Stand in DE

[bjornwilde]

It's nearly 9am here on the West COast of the US, so I'm going to go ahead and steal the DE. Let's do a simple one since I am feeling lagged:

What’s one skill your character really wishes they had?

Comments

[harryhotspur]

Hotspur wishes he could speak persuasively.

Viola is approaching a point in canon when she'll very badly wish she knew how to duel.

Segundus wishes he could do magic, of course. Lately, Arabella is also starting to think that would be pretty useful.

[bjornwilde]

Rollo would like to speak more persuasively or have more influence on people.

Ahsoka, I think, kind of wishes she knew some sort of crafting skill. Jedi training doesn't allow for a lot of free time though.

[never_promised]

Fffffffffffgah argh I had a DE, this morning just got all out of order. Gah, I'm sorry.

[no_more_hiding]

I'm sorry for stealing it. =(

Do you want tomorrow's?

[never_promised]

Heh, I mean, it wasn't a particularly good or special one, I'm just--annoyed with myself that I'm so flaky. I was sorting out a kid staying home sick from school. I can get tomorrow's, though!

[no_more_hiding]

Taking care of a sick kid is more important than the DE. Trust me, I feel you.

[clayforthedevil]

Joly: Milliways-ishly? He'd really like to have access to some of the healing magic he's seen and read about. It just seems so portable and efficient!

More mundanely, he'd like to be a better singer. He sings! He does!...He just doesn't sing well.



Bahorel:...would also like to learn how that whole healing-magic-thing works.

More mundanely- although he would argue at length that it's not mundane-- he'd like to be a better writer, especially with poetry. He can write an article well enough, or tell a story fine in person, but poetry? Written fiction? He's totally hack level, and he knows it.

[never_promised]

....jolllllyyyyyyyy

bossuet thinks joly sings Just Great

[clayforthedevil]

(Bossuet is a dear and loyal It's Complicated)

[ceitfianna]

Will has always wished he was more comfortable writing or that he could understand Latin.

Charles would love telekinesis on a very selfish level, while on a deeper one, he wishes he could make people trust more easily. Even with his skills, he can't manage that.

Quentin, hm, I don't think its in terms of a skill for him that I can think of. There are times he'd like to have some other kinds of magic as they'd be useful but in terms of what he's learning, he's covering much of what he needs and wants to know. I might think of something later.

William would like to know another language and be able to seem not as uneducated as he feels.

Moist is always up for learning new skills such as various details for forgery, languages and how to pass within certain groups.

Sameth wishes he knew more of how to be a good politician like his sister, enough that he doesn't feel so foolish.

Jane has a list and a lot of it includes skills learned from living elsewhere. She also wouldn't mind learning more of what are considered masculine skills like shooting.

Ivan would like to learn some of how Miles makes reality bend to his will, he wouldn't want to use it but he'd like to know how if he needed to.

Demeter is always up for learning new recipes.

Tumnus would like to learn much more of how to be a good advisor to the Pevensies, he worries that he doesn't know enough.

[maid_of_tarth]

Fantine: Literacy. (In life, she'd probably have added some skilled trade that would make decent money, ideally involving making pretty things, without grueling 18-hour days, like lace making or fan making).

Brienne of Tarth: Dancing. She doesn't know how. She's faked her way through it before but she really can't, and it's the one feminine accomplishment she truly misses having.

Combeferre: He's pretty much picked up most of the skills that were important to him in life. But in Milliways, he would like to be able to play a musical instrument. He somehow never learned while alive.

Jehan Prouvaire: He would like to be able to do emergency medicine using modern methods. He can in fact learn this in Milliways, and may do so at some point.

[athelstanthescribe]

This guy would teach Fantine to read - or at least start her on the way to learning for herself - if they meet.

[farouche_bravoure]

:D I will have to throw her at him sometime! She has Mixed Feelings about priests, so it would be interesting.

[athelstanthescribe]

Hard to blame her really, considering how most 19th century priests would have treated her.

[yinyangwizard]

Seimei would like to have time magic. Yes, he's a diviner, but he does it with entropy/probability and spirit magic. He just can't use time magic at all. It's like a congenital handicap. With time magic he could see into the past. He has a whole list of things he'd like to discover with time magic, such as the identity of the woman in Vermeer's Girl With a Pearl Earring or the true story of the legendary Queen Himiko, who ruled Japan (or at least a good chunk of it) long before the first Emperor.