Daily Entertainment: Snow Edition!

[damncompass]

So, it's snowy in New England, and I'm at home (backpain sucks, yo). Hope everyone else out there is snug and warm!

Thus, I give you:

Winter Weather! Does your character live in an area that gets snow? What do they think of it? Do they love it or would they rather it just go away?

Comments

[road_to_calvary]

Gene - it doesn't snow in Manchester all that often (and even less in London), and when it does its usually just enough to be a pain in the arse. He moans about it, though he does like the way it adds skid to his usual mad driving. And when it comes down properly, he'd not at all adverse to a snowball fight.

Bruce Banner - is not currently in a place where it snows, and won't be for the next few years. Growing up in Ohio, he's had his fill of the stuff anyway.

Bruce Wayne - puts up with it when it happens.

Javert and Valjean - Paris gets it fairly often. It's more of an inconvenience to Javert, as he spends his life walking the streets. He just puts up with it, though quietly wishes it would go away fairly often. He's from the south, and they don't do snow there.

Valjean likes it more, at least to look at - he's from the south too, but is generally less arsey about things than Javert. He does worry more about the poor in winter though, and spends extra time/money on giving out clothes and alms.

[camwyn]

Gordon is originally from Seattle, and did not really get serious snow until he went off to MIT for college. He thinks it's all right but is not especially thrilled by it.

Adrian Shephard is from mountain country in West Virginia. They don't get as much snow there as he might have liked as a kid, but it takes forever for the stuff to melt, which was fine with him (at least until he got old enough to ride a motorcycle). He does like ice hockey and skating on ponds and lakes, though.

Ellen lives in the Capital Wasteland. She only has weather because I millicanoned that she did, because as far as the game engine is concerned it's always sunny and dry there. She spent the first nineteen years of her life without any kind of environmental variation at all, too. The snow her first winter at Milliways was bewildering, to say the least.

Medic does not mind snow, though he finds it annoying on workdays. I suspect he does cross country skiing or snowshoeing or something like that.

Not sure about Mordin's reaction to snow but the image of a salarian bundled up like a five-year-old in a snowsuit and stocking cap is kind of appealing.

Varric thinks snow is pretty for the first five minutes, and then turns dirty and nasty, and because he lives in Kirkwall he is probably right.

Santo rather likes snow, not that he gets it much. It snowed in Mexico City on January 12th, 1967; otherwise, if he wants to see snow in his home area, he has to go into the mountains outside the city.

Stacker Pentecost is more or less indifferent to it, which is something of an accomplishment after his time stationed in Alaska.

Edward Kenway has a few very vague childhood memories of snow in Swansea. Not so much interaction with the stuff after that.

[bjornwilde]

Jessica Drew now lives in New York City and enjoys snow I think, when it isn't causing problems. I can see her having fun with random snow balls. I am also now wondering if her wall clinging powers work on ice or if she needs to be careful of her landings.

Anton lives in Moscow and so yes he gets snow. I don't think he has much of an opinion since it's just part of life. He does like seeing children playing in it though.

That's all I have for now.

[damncompass]

Joshua grew up in the Midwest. There was definitely snow. He can take or leave it, frankly. It's pretty, but if it's keeping him from going where he needs to, he'd rather it go away.

Helena didn't see much snow in London, and is a bit fascinated by it. She'd just rather not be the one producing it.

Valentine and Fantine just see snow as a pain.

Mark just think it's too damn cold. It lost its mystery years ago.

[not_my_sandbox]

Amascut occasionally lives with it when she pretends to be someone from a northern country and puts up with it when there is some important thing to do up north, but she much prefers the sun and heat. She's very much a daddy's girl (daughter of the sun and all) and a not!cat (because what cat doesn't like warmth?) in that way.

Fairy Fixit lives on a very climate controlled moon. The wind doesn't seem to blow there. She probably knows what snow is, since the Zanaris fairies are partially responsible for weather. Her job has taken her to snowy places too. I don't imagine she likes it all that much. She's got a high surface area to volume ratio, so she loses heat easily.

[sdelmonte]

Gibbs has been in the Caribbean for so long that he never, ever wants to see snow again. He didn't leave the UK to avoid it, but he is so glad there is no cold weather where he is now.

Knox lives in Gotham, which is of course NYC only with more of everything. And many, many years ago, to account for a prolonged absence from the Bar, he was stuck covering a massive manmade blizzard foisted on Gotham and Metropolis by Lex Luthor. And he also nearly died during a snowstorm in an alternate Russia. So he has come to hate the snow, and it makes him a bit anxious. But like a true Gothamite, he never lets it stop him from getting to work.

Cy grew up in a city on the California coast analogous to San Francisco, so he didn't see much snow till travel as a Titan took him into the cold. He's okay with snow, as long as he can insulate himself properly. Snowball fights and snowmen are fun, shorting is not. And odds are his systems work better in the cold.

Howard grew up in Detroit, and like Gibbs, he is not unhappy to be freed of cold winters and blizzards. He will gladly do what he can to avoid winter.

And Kirk...I would assume that in his future, Earth is less cold, due to the lingering effects of global warming, and has less extreme weather, due to the introduction of weather-modification technology. He saw snow in Iowa, but it wasn't the sort we know. Cold weather eventually became just another thing you deal with in as an explorer. And the fact that he didn't freeze to death at the Klingon penal colony and didn't complain about the cold probably proves the point. That said, if you were to ask him to help build a snowman, he might.