DE: keep your hands off my stack

[bjornwilde]

 So how is your pup with managing money, or whatever passes for it in their world? Are they better with their own or someone else's?

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[tire_moi_mes_bottes]

Bossuet is very good at spending money quickly when he has it! He is a pro at throwing money around on fun things. (Presumably also revolutionary things. And helping-out-friend things.) But where does he ever get money, since he is totally broke? It Is A Mystery.

Money is on the list of Things The Wyr Are Better Than. But Gredya mostly lives in a place that mixes barter and some gold coin and if she feels the need she can come up with quite a few things after complicated exchanges.

[camwyn]

Out of all my characters I think Edward Kenway, Stacker Pentecost, and Ellen are probably best with money- Santo has an accountant, Gordon and Shephard are average at best, Medic I don't know about, and Varric's specialty is favors and information rather than straight-up cash. Edward is hell-bent on making a fortune through piracy and does a good job of keeping his crew happy most of the time (except for a plot point that comes up about 2/3-3/4 of the way through the game), and gets actively yelled at by other characters for being too focused on gold and fortune. Stacker has to be capable of world-class feats of accounting and fundraising to have kept the Jaeger program running as long as he did and afford a nuclear weapon on the Russian black market. As for Ellen... well, they didn't have money in Vault 101, but they had ration coupons, which (if they are anything like real world ration coupons) were probably traded for favors from time to time. Once she got to the point of dealing with bottlecaps Ellen learned quickly how to most efficiently leverage objects and supplies for money and vice versa. Having access to the Bar helped. And she thinks on a macroeconomic scale, too; she's straight up said that the reason they had to get the robot factory running was because 'people in Ashur's situation don't give up slavery because they've been convinced it's wrong, they give it up because they've realized it's economically unviable'.

(This is admittedly partly a nod to the fact that when you take the GOAT exam in Fallout 3, your job in the Vault is determined by which skill goes up the most based on your answers to the exam questions. To get the result of 'chaplain', which Ellen got, you have to have Barter increase the most.)

[lazy_but_loyal]

Babygirl takes the credit card and Daddy pays the bills.

Actually, Pam is very good with money, even if she is spoiled and has a shoe allowance. She used to run a brothel, and not one of those cheap ones either, so she knows what something is worth and how to make a profit, seizing on opportunities as they come. She keeps an eye on Fangtasia's finances for the business's sake, but doing the actual paperwork is not her forte, however, because ew, boring. Eric can do that.

[onceaviking]

Eric is, contrary to popular beliefs, quite a savvy businessman.

Money is power and Eric likes power. He likes to be able to be offhandedly generous, because it puts people in his by debt and secures influence, admiration, and envy.

As he is involved in business ventures that aren't exactly legal, he does part of his own book keeping at the very least, and as he doesn't trust people, he keeps a sharp eye on the rest.

He's spent a great deal of his mortal life cold and wet and hungry - yes, even as part of the ruling class - so comfort is important to him as are status symbols. He may mostly wear jeans, t-shirts, and leather jackets, but they are damn expensive ones.

And he likes to be able to buy nice things for Pam, because a jeweled clutch or an expensive necklace never fails to make her happy.

[lazy_but_loyal]

Remember how Mr. Gus talked to them about his idea for New Blood? Eric said "We're listening." Not "I'm listening." Because he and Pam are partners. Boom.

[onceaviking]

Exactly.

They're in this together.

And it is all his fault ....

[myshootingstar]

Jay is independently wealthy but only because other people who are smarter with money than him set trusts up in his name. Or aliases anyway. Jay himself is careless with money - easy come, easy go. He never has much troubling laying hands to some when he needs it so never worries much about giving it away if other people need it.

Minx came from money but her mother squandered a lot of it on keeping up appearances. Because of that, Minx is far more careful with her finances and lives simply by comparison to the ostentatious show of her youth.

Olivier has had little money in his life. His mother ran her business on good will, trade and favours. He sees people as far more important than wealth.

David is a shrew investor and has a sharp eye. He's very careful with the money he has. He was offered a large sum on the past, a pay-off from the military to silence him and sweep the issues around him under the rug but David refused. He has a modest military pension and his even more modest police pay check but manages to do a lot with them.

[genarti]

Thor is decent at macroeconomics -- he's not a genius or anything, but managing a country (or world or... whatever you want to call Asgard) has been part of his training since he was tiny. But economics on the personal budget scale? Balancing a checkbook-equivalent and getting groceries on sale? Pffffft. He's never had to; he has people for that. He'd definitely have a major learning curve if he ever did have to watch his spending (or even pay attention to it).

Enjolras isn't a big spender or anything, unless you count putting a lot of his allowance towards gunpowder stores or whatever, but he's also grown up rich. He's listened to people who have to watch every penny, but he's never been one, and that makes a significant difference. And presumably his father is in business of some sort that he knows something about -- whether it was his father or grandfather(s) or what who actually made the family rich -- but his priorities are solidly elsewhere.

Cosette has learned something of how to run a household from Toussaint, I assume (millicanonically), but canonically the attitudes of both her father and her husband are "oh, don't worry your pretty little head about this, we'll take care of everything, just let us know anything you want." So. She'd be quite good with it if she got the chance, but she's never had much chance, and her father has always had the funds to buy her anything she might want.

Trowa is excellent with making ends meet, and making a very small budget stretch. So is his sister, in slightly different ways, so they are a very fiscally responsible household! Neither of them knows much about investments and working with larger sums of money, though Trowa probably knows something about it from the small business (or... small mercenary company captain and quartermaster) end of things.

River is good at math (understatement!) and not exactly sheltered, but also has never been responsible for money in any kind of solo fashion. She has no particular desire to be.

Regan is very good with money, both in a personal way and in the broader investment-and-budget sense, and business-wise too. But she's always had a savings cushion and some discretionary income -- she's always been working from a position of being personally comfortable, not scraping by.

Oh, and Clare! ...Yeah, no. Claymores get a stipend which isn't huge, but might as well be, because they have almost nothing to spend it on: they get uniform clothes, they barely eat, they don't need or want to stay at inns, etc. She has a vague idea of what fair prices are, but she'll also just shove funds at a human companion and go "There, that should keep you for a while" while they gape.

[hey35andholding]

*Looks at Clem. Lauuughs!*

Clem is deeply in debt. Why is she a police officer? Because she maxed out her credit cards failing out of college. Why did she go to college? Because she lived far beyond her means when she was a Vegas dancer. It's the circle of poor financial decisions!

Dixie: Isn't exactly rich, but I've presumed via canon (and her elaborate outfits) that she's at least comfortable. She might not have enough money to bail out her sister's casino but she can afford new outfits and fancy meals.

Juliet: Makes enough money to basically buy her own condo and support Shawn through his many, many debts.

Pinkie: Is shown in canon to be an amazing haggler of prices. She might just have a great sense for money and business.

Eponine: Has next to no experience with money. Her father took whatever she earned when she was on the street with the family.