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Gene - no. And no.

In the 70s, air travel and package holidays were just starting to open up as a Thing in Britain. Gene hasn't quite got there yet; there's an early draft of 1x01 of Life on Mars that states he goes to Lytham-St-Anne's on holiday every year. Which is about 45 minutes away from Manchester. But there is a beach! Anyway, that's normal for him. He's discovered Spain by the 80s, and likes it, probably because it's just like England only with sun and clean oceans, etc. He has been further afield - Germany and the Far East - when he was doing National Service, and I don't think he was bothered either way. Travel abroad is just not something that's really become normal for him yet.

Bruce Wayne - yes. And he's been to many places.

Bruce Banner - yes, relatively. Pre-Hulk, I imagine he was just like any other middle-aged, comfortably off scientist with regard holidays/trips abroad for conferences etc. Post-Hulk, he gets about a bit. Canada, Brazil and India are specifically stated, but I imagine there were other destinations en route to those places. He moves around to avoid SHIELD catching him, after all.

Javert & Jean Valjean - have never left France. But they might be considered, for their time, to be fairly well-travelled, having both started in the south of France, moved north, then south again to Paris. A lot of peasants wouldn't have migrated that far in those times, though a certain amount of following the work would have been common.

But by any modern standard, they are the least well-travelled of all of mine. Neither of them care. Valjean is rich enough that he can go anywhere, but chooses not to (though, really, I've always wondered why leaving the country never seemed to occur to him until Cosette was grown up, and he talked about running from Paris to England. Why not leave with her when she was young? OK, he knew he was presumed dead, but if he wanted to be really safe there are any number of places he could have gone. Bizarre. I suppose he's just not interested in leaving France).

And it would never occur to Javert to leave France, except for perhaps briefly considering joining the army when he was very young, where it would be inevitable. Also, he would never take a holiday.

(I guess we're supposed to assume that Valjean wants to stay close to his buried financial resources... but I dunno, that's kind of thin, given how easily he acquires them when he needs to. The fact that neither of them speaks anything but French? I dunno. I'd have to agree with you that he's probably just not interested in it, and/or not interested in being an immigrant who doesn't speak the language, so that it doesn't much occur to him as an option.)

For sure! But then, he can just go and get them and take them with him. I'd have to assume a) language, and b) narrative convenience. But language may be plausible on its own, considering he didn't learn to read until he was forty. Perhaps he thinks he can't learn in a different language.

...and as I write this, I remember it's canon that most of the books in his house - at least at one point - were travel books. So maybe he thought about it, or researched it, or just dreamed of different places but never managed to take the step. *pats him*

Oh man, I had 100% forgotten that. Now I'm sad again. (Things that make me sad about Jean Valjean: ALMOST EVERYTHING ABOUT HIS LIFE OH GOD.)

Maybe someday he can do some Milliways travel? Or something. I do enjoy how pretty much all of the Les Mis characters can answer this question with NOPE.

HIS LIFE SUCKS THE BIG ONE. I am constantly sad about it. And him. He's so adorable, and so so broken.

And for sure, I hope so! I mean, he's not the kind of guy who'll go just anywhere, and he'd probably need convincing, but if the chance arises he might go for it. We'll have to see.

Heh, I'm trying to think of any well-travelled Mis folks. So far coming up blank. Georges Pontmercy, having travelled in the army? Thenardier? Idk. All their lives suck, man.

Gavroche - born in Montfermeil, ends up in Paris and that's about it. Post-death Milliways stuff doesn't count.

I'm going through all of them in my head - I don't know much about most of the Amis, so I can't speak to them. But Eponine and Cosette aren't much different from Gavroche, Marius is France-bound also, IIRC; ...so yeah, basically they all suck at travelling.

It's okay, Hugo doesn't tell us much about most of the Amis! *facepalming*

I could list off what we know that's relevant about them, book-verse, but it's really just that some of them are rich (not necessarily all), all of them are university students of some sort (except Feuilly, who's definitely not rich), they're all from the unspecific south of France (except Bossuet, who's from near Paris), and Prouvaire at least speaks a bunch of languages well enough to read apocalyptic social commentary poetry in them. AND THAT'S IT. So... who even knows!

(Edit: and if we're talking musicalverse, there's REALLY no backstory at all for any of them, of course, so that's entirely up for grabs.)

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Favourite had been to England! If we're getting into exceedingly minor, book-only characters, but that's about all I got. Uh. Georges Pontmercy and Thenardier were in the army, yes, and didn't the Bishop travel back during the Revolution or something? And some of the Amis might have done some traveling, pre-canon, especially maybe Prouvaire; I just can't see Enjolras being one of them.

You would think there would be more in a cast this large, and yet. Everyone seems to basically go from their hometown to a) Paris or b) nowhere... and die.

*cacklesnort* Yes. Well. HEY! THEY ALL TRAVEL TO THE AFTERLIFE.

Except Javert.

*sob*

IT'S A MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR. Or something.

Also in the movie there are those National Guardsmen who look to still be dead in the afterlife, which is... awkward... *laughing* But OH WELL.

*puts Fantine solidly in the 'nowhere to die' category* ... although, she did come from Paris, I think.

Poor Fantine. :-/ She's definitely in the "what makes me sad about this character? EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS CHARACTER'S LIFE OH GOD" category.

(So is at least half the cast, but Fantine is high on the list. Oh, Fantine.)

Well, it's not called Las Joyeuses, you know. :)

He is always welcome to come visit with William and in time, Charles as both of them want him to be happy.

Will definitely take you up on that offer at some point, thank you! Or rather, I'm completely up for it. VJ might take a bit more convincing, but I'll prod him until he gives in.

Felix... yes. He's been everywhere. There are like four landmasses big enough to show up on his world map that aren't somehow tied into the quest; mostly they're for the trading sequence or way-minor sidequests. And post-canon he's traveled even more.

Fluttershy would really prefer to just stay home. Sometimes she has to travel, though, either because of an Elements of Harmony thing or to help out a friend or five. And to be fair, she does enjoy seeing new places and things. Just... not as much as she enjoys being at home with her familiar animals.

Kain mostly doesn't leave Baron, except to represent the Dragoons in the occasional diplomatic envoy. That will change once I start him into canon, oh, yes.

Amascut amazingly is the least well traveled of mine. She hardly ever leaves the Kharidian desert and wasn't banished from the world like most of the other gods were, so it is doubtful that she has even left the planet. She does still go back and forth between the underworld and the surface though. She does wander to other lands on occasion, but when she does it is usually by boat, oddly enough, considering that she is a not!cat. Future Pirate Queen and International Crime Lord and all that.

Fairy Fixit's job takes her to other universes. So yes, well traveled.

Evil Chicken attacks anywhere there is a person who has fallen into a mindless routine. Not even the ocean floors escape his wrath! Glub glub. So, well traveled.

Thor: given that he's frequently been to multiple worlds, I think we can safely say yes! He enjoys it. I don't think he has wanderlust per se, but he likes meeting new people and experiencing new things and being useful, and he likes excitement. He also likes fights, which policy frowns on him having at home. At the moment, of course, he's prevented from going anywhere offworld except via Milliways, because he kind of broke the Bifrost. (Loki started it!)

Clare is technically well-traveled, in that she's wandered all over most of the known-to-her world, which is a world where most people don't travel far. This is a Claymore's job: wander around as directed, kill monsters. Mostly they stick to their own particular region (there are 47) but they'll wander further afield for particular missions (team-ups, black cards, etc) as directed. She doesn't actually care. It's not as if she's getting to see much interesting tourist stuff. Milliways-wise, she's not, because she's never visited anyone's world. It hasn't really occurred to her. She'd need a reason.

Trowa is well-traveled, yes! He grew up with a mercenary troop who moved around to follow the fight; then they all died, and he went into space; then he came back to Earth as a guerilla fighter; now he lives with a traveling circus, and has friends in most of the space colonies. So he's been pretty much all over his world. He likes it. Trowa's a nomad at heart -- well, no. Trowa's an adrenaline junkie at heart, and he'd need to seek out more to keep him interested if he were living in one place all the time. Anyway, he has essentially no roots put down, and he likes it that way. Milliways-wise, he has to trust you to go to your world, or else have a goal and a secure exit strategy, which is why he's really only been to X's and Cass Cain's worlds.

Enjolras is not. I mean, he's moved from the south of France (the Alpine southeast) to Paris, and maybe done a bit more traveling within France, but that's it. He was certainly of a social class that supported travel, and he had the financial resources, but he has zero interest in leaving France.

River is! She's another nomad these days, who's been all over her 'verse. And she's my one most inclined to either visit Milliways folk, or get thrown into plots that (say) dump her in the middle of 21st century NYC. She likes it, for much the same reasons as Thor except without the brawling part. (Well, without the looking for brawls part.)

Regan is fairly well-traveled within the Core, between family vacations and business trips and campaign touring. She would really rather like to take another actual vacation, though. Touring with a packed schedule is not at all the same thing. She hasn't done a lot of Rim travel -- just whatever campaign-related stuff they've done -- and she hasn't done a lot of Milliways travel, not because she's opposed to it but because it hasn't come up. (In large part because she's not around Milliways all that much, so she hasn't gotten close to many people in an invitation-to-my-home-world way.) When she was younger she really liked travel, but now it's so routine that it's kind of boring and she would on balance rather sleep in her own bed if given the choice.

Cata: Not so much, actually. But then, she's content to stay in town, and even when she was whitewashed she didn't get off the farm much. (Milliways travel: Medic's world a few times. Once was even as a date!)

Sam: Ridiculously so, since canon has him questing all over the Six Lands. (Milliways travel: Nope.)

Claudia: Is getting there, thanks to her job. Actual vacations are pretty thin on the ground in her life, but if she really wanted one she could puppy-eyes at her brother, I bet. XD (Milliways travel: The Disc by accident, Enzo's world on purpose. ...then again, a non-sprite can't really get into a computer by accident...)

Apollo: Hasn't taken Milliways options, but in his own world? ALL THE PLACES.

Imp: Decently so, actually, by Disc standards. But he only kinda half-remembers it and isn't big on travel overall. It was music with rocks in it what did that. (Milliways travel: Nope.)

Regulus: Has been on holiday out of Britain more than once, mostly to France and at least once to Egypt. (Milliways travel: Nope.)

Red: Is... getting better-traveled now, since she and Snow have to stay on the move, but seeing more woods isn't quite what she had in mind. But she'll take it. (Milliways travel: The Warehouse a couple times.)
(Ruby: Oh, she wishes. Stupid curse.)

Woolly: Holidays were never a thing in his life, but travel for work most certainly was. He's pretty damn well-traveled by Victorian standards, as the Warehouse was starting to be able to take more far-flung cases. (Milliways travel: Dude's been here a month, not so much.)

One of these days, Claudia's brother might just send her to Oregon. Because he can. No ping, just... go.

And Wooley has been somewhere... South Dakota!

Elle is well-traveled, mostly due to having had a job that required she travel a lot. People like her can be anywhere, and the Company had contacts and offices all over the world. She almost exclusively went out to work, though, it's not like she spent a lot of time vacationing or being immersed in these places.

Asami is reasonably well-traveled. Her father often traveled for business, and after her mother's death, he wouldn't leave her alone in Republic City until she was 18. My headcanon is that she's seen a lot of the Earth Kingdom and Fire Nation.

Katara had never left home before she was 14, but at this point has been to two Air Temples, a lot of the Earth Kingdom, and the North Pole. By the time she's 15 she'll have seen most of the world. Yay traveling with the Avatar!

Leslie isn't exactly a homebody, but she loves Pawnee and doesn't like to take time off work, and so hasn't spent a lot of time traveling. I'd imagine her family took a lot of trips around the U.S. and Canada when she was growing up, but I'm not sure about overseas - I can't remember if her trip to London at the beginning of the most reason season was indicated as her first time in Europe. But I don't think she's traveled extensively beyond North America - she would like to, but it's always a tug-of-war with everything she wants to do at home.

Manny was a workaholic in life and so didn't travel. He'd like to travel more in the Land of the Dead, but really only in one direction.

For being Vikings, Hiccup and the Berkians don't seem to get beyond their archipelago thing much. Though maybe that changes in the second movie???

Marceline has traveled all over Ooo and in various dimensions. She also used to move around a lot, in part just because she's like that, but also to avoid the Ice King who inevitably showed up.

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Jim: Kind of difficult to classify. But I guess you can see him as having traveled some. At the very least he's been to both Texas and California. Probably not outside the U.S., though, and in actual fact, his character never leaves Burbank. But he is, if I recall correctly, the only one of my pups to have traveled to another world via Milliways. (Granted, it's another version of the Old West, but still).

Leela: BWAHAHAHAHAHA. Um, yes. Yes, a lot. Like, across lightyears and millennia.

Kane: He's traveled every corner of the world over his long life. And it's still not enough for him - he wants to leave the planet and take humanity with him.

Caius: He's been on a great number of "special assignments" for the Blades, from Daggerfall on the far west of the continent to Morrowind in the far east of it. He knows more of the Empire than the vast majority of those who live in it.

Garyn: Quite a bit, yes. In Cyrodil, he's lived in the Imperial City and in Leyawiin, hundreds of miles away in the southeast corner of the province. His mercenary work took him throughout the Topal Bay region, including occasional forays into Elsweyr and, rarely, the Black Marsh. He was worldly enough to know how to speak Ta'agra well and, more remarkably, Jel passably. After being sent thousands of miles to Morrowind, he's going to be hoofing it all over Vvardenfell, as well as Mournhold, Solstheim, and the mainland after Dagoth Ur's defeat. And after all that, he possibly might end up going on an expedition to the continent of Akavir thousands of miles to the east.

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Jess: Pretty well traveled, or so I would assume. Most of the early travel was for HYDRA though so I doubt she enjoyed it much.

Val: Was very much a global traveler and enjoyed every minute of it.

Mulan: For her land is very much well traveled but not as much as others. She hasn't go to other worlds like some. I'm not sure if enjoying it fits her POV though, it's just how her path is.

Anton: Sort of. He spends most of his time in Moscow, does get to travel to Scotland and Prague in later canon but aside from that, Russia is his stomping grounds. I think he enjoys traveling, especially for Czech beer, but it was for cases both times so fun wasn't really a factor.

Andrea: Not much for traveling, especially since airplanes and other modern means of travel are unreliable. She likely would love it but work comes first. At least for now.

Brimstone: Likely has traveled his home world but now spends all of his time in his rooms. He would love travel if he had the freedom.

Quinlan: Travels all over the galaxy. It's just part of life but he loves it.

Hank: Likely the only one who hasn't really traveled. He would enjoy it and dreams of it but there is always something to learn or do.

Thalia: She is now living the Hunt with Artemis. Travel is all part of the day and she loves every minute of it.

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Neither Tommy or Lou are well-traveled. I think Lou would like to be, moreso than Tommy. Tommy doesn't really have a desire to visit different places, being a workaholic and pretty much content to stay where he is, while Lou has a quiet longing to travel more and do interesting things (even if those interesting things turn out to be a disaster, such as when he discovers that he has absolutely no sea legs whatsoever).

I could see Tommy saying, "Why do I need to travel? Everything comes to New York!"

He totally would say that! And then go on a five minute rant about tourists.

Mark can fly from the Earth to the Moon in about half an hour. As soon as I'm finished with my next OOM, he's going to Mars. So yeah, I'd say he travels.

Will: In his world, he's not that well traveled, he's been to Lincoln but mainly lived his entire life around Nottingham. Thanks to Milliways, he's traveled to other worlds and times but in the end, he'd much rather stay near home.

Charles: He grew up in a segment of society that traveled a lot and his mother was English, which created excuses. I think growing up that trips to England and Europe were normal and then he ended up going to Oxford, so he's comfortable seeing the world. He loves travel and while he hasn't done a lot of Milliways' travel, he'd like to. For him, travel fits in with his way of viewing the world and how important it is to try and understand what's important in different places.

Sameth is well traveled for the Old Kingdom where many people don't move around that much but he's seen most of the kingdom. Also he's been to Ancelstierre and spent time in different areas, all of this is due to him being prince. Travel is something he enjoys at times, in canon he mentions how much he likes riding through the Old Kingdom with his father and their guards and I can see him and Nick having adventures traveling around during school.

William, I'm not as sure of. Somewhere in canon, Dan mentions that he served with a Massachusetts' regiment and the Evans' family clearly moved west. Just by doing that, William has seen a lot of the US but this is also an era when more people were starting to see more of the country due to the War and the railroad. I think travel's mixed for him, he'd rather go by horse as its quieter and cleaner than traveling by rail. He has seen a number of Milliways' worlds, most of them when going to help and he would like to see more. He knows he hasn't seen much of the world.

Moist is well traveled for the Disc, because he grew up in Uberwald and has seen most of the major cities of the Sto Plains plus Genua. He has a definite wanderlust which fits in well with his work as a con man where staying in one place doesn't make sense. So far he hasn't been to any other worlds but he does keep angling at Joshua and Claudia to visit their world, he can cheer him on at the Nobel Prize ceremony or something.

Jane isn't as well traveled as she'd like to be, her family can afford some trips so she's seen a good deal of England. Just in canon, she goes to Plymouth and London but wants to see more of the world. From Milliways, she's gone visiting with Alice Cullen which she really enjoyed and would like more trips.

Demeter has been around a long time and travel is what keeps her sane while Kore is away because staying in their shared home depresses her. She has walked most of Europe, some of North Africa but tends to stay around the Med where there's a better chance of her being welcomed. She's done a few trips from Milliways but its not something she pursues, she'd rather hear people talk about their homes.

Tumnus is well traveled for a Narnian due to being connected to the Pevensies and their advisor. Before he met Lucy, I don't think he'd seen much of the world beyond the forest and his home as it wasn't safe to travel. He's yet to do any Milliways' travel.

The Pirate King adores travel, that's why he's a pirate, it gives him an excuse to go all over the world.

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Before the Combine, Gordon had grown up in the Pacific Northwest and attended school in Massachusetts and Austria. I millicanoned his father as an airline pilot, so the family probably traveled a bit more than one might expect, as the tickets were a lot cheaper for them than regular people. The Black Mesa incident happened and he went from new Mexico to another dimension entirely for a while, which was not fun. After the Black Mesa incident Gordon's been to all the inhabited continents via teleporting boat, mostly to kill things; the trip to Africa was more of a checking-in-and-congratulating one, as the people of several Cities there had managed to band together and reclaim those Cities before killing their own damn Gene Worm. He's fine with not traveling that much any more.

Shephard grew up in a small town in mountain country and did not travel very much at all until he joined the Marines, at which point he got sent to boot in South Carolina, the Scout Sniper Basic Course in Quantico, Virginia, Santego Military Base in Arizona, and then the Black Mesa Research Facility in Espanola, New Mexico. Since he joined the Marines partly to get out of Rowlesburg this was just fine with him right up until the oogieboogies shot his Osprey out of the sky. After Black Mesa he was put in storage somewhere and revived twenty years later in East Fucking Wolf's Ass, Middle of Goddamn Nowhere, which turned out to be the approximate vicinity of Fairchance, Pennsylvania. Like Gordon, he's been to both Xen and the Combine Overworld and did not much enjoy either; like Gordon he's been to all the other inhabited continents. He's traveled a bit more since, as he makes regular use of the former Aperture Science research vessel Borealis and has been made its commanding officer; his last trip was to Brazil and fairly soon I suspect he'll take a crew and head for Svalbard, Norway, to crack open the Doomsday Vault.

Ellen spent nineteen years in one place and then spent a lot of time wandering around the vicinity of Washington, DC. In her world she's been as far as Pittsburgh and Point Lookout State Park while on the planet's surface, and she's been aboard a vessel in low Earth orbit, and really has never had travel in her world end up anything but nightmarish. She's visited other people's worlds, which were generally pretty nice. She does not much want to travel in her world again- nightmarish, like I said- but she knows she's going to have to.

Mordin has been ALL OVER THE GALAXY. Not bad, for a salarian his age.

Varric tends to stick around the vicinity of Kirkwall and is not currently enjoying the OOM location we have him and Hawke at. It is underground and he dislikes that concept altogether. Poor dwarf.

Medic has been to many places and does not much remember them as distinct from one another. Mostly they have been places with lots of shooting and exploding.

Santo has traveled to quite a few places as part of his canon (the secret agent movies like Operacion 67 send him farther than the monster-based ones). He doesn't much need to decide to travel on his own; his life takes him places.

Stacker grew up in London, was trained in Scotland, attended a canon conference in South Korea, and has served in the PPDC at multiple locations up and down the Pacific coastline. It might possibly be nice to visit somewhere like the Atacama Desert or the Himalayas someday, but he knows all too well that this will never happen, because he has only so much time left.

Edward Kenway was born in Wales and his family moved to England when he was ten. Most of the rest of his travels have involved sailing around the Caribbean and visiting various islands. He's good with that.

Eriond has been to almost every part of Gara at some point or another.

Henry managed to get himself to Boston from Maine at 11. Since then-- canon has happened. WTF GDI.

Lois is very well-travelled. I think she was born in Germany, I am trying to remember but I believe she's been to Russia, and any number of other places. Military family and her dad's a three (later four) star general. Later she'll get to see Egypt. She's also been to the Arctic circle and something she vaguely remembers as looking like heaven. Considering it was the abode of a jackass sadistic AI that nearly let her and Martha Kent freeze to death... okay, well, the Fortress of Solitude is pretty beautiful. Still. She's also visited an alien dimension! And will visit a post-apocalyptic future. Lois gets to travel all over the place!

Tavi is not as well-travelled as he'd like to be. Most of what he's seen of Alera is the middle latitudes, and only been any real length of time in one major city. On the other hand, he's going to be on both easternmost and westernmost reaches of the Realm in short order. Later, of course, he's going to be one of the best travelled people in Alera who's not a professio-- uh. Well. He is actually a professional messenger of sorts, just he's not allowed to wander all over. But by his forties, yeah, he's going to know Alera really well and have seen Canea, so pretty extensive travel. And maybe one day even more--but it might be wishful thinking.

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