the birds in quarantine, because it’s midnight and i’m coping
taako: starts vlogging every minute of his life, including his weird and elaborate recipes. i’m talking full, week-long cooking processes. when he’s on camera he looks fabulous but most of the time he looks like a drowned rat. his followers ask him “how he does it.”
magnus: decides to become even more swole than he already is. follows every fitness challenge under the sun and takes blurry selfies to document the process. turns every possible surface/piece of furniture/household item into workout equipment. it’s starting to become a problem.
merle: decides this is the perfect time to shun materialism and fully become a man of faith. makes a big show of meditating, of reading scripture, of spending hours trimming a single bonsai. secretly binges tv in the bathroom and sneaks snacks from the kitchen at 3 am. it’s not that much of a secret.
barry: devoted to his academic pursuits. spends even more time locked in his lab doing weird experiments or staying up all night to read ancient, arcane texts on the internet - when you don’t need to wake up at a reasonable hour the next morning, why bother going to bed? chooses a passion project, like learning another language, and devotes every waking hour to this project for about three days before giving up.
lup: goes the most stir-crazy out of all of them. cycles through everyone else’s coping mechanisms - helps taako in the kitchen, works out with magnus, assists barry with experiments - but also creates and pulls elaborate pranks. it’s her main source of joy.
lucretia: reading, a lot of reading, and finally sitting down to write that novel she always said she would write. she was a homebody for most of her life so it’s not that different than what she grew up with. after a criminally bored lup asks lucretia to read out loud to her, story time with creesh becomes a nightly occurrence.
davenport: the most prepared. made sure the ship was stocked with all necessary healing supplies, home goods, and non-perishables. keeps surfaces clean, keeps crew members from tearing each other apart. refuses to admit his coping mechanism is anime and anime fanfic. taako figures this out and holds it over him for weeks.