Friendship is Magic!, Tuesday, April 22, 2025

[sith_happened]

"Welcome to our final exam," Anakin said, standing casually on the edge of multistory building.

Ahsoka didn't seem particularly fazed by the height either. "Friendship is ultimately about trust. Trust that someone will be there for you when it really matters."

Anakin nodded. "When you are on a precipice," he said. "Metaphorical or not."

"Will they be there to catch you?" Or yeet you off. Or both!

The class may have been starting to realise this was a very unmetaphorical precipice.

Anakin wasn't great with symbolism. "Sometimes a friend can be both," he said. "The catalyst of change and the one to catch and ease the landing."

Someone was going off this roof.

"And the more people you're able to extend that trust towards, the larger your web of support grows."

Multiple someones, even.

"Because even when you can save yourself, you don't always have to," Anakin said, giving Ahsoka a Force-shove off the roof for the far from first time.

Not that Ahsoka seems too worried about that as she turned that shove into a acrobatic swan dive.

Theirs was a dramatic lineage.

Shocking. "Friendship," Anakin concluded.

Mad Kings & Queens: Raving Royals and How To Survive Them [Tuesday, 2nd Period]

[atreideslioness]

Class today met in the Danger Shop... which looked suspiciously like their classroom. Cushions, divans, tables at varying heights, coffee, teas, fruit, all of it.

"Over the last few weeks, I have given you some examples of rulers who have gone mad or at least mad for power," Ghanima stated once everyone had arrived. "To be honest, the best way to survive such a monarch is to quite simply keep your head down. If you don't make waves, you'll probably survive the experience. Some may call this cowardly, but it is common sense. Unless you have some way to change the status quo, your best option is to try and wait it out."

( If history teaches us anything, it is simply this: every revolution carries within it the seeds of its own destruction. And empires that rise, will one day fall. )

"Remember – sometimes a failed revolution can do just as much good as a successful one, if you play your cards right. However, is a dead revolutionary really a successful one, even if his or her cause succeeds?" Ghanima leaned back against her desk, neon eyes swirling. "I will leave that up for you to decide."