When Guardians were mentioned in any sort of conversation, overall sentiments almost always leaned towards: gratitude, hope, appreciation, wonder, and general positive feelings. The citizens of the last safe city on earth knew all that they did to keep them safe and away from total extinction. They looked towards the immortal warriors and saw the blood, dirt, bullet marks and sweat. Sometimes when the battles became tougher and the enemy stronger they saw less of them; fireteams with a comrade down and the survivors cradling their lost friends' weapon like fragile glass with a haunted look in their eyes. While they could escape death like water escaping cupped hands, it did not mean that death did not touch them in one form or another. In fact, death surrounded them. Taking this all into account, general sentiment towards the guardians and all they did for the survival of humanity were very positive.
However, the citizens of the City also agreed amongst themselves that Guardians were extremely odd creatures. They had odd habits and odd mannerisms. Sometimes the citizens questioned their sanity and wondered if escaping death too many times took a toll on their minds.
One of the more bizarre, completely unnecessary, and overall insane things that Guardians did when they came back to the Tower was hanging out on the rods that poked out where ships hovered to let Guardians off.
It had become commonplace to see a Guardian dancing, sitting, jumping up and down on the rods and then ultimately falling to their demise only for their Ghost to revive them and do it all over again at a later time.
People got a kick out of watching the reactions of new comers to the Tower. Standard reactions seemed to be horror as the Guardians fell, shock when their Ghosts resurrected them, confusion as the Guardians went right back, and then weary acceptance as they kept on doing it. It was so commonplace now to see Guardians falling to their deaths from the Tower that the Vanguard has to constantly remind them over the PA system, "Guardians, having a Ghost is no excuse for recreational tower jumping".
But, alas, it did nothing to hinder their insane actions. There were competitions; for Traveler's sake, about who could fall the fastest and score keeping of the most and least falls. There were also mentions of citizens at the base of the Tower keeping score of which type of Guardian made the biggest blood splatter; a rather gruesome hobby but such was life after the Collapse.
There was also the favorite game of, Get the Ball Back Up to the Tower. The game was quite simple, one Guardian would jump off with the soccer ball in hand first and then a few seconds later another would jump off and this would continue with many Guardians. While falling the Guardian with the ball would throw it up to the other and it would continue until the ball would get back up. It didn't happen all the time, but it was quite interesting to witness none the less of the Guardians futile attempts to try to win at such an odd game.
Commander Zavala, felt that such actions would be seen as wholly unprofessional and many political figures had already made their voices heard. He devised a giant net to be made to catch any Guardians who fell. At first it was seen as a great idea; no more speeding, falling bodies crashing at the base of the Tower and creating a bloody mess, no more citizens at the base of the Tower witnessing gruesome deaths, and no more desensitization to death in general.
However, while the net caught the Guardians it seemed as if the matter of getting back up to the Tower had not been considered. While Guardians were persevering, killing machines who never gave up on the field of battle it could not be said as truth when off the field. After a few lazy attempts of trying to jump back up to the Tower, Guardians could be seen slitting their throats or using a gun to off themselves to be resurrected back to the Tower. Citizens continually played witness to this for a week until the dreadfully gruesome matter was rectified.
Ikora was next to devise a plan of putting a sort of force field so it looked like a purple wall fence above the guard rail. The Guardians were quite excited over it and thought up the new game of Wall Tennis. Another simple game of hitting the ball at the force field and seeing how far it flew back. It was found that Titans were quite extraordinary at the game, when hit by a Titan the balls flew back as far as the garden to Lord Saladin; at times hitting the poor Iron Lord on the head at dangerously high speeds.
For about two weeks' citizens lived in fear of deadly flying balls at very high speeds randomly smashing them in the face at any given moment, leading to quite the untimely and embarrassing death. It became common to hear someone yelling "Ball!" and seeing everybody duck under something. Fortunately, no citizen died at the hands of the deadly balls but it lead to an increase of resurrections around the Tower. Warlocks attributed this to the fact that Guardians were a lot less concerned about their deaths and hence paid a lot less attention to things that could kill them when off duty and in what is considered to be a safe place. While their citizens feared for their lives and paid a lot more attention to their surroundings. At the end, it was Lord Saladin's complaints to Ikora that had the force field put down as the man's ghost was quite tired of resurrecting the Iron Lord so many times a day.
Cayde was quite amused when Ikora and Zavala came to him for a solution on the matter. He thought that the Guardians fun and games were quite harmless and just a way for them to let off steam. He also conveniently forgot to mention that sometimes he helped them devise new games to play when off duty. Zavala and Ikora hounded him for a few days more before realizing that their attempts would be quite futile and that they would not get any solution out of him.
It was Ikora who went to Eris, to see if maybe the woman might have some thoughts on the matter. The warlock did not ever actually think that Eris would honestly have something to say but thought that it could never hurt to try. So it greatly surprised the warlock when Eris told her that the solution to the matter was quite simple.
The next day when Guardians came over to the railing they found Eris sitting on the grass with all her bits and baubles in the middle in front of the guard railing staring down anybody who passed by. Whenever a Guardian came near she would glare them down and ask, "Do you have matters to discuss with me?" and they would slowly edge away as if afraid. Ikora and Zavala were elated to see it work but sadly Eris soon returned back to her dark spot inside as she grew tired of the sun. And immediately the Tower jumping commenced again.