tuesday de: interviews

[inlovewithwords]

What was your character's job interview like? It could be a formal one or an informal one, like "Hey you killed those monsters pretty good, please lead this group now!" or "so my reward for plot happening at me is work? Cool."

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[configuration_birdwatcher]

Canon covered this, it went about like so: "You don't seem to want to kill people even when provoked, so I can't dismantle you with a clean conscience. Come join our secret superhero club instead!"

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

The original one in Vault 101 is summarized quite neatly here: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Generalized_Occupational_Aptitude_Test

The Brotherhood job interview amounted to 'oh hey, you didn't die of radiation poisoning after destroying the leadership of our greatest enemy after all, wanna enlist?'.

[quick_clean_pure]

It was probably something like, "Fine, fuck it, I'll go into the cemetery and get some drugs. You guys are wusses."

[misslucyjane]

Steve threw himself onto a grenade.

Sherlock invented his own job. It's my headcanon that as a younger man he worked a brief series of menial jobs for about two days, then pissed off customers or management so much he was fired, or got so frustrated he quit.

[jedi_interrupted]

Ahsoak came to hers with swagger. She was convinced she had the backing of the Jedi Order and couldn't fail. Then she met resistance, which turned into a provisional acceptance since the interview was occurring in the middle of a battle.

Things went ok at first, even if her new boss's grand strategy to sneak past the enemy lines was to hide under a box, but then she triggered a field of mine droids, got into a continual argument with her new boss, and then got yelled at for pulling a wall on top of him, even though she knew he's pass through the window in the wall and only the droids he was fighting would get hit. She totally saved him but he just yelled at her.

She was so convinced she botched everything and was going to be sent back, but well..."You're reckless little one. You never would've made it as Obi-Wan's padawan...but you might make it as mine." Sly half-smile. "Come on."

[archmagetrust]

'Huh. Not only did you kill the Guardian of Tirisfal, your mentor, you also look way older than any of us now. Wanna be an archmage? Great! Please take care of this orc problem now.'

[explosive_artist]

Head canon: Kanan more or less stumbled upon her after she'd been shot and left for dead. He and Hera gave her a chance to do some good in the universe and she found she liked it.

[childofrebellion]

I wrote one possible job interview for Cassian in a fic where he's breaking the remnants of a cell out of a holding cell when Draven and his men come upon them. Since I think Draven sees him being clever with escaping and his reaction to being caught is impressive for his age and that Draven and his men were possibly looking for their cell too. This is the fic, which contains discussions of torture and imprisonment and all the awful of the Empire. This is one of those what ifs that the part of Rogue One fandom I'm in loves thinking about so this is my answer.

Quentin was assigned his job and failed his first few job interviews with Toby as she kept sending him away. Then they went together to Berkley on another job and he passed along with getting shot.

Will S. tried to steal from Robin and wrestled with him and became his squire.

Sameth was born into his job, so never really had interviews.

Moist is constantly having interviews to show that yes, I'm who you think I should be. He's really goo at hitting just the right note to get someone's trust.

Ivan was another who didn't have an interview, he kept being good at what he did within the Barrayaran service.

William didn't have one as he did was needed to be done for his family.

Demeter is truly her job so no interview for her.

Tumnus met Lucy and gave her tea.

[for_everyone]

Hera's first 'job interview' was likely something like, do some grunt work on this crew and we'll let you tag along and have a go at the ship's controls. And then others saw what she could do at a ship's controls, and that was that. Pretty much all of her jobs were informal, 'this crew needs a pilot/co-pilot' conversations. Though we don't know exactly what her meeting Fulcrum looked like.

Kanan became a Jedi apprentice after helping Master Bilaba foil a bombing attempt against the Jedi Temple. After that most of his 'job interviews' were informal conversations similar to Hera's of 'you need someone to do [x] thing, I can do that.' And he got his place on the Ghost after he helped Hera stop an Imperial from blowing up a moon.

[shadowandsnark]

Tybalt actually tried his best to avoid his job interview and succeeded for a very long time. Then omens of the Great Fire of London kept hitting the Fae courts, which the person who had his job before him stubbornly disregarded. Then he killed Tybalt's sister and Tybalt couldn't ignore the interview any longer.

Specifics of the interview were witnessed only by whatever is on the shadow roads, but only Tybalt returned to claim the job.

[oldmancreed]

Tess' job interview was a looong time ago, set up by Lex before they even met. It was pretty generic as job interviews go. But often these days it goes along the lines of "Oh, no one else is doing this? I guess I have to."

Rose didn't have a job interview. She was given a job after leaving the Facility so she could be a productive member of society.

Kylo [spoiler]. Do I still have to spoiler? Six months for movies, right?

Pretty sure Creed's went like this: "Want me to kill him for you?"

[inlovewithwords]

Eriond's job interview was mostly done by Garion, I guess. By hanging out.

Lois: Perry saw her on her first day at a new school mouthing off to the principle in defense of another girl and asking questions about bullies. He thought this was the funniest shit ever and gave her a business card and an internship/job.

Evelyn: Other than 'born with magic?' Walked into the wrong place at the wrong time, got the wrong mystical marking, survived and proved she was necessary to have the world not end immediately. Whoops. Then proved competent. Whoops.

R2-D2: Proved competent and survived the flight from Naboo. Proceeded to be trustworthy.

Anakin: See Episode I, except don't actually see it, because it's terrible and includes a low-quality Ben Hur remake. tl;dr "Hey, kid, you have tons of mystical power! Are you also a little bit reckless and insane? Great, you qualify, come be a Jedi even though even they don't want you."

Tavi: Furies of Calderon. (Do read it, it's fun.) The interview Tavi thought he had: Gaius Sextus: "Well, kid, you managed to blow a treason plot to pieces at fifteen without any training or political or espionage experience. So you're smart. You want to go to formal school? Great. Sure thing. You officially can start school," where by this he meant "training to be a spy" but Tavi didn't quite register that, "and I'll cover expenses while you work for me. Well done here."

Except that wasn't at all the job interview. The actual job interview: "Well, kid, you've had Araris babysitting you and are the image of Septimus when he was a few years younger than you are now, so you officially qualify for an extended internship. Survive it and prove competent and your reward is dealing with politics and bureaucracy and plotting for the rest of your life." EDIT: Alternate summary: "Hi, granddad, I exist!"

[i_am_your_host]

Emcee most likely got his job at the Kit Kat Klub after a brief audition and a sexual favor.

Floki proved himself to be as good as and even better than his father at building ships, and so secured his position as the shipwright for the Earl of Kattegat. Then when Ragnar took over, it was only natural that Ragnar kept his friend employed.

Pam has never had to interview for a job in her life. She's a bouncer and handles some administrative crap at Fangtasia because Eric tells her to. And because the Authority is forcing them to be productive members of society.

Cassidy bullshits his way through every job interview. Either that, or he hangs around long enough to convince you that you should maybe be paying him? Or compensating him with food.

[death_gone_mad]

Amascut was sort of "born" into her job and then sorta abandoned it. But anyway, she's the one doing the interveiwing, and it was that way since forever, even at her old "job". These days, the interview usually goes, "You did a great job you stupid cat licker why don't you die killing those monsters who had kidnapped my sister and totally weren't my minions. I can teach you how to kill monsters faster; you can make it your career! I HAVE NO ULTERIOR MOTIVES."

Fairy Fixit, I think, didn't have to interview for her position. She got her job by being a huge teleportation and automation nerd and a strong recommendation from the Fairy Queen just to get both Fixit and the human mages studying teleportation at the time out of her hair.

[cottoncandypink]

I don't think Wilford did interview. Ever. He got the internship, and then just never stopped showing up. Any promotions, he bribed and blackmailed his way into.