Daily Entertainment: Hot Beverage of Choice Edition!

[damncompass]

Because I am in severe need of my tea this morning due to it being a lovely ten degrees out here in the wilds of New England, I bring you today's Daily Entertainment:

Hot beverages! Does your character drink coffee or tea (or their world's equivalent)? Would they prefer hot cocoa, or do they just not really like hot beverages at all?

Comments

[sdelmonte]

Ah, a classic question.

Kirk has his coffee black. He's something of a coffee addict, and wants nothing to come between him and his caffeine.

Knox likes coffee strong but with lots of sugar and a little milk.

Howard is also a black coffee man.

Cy never got into the hot drink habit. Give him a Soder Cola any time.

Charlie goes for herbal teas, and avoids caffeine.

And Gibbs prefers rum.

[death_gone_mad]

I just found out coffee grounds is a cat repellent, so... I don't know if I have written Amascut enjoying coffee or citrus for that matter. I have written her as enjoying tobacco. Hmm.

I think she may tolerate coffee, but she does prefer hot cocoa. Bitter and dark is fine with her.

For Fairy Fixit, hot cocoa, sweet, is more of an everyday drink but tea is a nice treat. Special, almost.

[1nv1nc1ble]

Early in his canon, Atom Eve tells Invincible that coffee is the preferred drink of superteens, since they work nights and have early mornings. However, Mark is never shown actually drinking coffee. My headcanon says that he does drink it occasionally, but the effects are purely psychosomatic; the caffeine doesn't really affect him. But there's not real preference involved; he drinks it because his mother drinks coffee, so it's what is in the house. He likes it with sugar.

[a_mad_hope]

Karou has a well-developed caffeine addiction. She'll take it any way she can get it upon waking, but usually likes coffee frothy and sweet like they make it at Poison Kitchen, or tea.

Alanna makes her own coffee on the road and it is horrible. Like thick tar. Her friends refuse to drink it. She has been growing more accustomed to tea, in particular George's favorite blend.

Thayet likes tea and hot chocolate.

Jim likes his coffee the way Alanna makes it. That's what he's used to, anyway.

Elizabeth is partial to tea, of course, but any hot beverage is appreciated.

Grace likes anything so long as she has whiskey to put in it.

Derek likes hot chocolate. With marshmallows. Shhhhh.

[damncompass]

Joshua currently is more of a coffee person, with quite a lot of milk and sugar. Helena might win him over to tea eventually, though.

Helena is British and Victorian. She drinks tea with just a bit of milk.

Fantine loves cocoa, and the fact that it's so inexpeinsive in the bar because of modern powders is a wonder to her.

Valentine doesn't really go for hot beverages. She prefers a soda or just water.

Mark's a coffee boy as evidenced by canon. (Let's play Spot where Quinn got that reference from!)

ETA: Also, as for me, I am the official Tea Snob at work. I have a teamaker at my desk, and I drink looseleaf tea like it's going out of style. Adagio and its fandom blends are amazing. I've considered making Milliways blends for people. Just cause.

[sunbaked_baker]

Adagio's fandom blends are a delight. Milliways blends would be awesome!

[damncompass]

I'd possibly be willing to make the blends, if other people would do the coverarts for them. I'm actually pretty good at knowing what's good together. (I've had a lot of tea in my life)

[sunbaked_baker]

I've been labeled the tea guru at work, also. In the past it has been an issue that there is a Teavana located on my way home from work - but Adagio is a bigger problem for my pocketbook, with all its possibilities. ^_^'

It might be an interesting DE - we've done similar ones in the past, with drinks recipies (whether actual ingredients or metaphorical) - for people to try and come up with a tea blend for each of their characters.

[damncompass]

Hm. I might do that tomorrow, actually! That's a good idea. :D

[ceitfianna]

Ooh, Milliways' fandom blends would be fantastic. I keep wanting to try them but haven't yet. My Adagio tea pot is currently packed away.

[genarti]

Enjolras, in life, spent most of his free time in cafés where coffee culture was a big thing. (So was alcohol culture, but he barely drinks, so. Coffee!) Now that he's dead, he's spending all his time in Milliways, so... same thing! He drinks a lot of coffee. He's amenable to tea and hot chocolate too, but doesn't default to them.

If he had a modern understanding of all this stuff, he would probably cut way back on coffee for health and lack of caffeine addiction reasons. He doesn't, so he doesn't and won't.

Thor has had coffee! He thinks it's delicious! (He has also had various spiked coffees, thank you Aphrodite, and ditto.) Caffeine doesn't really do anything to him, though, so he just likes the taste. Same with tea -- I'm not sure if it's an Asgardian thing, at least with Camellia sinensis, but he's certainly had steeped tisanes of various sorts both medicinal and purely beverage. And he has had and enjoys hot cocoa, although Asgard adds a few spices that'd be unusual to human tongues.

Basically Thor likes most (though not all) foodstuffs. So. I don't think he defaults to hot beverages, but he enjoys them.

River drinks and likes tea. She does not like coffee. Hot cocoa's awesome, though! By and large she goes for cold drinks more than hot ones, but that's not a hard and fast thing.

Regan drinks a lot of jasmine tea, although it's decaf after a certain point in the evening. Coffee she's acquired a taste for, and she likes it fine, but she doesn't drink it habitually. Maybe a cup on particularly tired mornings; if so, she likes sweet cappucino or other sweetened milky coffees better than straight-from-the-percolator.

Clare barely consumes foodstuffs. She hasn't had coffee or cocoa; I'm not sure if she's had tea. She doesn't much see the appeal if she has.

Trowa drinks coffee, although he mostly sticks to decaf because he doesn't want to pick up a caffeine addiction -- both on general principles, and because he wants to make sure that if he wants to use coffee as a stimulant it'll be an effective one. He likes tea fine, and drinks it upon occasion -- usually when someone else is offering. Left to his own devices he'll go for green tea or mint tea as often as not, but he'll drink whatever you give him, and he has some private nostalgic associations with a couple of specific varieties (which can be reason to drink that or reason to drink something else, depending on his mood and the context.)

And as for me, I hate coffee, enjoy hot cocoa when I'm in the mood for sugar, and drink tea enough that it probably makes up an appreciable part of my bloodstream by now. Um.

[varadia]

X judges Thor, because caffeine and its side effects are an abomination.

[genarti]

Thor is affronted! (Well, mostly confused.) Caffeine doesn't have any side effects for him. He has had them explained to him, and he thinks they are yet another instance of humans being WEIRD AND SUPER-FRAGILE OH MAN. But he will certainly disclose the strength, caffeinated status, and any additives to any non-Asgardian drinking with him, so that they can make their own informed decisions based on their metabolism. (Just as he'd be like, "That's Earth alcohol! Thaaaaaat is Asgardian mead, uh, remind me of the strength of your constitution again before I give you any?")

X is too judgy. *solemn*

[varadia]

Seriously. X should introduce Thor to Stitch on a caffeine high.

Safely away from civilization.

Maybe on Asgard.

*solemn*

[genarti]

Oh, like Thor wouldn't get a total kick out of that. COME, SMALL BLUE WARRIOR, LET US HAVE SPORT.

Surrounding property might not enjoy it quite as much, of course.

(But Thor'd scruff him and toss them both out to the mountains to have fun there. I bet Stitch could be distracted briefly by the flying.)

[varadia]

X: Now imagine if this happened in that time you were wearing medical scrubs and no one else could throw him, either. Yes. Shh.

[genarti]

Thor still isn't sure why Stitch needing to learn a little better judgment about his personal relationship with recreational stimulants means X needs to get all judgy about everyone else using them without disastrous effect...

(Thor also has a pretty high tolerance for "whoops, there went several pieces of furniture and a chunk of the wall..." as long as it doesn't ruin anyone's livelihood, admittedly.)

[runningred]

I want to see Stitch and Thor play! So very much!

[genarti]

They have, a little! I would be totally up for more whenever Toaster's and my schedules overlap, though. I have tons of fun with them.

[runningred]

You have officially made my night. Thank you!

[1nv1nc1ble]

At least it makes it easier to track people, when they sweat it out.

[sunbaked_baker]

Sunshine - doesn't drink coffee. She is a dedicated tea-drinker, though loves a good hot cocoa from time to time. She has a variety of blends she tends to keep around for various circumstances.

Yrael - likes coffee and most sorts of tea. He tends to stay away from mint teas in general, though, and doesn't much like hot cocoa.

Zelgadiss - tolerates tea and enjoys coffee, but prefers mulled wine.

[ceitfianna]

Will isn't really a coffee or a tea drinker, he'll drink both but he tends to default to ale or whiskey.

Charles loves tea, Earl Grey is his default though he does have points when he drinks coffee, its just not his favorite.

Jane is a tea drinker.

Sameth tends more towards tea but if he's having a warm drink its probably going to be spiced wine.

Ivan needs his coffee.

William needs his coffee as well and truly appreciates the high quality of it in Milliways. What he drinks at home is cowboy coffee which has some coffee in it. Also he enjoys hot chocolate.

Moist needs his coffee but will drink tea if it makes more sense with whoever he's around.

Demeter tends to drink tea more than coffee though sometimes she does like a proper Greek coffee.

Tumnus is a tea drinker.

The Pirate King is a tea drinker as well, Ruth makes good tea.

I'm a tea drinker since I don't like coffee and living in New Zealand just confirmed how much I love it.

[souffle_girlek]

Ace: Prefers hot cocoa. Drinks tea, but frquently doesn't have the patience to do it right - thus people who bring her well-made tea are awesome.

Clara: Not only makes tea, she makes good tea. This is something of a self-defense mechanism around the Doctor. She will, however, have coffee on the more trying days.

Oswin: ... Would like a cocktail please. Though she'll take a chai tea if it's available.

Bones: Wants coffee. So much coffee.

Katya: Will take sbiten, thank you.

Blakeney: Is a bit confused about the whole question.

Glorfindel: He'll have a nice mulled wine, if you have it.

Simmons: While she does like tea, there's nothing quite like coffee for getting through a long lab day. Or... you know. Lab several days because you got distracted and sleep is boring.

Haymitch: Doesn't have time for hot drinks - he'll take his alcohol straight out of the bottle.

[cameoflage]

Thurlow once died from drinking too many cups of the dangerously potent Neathy variety of coffee (though they were not exactly in the best health at the time). This has not happened to them yet in Milli-continuity, but it was immortalized on their Tumblr blog.

They're not a morning person at all, so a cup of less aggressive coffee is nice to wake up with. They save the Darkdrop Coffee for when they need to get an extraordinary number of things done. In addition to the overdose potential I just illustrated, it's also hard to get ahold of.

Tea, on the other hand, is a staple of their diet.

I personally hate the taste of coffee (which is unfortunate because I love the smell) and find that the caffeination just vanishes into my system and never comes back out. (ADHD makes stimulants act weird.) I like tea with copious amounts of sugar, and hot chocolate. Generally I drink juice or soda, though, because it takes less effort to pour out a glass or fetch a bottle/can from the fridge than to brew tea or mix cocoa.

[not_my_sandbox]

I personally hate the taste of coffee (which is unfortunate because I love the smell) and find that the caffeination just vanishes into my system and never comes back out. (ADHD makes stimulants act weird.)

Are you me?

[cameoflage]

Maybe if time travel is involved!

[runningred]

Jay runs on coffee. Without it, he dies! It's Alfred's fault really but he's had a serious caffeine addiction since he was twelve.

Daoud like herbal tea because he knows how to prepare and blend himself. He has several special blends he keeps for special occasions.

[fluffiest_archadian]

Yugo drinks tea or hot chocolate if he drinks hot drinks at all. Mostly he's a water and fruit juice kind of guy, though.

Sherral drinks black tea, with no sugar and only occasionally milk. Not very good tea, it should be noted: Good tea does not comprise a large part of the Archadian Army's supplies, and even when it does, he drinks what's proverbially known as 'a builder's brew' - that is to say weak, rather watery tea.

Wan is also a tea drinker, although he drinks green tea primarily. That's when he drinks tea at all: Like Yugo, he's mostly just water.