How to Be A Chocobro; Friday, First Period [10/22].

[hashtag_chocobro]

The problem with not really knowing exactly what your class was supposed to be about was that it sometimes made it difficult to know what you were really going to be teaching on a week-to-week basis. But therein was the benefit of a class like this, because it became pretty clear to all three of the teachers from the onset that this meant they could just do whatever they wanted in this class.

As long as, if it involved the Danger Shop, it also involved chocobos.

Of course, that also meant that, even if you didn't need the Danger Shop, you are still going to use it anyway, because that meant, whatever you were doing, you were doing it with chocobos. And who wouldn't want that?

Gladio had floated an idea to them that they'd decided might be a better fit for next week, so, this week, hopefully you weren't all sick of autumnal scenery from the Boston trip, because you were getting it again with a whole fall festival vibe with pumpkins.

Lots and lots of pumpkins.

And chocobos!

"Hey, guys!" Prompto got the class started out once every was there, grinning because there was a chocobo nuzzling up against him for feather ruffles while he talked. "So, Gladio here has been reading a lot about this Halloween holiday that's coming up here, and while there's a lot of sort of spooky, scary stuff involved, there's also a lot of more fun stuff, like candy and costumes and really great food, aaaand...."

Gladio let him hang there a little bit on that dramatic pause before picking up one of the pumpkins and holding it up in his hand. "Pumpkins," he said. "Specifically, these things called Jack-o-lanterns, which has a really interesting history behind it. Basically, it's a tradition where people carve things, usually faces, into pumpkins, which they've hollowed out, and they put a candle inside of it to make it glow, like a lantern. Turnips were also pretty popular, but the pumpkin sort of took off as the classic base for a jack-o-latern, probably because its size gave you a lot more room to get creative. Back then, Halloween was something called Samhain, where it was said that the souls of the dead and supernatural beings would walk the Earth, and the jack-o-lanterns were used to ward off those evil spirits, keep them out of your home, and general frighten other people away.

"Considering that the world where we come from also has a problem with supernatural monsters that are driven away by the light," he continued, now a bit dryly, "this one sort of stuck out for me."

"And while we certainly hope that we will not need to turn to our jack-o-lanterns for their intended use," Ignis added in coolly, "we thought it would be a nice, topical activity to pursue this week. And hopefully, you too may have learned something interesting about Halloween because of it. Please note, while we are in the Danger Shop, the pumpkins we've provided are very real, so you may take your lanterns with you after class."

"We just wanted to do it in here," Prompto informed them with a shameless grin, "because why wouldn't you want to make jack-o-lanterns with chocobos?"

He knew he sure did!

And not just because jack-o-lanterns where actually kind of scary if you thought about the reasons for them (which were all too real for anyone from Eos!) and so having an adorable giant bird around to distract you was nice!

"So, without further ado," said Ignis, "come and pick out a pumpkin or two, grab a carving kit, and let your imagination run wild. There's plenty of time to do several if you'd like, and for those of you who might not know where to start, we do have some carving patterns you can use if that makes it easier for you. Any questions?"

Superheroing 101 - Friday 10/22, 3rd period

[stykera]

“I hope everyone enjoyed Boston,” Stark said once the students had all arrived. “I did.” Except the bit where someone had turned into a bird near the end of the trip but that was all over with now and everything was fine. Everything hadn’t been fine for several days before now and Stark had needed distractions and that had led to finding some strange television programs. That’s what happened when you were sulking about someone being a bird. You binged strange ‘reality’ TV shows from 15 years ago.

“I was looking for ideas for things we ought to talk about and I found another television show. It’s called Who Wants To Be A Superhero?. We can watch some.” Because someone had not actually planned for class yesterday, for some reason.

“Perhaps some of these heroes will inspire you. Or give you ideas of what not to do. One of those.”

Probably the latter. But hey, there were snacks available while you watched!

"If you do think of what to do or not to do based on what you've seen then we can discuss that after." Or just talk about who your favorite ridiculous fake superhero was. Fat Momma? Major Victory? Feedback?

Teamwork, Friday, October 22, 2021

[heroic_jawline]

Today it was just Steve in front of the class, who had been handwavily informed to meet up on the beach. Well, Steve and a miniature pony.

Steve sighed heavily. "So," he began, running his fingers through his hair, "Mr. Stark has been...unfortunately transformed. Into a pony. These things happen around here. He, however, should not be encouraged to climb up the stairs to the school because then he refuses to come back down."

Pony!Tony managed to look smug.

"So thank you for meeting me here. Today we're going to talk about improvising. Say some kind of pony-eating swamp creature came out of the water right now--" Steve was ignoring the betrayed look pony!Tony was giving him. "How would we work together to stop that from happening?"