DE: Could you not?

[bjornwilde]

Inspired by a past idea and this morning's nutty chorus of dishes and excited birds, I give you today's topic:

How well does your pup take people messing with their systems, be it chores, filing or whatever?

Addendum:  Also, if you could step this way, we have a new contact/roll call post up.

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[1nv1nc1ble]

Mark has his comics properly bagged, boarded, and boxed, in correct alphabetical and chronological order. Mess with them at your peril. (Peril of never being invited over to his house again, that is.)

[bjornwilde]

Hank is a pretty easy going guy but don't mess with his lab notes. It wouldn't be pretty.

Jess and Anton seem pretty easy going as far as disruptions to their systems go.

Andrea is wound enough that I wouldn't advise altering the layout of her Armory, i.e. the Atlanta Chapter of the Order. She is also quite diligent about people signing out their weapons and ammo, so it's just better to fill out the paperwork.

Brimstone and his house staff had some period of adjustment while they figured out each other's methods but now all is good. (He finally adapted to Issa and knows to leave Yasri the kitchen.)

[gavin62truck]

I don't think Tommy has a system for anything, it's just that he's highly territorial and has a defined personal space. At work everyone pretty much knows the rules: don't move his gear; don't leave your stuff in his space; don't sit in his seat in the truck. Mess up and he'll bite your head off.

Lou is a slob with a system. Clothes that smell go in one pile; clothes that have been worn but don't smell yet go in another. Don't move anything from any of the piles without telling him or else...well, he won't care much, really.

[lady_bols]

When Alex was younger, she was damn nigh neurotic about keeping her research and her investigative notes in a proper order. That lasted about six months. Now her system is knowing which stack of books and papers belong to which stack of files and photographs. Messing with it will still get you glared at.

Sherlock's system ostensibly involves knowing exactly what is where by the layers of dust, and he gets very cranky if anything is disturbed. (Which is really the only reason for the dust, so he can tell if it's been disturbed.)

Dejah's a meticulous note taker, and keeps her research organized, though other people may not quite understand the way she files things. Her research assistants have to take notes on her system, and when it's disrupted, she's fairly calm about it. When things get lost or destroyed, people get assigned to cleaning the atmosphere generators.

[genarti]

Thor: hahahaha system. He has people for that! He wouldn't take kindly to people messing with this stuff, but that's a little different, and he's entirely willing to roll with schedule changes.

Trowa: Any system people would have access to is one he doesn't mind being messed with. I mean, yes, if you put the dishes back in the wrong places or rearrange his books or throw off the chore rotation he'll mind a little, but he'll mostly just use that for information-gathering and do what he needs to do around it. The only time he'd really mind is if it interfered with the lions getting fed on time or something, and even then he'd mostly be annoyed at himself for not making sufficient allowances for other people being incompetent.

If someone managed to mess with his locked-down computer files or his brain -- yes. He would be annoyed. Let's say that.

River: Is pretty fine with it! She also doesn't have a lot of external systems, and what she does have are mostly set up by others and used by plenty of crewmates anyway. She'd be briefly irked if you messed with the stuff in her room, but as long as you told her where it was or she found it fast, she wouldn't care.

Regan: Would be piqued. She'd deal with it, but she'd be annoyed.

Clare: Sys...tem...? Clare doesn't have enough stuff or enough needs to have a system anyone could mess with.

Enjolras: Depends on the context? I suspect that in terms of filing, he's mostly got the "this thing is in THAT pile" kind of system that's fairly easy to helpfully mess with. But he also tends to be around when other people are doing anything with it, and some of it's shared stuff anyway. So either he's there to make a mental note that, oh, Prouvaire was looking through that stuff, so if anything is awry I can figure it out, or it's someone like Combeferre or Courfeyrac who knows him and his papers well enough to put it all back where he'd look for it anyway. Other than that, Enjolras might be mildly irked, but he's also pretty easy-going on most subjects, so he'd deal.

[whatisastiles]

Routines and systems are a big part of how Stiles manages his ADHD. He still sticks to some of the same routines his mom helped him with when he was first diagnosed... stuff like getting up for school at the same time each day, taking a shower, eating breakfast, and taking his meds in the same order. The same goes for organizing his stuff. If he didn't keep his school things labeled or didn't put things in his room back in place immediately, he'd constantly lose track of stuff.

Interruptions definitely throw him off, which is really frustrating at times like when he does a really great job on an assignment, but then neglects to actually bring it to school with him. Deviations from his routine drastically increase the odds that he'll think it's a good idea to double up on his daily Adderal dosage in an attempt to power through a bunch of work.

For the record, Scott turning into a werewolf is a major deviation from any normal routine.

[road_to_calvary]

Gene - has no system. Gene needs no system.

If you question him on any method he chooses to employ, he'll glare and yell at you, of course. But he'd probably do that anyway, so no biggie.

Bruce Wayne - has no one around I'm who would really mess with anything he does.

Bruce Banner - as above. When he does have people around, he's not really anal about anything. He'd get irked if somebody lost something important, but ironically, he plays pretty well with others. When it comes to science, at least.

Valjean - has routines. For example, when he likes to go out and walk, etc. If these get messed with, they get messed with. He doesn't stress about things like that at all, and prioritises everybody above himself anyway, so yeah. Actually, it's just struck me as odd, seeing as he spent so long in an institution. But perhaps his epiphany broke him free of everything, even the routine stuff.

Javert - I really want to say…just don't. Do not mess with his stuff. But the fact is, Javert's not nearly as inflexible as he could be. Yes, he has ways of doing things - but if, for example, a superior came in and needed him for something else, he wouldn't sweat it. If a patrol ran long, and meant he had to leave some paperwork until later, that's fine. He'll just work late to finish it. He's more thrown off by people who mess with his mental balance than anything else. Things like papers and chores are just things he does as and when they need doing, rather than a rigid marker of his days, and life.