#character employment

[miqomonkly]

I'lyanna is taking a note from Tataru and trying her hand at her own fashion boutique!

... and finding out it's harder than she initially imagined. Of course, setting up in Ul'dah was probably not the best choice of starting locations. Thankfully, she has Redolent Rose to offer her some advice, though he insists he does so begrudgingly as the Weaver's Guild doesn't take kindly to competition (he's actually quite soft about the whole idea; witnessing one of his prize pupils rise to make a name for herself!)

Currently, her list of clients is very small, and rarely does she actually charge a number of them. This group includes Ameliance, Kurenai, Zhloe, and the other custom delivery recipients she's worked with in the past. They are always the first to try her designs, and depending on the work involved, allowed to keep the results!

Alongside this, she designs and sews new clothes for the orphans of Menphina's Arms. As "dedicated" as Zhloe is, Lyanna feels a strong desire and duty to those children to help keep them warm in the cold of Idyllshire. This, also, goes without a fee, as she is in reality donating to Zhloe anyway.

So the volunteer work I do on the weekends actually reminded me of a WoL/OC question I've been wanting to ask - does your character (or even characters) do anything outside of their adventuring/doing hero work? Any odd jobs? Charity work? Day jobs?

To answer this myself - Kiyo runs an apothecary out in the Shroud that also has a meager walk-in clinic attached to it (though the clinic services are free. She never charges for her healing work). She also offers clothing mending services for a small fee and, if she's able to spare any time for it, she'll do some bits of volunteer work here and there

As for her brother - when he wasn't joining his sister on her missions, he did mercenary work. His fees would depend on who was asking for his services to begin with. Were you a stuffy noble or snooty merchant? You're getting charged a lot. Traveling families or just merchants trying to make ends meet? He'd hardly charge you anything, if at all. After the whole thing with his sister saving the entire world, he puts a lot of his focus into being a sellsword, but will also train anyone willing in the ways of being a true samurai

[mrkida-art]

Just a little guy from Ravenhill

[false-credentials-tournament]

Welcome to the Lied On Their Resume Tournament!

[Plaintext: Welcome to the Lied On Their Resume Tournament!]

We come here to celebrate fictional characters who engaged in the time-honored tradition of lying to employers. We should all follow their example. Submission form here! Please read the guidelines below before submitting.

Guidelines

[plaintext: guidelines]

This poll is for characters who have told intentional falsehoods about their skills and/or expertise in order to gain some form of employment. The "resume" may be non-literal; a character does not need to have submitted a piece of paper listing their qualifications and gotten an interview in order to count toward this tournament. The "employment" may also be short-term or under-the-table.

This poll is NOT for characters who lied about or concealed their identities for a purpose other than falsifying their credentials. While identity theft or obfuscation and lying on your resume often go hand in hand, I will not accept submissions for characters whose false identities do not include a phony set of skills. - That being said, I understand this is a pretty nebulous zone in which to draw a line. Characters who faked their identities first and faked their skillsets second, but whose skillsets then became and remained plot-relevant, may be submitted. They will be carefully considered on a case-by-case basis by me and whatever friends want to help me out.

Fictional characters only. I will not be accepting any real people, even if their situation is extremely funny. Fictionalized versions of real people are fair game, but they must lie on their resumes within their source material and not as a bit of trivia otherwise not included within the text.

Given that this is a tournament that centers liars, spoilers will likely be present in all polls. Propaganda will be placed under a readmore, but be warned that following this blog may put you at risk for seeing a character you recognize and going "WHAT? What are THEY lying about?!" if you haven't, like, gotten to that part yet.

I will not be accepting Harry Potter submissions cuz I don't really wanna give the series more air. It's my poll I do what I want

Submissions will remain open until I have...let's go with 32 entrants. I like remaining optimistic

[cheebuss]

Their hater shit in issue #4 was so sillay tbt them trying to gut/poison each other

[princesssarisa]

This post about employer/servant relationships that @bethanydelleman and @thatscarletflycatcher have both reblogged has gotten me thinking about all the employer/servant relationships that are close and familial in period fiction I know. From Nelly Dean in Wuthering Heights (although she's a complex example), to the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, to Suzuki in Madame Butterfly, to the Enchanted Objects in Disney's Beauty and the Beast, and others. Are they all classist nonsense, glorifying loyalty, affection, and emotional labor that no real-life employee owes their employers? Or not?

I'm especially wondering about this because in one of the fantasy stories I'm working on, as I've envisioned it until now, a neglected child from a well-off family ends up forming a found family with several servants from her household. After years of trying to maintain a formal distance, they finally can't deny their affection for her, and end up following her when she runs away from home and starting a new life elsewhere as her parental figures. I suppose I can try to find ways to justify these specific relationships in this story – especially because once this girl and these adults are living on their own, they no longer have a mistress/servant relationship. But can I do this, or would it just be perpetuating the oppressive sentimental cliché that servants should be their employers' friends/surrogate family and be willing to sacrifice everything for them?

At any rate, though, I agree with @thatscarletflycatcher that this way of thinking is probably why some people are so eager to hate Nelly Dean, and why her relationship with the elder Cathy tends to be rewritten as more loving in adaptations. Subconsciously they probably think "How dare a maid dislike her mistress? The heroine's female servant confidante is supposed to love her!" Even though Nelly fulfills that "duty" by loving the younger Cathy in the second half, and the elder Cathy's status as a "heroine" is questionable. There's probably also an element of this when people criticize Jane Eyre for at least initially being too cold toward Adéle. Jane is hired to teach Adéle, yet people criticize her for acting like a teacher instead of a mother; they seem to expect every governess to be like Maria in The Sound of Music and become a doting mother figure to her students, when there's no rational reason to expect that of a paid employee.

[b0bthebuilder35]

Too often, people believe homelessness is due to some type of character flaw. In reality, that’s not even close. The top causes being…

1. A lack of affordable housing

2. Unemployment

3. Poverty

4. Low wages

[le-agent-egg]

Erm what the scallop

[mark-demolition]

Employees

No stygian because I'm too lazy to make him

Yes I did just use the old auditor drawing and gave her arms what abt it huh

[swallowtail-ageha]

Something something Laurence being a foreigner something something him experiencing xenophobia something something him learnig how efficient the oppression he faced is as a tool for keeping the masses calm and distracting them

[floralcavern]

Dimitri just wishes Noah would love himself, love the world as he's meant to. Not through a lens of violence and fake joy.

Kiara says he's beyond saving. To give up on the 'psychopath'. That he's hurt too many, that he's too devoted to his ideology.

But how can Dimitri give up on him when he's already done it once before...?

[doostyaudi]

Been thinking abt one of my employer ocs, specifically Pluvialer... I've been tinkering with his personality and his relationship with the other employers

He's the eldest out of the employers, being the employer of the sea, but just water-related stuff in general. I imagine he holds conservative values and devotes evrything to the higher powers. I wouldn't say hes evil tho... Cuz he does get a redemption arc later on, that doesn't negate the generational trauma he inflicted... Hes a complex character, i like thinking abt him :3

Also i drew a family portrait.. But it's just the canon employers.. It looked way better in my head

Erm. I have alot more to say but idk ill infodump some other day

[anonymousbathtub]

Introducing the main trio of Airs Above The Ground, my final year's concept art project! Get ready for middle age lesbians & dragon dressage 🐉✨

[ballad-of-birdy-lamb]

Fanfics with real people x reader will always give me the ick

[iexistapparantly]

yummy headcanons

[happybunnykat]

Norris reading the statement is funny because yeah, it's technically about a guy being eaten alive right before his wedding which is in line with the whole "Lost love" thing he's had going on for a lot of the cases but the same time he's gotten all the cases that involve weird things eating/trying to eat people right?

[mintaikk]

Me remembering what a digital footprint is