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[inlovewithwords]

I've asked about games recently (as in the last few months) but this is a little different:

What game would your character's family play together?

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[configuration_birdwatcher]

All I can picture is the Lindholms - maybe Reinhardt and Mercy too, I could see this being Reinhardt's idea in the first place - having a very strange game of Settlers of Catan.

[jedi_interrupted]

Race to the enemy encampment?

[forceimbalance]

That's not a game, that's twiddling thumbs while everyone else catches up.

[acertainpov]

Maybe if we'd landed instead of crashing, we wouldn't have as far to run.

[oldmancreed]

Tess has no family. But if you're a Luthor, you play chess.

Kylo has no time for games. Or family left to play with.

Creed has one brother and a niece, sort of. I see them playing Risk.

[aberration]

Hera learned various card and board games from her father's followers, Clone troopers, and various visitors she encountered while growing up. I'd also imagine that ways of keeping morale including singing or dancing games, and that sparring practice sometimes became more like a sport. I'm also imagining Hera isn't actually that familiar with what would be typical games for Twi'lek children, as she didn't spend that much time around other children growing up.

Kanan in the Jedi Temple, I'd like to imagine there were some lightly competitive Jedi-approved activities, and then clandestine games among younglings like 'who can throw more things at each other using the Force.'


On the Ghost, the crew occasionally plays dejarik, sabacc and other card games, and at least once Hera and Kanan played a drinking game. At the same time, I'd imagine Hera and Kanan especially haven't had as much time for a round of dejarik as they might have had in the past.

[splash_of_blue]

This one is a little weird to me, because I don't come from a family where we've ever played games together, so I don't really have a frame of reference for this (and I don't really know much about those kinds of games, because they're... not my thing).

Sam's family has been playing a sort of very complicated 4D chess/Russian roulette/domino chain for the past millennia as they feud and frequently try to fuck/marry/kill each other, without getting killed by the supporters of the other factions; it's a bit like Game of Thrones, but with even more incest.

Canonically, I'm pretty sure there is at least one instance of Molly fighting over playing Monopoly with the other kids. She'd rather play soccer, though.

We know from Philosopher's Stone that McGonagall is presumably a Wizards' Chess devotee. In line with my traditional insistence on ignoring JKR's nonsense backstories, I've made her an only child (according to Pottermore, she has younger brothers), so her father taught her to play, pre-Hogwarts, to pass the time during a particularly godawful rainy Scottish autumn. She also played Quidditch for her house; her mother taught her the basics pre-Hogwarts, and they'd practice together during summer holidays.

(She keeps a portrait of her father on her desk in her office; they're still playing chess together...)

Coulson collects trading cards, of course (which may be used as playing cards), but is far too precious about them to ever use them. Shame the same can't be said of his boss...

Poe's a pretty good Pazaak player, and an even better Pazaak cheater. For this reason, he does not play with family (or friends).

Max's family all play board and card games, because that's what nicely-brought-up English families do, but with a distinct tendency to devolve into endless bickering and rules-lawyering (because that's what a lot of very intelligent bored people playing games do). He's not much of a fan. He's quite good at poker, though, and once took quite a large amount of money off the future Lord Something-or-Other at uni (much to His Lordship's displeasure).

War does not play games. She's been responsible for most of them, though -- and especially the ones that inevitably cause a huge family argument at Christmas.