Question

[cygny]

I saw an image this morning, showing Shura depicted as a police officer. And it got me thinking about what the professions would be of the Saints if they lead regular lives. It even gave me a tiny little plot bunny.

I still wanted your ideas on the matter though, what do you think the Saints would have for profession if they hadn't been Saints.

Comments

[suxxxann]

there are several things to consider. Professions as any kind of profession, regardless of their location (greece, small village) and time (they live in the 80s or 90s at most or in a sort of "ancient greece" time)?

If I had no limit for place and time, I'd say Deathmask is the manager of a nightclub. Mu is a teacher or a scholar. Aldebaran is a truck driver. Shaka is an antique seller, Milo is a doctor, Camus is a sort of engineer, Aphrodite is an image maker/look maker/stylist or runs an art gallery. The other gold saints do not inspire me anything in particular.

Shion looks like a chemist/biochemist. Shiryu is a technical designer. Ikki is in the army. Hyoga could be a part time model, Shun sells flowers or is a hairdresser.

[suxxxann]

ok, saga and kanon run their (greek) restaurant

[ladykikuri]

That's cool XD

[brigittebod]

First of all, linkplz?

Second: yeah, are we talking "they never became saints", or "everyone is alive and there seem to be no more bad guys to fight so they semi-retire/take on hobbies etc"?

If it's the second, all Shiryu (and apparently Hyoga and Shun) wants is to settle down and cultivate his plot of land. Seiya... I don't think Seiya has very clear ideas about his own future, to put it bluntly. He's a spur-of-the-moment decision guy, he won't know what to do until the opportunity is there. For Ikki, I once read a fic where he decides to apprentice himself to a blacksmith, and since then I can see him as anything else. Shun I think is the only one of the five who could get an education, and actually want one. I could see him as a doctor, someone who saves lives. And then he goes back to the island and whatever is left there to rebuild. Or there's that idol career Jabu suggested ;-)

The gold saints, I don't know, they seem too entrenched in who they are, you know? I mean, can you imagine Shaka gainfully employed as anything? Or

[torquemadman]

Yeah, link please :D

[milosflaca]

Please, please, let me do a fan art of the last part of your post XDDDDD! (the kids part, god it made me laugh so hard I almost spat all my coke on the keyboard).

[ghaidin]

Mu - carpenter. He’s good with his hands and he might enjoy both the simple pleasures and the challenges that may come with it