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How does your pup feel about the seas, about boats, about swimming, and that type of stuff in general?

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Jess is fine with it and I even have a headcanon that she loves surfing; in fact one thing she really misses about California is the Pacific Ocean.

Mulan is hinting that she does not like boats, perhaps it's being out of control? I'm sure she'd stand there on deck all stoic but inside would be screaming.

Quinlan almost died in some vicious tides when he was a young padawan. He's mostly over it but doesn't seek out water ways if he has a choice.

Anton has a healthy respect for natural sources of water. I know canon hasn't touched on whether the Twilight exists in oceans, lakes or rivers but the rusalka are a slavic myth.

Poor Quinlan! Although now I am picturing him washing up in the Lake out back as a padawan.

Annabelle is perfectly fine with boats and swimming. She's actually quite a good swimmer, thanks to her general athleticism. She's probably not up to piloting a boat though.

Kreyu is likewise perfectly fine with boats and water, she's even spent years at a time being aquatic creatures of various kinds.

It occurs to me that Ibani has never seen standing liquid water before, or a water going vessel. (Illum was too cold for liquid water, and Korriban is way too dry.)

Henry: ... probably once thought it'd be neat to visit. By current canon... not so sure.

Eriond: likes it just fine. They make for nice trips, and he used to fish with Durnik, until Things Happened and Durnik stopped fishing.

Lois: Likes the beach fine, had a one-episode relationship with Arthur Curry so she has complicated feelings.

Tavi: ...

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

...Right. *clears throat*

He hasn't actually had any experience with seas and sailing yet. He will get to that point in canon this spring. He thinks being under water and seeing sharks and leviathans is incredibly cool. That said? He gets his reaction from his father: utterly miserable sea-sickness. SAILING IS NOT HIS THING.

(And yet he spends close to a year at sea, adding up the time over books four and five and six.)

Gene quite likes them. He's got the blueprints of some old ships behind his desk in Life on Mars (which may mean he did his National Service in the Navy, but it's too late to retcon the Army Millicanon I've given him) - I suspect the romance of a life on the High Seas quite appeals to him, though he would never admit it. And 70s!Gene likes swimming. Or his version of it, which is basically bombing into the pool, play-drowning people and doing mad jumps off the diving board.

Bruce Wayne - has a yacht. He's still ambivalent to boats. He doesn't have strong feelings either way about swimming, beyond recognising that it's a good cardio workout.

Bruce Banner - as above, only without the yacht ownership.

Javert - grew up in, or near, a big shipping town. He was around them until he was around thirty-five (musical canon anyway; he may have left Toulon a little earlier in the book). A big part of his guard work was watching over the prisoners as they pulled apart/repaired the Navy's wrecked galleys. So ships are irrevocably linked to Toulon in his head, and as such, both a good and bad memory. He hated his childhood, but is proud of his life as a guard. Or was, until recently.

Valjean - as a former galley slave, lets just say he's not keen.

At the same time, the ships gave him his escape the second time he was locked up. He saved a guard's life, and used a 'fall' off the rigging to swim to freedom so he concedes they have their uses. And if he could travel, he wouldn't mind using them.

Ellen gets seasick and generally tries to find a spot in the middle of the boat where she doesn't have to look at anything and just waits for the first opportunity to bolt for land. Mind you, she's been on a boat all of twice and it was the Duchess Gambit going to and from Point Lookout. She can swim; they had a very small therapeutic 'infinite pool' in Vault 101 that was kept for allowing injured people to exercise and self-rehabilitate. (Pure headcanon- the Lone Wanderer can swim in game despite there being no visible opportunities to learn while still in Vault 101, so I had to figure out an explanation. I assume the therapy pool is in the part of the Vault where they keep their supplies stored and so on.)

Gordon likes swimming and is not much fussed one way or the other about boats. He grew up in Seattle and used to like watching the birds and sea lions and such around Puget Sound when he got the opportunity to do so.

Shephard grew up with a good-sized river close at hand, learned to swim young, and tends to think in terms of one- or two-man craft when it comes to boats- canoes, kayaks, whitewater rafts, rowboats, that kind of thing. So naturally he wound up making friends with the pre-deranged-for-your-convenience Aperture Science AI on board the Resistance's one real ocean vessel and has since been given command of said ship. He's taking lessons with Bumi on how not to wreck the ship and be a respectable captain. (Comparatively. Shut up.)

Varric is not a big fan of oceans. He's a dwarf, and very dense muscle-wise. He tends to sink. On boats, he makes a point of getting the nicest cabin he can so he has no need to ever come out and deal with the water.

Medic can swim and can manage himself under water very well indeed, if his swimming animations in the game are anything to go by, but I don't think he goes out of his way to visit the seaside, let alone take sea voyages.

Mordin's species is amphibious. I suspect once they metamorphose into their land forms they can swim pretty much from the instant they have limbs. He has claimed to want to take a vacation on the seashore somewhere and admitted that he would just wind up running tests and experiments on the seashells. I suspect that he would be happiest at sea if the ship he were on were Calypso.

Stacker used to quite like the ocean. Then kaiju started coming out of it.

I'm not sure what Santo's attitude towards the sea in general is, but he swims pretty well in Santo contra Blue Demon en la Atlántida.

And Edward's a pirate who originally took to the sea as a privateer in an effort to rack up enough of a fortune to buy himself some real respect and station in society. He's very, very fond of being at sea, and he can swim ridiculously well. He can hold his breath a long time, too- there are underwater missions where he goes quite a long way between air barrels- and has on at least one occasion wrestled a shark until it decided to go bother somebody else. He's also quite happily gone harpooning to bring in fresh meat and trade goods on more than one occasion. (This is part of the game- you can harpoon several species of sharks and whales, and their skin and bones can be crafted into things or sold. Since your crewmen occasionally say things like 'fancy some fresh meat, captain?' when you pass breaching sharks or whales I assume the meat gets eaten rather than sold. It's not part of the game I enjoy, but it's not mandatory, so I generally avoid it where I can.)

Mark is from Riverside, which is about 50 miles from the beaches on the other side of the Los Angeles mega-city. I have no doubt that the Graysons have gone to the beach numerous times as a family, prior to the events of Invincible, and that Mark enjoys it. He swims as well as any American kid who took swim lessons at the local pool or YMCA does, though with his powers it's less of an issue (why try to swim in rough seas when you can outfly the storm?).

Clara: Grew up around water, though I imagine her actual swimming experience isn't extensive - she can swim, but no one's going for a swim in the Thames in London.

Oswin: Is a bit confused by the idea of a body of water large enough that you can't cross it in a day. She's lived on hyper-colonized planets, where every square inch is accounted for ... and the Dalek planet. So. If she wasn't terrified out of the outside, she'd be very curious about the lake. She probably knows the idea of swimming... I don't know that she knows how to that well. >.> Thaaat could be interesting. :D

Simmons: Is quite capable of swimming, actually, and understands the mechanics of sailing, if nothing else. She doesn't mind going swimming either, though being in a lab is more interesting.

Katya: Loves to swim - her house in the country was right up against a lake. She grew up when sailing/steam power was the way to get across major bodies of water, so that's not a problem for her at all.

Blakeney: Is a navel officer, in the middle of the Atlantic. He's fiiiiine. Except for the lack of arm.

Bones: Is okay with swimming (is more okay with making everyone else swim for the cardio benefit), and kind of makes a bemused face at sailing. Seems like a lot of effort to him for little reward.

Haymitch: Nope. Nope nope nope. The large bodies of water in his Games were poisoned. He takes showers, thanks.

Glorfindel: Is beyond fine with swimming and sailing and all the watery things. It's so much easier to sail than, say, walk across an ice bridge.

Ace: Has variable success with swimming. She knows how, and can well (she was once a stand-in Lady of the Lake), but the Cheetah virus sometimes messes with her perceptions enough to make swimming distinctly unpleasant.

Tommy is fairly indifferent. He can swim (when he was a little kid his dad threw him into a pool to force him to learn), he doesn't mind going on boats but won't be caught dead on the Staten Island ferry, and he's pretty neutral about the beach except for the fact that he gets sunburned easily. He's just very much a city boy and there's nothing particularly appealing one way or another about the open water.

Lou, on the other hand, thinks the sea is great and would love to retire and take up sailing. He thinks this now, but in all actuality, he has no sea legs whatsoever. He can't even stand upright on a floating pier, much less set foot on a boat. I wish the clip from the show was on Youtube, but it's not.

Amascut is surprisingly comfortable with sailing and swimming and the oceans despite being a not!cat. Perhaps she got something like fishing cat or tiger or jaguar in her. The lions on her world definitely aren't Earth lions and with her being called The Lioness sometimes, Gielinor lions might be swimming cats. Either that or its because her mother is a river goddess. Anyhow, her comfort with water will come in useful later, as Keli Raven grows up to be a criminal mastermind and pirate of some renown by the time canon happens.

Fairy Fixit... well... that is harder to determine. It doesn't look like she installed a fairy ring on a boat or floating platform out on the ocean, but there are some installed on beaches and more importantly, some small isolated islands that are unremarkable except for the fact that there is a fairy ring on them. She (or some other fairy, admittedly) had to get out to those islands somehow. I am guessing that Zanaris fairies, being fairly insect like, aren't very comfortable with vast expanses of water, however. The Zanaris fairies are, on the other hand, fairly adventurous. I'll say she doesn't like that stuff but she is brave about it.

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Mary's fiancé died on this little boat called the Titanic? She feels guilty about it, because she didn't want to marry him and was kind of relieved to get out of the marriage.

Yugo can swim. He's neither an incredibly strong swimmer, nor a particularly weak one - he can swim roughly as well as a physically fit young man who was raised in a coastal city and had enough money growing up to go to swimming pools. He doesn't go swimming in Tokyo Bay, though, because - why, why would you do that.

(Also, swimming in Tokyo Bay in Kamen Rider is like hiking. You will die if you do either activity.)

As far as the beach goes, he's been a few times. He's usually the one splashing about in the water and generally being a goof. As far as boats go, he's probably never been on one, except maybe a ferry to Odaiba. He's never had much need to - which almost certainly means he'd be incredibly seasick.

Sherral is an incredibly strong swimmer, enough so that he can swim at least some distance in his armour - like most armies (because having soldiers who can't swim is a recipe for disaster the moment you encounter a river), the Archadian army trains its recruits in swimming, so he had that.

Growing up, he was probably a pretty strong swimmer anyway, but not an eager swimmer, because when you live somewhere very cold like the north of the Empire, jumping into cold water isn't an appealing prospect. And now he's stationed in a desert.

He's fine with boats, although he's never been on one - most travel in the Empire and elsewhere is done by airship, and travel by boats is more of a leisure activity. The Empire has a navy, but it's very small and basically exists to defend against sea monsters.

(It also has submariners. They are, naturally, the subject of intense amounts of scorn amongst every other part of the Archadian military.)

Wan has never been near a significantly sized body of water in his entire life. He lives on a lionturtle. An inland lionturtle, and there are no lakes or rivers on that lionturtle, although there might be wells.

As a result, he probably never learned to swim. One day, he'll have to, but at the point he'll be coming in from canon, if he fell into the lake somewhere where it was deep, he would drown.

This also means he has never been on a boat or to the beach. He also has absolutely no idea what a boat or a beach is.

Gibbs is a pirate. As such, he loves the sea and he hates it. He feels at home. And fears every moment he's on a ship. It's home. It's his eventual grave.

Kirk has a distant romantic idea of the sea, but rarely goes near it. That whole idea of spaceships=boats is engrained in him, but he really has no idea. He can swim if he needs to.

Knox is a landlubber. To him, boats are either those things his ancestors came to America on, or the things that circle Gotham's islands with tourists. He can barely swim. He hates the beach, and given the state of Gotham's beaches and water, who can blame him?

For Charlie, water is death. His first near-death experience involved near-drowning. Whether he is aware of it or not, he is never comfortable on boats. And yet he bought a lighthouse, maybe because lighthouses are a way to protect against watery doom.

Cy can't swim these days. Boats are too slow. And he worries about the possibility of a short. He's not at all afraid of the water. He just avoids it.

And Howard regards the seas as something you learn to fly above. Beaches are fine - he is from LA, after all - but water is best viewed from 20,00 feet.

WELL. Nita kind of had that thing where she turned into a whale and re-enacted the Sea's version of the Adam and Eve story. It's not inaccurate to say the sea is in her blood. More recent canon has also shown her developing an affinity for working with water as an element.

She's a decent swimmer, although honestly if she's going swimming in the lake at Milliways or the ocean at home, she'd kind of rather be humpback whale-shaped.

Kim regards the ocean with a healthy level of mistrust. Sailing is dangerous as hell, and she's seen enough weathered sailors down at the docks to know she doesn't much want to go to sea.

I'm pretty sure, given the way her canon usually works, that she'd get seasick and be incredibly grumpy about it.

Epimetheus is pretty ambivalent about the ocean. Oceanus is technically his uncle/grandfather; his mother (either Clymene or Asia) is an Oceanid, an ocean nymph. On the other hand, he has zero warm feelings for Poseidon.

This ambivalence might explain why he populated the waters of the Earth with majestic creatures like dolphins and whale sharks and cuttlefish, but also with all this bullshit.

Thor likes boats fine! He tends to assume any ship (or even boat) of any substance greater than a canoe/rowboat/etc can also fly, though, until evidence indicates otherwise. Swimming's not particularly a draw for him in and of itself, but he swims well -- he grew up right by an ocean, so. He might sink unless exerting himself otherwise, though.

Enjolras... you know, I'm not sure he's ever been on a boat, or to the sea. And only gamins swim in the Seine. I think he knows how to swim -- learned in chilly mountain rivers, or something -- but he's not all that strong a swimmer, and he doesn't really see the appeal of any of it. He grew up in the mountains, not on the coast.

Clare... I think can swim? We see her in water, so she's certainly comfortable with lakes and ponds, but I can't remember if we see her actually swimming per se. I'm pretty sure it's a skill she would have been taught, though. She's seen ocean beaches, but never crossed the ocean. Not sure she's ever been in a boat -- hers is not a seafaring society at all, and they don't have any large inland bodies of water that we see.

Trowa doesn't have any strong feelings. He's probably used submarine robots? He knows at least in theory how to steer a ship of his era, although I'm not sure he's ever actually done it? He knows how to swim, I'd assume, although he hasn't necessarily done it often. Mostly he's either land-based or air-based, so yeah.

River is kind of in Thor's camp about flying, but she likes ships fine! Especially ones beloved by the humans on them, and/or ones where people let her climb around in rigging. She's more inclined to wading than swimming, although she knows how. (Obviously, she likes spaceships, but that's different.)

Regan likes swimming for exercise and loves the ocean, but basically as a tourist. She appreciates its beauty, but she doesn't know the sea like someone who lives near it and works on it instead of going on family vacations every so often. Boating or sailing for pleasure is on the list of "if I had infinite time, I would take up this hobby" activities she's never gotten to.

Will knows how to swim and enjoys it, in his time that was one of the best ways to get clean. He prefers lakes to oceans as oceans feel a bit too big to him.

Charles enjoys the beach and lakes and is a strong swimmer. I imagine him going on seaside trips to the Hamptons or Bath with his family and he grew up near the Hudson River. Also he knows how to handle a boat as that's something a gentlemen did in his mother's mind and also attending Oxford. I imagine he took a few friends out punting, also I can see him watching crew teams and all.

Moist likes water, but he tends to be suspicious of rivers, Uberwald has a lot of fast and deep ones that sometimes have wolves around. He loves hot springs, but doesn't know much about sailing.

Sameth has complicated feelings about water. Belisaere is on a penisula, so he grew up beside water and knows how to boat and there were a few family holidays of going to the beach or boating with his father. Somersby is based on an English boarding school so swimming and boating would be involved. Yet he still has dreams about being pulled under the swift river of Death, so complicated but he's a strong swimmer and boater.

William knows how to swim and loves reading about the ocean and spending his time near water, but in his current life, water is what you need to keep the ranch going.

Jane loves being by the water and there's a river not far from where she grew up. I imagine she knows how to swim but hasn't done it in a while, its not something ladies do in her era. She loves boats and is fascinated by the world of the sea, this comes through in a lot of her works.

Ivan is a comfortable and strong swimmer, he grew up swimming and boating on Vorkosigan Surleau with Gregor and Miles and Elena. Though his favorite activity near a beach is to sit and do nothing.

Tumnus likes looking at rivers and the ocean but would rather wade than swim. His fur takes a while to dry.

The Pirate King adores swimming and water, that's why he's a pirate.

Jim is...probably indifferent about it. The sea doesn't show up at any point in the movie, though it isn't an especially long drive there from Burbank. Let me put it this way: he's no sailor.

Leela spent the first 20 or so years of her life completely removed from any body of water larger than a lake or a pond. Her first experience of it (that we know of) is in the lighthouse on Fang Rock, though the Past Doctor Adventure Book Eye of Heaven takes place partially on Easter Island and features Leela stabbing a shark and riding inside of a whale carcass. So yeah, she's able to manage it just fine, though I wouldn't make her the captain or pilot of a ship anytime soon.

Kane has had thousands of years to learn to swim and sail a ship. It's a safe bet he can do it. I'd imagine he thinks of the ocean primarily in terms of military strategy, though not as much as you'd think. Now that Tiberium exists on every continent, he does not need to rely so much on shipping lanes to keep his armies supplied. One of the many benefits of decentralization.

Caius has seen damn near every coast the authority of the Emperor touches. The sea is the only limit of the Empire's glory, as Uriel V learned. It also inspires him as it inspires others, though - reminds him of the power and grandeur of the gods, and the place of mortals in the world. He can swim, like all characters and NPCs in Morrowind, though he's no sailor.

Garyn is more or less indifferent to the sea. It's big, it's wet, it's there. Topal Bay more or less marked the range of the Leyawiin Fighters' Guild's operations, and so that has at least some meaning for him. And again, he can swim, though his biggest sea journey (from Cyrodil to Seyda Neen) didn't treat him so well.

Marge is from small-town Minnesota, thousands of miles from any sea. The closest she probably gets with any regularity is on trips to Duluth when she sees Lake Superior, which stretches to the horizon just like the sea does. Duluth's a bit of a haul from Brainerd, though - about 2 hours. I'd also like to think she went someplace by the sea on her honeymoon. (Florida, probably). The ability to swim doesn't come up anywhere in the movie, but I'd imagine she can. There's certainly no shortage of water. There's a big boating culture in Minnesota (especially big considering we're, y'know, landlocked), though I'm not sure if she and Norm could afford a boat. Given that they seem to have waited quite a ways into their marriage to have a kid, it seems likely that they don't. But you never know with Minnesotans. We like boats.

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Sariel admits a bit of a sea/ocean bias, as she grew up on a tropical island. Swimming was a given. She's better at handling air or spacefaring craft, but she's been in a few water-traveling boats in her lifetime too.

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