Personal Space Meme

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The Personal Space Meme

Everybody's got to have their own personal space. Whether you're in government housing or have a place of your own, your home is your castle. Except not really, because I seriously doubt that many imPorts actually live in castles. Wait, where was I going with this?

Okay, yeah, so what's your character's living space look like? How have they decorated, or have they just stuck with the stock furniture? Have they made any upgrades (or downgrades)? Do they try to keep it clean, or does it look like Nonah #005 just came to visit? Do they have a home workspace? How about the common spaces or the exterior, any landscaping? Any skeletons in the closet, or body parts in the shed? Pets? Farm animals? Or anything else I left out, go wild.

Notes:

• If you have housemates, go ahead and put everybody under the same top-level for easy reference.
• The locations page has brief descriptions of the gov't housing setups in each city, for a nice little starting point.
• Visual aids are encouraged!

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shared space + riku stuff

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Riku's inventory.

Shared space reflects both boys pretty well: the fridge and cupboards are evenly stocked between normal food and junk food (though half the freezer is ice cream). There are probably a few dishes in the sink (despite the dishwasher). The kitchen table often has packages stacked on it, things Riku is working on sending out via portal. The kitchen and dining room are technically one large room.

The living room looks more or less the way you'd expect: a couch and chair set, a coffee table, and a TV. There's a basket on the coffee table where there's things like remotes and headphones. Sometimes batteries can be found rolling around in the bottom of it, and maybe a handheld game system and a few game cartridges every now and then. Strewn around the TV's stand there's a few DVDs -- some the boys bought and some that are leftovers from previous residents. After their movie night Riku left the Disney movies Normie gave him down here too. No sense having them in his room when they watch them down here. Atoli's cat tree is tucked against the corner of a window here. There are probably five hundred fuzzy mice and some tennis balls beneath the couch, too.

Connected to the living room is the little office, with bookshelves and a desk, where the communal PC lives. In here are also beds for Atoli and Shiro, though both of them tend to end up sleeping in one of the boys' rooms. The attic exists, but nobody really goes up there -- they don't have enough stuff to need to use it. There may be more boxes of old residents' things, though.

There's a garage, standard to Heropa houses, where Riku's vespa (it's black though) lives. There's pool stuff in here, water tests and additives and the like. Along the walls there are boxes containing items past residents have left behind. One of them smells weirdly like some sort of potpourri. (One of the empty bedrooms smells a little like this, too.) Leftover car parts and related tools are a thing there too, even though neither of them has one.

Outside, the lawn is fairly scruffy (weedy and sometimes very brown), and there's usually kudzu all over the fence. The whole back yard has a fairly high fence around it with a door built in -- this way the pigs (one more as of Princess Bubblegum's port-out) and the dog won't run off. It used to be just three-sided as a separator between houses, but Riku ended up having the gaps filled in when he got Yamada (the first pig). There's an in-ground pool that the pigs can sometimes be found in, sitting on the plastic stairs at the shallow end, and sometimes the dog paddles around there. In the corner built against the fence is a little shack where the pigs live. They're somehow litter-trained.

Riku's room is pretty basic: a bed against the wall opposite the door, a little table with a lamp beside it, a couple of bookshelves and a desk and chair. It's got three doors: the entrance, the closet and the attached bathroom. From his window the yard is visible, and by extension the pool and the little house where his pigs live. Riku's window faces more or less south, which is convenient because that way there's never sun in his eyes when he's in his room.

All clothes can be assumed to be in the dresser, or the closet either hung up or in the hamper because unlike Sora he likes a tidy room, generally. All regular weapons are also in the closet, lying on the floor against the back wall. The misc items are all over the place: on a shelf, the bedside table/inside its drawer, the windowsill, even. There's a skinny laptop and a few books that inhabit his desk most of the time, and a few library books, too.

The walls are un-decorated, mostly, though he's taped the few flat keepsakes he has (Mabel's valentine, Francis' party invitation, etc) above the desk. This guy will keep everything you hand him. In the desk drawer are the usual 'desk drawer' type things, a million pens and pencils, stationery. His file is in here too, shoved as far back as it'll go.