DE: Big Steps

[yakalskovich]

 As I am starting new job today: talk about the big moments in your charries' lives when things started to get serious and adult?

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[weaver]

Good luck with the new job!! Hope it all goes excellently.

[yakalskovich]

Thank you! It did, so far.

[just_cant_lose]

Jim's answer to this should be 'first murder, aged 12' but in reality, he just did it and remained emotionally unaffected. I suppose he did grow up in that he started made a conscious effort to behave 'normally' after that, projecting the image of a typical teenager so people wouldn't see what he really is.

Idk, it's a hard one to answer for him because he's both never really been a kid, and never really grown up. Things getting serious and adult usually happen when you have to worry about making a living, or death of a parent/someone close, or taking responsibility in some way. He's never been bothered by any of that. He sees the world as a toy for him to play with, so...yeah. I don't know.

Also, good luck again with the job!

[i_am_your_host]

See, Emcee can agree with Jim on some of this, except for all the murdery stuff *tsk*

[yakalskovich]

Thanks! It went well today.

[i_am_your_host]

Good luck with the job!

Hard to say for Emcee because things were always serious in that he had to fend for himself as a child. Having to make sure you don't starve, freeze, or get killed is pretty adult. He pretty much lived like that his whole life. And joining the ranks of other grownups with normal jobs and conventional lives didn't really happen. Yet he's still childlike in his ways and attitude despite...well, everything.

[wedic]

Hope it went well xx

[yakalskovich]

Yep it did -- all tame and solid.

[bjornwilde]

Sabine: Deciding to defect away from the Imperial Academy. Later, joining the Ghost crew.

Ahsoka: Hmmm....interesting one. I feel like she never really got a chance to be a kid/youngling since she's a Jedi and was taken to the Temple when she was a toddler (if the flashback is to be believed). I think the moment when she realized her actions had consequences, real consequences, was the battle of Ryloth when her stubborn refusal to withdraw cost so many clone lives. She was 14.

[ceitfianna]

I think for Will is started young, the first time he was aware of there not being enough food or the fear of taxes.

Charles, it started when he was a little boy and first heard other people's thoughts in his head. No one was going to explain it to him so he had to figure it out and grew up quickly.

Quentin, when he was sent away on his fosterage to Shadowed Hills, he had done other adult things before that, but that was when he was having to choose what happened next.

Sameth, I'm not sure possibly the first time he went away to school or the first time he stepped into Death and realized how much he feared it. That moment of realizing that the path chosen for him won't work.

William is tricky, its either when Mark first became sick or his father went off to fight in the Civil War.

Moist was when he ran away from his grandparents and had to start making his way on his own.

Ivan, hm, I'm not completely sure but I think whatever happened involved a combination of his mother and Miles. Since one of the big choices he made was to not truly pursue political power and that was because of what happened to his father.

Jane was when she turned down her first offer of marriage and started to plan a way to live a life as an author.

Demeter's a goddess which makes this a tricky question to answer as age doesn't matter as much with them.

Tumnus was when his father died and he had to choose how he would survive the Long Winter.

[likeroaringlions]

Ooh, neat question!

Feuilly didn't really get much of a childhood; he wasn't out on the streets but he's had to be very self-sufficient from a young age, and he'd been working in various ways for a while before he was officially apprenticed at 12. So it's not until Milliways that he's had a chance for things not to be so serious and adult.

Bossuet, on the other hand, refuses to let anything be serious and adult. Well, he's serious about government. But he'll laugh his way through any revolution.

Ursula is still working on serious but she's been living independently for two or three years now--not a big moment, but the first night living alone in her cabin was a pretty exciting thing.

William Douglas is still hoping and waiting for that big moment. Gotta come some day, right?

[have_no_mercy]

Tess had to get serious and adult like Emcee, when she was just a kid. From about age 6 on she was pretty much running her household.

For Kylo, it was when he was 15 and chose the Dark Side, killing the rest of his classmates in the process.

[feminine_menace]

I think YT is in the middle of that moment. If I can call her extended transition to adulthood a "moment."