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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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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.