fandomhigh | Heroing [period 2, class #8]

"Hello, class!" Hammer boomed, striding out before the class once everyone was all assembled. "I hope you all had a nice time on vacation. I, meanwhile, stayed behind to protect the island from any evildoers who might attack in its vulnerable state."

He paused, beaming. "You're welcome."

"Today, class," he continued, "we're going to talk about the media. The paparazzi. Your future best friends, as a hero."

"As heroes," he went on, "we must embrace the media, for they will trail around after us, hanging on our every word, once we've saved them all from mortal peril even just once. They will hound us. They will take our pictures. They will want autographs. There will be merchandise with your face on it if you're lucky." Hammer plucked up and waved a shirt with his face, and a coffee mug with his hammer symbol emblazoned on the side. "But the biggest obstacle, my tiny, young, less bright friends, is the interview."

He began to pace. "Newspapers and TV news crews are always trying to corner you for an interview, and while, yes, they are adoring, they always want to know things like which is your favoritie pair of socks, and how old you were when you lost your virginity. If you have." He eyed the class, because he doubted most of these sad kids had gotten lucky yet. "The important thing is knowing how to give answers quickly on your feet. One wrong answer means you'll have to save them all at least three more times to regain favor."

"So!" He clapped his hands together. "Today, class, we're doing an exercise to prepare you. I want you to pair up and one of you gets to be a reporter, and the other gets to be the hero. The reporter asks questions -- and make sure you're adoring, kids, because reporters always are -- and they need to be as personal as you can stand! Hero, answer them as well as you can without humiliating yourself. After five questions, switch! Hop to!"

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Adora was hopeful to find a kind partner who was more interested in themselves than in her.

"Hey, I'm Tony," Tony said. "Up for an in-depth exclusive one-on-one?"

Adora smiled, "I'm certainly up for trying, Tony!"

Tony didn't have Perez Hilton bookmarked or anything, but he did read every interview he could find with Lee Nicholas, so he had an idea of how these things generally went. (He was not obsessed. Really.) Of course in Fandom, things were a bit different. "Okay, let's start with the basics. Can you tell me your name, your home world and how that world is different from Fandom?"

Oh dear. "My name is Adora, I'm from Etheria, and my world is different from Fandom because it is ruled by the evil Horde. That wasn't so difficult actually!"

"What's the Horde like?" Tony asked. "Other than evil, I mean."

"Their evil consumes them," Adora replied, not really able to think past the evil. "If it is removed, I suspect their members would be like you or I. But with an army of robot soldiers."

The tabloids never asked about evil robot soldiers. Tony decided to take the interview in a different direction. "So, uh, what's your favorite color? And your astrological sign?"

"Um, I like red and gold?" Adora replied. "I don't know what my astrological sign is. Is that the last planet I visited?"

"No, it's a kind of fortune-telling thing. Based on when you were born," Tony said. "When's your birthday? Is the calendar where you come from even anything like the one here?"

"No, but my mother is from Earth and said that my brother and I were born late in your December," she informed him. "It's near Christmas, I believe?"

"That might be Capricorn?" Tony guessed. "There's charts and stuff if you wanted to find out. How'd your mother go from Earth to Etheria?"

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