Ethics & Etiquette - 1st Period - 8/3

[mouthy-merc.livejournal.com]

Despite the... weekend of hell and bitey bitey, Deadpool and Steve were there for class and ready to shape young minds with their hard earned wisdom.

"Okay, so things happened, stuff and blah blah blah. Class time now. No vampires here, thanks."

"Unless you happen to already be a vampire," Steve added quickly. "In which case you are, of course, welcome as long as you do not bite anyone. So! In light of this past week's events, and some confusion that I understand occurred over in that other universe, we thought it would be helpful to discuss ways to determine that your friends are who they say they are without hurting their feelings."

"Or having to kill them in a tragic fashion," Deadpool added. Because he was helpful like that. "There are many reasons why your friend may not be your friend anymore. Shapeshifting aliens, alternate timelines, evil goatees, possession, crazy mind control devices, really weird coincidences with people looking like twins..."

"You forgot actual evil twins," Steve provided helpfully. "Additionally, there are clones and people surgically altered to look like your friends. And I'm sure I'm still forgetting something. But the important thing is, when these things inevitably happen to you, how do you deal with them?"

Twins were easy to forget, okay?

"Like, having a special code word to let you know they're the right person!" Not that it helped, really. "Or having a telepath nearby to help out."

"You can also quiz--subtly your friend on something only they would know. But sometimes even these methods will fail you. Like your friend might have been replaced by a Skrull. In that case, you'll need to consider technology."

"Which they won't have." Really, Steve. Really. "But exists! So, how about we come up with a list of questions to subtly question each other in case of being replaced, kaaaay?"

"That sounds reasonable," Steve agreed. "You never know when it'll come in handy."

"Weeeeell. Get on it, kiddos!"

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Pair Up!

[mouthy-merc.livejournal.com]

Come up with helpful questions to know who the other person is in case of an emergency!

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[longislandiceme]

Bobby looked around for someone to partner up with. Hopefully someone who could come up with better questions than he was thinking of.

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[puppy_fair]

"Bobby!" Zack's little sib looked like he could use a partner, and so Zack was going to deliver. "Think we can handle this assignment?"

He had experience in this, now!

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[longislandiceme]

"I'm totally ready, man," Bobby said with a nod.

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[puppy_fair]

"Okay, so, what we have to do is just talk about things that only the other guy would know about right?" Zack tapped a finger against his chin, thinking. "Like inside jokes, and stuff like that."

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[longislandiceme]

"Embarrassing childhood incidents," Bobby supplied.

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[puppy_fair]

"That only really works if the other guy knows about them already," Zack noted. "Why, do you have any you wanna share?"

He was grinning a little. He was still tired, but he was Zack, and therefore he could never turn down an opportunity to poke a little fun around.

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[longislandiceme]

"Not especially!" Bobby yelped. Look, he had enough embarrassing incident stories without bringing his childhood into it.

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[puppy_fair]

And that actually managed to get a laugh out of Zack, yes.

"Well, there are other options, too. Stuff you'd never do that someone else might, stuff that you might do that nobody else would. That kinda thing."

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[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

Rose glanced around for a partner and unless Griff magically appeared in their class, she so wasn't going to go with the question he'd used.

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[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

"Want to work together?" Joan asked.

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[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"Sure thing," Rose said easily. "So, do you have an evil twin?"

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[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

"Not that I know of," Joan said. "Do you?"

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[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

Rose considered for a moment. "Evil? No. Crazy? Yeah, that might be more the style. Which means the questions should be pretty easy. 'You crazy?'"

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[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

Crazy was a bit of a touchy subject for Joan, all things considered.

"Crazy how? There are different kinds of crazy."

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[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"Hopefully not mass murdering crazy unless the bad guys really deserve it," Rose said. And not wanting to die or cut yourself crazy cause that was Lissa's gig. "So maybe general seeing things that aren't there crazy?"

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[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

Hannibal (and adorable fuzzy critter shaped girlfriend) thought about questions while waiting for a partner.

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[life_inshadow]

Tara had her notebook at hand, and she managed something approaching a smile for Hannibal. "Hi, do you have somebody to work with yet?"

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[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Nope," he said, giving her a matching smile and letting Angela skitter around on his desk for the time being. "That's my girlfriend."

It was kind of fun leading off conversations with revelations like that.

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[life_inshadow]

"Awww, she's adorable," Tara gushed. "W-who is she normally?"

... she was hoping the cute guy didn't date raccoons all the time. That would make this awkward.

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[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Angela Montenegro," he said and snickered. "She's usually in this class though she's usually human shaped. And I'm Hannibal King."

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[life_inshadow]

"T-tara Maclay," Tara supplied. "Angela's the girl with the really good smile, right?"

Angela was pretty, and definitely a better girlfriend than a fuzzy critter would be. Tara approved.

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[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Good to meet you, Tara," he said and nodded. "Yeah, she's the one with the smile. Her smile's not quite as good this way but I still like. And she's entertaining like this."

Angela nipped his finger for that. Hannibal had been getting used to that.

"I guess that might even be a good question," he said after a moment. "If you could turn into any animal, what would it be? If you're talking to a person's who turned into an animal, they'd know what to say."

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[oops-mbad.livejournal.com]

Diana tried to look friendly as she looked around for a partner.

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[finding-x-dream.livejournal.com]

Agnes looked around for a partner. Hopefully, if she were ever replaced with an evil double, the specific person she was about to partner up with would be around to ask the right questions off the list.

Or not.