Ethics [Monday, March 5, 5th period]

[sith_happened]

When the students entered the Ethics class, there was no sign of their normal instructor.

Instead a young man with a livid scar down his right eye wearing a dark cloak was leaning against the desk.

He looked at each of the students. "I am Anakin Skywalker. I'll be the Ethics instructor for the remainder of the semester. Darth Vader is gone."

He rustled through some papers. "I understand he had put you into pairs to learn to exploit each other." His eyes narrowed. "I don't work that way. Instead, please tell me what you learned about your partner--if anything--and how you would overcome individual weaknesses in order to become a more cohesive team."

He pointed at a student at random. "We will begin with you."

Silly Anakin actually thought that there might not be any questions about the change in teachers.

We Might As Well Be Strangers - Keane

Comments

Re: During the lecture

[strahl-pirate.livejournal.com]

This was an interesting development, to be sure. This man seemed to be less intimidating than Vader, but there was something about him... "Gone? I take it he didn't just get bored and leave?" There was definately more to this than meets the eye.

Re: During the lecture

[sith_happened]

"He was killed," Anakin said flatly. "There are consequences to every choice. His finally caught up with him."

Re: During the lecture

[strahl-pirate.livejournal.com]

"I see," no he didn't, but he did see that there again seemed to be more too it than what the professor was saying. "Should I offer my condolences or was he no close aqquantance of yours?"

Re: During the lecture

[sith_happened]

"We weren't friends," Anakin said. "He did his very best to destroy everything I'd ever cared about."

Re: During the lecture

[strahl-pirate.livejournal.com]

"That's very charitable of you to take over his teaching duties then," Balthier commented with a raised eyebrow.

Re: During the lecture

[sith_happened]

Anakin shrugged. "I helped kill him," he said. "It hardly seemed fair to penalize the school."

Re: During the lecture

[strahl-pirate.livejournal.com]

“No, hardly fair at all….” Oh yeah, Balthier was waaaaaaay suspicious, but then he was like that for just about everything now a days thanks to his father, and also thanks to his father he’d inherited a rather blunt curiosity. “I would say that it’s all in all rather fitting for an Ethics class as the situation itself is a rather ethical quandary.”

Not that Baltheir didn’t prefer the unmasked professor, Vader had reminded him too much of home and the lifestyle that he’d thrown aside and the emotionally senstive Jedi could probably read that very easily.

Re: During the lecture

[sith_happened]

Anakin's eyes flashed, but his tone remained carefully neutral. "Ethical quandary?" he repeated.

Re: During the lecture

[strahl-pirate.livejournal.com]

“Well doesn’t it? From the way you’re speaking of him Vader deserved to die, for some reason or another, including destroying some of your most precious things, and you helped kill him for it. Looking at that side alone it seems rather cut and dry, I admit, but then you add the rest into the equation.”

Balthier paused taking a breath and leaned forward in his chair before continuing. “He was a teacher with responsibilities and duties to serve the students and faculty of this facility. At his death, those responsibilities were at a loss and the staff was down one teacher. Why then do you, the one who claims to have a hand in his death, take up in teaching the class that your enemy started? Most would just leave things be or not even know that the man taught at all - he never stuck me as the type to brag about teaching.” The young pirate shrugged.

“Nevertheless, some how you did have this information and for some reason you, of all possible people, took it onto your shoulders to take over his class. It does seem the right and noble thing to do, but it also creates more questions than it answers. The main one being: why did you take over the class?”

Re: During the lecture

[sith_happened]

Anakin took a deep breath, then blew it out, holding onto his temper by his fingernails.

"My son is a student here," he said. "He told me about Vader's...work at the school. I came with him to be closer to him. The teaching is just an added paycheck."

He crossed his arms over his chest. "I trust that meets with your approval?"