Thursday DE

[needsmoreresearch]

IN HONOR OF going two (2) years without repeating any of my DE prompts (so far as I know) I am bringing back my very first DE prompt:

What is your character judgmental about? Not necessarily the Big Bad things like murder, theft, and societal injustice: the smaller things like what beer someone likes or how they dress to go out to dinner or whether they're good at sports. Do they try not to be judgmental or are they totally fine with it?

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[i_am_your_host]

*waves from one of the long-ass lines at New York Comic Con while cosplaying as Cassidy*

Cassidy is judgmental of people who like The Big Lebowski. Personally I find this difficult to reconcile with.

Pam is judgmental of humans in general and she dgaf.

[cottoncandypink]

I judge Cassidy for this.

[i_am_your_host]

He smokes crack and listens to Justin Bieber, there is a lot to judge

[cottoncandypink]

I wish I could "like" comments on DW.

[just_cant_lose]

Jim judges you if you're stupid (i.e. everyone, as far as he's concerned).

And your clothes. Literally everything you're wearing. Even if you've made an effort.

[sunbaked_baker]

Sunshine generally tries to be accepting or at least tolerant of most quirks of behavior (except you, Dr. Lecter, sit down), but she can't help but Judge So Hard about how people treat wait staff who aren't her. Or anyone in the service industry, really. Rae can and will generally put up with a lot of shit from customers, but be shitty with some other waitress/cook/baker/salesperson/nurse/librarian/etc. and she will drop you like a month-old cinnamon roll and let you know in no uncertain terms what she thinks of your behavior.

[cottoncandypink]

Wilford has no patience for people who can't pick on someone their own size. Going after easy targets makes a person a coward. People who target kids especially need to have their asses handed to them.

[childofrebellion]

Cassian judges people a lot by how they treat Kay and other droids, if you can be nice to another species, you can respect a droid. Also if someone's cooked you a meal, let them know if you enjoyed it.

Quentin has so much judgement about coffee and how noble Fae treat those around them.

And I'm blanking on the others as I'm weirdly tired, I'll come back after my tea.

[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka will judge your fencing skills. And after hanging out with Anakin, she will judge your piloting and mechanical skills.

Sabine will judge your combat skills, but more in the "are you an asset?" way than "you are useless".

Sam will judge you on how you treat service employees, children, animals, and homeless.

Selina will so judge you based on your clothes and how you treat animals, especially strays.

[inlovewithwords]

Eriond: Part of his professional/religious function is Not To Judge Ever.

Evelyn: I think she slightly judges mages on what kind of magic they like to use in battle, in that she's highly wary of lightning due to a mishap of hers when she was a kid. Lightning Preference = You Do You Dude. She has always liked dogs, but since meeting Liranan she will also judge anyone who doesn't like mabari as being An Incorrect Person (TM). I think she may also slightly judge political-type Orlesians on basis of oh my god you people enjoy this?! (Lels and Josie will utterly baffle her. She will think they are nuts.) She tries not to let it color her actions... but she thinks it, sometimes.

Lois: Mostly judges on the big things. That said, in Lois-world, if you don't like chocolate, maple donuts, or milkshakes, you are wrong; if you say anything bad about her mother's lasagna, you are Wrong and need Rehabilitation because it is in fact the best stuff in the world, no, this is not a matter of opinion. (she's actually fine but she'll totally be that in-your-face about it) Later there will be an addition of "if you do not acknowledge this photo of this baby cow from Kansas named Nellie Bly is the cutest thing ever you are Wrong unless you think her human is cuter that is allowed" and she will probably proceed to throw pictures of the calf and possibly a dog with it at your face until you concede the point. So... I guess nothing that affects how she treats people, except in shoving photos in someone's face.

R2: ahahahahahaha oh wow. Uh. He has many opinions on makes and models of droids, particularly astromechs, and which are better. (ps he's the best) Also some opinions on biologicals' illogical actions creating lots of extra work for him. This informs basically everything about how he treats everyone always.

Anakin: Lightsaber form. He will nitpick about this forever. I am stealing headcanon from a great fic I read and note that he has some feelings about Ahsoka's reverse grip she uses for a while that amount to "how many times am I going to have to tell you this is a terrible idea." He also has major opinions about flying (he's the best) and mechanics (he's still the best, ships and droids both). Also he's judgmental about, you know, basically everything ever. He also has some strong opinions on the Force and people talking shit about it. (As I'm sure you all know, this opinion will escalate from annoyance and snapping about it to "Oh good I needed an excuse to kill someone today.") Perhaps not at all strangely, the smaller things he gets judgmental about that aren't Galaxy-Shattering Ethical Questions (slavery, mass murder, etc) are basically consistent no matter what stage of his life he's in.

Tavi: He very actively Judges--both good and bad, if you get his approval he Judges in a You Are Cool I Like--on anything he can make a Professional Assessment about. This includes but is not entirely limited to: weapons (whether design, creative use or application, or "ahaha you think a sling isn't deadly let me educate you"), some aspects of raising livestock (there's an entire scene in book five where he comments on a mobile fence system), poor scholarship, espionage and similar infiltration/theft/etc type skills (clumsy assassination attempts annoy him for lacking elegance), military decisions, politics of both policy and 'playing games to get wealth/power' types, and How To Govern. The latter three do involve a fair number of Big Bad judgments, but it's in the sense of when he gets Judgy he will kind of wave off the ethics, because he really doesn't have the patience to convince bad ethics to listen to him unless it's Alera and he's on the job. His thing becomes "Given that we will never agree on the ethics of this, let me explain to you why logistically your Evil Empire or whatever you have going is long-term not only not sustainable but short-sighted and stupid and if you really wanted to be an absolute ruler you could and still have something more stable by, I don't know, not being a total asshole. Just a professional assessment from a someone who does this for a living."

[bjornwilde]

And Anakin never does break her of that reverse grip. She does stop using it exclusively though, so that's something. (If you want a chuckle, check out the latest Forces of Destiny (it's on Youtube), which has Anakin training Ahsoka with the new second saber, when Yoda shows up to see how the training is going. Anakin's faces are the greatest!)