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Ezreal ([personal profile] indy_wannabe) wrote in [community profile] zubatopia2014-01-18 12:11 pm

House Meme

Since we're all citizens of the great city of Union, we all presumably have houses. Since all of the buildings are enormous towers, these houses can range from anything to multi-story buildings that take up several floors of an entire tower to modest studio apartments that are just a small chunk of a single floor on a tower. So! What does your character's house look like? Do they share with friends or family? I wanna know!
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[personal profile] lifeissuffering 2014-01-18 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Ogami has a room in the Union Divine Theater which is on the ground floor and first floor of one of the towers in the Business District abutting the Residential district. The room itself is reasonably spacious but very sparsely furnished - a former Guardsman he doesn't have much in the way of personal effects, at least right now. He's got a bed, table, some clothes, and some odds and ends, it's very modest.
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Orphanage kids unite?

[personal profile] heartstorage 2014-01-18 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Sora lives at the/an Orphanage (is there more than one? I don't know). I'm keeping it vague since there are many other characters with the orphanage background- but I'm guessing he shares a room with a couple other boys not too far from his age. The condition of the place is neither great nor terrible unless someone has a stronger preference otherwise. His room isn't decorated. He sleeps on a simple bed that he hides his axe and lockpicks under the bed frame. Possession wise is next to nothing beyond clothing and supplies for Pokemon- so it's pretty sparse of Sora's stuff in general.

IF ANYONE ELSE WANTS TO ADD MORE TO THE ORPHANAGE, FEEL FREE? I'm keeping it super vague since i've seen it on several apps.
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[personal profile] stahlflugel 2014-01-18 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Eren lives alone in a middle-class two bedroom apartment in the residential district. Two bedroom because, on the lease, his dad lives there. In practice, he's never around. The apartment is always clean and well-kept. Eren has a variety of rocks and other stuff from outside the walls displayed around his apartment, as well as a small wooden chest filled with similar items he's holding for Armin. Otherwise, it's pretty spartan.
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[personal profile] mopedsandtofu 2014-01-18 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
So I haven't really thought about this, but now that I am, I'm thinking that Beast Boy should have a roommate.

I'm thinking some dingy little apartment on the edge of town near the Wall, since that's where he works. Also since BB is an enormous slob, it would be ideal for his roommate to be a neatfreak. Imagine a line drawn down the middle of the living room with Beast Boy's side being filled with piles of comic books, drifts of dirty clothes, and the other side being sparkling clean and neat.
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[personal profile] second_destiny 2014-01-18 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Asemu lives in the residential district, among the towers for the nobility. The residence contains three full floors of one tower, decorated with high-quality furniture. He shares this residence with his parents, Flit and Emily, his younger sister, Yunoa, and his great-grandfather, Vargas Dyson.

Asemu's room is more modestly decorated than the rest of the Asuno family's residence. He has a simple twin-size bed, oak furniture including a desk, a dresser, a nightstand, and a table, and an office chair. There's a window next to his bed, and one of his walls is adorned with some of his achievements, such as his diploma, his ranger certification, his award for graduating in the top ten percent of his class, and old martial artist belts.
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[personal profile] highliber 2014-01-18 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
The position Zarvora has ascended to comes with a modest apartment that is actually attached to her office in the library, and that suits her fine. Her rooms are tastefully furnished, and usually fairly neat. When she's obsessing over some project, however, it can kind of take over the whole space, filling tables and chairs with teetering piles of reference books and spare parts for whatever contraption she's working on. Decor style is reminiscent of a Victorian study: Lots of dark woods, overstuffed seating, everything is very old but well built. Basically it was furnished like that when she moved in and she's never seen fit to mess with it.

Though she doesn't drink, she keeps a modest collection of liquor for guests who desire such things.
Edited 2014-01-18 21:03 (UTC)
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[personal profile] a_gentle_boy 2014-01-18 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Lucas lives in one of the residential districts with his grandfather, Alec. Their room resembles a large closet. The man used to spend all his time outdoors, so it wasn't as if he needed much space, but then Things Happened and he had to take care of his grandson. They don't have much money to upgrade, but it's cozy enough to manage. Two beds are shoved inside with a basket for Eevee to sleep in. There are suitcases that are never going to be opened shoved into the back - these belong to Lucas's mother, father, and brother and should probably be donated or something but neither Lucas nor Alec has any desire to go through them.
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[personal profile] paradiseshrinemaiden 2014-01-18 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Reimu, of course, lives in the shrine, which I'm not entirely sure where it is exactly, but it is little a bit out of the way. Somehow it is not really that different from canon other than being located in a City made of towers instead of somewhere in the mountains (because no one ever said I couldn't) and it's about as modest and slightly worn down as in canon too. Basic modest, Japanese style rooms, including a guest room that's mostly used by Marisa when she crashes there, and a supply room where she keeps everything, including a supply alcohol because there probably aren't drinking laws in Union and Reimu wouldn't care if there were (she prefers tea most of the time).

She lives alone, accept for Genji, the old Carracosta shifter priest who comes by sometimes to check up on her, Ruukoto and, again, occasionally Marisa when she decides to crash there after running away from home yet again.
Edited 2014-01-19 20:50 (UTC)
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[personal profile] stardunes 2014-01-19 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
Ondorus lives alone (...or, well, with Star) in a smallish but very clean and well-equipped apartment. It has four rooms total; one bedroom, one bathroom, one small room Ondorus uses as a study/second office/BOOK PILE HELL, and a larger room that's actually sort of two rooms missing a dividing wall; the kitchen and the living room.

The apartment is full of lots of books, papers, and leftover research materials and Old City trinkets that don't see use at the University. There's also a number of traditional art pieces hanging or sitting around as decorations. All in all, it...looks like the dwelling of someone who's pretty well-off and is very passionate about scholarly things. The most immediately unusual thing in the apartment is a home shrine in a corner of the living room, covered nearly to overflowing in a private display of both enthusiastic polytheism and belief in votive offering.
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[personal profile] greatrage 2014-01-19 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
oh my god BB eren would kill you in your sleep *how are you in the military with this sort of SLOBBERY*
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[personal profile] mopedsandtofu 2014-01-19 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
Because Ditto Shifters don't just grow on trees, you know.
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[personal profile] greatrage 2014-01-19 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
apparently they grow in filth
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[personal profile] for_realsies 2014-01-19 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
The Moreno "Estate" (Imogen's father started calling it that as a joke when she was young) is a rather impressive three floors near the top of one of the older towers. The home is sized for a full serving staff, but has been functioning on a reduced staff since Imogen's father grew 'ill.'

Louis spends most of his time on the third level, where his study was located. His fluctuating mental state means only the closest friends and family visit him, and the members of the staff loyal to him. Imogen's 'storeroom/office' is kept on that floor as well, as Natalie never wants to see her discoveries from the Old City, and Imogen loves being near her father, even if he is sometimes... painful, to be near. Her office is generally cluttered and haphazard, the rhyme and reason of it known only to Imogen herself. She rarely has other delvers there, but if she finds something a Historian might want to give a look over, it will be here. This space used to be the home office back when the residence was first made, so most of this space used to be conference rooms and offices.

The second floor has a more proper collection of bedrooms, a full bath, and a modest sauna. The family in the past was much larger, and often housed closer in-laws in the past, so it's rather large for the current brood. Imogen's childhood room (closest to the stairs) was modified as a nursery for her expected half-siblings, and her room was moved further away as punishment for Imogen bringing home... strays (both Pokemon and people). Imogen keeps a room next to the family's library, which is still filled with older tomes from two generations of teaching. Most of the books are rather expensive, and part of the 'acclaim' the family holds now. One of the guest rooms is technically for Natalie's 'consort' but he spends most nights, unsurprisingly, in the master bedroom. Two other guest rooms are held by staff, who keep house and care for Louis while Imogen is away.

The main floor consists of a lavish ballroom, kitchen, dining room, and greenhouse area. Moreno, in the past, were connected to the construction of this tower, so the greenhouse is two stories in some places and the wall is modified for that purpose. A gift to the wife when the apartment was first constructed. This was before Imogen's family moved to academia, culminating in her father. In spite of the lower staff count, all public areas of the house are well maintained.

Family and Staff:
Louis Moreno - Imogen's father.
Natalie Moreno (Granger) - Imogen's mother.
Fabian - Natalie's consort. He's a chef of decent enough position that he could accompany Natalie to social events in place of Louis without raising an eye.
Butler and Nurse live in house, with a Maid-slash-prep chef and Gardener who live elsewhere in the Residential district.
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[personal profile] mopedsandtofu 2014-01-19 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
That's mushrooms.
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[personal profile] greatrage 2014-01-19 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
dittos are mushrooms
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[personal profile] mopedsandtofu 2014-01-19 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
Fuck I just got outmaneuvered.

[personal profile] choseneutrality 2014-01-19 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
Flynn lives alone in the house he grew up in with his parents in one of the more modest Residential Areas. It's small, two-floor home with a small kitchen area and living room area on the first floor, and the second floor is where the bathroom, his parents' room, and his own room are on.

It's kept neat and orderly for the most part, but Flynn hasn't entered in his parents' room in a long time and has kept it locked. In his own room, he has made a sleeping area for his Happiny.
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[personal profile] copesetic 2014-01-19 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Albert has a little apartment on a jutting side of his tower so he's lucky enough to have windows on three sides. It takes up just a small area but has two stories connected by a spiral staircase. Downstairs is the kitchen and living room while upstairs has his office and the bedroom with attached bath. Because Albert is Steel type but his pokemon is Electric, there's no carpet at all in the apartment. He has tile and wood floors out of necessity.
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[personal profile] makeitquick 2014-01-19 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
Melaka lives in a one room apartment near a factory in a building she's never really in except to sleep. She originally lived in a slightly bigger apartment with an older sister who is a vague NPC who is now in the Swords but ollied out of that four years ago and has lived along since. She doesn't have a shower and thus needs to go to one shared on the floor and/or a public one I'm not sure which is more likely.
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[personal profile] whateveryoueatliveitspart 2014-01-19 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
Apollo lives with his maternal grandfather in a south-facing apartment on the top floor of a tower relatively close to the southern wall. It has a very nice view of the wilderness beyond the wall. His grandfather downsized after his daughter moved out and his wife passed away and didn't choose it with the expectation of anyone other than his Pokémon sharing the space with him. The apartment was originally bigger, but when he got it he called in favors (and may have made "donations" to someone) to have it modified; the balcony was drastically enlarged and opened to the sky by cutting away the roof and taking away most of the interior space of the apartment, leaving it nothing more than a single smallish main room, a simple bathroom, and a tiny storage room that's used mainly for clothes. The enlarged balcony has been turned into a garden filled with various edible, medicinal, and just plain interesting plants, many of which were grown from cuttings and seeds he brought back from the wilderness. His Pokémon maintain it when he's not around and have it set up as something akin to neutral territory for any Pokémon who want to stop by; Apollo's Fletchling was one such Pokémon originally.

The apartment itself is sparsely furnished with a pair of simple beds, bookcases, a work surface for food preparation, and something like a kotatsu; Apollo and his grandfather both prefer to sit on the floor, and Apollo himself will often sleep on the floor instead of in his bed or on the balcony when the weather`s nice. There`s very little in the way of decoration, as neither of them have much interest in accumulating useless possessions. Most of the things that aren`t strictly practical are confined to the bookshelves, most notably Grandpa`s collection of books. The books are mostly reference works, with the occasional piece of fiction or poetry tucked among them, but a few of them, passed down through the family over the years, predate the war and might not have duplicates in any of Union`s libraries.

The apartment is kept reasonably neat and clean, but it`s inhabited by two guys and several Pokémon, so there`s only so clean it will ever get.
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[personal profile] outtahere 2014-01-19 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Banzu technically still has a bed in the orphanage, but he uses it as little as possible and the only things he keeps there are extra clothes. The place that he considers closest to a home is his workspace at the Laboratories, which he negotiated for as a replacement for part of his salary. It was originally a small underused storage room that happened to have a small window, and it remains rather cramped. There are a couple of shelving units filled with various parts and materials, a workbench with a chair, a small trunk for clothes, and a folding cot that he usually sleeps on. The room appears disorganized, but he has at least a good idea of where everything is and keeps it swept of any metal shavings or other waste items.
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[personal profile] antiseptic 2014-01-19 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
Jade is part of the Curtiss family, which owns two large floors in a wealth part of the residential district. He has a bedroom and study put aside for him there.

He prefers to live alone though, so he has his own medium-sized apartment close to the Curtiss home. It has his bedroom/library, study/library, storage room/library, and living room/dining area/library + kitchen and bathroom. He has lots of books and materials from his researcher days ok. But everything is well-organized and tastefully furnished! There are a few secret hiding places he has for his old illicit research materials, which he really should have burnt long ago, but he's very much against the destruction of knowledge.
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[personal profile] comparative_insanity 2014-01-19 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
The Flourite residence is best described as simply "too big". Too big for a relatively small family, too big considering that space in Union still is limited, too big to not always feel a little bit empty when you move about the premises.

It is situated at the top of one of the towers, taking up four floors plus the roof, which is covered by a glass-encased garden and often used for throwing parties. A wide set of stairs leads from there to the fourth floor, which is the "public" part of their home, accessible directly from the entry hall via a mechanical elevator which is usually activated by Psychic power. The fourth floor is where guests are entertained, and where the older Flourites have their offices and locales for business meetings.

From the roof a separate, smaller staircase also leads down to the third and second floor, which is the private section of the Flourite home.

On the third floor Fai and Yuui's parents, their uncle and their grandparents on their father's side live in their own private suites. That floor also contains the library and a smaller, more private dining hall. The second is where Fai and Yuui live, and that is also the floor that houses everyone's pokémon, who all live in their own specially adjusted rooms rather than in the Habitat. Also the bath, since this floor is closest to the boilers on floor 1.

The first floor - perfectly in accordance with the term 'below stairs' - is reserved for the staff. This includes the kitchen, the pokémon kitchen, the laundry room, and the housing for all of the staff. (Kitchen staff, cleaning staff, pokémon care staff, the family Medic - who of course gets and extra large suite along with his/her own office - and each family member's personal attendant.)
Edited 2014-02-19 22:35 (UTC)
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[personal profile] sturzflug 2014-01-19 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Jean lives with his parents (haha, no surprise there.) His parents are both tailors, though they're fairly well off, since they own their own shop and specialize in custom work for Englightened folk and that sort of thing. (And yes, their house is right above the shop.) Which explains how Jean always has clothes that fit, despite the obvious buttwings.

That being said, Jean knews how to sew and patch stuff up and whatnot, but here's definitely not as skilled, since being Enlightened means he gets to do COOL STUFF!! Yeah, since he's an only child, his parents have been really accommodating... His room is probably a mess half the time when he's there, but his mom cleans it and picks up his stuff... wow, Jean. You're so embarrassing.
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[personal profile] mastermedium 2014-01-19 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
AWWWRIGHT I'm not the most active yet, sorry guys, SCHOOL and all. BUT, Maya lives in the manor of Kurain village. Having become the master she technically has all rights to it and lives in the parts that aren't the school pretty much alone (which... most of the manor is actually a school.) Raile and I have plans for her to be watching over Inui but whether that works out or not, it's still kind of the same situation.

Located near Jinxie's place, the Kuraine community is in the northwest corner of the city, and also very close to the outer wall. The manor itself is all one-story but it's also the space beneath the some apartments of a few of the other acolytes. Regardless, being that it's a religious village, it's not as tall as the other buildings in Union and gives off a distinct air of 'what the fuck is this doing here'. It's not as big as it could be-- or one would think it would be when hearing the word 'manor'-- but it's a decent size to accommodate a routine visit of 3-5 acolytes at a time in a 'classroom' (an open room with training mats and scrolls all over the walls), a courtyard, a channelling chamber, and open porch used often as a sort of lobby.

The living areas include a small kitchen, three small bedrooms (two of which are 'recently' uninhabited), and a 'den' that is used both as a dining room and as a living room. The bedroom Maya uses also connects to a gated part of the courtyard, intended for use by the master for training. The courtyard isn't very well tended on this side, as Maya's aunt didn't have access to it. Maya's bedroom is a bit of a mess when she's in it, but surprisingly, she manages to tidy up most things before she leaves-- that, or shove things into a corner. Since the bedrooms are small, she doesn't see a need to carry very many things with her in that room. She also just spends most of her time outside the manor.

The houses of the other acolytes are also closely-spaced near the manor so it kind of has a bit more of a barrio thing going on than it does a 'village' thing, but what can you do. They don't really seem to mind and the girls are all related anyway. That said, there aren't a lot of men in this living situation; often there are sisters living together or cousins helping to raise little girls after the leave of someone's maybe-husband.

...honestly a small neighbourhood of ghost/psychic training acolyte nuns sounds like a really creepy neighbourhood maybe none of you should visit Maya.
Edited 2014-01-19 18:32 (UTC)
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[personal profile] somnambulatory 2014-01-19 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Jinxie lives in a somewhat upscale dwelling in a small and somewhat insular little community of spiritually sensitive Enlightened, located in the northwest corner of the city near the inside of the wall surrounding it. The house itself is a small manor, although it's somewhat old-fashioned in design and has a lot of design elements that you'd more commonly see displayed in a shrine. That motif extends to the inside of the house as well, and there are lots of items of spiritual significance prominently displayed throughout - statues of various Ghost, Psychic, and Dark Pokemon, Enlightened items with powers that duplicate or enhance moves of these types, artwork, charms like the ones Jinxie sells in the streets... you get the idea. There's also an intricate scroll hanging on the wall in the foyer depicting a Ninetales doing battle with a Honchkrow. This is very obviously the centerpiece of the house's collection, and it's displayed with all the care and reverence you'd expect to be associated with a priceless piece of history.
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[personal profile] celebrity_commentator 2014-01-20 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Rise has her own apartment near the entertainment district as part of her deal with the radio station. It's small and her Happiny does more of the decorating than she does, so there's a lot of small frilly things that Toyo can grab and make puppy eyes at Rise for until she buys them.