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[thisisnotajournal]

Did/does your pup have addictions of any kind? If so, what did/would it take for them to kick the habit(s)?

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[bjornwilde]

Rollo definitely has some addictions, drinking at the least. Of course, he's more a hedonist and so I am using modern terms and definitions. The only thing that has pulled him out of the bottom of the cup has been Siggy.

Asajj has less an addiction than she has poor coping skills. Twice now in canon, when she's lost all she cared about she went on drinking binges. I am on the fence about wether to acknowledge the second binge, tbh, since it is such a trope and lazy writing.

Can't think of any for my other pups.

[genarti]

Enjolras is a sober, addiction-avoiding person... who probably is nonetheless pretty caffeine-addicted thanks to being a person who avoids alcohol and likes coffee. This was true in life and it's true at Milliways.

He could cut back and make the decaf switch fairly easily if he had any cause to do so, now that he lives in a place where decaf actually exists. It'd take... well, long-term health issues are sort of irrelevant, but if Joly or Combeferre was really seriously worried he'd probably be willing to do it for their sake. But if he realized it was a physical addiction instead of just "oh hey, I'll have a fourth cup, sure," he'd make the effort to get un-addicted on general principles. (But if he had to actually drop coffee entirely, decaf included, he'd quietly hate it. He likes coffee! It's his habitual drink of choice! Then he'd stifle that because he made a choice for reasons, okay.)

Cosette: No. She's got habits, but nothing addictive.

Kazul: Mmmmmostly no. She'd really hate to give up her horde-- I mean, library. She could do it, but she'd be in a towering foul mood for a long while.

Thor: Like Cosette, habits, but nothing addictive. The quantity of alcohol he drinks is pretty standard for his subculture of his society, and there's no physical addiction because Asgardian metabolisms are like that.

Trowa: Is a ridiculous control freak who carefully limits his consumption of anything including coffee so that he never gets addicted but continues to know exactly what the metabolic effect on his body is. Caffeine is a useful mild stimulant under certain circumstances! He's got a fairly good idea of what some other drugs of various sorts (not recreational, but stimulants or painkillers or whatever) do to him too, because this is what working with mad scientists in an anime war gets you.

River: Not in the sense this question is asking. There are medications it'd be a bad idea for her to just up and stop, for one reason or another, but she takes those for good reason.

[never_shall_yield]

Gene - booze and fags. Only death or the end of the world would cure him.

Valjean - self-flagellation. Death ends it.

Bruce Wayne - JUSTICE!!!

Pearly - colour. Yeah, I don't know.

Moriarty - trouble. And why would he want to give that up?

[vive_lavenir]

Valjean - self-flagellation. Death ends it.

Truth.

[dejah_thoris]

I think Dejah might be considered a workaholic. She's used work as a coping mechanism for a very long time. She throws herself into a project and can sometimes forget to eat or sleep. For someone almost five hundred years old, she can still have difficulty coping with intense emotional situations in healthy ways.

[have_no_mercy]

Tess is an alcoholic. The only thing that might possibly stop her is getting pregnant, but that's really not a plan, so she's stuck with it.

[merryeccentricities]

Joly likes coffee. A lot. It might not quite be an addiction, but he'd be a grumpy bird about giving it up. As much as he can put the booze away (and he really can) he can also just ignore it without any problem;it's a social thing, for him.


Bahorel, canonically, has no habits*, much less addictions. He'll try pretty much every drug and distraction on offer, and then...eventually get bored and try something else. A low tolerance for routine is his anti-drug, I guess.


*this is possibly taking it out of context a little bit, but really only a very little.

[is_the_motion]

Bonnie is alcohol dependant, not to be confused with alcoholic. As in doesn't drink every day but can't quit even though she knows she probably needs to.