Tuesday DE: coooold

[inlovewithwords]

Well, my radiators won't turn on, so I am wondering: what are winter preparations or changes like for your character?

Or, if they somehow live in a steady climate and never experience another except in Milliways, how do they react in-Bar?

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[i_am_your_host]

Emcee hates the cold. Being poor and having grown up poor, winter was always a difficult season, with no heat or hot water and not enough warm clothing. As an adult he's grown used to it and just thinks of it as a bitter inconvenience. Also, as someone who prefers to wear the least amount of clothes possible, he simply dislikes having to put on so many layers.

The cold and snow is pretty much life in the North for Floki. I don't know how warm the spring and summer were back then, but they were probably short seasons, and every moment was spent preparing for the winter months. Planting and preserving food, building new homes and ships, going on raids and traveling while the weather is favorable.

Pam lives in Louisiana, which doesn't really have cold weather like the northern part of the country (but then again with climate change there have been freak dips in the temps which is just wrong). Still, she's a vampire. The season change means nothing to her. Extreme weather doesn't bother her, as she doesn't sweat or get frostbite. She can wear leather in sweltering humidity, or a bikini in a blizzard.

Cassidy is weird. I'm taking cues from both the comics and the TV show in that while he can feel hot or cold, it's just not a big deal. In the winter he'll bundle up appropriately because he just doesn't like feeling cold, but he frequently wears a lot of layers and long sleeves anyway as protection from direct sunlight. He prefers warm environments, which is probably why he's spent a lot of his time living in the southern United States.