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ways_back_room2014-03-20 09:02 am
damncompass) wrote in ways_back_room2014-03-20 09:02 am
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Daily Entertainment - Money Edition!
Today, Dear Milliways, I have no voice, so I'll leave you with this:
If your character won the lottery, what would they do with it? Would they spend it, donate it, or put it away for a rainy day?
If your character won the lottery, what would they do with it? Would they spend it, donate it, or put it away for a rainy day?
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Bruce Wayne - donate the lot. He doesn't need any more money.
Bruce Banner - hide most of it, and then when he got somewhere where he felt safe, spend it on research for a cure.
Valjean - spend it all on the poor. Builds schools, donate to hospitals, feed and clothe people. Keep some more aside for Cosette. He wouldn't spend a cent on himself.
Robin - live the life of a country squire. He'd be fair to his employees though, and wouldn't use serfs. He'd pay the taxes of the local villages to get John off their backs, and basically spread the wealth through the economy, by creating employment and helping people build lives with jobs and markets.
Javert - I have to leave him until last because I have no idea. I don't think he'd know either. Sit and stare at all the money for a while. Freak out. Have another crisis about the best thing to do with it. He can't give it to the poor, because he doesn't believe in that kind of charity. He can't retire from work, because that defines him. He can't be lazy. He doesn't do anything but be a copper. He doesn't covet wealth.
At this point in his development, he'd probably just shove it at Valjean and say 'do what you do, but I don't want to hear a word about it', and then pretend he didn't just do something nice.
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Knox would stash most of it away, keep his job for a while, eventually quit, become a freelancer or a novelist, and eventually retire to Palm Springs.
Howard would laugh. He won the World War II Arms Merchant Lottery already.
Gibbs would spend it on rum. He'd be broke, beat up and inebriated after two days.
Cy would plow it back into the mysterious Teen Titans operating fund.
And Charlie wouldn't play in the first place.
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Elle and Asami are both independently wealthy enough that it wouldn't mean a lot to them. They'd probably donate (for Elle, this means 'contribute toward others she knows') and save or invest some, but. It's really uninteresting.
Hiccup and Marceline live in settings where an overabundance of currency holds no real meaning for them. For Marceline this may mean independent wealth, I don't know, Ooo is weird. Hiccup's situation is just... self-sufficient enough that there's no where for this flood of cash to go? Maybe he could make sure the village always had resources for trade, but. It just doesn't really fit for his setting.
Katara could theoretically live comfortably some place forever, but she's not going to, and wealth doesn't necessarily protect one from a war like she's experiencing in her world. If she did come upon some huge amount of currency/resources, she'd probably create some kind of fund to use it to protect/ensure the survival of the Southern Water Tribe. And maybe also her family individually, as that should happen.
Money also doesn't carry a lot of weight in the Land of the Dead, but Manny could probably find a way to invest in what he's doing while ... waiting around.
Leslie would still work in government, but she might have a nicer house and own a few props from the Harry Potter movies, as well as making a lot of donations to the parks service and various charities.
Will lives very frugally, enough so that even if he were to leave working with the FBI and go back to Louisiana and fix boat motors, his standard of living would change very little. So having more cash isn't likely to change his situation very much, as he's not in the position he's in for the money in the first place. But he should probably save it. Vulgar legal advice doesn't come free.
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Hank would donate about half to NASA and use the rest for his own experiments or to fund tech for the X-Men.
Mulan would give a fair chuck to Aurora and Philip so they could rebuild their kingdom more easily and give the rest to the local farmers but this is assuming there is a way to turn the gold into materials since there likely isn't an economy in FTL at the moment.
Brimstone would set it aside for Karou.
Anton would host a party for his team members, buy a home, and then set the rest aside in case his daughter needs it.
Quinlan would buy a new starship and medical supplies to distribute among the outer rim.
Andrea would be another who would buy a home, set aside maybe a third of what's left, and then donate the rest to a charity that helps orphaned shapeshifter children.
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Thor seriously has no need of money at this point. He'd accept it if it seemed like it would be an insult to do otherwise, but then he'd... I dunno, give it to Bar as generalized largess for those who need it, or add it to Asgard's coffers, or whatever.
Trowa would put some of it away for a rainy day, stash some of it untraceably for a REALLY rainy day of the 'government collapsing, war impending or needing to be headed off' sort, give some of it to Catherine, and donate some.
Clare also has no need of money. Clare has very few needs, is the thing -- she barely eats, sleeps outdoors by preference, doesn't need much clothing, doesn't use fancy equipment, etc. Like all Claymores, she gets a stipend, and like all Claymores she's built up a sizable store of cash because she has nothing she cares to spend it on. So this would get added to that stash, and forgotten about until she needed to bribe someone or pay for something a human needed.
River has kinda had this happen -- thanks, Crowley, and thanks, Mal's investment of Milliways 'antiquities' -- and the answer is, as always, that she would use some of it if needed for whatever Serenity could use in the way of repairs and spare parts and restocking, and the rest would go in savings for a rainy day. Nowadays, she would also give a lot of it to the Tet Foundation. They're her bondsmen (and bondswomen), and that's part of what that means.
Regan is pretty financially comfortable, and is also very much in the public eye. She'd donate it to a carefully chosen cause.
Enjolras in life was pretty well-off. He'd've put it towards the cause, of course -- whether for buying gunpowder and bullets, or for supporting poorer comrades in the struggle, or whatever. He might've put some to charity, but only afterwards. Enjolras doesn't in the least disapprove of charity, but he regards it as a bandaid over a gaping wound -- yes, you might help this or that person, but you're not doing a thing about the system that's keeping them down, and there are so many others there who didn't happen to luck out by meeting the rich charitable person that day. Now that he's dead and has no income (yet), he would use it to pay up his tab and pay up against future needs. He would use what's left to do the same for Grantaire (and Gavroche and Valjean if they needed it, which they don't), and what's left after that to give Bar a store of funds with instructions that if anyone answering to any of a list of names (i.e. all his friends) ever shows up, these funds should be at their disposal courtesy of him. Anything that's left after that would go to the general fund of anyone who needs it.
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Pentecost has met Chuck Hansen in Milliways. If he was informed that he'd entered a lottery and won, he would put the money in the bank and make sure that his will still included 'all my surviving earthly goods I hereby bequeath to Mako Mori'.
Santo would probably donate the money back to the nuns who ran the school he attended as a boy.
Varric would invest a fair chunk of it and then party with the rest, because he can.
Medic would probably buy some expensive collector's items, like books and a really good violin, and then maybe consider endowing a medical school with the rest, but I honestly don't know if he'd do it or spend the rest on some kind of weird involuted scheme.
Edward Kenway would measure the amount of money against the number he has in his head, the one that means 'okay, you're set for life- go back to England, buy land and property, tell your wife you struck it rich and ask her to come back to you, and set yourselves up as People of Rank and Station'. If it was not that number or larger he'd just keep right on pirating. Maybe spiff up the ship a bit as he hasn't got a swank pirate lair just yet in canon to upgrade.
Ellen grew up without the concept of a lottery. (They did not include Kafka, Shirley Jackson, or George Orwell in the books that went into Vault 101.) The closest she comes to knowing about lotteries is that there are a few biblical references to casting lots, either the Gospel one about the Romans divvying up Jesus' garments among themselves or the Old Testament ones where lots were used for divination or to select the scapegoat. Nothing good ever comes of casting lots in the Bible, so far as she can tell, so...
(If she were spontaneously awarded a large amount of money she would probably just stick it in a box somewhere in her house and spend it as necessary. Banking doesn't exist in the Wasteland. Organized charities don't exist so much either. Huge sums are to be treated as funding for the next major project she gets assigned.)
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Giovanni would be absolutely delighted to be independently wealthy and not be expected to successfully run a business.
Sharpe would put it away for his children.
Gavroche has no use for money in the Underside unless it's for the value of the metal. Most likely he'd put it in the Joe Manco fund (with some specifically for Enjolras and Grantaire, anonymously) or give it to Eponine so she can set herself up wherever and however she wants.
Jonathan, I'm not sure. Maybe use it to make sure all the survivors of Sunnydale are comfortably off.
Nancy would buy a house somewhere and install her homeless kids in it. No question.
Harry Callahan would plough it back into his business and savings.
Roshaun doesn't need any more money, so he'd maybe set up a fund for itinerant wizards or something.
Michael Carpenter would use it to make sure his children's futures are secure.
James Norrington would probably make an endowment for education of some kind.
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Will would use some of it to buy his parents a plot of land then the rest would go back into Nottingham and some into the Milliways' Manco fund.
Charles doesn't have a need for more money, so he would use it for charity, setting aside into a future trust for mutants and maybe buy himself a few new suits.
Ivan's doing well as he's from a rich family, makes a solid salary through the Imperium, which means some of it would be added to his bank for there if he needs it. He'd buy some expensive wine, maybe actually buy his apartment if he doesn't already then the rest into various charities in Barrayar.
Moist would be kind of confused by it but going by canon, it would be carefully invested in useful items for his work, then hidden in a number of spots in case he has a rainy day need. Then some of it would be given to the temple of every god just to make sure.
Sameth's from a world where money isn't that big of a deal and he's a prince so various funds in the Old Kingdom, stuff for his workshop and then the rest of it to the Southerling refugees.
William would be the most unprepared of mine since his family never has that much, even with the money from Dan's death, my headcanon is that was eaten up faster than they would have liked. At the moment, it would go into an account for Mark to get him to a great school, new clothes especially for his mother, some work around the ranch and then he'd stare at all that was left.
Jane would use the money to insure that her family is more financially secure, enough that she can write, her sister doesn't have to worry about marriage and that things are easier. Then she would get Tom, depending on when in canon, it would go to his family enough that they don't have to rely on his uncle and then marriage.
Demeter due to being a goddess has never had money worries which means it would end up helping the farmers and landowners of her parts of France, Greece and to various people in Milliways.
Tumnus wouldn't know what to do with it as money isn't a major thing in Narnia, I think he would buy some books and then give the rest away.
The Pirate King would buy an even nicer ship and just keep happily pirating away until it was time to get married then use the money to be a piratey gentleman.
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Eriond has no need of any sudden cash/gold. If he ran across a natural gold vein, he'd leave it where it was. Cash he'd just give either to a king he knows specifically for good use or directly to people who need it. Possibly by waving a hand and suddenly they have bizarre, inexplicable windfall.
Lois would treat herself to one or two cool Big Things and a couple smaller things; probably most of the rest would go into savings. Actually, she'd also donate some, but I'm not sure to what--support for war veterans is quite possible.
Tavi thinks the concept of a lottery is a ridiculous waste of funds, though it's not impossible that small, regional ones exist. If he randomly got cash? Pre-canon, money would go first to 'paying for school, I can do that now!' and then to helping the farm (Bernard would silently set some of that aside for Tavi's future). During canon, he'd put some away for a personal rainy day, give a chunk to his uncle Bernard for beefing up the defenses of the Calderon fortress and to Isana for her relief efforts, and then use the rest as discretionary funding for work independent from his Cursor or Legion salaries/budget (you never know when you need to fund a jail break). If he had enough, he'd probably also consider an idea he'd want to float past the First Lord with the assurance of being able to start funding it himself. Post-canon? Straight into Crown coffers, and probably directed to improving the new Academy and the idea he wouldn't have talked over with Sextus: scholarship fund for underprivileged kids.
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Dixie: Would probably devote all of her money back to the convent where she grows up, 'cause she has plenty of her own and is proud of that.
Juliet: Would dedicate money to an animal rescue. The rest would go to paying off Shawn's debts and buying Gus a car.
Pinkie: Would devote herself to finding new ways to use the money and make people happy.
Eponine: Would secure herself a place in society that would have been barred from her due to class issues previously, and establish Gavroche in business.