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If Gene were alive today, he'd be classed as a borderline/high-functioning alcoholic. He drinks constantly. He deals with hangovers by drinking a bit more (hair of the dog, obvs), eating a fried egg butty, and shouting with even more vitriol than usual.

Javert and Valjean do not really drink much, though wine is common due to the dodgy nature of water in 1832. Javert's more strict about not touching it, though has given in a couple of times since coming to Milliways. Drinking alcohol is one thing, getting drunk is quite another. Valjean never gets drunk.

Courfeyrac - yes, and a lot. He's very social, and has a lot of friends. He deals with hangovers the same way most people do - sleeping it off, lying around and moaning about it, then getting up and probably doing it all again.

Bruce Wayne and Bruce Banner - no, not really. Wayne might sip champagne at a party, and Banner might sink the odd beer, but they both have reasons to stay pretty much teetotal.

Pearly drinks, but it doesn't really affect him because he's so out of control you wouldn't notice if he's drunk.

Moriarty - yeah, a bit. I imagine he does all sorts of things to relieve boredom, but I can't imagine him getting much of a kick out of alcohol. He might try it to distract himself from his own head at times, or just go wild every now and again, but it's not a regular thing.

Gordon hasn't really drunk alcohol in a while except at Milliways. The stuff available at the Greenbrier isn't his kind of booze; it's just not worth it. He hasn't actively gotten drunk in a long time because the weird chemicals in his blood after Black Mesa made the process exceptionally unpleasant, and he doesn't want to find out that's still the case.

Shephard, on the other hand, is happy to test out whatever folks in Rowlesburg or the Greenbriar are making, and to make use of the Bar for old-school booze on a regular basis. He usually deals with hangovers by downing a lot of water and electrolytes the night before, plus a lot of water and cussing and energy drinks (the Satere-Mawe are willing to trade extra guarana for other supplies, which helps) the next morning. He doesn't get particularly drunk all that often, though. It's not worth it and he doesn't have the time.

Ellen is fine with drinking and grew up in a society that had lost the concept of a minimum drinking age.She prefers the Bar's alcohol where possible, mostly beer, because Wasteland beer is mostly awful, being either very old or imported from somewhere that just doesn't practice good sealing of bottles or both. Wasteland whiskey's another story, but she tends to reserve that for occasions when she really needs to not think about the world for a while. I don't believe she's ever consumed enough for hangovers to be an issue, though.

Wee Mad Arthur does not so much drink as go swimming in beer; he's a gnome/Feegle and they don't really have glasses sized for him in Ankh-Morpork, so he just buys beer in human quantities and makes the most of it. If he gets hangovers nobody's been able to distinguish them from his normal everyday personality. I suspect he just takes them with him to work in the Watch and uses the resultant grouchiness as an excuse to make unlicensed thieves' lives more miserable than usual.

Edward Kenway is a pirate in 1715-1719. Alcohol is safer than water. Rum is the primary liquid product of the area where he operates. I am not sure he distinguishes between 'hangover' and 'waking up'.

Fawkes is a supermutant, which makes him immune to most poisons and highly resistant to the others. I don't think he's ever been drunk and given that he works hard at controlling his violent nature, I don't think he's willing to find out what it's like.

Varric is a social drinker who generally gets other people to buy his beer for him. He's spent more time holding onto tankards and glasses while seeming drunk than actually being drunk over the years. When he gets enough in him to actively regret it the next morning, he either toughs it out or goes to the nearest reasonably skillful herbalist for assistance.

No idea for Stacker or El Santo.

Enjolras is canonically "sober." Since he's from a little before actual teetotaling was really a thing in France, I (and most of fandom) interpret this that he'll drink wine because come on, doesn't everyone, but he drinks very lightly and never to excess. He prefers water and coffee and such. Strong spirits, only for medicinal purposes, which means probably not at all now that he's in Milliways where his doctor friends have medical information dating after the "brandy is strengthening" days. He's never had a hangover.

Cosette is a bourgeois young lady without significant health problems, and as such drinking heavily is really, really not a thing she would ever be encouraged to do. Like Enjolras, she certainly drinks wine, and might take a bit of something harder when ill or chilled or whatever, but that's probably all. Also never been drunk or hungover.

Aaaaaand then there's Thor. Thor is a carouser! Thor has a stomach for booze like a concrete elephant! Thor is an Asgardian who doesn't need to worry about damaging his liver! I wouldn't say he drinks habitually, in that he's not at all addicted and he'll happily party with no alcohol involved if other people want to. But he's from a culture where drinking is a background expectation for certain kinds of socializing, and those kinds of socializing (feasts, warriors hanging out and swapping jokes and stories, meeting new people and cementing your fellowship with food and drink) are the kinds Thor gravitates to.

I waffle back and forth on whether Asgardians can even get hangovers, but I lean towards it because I find it funny, though. They're pretty mild, and Thor generally sleeps them off. Or lurches upright with ughhhhhh noises and has some kind of tisane that's the Asgardian aspirin equivalent and drags himself off to court or weapons practice or whatever with his Public Prince Face on, if he has to.

Kazul is from a middle-grade children's book, so we never see her consuming alcohol in any form except "part of a flaming dessert." She loves that, though. I'm gonna say she likes the taste, but would have to drink it by the barrel to get any metabolic effect, and has no desire to do so. There are doubtless other drugs that hit a dragon's system harder, or magic that does, but I can't see her as into that.

Trowa likes the taste of alcohol, but has no interest in compromising his judgment at all, so when he drinks it's usually in very small quantities. He grew up with soldiers, and thus learned to drink young (and, uh, not with a fancy palate), and I'm sure got very drunk once or twice in the course of learning his limits. But that also means his sense of his own limits is still calibrated for someone a lot younger with a lot less body mass. He's fully aware of this, and considers it a useful buffer to stick to those outdated limits. So: rarely, and like a single shot nursed along. He doesn't like mixed drinks, because he likes to be aware of exactly how much he's consuming.

River doesn't drink. She spent a while at Milliways telling people she was too young to drink, cheerfully, despite being well old enough and often talking to a person who didn't care in the least about age limits. The real reason is that she's on too many meds that alcohol wouldn't mix well with. Without them, she'd probably be a social drinker who enjoyed getting tipsy now and again, but as it is -- nope. Interesting smoothies and bubble tea for her, thanks!

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Rollo is constantly chasing a buzz and the bottom of ale cups or mead horns. He prefers to sleep off hangovers, though Siggy doesn't always let him. Lately he has had things to distract him from drinking, and I think he tries to avoid getting as bad as he was when he was being ostracized by Kattegat.

Asajj aims for cheap and potent when she drinks; like Everclear kind of cheap and potent. She drinks like she's punishing herself. As to hangovers, she just powers through them.

Quinlan drinks carefully and rarely gets more than the lightest of buzzes. Hangover thus don't happen.

Briareus, if he could drink, would be the type to nurse a drink and would drink for taste.

Canonically, Briareus is shown in the original manga as drinking wine. Through a straw, as his cybernetic mandible doesn't really have lips to apply suction.

I've been wondering about that! So far I've not reached that point in the manga, but I'd seen mention that he eats in the wiki articles I read to familiarize myself with more of his story. (I've seen the three recent movies and so that's what I am familiar with at this point.) I think once I see it, I'll work it in.

I am looking forward to him finding about energon and sprite food. =)

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It should be fairly early on. During the first night that Briareus and Deunan are in Olympus, she smuggles both her combat knife and a bottle (or two) of wine through Immigration. I think he's shown on the next page (or possibly in the next frame) with a wine glass with a straw in it.

I will have to go back and reread than, as I'm into book 2.

And I have found it, two panels of it even. Thank you!

So I think I will say the panel looking thing above his chin opens to allow fluids to enter, since I am using the modern design for him from Alpha.

Combeferre: drinks wine in the casual, ordinary way of his place and era, but he rarely drinks enough to get drunk. Still, it's happened, when there's something going on with his friends--either a celebratory party or a pity-party of some kind. When he gets a hangover, he lies around until he gets impatient with lying around, and then he gets up and makes himself some kind of hangover remedy, and then he distracts himself with reading until it goes away.

Jehan Prouvaire: absolutely drinks, gets drunk more often than Combeferre, semi-regularly. He goes to wild parties, though he's more likely to be sitting in the corner, getting high and having a Deep Conversation, than he is to be dancing on tables or doing something reckless (beyond, y'know, alcohol and drug consumption). Still, he's far from what his era would consider a drunkard. I'd say the getting drunk happens less than once a month. He deals with hangovers by lying around, drinking juice, and writing overly dramatic poetry about the apocalypse raging inside his head.

Brienne of Tarth: drinks small amounts of weak ale and wine semi-regularly, doesn't drink hard liquor, has never gotten drunk, has no desire to ever get drunk. She's amazingly wholesome. She also has no good buddies she trusts enough to ever feel comfortable getting drunk with, sadly.

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Before his death, Gaeta only drank socially, and never enough to get completely wasted, save the memorable incident that ended with him getting an ugly-as-hell tiger tattoo on his chest. After he lost his leg, he started to develop a morpha dependence, and after he died and couldn't get morpha anymore...that transferred over to a burgeoning drinking problem. He was drunk more than sober for the first six months after his death.

Luckily, he managed to halt the slide before it became a truly incapacitating problem. He's been 100% sober for about a year and a half and has every intention of staying that way.

Curtis hasn't so much as tasted alcohol for nearly eighteen years. I expect someone in the tail tried to make protein-block hooch, but as far as Curtis was concerned, the taste of the end result wasn't worth any pleasant effects. Like...there is only one way you could make protein blocks taste worse, and that's it right there. He'd probably get drunk off a couple beers nowadays, his tolerance is so low.

Bolin is underage. Also, firewhiskey tastes gross and he doesn't get why you'd drink something that disgusting when there are much more delicious beverages out there. (Because yeah, he probably snuck a couple sips of it at one point.)

Olivia has been known to unwind with a glass of whiskey after a rough day. She also drinks socially.

Bossuet is rarely 100% sober. What's the first meal of the day? Pair it with wine! He seems to gain canonical super-powers of amazing barricade placement and construction when he's drunk, so hey, that's something. Hangovers are probably treated with having another drink and going back to bed, if he's by himself. But he'll follow Joly's recommendations if Joly is there to recommend!

Feuilly is like the rest of the Les Misérables crowd; it wasn't really a thing to not drink any alcohol ever. Interestingly, I gather blatant drunkenness at cafés was also looked down on, even though most workdays included multiple drink breaks. For a lot of people in Paris, the workday began with a glass or so of white wine at 6 in the morning. But anyway, Feuilly isn't much of a drinker by the standards of his time; he'll have some beer or wine along with everyone else, but it would take a rare occasion for him to get drunk or to find himself with a hangover.

One of Djehuty's epithets is Lord of Drunkenness. I believe that relates to a specific story, and not actually him being a huge lush, but as far as I'm concerned, the Egyptian gods knew how to have a nice time and beer and wine were part of that. Not getting hangovers because you're a god is also part of that.

Gredya does not drink. Gredya does not approve of drinking. Gredya will get very cross with anyone who tries to include alcohol in anything she is eating or drinking.

Helen Ramirez drinks! She used to drink more, when she was keeping company with Frank Miller and his gang; now she's more a couple-of-glasses-with-dinner type. She's...getting to an age where hangovers are more trouble than they're worth.

Despite coming from a children's game-show, I posit that the Chief can appreciate a scotch or nice cold beer. Such as a pale ale whose name, Burning River, comes from a Cleveland conflagration in 1969. Was that burning river a) the Ohio, b) the Cuyahoga, or c) the Wabash?

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That'd be the Cuyahoga, Chief!

... I may have gone to school in Cleveland. *cough*

Damn right.

...I mean, I salute you, Gumshoe!

Why, thank you!

(Worth noting: there was an Ultimate Frisbee league in the area. The most prominent team was the Burning Rivers.)

Tess drinks. Tess drinks a lot but it's rarely to the point of being drunk. She'll nurse about three or four scotches a day, unless she's in a particularly bad mood and then she'll toss back bourbon like it's water (only Jim Beam, though). Hangovers? Suck. She'll call it a 'work from home' day and muddle through with coffee, water and aspirin.

Hotspur would note that UNLIKE SOME PEOPLE, he does not drink. But like some of the above, "not drinking" by the standards of his era doesn't include ale (because God help you if you drink the water) or wine. Also, that one time Bossuet gave him that blue thing, but he was spared having to deal with his first-ever hangover by AU week.

And Arabella and Viola can once again be lumped together as Genteel Ladies for whom wine is perfectly appropriate, most stiffer drinks purely medicinal. ...obviously women in general certainly drank more than that, but not these two, though Arabella would probably let herself get a bit tispy at parties when she was first married.

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Will is from an era where drinking some beer or ale was fairly normal, he rarely drinks to get drunk. He enjoys trying out the interesting alcohols in Milliways, but his favorite is a good bourbon thanks to being friends with Doc Scurlock. He's had two epic hangovers in Milliways and tries to avoid them now by not drinking as much and being really wary of unknown drinks.

Charles is from an era with a lot of social drinking and he's very aware of his own limits due to his mutation. I also think that he's learned some ways to lessen the effect alcohol has on him when he wants to. According to canon, he enjoys a nice buzz sometimes and his drink of choice is Scotch, he has expensive tastes.

Quentin is too young to drink though he's probably had the equivalent of a few sips of various things including some beer as he spent some time at a human high school. Its not something he's that interested in.

William only drinks at Milliways and then its only some whiskey added to his coffee or sometimes on its own. He's in the era when the teetotalers were starting to get louder but he doesn't want to take away from doing his job. A sip of whiskey in Milliways is one of the luxuries he allows himself there versus at home. Also he's seen a lot of dangerous drunks around Bisbee and isn't going to do that.

Moist enjoys drinking, knows his limits because social drinking is a great way to bond with people and get their trust. He prefers to drink the best when he can because that's how he lives.

Jane is the daughter of a vicar so she drinks wine or rataffia, the light drinks that ladies of her era do unless ill. She hasn't tried too much at Milliways as she wants to keep her wits about her.

Sameth is from a medieval era equivalent and he mentions having wine with dinner in canon and spiced wine is a canonical warming drink. When he was at school, I'm sure he and Nick stole off to have some whiskey with the other boys, the taste didn't do much for him. His addiction of choice to deal with not wanting to think is work not drink.

Ivan is a social drinker from a society where drinking is a definite bonding activity in the military. He has a good palette as he grew up in a refined household and on his own tends to drink wine or beer and brandy when things have been really bad.

Demeter is a Greek Goddess who's all about agriculture and the harvest, her favorite drinks are wines since they're in her domain and suit where she lives. She appreciates a well made drink but only Atlantean can get her truly drunk and she did that once which was fun.

Tumnus is from a children's book series but also a Faun. I think that he's had wine at various times and during the various festivals indulges a little as he dances but that's about it.

Dejah has been known to enjoy a glass of pimalia wine or two. Her best friend (Kantos Kan) spends most of his days just this side of tipsy, so she's been known to get a little sloppy when she's had a hard day. But only behind closed doors when she's with people she feels safe with. Then she might be tempted to let her hair down.

Tars Tarkas gets drunk regularly. It's a feature, not a bug, of regular Thark life. John Silver is much the same way.

Alex Drake never drank so much in her life before she met Gene. She used to enjoy a glass of red wine after work, or getting tipsy with the girls on special occasions. When she was in uni, she could tie one on. But life post-Gene means surfing a perpetual state of near drunkenness. Canon has him filling her cabernet glass to the very brim. Gene is a bad influence.

Vlad enjoys his wine. He doesn't enjoy being out of control. And he also becomes intoxicated off other sources, which really goes without saying, but there you are.

Vert intoxicates other people. She doesn't get drunk.

Earl... that's an interesting question. I think he understands it, but I don't think he has ever been or could even be drunk.

Gene, unsurprisingly, is unrepentant. :D

Oh and this doesn't surprise Alex in the least. For Gene, penitence is something that happens to other people.

Damn right. *patented poutnod*

*Looks at Clem* *Laughs*

Dixie and Juliet are moderate, social drinkers. Eponine survived off of charity wine yet isn't what I'd call a drinker.

I don't think they have Actual Booze in Equestria.

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