusive about it, but the lengths that he goes to to get them the resources they need and keep them alive and stable probably makes it pretty clear to them that they're important to him. I don't think he'd trade them for anything.

Varric deals with Hawke and a bunch of the other NPCs from Dragon Age 2. He's particularly fond of Isabela, Merrill, and Fenris, the latter because Fenris is particularly fun to needle and see how he responds. He also works with his brother but they don't get along very well- personality differences.

Gordon has lost a lot of what team he had in the past; this is what happens when you fight a planet-wide war against an interdimensional empire. He's very protective of Alyx and the remaining Black Mesa survivors as a result. He and Dr. Kleiner get along very well, he and Dr. Magnusson not so much (although Gordon would still brain quite a lot of things with the crowbar to keep him alive- you don't have to like somebody to acknowledge that they're important to you).

Shephard had a team once. He lost all of them after Black Mesa. He has since wound up working most closely with a small cluster of humans (particularly Jan ten Boom, Maripyaipok, and Eleanor Freeman) and Vortigaunts (he gave three of them human names- Puller, Hathcock and Diamond), most of whom never had anything to do with Black Mesa; the majority of them signed up at his first recruiting drive for the renascent Marine Corps. (The initial class of Marines is going to make for an interesting photograph, as something like half of them joined up specifically to keep an eye on the Americans and make sure they didn't set any bad precedents.) He is very, very fond of all of them, although he is prone to calling them assholes and fuckers and things like that, but that's just his reflexes talking and they all know it by now.

Mordin has a good team of fellow researchers on his currently VERY VERY SECRET PROJECT and likes working with them. When he winds up on the Normandy again he will be very glad to meet up again with the people he knows from the last Normandy mission, although he probably won't get along all that well with Jaavik given some of the things Jaavik says about his species.

Medic thinks most of his teammates are idiots or madmen or both. This is not necessarily a bad thing; he respects Herr Engineer greatly despite Herr Engineer being quite obviously insane in an obsessive kind of way. (His initial reaction to the Window was "Mein Gott, Herr Engineer divided by zero again, didn't he.") He respects Herr Sniper as well; the snipers usually tend to be a bit less maniacal than the rest of BLU's field teams, although once in a while they go off the deep end. He has something of a grudging fondness for Herr Heavy which he will not generally admit to, and he does pretty much everything he can to avoid Herr Spy because the man is creepy, but at least he's not a raving lunatic. Anybody else is fair game for putting their feet on backwards if they piss him off.

Santo doesn't really have coworkers except in the secret agent movies and even then he's just as likely to work alone as otherwise. He does, however, have quite a lot of scientist friends, because that is what happens in lucha (the only reason Mexico does not have a moonbase in his universe seems to be because for every good scientist there is an evil one to balance them out). He respects them greatly and understands their importance to society. He also respects his fellow wrestlers, because they are athletes and competitors in a sport where the slightest shift in balance could change everything, literally. It's a 'there but for the grace of God' type of thing.

Ellen mostly works with the Megaton garrison of the Brotherhood of Steel these days, and with some of the people in Megaton- Moira Brown and Sheriff Simms and Gob in particular. She is generally quite happy to work with the Scribes and gets along well with the other two Paladins stationed there, and cooperates with Sheriff Simms whenever he needs help in town. Moira's a bit off her rocker but everybody knows that, so it's okay, and Gob's a friendly sort of fellow and a really decent guy so she's glad to deal with him when she needs information or a place to put somebody up for the night. There are Brothers she doesn't get along with, obviously, but most of them are in the Citadel or somewhere else in the Wasteland, so it's not really a problem.

[gavin62truck]

Tommy has two families: his blood relations, and his firefighting crew. He spends way more time with his second family and arguably treats them better than his first. He thinks some of them are idiots, but other than that, he generally enjoys their company and there's nobody else he'd rather work with. Firefighters are indeed a family, and he's been described as being married to his job, so if he had to choose between the two, I mean really had to choose, he'd have a very difficult time-- that's how strong the bond is with his crew and what he does for a living.

[camwyn]

Shephard knows the feeling.

[minkhollow]

When it comes to contracts, assassins tend to work alone. Otherwise, I don't think Cata or Sam have major problems with anyone who's come back to the Guild, and Sam's not always around to interact with them anyway. (As for the people Sam had to work with in canon for that world-saving bit: Arcie's one of the closest things he has to a friend anyway, he fell hard for Kaylana, he thought Robin was a total drip at first but he got better, he pretty well respected Blackmail the whole time, and Valerie... is just weird, and if she ever gets apped to Milliways his introduction will include 'please don't eat the patrons.')

Claudia considers her coworkers her surrogate family, which means the Warehouse did hiring right.

Apollo... well, technically that'd be his family, and this being the Greek gods, It's Complicated.

Imp is just kind of shrugging at me, so I think along the lines of the boss question, there's no one who truly annoys him, he's just ready to move on overall. Serving fish and chips is not what he wants to do with his life.

Regulus thinks some of his classmates are all right, some of them are boneheadedly devoted to Voldemort, and some of them are boneheadedly devoted to Dumbledore.

Red: n/a, pretty much. Ruby saves her resentment for the job for her grandmother and is virtually the only other employee at the B&B anyway. (Did Ashley/Ella actually work there during-curse? I don't remember. If she did, they're good friends, and I'm sure they're still talking post-curse even though Ashley was barely in S1...)

Woolly sees Helena as a sister (which, again, means the Warehouse did hiring right).

[jjprobert]

I have so much I could say on this, particularly for Jack and Max. Maybe I'll write that later.

As for the rest of them:

Bean isn't really a team player (in that annoying 'always better than you' type of way). He can lead teams, but he's not necessarily a natural leader, the way some of the other characters are. He's just so freaking good at tactics and strategy, that everyone that knows how good he is, respects him enough that they would follow him. Personally, he's of the opinion, that a team doesn't have to like each other, so long as they dislike the enemy more. Although, he does tend to invest himself in his teams, so...

Alfred doesn't have anyone he works with, besides the board of Wayne Enterprises. He likes some of them well enough, others are, in his opinion, greedy money grabbers. However, he's committed himself to light touch management until such a time as Bruce returns, or is declared legally dead, whereupon he assumes full legal control of the Wayne estate.

Erik is currently working with a team of SHIELD (and ostensibly also NASA) scientists. He gets along well enough with them, and thinks they're competant enough that he's not quite sure why he's been brought in...

[abitofawildman]

Every single one of my characters, from Raph and Mike to Ida and the Loompas, view their co-workers as family. So basically they love them and hate them in equal measure at the exact same time. And yet, there's no one else they'd rather be with.

Take Bumi for instance. In my head very few people are in the Second Division by force. They're all there because they want to serve under Bumi. Because they've heard he is crazy and never leaves a man behind, even if you happen to be dead when they come back to you. He has this ability to inspire complete devotion in people.

[ceitfianna]

Will trusts the other Merry Men with his life, they're another family for him and would all die for each other.

Charles is still building up people around him and co-workers/family is as good a way to put it as another. In terms of the mutants, he respects, loves and trusts all of them. With the CIA, he trusts and respects Moira and Mr. Black but everyone else, he knows how little they trust the mutants which makes it complicated.

William works the most with his brother and there's no one else he'd rather work with.

Moist prefers to work alone, its safer but of the people he's worked with on jobs, he wouldn't mind working again with Joshua, Claudia or Saffron.

Sameth works for and as part of the royal family. As Wallmaker he does much of his duties on his own, there are guards who are with him that he trusts and knows will watch out for him. Then in terms of the prince aspects, he knows his sister and father are better at politics and in terms of the various family relationships, they're working on them.

Jane doesn't actually work except for helping out around the house with her sisters and their few servants who she gets along with.

Demeter hasn't worked with her family in any capacity for a couple of centuries and the closest she has to a co-worker is her daughter. They don't always spent time side by side as their ways of dealing with the world aren't the same but it fits them.

Tumnus is among the family and staff of the palace and fits in very well there.

The Pirate King likes all of his pirates.

[not_my_sandbox]

Fairy Fixit has lots of co-workers, but most are off-world. I have millicanoned that one of the Mindslayers/Gatekeepers staying in Zanaris is one of her coworkers. He's a big Tentacles of Our Waves fan. They get together sometimes for marathon TV watching sessions and they have a very friendly relationship.

Amascut only has coworkers in her guise as Sumona. Her opinion about the rest of the Slayer Masters? Well... they got their heads screwed on right, but their hearts are in the wrong place sometimes.

[souffle_girlek]

Katya: In Moscow, the Night Watch was her family, and she cared for them with all the passion of any mother tiger. After Moscow, that sort of attention has been re-focused on Skellig. Sorry, Skellig.

Haymitch: .... I guess you could call Effie and the other Victors coworkers. He tolerates Effie - for a Capitol girl, she's not... bad. Just blind, so very very blind, or very very good at faking being blind. She's better than the Capitol mentor that he had during his games. The Victors he sorta hates, sorta likes. The non-careers (not counting Finnick and Annie and Mags) are tools, mostly, but they're tools that survived the same hell he did. In general, the District 4 crew is decent, and he actually likes a few of them. The Non-Careers tend to stick together more, because they're the ones that Shouldn't Have Lived, and tend to have to go through the same shit after the games. But in the end they're all sponsoring kids that kill his kids, so he can't just... be bffs.

Glorfindel: ... I guess you could call the rest of Elrond's household coworkers? Either way, they tend to get on well. After a few thousand years you either hate people with a fiery passion that no amount of diplomacy can abate or you genuinely like them.

William: ... Okay, for the Officers - he likes most of the officers, and most of the midshipmen, Calamy and Hollum being his favorites. With the crew... he likes them alright, though they aren't over-familiar due to disparity of rank. He is viciously loyal to his little gun crew though. They're directly his, and God help any French who mess with them.

Bones: In general, makes friends very easily, and is on good terms with most of the Enterprise crew. He's actually very good friends with Spock - they were more antagonistic the first few weeks of the cruise, before he figured out how to interpret Vulcan wit appropriately and Spock figured out just how much of McCoy's bluster really was just words he used as effectively as any other medical tool to get a read on a room or situation. The only crew members he has a problem with are the few speciesist idiots who reveal their true colors when trying to buddy up to him, actually believing the running sniping battle between himself and Spock is anything other than a lot of good fun and effective distraction / stress release. Those he'll read the riot act to, and mean every word.

Balthazar: Is a loner. Even after taking on apprentices, he's a loner. Veronica and Horvath were the only ones he felt comfortable with as a team... and now it's just Veronica he'd trust at his back. Everyone else just... doesn't fit.

Ace: Doesn't really have coworkers? She kinda did in the war, but they kept dying (or not!dying, that's worse, in that particular war that was so much worse), so. >.>

Oswin: Had coworkers, they all turned into Dalek puppets, so that's a series of relationships that didn't end well.

Clara: ... this doesn't really apply to either. Kinda. Madame Vastra could be a coworker, I guess. But you really shouldn't drug your coworkers.

[genarti]

Enjolras's friends are the BEST FRIENDS EVER and also the most noble and intelligent and brave men one could have the honor to know. JUST ASK HIM.

No, seriously, the one and only time we get inside Enjolras's head in the book, he is going about an errand and thinking about how the revolution will succeed because all his friends are so awesome. He loves them very dearly. The Amis de l'ABC is a bigger group than just the core group, but that core group is very close-knit.

Trowa has two: the circus, and the Gundam pilots. The circus has some population turnover, but he gets along fine with everyone who's stuck around, and some of them he considers friends. He has no desire to be with another group.

The Gundam pilots mostly didn't get along at first, but now they're just -- Trowa likes them all fine, but liking isn't even all that relevant, because he trusts them. They've got each other's backs, no matter what. "Would you rather be with another group" isn't even a relevant question.

Thor hasn't yet gotten to the point of joining up with the Avengers yet, but when he does, he'll think that they're worthy comrades in arms, and he'll be happy to work with them! It'll take a while for it to get past that into true identification of himself as part of a team with them, rather than just a group of comrades joining up for a single purpose, you know? And when and how and if that happens depends on how canon goes.

In Asgard, he's close friends with Sif and the Warriors Three, and I guess they'd count as the people he works with. They're his best friends, and he loves them enormously. Loki was also part of this group, but, well. LOKI. Anyway, Thor still considers Loki part of the group, and his absence as a hole in the group whether Loki is missing-presumed-dead or found-acting-evil; he loves him, and he'd welcome him back in with open arms and deep joy.

Clare works alone. Most Claymores do. When they join together for a mission, it's just short-term.

Later, she'll acquire a team of sorts. She'll come to consider them friends, in the baffled way of someone who doesn't really understand having friends; she'll be closer to some than others, but she'd do a lot for any of them. If she had the vocabulary for talking about feelings like this, she'd probably say something about sisterhood.

River has her crew. Some of them, like Kaylee and Simon, have moved off the ship, and Book is dead, but that doesn't change the fact that they're still crew. Found family, essentially. She loves them all. (Even Jayne, but don't tell him.) She wouldn't choose anyone else over them.

Regan has various assistants and people she works with in various organizations and contexts; I forget how many of them we've named, but they're all OCs. Anyway she considers several of them friends, and likes them quite a lot. They're not found family or anything, though.

[inlovewithwords]

Henry - N/A

Eriond - basically any definition of 'co-worker' for him he would see as family. ...they probably are.

Lois - Mostly as competition who must be raced to the story, except Jimmy who's a friend and helper and, for the moment, Chloe, who is... cousin/friend/helper/competition. Later she will also get friend/junior-partner/almost-equal (eventual equal). She loves where she works, and while she'd like to punt some people out the window, she generally wouldn't change things.

Tavi - Max is like a brother; Ehren is only slightly less close; Magnus is a mentor and friend. That's the Cursors. Of his Legion colleagues, while he's becoming legitimate friends with Max's brother Crassus, but the rest are mostly friends-like-but-subordinates. The Legion is outright a formal team; the Cursors are all part of the same group but not Offically In A Hierarchy except that there is the Cursor Legate who is in charge. ...Only one died and I don't actually know who's Legate at Tavi's current point. Anyway, Tavi gets along with his co-workers to varying degrees and wouldn't give it up.