#i like to think mal clocked on the attraction between arthur and eames way before they realized themselves

[valerileygreen]

@inception30daychallenge day 09: Which character has the most annoying habit on the job and what is it?

Um, I’m gonna say Arthur and Eames together. Because no matter in what stage of their relationship they are, they can’t help poking at each other in little ways, whether it be verbal spars or little office pranks (see all of their interactions during the preparation for Inception). And while some can find it entertaining at first, it gets old fast for most of their colleagues, who wish they could just focus on the job and not whatever the drama of the week is. Even though most of them have placed bets about the 2 of them and their relationship status anyway. I do think they both are better behaved and more professional normally, when they’re not in each other’s orbit, but their bickering and flirting also brings to light the best in them in terms of ideas, and they’re the best, so people are willing to put up with their ridiculous antics anyway.

They’re all some flavour of nightmares though, that can tick some of the others off at times, so here are their individual worst habits on the job:

-Cobb tends to hover over people like an overgrown vulture when he’s worried or anxious about something, not in a mean way but still very annoying and exasperating;

-Ariadne is an absolute slob, her corner of the warehouse/office/ whatever is always chaos and she leaves her things all around the place for people to find and stumble over, while she can’t even find the pencil she put behind her ear anymore;

-Eames likes to take office supplies and trinkets from people to use, or even just to see what would happen (though he almost always gives them back), and he’s a shit-stirrer, at his most dangerous when he’s bored (or when Arthur is there);

-Arthur has a tendency to become hangry but more time passes and less likely he is to realize he needs food, and so he progressively becomes more jittery and short-tempered, so much so that few dare to approach him even if they can’t concentrate because of his obsessive pen tapping or something;

-Yusuf is a coffee snob and always hogs the coffee maker, and he’s superb at making it so the others wouldn’t mind that much, if it wasn’t for how very finicky he is about who and what can approach his makeshift lab, even having a set of written rules about hygiene and behaviour and such;

-Saito isn't usually part of the job, but on the inception he was always the perfect employer and tourist, helpful and diligent in providing what the team needed, though how he could get anything through wealth could get kind of creepy;

-Mal was always poking her nose in people’s personal business and giving them unwanted advice, especially people she liked, and would try to set things up or give hints instead of thinking about work because she thought she was doing them a favour. But while she was usually right in her assessments, let’s just say her plans left much to be desired.