DE: Travel

[yakalskovich]

I'm on a bus with the Nazgul.

So, my question for today is simple: What is your character's favourite mode of transport? What modes of travel are even available in their world?

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[just_cant_lose]

Gene - carrrrrrrr, always and forever.

Javert and Valjean - both walking, actually. They uses fiacres and diligences whenever necessary, but both prefer to walk.

Courfeyrac - whatever gets him where he needs to go! Not fussy. He'll walk, jump on a market cart, get a fiacre, take a carriage, ride a horse.

Bruce Wayne - likes the BatBike, actually. It's more manoeuvrable than the tumbler.

Bruce Banner - car (but not cabs). Public transport is always a risk, not just because of the noise and close quarters, and crazy people, but also because he stresses about the confinement if something goes wrong and makes him Hulk out.

Aubrey - ship, of course.

Jim - private jet. He likes flying, a lot. But not with the masses.

[never_promised]

Bossuet likes walking, loves the Paris omnibuses. Loves them when they're crowded, loves them when there's only one other person on, loves them when they break down or turn out to be the wrong one.

Feuilly is happy with walking most of the time, but on occasions when he's had a chance to take something like a fiacre he's genuinely appreciated how much faster it is, and how you can read while you go. (Or a diligence! Seriously, going between Lyon and Paris in a coach is so much better than walking. SO MUCH BETTER.) He's learning to ride here in Milliways, but it's not something he thinks of as transportation.

Gredya can run for miles. She likes it. She has been in a car and in a train, and hated them both.

Ursula likes to hitchhike.

Hal is a horseman. Always.

Don't tell anyone, but Djehuty wishes he could paddle his feet over the side of the solar barque. He also enjoys flying, as an ibis.

[genarti]

AWWWWWWWW DJEHUTY. That is the most weirdly adorable thing.

[clayforthedevil]

Joly has tried flying and now everything else will be disappointing forever. Back home, he liked carriages best, and tended to hire (horse-drawn)cabs more than some of his friends.

Bahorel like boats for long trips between places you can reach by river. On land he'd rather walk, even for long trips-- it's actually faster (for him) if he's on his own than using a carriage, especially since he can cut around the often-terrible roads (this is a bad idea for a lot of people. It's probably even a bad idea for him. But slooooow carriages on bouncy roads, or Maybe Fight Bandits is not even a choice).


Gringoire has never been in a carriage, except possibly while he was being transported under arrest. That aside, he's never had a chance to try any transport but walking, so it's his default favorite.

[hangingoutwithcrows]

Awwww, Joly.

[clayforthedevil]

Well, it's flying. Obviously.

[onceaviking]

Eric is with Joly on this one.

[camwyn]

The majority of transport in Ellen's world is on foot or by Brahmin. Why no one seems to have resurrected the bicycle I do not know. OOCly it's probably because they make for weird animation challenges, and also because post-apocalyptic movies in general have apparently collectively agreed to forget the bicycle. ICly I'm blaming it on 1950s-style bicycles that survived the bombs just not being strong enough in terms of frame and tires to last long without roads. The Brotherhood of Steel has some vertibirds and airships, although the Capital Brotherhood hasn't got a working airship yet, and I don't know what fuel they run them on. There are also some working boats. Ellen has ridden one. It makes her violently ill. She'll walk, thanks.

Most of the others don't really have a particular opinion about methods of transportation, although Hernan Guerra does like to fly.

[clayforthedevil]

...why do post-apocalypse stories always forget bicycles?

Maybe in Ellen's world they were initially horded by terrifying bicycle gangs, and then when the gangs were defeated the bikes were destroyed to keep such violence from threatening the world again.

[camwyn]

What bugs me is that Fallout remembers the existence of roller skates- you can't pick them up or use them, but there are visible roller skates in some areas of the map- but not bicycles. There are no bicycles or bicycle parts anywhere. There are knee braces and boxes of gumdrops and railroad spikes and comic books- there are tricycles for little kids, you find a factory that used to make them in Fallout 3- but no ruined bikes. Which is exceptionally stupid given that America just before the Great War was running out of oil and switching to nuclear powered cars; you'd think an energy-crisis-racked country would've had more bikes in their garages or something. But you can't even find the half-destroyed parts of one.

Maybe they outlawed bikes before the bombs fell, as part of some kind of weird 'support the American economy' package pushed through Congress by lobbyists for the car makers and the fuel companies.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato: By Tri, he canonically has a moped. In situations that allow it, though, he'll travel by riding on the back of Garurumon, Gabumon's adult form.

Hawke: Pretty much just walks places. I mean, he's probably a competent enough horse rider, but he doesn't own a horse, whereas he does own several legs.

Sherral: He quite likes travelling by airship - as a passenger, not a pilot. If it comes down to it he can pilot an Atomos with relative ease (although he doesn't much like it, because nobody likes piloting them, they're awkward and clumsy.) On land, he travels by riding a chocobo, which are large, tame flightless birds.

Yugo: He's a Kamen Rider. The 'rider' part of that title specifically refers to riding motorbikes.

[genarti]

Enjolras: Walking, for anywhere within walking distance, though he'll certainly take a carriage or omnibus if there's reason to do so. For long distances, like going between cities, a coach. I'm not sure he's ever been on a long boat trip, and he's definitely never been in a car or anything.

Cosette: Similarly, she likes walking. There's actually a conversation where Valjean tries to convince her that she and Marius should keep a carriage because they have the money to do so; there are several reasons why he says that and why she waves it off, but I do think liking walking is part of it. She likes the freedom of not being in an enclosed car with somebody else driving. If the weather's awful, she'll take a carriage or something, though, especially if the person she's with wants to do so.

I don't think she's gone a long distance since she was a very young kid -- first as a toddler carried by her mom, and then as an older kid accompanying Valjean. She'd certainly prefer a coach or a boat to walking weeks between cities, though! And she has the money for it.

Kazul flies, or walks if she wants to keep pace with human(s). What do you mean, mode of transport? All you poor flightless people can do whatever you need to, but she's got wings, thanks.

Thor also likes flying best, for relatively short distances, but he can't sustain it for long travel. Or, rather, he probably could for the float-in-a-storm method, but it's more work and more disruption than it's usually worth.

For longer distances he probably likes riding best, if it's a steed with a decent clip of speed and decent endurance by Asgardian standards, but he's fine with vehicles too, and Asgard has various sorts (mostly flying.) He likes being the driver, because of course he does, but he's pretty used to being a passenger too -- which is good, because he doesn't get a ton of chances to drive, and he's not the best at it. And, of course, for the extra-long distance of going between worlds, he prefers the Bifrost by far to other methods, which are either extremely magically expensive or require a lot of complicated expertise he doesn't have or both.

River likes flying. Flying, flying, flying. She got taken flying a few times by a friend with wings (hi Crowley), and it was the best thing ever, even better than flying in Serenity. Riding horseback on a good, fast, responsive horse is a great second-best. There's no mode she really hates -- besides, like, a cryo-pod -- but those are her favorites.

Trowa prefers to be piloting a Gundam. Obviously, that's not workable these days, but, you know. Other than that, piloting anything with a lot of mobility is great, driving something with less mobility (like a truck, or something) is okay, and being a passenger he puts up with stoically for practical reasons. (The exception would be being a passenger with someone like another Gundam pilot driving/piloting; then it's the kind of tradeoff where they probably both take turns and definitely both trust each other's competence, and he can turn off the mental judging more and just take a nap or focus in on whatever else he's doing.)

[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka - Starfighter. There's a reason she and Anakin get along...well, usually get along. There is quite a variety of vehicles and modes of transportation in Star Wars, most of it never seems to touch the ground though.

Sabine - Speeder bike all the way. She loves the feel of atmosphere screaming past her.

Rollo - Longship. Travel is either by feet, wagon, animal, or boats, and he loves the feel of the sea beneath him and the wind in his hair; even when Thor is expressing his displeasure at something.

Selina - Her own two feet, though via rooftops. She loves the sensation of controlled falling also. Transportation in her Gotham is much like it is in our world.

Eliot - Magical portal. Why be bothered with the space between if you can help it?

Izana - Excluding garde units, I'd say the central lifts within Sidonia. You get awesome views of the residential area as you go up. As to other means of transportation, most often it seems various forms of mass transit. Things like cars are around but they are used for industry and manufacturing rather than pleasure or individual use. Though we never see them, I am certain there are monorails or the like to get around, in addition to the central lifts. Sidonia is just too big to rely on foot traffic alone.

Hank - Flying, especially the blackbird. Other means of transportation are 1960s level technology.

Sam - Flying, ideally using his wings.

[crabbycustomer]

Karkat walks everywhere. In canon, trolls refer to cars as scuttlebuggies, but it's not clear who drives them.

Later on in canon, Karkat and Kanaya are the only ones who can't fly. It is Really Such Bullshit. At this point, as a brain-ghost thing, Karkat should be able to fly, but he tends to think of himself as a fundamentally non-flying kind of guy, so he can't.

[aberration]

Will feels native to boats, ships, generally water transport. Maybe like. Way too much. (Oh sure, sail across the Atlantic, what the fuck. Do you know how long that takes? Do you know how annoyed I am that I had to look that up????)

Asami can fly/drive/otherwise pilot anything, but I think when it comes to say, wanting a way to relax or blow off steam or the like, she's always going to choose driving a car or motorbike.

Elle prefers anything she can't make fall out of the sky or possibly drown in, so… also cars.

Katara has come to feel safest when flying on Appa.

[sunbaked_baker]

I think my favorite thing I found on tumblr about Will and his tiny Atlantic sailboat was:

But I would sail five-hundred miles
and I would sail five hundred more,
'Cause I'm the man who hasn't heard at all
what fucking planes are for.

[sunbaked_baker]

Sunshine: She has never flown in an airplane, ridden on a train, or been on a boat out on the ocean. Walking/running, riding a bike, driving a car, or occasionally rowing a small, unmotorized fishing boat on a lake are all things she's done, however. Since coming to Milliways, she has also ridden a horse once or twice. If she has to choose, she'd choose driving.

Yrael: Yrael's favorite mode of transport is being carried. So long as whoever is carrying him wakes him up in time for dinner. And makes sure he doesn't get wet or dropped. Walking, horseback-riding, caravans, and paperwings (light, magically-propelled planes) are all transportation options in the Old Kingdom, depending on who you are (only the Clayr, the royal family, and the Abhorsen have access to paperwings). Ancellstierre has the additional option of 1910s cars and trucks, so long as you don't get too close to the Wall.

[lazy_but_loyal]

(Psst! Jsyk, Eric may leave Sunshine a copy of the vampire PSA, or if she wants to stop by Pam for some snarking, she may show it to her :D?)

[sunbaked_baker]

Oooooh. :D Rae would definitely like to see it.

But I am still sick today and not at all up to threading. I hoped I would be, but it is definitely a be-asleep-or-be-miserable-and-cruddy kind of day.

[lazy_but_loyal]

Oh no, get some rest and feel better! The post will be open forever if you ever feel up to tagging. <3

ETA: For giggles, here it is, the complete and unedited version of what was used in the show: https://youtu.be/hIDlv08K5eI

[lazy_but_loyal]

Pam likes daddy's car when he drives, but taking car service everywhere is her main mode of travel. Fortunately in her world there's a chain business (Anubis car rental and air travel) that caters specifically to vampires. She can fly and run at vampire speed, too, but that just messes up her hair.

Emcee prefers to walk. Living in a big city, everything he needs is in walking distance. If he has to go any further, he takes the cheapest mode of transportation possible, either the bus or streetcar.

Floki, of course, loves ships, but on land he can hike, ride a horse, or drive a cart.

[onceaviking]

Daddy likes driving her.

[thebattycakes]

Matt Murdock – As blind lawyer guy he gets around like most other New Yorkers, usually by walking, sometimes by cab, almost never by subway or bus which are not kind to his ears or nose. As masked vigilante (and sometimes sans-mask but ditching the blind guy thing anyways) it’s all about the rooftop parkouring.

Logan – Hates flying, especially when it involves somebody carrying him, but he’ll do it because sometimes you gotta. If he has his choice it’s travelling under his own power, he loves a good long trek especially if it’s through wilderness. Second choice is by motorcycle.

Hellboy – Rides around in a garbage truck. And he hates it. He also rides around in crates, cargo holds of planes and sometimes the backs of big black SUVS with blacked out windows no matter how many times he calls 'shotgun'. It’s worse than going coach, but he puts up with it because even if he has to climb into a box to get to a place it at least means he’s going out somewhere. Probably to hit things.

Charlie Kenton – Drives a big truck, kind of like Hellboy’s built to carry around his robots and live/work/repair out of. It smells a lot like grease and stale beer.

The Tick – Is another rooftop traveler, only he doesn’t do the light leaping, cool flipping thing. Instead he runs and jumps and smashes through things including roof ledges, chimney stacks and clotheslines. Beware satellite users, the Tick heads not the sanctity of your dishes!

Bill Pardy – He either gets around in his cruiser which is an old Crown Vic, or his truck which is an even older 1967 Ford Pickup.

[2goodarms]

.....well

I know which mode of transportation Curtis doesn't like

[genarti]

*cracks up*

[yinyangwizard]

As a practical matter, Seimei mostly gets around via his own two feet, torii gates, and shortcuts through the spirit world. He sometimes uses his air spirit to fly, or his water spirit to travel across/under the water.

The forms of transportation he really enjoys, however, are sailboats and trains.

He dislikes automobiles, so much so that he never learned how to drive. He won't even ride in an automobile if he can possibly avoid it.

[inlovewithwords]

Eriond: his horse Horse.

Henry: I am not sure, actually.

Evelyn: also has little experience with this! She will do a lot of walking, but I suspect she will prefer horses. (Not goats. Not weird eldritch mounts. Not--I think you can get dragons? Not dragons. No thanks.)

Lois: a really awesome car. Or tanks she steals. Eventually she will have a very different favorite, of course.

R2-D2: is there any chance at all he can have one where he won't get shot and damaged? Please?

Anakin: duh. Personal fighter. Any ship, really, but if he can pull impossible tricks and go at his own speed he loves it more than anything except Padme and maybe mechanics.

Tavi: if he has to stay on the ground, horse. He agrees with Kitai about that. Otherwise? Flying. And flying himself, not a wind-coach. Seriously, he can do that now. He loves it (for a number of reasons). Kitai more or less agrees with him.