Honestly, I see myself as being in the military in some form of logistical/quartermaster function. My eyes are bad enough that you wouldn't want me doing anything involving aiming.
Definitely military, probably some kind of expeditionary cleanser. Let fire and brimstone be our path to salvation! I wonder if cleansers ever get religious about their job.
We've already established me as a wild norwegian forest cat with wanderlüst.
Anyways, I'd probably be some kind of scholar.
I guess they might, but wasn't christianity pretty forgotten already? I'm not sure how religion works there... Do the old gods refer to Odin and company, or something else?
In Iceland and Norway the "old gods" probably refers to what came before Christianity, in other words the Norse pantheon - Odin and so forth. Surtr, a fire titan, might be someone Norse cleansers might be worshipping. The Finns seem to worship old Finnish gods. It's hard to say with the Swedes and the Danes, but the Swedes at least seem as irreligious as they were before the pandemic.
The swedes worship PURITY and CLEANLINESS
...PeLIGRO...
...CoMee...
...soCorRO...
...AYUda...
...NO... ...s...
...PeLIGRO......I'm not sure what this is all about...
...CoMee...
...soCorRO...
...AYUda...
...NO... ...s...
...I'm not sure what this is all about...
I'm not sure, but I think it means "I would be a troll or some other infected"."Literate," and "puny" are our main differences then, haha. I swear I'm losing more of my vocabulary every year :P
Me, I would be a Scald. Short-sighted, puny, literate, cowardly - all the traits that mark a man out for a job behind a typewriter!
I like how about half of us chose something glorious like a mage or military and half went like "Eh, I would be stuck in academics or farming."
Is that not what normal people do in this world? Eternally divided between adventure-seeking and I'm-safer-here.
Is that not what normal people do in this world? Eternally divided between adventure-seeking and I'm-safer-here.
One word: dead.
Minna said in SSSS they're historians, so I'd be very happy studying old stuff all day long.
...PeLIGRO...
...CoMEee... ...r...
...soCorRO...
...AYUda...
...NO... ...s...
...PeLIGRO...
...CoMEee... ...r...
...soCorRO...
...AYUda...
...NO... ...s...
I'd hire the towns best scouts and hunters to trek through the wilds to deliver cakes, pies and goodies to neighbouring settlements ;3 hehe... you wouldn't happen to be related to Little Blue Riding Hood (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWunj7Yw3PQ), would you? :)
Me, I would be a Scald. Short-sighted, puny, literate, cowardly - all the traits that mark a man out for a job behind a typewriter!Or a woman. Skald or scholar, yep, that's me.
Hello!
At the risk of engaging in thread necromancy, what if I move this thread to the PerSSSSona board? After all, it's an early attempt at coming up with Known World personas.
It is too late. The thread has risen. The apocalypse hath begun.
It is too late. The thread has risen. The apocalypse hath begun.
In the comic, my homeland is a part of the Silent World along with the rest of mainland Europe, so around the year 90, I'd probably be dead. :P
...or at the very least, maybe a skald somewhere.
Hmmm. It's an interesting question! Well, it makes sense that I would be in the military, since that's my current occupation: Military maintainer. So perhaps a Dane working on fixing the cattanks I'm sure you all love to wreck.
but, honestly, I think there's a lot of things they are still taught at schools (I mean, apart from maths or geometry) that they really need.
Actually, I think basic math would be useful in post-apocalyptic world. Don't know how useful artsy stuff would be then, but I'd say math, (first) language and history would be most needed from current curriculum.Biology (including grossllingology and recognizing edible stuff in the wild), chemistry (explosives and flamethrower fuel), and of course PE would be kinda obvious, too. I'ld even add physics / classical mechanics, as a lot of "humans helping themselves without industrial supplies" is exactly that (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_machine).
I'd probably do the same things I want to do in this world, possibly more so. Stay inside and be a nerd.
Nerdity is probalby more of a luxury in the Y90 world, so you might have to settle for skald.
I'd be in america, being an awesome soldier and gunsmith.
I think most of CONUS is nothin' but trolls and beasts in Y90
Hardly. People tend to forget that not all of America is megalopolis, there are plenty of places with low enough population densities for people to survive plagues in.
For example, literally all of Wyoming, Montana, and the Dakotas.
I would probably end up as a one of those danish historians that the crew are trying to sell the books to, or some kind of researcher since that is what i'm best at.
*looks pointedly at profile quote* Flammable lemons? Are you sure you're not cleanser material? :PHe simply wants to burn life's house down with the lemons, if I'm not mistaken.
He simply wants to burn life's house down with the lemons, if I'm not mistaken.*Is happy because someone got the reference*
For me it is hard to tell since I haven't had enough education to have any profession yet, but I think could work as a scald, preserving books and saving my language from oblivion.
I would be of no use in military.
Fauna, that sounds pretty good to me! I can just imagine you making a living from some sort of cold-forest permaculture project.A bit OT but oh yes, that's even the irl plan. just got accepted into a gardening class to get me started. *high fives my life*
Definately a Shaman that travels the corrupted world with others to purify the places where people died during the rash outbreak
Definitely a troll. Why fight the inevitable? Pick a location you wouldn't mind trolling around in and establish yourself early, I say.
honestly dead (not even from not being immune, just from regular disease)
but if, by chance, I did live for a bit I would like to think that I would be stuck in the same position as Reynir, my dad keeping me home so that I'm safe
Being a teacher wouldn't be so bad, but I think I would rather travel and explore, so perhaps documenting military results, if that even is a thing (I believe that is a more specialized Skald position?)
sorry to revive a somewhat dead thread :'D
Given what I want to be irl, I’d probably be a skald, although I’d definitely wish I could be a scout. No idea whether or not I’d be immune...how does one speculate on that?
Many people pick 'immune' because it makes things so much easier if you desire to be a scout or explorer, or the kind of skald that wants to gather field data. In addition, not too many people want to put themselves in a position of the angst & danger that the non-immune live under. (I'm willing to bet few of the young people in the Forum have thought about the societal pressure for immune people to have children.)I see, that makes a lot of sense. Yeah, I don’t think a lot of us youngsters considered the pressure to have kids either...I guess because we’re still in the stage/just coming out of the stage where people are mostly asking us “what do you want to be when you grow up?” instead of “So...when are you getting married/having kids ;) ”
In canon vast swathes of the population, especially in Iceland, are not immune and live their whole lives within safe area walls; some look at themselves and realise that they wouldn't really fancy running through the dark forest on a rainy day after all, and would much rather be baking bread in one of the safe settlements.
For the record, I no longer remember what I posted in this thread for myself & am too lazy to archive dig, but that would probably be me, working in a bakery or shop, likely non-immune.Working in a bakery/shop post-rash honestly sounds really nice. Peaceful, hopefully!
My Username here is reflective of what I think I'd be doing. Assuming similar levels of knowledge my job would be going into the silent world to salvage useful materials. Not information just raw materials. I personally know but will not explain in depth right now, what parts of a car are high carbon steel, thus good for forging blades, how to make various ummmmm "active" compounds, and the potential uses for expired gasoline.
Hmmm... seems we're birds f a feather in that last regard. I wonder what 90 year old antifreeze might do to a troll.
All very useful information (says someone who has chef's knives made from leafsprings, and made a pair of matching swords out of the crossmember of a crane jib).
To respond to only part of the question, Cantonese and/or Irish gods would still be an option, perhaps? Not sure how strongly geography should factor into either though (I suppose it would depend on the beliefs specific to each tradition/religion?)although now that I think about it, I do live in an area with a large Nordic demographic, so it's possible that the Nordic gods might still be available in my area, although they would probably only talk to people of Nordic bloodline and my Cantonese-Irish self is out of luck...
I think I would be a mage, given my interest in folklore and mythology of all sorts. Probably not a really useful one, I'm pretty much a complete coward. I'd still want to help though, so I guess I would do defence-magic if I was Finnish.... Onni?
I'd definitely try to learn as many languages as possible, for no other reason than that I like doing that. Maybe I'd be a historian or a Skald as my main job. Old books are always good.Yes.
... Onni?
Cool profession you have! I remember discussing what he might usefully do postapoc with a friend who is a maths/physicist. He reckons he would be most use in constructing/reconstructing navigation tables, reworking such computer and telecommunications systems as still exist, and improving ballistics tables for artillery (after all, it was a good enough task for Leonardo da Vinci).
I think you'd also be a mage, Róisín.
Don't think I've been in this thread before, though only checked back a couple of pages --
I'm a farmer. I expect I'd be a farmer if alive in SSSS year 90, also. If there's such a thing as town planning boards, I'd probably also still want to be on my town's.
And, yeah. Farming, at least any sort of diversified farming, is really complicated. You get to go to bed tired from having exercised mind and body both.