The Future Freaks Me Out

[bitten_notshy]

So, children, what do you want to be when you grow up?

Half marks if you say "redeemed" or "good" or anything cliched like that. No one makes a living just by being redeemed.

[OOC: Because Tara's talking to Kennedy about it and I demand Friday OOC-but-ICness.]

Comments

[puppy_fair]

I'm going to be... a hero!

... One of these days, I'm going to say that, and people aren't going to laugh at me.

[trigons_child]

But I do just wish to be good, though, yes, I would not be able to make a living defying my father. I could never charge for healing, however.

[furnaceface]

Once upon a time, I would have said something bloody ridiculous. A rockstar, some famous musician travelling worldwide with screaming girls underfoot, going home to some bloody mansion or some such thing.

Now I think I'd be happy if I could find some way to legally scratch out a living for myself after graduation, in some way that doesn't involve signing myself away to th'next X-Team-Of-Th'-Week. It's looking doubtful, really.

[boho-to-be.livejournal.com]

I'd like to be a famous Bohemian novelist in Paris! And, more than anything, I'd like to be in love!

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

I see myself doing either something in business, or something in politics. I might like upper-level retail management.

I'm sure whatever it is, I'll be very good at it.

[withoutverona]

I'll end up working for the Montagues -- business and property management and such, money and money and more money. It shall suit me, or I'll die making it do so.

Were my last name something different, I might try life as a poet. But my name is a destiny all in itself, no matter how I try to shed it.

[bitten_notshy]

Hmm. Do they have a "Hero" section in the want ads now?

(In some worlds, they very well may.)

[boywonder03.livejournal.com]

Not Batman.

Yeah, that's all I have so far.

[bitten_notshy]

Why not charge for it? It's something people want and can't do themselves. And, as you said, there's not a living in defying one's parents.

[puppy_fair]

You'd be surprised! Back in Midgar, any SOLDIER worth the uniform he's wearing has his own fan club and everything!

... I would have said I'd be a SOLDIER when I grew up, but I kinda already am one, and there really isn't any room for promotion once you're at the rank that I've got anyhow. But, you know, people paying attention to me when I do something right? That wouldn't hurt, too.

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

Well I know what I don't want to be. Sadly it's not up to me.

Though now that I think about it, I think maybe I'd like to be a diplomat.

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

My sincerest hope is that the Watchers' Council will take me back and I will be able to be a Watcher again.

If that fails, however, perhaps I'll be a rogue demon hunter.

[oops-mbad.livejournal.com]

A Keeper who lives past her thirtieth birthday

[bitten_notshy]

Interesting. So you'll just stay the level of SOLDIER you are until you stop being one? That doesn't sound like it's a system that rewards effort much.

And recognition is always nice.

[bitten_notshy]

Hmmm. Rent yourself out to roast marshmallows?

I'm sorry. I know there's nothing funny about it. But it does seem like you ought to be able to profit from your powers without risking death.

[bitten_notshy]

It's a starting place.

Why not Batman? Isn't he a hero?

[bitten_notshy]

Why a diplomat?

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

I would like to be a good, gracious, caring king who keeps the legacy my father began and takes it even further. I would like to find Cassima and ask her to marry me, and then create a world where our children do not have the concerns and trouble that my parents, my sister, and myself have suffered...

...but, looking at my new canon, I....really don't think that last one's gonna be an option. But I seem to be doing okay at the second part! Plus, I got a new haircut, dropped some weight, and look even about five years younger! Thanks, game designers! *thumbs up*

[bitten_notshy]

Good luck on the first bit.

On the second ... what is a 'rogue demon hunter'? Aren't all demons rogues by definition?

[bitten_notshy]

Is that rare?

[puppy_fair]

... You know, usually I'd argue with that logic, but lately they haven't even been giving me any work. I'd be getting frustrated, if I wasn't too bored to be frustrated.

[bitten_notshy]

Well, fitness is always a good goal to have! I applaud your success in the physical realm.

[trigons_child]

Healing is my gift, and one I will always give freely to all those who need it. It costs me nothing to do, and I feel to require payment would taint it.

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

Most of my life, even the mis-spent portion has been about trying to bridge the culture gap between Humans and Elves. So I suppose it makes sense to try to do so on an official/professional level.

[bitten_notshy]

Sounds like time to take on a bit of freelancing on the side, unless they'd object.