Does your DP have future post apocalyptic warlord potential?

[Fedupandpoor]

So if the worst happens, how would your DP handle him/herself in an end of the world situation?

My ex is strong, athletic and very brave so would be an excellent soldier. He has fast reflexes (ex professional athlete) and good instincts so would be very useful on supply runs. Unfortunately, he's a miserable, whingy bastard so would probably suffer an 'unexplained accident' in his community or be exiled to live on the settlement boundary wall.

Mines an engineer and also has a tractor and a jcb, reckon he would be building a ditch to repel zombie hordes pretty sharpish.
He has already started growing potatoes, in very straight lines, colour coded string for potato variety !
He won’t be too shabby 😎

Mine can juggle

Will that be useful?

We're a fab team. Both a bit overweight so some reserves to work from while we identify food sources, water and shelter.

I'm ex-military so have a few tricks up my sleeve.

We're both stoical and good with pain in different ways.

He trains in a martial art but I'm the one who is good in a fight.

He's 6'4 though and people are scared of him, even though he's a giant teddy bear.

We both have some survival knowledge.

Mine isn’t particularly brave or strong. But he is a doctor so very useful for accidental injuries etc and I’m banking on everyone wanting him to be in their gang and him being considered enough of an asset for the stronger folks to want to protect him if things kick off

My DH is practical and can fix anything, he's got an amazing sense of direction and he's very fit. He's clever, a good negotiator, he's unflappable in a crisis and he never loses his temper. He can fish and shoot so we wouldn't starve and would be able to defend ourselves. Being a warlord wouldn't suit him though, he's not bossy enough, is quite introverted and doesn't like the limelight. He'd make a very good adviser instead.

Mine’s an engineer too, he can fix anything and he’s very practical. He cooks too. He’s also a narcissistic twat (he knows this as I have already told him) so he could do all of the jobs needed (cos he knows the easy way which s the right way) whilst we all sit on our arses ignoring him whilst he yells 👍🤣

Nah we are both doomed. Both good at analysing all the many and varied ways we are fucked, not so good at actually responding in a practical sense.

My DH is relentlessly optimistic and very organised, I think he’s quite a natural leader so would like to take charge and organise everyone else. Trouble is he might think he has more authority than he does and run people up the wrong way! He would also leave things in random places so might get quietly dispatched by the community after losing a key component...!

I should probably add that we could do the four horsemen of the apocalypse. But dp would lose all credibility when he arrived at a forwards walk, clinging to a neck strap and pleading with the horse to slow down.

Ugh. Even an apocalypse can't stop the patriarchy it seems.

What about your post apocalyptic potential op? I'd like to think i'd channel a mixture of Sigourney Weaver in Alien and Tank Girl, personally.

I think we have the makings of a future society!

My contribution would be to cook meals from limited supplies. Nettle soup, dandelion salad, mushroom burgers and the mn chicken that will feed the entire village for a month.

DP would be pretty useless (too nice).

I'd be a fucking great warlord/dictator (in fact this is what my parents always used to predict for my future career..)

Ugh. Even an apocalypse can't stop the patriarchy it seems.

Lots of us have assessed our post-apocalyptic potential. Mine is genuinely pretty crap, especially right now (as I’m 28 weeks pregnant). DH might not be leading anything (or manage to save us) but he’d almost certainly survive for ages on his own.

However, what we’ve all learned from Covid-19 is that an apocalypse would be much less exciting than the media depictions have led us to believe. I’d be great in a boring apocalypse; DH would suck.

Ha, I've already said to DH he'd be amazing and it'd be me and the kids who got him killed. He's just said he'd find somewhere to hide us and go out alone .

My DH is a thinker and negotiator. He'd be good at getting everyone together and strategic planning. Not so great at the practical stuff but that's where I come in!

Nope.

DH is kind, sensitive, creative and funny.

He also melts down in emergency situations, tends towards maudlin and can't do practical stuff like DIY or sporty things.

I am pragmatic and lean towards cold/hard so would be better as the dictator, leader type.

Well mine has watched lots and lots of zombie movies and played a fair few survival games so he could possibly use that wealth of information so make plans etc but I dont think he would be very good at carrying them out.

He would be absolutely, completely useless. I think as a household our best hope is that DH and I are killed in the apocalypse so that we no longer burden DS, who with his toddler mixture of fearlessness and determination, and equipped with an ability to either scream his enemies into submission or bamboozle them by acting entirely randomly, would I think be fine if unhampered by DH and I.

I just asked my partner.
His reply
'I'll probably be dead'

I've got a real winner here!

Warlord? No chance.
He would be the best at fixing anything or lashing together a practical solution for any problem.

Assuming he managed not to die of worry, DH would survive a surprisingly long time on a diet of his own fingernails.

He'd be the person you leave the children of the compound with and do the cooking. As long as there was also a couple of borderline sociopath guards as well, as his skills are in silence and never, ever getting loudly angry with anyone. He would be able to keep ten kids absolutely silent and move them out of danger without anybody noticing.

I'd be the one with the animals, running the first aid and making repairs - on the quiet, I'd have a stash of immaculately organised long, sharp and pointy things, a lot of poisons and the ability to sense something was up long before anything happened, just by the changes in the wildlife and weather. Oh, and a sideline in killing silently/hunting with the assistance of various dogs, horses, birds and other animals.

DH is hugely practical and logical.

He can mend anything, A- team style, with whatever is laying around. He can grow anything... but he wants things done his way - so works best alone.

I am good at is delegating and making mayonnaise.

RuffleCrow the thread title says ‘DP’, not ‘DH’. Could mean either sex.

"What about your post apocalyptic potential op? I'd like to think i'd channel a mixture of Sigourney Weaver in Alien and Tank Girl, personally."

Mine is more a terrifying combo of Vetinari and Granny Weatherwax (won't mean a thing if you don't know your Discworld).