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Let's talk about housing situations! What sort of home did your character grow up in? What sort of house do they live in in their canon? Where do they live in the City? Did they stay in the MAC or move in with friends? Who do they live with? How has their housing situation shaped their life?

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Rikku grew up in Home which was basically a mecca of technology in the middle of a desert on an island in the middle of the ocean. After the pilgrimage she basically lived on the airship. In the City she lives with santo above her workshop.

Scatty grew up all over the world. She was never allowed to settle. She had been in San Fran for a decade before the books take place. She lived on the Isle of Skye for a while. Now she lives in a small apartment above her dojo but hardly spends any time in the living quarters.

Gemma grew up in luxury. Her father was a rich merchant in India. She was very, very rich and had servants, etc. She boarded at Spence for about a year in a small room with a low ceiling with Ann. Her grandmother's house in London was huge and always had the curtains drawn and never felt like home. She lives in a townhouse that Wanda left her in the City with her St. Bernard, Pippa.

Molly grew up middle class or such in a little house with her parents, boarded at college, and now lives in BBC flat.

Nill was a test tube baby who didn't have a home before the brothel. Afte that, Heine took her to live in the church in the underground with Bishop. In the City she lives in an apartment with Kate. She has also lived in her church for several weeks.

Helena spent her childhood in Wayne Manor, which is big and luxurious and totally amazing. She lived there until she was in her late teens when she went to university. Following the death of her mother, she became uncomfortable living in the house alone with her father and moved into a swanky penthouse in a posh part of Gotham. This was her home for basically all of her canon, except for a brief, misguided stay in California. Eventually she moved back to the penthouse. Also she owns Wayne Manor, but it sits empty most of the time. Sometimes Dick stays there. It's like... a guest home.

She hasn't spent any significant time in the MAC. She stayed briefly in an upscale hotel before moving into Charlie's apartment, taking over the room of the previous Helena. I'm pretty sure Barbara and Stephanie live there now also? Living with other people has been a bit trying for her. Hel keeps to herself most of the time. She spends most of her time at home in her bedroom, the bathroom or in the kitchen. It isn't an easy situation for her, but she agreed to look after the place and Charlie for Dick.

She's pretty spoiled when it comes to housing. Her standards are incredibly high and she realizes this. She was raised in the lap of luxury and has no need to experience anything less, so why should she? Upscale amenities are important to her, like marble sinks, upgraded kitchens, etc. She loves taking long baths, so an updated bathroom is a nonnegotiable with her. She wants the best, and since she can afford it, she sees no reason not to have it.

Sooooo...she's slumming it for Charlie's sake? :P

It's a learning experience for her. Connecting with other people is necessary and important. Also she likes Charlie.

Monster lived in the rainforest, then kinda got captured put in a box and later lived in a circus (in a box). Then he moved with the villains and lived in a box, then a dungeon, then among hobgoblins, then in a palace (in a box).

When he moved to the City it was the first time he really had a place to his own and didn't live in a box! But notably, the minute April offered him a place to live in her closet, he kinda went and did that... SO THAT'S WHERE HE'S LIVING NOW: in April's closet in her house with all the raccoons and a couple of other people.

Julian Day's lived in a bunch of crappy old Gotham apartments and things, and probably a few warehouses and stuff like that. In the City he lived in the MAC until his first crime, then in various hiding places, and now he's at NOHoPE. Tbh, he's probably spent more time in places like Blackgate, Arkham and NOHoPE than he's lived anywhere else...

Pherson probably lived with his parents in New York before college and things and had a pretty decent apartment in Manhattan before he got his powers. And then he lived in a cave in Central Park with the skeleton of his dead girlfriend. And now he's in the City and.... lives in Central Park so NOT MUCH HAS CHANGED.

Sentinel Prime lived on Cybertron! I'm.... not entirely sure what the living arrangements, but probably some sort of room on the planet and a room on the Elite Guard ship Steelhaven. After coming to the City, he lives at the Autobase with Vector and Skyfire and Ironhide and Starscream and a cat and he hates everyone and everything on this planet and misses Cybertron super-bad.

:C I didn't think anyone could beat skeleton of dead girlfriend but Julian's is pretty bad.

julian's life is made of sad :C

Angelica grew up in a lower middle class home in Morristown, NJ. It was a working class neighborhood, not the slums or anything, but definitely a rougher part of town complete with boarded up windows, empty lots, and cars on cinder blocks. Her house was small, big enough for her father and her and basically no one else, two-stories, older, needing more maintenance than her dad could put into it. Starting when she was 13 she attended boarding school in Massachusetts, but she returned home two years later. She moved out again when she was 18, this time to stay with the Avengers, but that was even shorter lived. To this day, she lives in her childhood bedroom with her father.

Except in the City that isn't true. She lived at the Xavier Institute for about nine months before she and Pietro purchased a brownstone in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn, which is where they live with Calvin and their pets.

Julian grew up in an upwardly mobile middle class family. His parents were business people, and were relatively well off although by no means rich. Then, all of a sudden, their business boomed and they became massively rich almost overnight. He was around 11 when this happened, since he mentions that his 12th birthday party was enormous. He lived in a mansion in Beverley Hills, and thought he was awesome.

Then when his mutation developed, his parents sent him to the Xavier Institute. He lived there full time, but went home each summer. Until he brought his Hellion friends with him, had a whole episode with a villain called the Kingmaker, and got outed as a mutant (much to his personal delight) in the local newspaper. After that, his parents cut him out of their will and he went back to Xavier's. After the school ~~closed~~ blew up for the umpteenth time time, he tried to go home again, but his parents had closed up the house and moved on. He has no idea where they are, and hasn't seen them since they disinherited him, so family tends to be a sore subject for him now.

After that, he flew under his own power to New York, and his living situation while he was there is unknown. It's possible he had help from Warren Worthington, who had paid for the hotel room he woke up in after the Institute was closed, but Julian abandoned that room and tried to go home. The next time we see him, he's with the X-Men again. My headcanon is that he lived as cheaply as he could in New York, probably doing odd jobs to get what money he needed - I don't like headcanoning that anyone helped him when I don't know for sure.

After the X-Men set up again in San Francisco, he went back to them, and lived firstly in their facility there, and then in Utopia once that was a thing. When Schism gave him the choice, he opted to go to Wolverine's new Jean Grey School, on the site of the old Xavier Institute.

In the City, he lived at first in the MAC, and was there for around 9 months or so until he moved into a larger apartment with Sofia. He'll very likely be moving back to the MAC soon.

...that was way longer than I thought it'd be!

The Wakefield twins live on Calico Drive in a split level house with a Spanish style kitchen and a pool in the backyard. It's very solidly middle class for the area and time, a four bedroom home that is well maintained and fits in nicely with the rest of the neighborhood. Basically picture your stereotypical SoCal suburban existence and you've got what Jessica grew up in.

She's bounced around in the City quite a bit. At first she stayed at the MAC. Later she moved in with Laura, which is technically where she lives now. But she frequently crashes at Jason's apartment, where Carrie used to also live (and sometimes Terry, too.)

✪ BUCKY

· Grew up on military bases in military housing.
· Moving around a lot definitely shaped him, he never had friends his own age that lasted for too long, and he had to find things to belong to that weren't places.
· He's also, obviously, spent a lot of time moving around doing military work, which instills its own sort of living habits.
· Bucky can sleep in weird places at weird times, for instance, and doesn't need a watch to tell the time.
· In the City he inherited a nice brownstone type building from J. Jonah Jameson.
· JJJ hired Bucky to be the superintendant, to live on the bottom floor and do all the maintenance stuff. But then he got ported out and Bucky just acts like he owns the place.
· That is how he makes money!!
· It's getting to the point where it's weird to him that he's stayed in this one place so long.

✆ JESSICA

· Grew up in a single-family home in Queens, New York.
· It was a pretty unremarkable set-up, her big annoyances were the lock not keeping out her little brother, stuff like that.
· Then her whole family died in a car accident and Jessica moved to another single-family home in Queens, remarkable mostly for not being her old house.
· She lives in a pretty standard IKEA furnished singleperson's apartment (it seems pretty big for New York, so she's probably not in Manhattan) in canon from where I take her, she's since moved into Avengers digs.
· In the City she has a similar IKEA furnished starter apartment but it's not as nice. She did live in the MAC for a while, though!!

⧗ NATASHA

· Her ties are "vague Russian aristocracy" and she lived in a fancy house outside what is now Volgograd for the first years of her life.
· When she was very little the Red Army burned her house down for being full of White loyalists, but one of the soldiers rescued her from the fire. She doesn't remember much of this, or much of her life before the fire.
· She lived with Ivan after that, and continuity contradicts itself a lot here, but she definitely moved around quite a bit. Normal, again, for a soldier's family.
· During World War II they were caught in the middle of the Battle of Stalingrad, which profoundly shaped her attitudes towards life and loss. Natasha didn't serve in the army formally, but on the Russian frontier, surrounded by Ivan's unit, she might as well have— and people were homeless, starving.
· After the war Ivan went on the run from the secret police or whatever and he took Natasha with him underground, so that was another long episode of living day-to-day and hand-to-mouth
· Natasha eventually joined up with the Red Room to save Ivan's life, but she didn't grow up there Ed Brubaker
· I imagine as a spy she stayed in a lot of fancy hotels and savored some of the luxuries of the West, but also dealt with extremely harsh or extremely sketchy conditions from time to time
· Since becoming a free agent, Natasha has bought a number of expensive luxury domiciles. Mostly these are park avenue penthouses, but she lived in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and had a castle in Trieste, and well, whatever fancy house the story likes to give her.
· I headcanon that she doesn't like to stay in one place very long, that she occasionally just uproots her life and moves to a new place, with new decorations and new furniture and new styles, and calls this a fresh start
· She's lived in the Avengers Mansion from time-to-time in canon as well, but I don't think she liked it much. She really values solitude & privacy (as well as just luxury); things she couldn't have in awful KGB spy programs
· In the City she has a nice brownstone on the… Upper West Side?? I forget, but it's very nice and has a beautiful bay window. She stole the money to pay for it, shhh.
· When Matt got brought in Natasha said he could stay with her for a bit and he just moved in like a bum and has not left!!

⚡ LOKI

· Grew up in icky frost giant huts!! He finds these to be gross.
· Loki engineered his own adoption to Odin so he could live in Asgard, which is nice but visually dependent on the artist.
· Loki gets kicked out of Asgard quite a bit and goes to various mopey fantasy towers or final dungeons or swamps or wherever seems gloomy and evil to the story.
· He does not live in the City, he lives in some terrible crumbling tower in the Alps that he's magicked into being comfortable.
· Seriously he's not going to live with you peons!!
· From his canonpoint: he's just contrived to move Asgard to Latveria.

Never question what Bucky does for a living.

canonically, eridan grew up in a SWEET ASS PIRATE SHIP where he kept SWEET ASS LOOT. and shitty wizard statues. and his seahorse dad. note that there is nothing in the fridge but shitty fake wands, and also that it is firmly above water, because he kind of sucks as a sea dweller. he had a pretty content home life until his lusus (animal dad) died and his world was destroyed and he probably slept in his secret shitty wand pile on the veil.

in the city, he moves around quite a bit! he lived very briefly at the MAC until he figured out every troll there wanted him dead for SOME MYSTERIOUS REASON, then used to live with eddie and felicia at their brownstone, and now kind of bounces around between quentin's, april's, and the atlantean palace. mostly the first two though! eridan hates hates hates being alone since it reminds him of UNHAPPY CANON EVENTS but is conflicted between that and knowing that badass sea dwellers like Dualscar or Namor wouldn't blink twice at hanging out in the ocean, so. there are probably a few nights where he dozes in his throne or talks to (at) his pet lionfish that keeps running away or his sharks or something.

he's also more or less laid claim to the titanic wreck because it's a suitably dramatic backdrop to his teen alien angst.

teen alien angst

so much of it

the titanic is def a good backdrop for that hot mess

he drapes himself over all the ruined banisters and thinks about how hard it is to be eridan ampora

this is like a weekend thing

throws himself on the huge staircase, flanked the cherubs and other gold leaf statues
thinking about how much he hates being alone

interrupts his misery with thinking about how so-and-so is probably free tonight maybe they could go get a coffee or something

ends up laying on the staircase texting for a couple of hours

when so-and-so says they can't hang out because they're going to school like a normal person he finds the biggest stateroom and collapses on the bed with the intent to wallow
starts texting someone else for hours on end

GAME CANON TBH

one day feferi goes looking around and accidentally interrupts him and he's just like WOW EXCUSE YOU PLS LEAVE I AM BUSY DOING IMPORTANT LORD OF THE SEAS THINGS

IMPORTANT LORD OF THE SEAS THINGS
one sea lord to rule them all
"them all" being him and fef and she might win that fight

HE REALLY DOESN'T WANT TO FIGHT HER AGAIN

THERE'S STILL ENOUGH FEELS BAD MAN HANGING AROUND FROM THEIR CANON FIGHT TO LAST HIM ANOTHER CENTURY OR TWO

WHOOPS
god eridan you really need to find someone who will just
listen to your woes

why do you think his lionfish/feelings jamming companion keeps running away

it can sense the bullshit

also he whines at karkat every once in a while when they're not reading cosmo together or fighting

lfjdsifjdsifj reading cosmo
why was i not informed of this

Jesse's been a street kid for as long as she can remember, orphaned at a very young age and probably not in the foster care system for terribly long before she bounced (I have headcanon that her foster parent was a ninja horde hence the training, but I digress).

In Wilkesborough, she has a squat in an abandoned building. She shares it with a cat who sometimes eats dead rats next to her head when she's trying to sleep and keeps whatever she deems as an important possession in her backpack. She kept pretty late hours since A) she's the main superhero in her neighborhood and she's got shit to keep track of and B) she doesn't go to school very much anyway.

In the City, she currently lives in the MAC, which is easily the fist house/apartment she's lived in pretty much ever and holy shit, she has a bed and a shower and everything. But the permanency of it makes her a little uneasy, so she still keeps strange hours and doesn't really spend a lot of time in her room. She bounces back and forth between hoarding things and trying to keep her material possessions as spartan as possible in case she needs to leave, she also has a secret savings from the money she receives every month. The idea of living at the Xavier Institute freaks her out, though she'd never admit it.

This week, she'll be leaving her room in the MAC almost entierly and sort of reverting back to her old habits. Although this time, her squat is some nice private little corner of the Carrier.

Charlie was dirt poor growing up. They lived in what is described as 'the worst neighborhood in metropolis' in a small apartment (though Charlie did have her own room). She lived with just her mom and her baby brother. After the building burned down and her mother died (because the building was a fire trap waiting to happen) she was homeless for about six months. She did the whole run during that time, homeless shelters, under bridges, all of it, before she started using her bouncing to sleep in empty hotel rooms at night.

Eventually she began playing Batgirl and got noticed by Babs and taken in by her, and she got to live in the various swanky apartments Barbara had in Metropolis and out west in that town I can never remember the name of.

When that ended (abruptly), she moved in with Helena in her apartment in gotham for a couple weeks, and then wound up in the city. Where she's lived in the Oracle apartments (which are...somewhat medium upscale I think?) the entire time. First with Babs, then Babs and Cass, then Cass and Steph and then by herself for a while...and then Helena moved in. And now Babs and Steph are back!

Laura grew up in a lab. She had a featureless room with a cot in it and no possessions and was basically treated like property. When she escaped, she lived on the streets of New York for two years, first as a prostitute and then just getting by in other ways, and then she moved in with the X-men and had a room there!

In the City she lived at the Institute for a week, then moved in with Rachel. When Rachel was ported out she kept the apartment, and eventually Jessica moved in. And she got a dog. It's a nice enough normal apartment, two bedrooms and a living room, etc.

Rapunzel lived in a tower! It was a very nice tower by all reckoning, and she painted pretty much every surface in it. Technically back home she now lives in the Castle but that hasn't happened for her yet.

In the city she lives on the top floor of the MAC, in an apartment she has...pretty much painted every surface of. hehe.

kanaya grew up on a desert oasis with her lusus (you can see them floating in the bottom corner, kanaya standing on the mother grub's head). she had the whole place colorfully and a little haphazardly decorated, but she didn't really leave much due to the zombies that infested the desert

she lived in the MAC for a few months until she and many of the other trolls came to terms with how it wasn't safe for them to stay there after gamzee had attacked so many times. so in november they moved in with the weasleys to their new magically expanded apartment. when fred and george ported out, ron moved in to be their landlord. aradia and feferi also live there, currently.

this is the only description of trollhaus that i know of

hank grew up on a farm in illinois with his parents. small town living, and he was a high school football star. he moved to westchester to the xavier institute at seventeen or so.

he lived in the mac for about six months before taking a suite at the city's branch of the institute around the same time he took the job as headmaster last june. amanda moved in with him shortly after, and he's been there ever since, aside from his three month stint in prison and nohope.

Edited 2012-09-04 18:04 (UTC)

↻ Clint
⇀ his first home was a family house in waverly, iowa. his parents were not particularly well-to-do, so it was a modest and fairly average home. he lived there until he was about seven.

⇀ after his parents' death, clint and his brother were sent to an orphanage for a few years. they generally did not care for it, and i imagine it was crowded and hard to get attention, there. it never felt like a home.

⇀ the rest of clint's youth was spent living with the circus. this would have been a mixed bag of trailers, tents, and roaming vehicles, set up in different cities at different times. this is probably where clint picked up certain habits like sleeping just about anywhere. the circus was full of people he had various degrees of connection with, but it was essentially a surrogate family. the coney island circus, which from the name i imagine was more stationary than others, was clint's last circus home.

⇀ after living in natasha's soviet-provided lair for a bit, clint became an avenger and moved into the then-townhouse soon-mansion. that is pretty much his most consistent and truest home. he has probably spent more time there than anywhere else, the avengers are his truest family, etc etc. sometimes the actual location shifts (west coast compound, thunderbolts mountain for a bit, the avengers tower), but the idea of living with his team is the important bit. his current canon residence is avengers tower.

⇀ he has had a few civilian residences over the years, but not many. he had an apartment in new york for awhile that got reclaimed by his bosses who were actually evil, once! and he and bobbi own a cabin up in the mountains, somewhere. his current series gave him a new apartment in bed-stuy, which is cute because it is on sherwood ave. (its a robin hood joke, har har.)

⇀ in the city he has living in the avengers mansion since his arrival, mostly sharing quarters with bobbi! but the place has emptied out a lot and the two of them might be looking for an apartment soon. he never even went to his mac apartment.

↻ Monica

⇀ grew up in new york with her mother and sister, probably in a fairly modest home/apartment since her dad wasn't in the picture. monica is generally a pretty closed and reserved person, so privacy is probably what she lacked most in her childhood homes.

⇀ in canon she's had three apartments: one she lived in with nick for the duration of their marriage, one she lived in with her mother and son that was just a bit too small for comfort, and a bigger, nicer place she moved into when she was promoted to being the head of black ops. she also has quarters in the triskellion, where she lives with her entire family during times of heightened security risk.

⇀ in the city she used her mac apartment for as long as she needed to, not bothering to decorate or really move in much. once she was able, she started renting a nice but small apartment. it's decorated with an eye to simplicity, all dark colors and a big, comfortable bed.

↻ Damian

⇀ was born on an uncharted island in the south pacific, and raised there by his mother's league of assassins. they moved fairly often from that island, and he's had residences in hong kong, parts of europe, and the middle east.

⇀ after his first encounter with his father, he and his mother began living near a lazarus pit in australia. this was probably the most modest of his homes, since he was essentially living in a tent. apart from that he is used to more luxurious quarters, with servants waiting on him hand and foot.

⇀ he has lived in wayne manor for stretches of time. he has his own room there, and alfred and dick really make up what he considers to be family. the manor, and by extension the batcave there, are probably what he most associates the word "home" with.

⇀ but dick and damian essentially worked out of wayne tower and the bat bunker, so he has quarters there too that are probably more thoroughly specific to damian himself. his rooms are shown to be sparsely decorated, with a lot of work-space and beds that he never actually uses.

⇀ in the city, he moved into dick's apartment shortly after arriving. the quarters there were cramped and damian complained a lot, and the boys never, ever picked up after themselves. after a few months they moved into a refurbished firehouse, which is damian's current home. there's a bat cave beneath it, a garage full of the suped-up vehicles damian works on in his spare time, and a very complete security system. damian lives in the highest room, which is notable for having a bookshelf filled with the things he's collected from various friends in the city. although dick is no longer in the city, damian lives with his two cats (rook and raven) and his dog (praetorian).

Xanatos grew up in a small Greek fishing village. But then he made bank, said 'fuck that', and moved to America. In canon, he lives on the top of a skyscraper in a castle that he brought over from Scotland in order to reawaken the Gargoyles. MY CANON MAKES PERFECT SENSE. So yeah, he's totally slumming it now. He still lives in the MAC because free housing, he's not turning that down.

Klarion grew up in a small old timey Puritan style house in Limbo Town. Think those houses that you see at every historical site ever, with one big room and like a lofty bed. When he's back up on Earth...well, we never see where he's living. I know he's probably bummed rooming off of Jason Blood before but then he kinda made the guy's life a living hell, so no more rooming with Jason. At the moment, he lives with Zatanna (god bless everybody in that house) and greatly enjoys the fact that he's got a room to himself. He also probably stole the room with the biggest bed he could find.

Connors lived in a suburbanish house in one of New York's suburbs. It looked nice what from the minute we get to see the house in canon. In the city, he's currently staying in the MAC because again, free housing, he's not turning that down just yet.

Jon grew up in a spooky falling apart old mansion in Arlen, Georgia. Then he bounced around from cheap shacks to warehouses and Arkham Asylum (as well as Blackgate a couple times), and he also used old university labs and a church during NML. In the City he lived in the MAC for .2 seconds and then left, and now takes up in abandoned buildings in the most disadvantaged parts of the City. He stayed in Nohope for three months.

Starscream lived on the Nemesis, a warship, for several years, and in the City he lives in Autobase with Skyfire, Vector, Ironhide, and Sentinel. ~~You mean he doesn't live at City Hall sleeping under his desk~~

Ghost lives in several undisclosed boltholes that siphon electricity and internet from Fortune 500 sources. At home he lived in the Cube for a while with Osborn's Dark Reign Thunderbolts, then the Raft, with Luke Cage's, now after Tbolts Tower is destroyed he's essentially homeless. In the City he has a place in Bed Stuy he can be found most frequently.

QUENTIN QUIRE...

- i don't really know where he lives in canon outside of the school. But since Xavier/Jean Grey Institute schools are like boarding schools for mutants it's no issue about what his living space looks like. Just take a glimpse at what the academies look like in the past and currently, and you have an idea. Since everyone has an idea of the Xavier Instuite, I'll go a little in depth for the Jean Grey academy.

-J.G. has flying buildings/saucers and a constant chaotic atmosphere about it. (Toilets spewing fire, earthquakes, etc. all of which are slowly becoming more in control as they fix the danger room and Krakoa, the living island, settle down.) But each student has their own dormitory room.. Quentin's is actually pretty well kept. Sure it's messy in some places but it's big enough to contain the messes.

Big enough to contain a work bench, a bed, a couch, a desk, a dresser and a decently big flatscreen tv. (How Quentin managed to buy all this despite being a magical glob of goo prior to being forced to go to school? It is a mystery.)

- in game, Quentin lives near the harbor and has his own apartment thanks to Namora. It's got two bedrooms, a small bathroom and a large kitchen/living space joined together. Nothing facny, and usually the place is pretty well kept but the kitchen is typically a mess. He doesn't pick up after himself in the kitchen, or his bedroom. But the guest room, living area and bathroom are at least tidy.

Not too sure about Kenzi's situation in canon prior to meeting up with Bo. My headcanon is that after she ran away from home she stayed with friends or other family members but eventually set out on her own and ended up living on the streets. She had her "gang" for a while.

After meeting Bo she shacked up with her in the "Club House", which is really just a crack shack that the two of them fixed up a bit. It really doesn't look fit for anyone to live in. The windows are boarded up. There interior of the walls are missing and are drafty. The roof leaks when it rains. Despite cleaning it's still dirty. Not a lot of furnishings, although as time progressed they gathered more stuff. Not entirely sure on the layout of the house. I'm guessing there's more than one bedroom upstairs but Kenzi always sleeps on the couch (unless there's company that isn't Bo's) and Bo takes the master bedroom.

For a while she spent most of her time at Nate's apartment. Which we never see but I'm guessing it's a tiny place that isn't exactly well kept. This based on the fact that he was a musician that didn't get a lot of well paying gigs.

Currently she's still living in the MAC but she's actively looking for a new place to live. Preferably some place that feels like the Club House only bigger. That will obviously need fixing up. She'll call it Club House 2.0.

...She likes familiar stuff okay.

And Jade lived alone (save her stuffed Grandpa and Bec) on an island in the Pacific Ocean somewhere off Australia until it was destroyed along with the rest of the earth. Then she lived (and still is in canon) on a Prospitian warship that's flying between sessions at light speed (thanks to her own powers).

Here in in the city she's living in Kid House.

Edited 2012-09-04 20:43 (UTC)

Mitchell grew up in his mom's apartment! They moved into a house at some point! Then he had an apartment as an adult, but he lost it after his accident, and he lived in one of the projects, sorry, low income housing buildings that he designed as a civil engineer! Then he became mayor, and he moved into Gracie Mansion until he was done with that! While he was the ambassador to the UN, he lived in a swank high-rise apartment overlooking ground zero, and when he was the VP, he lived in the observatory! In the City, he lived in the MAC, up until he became Mayor, and he moved back into Gracie Mansion here!

Tony grew up in what became the Avengers Mansion! He had a series of cool penthouses and apartments depending on his financial situation, and lived in Stark Tower during the civil war/DOS period! Here, he lived in the mansion until he had enough to buy a sweet penthouse!

Shade has lived lots of places, but most notable is in Opal! It's a sweet house, with roses and cool old stuff everywhere. In the City, he killed a crime lord, and the guy left his house to Shade. Heh. He frightened him to death!

Ozzie grew up in the Cobblepot family home/mansion! When he got older, he had some places, but also resided at Blackgate quite a bit, but he has a hookup to the lounge in Gotham! It's...pretty much the same in the City! It's a nice place, and includes his Aviary.

RUKA grew up in a fucking penthouse mansion on top of a hotel in the richest neighborhood in town. It's the highest-elevation neighborhood, gated community, and that hotel was the tallest building there. Literally lived above everyone the fuck else. The place was at least two stories, had a private pool surrounded by palm trees, motion-activated everything, etc, etc. This is pretty swank and huge when you're like. ten. and share it only with your twin brother. Parents were never home, and they never had to leave. IT WAS SWANK AS FUCK.

In the City, she's moved around a few times mostly because she got kidnapped and then adopted by a lawyer. Started in the MAC, moved to a high-apartment, then to a two-plus-etc house (The House Formerly Known As Moonybase), then to a smaller house (R3). She's still in that house, though her living companions are now just animals, specifically "pets she's slated to take care of but then their owner ports out and welp." Later this month she's getting another apartment to herself across the country. It'll be great. She doesn't mind the smaller living space of houses (again, penthouse mansion), but she really misses being above everything the fuck else.

YUMA grew up in a part-traditional-part-futuristic house in rainbow police state Heartland City. After his parents ~mysteriously vanished~, it was a house shared with his grandmother and sister. It is Very Japanese. Although Yuma has his own bedroom, he never sleeps in it, and has instead set up a hammock in the attic so he can always be surrounded by mementos of his parents. HE'S A SAP.

In the City, he lives in a MAC flat with Astral, Shinji, formerly Steve, two cats, a cockatoo, and an abomination. Yuma and Astral take the bedroom, despite the fact that neither of them sleeps in a bed (Astral doesn't sleep; Yuma has a hammock in the corner). He feels homesick constantly.

Oh thank goodness a not!meme. Daddy needs a sewing break. /dies

Alastair grew up in a fairly modernized village in Yugoslavia (later Croatia), possibly a semi-rural town given the size and composition of the buildings as shown in flashbacks. Their house was fairly average and not at all rural or backwards - carpeting, brick walls, TV. After being taken in by Dartz, it's unknown at what point he, Valon, and Raphael were put up in the beach house but man they had a pretty swanky pad in L.A. right on the beach. In-City he went from the MAC to the abandoned, run-down hotel that Kiryu was squatting in, but after the zombie invasion they were forced to leave it and took up residence in Hell Towers when Hiruma owned it. He, Kiryu, and Saitou lived in the 3-bedroom at the end of the hall until Saitou permanently ported out and Bakura needed roommates, so he joined them then. Despite being in Brooklyn it's actually a really nice flat. And there's the Mancave down the hall. Alastair blew up that apartment in a fit of Oricalchos rage when he lost Kiryu for good, and is now occupying a one-bedroom at the other end of the hall. Still on 10th floor though. And, since he is now owner/responsible for those two floors of Hell Towers, I'd have to say his housing situation is intricately tied to his life - including his traumas, his fears, his determination, everything. He hates having all this responsibility but he doesn't know what else to do with himself. Living alone is not his ideal, he got used to having everyone around just like those years in L.A., so being alone is suffering for him. But the 3-bedroom would remind him too much of the others so he moved - even if he did take most of their personal effects and two of their pets with him.

Sanji grew up on the sea, as far as we know. Prior to age nine it's unclear but since that age, he has literally lived on the sea, first at the Baratie, then with the Straw Hats. The Baratie is a floating restaurant ship, with full facilities. The Going Merry was small and he had to bunk with the entire crew in hammocks in a single cabin, while most of the functional space was also part of his galley. The Thousand Sunny is much bigger, the kitchen and galley are separate from everything else. There's a single men's cabin but it's huge, and he sleeps in a hanging bunk there. In the City, he has remained in the MAC since day one - it's free! For a while there were large holes connecting all the Straw Hat apartments, busted into the walls during the hate gas plot + Zoro being an idiot who can't use doors, but since they all got ported home and he hasn't seen them since, he had it repaired. Despite the fact Callie suggested they move in together, he resisted - he likes his manly freedom. The Dream of Blue has a small cabin belowdecks for a bedroom, it has bunks and hammocks but one of the bunks does convert out to a bed that sleeps two. Sanji wasn't used to living on land for so long when he first got here, but he got over it, and then went home to timeskip for two years in which he was also stuck on land with no way off, so now he really doesn't care one way or the other.

Geddoe has no permanent residence back home. His unit travels more often than not, and when they visit the headquarters of the SFDF in Caleria, they tend to just get rooms at the inn (no idea if they're reimbursed or compensated for it, Ace was in charge of all the paperwork and not Geddoe). He has never really had a permanent home since fleeing his homeland at age 18 during the Harmonian invasion, but he did reside long-term in Chisha during the First Fire Bringer War, and has stayed in Budehuc Castle on and off. During his years of personal exile he always kept moving, never stayed anywhere longer than a few weeks (possibly excepting a winter holed up somewhere warm). In-City he lives in the MAC, though his apartment's lock was busted off by Zelgadis, since Geddoe deciding to just up and wander off to Canada for a few months got him locked out. It's a bare-bones flat with only the starter furniture and no personal effects, reflecting his desire not to assimilate and act like he's going to be in this place forever - to him, his life in the City is as temporary as every inn he's stayed at in every village from Vinay to Gregminster.

Kotetsu I think is going to be moving from the MAC into Nathan's apartment since Nathan appears to be gone. It will help him a lot because even though he doesn't mind the free housing, there's no room to keep the power suit nor the charging unit to keep it powered up. He's been keeping those at Nathan's already anyway, so he'll be just moving over there. Back in Sternbild he lives alone in a brownstone apartment that appears to have a loft bedroom upstairs and a kitchen he barely uses. His new place will probably have just as many empty booze bottles and takeout boxes as his brownstone. The only thing I haven't been able to tell about his home is whether it's the same one he's always lived in since coming to Sternbild to be a Hero (meaning, did his wife and Kaede share it?) or if he moved there after his wife died and Kaede was sent to live with his mother. He grew up in a fascinating little town out in a rural area, it's called Oriental Town and is built pretty much to emulate any Japanese rural town, with spacious single-story houses with wood floors and courtyard gardens, sliding doors, etc. But he seems to have taken to urban life quite fine, and so living here in the City is just same-old, same-old for him.

...well, uh. The first several months of his life, Kang was basically tossed into cramped quarters that probably didn't even have a bed of any sort along with hundreds of siblings and cousins. Over time, the numbers got smaller because they were forced to fight and kill each other to weed out the weak, and got food as a reward. After that, he was shoved into very basic (western medieval) military barracks, and when he became an officer, he got small quarters of his own. Nothing really luxurious, but he got some nice things like an actual bed and a table and chairs, and privacy. He moved around a lot, being stationed in different military camps, for a few years.

When he was about eleven (he was an adult by two), the war he was created for ended, and his regiment got the hell away to make their own village and be left alone. It wasn't very big or fancy, designed just like military quarters because that's all they were used to, and they stayed there for a good 28 or so years. He and his regiment traveled for a little bit to a new place after finding female eggs and hatching them. Now he has an actual house he shares with his mate that's pretty awesome because being the Lord-Governor of a nation has perks, though he doesn't like how big it is sometimes and doesn't like having a lot of fancy, expensive stuff. He's used to not having a lot and needing to move at a moment's notice.

In the City, he's staying in the MAC by himself. He has no plans of moving out any time soon since it has everything (if not more) than he needs and he doesn't see the point of it.

Edited 2012-09-04 21:17 (UTC)

Bender has pretty much lived in one apartment for all of his life in New New York, with a childhood stage probably in a factory in Mexico. It's very spacious. (The closet is like three rooms large with a panoramic window, but what sort of dumbass lives in a closet??)

Currently, he lives pretty much all over the place! He probably crashes at random NPC's apartments and likely holds many fake addresses for business purposes.

Daria used to live a in a standard suburban house in Texas but then, unexpectedly, she moves to a standard suburban house in Lawndale!! Her room is cool, at least. The walls were padded for a previous owner.

Currently, she lives in a very standard MAC apartment that is very bare. Her TV gets cable. That's pretty much the depth of her spending when it comes to decor. She probably has at least one skull.

Ladd lived somewhere really nice, I'm sure. He's rich.

He also now lives somewhere really nice, but he probably can't really afford it. This is why he is really bad with money. He would never tell anyone where it is though.

Aurican grew up inside a cave for about several thousand years until he became full grown and too big for the nest. The cave is quite interesting - for all intents and purposes, the mountain he lived inside might as well be hallow, as there was a huge lake down below, and the grotto he lived in was far up top. (It also happens to be the place where his mother died, but I don't think he knew that at the time.) When he left the grotto, he lived in the Valley of Paladine outside the mountain for centuries. He eventually outgrew the valley and left for better pastures. When he met the elves, however, he spent a large amount of time with them. I suspect that he slept in human-sized chambers as a result. He probably doesn't mind it at all!

At his arrival at the City, he stayed at the MAC for a few weeks before finally leaving. The City became too overwhelming for Aurican for the odd smells and strangeness, so he left and settled in the Catskills Mountains, where it is close enough to the City, but far enough to give him space when he needs it.

Gil
— he's from some AU version of Victorian era England.
— in canon, he's lived in all sort of places which have also helped shaped him (for better or worse). Most of his youth prior to the Tragedy was spent in various places like the "freak show" his mother sold him to, then he lived on the streets for some time before he got taken into the Baskerville household. He doesn't really remember this because Selective Amnesia. His brother remembers all of it.
— lived in the Vessalius household after he'd gotten out of the Abyss. With no memory of the past and being scared out of his wits, Gil found comfort and a new place to call home thanks to the people (specifically Oz, Ada and Oscar) at the Vessalius' home. They're the wealthiest noble family due to being descendants of the hero Jack Vessalius, so while Gi didn't have all the privileges being a servant, he did live a nice life of luxury.
— when Oz was sent to the Abyss, Gil was adopted by the Nightrays and moved into their mansion. He doesn't associate "home" with that household at all. Because he was an "outsider", his adoptive siblings treated him and Vincent horribly. Again, he was still living a life of luxury, but it wasn't an incredibly happy one.
— moved out and got his own apartment. As he puts it, "This place is just a nook of a nook in this city." It's very barren and small. He's not one for fancy decorations or expensive things.
— otherwise Gil travels wherever Oz goes. Living conditions are always excellent, though.
— in the City, he lives in the MAC still. It's also pretty empty and probably depressing on the inside, even if it's very tidy. He definitely has plans to move out when he has more money.

Kate
— military family. Lived on various bases. The new #0 issue might touch on this, who knows... Anyway, moving around is p. common for military families. Making friends wasn't a problem, it was leaving them constantly that put her on edge. She didn't like being uprooted so much.
— seems like they got their own fancy house in Brussels, but they weren't there very long.
— there's a huge gap between her childhood and early adulthood life that's unclear, but I can assume Kate continued living a luxurious and spoiled life.
— lives in a penthouse in downtown Gotham. Huge, beautiful and lots of privacy. Her bunker is there, too. It's also very tidy, though I'm not sure if Kate does that herself or has hired help, especially with most of her artillery and uniform hidden there. Was also living with her dad until the incident with Alice.
— doesn't go up to Kane estate often (or at all anymore), but it's there for dinners and parties, etc. She doesn't think of that as her "home", really. Anyway, she avoids it entirely now.
— tl;dr she's rich and spoiled and likes it, though I have no doubt she's capable of surviving harsh and poor conditions. Her elite training involved some traveling and I'm certain she's had to learn to survive out in the wild since that's like... very important military training right there.
— in the City, she lived in the MAC before moving into a small but cozy apartment with Nill. Her weapons, (bat...) bike and uniform are elsewhere... wherever Nathan's bunker. Kate would prefer a bigger place like her penthouse back home, but she knows that's not happening here.

TOPH:

Toph grew up in a very fancy palatial home in which she was under watch - her parents, believing their blind daughter to be absolutely helpless, tried to keep her that way, to the point where rather than thinking she could handle herself after proving she could without a doubt (you'd think defeating multiple highly-ranked and well-known Earthbenders without breaking a sweat would prove that, right?), opted to give her a 'round the clock guard.

Clearly, running away to help the Avatar save the world was the Thing To Do.

In the City, Lyra (just 'ported out, sob) helped her settle on the first day she arrived. They briefly lived with Arnold Rimmer and Starscream (idek), then squatted/stole an apartment with Kotomi after one of the many attacks/disasters in the City. Thus, Awesome Force was formed.

After that, a house was claimed, using Lyra's illusions and the money Toph makes from helping out in junkyards and making sculpture (and fixing stuff with 'bending). It may not be entirely legal. Hint: it isn't.

Various young imports have joined Awesome Force and left, so it's been just Toph and Lyra off and on. Most recently, Lin - Toph's daughter from the future - was invited to stay with them, and T-Girl.

Now it's just Toph and Lin. Sob.

SLIPSTREAM:

Back in her timestream, she was sparked - created - as a clone of Starscream, with his memories and skills and part of his personality. After the Decepticons were defeated, she hid out in Detroit for awhile. Watching things. Figuring out what to do with herself. And then was 'ported in.

In the City, she stayed at the MAC for a short while, then moved into Deceptibase - a conglomerate of at least two condos with walls removed - with the rest of the Decepticons.

It's rather lonely now with just her and Knock Out.

Agatha:

Home is...complicated. She was in the middle of reclaiming her ancestral Castle (as the last of the Heterodynes, she gets a sentient and somewhat evil Castle and the town of Mechanicsburg. And a lot of...things..) when she was 'ported in. Before then, she was on the run from the Baron, and before that she'd lived with her foster parents at their modest mechanic shop in Beetleburg. Before that, they'd traveled frequently.

In the City, Agatha stayed in the MAC for awhile, as it was economical. After acquiring her coffee shop (and the warehouse that occupies most of the rest of the building) after the Godzilla Event, she lives there. Easier to deal with those middle of the night urges to do Science.

Edited 2012-09-04 22:51 (UTC)

Callie was born and raised periodically in Hell when her parents were still married. When they split up, she moved up to Manhattan to live primarily with her mom, though spent all her summers in Hell with her dad and went to school in Hell. He dad lives next to Twayne's family, and in turn she grew up knowing him disturbingly well. She pursued demonic law and social work, and when the opportunity presented itself, she moved out to her own apartment in Manhattan and took the job as Twayne's right hand at the D.O.I.
In the City, Callie lives on her own in a swanky upscale apartment, though spends a lot of her nights sleeping over at Sanji's, at times using her womanliness to get him to stay with her at her place.

Piccolo grew up on his own, in the wilderness, wondering the earth as he trained consistently in hopes to destroy Son Goku. Because of this, he never had one home. He found/created shelter when he needed it. Towards the end, as he fused with Kami, he seemed to spend more time in Kami's Lookout- though he is usually found in forests or mountainous regions training and falling back to his childhood habits of a nomadic life.
In the City, Piccolo lives in the MAC- it's free and close to the action. He would LIKE to live far away in the mountains, though he sacrificed his comfort in order to better protect the City.

mami used to live with her parents until they DIED IN A HORRIBLE CAR ACCIDENT THAT ALMOST KILLED HER TOO and then she lived alone forever and drifted away from her friends and talked only to kyuubey and a picture of her dead mom and dad

IN THE CITY SHE'S HANGIN IN THE MAC THOUGH

isaac used to live in a fairly classy part of Britain when he was a kid (aristocrat :|) although this was dampened somewhat by the whole...growing up in world war 2....thing....

after that he got the travel bug, went to India, got thrown in jail (good job), broke out of jail, and then flew back to America to troll his brother and entertain himself by challenging the Flash and teaming up with other villains and stuff.

in the City he lives in the MAC and his apartment is full of blueprints and gadget parts and shit. it is a mess.

Tim grew up with his parents in a really rich neighborhood. But his parents were never really there, which gave him LOADS of time to stalk Batman and Robin, and also to get kind of weird about family relationships.

After his mom died, he did place MORE stock in family. However, he was busy being Robin himself by then. His dad made efforts to be a good parent, but he...wasn't the best at it. Still, Tim really loved his dad. He was devastated when his dad was killed. Because of the fact that he is an orphan, he does place a LOT of importance in the relationships he has with his chosen/adoptive family.

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