living spaces meme

[memori3s]

What does your char's room/living space look like?

It is said that one can tell a lot about a person based on their living spaces (citation needed). Is their room super neat? Messy? Do they decorate their walls? Is there something they really like about their room? Do they have a lot of things in it to spruce up the place? Or maybe not? Why? Or why not? Tell me us all about it!

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[feintofhart]

Claude here lives in a flat above the Apothecary that he runs! The Apothecary itself is cluttered but well-organized, with a large pen out back for his wyvern, where he arguably spends more time than he does inside.

Aesthetically, I imagine his home as being similar to Chief Hong's home in Hometown Cha Cha Cha -- very simple, with warm woods and absolutely cluttered from top to bottom with stuff. He hasn't taken to modern technology in his own private space too well, and everything is quite rustic, old-fashioned, and meant for his eyes only. The living room and the kitchen are together with no delineation between the two, and considering Claude's inability to cook, the cupboards are filled with only the most basic staples and seasonings -- lots of tea, coffee, oats, yogurt, rice, etc., the sorts of things that take almost no skill to put together.

The predominant feature of his home is the fact that there are books absolutely everywhere. They're largely non-fiction, largely dry, and largely extremely well-loved, with at least two or three books open at a time. The spines are cracked, white space scribbled on, the pages dog-eared, it's a whole mess. The kitchen table is often not used for eating at all, instead populated by his enormous mortar and pestle and other tools as he experiments with making his different concoctions (largely poisons that he keeps out of the Apothecary proper), with different things being pickled, preserved, dried, or otherwise experimented with, and plenty of half-burned candles pooled in wax along the shelves. There's also quite a few board games, with a game of go and a game of chess both laying out on the tables, which he appears to be playing against himself. There's the occasional trinket lying around that clearly caught his fancy, but all of the clutter is largely functional. He also has a small speaker set-up for what appears to be an incredibly eclectic taste in music.

If you open up his closet in the poky entranceway, you'll see that because he doesn't have guests over, instead of being reserved for his guests' coats and shoes, is reserved for a large assortment of well-maintained weaponry and armour, with all the maintenance tools that you'd expect.

Once you venture into his bedroom (equally as filled with books, equally as messy with a perpetually unmade bed), there's one clean area in the home, directly in front of a small window overlooking the wyvern pen. There, there's an incense holder and a prayer mat that he uses for his private morning meditations. He hasn't received a great many gifts, but whatever he has received will be proudly displayed on the shelves lining his home. His closet and bathing areas are both relatively clean and tidy, his clothing ranging from fancy dress to the plainclothes he goes stomping out in the forest in, and his bathing area filled with an assortment of fancy soaps, colognes, hair care, and an old-fashioned shaving kit complete with straight razor.

[skelters]

oh this is SO COSY i love!!!!!