fandomhigh | Ethics [Thursday, September 3, 1st period]

Anakin walked into his classroom precisely on time and gave the students assembled there an appraising glance as the door clicked shut behind him. If you were late, you weren't getting in. "I'm Master Skywalker," he said in a voice that was intended to carry, "this is Ethics, and we're going to skip the introductions--I'll figure out who you are--and move straight to our first discussion."

He paced around the room, cloak flaring out behind him, as he handed out the syllabus. "Today's topic," he said, pointing to the top of the page. "Self sacrifice: knowing the difference between saving people and being a pretentious twit."

"Any time I ask a a group of people what they would do to save someone they love, they all blither on about how they would set the world on fire, lie, cheat, steal, kill, die, et cetera, et cetera. I've been at this school too long to believe that half of you haven't already been put into this situation and I'm in no mood to hear adolescent ramblings about how wonderful you were or might hypothetically be. Instead I want you to give me a concrete example of a time you admitted to yourself that a problem cannot be solved, and that to sacrificing yourself wasn't a statement, but merely pointless?" His gaze swept the room. "How long does it take for you to realize you can't fix everything by yourself?"

He would hear the replies and choose his TAs from there.

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Bet he's a lot of fun at parties, huh?

"Give me a concrete example of a time you admitted to yourself that a problem cannot be solved, and that to sacrifice yourself wasn't a statement, but merely pointless? How long does it take for you to realize you can't fix everything by yourself?"

He's super friendly. Really.

Don't be afraid to make the threads messy--the class only works if people discuss things!

Hayley Fitzpatrick

Hayley thought for a second. She wasn't her usual, smiling, cheerful self when she spoke "When they drowned Bianca," she said. "I mean, I was already practically arrested at the time, so all I coulda done was dive in after her, but it wouldn't have done no good."

Maron Kusakabe

Bobby Drake

Leonard McCoy

Raven

This was the class Raven had been looking forward to the most. She paid close attention ~~like a good fangirl~~.

She might have still had a wee bit of a headache (and wounded pride) from Tahiri knocking her on her ass last night with her telekinesis.

Edited 2009-09-03 13:01 (UTC)

"What if you are the problem?" Maron asked quietly, after thinking about it for a while. "If you can't fix it because just by existing you're the problem. There's nothing you can do but go on with your life."

Maron had been interested in the class but as he went on she started feeling distinctly uncomfortable with the subject for today.

Fussing with her pen, she forced herself to pay attention.

"...It probably doesn't count if people were actively trying to sacrifice you in the first place, right?" Bobby asked.

Bobby listened to the lecture and frowned a bit. Because he'd totally done that whole "I'll gladly sacrifice myself if it means defeating you!" thing more than once. Obviously, it hadn't been necessary. But, you know, the intent had been there!

Karla

Karla had a lot on her mind, but that didn't stop her from paying very close attention to what Professor Skywalker had to say. And taking diligent notes. Between him and Lady Ghanima, Karla knew better than to mess around.

"I do not think I have encountered a situation like this yet," Raven said quietly. "I can imagine such a thing might happen, but I have yet to confront sacrificing myself or not."

Losing control of herself in the other Fandom wasn't quite the same. That was a mistake, but not a conscious sacrifice.

Francine Peters

Rose Hathaway

Rose wasn't sure if she was finding it funny or not that Kirova apparently thought she needed an Ethics class, but she was pretty sure if she decided it was funny, that wouldn't be something she was showing in Professor Skywalker's class.

"When I left home for here," Karla answered softly. "And I'm still working on that lesson. It isn't easy, being a Queen and leaving your people behind."

That whole week at St Vlad's counted, but Rose wasn't about to tell the whole class Lissa's issues.

"My best friend was kidnapped," she said. "And I wanted to go after her, but I got my mentor and the other guardians first." After a slight make out intermission, but that so didn't need to be talked about even if some embarrassment colored her voice just then. "They're better than I am, and they knew more about how to get her out while keeping her safe."

Which possibly meant it wasn't so much herself that Rose was worried about sacrificing, but Lissa.

Professor Skywalker kind of made Francine want to hide under her desk and/or apologize profusely even though she hadn't done anything wrong that she knew of. Today. He was that kind of scary.

Taking of extensive notes? Check.

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