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DE: It's a lair

How are you folks doing with the snow-pocalypse? Well I hope.

So I was wondering, what is your pup's home like? Or, if they are bound, what is their Milliways room like? Or, if they travel a lot, what sort of hotels/camps do they prefer?

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70s!Gene's house is neat and tidy, thanks to his wife. Apart from the garage because that's his territory, and it's a disaster area. The house itself is kind of chintzy and homely, which he allows because it's her domain, and he's barely there anyway.

80!Gene has a miserable flat, where most of his stuff is piled in the spare room in boxes, despite having been in London a few years. There are pictures of cars, and Westerns, on the living room walls. If he ever gets it sorted, it'll be a total bachelor pad.

Valjean's houses are both canonically...well. Haha. OK, the flat is a flat, and is a bit dim and depressing, but at least it's livable throughout. His Rue Plumet house is a bit Jekyll and Hyde: Cosette lives in the actual house, with Toussaint, the housekeeper. He himself lives in a two-room shedlike structure at the end of a yard, which has only the bare essentials of furniture, and in which he never lights a fire (unless Cosette forces him to. And she does, by being there on purpose, because he's not going to let her go cold, and she knows it). But yeah, the places he lives in through the book are always completely devoid of any particular comfort or decoration, because he doesn't need any of that (read: doesn't think he deserves any human comforts, because he is sub-human ):)

Javert - it's never specified in the book, but there's not a chance in hell he's going to have much of anything in his place. For one thing, policemen didn't make much money. For another, he's Javert.

Bruce Banner - currently homeless, yay. :\ When he's not, I envision a modest place, homely, not very modern and a bit untidy at times. But he won't keep too much stuff around, and he does his own housework, so it's a nice enough place to hang. A lot of books. A lot of books.

Bruce Wayne - opulent lap of luxury, and he doesn't care about any of it. Just as happy sleeping rough. (The Bruce Wayne version of 'happy', obviously.)

Courfeyrac - has a room in the book, and it has law books in it - enough to qualify him as a lawyer, if he ever gets qualified (oh wait no, he dies instead :\). I always envision it as a fairly typical student room, though on a 19th century par. Books, clothes, hats, papers and pamphlets, and probably rifles and boxes of cartridges stowed under the bed at times. Lots of illicit (politically illicit) material hidden inside more mundane books, that sort of thing.

Pearly Soames - good God, who knows? Movie!Pearly had a swag apartment. Book!Pearly probably has a converted warehouse, with the pictures he's stolen for their colour lined up on the walls. I imagine half of it is where he lives, and the other where he works from, because he's not a 'leave the job at work' kind of guy. He is what he is.

Jim Moriarty - I imagine it as very modern, very clean and minimalist, and with a lot of computer equipment. He's another rich guy who doesn't care about it (though he probably cares a bit more than Bruce Wayne).

Gordon's home at the moment is a set of very nice rooms in what used to be the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia, or possibly a freestanding house if one has been built for him and Alyx and the twins. The hotel building was pretty solid and not too difficult to repair after long periods of neglect, because it was originally selected in their world for continuity-of-government facilities underground and later for just plain fancy-pants tourism aboveground.

Shephard's home is ... well, probably he's got a room or rooms down in the bunker under the Greenbrier, but in all honesty ever since being told he's Borealis' commanding officer he's probably effectively moved into quarters on board the ship. This has more to do with him feeling sorry for PIaDOS and her loneliness issues than any particular nod to naval tradition; the portal generation system's AI has the mentality of a very intelligent five-year-old with severe background trauma, and it's not right to leave a kid alone like that even if she's made of metal and controls four hundred feet of teleporting ship.

Ellen's home is a two-storey corrugated metal shack just inside the walled town of Megaton. What isn't made from corrugated metal is made from prewar airplane parts. The windows are mostly covered with greased Brahmin parchment or the occasional very old bit of screen to let light in but keep Wasteland dust out. Lighting mostly comes from lamps powered by fission battery generators and the occasional string of decorative lights. There's a decent radio, though, and several shelves containing a slowly growing collection of reprinted books and comics, and a locker with a few pieces of equipment in it against the back wall of the ground floor. The kitchen area is big enough for one set of metal shelves taken from some school's storage closet in years gone by plus one very small stove and an even smaller sink. Upstairs there is a bedroom with a twin bed, a desk, and filing cabinets; there is also a spare bedroom of sorts. The bedding mostly involves Brahmin hides and the occasional prewar government surplus blanket. Food storage involves a small insulated cooler because freon is not available. Bathrooms are not mentioned because the town has a fairly large communal set of bathrooms in one building; it's easier to maintain that way and to distribute fertilizer if all the raw materials are in one place. This is considered one of the nicest houses in Megaton.

Varric's home is a nicely furnished room above the main drinking area of a tavern called the Hanged Man. I assume there's more privacy to the space than you get in the game, because the bed you find in the game is most assuredly not a one-person bed and I refuse to believe Varric hasn't got game enough to make use of that.

More later, I have a meeting.

"and it's not right to leave a kid alone like that ~~even~~ especially if she's made of metal and controls four hundred feet of teleporting ship."

I phrased that wrong. I was trying to convey that Shephard thinks of Pi as someone to be treated like a kid even though she happens to be installed in a giant ship, at least to some degree. Obviously there's things he's gonna be asking her to do that you wouldn't ever ask an actual kid to do, but.

We actually do see Yugo's flat in Tokyo. It's gigantic (far, far too gigantic for him to have been paying the rent solely on funds from being a florist, considering that most flats in Tokyo are like shoeboxes), open, airy, and filled with flowers. By the time we see it in canon, all the flowers are dead, because while Phoenix lives in it (legally, with the rent being paid, which is really odd, since he doesn't have a job at all), he doesn't bother to tend to them.

Sherral lives in one of several Rabanastre barracks, specifically the set that houses the West and South Divisions of the garrisons. The Palace Guard are all housed in the palace barracks, the North and East Divisions over in another set of barracks, and the City Guard and Dock Guard share a set of barracks. They're all barracks originally used by the Dalmascan Army before it was dissolved, and tend to be built in several levels underground, with pathways leading up to an open air courtyard/stables area, and to the walls. They have basic amenities like baths, a gym, a cafeteria, a Kiltian chapel, etc, on top of places to sleep. Sherral does get to have his own room, which he's grateful for: It's tiny, has a standard issue bunk and a locker for clothes and pretty much nothing else, and is about thirty seconds walk from his office.

Stacker Pentecost's home is a fairly spartan but still relatively large area in the Shatterdome in Hong Kong. We see it in the movie, when he's telling Raleigh about what happened with Coyote Tango and Onibaba. For some reason I am convinced that his closet contains something like twenty identical blue dress shirts and six or seven identical suits because it's just easier that way. He doesn't strike me as a major home decorator kind of guy for any of the really private parts of his living space, although I think he probably has a large music collection and the best stereo system you can get in his part of the world.

Santo's home is a really nice two-level house in Mexico City most of the time. At least one movie in his canon shows him sharing a seriously swank apartment (complete with indoor balcony and fake beach) with a fellow secret agent, but when I think of Santo's home I think of the house we see him living in during Santo Vs. The Martian Invasion. He's got a good-sized black and white TV, because 1967, and a respectable book collection, and while there are photos of him with friends and public figures here and there, you can search it from top to bottom and still not find one of him without a mask. He's Santo. That's how he rolls.

And Edward Kenway's home is really awesome because he is a pirate and when he's done spending money on structural improvements for the Jackdaw and salary for his men, he spends it on making either his cabin or his private hold- a former local governor's mansion- extra stylish and swank. It's an image thing.

X's apartment looks like this:

The apartment on X's side of the Milliways front door is small but clean, furnished almost entirely in black IKEA. The kitchen is off to the immediate left, behind an angled doorway and separated from the living area by a small counter/wall. To the right is a coat rack, which happens to have a very beautifully embroidered reversible coat on it. There is a pair of fingerless knitted red gloves hung on a second hook, as well. The bathroom is a few feet down, tucked into a corner alcove.

X's fishtank, with a post-it reading 'Avengers Assemble'stuck to the side, is off to the back left, away from the radiator and the window. The television is toward the right, and on the wall next to (and above it) are a collection of photographs. There's a low bookshelf under the window, and seated in the windowsill are a collection of colored glass bottles. There is a cat tree tucked into the opposite corner -- it looks well-used.

On the table in front of the short wall/counter that screens off the kitchen there's a cactus in a pot, with a very pretty sign saying 'The Cactus With No Name'.

The bedroom has a queen-sized bed with fancy purple sheets, lots of pillows, and a fancy purple duvet cover. There is a stained glass decoration in the window, of wisteria, I believe. It's purple, too. There's also a computer workstation and a desk, as well as two end tables with various bric a brac from two different people on them. There may be a smattering of cat toys, as well. And a very well-organized closet. And a crate covered by a pretty cloth. Do not ask what is in the crate.

Jess lives at the Avengers mansion. Pretty sweet digs and she keeps her room mostly clean. Out of habit, there will be an item or two that is easy to trip over if you are not familiar with the room though.

Quin lives on board a ship, which his family has named the Dragon's Den. It is kept mostly clean and clutter free since things flying around in a space ship tend towards a bad idea. The kids do paint on some of the walls and there are hand made crafts (think mandala/macramé) hanging about.

Ethan lives about a steamer at this point. His room is messy. Not sure what he prefers to be honest.

Hank lives on a secret CIA research facility. His room is kept clean, though it is cluttered with books and chalk boards. He tend to think of his room as where he sleeps, while the lab is where he lives. The lab always is organized and neat, as if he were expecting an inspection at any moment.

Selina is homeless. She tends towards sleeping places that are high off the ground and solitary. She likes corners but needs a way out, usually up, so corners with fire escapes or window ledges within reach are ideal. If she goes indoors, again, she needs a clear exit to relax. Ideally, she'd prefer to be back in an apartment with her mother.

The Court of Cats is a miss-mash of lost places and Tybalt wouldn't have it any other way. One can walk from a disused and forgotten room of a Victorian home to a closed off gallery of the Legion of Honor within his Court. Still, for his rooms, he prefers a large fire place and an equally large bed, typically a four poster with a canopy.

Sam's home is designed to be relaxing and to host. It is open and airy, with soothing colors as the palette. It is kept clean and clutter free.

Eriond has a home, wait, what home? He's probably still got a room or something in Polgara's cottage in the Vale, maybe even in Belgarath's tower, and could probably snag a swank room at any royal palace in the world if he wanted to (I would assume Zakath and Cyradis probably have one that's technically his but it's not like he uses it...) but it's Eriond.

Henry lives in the nicest home in Storybrooke, the Mayor's mansion, but for all of that it's a fairly upper-middle-class bedroom. Sweet, comfortable, little boy's room. Lots of blue.

Lois currently lives in the apartment over the Talon, the dumb coffee shop of Smallville. I was so glad when that place got blown up, man... anyway, it's kind of one-room in that there's not a door separating bed area from living room, but the living room is distinct from the kitchen-area and from the bed-area, so it's a little too big to just be a studio apartment. Honestly, it'd be a great space if it were just Lois--but she shares with Chloe, so they take turns on the couch versus bed. Honestly it's too small and given what we know of Lois' wardrobe, I don't know how it fits them both. Anyway, it's just kind of generally comfortable, normal looking.

Tavi currently, technically, doesn't really have a place he's living! He has a wagon. It's a bit cramped. But it isn't on the ground, that's something. Of course, once he's actually in Calderon he might steal his uncle's room for a couple weeks, until the move to Riva. Soon enough his next five or so years will be spent in the lap of luxury, best house left standing in the city, whose owner happened to have been killed in the war, so imperial business just moves in. After that it'll be to a brand-new lap of luxury, shiny new capital city and new Citadel with it. Tavi happens to really, really appreciate indoor plumbing and heating--loves hot baths--but is generally okay with whatever circumstances he's got. (Unlike Kitai, who honestly feels better roaming freely, but Tavi is very well-suited to city life.)

*tackles Lee*

The Master of Ceremonies lives in a small one-room apartment above the Kit Kat Klub (the bathroom is communal). It's bare bones and pretty crappy, with thin walls and no heat in the winter and a window that doesn't shut properly, and he really should move out of it, but he's made it his home and he can't afford much else anyway.

It's got the all-important bed, with squeaky springs and rickety frame, but he covers it all up in a red duvet and satin pillows. There's porn on the bedside table, a stack of random old literature books on the floor. The vanity table is a mess with pots of makeup and false eyelashes and pictures of Marlene Dietrich taped to the mirror. There is no closet, but his clothes hang exposed on a costume rack, mostly trousers and button-down shirts and a few ladies' undergarments (a slip, a garter belt, etc.), a silk robe and a feather boa. A Victrola sits on a writing table, which is usually covered with notes and gifts from admirers and empty bottles of liquor and full ashtrays.

Amascut has a bunch of houses, one for each alias/identity, usually. She has the apartment above Sumona and Jesmona's storehouse in Pollnivneach, and it has some swanky furniture in it so I guess business is good. There is the captain's quarters on the Insolation where Keli Raven sleeps. She doesn't have a place in Varrock anymore but I am guessing Katrine would be glad to welcome Keli back. She might have a place in Sophanem from where she bothers the priests of Icthlarin and a place in Al-Kharid from where she bothers the Emirate's covert intelligence operations. There is also the Wanderer's tent that moves around the Kharid desert, where the Wanderer sleeps. And dissects cats, apparently. There is also her private partition of the cave were the Scabarite purification cult resides.

She also has a headquarters in the Grim Underworld somewhere, and a spot reserved for her in the Menaphite/Kharidian Pantheon. I very much doubt any of these places are home to her, though.

Fairy Fixit likely lives in a tree house like the rest of the fairies on Zanaris do. They look like large birdhouses. She has a similar house tucked into a corner of the ceiling of her room in Milliways' upstairs apartments.

Oswin: Isn't so much bound as having a strong incentive to not go back. Her room... is a fortress. She spent her first few months here upping the security to the point that she could keep out all comers, and then started pulling together her master computer - seriously, this thing takes up an entire wall. The rest is more bohemian-slash-cat-owner.

Katya: Has finally come around to accepting that Milliways is going to be a large part of her life going forward. Her room upstairs finally has proper wards on it. Her room reflects her eclectic tastes - there's bookshelves everywhere with no consistent organization or theme to the books that have taken up residence. She still has one of Anton's escaped toys (deactivated), and random items she picks up in her travels. Of course, there's her swords as well, as she re-creates her old collection. When she's with Skellig, they don't have a set place as he's a migratory sort and she sticks with her partner. She tries to make sure the places they end up are comfortable, but they're all highly temporary.

Jemma: Is one of those uber-organized people - everything sleek, modular, and adorable. Seriously. And there's always a bottle of sriratcha in the refrigerator. (Sorry Coulson).

Glorfindel: Is a magpie, seriously. He loves the rich, the glittery... it's a tiny bit ridiculous, but he feels he's earned it. He wasn't quite so bad about it before Barad-dûr, but after that... nope, didn't care. It's probably around there that his horse's gear gained jewels and bells. He will, of course, live in the wild for months or years without complaint, but that's just what's needed.

William: Lives on board ship - his private space amounts to his trunk, which is mostly empty other than his gear and a few books, and his hammock.

Ace: Pretty much leaves decoration of personal space to Spoon - her idea of decoration is mostly mess, and she knows that stresses him. She does demand there's a clock running at all times, though. Outside verification of her time sense is necessary.

Sam: Right now her home is a room that went spare, a tiny apartment that she hasn't done much to other than move in, at this point. She loves it. Entirely.

Bones: His rooms upstairs are a copy of his house in San Francisco... and he doesn't spend a lot of time there. He doesn't get to spend much time in his rooms on board ship either, but that's more because his ship gets into more trouble than it knows what to do with, and keeps him busy.

Asami is a very wealthy heiress, and in her world she lives in large mansion near the edge of Republic City. Because it's just her and her father, to her it tends to feel like a big empty house a lot of the time – which isn't something to complain about, and she definitely uses some of the luxuries like an indoor pool and gym, and she has a very nice, large bedroom. But she doesn't always spend a lot of time there. Once she has to leave the mansion, she stays in a room in the women's dormitories at Air Temple Island. This is much smaller and um, "rustic," but as at that point she just wants to be away from anything relating to her father, she doesn't mind. Even if she does kind of miss eating meat while staying there. I'm not sure what she does after season 1, though – I doubt she'd want to impose on the Air Temple any longer, but I also imagine she'd hate being alone in her house.

While she's in the bar, um... well, the workshop she ended up having has also kind of become her room. Because she started falling asleep while working there, and so Glasses also provided accommodations for her in there. And… I'd need to talk to Bing about it, but I'm imagining that her expectations along the lines of "a bathroom and a trundle bed" is seriously underestimating what he would come up with, so. But if she's staying overnight in the bar, that's where she'd go.

Will lives in an old farmhouse in "Wolf Trap, Virginia." For people who expect any kind of realism – yes, I understand this really doesn't make sense. For the purpose of his universe, I just have to pretend Wolf Trap is a very rural unincorporated area. My headcanon is that the last of the family that used the land before was leaving, and Will bought it as the cheapest/most isolated area he could find. It's a small two-story house, and there's a barn a short distance away that he… doesn't usually use very much. Even in the house, everything Will owns is on the first floor – the second floor is completely bare. Hence why he has his bed in the living room. A lot of his furniture and some of the books were also left by the previous owners, and he never got rid of any of it. He doesn't own a television or any type of computer aside from a smartphone, and aside from his basic furniture, most of what he has around there are dog beds, engine pieces, and fishing line. But he did finally buy groceries again, so.

In her world, Elle lives in an underground bunker that was coopted for people like her to use to go into hiding. Maybe one day I'll get her out of it. She also has a room in the Bar – I picture it as very small, like half the size of a typical motel room, with one twin bed and a desk and six locks on the bathroom door. But I think most of the time if she's staying in the Bar, she's really sleeping on X's couch.

Katara as a teenager is perpetually traveling with the Avatar. If it's not raining, a lot of the time they'll just sleep in sleeping bags outdoors. I guess they have they also have a tarp, but I don't remember ever actually seeing it. They also sometimes take shelter in caves, or are offered space in homes or barns.

Adult!Katara eventually lives on Air Temple Island with Aang and their children, though she also often visits the South Pole. She does love the Island, but sometimes feels out of place there, which she then also feels guilty about because it must be how Aang feels all the time. This does not stop her from occasionally sneaking Bumi and/or Kya out to the Water Tribe district for seaweed noodles and arctic hen.

Older!Katara has permanently moved to a house in the South Pole. My feeling is that the house is close or attached to a private healing hut, which is where she treats Korra. She really misses her grandchildren, and has very occasionally considered going back to Republic City – but she knows she wouldn't be able to take the constant reminders of Aang when he's not there. She also feels a duty to the continuing development of the Southern Water Tribe. I think she probably serves on the Council of Elders there, and she also instructs all learners (regardless of gender) in waterbending, both for combat and healing.

Jay lives mostly out of safe-houses and hotel rooms but some of his safe-houses are very much personalised. Witness canon images here.

David has a house in on the river, just outside of the city. It's very much in the Japanese style - all pale wood and rice paper screens. It has a large kitchen as he loves to cook but it very zen in it's decoration. The most notable feature is a large Butsudan or household altar in one corner of the living room. It generally had a photo of a young dark-haired soldier in an American uniform of the Vietnam War and two sets of dog tags - one marked David Detector and the other Christopher Evans.

Minx lives in the heart of the city and has a large apartment with a good view of Thunderhead. It's an upmarket building and discreet. The inside of her apartment is generally a mess - clothes all over the place, a massive TV and games console set up. The kitchen is nice but rarely used. She's a useless cook so the cupboards are generally full of junk food. She has a small personal gym but nothing special.

Diaval sleeps in a tree as a raven and in the soft grass of the Moors as a human, often wrapped in his jacket or his mistress' cloak.

Olivier has quite a nice room in Sir Lawrence's castle but keeps it clean and monastically sparse. He has a tidy little workshop for herbs and books.

I'm not sure why I didn't answer this until now since this is actually plot relevant. Mirai is temporarily homeless again due to a youmu taking residence in her apartment. She'll remain in this state until she works up the nerve to kill the youmu.

It started to snow here in New Mexico. Wooo!

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