Daily Entertainment Gives No Shits

[damncompass]

Good morning, Milliways.

It is Friday, I forgot DE yesterday because I was sick (and it's been a terrible week, I got fired-ish) so I return today with something better.

Has your character ever been fired, kicked off of something, or evicted? How did they react? How would they react if it happened to them?

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[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"I'm sorry. You're a hero... and you have to leave."

Ellen tries her best to practice Christian forgiveness, she really does, but... this one wasn't easy and still isn't. I don't know how she'd react to Amata if she ever saw her again.

(And I'm really sorry about the fired-ish! Is there anything I can do to help?)

[bjornwilde]

Jess would be crushed to get fired from the Avengers. At her present place in canon, she'd mope for weeks. In the future, I think she'd bounce back quicker, maybe even seeing it as a chance to have her own life.

Andrea will have this happen to her in a couple of story arcs. She goes total hermit mode to the point no one can find her for a few weeks. It is not pretty.

Hank would be very upset but he doesn't seem the moping type. I don't think it has happened to him though.

(And sorry about the firing-ish. If there is anything I can do as well, let me know.)

Quinlan...ahahahaha. OK, this sort of happened when he went undercover to try and find out who Count Dooku's boss was and it came close to turning Quin to the Dark Side. It also happened with Order 66 but Quin rolled with it, went all Rambo to escape and now lives his life as a freelance trader.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

(Side note: the other day the Greyhound bus I was on stopped at Burger King for the mandatory ten minute safety rest for the driver. Apparently a three-strip chicken meal with zesty dipping sauce, fries, and a medium orange soda can kill all the Jedi, because my receipt said that was Order 66.)

[bjornwilde]

(cackling.)

[student_of_impossibility]

Tavi got arrested for treason to keep him from doing his job. Closest he could get to being fired.

He reacted by using it as an excuse to go break a prisoner out of jail, make a play for the Crown, and kill some people. He's now in charge of even more than he used to be. So, um.

(He's more likely to be murdered than fired, honestly--not least because in Alera there are very few other ways to accomplish that.)

*offers cookies and chocolate, due to not being able to do much else right now*

[minkhollow]

The emphasis is definitely on 'ish.' The capitol as a whole still loves Quinn, she's going to be The Incredible Floating Support Person for a while (her in-building supervisor is actually happy there'll be a competent person doing that during election season), and they're going to help her find something else, possibly still at the capitol. The senator she was aide-ing for threw a snit, essentially. As of Tuesday it already wasn't as scary as it looked on Monday.

Anyway, on to the question:

Cata was forcibly removed from any interest in her job. Fuck you, Mizzamir. She got better!

Sam was the last assassin standing, but he never gave up the title.

Claudia... sort of fired herself? But she thought MacPherson was using her and that was the safer option. She hasn't been fired.

If that happened to Apollo it would literally be a death sentence.

Imp, no. Music with rocks in is too complex to apply here.

Regulus hasn't even had a job to be fired from, at this point in his life, and he won't be thrown out of the house.

Red also hasn't had a job to be fired from; she's feeling a tad evicted at the moment, but she wasn't really. She can go home whenever she pleases. It's just not safe for Snow to do so. (Ruby had a bout of 'you can't fire me, I quit,' but she got over it.)

Woolly wasn't fired so much as killed in action. Par for the course for a Warehouse agent.

[bjornwilde]

Ruby had a bout of 'you can't fire me, I quit,' but she got over it.

I was actually bummed that they weren't able to pursue that storyline. I thought it offered great character growth.

[ceitfianna]

I'm glad that things are looking better but that sounds stressful. *hugs*

[last_kallig]

So sorry to hear you got fired-ish! :-(


Ibani is more likely to get murdered than fired. Being Sith isn't generally a job you get to leave, except in a body-bag, as it were.

Annabelle Newfield would have been absolutely crushed if she was asked to leave the AEon Society, as they were her family as well as her job!

I'm not sure if people got fired in the Mythic age, and Kreyu has scary mental and social-fu in any case. *ponders how you fire a dragon*

[bjornwilde]

You now with all the Jedi being turned to the Dark Side, I wonder if there has ever been a reverse case. I know Jedi have turned and then returned, but has a Sith ever turned to the Light Side?

[last_kallig]

There is one Sith that can be turned in the Jedi Knight storyline in Ibani's canon. And there are Sith who, secretly, use the Light Side of the force mentioned in the Sith Warrior's storyline.

I can't think of any other canonical examples at the moment.

[student_of_impossibility]

Belatedly, wasn't Mara Jade originally Dark Side? I don't know much about the EU, so I am probably misremembering.

[last_kallig]

She was, but she wasn't technically "Sith".

Palpatine trained minions/servants in the Dark Side, but somehow they didn't count as Sith. Not sure what the rationale on that is, honestly.

[protect_and_survey]

Jemma: HAHAHAHA UM. So. Basically: canon! The only reason Jemma doesn't become completely unhinged is a) Coulson is one hell of a leader (when he's not actively throwing snit-fits at his oldest friends and making them go away yes), and b) Fitz. Other than that there's nothing keeping her from running screaming into the night with absolutely no plan.

Sam: This almost happens... twice. And soon - she doesn't know it yet, but her father is coming down to Hastings to rescue his daughter from the clutches of the male police force. She would go, she really would, because she really isn't the rebellious type... but it would be soul-crushing.

Oswin: ... was fired from humanity by the Doctor? I mean, pretty much that's what happened. After losing her grip on her own reality for a moment (and hopefully properly scaring said idiot time lord - if you have a potential enemy who REALLY REALLY wants to be a friend DON'T ANTAGONIZE THEM WTF), she rallied and basically told him that wasn't his call to make.

As for getting fired from a normal job, she wouldn't mind much, honestly. It'd be depressing, but she has a high enough opinion of herself and a optimistic enough of an outlook that she pretty much can assure herself that it's a temporary mishap, not an overwhelming problem. Clara falls more under this heading as well - though she'd be heartbroken if the Doctor told her she couldn't come along anymore.

Will: ... Being kicked out of the Navy would be the Worst Thing Ever. It'd probably end him, to be honest.

Balthazar: ... could be kicked out of wizardry, but you'd have to take his ring. Um. Good luck with that. So really, he just does what he wants? If someone could manage to take his ring... well, it'd depend if he had Veronica. With Veronica, I don't think he'd care overly much - he'd probably go back to being the owner of a curiosity shop and go on about his life. Without Veronica, it'd be... really bad. Also, wtf self play this poor boy. *goes to put the movie on*

Bones: Was 'fired' sort of once when he was convicted of being part of that plot to kill that Klingon. ... He'd appreciate that not happening again, thank you. Oh, also kinda sorta when the entire bridge crew stood with Kirk to face the court martial that came down regarding them disobeying a direct order and bringing Earth some whales. ... stupidest damn court martial he ever saw.

Glorfindel: Still has nightmares, sometimes, of Mandos declaring the Doom of the Noldor. Even though he has gone through judgement, even though he knows he can return home any time he pleases, it can still freeze the marrow in his bones. (He'd wanted to turn back. He did. But he is an infinitely loyal creature, and his lord was going on, and thus he followed)

Katya: So, in-canon, it'd never happen that she be fired from the Night Watch - there's just not enough Light Others to consider it. Besides, she's really good at her job, even when she pushes her luck with Gesar. But she's paranoid her whole life that she will be turned on - her house is a veritable fortress, guarded by dogs who will attack anyone who isn't her - including other Others. In Milliways-canon, she dealt with exile after attacking the Mirror - her door doesn't go back to Moscow any more. She... didn't deal well with this at all. When Skellig offered a place to her (aka dragged her bodily out of a collapsing Milliways into his own world), she grabbed onto that like the lifeline it is.

Ace: .... The only things that would break her right now if she was evicted from them are the Wells family or her odd familial bond with Raven. Everything else she's let burn to the ground anyway.

[death_gone_mad]

Hmm...

Amascut's job was a sort of Judge of the Dead thing. She would test the souls of the deceased and offer reincarnation to the worthy. She wasn't fired, as far as I know. But I don't think she can be trusted with such a responsibility ever again, as she'll most likely make sure no one is worthy. She most likely evicted herself from the Menaphite/Kharidian Pantheon not so much in the religious sense, but in the one big happy family sense.

Fairy Fixit would be devastated, because it is so much what she is. She has a mean passive-aggressive streak, so I don't think she'll actively wreck things, just leave a lot of things undone and unfinished. She would leave documentation behind to help out the nooby that replaces her, though. I am sure she'll be able to find some other place in the multiverse that needs her skill but it would be difficult if it required her to spend a lot of time away from Zanaris. She is a bit of a heavy drinker, too, so... that might turn out bad.

[tire_moi_mes_bottes]

Oh hey, getting kicked out of a law class to save some stranger's spot is how Bossuet meets Marius Pontmercy--which is how The Next Important Bunch of Plot gets going, so it's a useful skill of his really. And he was delighted: "I was on the brink of becoming a lawyer. This erasure saves me. I renounce the triumphs of the bar. I shall not defend the widow, and I shall not attack the orphan. No more toga, no more stage. Here is my erasure all ready for me."

Eviction is also pretty much a run-of-the-mill thing in Bossuet Land.

Getting banished from the Amis de l'ABC, though, that's...that's some kind of incomprehensible hell-dimension stuff.

[singthesong]

wait and see

[hey35andholding]

Clementine has! Many times. And she's reacted by stealing stuff while her boss' back was turned.