My Life as a Buddy Movie | Period 2 | Wednesday | May 13

[flipped-god-off.livejournal.com]

It hadn't been all that fucking easy to get up but he'd managed it and he managed to be in the classroom (the school looked a lot smaller from the outside) without getting lost. Angelic sense of direction and all. Or maybe he'd just gotten lucky. What the fuck ever. What mattered was he was there, sprawled in the comfy chair and feet up on the desk.

He could definitely get used to having some authority again.

Once the kids filed in, Loki didn't even move. Just stayed relaxed while he talked.

"So, I don't think I know any of you." If he did, he wasn't going to say. "And I really don't fucking care that much if I never learn your name. I'll just give you a nickname each class. Call it personalization my way. My name's Loki. Just Loki. First person to make fun of that name, well, you'll just have to wait and see what happens. Anyway, if you're here, you're probably here for My Life as a Buddy Movie. Fucking awesome name, isn't it?"

He had an ego.

"Anyway, this class is going to teach you how to work cohesively with another person without absolutely wanting to drive their face into a brick wall a million goddamn times." He'd wanted to do that to Bartleby enough but he'd refrained. See, he was good. "Now, I can probably pinpoint a few of you loners, the ones that don't think they need any fucking one, and I'm just going to laugh at your asses now. You're wrong. Even if you don't want to work with someone, you're going to have to at some point. Aww, cry more. It's better to get it done efficiently then to drag your feet and have to spend more time around that person."

And sometimes you just got attached and stayed with that person. Sometimes. Bartleby had good stories.

"So, of course, let's do introductions. Name, age, how well you think you work with someone else," he recited. "And something random that you want me to know. Could be anything. I don't fucking care."

Once the introductions had been completed, Loki started talking again. "Okay, so loner kids in this class, get the fuck over yourselves even if it's just for this class. You're going to work with each other even it's just for my amusement. But, really, you're going to learn. If you don't want to learn, then I'm going to make you dance for my amusement."

He wasn't kidding.

"In today's society, you almost always have to have some kind of help. Things today just aren't made for one person to do it alone. Sure, you probably can but you're sure as shit gonna finish far behind those who had help. You're probably going to get your ass kicked a few times and you're going to cry. And just imagine, if you had help, you'd have a shoulder to wipe your snotty nose on. But, working with another person is not always easy. It's a mesh of personalities that sometimes ignite and you want nothing more than to push that other person into the middle of fucking traffic and watch nature take its course. We're here to try and teach you how to not do that. You can think that, hell, I think that a fucking lot, but you can't do it. It kind of ruins things all around."

And it was a mess.

"Activity for today, find a partner. Don't be fucking shy, don't give some kid sex eyes from across the room in the hopes that they come your way. Just find a fucking partner and come pick up one of these fucking puzzles up there. They're easy. I did them all last night. You work with your partner to put them together except you cannot talk to each other. Gestures, signals, eyefucking, whatever. No talking. Put the puzzles together and I'll give you a nice round of applause."
No, he wouldn't.

"If there's anyone without a partner or anyone who wants a real challenge, they can work with me. Just see how far communication goes when you can't run your mouths. No shoving puzzle pieces in anyone's eye."

That was his job.

"Oh, before I set you loose, I guess I'm gonna need a TA or two. So, if you're interested. Come see me. We'll see what we can do."

With that, he waved a hand and gestured for them to get to work.

Comments

Sign In [BM 05/13]

[flipped-god-off.livejournal.com]

Like it's the second fucking class of the day!

Re: Sign In [BM 05/13]

[youcantfollow.livejournal.com]

Griff O'Conner

Chat | Stare | Take Notes [BM 05/13]

[flipped-god-off.livejournal.com]

Loki doesn't care if you talk or pass notes but he might call you out on it just for funsies!

Re: Chat | Stare | Take Notes [BM 05/13]

[youcantfollow.livejournal.com]

Eyes wide during the lecture, Griff was thinking this guy was insane. But then, he'd not been around people enough in the last few years to get used to the partner thing.

Re: Chat | Stare | Take Notes [BM 05/13]

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

...there was just something about this professor.

She shook her head and took a few notes.

Re: Chat | Stare | Take Notes [BM 05/13]

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Effy wasn't talking, or taking notes or anything like that, but she was actually listening to Loki's lecture with a certain amount of amusement.

Re: Chat | Stare | Take Notes [BM 05/13]

[gods-gymnast.livejournal.com]

Maron blinked. And blinked again.

Were teachers allowed to talk like that?

Re: Chat | Stare | Take Notes [BM 05/13]

[carsexual]

Wow.

Were teachers allowed to talk like that? Sam boggled.

Re: Chat | Stare | Take Notes [BM 05/13]

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

. . . it was like he was opening his mouth and things were just falling out of it, Gabrielle decided.

She was fairly sure most teachers wouldn't be using that kind of language.

Then again, Gabrielle had a weird concept of normal.

Re: Chat | Stare | Take Notes [BM 05/13]

[abetterthief.livejournal.com]

Parker almost wasn't able to hide the wince when the teacher explained this class was about working with others. That never seemed to go well for her.

Still, on the plus side, this Loki seemed to be refreshingly blunt. She doubted she'd ever have to wonder if he was saying one thing while meaning something else.

Re: Chat | Stare | Take Notes [BM 05/13]

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

Jack was trying to take everything in. True, he'd always seen himself as kind of a lone wolf, but a partner wouldn't be bad.

Re: Chat | Stare | Take Notes [BM 05/13]

[asgardcreated.livejournal.com]

The name of the professor alone was enough to piss him off. The lecture was pretty good for improving his mood though.

He was still going to leave Davis a nasty message. And possibly bitch to Jack.

Introductions [BM 05/13]

[flipped-god-off.livejournal.com]

Make them interesting!

Re: Introductions [BM 05/13]

[youcantfollow.livejournal.com]

"Uh," this was a little intimidating first thing in the morning. "Name's Griff, I'm 16 years old, and I've studied karate since I was seven."

Not interesting, but again, early.

Re: Introductions [BM 05/13]

[endsthegame]

"I'm Andrew Wiggin, but I answer to Ender," Ender said. He was pretty sure he'd wound up in this class by paperwork error, but that was so normal in Fandom it'd have been strange if it hadn't happened to him. "I'm fifteen, I have some experience working cohesively with a team," understatement of the century, "And I'm the third child in my family."

The latter wouldn't be interesting to anyone not of Ender's world, which was why it amused him so much. Wiggins had their own sense of humor.

Re: Introductions [BM 05/13]

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

"Fiona Post," she started out, "fifteen just a few weeks ago, and I'm a twin. My brother was sent to another school."

Re: Introductions [BM 05/13]

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"I'm Effy," she said after a moment. "I'm sixteen, and I don't really like people." Well, at least she's honest.

Oh, right, something interesting. "... I can pick shit up with my toes." Fascinating.

Re: Introductions [BM 05/13]

[ihaveniceteeth.livejournal.com]

"I'm Gwen," she said. "I'm six...no...seventeen, I have a decent amount of experience working in teams, and my guardian has a pet pterodactyl."

Re: Introductions [BM 05/13]

[gods-gymnast.livejournal.com]

"I'm Maron," she said, after listening to some of the others. "I'll be sixteen at the end of this month, and my parents build amusement parks for a living."

Re: Introductions [BM 05/13]

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

"I'm Gabrielle," she said, "I'm fifteen, and I'm an Amazon princess. Which actually ties into how well I work with other people, because you see, how I ended up one had a lot to do with traveling through Amazon lands with Xena. Which is pretty much a normal day for me, and I would have to say that Xena and I work pretty well together, if I do say so myself, and . . ."

She could so go on like this for a while if nobody stopped her.

Re: Introductions [BM 05/13]

[carsexual]

"Uh, my name's Sam, and I'm sixteen. I'm pretty good at working with people, I guess, and uh, my car is a giant robot. But he's not here right now." A pause. "Also, that's classified so please nobody repeat it off this island."

Re: Introductions [BM 05/13]

[badassfullback.livejournal.com]

"Tim Riggins, I'm 16," he said. "I play a lot of football so I think I work pretty well with others."

Somewhere in Texas, Street was laughing.

"It's too goddamn early to be interesting."

It wasn't but for the life of him he couldn't think of anything. What you see is pretty much what you got with Riggins.

Puzzles [BM 05/13]

[flipped-god-off.livejournal.com]

Grab a partner and put a puzzle together. No talking!

Re: Puzzles [BM 05/13]

[youcantfollow.livejournal.com]

Griff was ready to puzzle this thing out, sadly he had no partner as of yet.

Talk to Loki [BM 05/13]

[flipped-god-off.livejournal.com]

He's oh so personable and very approachable. Really.

Re: Talk to Loki [BM 05/13]

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

Okay, so she took a detour on her way to work. Whatever. It's not that she was missing school already. Not at all. And who could ignore the language coming from a certain classroom? Not Amber. That's why she poked her head in to take a look, obviously amused.

OOC [BM 05/13]

[flipped-god-off.livejournal.com]

Easy class this week. There's no TA thread this week because he hasn't chosen them ICly yet. TA's have already been OOCly selected and they are welcome to handwave getting chosen, stop by and ask or get themselves randomly selected (by talking out of turn or walking by the classroom curiously) because Loki thinks it's funny.

Also, this is Loki's character and IC =/ OOC. He's just that vulgar.

Re: OOC [BM 05/13]

[asgardcreated.livejournal.com]

Man, Jon is going to hateloathe this class, so very much.

Oh, and Loki is more than welcome to know about the clone thing.