best at cooking, reading the most, laziest
Weirdly, despite being high pretty much all the time and not all that much of a foodie, Ruben is probably the best in the kitchen. He’s calm, capable, likes to experiment with new flavour combinations and fusion foods. It’s the artist in him. Admittedly, his cooking is also quite out there.
Fran likes to make things exactly the way his mother would have made them. He doesn’t have an experimental bone in his body, when it comes to cooking, but his food is homely and familiar and exactly what you want when you feel like eating your feelings. He wants to take care of you and a large part of that is feeding you.
Nobody meets Alain’s high standards so he learnt to do it all himself. It was very much an “if you want something done properly” moment. He makes food the way they do in restaurants: beautifully presented but never enough.
As an English Literature Professor, Fran does the most reading of all kinds. He’s been a voracious reader of poetry, prose and drama since he was a small child, but he now reads as many essays (famous critical works, new journals, student essays). He can read about six hundred words a minute, which is a necessary skill.
Ki-Myeong doesn’t get through quite as many written works as Fran does, but mostly because they’re a keen consumer of all kinds of culture. They’ve got a similar reading pace but they’re also interested in going to art galleries and museums, watching obscure art house films, listening to albums and they like to give each work their full attention. Also they’d be disgusted at the notion of student essays.
The things that Dixie reads tend not to be the things you traditionally think of as reading. She’s always online, usually somewhere on the deep net or hacking something with her nose in something she really shouldn’t be looking at.
If Taliesin could get away with lying in bed for the rest of his life, he’d do it as long as someone waited on him hand and foot. Maybe somebody who’d share the bed with him as well. That boy is the worst kind of sponge as well and loves to be pampered.
Cassandra loves to luxuriate in a similar way to Taliesin but at least she has earned the right to pick up the telephone and have her every whim made a reality through many years of hard work. She feels like she deserves to be lazy.
At the opposite end of the scale, Hare is a human disaster. There’s nobody to wait on him, nor would he want it, he’s just relatively happy to live in squalour if it means he doesn’t have to do things he doesn’t want to do.