ways_back_room | DE: What's your job?

Enzo's format is, of course, Guardian, which is exactly what he always wanted to be. Though one could argue that his dream job would be a Guardian search engine pro jetball player...

Ahsoka is a jedi and I can't think of any other occupation for her. Future canon forces the issue but part of her will always be a jedi, regardless of what she says.

Quinlan: Smuggler and subtle insurrectionalist (shhh, really he can be subtle, he just tends to make noise where he wants you looking; and insurrectionalist is totally a word...really). He'd rather just be a smuggler, truth be told.

Hank: Umm, teacher and student maybe? He'd love to go back to just being a scientist and engineer.

Sabine: Student, at present. She will become a bounty hunter and then a rebel. She's mostly okay with these life choices, especially the rebel bit.

Izana: Military pilot cadet. They'd prefer not to face combat but will do so. I head canon that they would have preferred a more technical occupation, such as a repair person or engineer, but their talents were too valuable as a pilot.

Rollo: Does raider count as an occupation? His dream job is to become an earl, king, or some manner of royalty.

Luidaeg: Once would've liked to have been a hero but things happened. Now she's fine being one of the SF Bay Area's bogey monsters.

Selina is a thief and once would've liked to have been a dancer.

Sam will always be an ass kicking healer. He used to be a PTSD counselor. I am not sure what he could be called now, Steve's personal assistant?

Amelia is currently working as a representative for a ifrit sultan, so a vague sort of diplomate? Truth to tell, it is just a means to an end and she'd call herself an explorer; though she is also a mage.

Seimei's official job is serving as a guardian spirit of Kyoto. His unofficial job is serving as a guide, guardian, and advocate for magic-using individuals in Japan. He is also a very specialized security consultant.

His dream job is to become a Bodhisattva, but barring that, he'd settle for not having to waste time with the ceremonial duties involved in being a kami, so he can focus on worthwhile work/interesting things.

Joly has his dream job at Milliways! He always wanted to be a doctor, and especially to be a doctor who could actually help people, and now he is and it's great! He'd like to be able to help more people who need it more, but, like. He's not honestly going to complain about a comfortable job with easy hours that lets him go home to his cats and his *confused mumbling noise* every night without having to see even a little totally preventable death, so.

Bahorel...pretty much had his dream job. Sure, political organizing didn't exactly pay (not the sort he was doing, anyway), but hey, he didn't need it to, and it was important and he was good at it! He's trying to find Other Things now. But it's still what he'd most want to do.

Gene - cop. Dream job: cop

Javert - spy/forge worker. Dream job: cop. But a GOOD COP.

Valjean - retired. Dream job: ...father to Cosette? VALJEAN DOES NOT HAVE DREAMS OK.

Courfeyrac - student. Dream job:...hmm. Revolutionary leader? Lawyer in a free Republic? Party planner? Idk, I'm not sure he thought he'd survive long enough for a career. I personally think he'd make a great teacher.

Bruce Wayne - business CEO/crime fighter. Dream job: crime fighter. Man, my guys are all really into their jobs.

Bruce Banner - on the run super monster? Dream job: scientist. SOME DAY.

Pearly - crime boss. Dream job: crime boss.

Moriarty - evil supervillian/bad guy for hire. Dream job: evil supervillian

Aubrey - ship's Captain. Dream job: ship's Captain!

...OK, it seems my one go-to thing for pups is that they live their work. :\

Courfeyrac makes an excellent Pontmercy sitter. Is that a job?

IT SHOULD BE. And one he would/will happily do for free! He is EEEEEE about Marius being here. :D :D :D

Awww. Every loudmouth Terrible Law Student needs their morbid weirdo introvert friend. *pats them*

Yamato is a full-time student, currently - although really, his non-paying job is being one of the Chosen Children, and their second-in-command (sort of - I'd say he shares that role with Sora) as well. In twenty-five-years-in-the-future epilogue, he's become an astronaut, and given their requirements we can extrapolate that at some point he's going to end up joining JAXA and becoming a fighter pilot.

Hawke is a village medicine man, and later he will be what some people have described as Kirkwall's Court Mage and what might be more accurately surprised as 'a magical handyman', in that people come to him with problems and then he fixes those problems. Usually by killing something. I think he even says at one point that finding people and killing people is what he's good at.

Sherral is a soldier, and he became one partly out of necessity and partly because he is full of ambition to become a Judge Magister. He's good at it, and he knows where he wants to end up eventually, and that suits him.

Enjolras, like Bahorel, pretty much had his dream job -- well, okay, no. His dream job would be serving an actual republic in whatever capacity it needed him, which, let's be real, would still probably involve a lot of community organizing one way or another. But, lacking that, community political organizer! Sure, he was technically a law student (more like grad school than today's university), but that's not really what he was doing, even at points when he was going to classes. Probably his biggest complaint at Milliways is the difficulty in finding anything similarly meaningful to do.

Cosette's job is now housewife, and before that it was, uh, housedaughter? Woman who was head of a small bourgeois household! Which is not an insignificant amount of work, but did also contain a fair amount of leisure time. She likes it, although I think she likes having things to do, and will be even happier down the line if she gets more involved with charity, and has more of a household to bustle around keeping in order, and stuff.

If she'd been of a different social class, she'd probably be a grisette, and I think she'd like some kind of artistic work -- fanpainting, or making lace, or otherwise doing something that had pretty results. Whether she'd've been good at it, or ever gotten the opportunity to get so, is another question.

Thor is a king's son. So, you know, he's a politician and war leader and diplomat and so on. He's good at it! He... could stand to be better at certain aspects, admittedly, but he's actually very good at a lot of them, and he's especially good at doing so while matching Asgardian ideas of what a prince ought to be and do.

I can't really say what his dream job would be under other circumstances, because this one is so fundamental to his identity. What he likes are the war parts and certain kinds of diplomacy, though; he would happily toss a lot of the ruling and internal political dealing parts over to somebody else to deal with.

Kazul is the king of dragons. This involves... okay, technically it's ruling, but it's ruling like a skillful head of a committee rules, over a small and cantankerously independent-minded population. But she does it! And enjoys it, honestly, even if you'd have a hard time getting her to outright admit it. I don't know that I'd call this her dream job, because she didn't show any signs of active ambition for it, but I think she did sort of have her eye on it as a thing she wouldn't mind getting tapped to do.

Ellen's currently a combat chaplain for the Capital Wasteland Brotherhood of Steel. I think she's good with this. I don't know what she'd consider her dream job; it's not the kind of thing she was ever encouraged to think about as a kid, because the aptitude tests were coming.

Shephard is actually really happy as the second or so United States Marine to have command of an American military vessel. He was planning on going career military anyway, although I don't think he ever anticipated this kind of responsibility to his job. He's good with it, though.

Gordon's dream job is doing theoretical physics in a research lab. AH HA HA HA HA no.

Stacker Pentecost wanted to see how high he could rise in the RAF, but he's more or less okay with the whole PPDC Marshall thing. He just wishes the position weren't necessary.

El Santo's a wrestler and freaking loves it. Always has.

Fawkes is still trying to figure out exactly how to define his dream job, but doing a guard's work and a part-time teacher's work in the Capital Wasteland is pretty good as far as he's concerned.

Varric is currently mostly working on running the Tethras family's information network and influence relations. He would probably be happier as a writer who occasionally gets to go out and shoot things.

Wee Mad Arthur got a job with the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. He gets to legally hit people and he gets paid good money for someone thirty times his size. This is fantastic for him.

Hernan Guerra's job at the moment appears to be 'being Superman'. It's hard to picture anything else being his dream job based on what I've read of him.

Would Varric be happy as, perhaps, a playwright? I can imagine him writing a tragic musical about the events of Red River, and a Fiddler on the Roof-style play about culture clashes and forbidden romances between kalna and non-traditional surface dwarves. Particularly the latter.

I'm not sure the idea of writing for theater's occurred to him yet. The major theatrical power in his world is Orlais at this point, and Orlesian drama is really formalized. I don't know that Varric would want to play to their expectations of formula, social commentary, and mask usage. If they did theater in other areas, maybe.

... pretty sure Orlesians make snotty comments about how Ferelden's never developed a real appreciation for theater because the locals are too busy attending bear-baiting instead.

I think the right creative partner (and no I am not volunteering any pups of mine for this) could encourage Varric to write plays in a completely unique style. Or one that is based on dwarven opera (for some reason I suspect the dwarves of Thedas have an operatic tradition) but turns it on its head. I mean, geez, wouldn't the stuffy nobles of Orzammar and the kalna wannabes just get a bee in their bonnet about something like that? ;)

It's definitely not something Varric would want to do right now - and not for several years at least. But I can totally see him doing it and become the Shakespeare or Oscar Wilde of Thedas.

Tess is a CEO/President/Owner/Managing Director for several companies. Her dream job was as a marine researcher, which she had and gave up many moons ago.

Kylo doesn't have a job. He has a destiny.

Best answer for Kylo!

Eriond is a god. It's his Purpose. Eventually he'll make his world full of rainbows and puppies. Can't get much better than that.

Henry is just a kid, but he honestly wants to be a hero. No he has no concept of what this means.

Evelyn is a mage. Currently a student, and she's the kind of person who thinks that 'eternal student'/the academic life would suit her just fine. Everyone should feel free to point and laugh. Her dream job is certainly not cleaning up everyone else's Maker-damned mess and saving a world full of unappreciative idiots time and time again.

Lois is now a reporter for the Daily Planet. Turns out, that's exactly where she wants to be, except in that she's in the basement and she wants an upper floors office with a view and a shelf full of awards. Plans.

R2-D2 is currently babysitting a reckless and mentally unstable Jedi Knight. He'd be happier, probably, if he could do cool space trips without the whole war and danger thing, but that has more to do with all the idiots around him mucking everything up all the time.

Anakin is a Jedi. Well, actually he is more realistically an excellent little pawn and will spend his whole life being that until he learns to say 'no.' Ask him and he'll say that all he wants to do is be a Jedi, but... honestly? He'd be happier, I think, just quietly married to Padme and being a mechanic and pilot. At least, he would be if he weren't wired to have terrible delusions of grandeur. Look, he's messed up.

Tavi's dream job is probably being an archaeologist. He still does that in his spare time, once he lives close enough to his favorite dig site to take day trips there. Historian, magical theorist, engineer, or general academic/mad scientist combo also kind of qualifies. Currently he is transitioning out of active military commander into administrator (diplomat and politician are permanent roles).

Harry would like to get to be a knight again, please. He was really good at it-- it was, in fact, the only thing he was good at-- and he loved it. He even would have been fine with becoming earl someday, though he probably would have been distinctly less good at that.

Viola is a page to a duke in canon (princess to a dragon in Milliways, thanks Kazul), and would like to be ~~a duchess~~... something where she doesn't have to dress as a boy anymore.

Mr Segundus was terribly, terribly excited to get to run school for magic. He loved being a tutor, and he would have loved having the school even more. At his present moment in canon, he's not working at all, and will shortly become a madhouse keeper. Sorry, Segundus.

Arabella Strange is a wife, which is pretty much the only job she would have been raised expecting to have.

Liz is a photographer for a gossip magazine, but she'd like to be a painter.

Marius is a lawyer and sort-of-ex-revolutionary. He should probably figure out what he wants to be.

Brienne's ideal job is knight. Is this even a question?

Fantine's ideal job is something steady and not stressful, something that involves making things (ideally pretty things!), and doesn't require her to aggressively hunt for customers or anything. Basically the job she had in Valjean's factory was her ideal, until the slut-shaming followed by firing.

Combeferre's ideal job in his own era and country would probably be some sort of general practice physician with ample time for scholarly interests that he'd publish papers and correspond with other scholars on, and also for political and community activities that do not require guns. Especially of the public health variety, but really anything. His day job of doctor would pay the bills and let him help people directly, his nerdy interests would be intellectually satisfying, and his political activities would let him work for social change.

Jehan Prouvaire's ideal job is poet, and that word means many things to him in practice. He was doing it before he died, he's still doing it now.

Edited 2016-01-27 04:00 (UTC)

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