DE: Late to the game

[bjornwilde]

And another late DE. Sorry folks.

What does your character consider their biggest achievement?

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[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Convincing Lord Ashur to take robot workers and give up on the whole slave thing.

(Although privately there are days when she feels that not having a hyperventilation fit of pure terror at the realization that she is outside and there are no walls and no ceiling is a bigger one.)

[pro_patria_mortuus]

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[pro_patria_mortuus]

...Okay, I'm mostly not actually serious. I just couldn't resist.

It's all the work he did before that, but he's a lot prouder of all his friends and what they did than of himself. Enjolras in a lot of ways regards himself as just a vessel for something greater, and he's proud of any extent to which he could be useful in that capacity.

[tire_moi_mes_bottes]

naw but that defying-gravity grasping-a-flag trick is pretty sweet

[genarti]

IT'S TRUE, it takes a lot of skill to arrange to get yourself strung upside-down out a window by one ankle (that's... tied by more flag to a table or something, I guess?) without even noticing that you're doing it. GOOD JOB, ENJOLRAS.

[tire_moi_mes_bottes]

"Do you permit it?"

Enjolras pressed his hand with a smile.

This smile was not ended, and Enjolras had barely had time to knot the flag around the table and hook his ankle through it and double-check his position relative to the window and talk the guards through the choreography, when the report resounded.

[never_shall_yield]

A+++, would lol again.

[genarti]

Enjolras is not the only one capable of being terrible. *cracking up IRL*

[bjornwilde]

Andrea: To date, graduating the Order's academy with honors. Considering only 1 in 6 manage to graduate, this is something to be proud of.

Jess: Destroying any chance HYDRA has to recreate the accident that made her.

Hank: The Blackbird.

[tire_moi_mes_bottes]

The time they got Charles X to abdicate and ended the loathsome Bourbon Restoration was pretty awesome. The moderates and constitutional monarchy fans had to screw that up--thanks, Lafayette--but it was worth a second try.

other than that, one time he took this girl out to dinner and made the most amazing joke, see, he said...okay, maybe you had to be there

[never_shall_yield]

Javert is giving Bossuet the driest of dry looks.

[never_shall_yield]

Gene - does not, perhaps surprisingly, remember things as 'great achievements'. He does stuff, feels smug about it for a while, and then moves on to the next scumbag.

Though he remains pretty chuffed about getting Alex into bed in Milliways.

Javert - at the time, being proved right about Valjean being Madeleine in Montreuil was pretty sweet, as was being the only person who tracked him down in Paris. But with everything that came after, he doesn't consider any of that to be an achievement any more.

Valjean - Cosette. Not only is she is greatest achievement, he sees her as his only achievement. The pride he was beginning to feel about single-handedly revitalising a whole area of France in 1823 got soundly broken when he denounced himself. Because yeah great, he can raise a whole economy and bring medical care and education to people, but one mention of his past can ruin the lives of everyone he tried to help. He's toxic. Cosette is the only thing that matters.

He should credit himself more for the achievement of absolutely denouncing wickedness and turning himself into a fucking saint, but none of that counts as an achievement until he dies and he finds out if he's allowed into Heaven. So, jury's out on that one at the moment for him.

Bruce Wayne - Batman. And holding down a functional and happy relationship with X.

Bruce Banner - his academic success prior to the Hulk.

Courfeyrac - see Bossuet's answer.

Robin - his finest moment is yet to come, but he'll be rightly pleased with it when it does.

[gredya]

Gredya the Supportive Werewolf is golf-clapping for Javert's ability to recognize a person he met before.

(No, but poor Javert.)

[never_shall_yield]

Javert: *glaring* HE LOOKED DIFFERENT. And acted different. Shut up. Don't look at me.


(Looooool. He doesn't deserve sympathy! But at least he's trying now, a bit.)

[dashingrainbow]

Being he most amazing pony ever. Though that's what she always thinks.

[last_kallig]

Not being dead or an evil sociopath? Those would be small things for most people, but for Ibani those were both difficult to manage. Because Korriban.

[fairy_fixit]

Keeping the Fairy Ring Network running.

[cutting_edgex23]

Becoming a person.

[lt_blade]

Sonya: Being selected and making it into the US Army Special Forces of course.

Matilda: scaring the Trunchbull enough to make her quiet being Headmistress and leaving town.

[hey35andholding]

Clementine: Her face was on a billboard leading into Branson for a few years. Just like Nomi Malone. Otherwise generally being a police officer, and her relationship with Sam, which is teetering on the border of being longer than the one she had with Steed.

Dixie: Her little business empire, for sure.

Juliet: Being the pride and joy of the SBPD. She's earned it the hard way.

Pinkie: How happy she makes others.

Eponine: Saving Marius; overcoming her own selfishness. Protecting Gavroche from her parents until he ran away.