fandomhigh | Superheroing 101- Tuesday, January 9- 2nd period

When the students walk in, they should notice a woman standing at the front of the room. Wearing a really pretty revealing costume... and a cardigan over it so students won't be staring at her chest. Shhh. It's more professional for the first day.

"Good morning!" she says once everyone's taken their seats, a syllabus on every desk. "I'm Captain Liberty, and welcome to Superheroing 101. I am a professional superhero. Trust me, I wouldn't dress like this on a normal basis." God, she hates the cardigan. She feels like one of those really young teachers she had in school who used to dress like her grandma. Luckily she's missing the lacy collar and the flats with bows on them. "In this class, you'll get to learn the ins and outs of identifying a bad guy, getting rid of one, and also dealing with the, um, more personal sides of it. And by the way, no, I don't have superpowers. They're great and definitely a help if you have them, but hopefully by the end of this you'll figure out that having common sense and the right mindset helps just as much. Also, if you know the people I do, common sense is kind of a rarer commodity." Sigh.

"But for now the first thing we're going to do is decide on superhero names. You'll be using these names- not your real ones- anytime you're in class," she says, and yes she's pleased with coming up with that when she has three Peters in the class. "The only thing I ask is that if you are going to go into professional superheroing, or already do, don't use your real fake name. If anyone in the class goes evil and turns into a supervillain, you don't want them knowing your real identity. That gets messy.

"Once we've done that, we're going to go around the room so you can introduce yourselves. Go ahead and add in any powers you're willing to divulge and if you have a superheroing experience, feel free to tell a story. Plus, naturally being both teenagers and potential superheroes, you're bound to want to talk about yourself somehow. We're all about sharing here!"

Which isn't code for Captain Liberty failing at coming up with an actual assignment for class yet, nope.

[Class roster and info post] [Syllabus]

[OCD is up!]

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Jude looked sheepish. "Uh, in my room?"

She frowned. "That's a good place for them. You should sit down at least!"

She seemed torn between being cross and solicitous of him.

Jude sat down. It was kinda like being bullied and mothered by Jen. "I'm sitting, I'm sitting!" he protested.

"Good," she said, beaming at him. "But I still can't think of a superhero name. Ooh, you could be something with skateboards? Or tricks?"

Jude 'hmm'ed for a minute. "Yeah . . . like, the Grinder or somethin' like that . . . but you don't have one! We need to figure out yours, too. You can do cool stuff with water, right?"

"The Grinder?" Katara repeated. "I like it." She thought. "Yes, I can waterbend. But waterbender or something sounds silly."

"Yeah, except it kinda sounds like I'm a meatball sub," Jude chuckled. He frowned again, thinking. "Dude, I know there's totally a buncha awesome names we could come up with, but I know, like, none of them."

She shook her head. "Me neither. Think I could just stick with my name?"

"Maybe. I think your name sounds really cool," he told her honestly. "Totally better than mine. You know what my name means?"

Katara smiled and blushed just the littlest bit. "Thank you." She looked at him curiously. "It means something? It's not just a name?"

Jude nodded. "Yeah. Well, kinda. But St. Jude is the patron saint of lost causes. So that's what it means. Lost causes."

"I should think that's a good superhero name by itself!" Katara said. "And then when you help, the causes wouldn't be lost anymore. See? It works."

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