DE: Pished

[yakalskovich]

 Putting this up early so I don't forget because work stinks, as usual.

What is your character like when they're really, really drunk? Alternatively, if they never are, why?


Yes, I know that alcohol is the permitted drug of choice in our Western/globalised culture, and the validity of that (or prohibiting other drugs) is debatable, but Milliways is a bar, so bear with me.-

Comments

[yinyangwizard]

Seimei can turn on a dime from giggly happy drunk to weeping maudlin drunk. But he hasn't gotten that drunk in centuries. He usually moderates his drinking very carefully and, failing that, he has a well-practiced spell that he can use to sober up.

[just_cant_lose]

Gene - ranges from obnoxiously loud (more so than usual), exuberant, shouty and fighty, to the depths of melancholia. Wherein he will get fighty. He is basically some level of drunk all the time though, so this behaviour is only an extension of his normal moods.

Javert - actually knows, now! And the answer is maudlin. But his brief phase of drinking is pretty much over, so it probably won't happen again.

Valjean, Banner, Wayne - doesn't happen. Valjean because he doesn't allow himself anything unnecessary to live - what if he had a good time, omg! No! The worst! - and various other self-denial reasons; Banner because he can't risk losing control, and let's face it, might not even be able to get drunk now anyway; Wayne because Batman. He needs to have full control of himself at all times.

Courfeyrac - just like he is now, only more so. So much more so. Exuberance to the max.

Aubrey - gets stupid, loud, happy, says the wrong thing, sings loudly, throws up, passes out...basically a happy drunk most of the time, because, sailor.

Jim - it doesn't happen very often, and when it does he's normally on his own. Sometimes he needs to create a certain impression so goes out anonymously - see yesterday's EP - and acts like any normal guy out on the lash. He'd never get paralytic out in public though. He will, occasionally, lock himself away with a bottle of whiskey because ugh, life, and he needs to shut his brain up on occasion. Alcohol is not massively effective at this, but it can help.

[clayforthedevil]

Has anyone ever tried to get Valjean to give up being horrible to himself for Lent??

[just_cant_lose]

*cackle* Literally anyone is welcome to try. :\

[onceaviking]

Jim: as in chatting up vampires to get them to hit him. Just the usual, you know.

Eric's thinking it might be a sexual thing for him and he is, quite frankly, finding that a little off-putting ;)

[just_cant_lose]

Ha! He will see soon enough that it's not a sexual thing. Though it wouldn't surprise me if it could be in other circumstances. But not this. This is just work.

Jim: take the vampires out of the equation, you might be surprised how usual it can be. New variable though! Exciting!

Me: weirdo.

[never_promised]

pffff, Hal's like "shit, son, if I'd known you wanted to get beat up, I would have been delighted to oblige, very authentic stuff"

[just_cant_lose]

Loooool. Jim wouldn't give him the satisfaction of asking for such a thing. He needs a professional in this case, not someone with a grudge.

Which isn't to say he won't try and goad him into it for fun some other time, because like I said, weirdo. :\

[never_promised]

I mean, once Hal is dead and stuck here, he's going to be caring a whole lot less about behaving himself like a vaguely good little king.

[just_cant_lose]

*grin* I'm sure something will occur at some point. :D

[cutting_edgex23]

*sigh*

[just_cant_lose]

Jim: you miss me X, admit it.

[varadia]

X went to the Dreaming for a vacation after you, Jim. Next time she'll take you with her.

[just_cant_lose]

Jim: *SO PROUD* Sounds like fun! *gringringrin*

[genarti]

Enjolras doesn't get really, really drunk. It's part of his general controlled, ascetic, abstemious Priest of the Revolution thing -- he doesn't mind what other people get up to, but for himself, he's not interested. He only gets intoxicated by liberty!

...Yes.

Cosette also does not get really, really drunk, because that's decidedly not socially acceptable for a woman of her class. (Or, at least, only medicinally, and she doesn't have any health conditions requiring that level of alcoholic anesthetic, thankfully.) If she did, she'd probably be really giggly and affectionate, but with a side option for taking a sudden hard left into crying about all the hard sad stuff she normally ignores as hard as she can.

Thor is an exuberant friendly drunk. Basically: Thor drunk is like Thor sober, but more so.

Kazul is old enough to know better, thank you. She likes a good dish of alcohol-and-sugar-on-fire, or the occasional bucket-size glass of wine, but she doesn't drink to excess these days. In her wild youth there were probably some occasions, though. Kazul very, very drunk is prone to explaining her thoughts about something nerdy at great length, and also prone to accidentally setting things on fire.

[harryhotspur]

COSETTE ;__;

[genarti]

...Yeah. Repression: fun for the whole family!!

BUT VERY POSSIBLY SHE'D JUST BE GIGGLY. It'd depend a lot on the situation and how any conversations went.

[harryhotspur]

Clearly the Pontmercys will just have to get drunk together.

(lol)

[wings_of_a_swan]

Oh god

[genarti]

yes this definitely seems 100% IC and in no way something that would go poorly

[harryhotspur]

yup exactly

[just_cant_lose]

Who do I have to pay to make this happen?

[bcgphoenix]

It's situational for all of mine! There's a big difference between drinking alone because you're miserable and drinking with friends to celebrate something -- however they start out, the booze will magnify it. So Gaeta tended to be a quiet, maudlin drunk back when he still drank, because he was self-medicating; Curtis, on the other hand, got giggly and ridiculously affectionate the one time he got wasted in Milliways, because he was drinking with Dejah and having a great time.

(Also, ironically, Curtis's memory functions a little better when he's drunk. He's not trying so hard to repress things, and the alcohol dulls a lot of the mental pain, so it's much easier to remember his pre-freeze life.)

[dejah_thoris]

Dejah thinks drunk!Curtis is the BEST.

[bjornwilde]

Rollo just becomes more himself. If he is feeling angry, he will start fights. If he is feeling happy, he will sing songs. If he is heartbroken, he will be maudlin.

Izana...not sure they are the type to drink, let along drink to excess. Although there is the Japanese cultural thing about drinking to argue in favor of them knowing how to drink properly. I'd say if they were heavily drunk, they'd like sit there and smile at everyone, giving honest compliments to their appearance and character.

Eliot is the life of the party and likely is making sure everyone has a drink in hand. He is one for enjoying the taste of drinks. To quote, "Friends don't let friends drink Long Island Ice Teas." I think he'd also be the one to pull blankets over those who've passed out, plug in their phones, and make sure they are safe.

I'll see if the others wish to speak up later.

[harryhotspur]

...all my characters are abstemious and boring. Well, no, Liz will happily drink a lot, but doesn't like feeling out of control, so she is careful not to reach that point.

[camwyn]

Shephard drinks, but he generally avoids getting really, really drunk unless it's a special occasion, and by 'special' I mean 'depressing'. Then he tends to get maudlin and sniffly and prefers to go solitary until morning.

Gordon tried to get really, really drunk after Black Mesa. The weird chemicals in his blood basically made him too sick to continue drinking beyond the first few drinks. He has not tried to get drunk since and it kinda bites sometimes.

Ellen has never gotten drunk; it's too dangerous where she lives.

'Really, really drunk' is Wee Mad Arthur's default state.

Hernan Guerra has a Kryptonian liver and has never gotten much past 'hey, nice buzz', despite trying.

[i_am_your_host]

Emcee is either cheerful party boy let's have sex drunk, or angry depressed fuck off drunk. He's rarely the latter, though he always locks himself away in a room when it happens because he doesn't like people seeing him that way. If they do, it doesn't help that he says mean things to them and throws things.

[inlovewithwords]

Eriond and R2 can't get drunk (though R2 probably wishes he could because some days, man, some days). Henry is a kid and has never experienced this.

Evelyn has yet to get drunk, but Evelyn and drinking tends to involve getting more talkative, giggly, and being willing to egg her friends on to things that she would know if sober are a Really Bad Idea. Also, she becomes willing to play card games. This will eventually have excellent results.

Lois is kind of Lois, but even more so. Piss her off and she will resort to violence much much faster. She also loses her verbal filter and will say the first thing on her mind even if it's something personal she normally manages to hide because her feelings are not for public consumption (though her opinions always are). Also, if she feels like she's in a safe space, she will treat it like her own (e.g., stripping in the Kent kitchen when only Clark's around because it's safe).

Tavi rarely gets drunk and has a reasonable tolerance due to being enormous. He loses some of his self-censoring, and is probably at once a little quicker to be obviously angry and a little more forgiving because eh, it's all good. Also probably a bit maudlin as he doesn't really like getting drunk, for any number of reasons, so there's a lot of "if he is, he's not in the best place anyway."

Anakin has probably never been drunk and I kind of hope he never is. I expect with Padme he'd be a lot more relaxed and snuggly and, uh, otherwise in general that whole angry streak probably just surfaces and no one wants that except Palpatine.

[onceaviking]

Eric canonically gets drunk on fairy blood and runs around being giggly and annoying. And pretends to be a naked sea God. During the day.

So - yeah.

[i_am_your_host]

Sookie: "Did you just pinch my butt?"
Eric: "Beautiful butt! Catch me!" *runs away*

I'm looking forward to having Emcee deal with this.

[ceitfianna]

Quentin's kind of going, hm, fairy blood makes you act foolish, that's not a bad trade off. Never going to have his blood but still, he'd like to see this happen sometime.

[wings_of_a_swan]

Combeferre goes off on nerdy rambles with less concern for their relevance than when he's sober, which is saying something.

Jehan Prouvaire philosophizes, about art or death or both. Often it's about how we're all inevitably going to die so you might as well [insert inadvisable activity here].

Brienne does not get drunk.

Fantine does, on occasion. When she drinks for fun and not to drown her sorrows or keep herself warm on the street on a freezing January night, she gets happy and a bit giggly.

[dejah_thoris]

Dejah drunk is a rare thing, but it can happen. She got stumbling, giggly, HICCUPY drunk on champagne at the fire festival, and that's totally Curtis's fault. (It was AWESOME.) I can also see her getting a little wild, depending on the company. But for the most part, she's a pretty sedate drinker.

[ceitfianna]

Will tends to be a pretty happy drunk especially among people he likes. He laughs, dances and just is in a good mood.

Charles is also a happy drunk, drinking dulls the edges of everyone's minds and makes it easier for him to enjoy other people's good moods. He hasn't been drinking to get drunk since he left Oxford and even then, he didn't do it very often, he knows his limits.

Quentin, it takes a lot to get him drunk, Faeries have good metabolism, in canon the only thing that can really give them a buzz is goblin fruit. I don't think he's ever been truly drunk, maybe a little buzzed and I think it makes him talkative and silly.

William hasn't been drunk a lot, he likes a drink now and then but the image of the drunkard as a bad thing is big in his time. I think if he was drunk, it would make him either maudlin or angry and getting into stupid fights.

Sameth would either get sad and quiet or get into some project to the point where its like, no, Sameth, come away from the sketching.

Jane doesn't drink to get drunk, that's not socially acceptable for a woman of her station and era. She enjoys the various drinks she does have and they make her more honest and a little flirty.

Moist knows his limits and enjoys drinking but not being drunk. Its only happened once in Bar when he had Atlantean and he talked a lot and the showman part of him came out.

Demeter is hard to get drunk but when she does, she's exuberant and full of life and terribly flirty.

Ivan is sociable drunk, drinking brings out that part of him that likes people and he becomes more visible, he talks and flirts more.

Tumnus, I could see maybe getting drunk at one of the festivals and he gets quiet and silly.