DE: Interior

[yakalskovich]

Describe your charrie's room or living qarters, either in Milliways or in their world, with special attention on the art or decorations they keep around.

Comments

[just_cant_lose]

Gene - lives in a mid-terrace house in a surprisingly neat and middle-class area, because there's no point having a decent job and being a respected member of the community if you can't buy a proper gaff for your missus to tart up. His garage is his domain, and is an utter tip. He has no art, beyond a few pictures which are invariably of the Wild West. Also, movie posters. His house is tidy, because wife, but there are always full ashtrays and scattered newspapers around his armchair in the front room, because that's his space and he's allowed to make a mess in his own space.

Javert - Milliways and home are almost identical. Tiny room, floorboards, open fireplace; Spartan, and nothing on the walls but a crucifix. At least Milliways doesn't have damp, or rats.

Valjean - until, er....yesterday, his answer would be almost the same as Javert's. But now he is going to live with Cosette and Marius, hurrah! Which means glorious rich old house in v. posh area of Paris, his own room with comfort and people who will not let him not light a fire (omg, I've just considered the idea of the house staff trying to do stuff for him, loooool). He has virtually no possessions, and any decorations will be things Cosette has chosen.

Courfeyrac - has a Room here. It's one of those rooms, decorated in the most garish way imaginable, though he did manage to choose one in shades of green, and wood, rather than bright pink. There are pictures on the walls of hunting scenes (he has tried to take them down, but they keep coming back), and it's all very country gentleman. He is resigned to it at this point, and tones down the worst of it by having clothes everywhere, cameras, books, bits of technology he's trying out, empty bottles and glasses, and generally being a student who has a lot of free time on his hands.

Bruce Wayne - lives in Wayne Manor. There is art, and decorations. Alfred deals with it.

Bruce Banner - currently has no fixed abode.

Aubrey - has not yet married and bought a house, and basically lives on a ship. His quarters are scrubbed and polished every day, he's naturally neat, and things have to be put away by necessity of a) a rolling ship, and b) needing to clear for action at any given moment. So he's not big on excess things, though he has his sextant and a few swords - one or two won off captains of ships he's taken. Everything is very naval, natch.

Jim - no fixed abode. Well OK, he has one house, but he doesn't live in it. He probably has art in storage somewhere, bought as an investment or to launder cash, but he doesn't sit around and look at it. He'll be going to his house for a while very soon, and there will be books in lieu of pictures, and everything will be tasteful and nice, and he will roll his eyes at himself. But it won't be for long. Anyway, yeah. A description can just be 'luxurious', because he is all about the good stuff.

[camwyn]

Ellen - A small, two-floor, 0corrugated metal building constructed from pieces of old airliners and chunks of what used to be Dulles Airport. Honestly, most of the town she and her husband live in is built this way, although a few people live in actual recognizable sections of airliner that've had the seats removed. There's a rug made of knotted scraps of rag too small to be useful for much else on the floor, and an old Brahmin hide with most of the fur still on hanging on one of the walls. There's also a red and white Brotherhood of Steel flag hanging alongside the stairs. This is actually one of the biggest houses in town and Ellen would never have been able to get it if she hadn't saved the sheriff/mayor's life early on. The windows are covered in greased paper, as glass is expensive and hard to come by, and books too damaged and stained to be readable are found on a regular basis. Lighting mostly comes from a couple of salvaged lamps and some strings of Christmas lights that criss-cross the space above the ground floor central area. (There's one room on the ground floor, with a small area in the back semi-partitioned off to hold the cooking equipment.) There's a bedroom upstairs and a room that's either a storage room or a second bedroom depending on need, but the bedroom has filing cabinets and a desk in it alongside the ancient, decrepit bed and mattress. Downstairs is where the readable books and science equipment are, and also the sitting space, eating space, etc. Also the equipment locker, because you have to keep your armor somewhere other than Alternian troll-manufactured storage space.

Ellen's room at Milliways resembles the sleeping area of a 1960s American submarine. The walls are metal, the bunk is narrow, the space is tiny, and aside from a poster advertising the new Metro line, there's not much in the way of personalization. The closet has more armor in it than clothing, because Ellen owns maybe three sets of clothing and one of them is usually in the Wasteland anyway.

... I'll think about the others' living spaces later. Although to be fair, we've seen Stacker Pentecost's room at the Shatterdome in canon. I am also convinced that his closet is filled with something like seventeen copies of the same suit, shirt, etc. so that he doesn't have to waste time picking out outfits.

[i_am_your_host]

Is it just me, but I was concerned about the water in Stacker's room. Like...you don't want to be in that room if you're drunk. And you don't want to accidentally drop something.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Nah, I thought the water was weird, too. Then again, I assume that the medication Stacker is on for his radiation-induced vascular weakness (I prefer that as a plausible diagnosis to somehow carrying cancer around in his skull for that many years) is of the No Drinking While Taking This Dammit variety, and that he's trained himself to navigate the space nearly perfectly in the dark anyway, in case of emergency disaster evacuation. So the oversized zen fountain or whatever the heck the water is there for isn't as much of a hazard for anyone other than him.

[crabbycustomer]

We see Karkat's bedroom in canon, and his Milliways room is pretty similar, although he has rotated his collection of movie posters.

The key feature is a slimy purple pod.

[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka's bedroom is spartan at best. Currently she lives in a dorm or shares a room with other initiates and so doesn't exactly have personal space. Once she's a padawan, she will get a small room adjacent to her master's and I imagine she will start collecting things. Relics to remind her of important acts or lessons.

Sabine's room is small and aboard a space ship. She's painted a lot of the surfaces, overlapping pieces that can blend into each other. Aside from that, things are spartan and basic.

Rollo's reflects his standing. At present it is bare but once he starts raiding again, and earning a higher place in his village, it will become richer. More furs and fine blankets for his bed, etc.

Amelia Heartstriker's is opulent and cover with many fine fabrics. She doesn't have a bed per se, but a pit filled with cushions.

[genarti]

Enjolras, wherever he is, has a tidy and spartan room without a lot of decoration. He doesn't bother to take down any preexisting decorations, probably, but he also doesn't maintain them or add much in the way of new ones. What decorations or trinkets he does put up are a) seditious republican ones, if he's not worried about his landlord/charwoman/etc, b) things his friends have given him, and thus of sentimental value, or c) both. Or I guess d) a pamphlet draft he stuck up on the walls since he lived pre-whiteboards, but that probably doesn't count.

Here's a summary of his and Combeferre's Milliways room, which I made both to keep track of their possessions and because it's a Madonna Inn-type room and thus... dramatic.

Cosette, oh geez, I'd have to look up more about 1830s Parisian decorating tastes than I can easily do during the workday to give the kind of description Cosette would consider doing justice to her rooms. But she's big on decorating! And on having everything nice and cosy and pretty! Wallpaper, nice furniture, pictures on the walls, doilies or whatever scattered about, pretty curtains. Colors, floral designs, birds. She's got a good eye and the money to buy what she wants, too. This is true of both her room in Paris and her rooms at Milliways, because neither Valjean nor Marius is going to argue with her about decorations.

Thor's quarters haven't shown up onscreen, so they're headcanon, but it's a lot like the rest of Asgard's palace: stone and gold and knotwork decorations on a massive scale, huge windows and lots of light, jewel toned colors, a fairly restrained color palette for a given room. Mostly blues and gold for his rooms, I think. There's not a ton of art that he personally commissioned there, probably. I think he likes stone and metal and draping fabric better than lots of trinkets.

Kazul lives in a set of really big caves. They're decorated with lots of extremely random stuff she's acquired over the centuries -- a suit of armor here, an enchanted vase there, etc. She doesn't really have furniture, except in the small human-sized suite reserved for her Chief Cook and Librarian princess when she has one, because dragons basically just drape themselves over whatever's there in the room. She probably has some especially comfy lumps of stone for draping over, though.

[yinyangwizard]

Seimei's house in the spirit world is a big anachronism stew. The grounds and layout are in the shinden-zukuri style of a Heian-era mansion. The interior rooms are mostly in the style of the Edo period (interior wooden walls, sliding screens, etc.). One big exception is the library, which looks like it comes from the Meiji era. The sanitary facilities and kitchens are twentieth-century-style. There are some twenty-first-century innovations such as wireless routers and a computer dock with large monitors, but they're carefully concealed behind sliding panels.

Seimei rotates pieces of art into and out of display on a regular basis. Most of his collection consists of Japanese or Chinese landscapes - he's particularly fond of Song Dynasty mountainscapes. He very much enjoys Dutch still lifes as well. One will occasionally spot an abstract painting here and there. His other decor and furniture is elegant but not opulent, and unsurprisingly includes a number of antiques.

[student_of_impossibility]

Tavi has had various relatively spartan rooms (see what I did there). Certainly in Calderon and at the Academy there wasn't much in the way of decoration. Kitai's room, now--which he spent, uh, quite a lot of time in--probably would have had lovely tile work and some paintings and shinies around. (Who painted them is a potential question; I can believe that, knowing Tavi would see it a lot, Sextus slipped at least one of his first wife's works in there.)

When Tavi was a Legion captain and his soldiers went to a great deal of trouble to make him relatively nice quarters without his say-so (because he would have been like no srsly don't about it), he didn't have decoration really, just a bookcase with rather more books than most Legion captains would have, because he is a terrible spy sometimes.

I am reasonably certain that Tavi has no idea what his quarters actually look like at the moment. Like, he's been in them, but he's too busy to bother registering. I honestly have no clue. There will probably be pretty tile and stonework again, and curtains, and everything is probably colorful because Kitai likes it, and some shinies because again, she likes it. And nice wood paneling in his study. I don't know. Tavi doesn't really care, so other people have to kind of force luxury on their First Lord. (Except for a good bath, comfortable bed, and more bookshelves. He indulges in that.)

EDIT: Oh yeah, if Sextus somehow managed to sneak any of his wife's paintings out before turning the capital into a volcano, at least one is in Tavi and Kitai's room and hopefully at least one in the nursery. And if the portrait of Septimus survived, it's in a place of honor. Somewhere. 'Cause Septimus.