Thursday DE: i'll get around to it

[needsmoreresearch]

Looking out at the snow that I'll need to be shoveling later and wondering: what does your character think of as their chores? Not big important duties, but the little routine stuff. Do they like the work? Are they good about getting it done? Do they complain and put it off?

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[just_cant_lose]

They are things that happen to other people.

Unless he's playing a character, then he'll be as neat/lazy/slovenly/pristine as the persona calls for. As himself though; yeah. No.

[inlovewithwords]

Eriond used to have regular chores like cleaning dishes and fishing for dinner sometimes etc. Or helping to cook, pitching tents. He doesn't anymore.

Evelyn probably helps out in the library, so shelving, sorting, maybe note-copying, etc, as well as homework and exercises. Some amount of cleaning.

Lois is a Regular Modern Adult with Regular Modern Adult chores. Cooking probably annoys her the most. She'll have take-out where possible.

Artoo probably counts regular patrols or maintenance checks as chores, but some of that is quiet time with Anakin where it's just them flying or repairing the ship, and he's probably at his best then, so Artoo actually really likes chores. Rhythm does the boys good.

Anakin, by contrast, does not actually count such things as chores because they're enjoyable. Standing duty over non-Padme politicians, maybe, or politics in general. He has no patience for it. Ever. That is a life-long irritation.

Tavi's only real chore these days is paperwork. Endless, endless paperwork. And, soon, some baby-minding duties. He complains but he gets his stuff done and only puts things off if it's honestly better for him to take a bloody break before he sets it all on fire instead. He used to have things like cleaning, kitchen duty, lambing watch, etc, but these days? Paperwork. Curse of power.

[cottoncandypink]

Everything is a chore to Wilford. If he can pay someone else to do it for him, he will.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Quickly before I head out.

One of the things we learn fairly early on about Yamato in 01 is that since his father works long hours and is also kind of a slob, he basically does all the cooking and cleaning in the house (and is as a result the only one of the group who actually knows how to cook) -- and the novels go one step further and make it explicit that he also manages the household's accounts, repairs things around the house when they go wrong, etc.

Six years on from that and Hiroaki Ishida is presumably even more busy, so Yamato presumably still does all of that stuff -- and also Takeru lives closer so maybe he sometimes goes and cooks for him and helps out with his homework, and Sora probably sometimes needs supply runs for fabric and stuff, and honestly Koushiro your office is filthy no wait there I already brought marigolds and a vacuum cleaner.

tl;dr: Yamato is very accustomed to the standard set of chores and will do them, promptly and with ruthless efficiency, regardless of whether they are technically his chores to do.