Ethics [Thursday, November 19, 1st period]

[sith_happened]

Today Anakin's desk was covered with droid babies in bassinets.

Each baby had a tiny stuffed Ewok tucked next to it. Shh.

"Today we talk about lust," Anakin said. "Or rather, the unintended consequences that can happen when you take action without precautions."

He smiled. "Meet your little projects for the next two weeks. They're heavy, they cry, and they will record everything you do with them. So if you stuff them into a closet for the duration, believe me, I'll know."

After all, he'd built all of them.

He reached for a list of paper. "Some of you I've paired together, some of you are single parents." His smile turned a little evil. "Some of your babies are a little fussier than others."

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Re: Pair #8: Maron Kusakabe & Princess Azula

[azuldragon.livejournal.com]

"It is not half my responsibility," Azula replied with a tinge of disgust and a layer of disturbed in her tone. "It is... tiny and ugly. If I were to have children they would not be ugly."

Yeah, they'll be creepy instead.

"Therefore it is your child. Also, we are two girls, how can we even have children."

Re: Pair #8: Maron Kusakabe & Princess Azula

[gods-gymnast.livejournal.com]

"We adopted!" Maron answered, driven to cheer by relief more than anything. "And no, it wouldn't be proper of me to take care of it all by myself--I'd be being irresponsible if I let you get away with that."

The ugly comment, though, Maron agreed with. So she ignored it.

Re: Pair #8: Maron Kusakabe & Princess Azula

[azuldragon.livejournal.com]

"Why do we even have this assignment?" Azula said, voice dangerously close to a whine. "I don't even plan to have children!"

Azula stared at the thing and was tempted, very tempted to not do the assignment but this was Ethics class and this was the one class her brother monitored with a too intense eye and also, more, Azula hated failing at anything.

"How do we even take care of this nightmare."

If it were up to Azula the kid would be called 'Thing' or 'Nightmare' for the duration of its infancy.

Re: Pair #8: Maron Kusakabe & Princess Azula

[gods-gymnast.livejournal.com]

That wasn't acceptable at all omigod, no. Maron would die if Azula named it either of those.

"It's not hard," she said, cradling the baby carefully in her arms. "When he cries, there's something that's bothering him--he's probably hungry, or needs to be changed, or wants attention."

She glanced sideways at Azula, though. "And, besides, if this is a two week assignment, you might even fail the class if you don't do it--wouldn't that be awful on your records?"

Re: Pair #8: Maron Kusakabe & Princess Azula

[azuldragon.livejournal.com]

"Change, what do you mean by 'change'?" That sounded ominous.

Azula froze, fail? Azula fail? No way in seven hells. Azula never failed. There were setbacks but no failures. "I. Don't. Fail."

Re: Pair #8: Maron Kusakabe & Princess Azula

[gods-gymnast.livejournal.com]

"I never said you did," she said reasonably, "but you might if you didn't do the assignment."

Maron reviewed her words at the question. "Maybe not change," she conceded, "though who knows if they'll cry and you have to switch their clothing about anyway?"

Re: Pair #8: Maron Kusakabe & Princess Azula

[azuldragon.livejournal.com]

"Switch their clothing? We have to change their clothing? Their dirty clothing?" Order Azula to mount a campaign to conquer the North Pole and she'll do it without question, have her look at wounds and she won't flinch, tell her that she has to change someone else's dirty clothing? "How is this even ethics?"

Oh, her brother would pay for subjecting her to this class!

Re: Pair #8: Maron Kusakabe & Princess Azula

[gods-gymnast.livejournal.com]

"I don't know how it's ethics," she admitted. "But yes, we'd have to change their dirty clothing--it's not like the baby is old enough to do it themselves."

Re: Pair #8: Maron Kusakabe & Princess Azula

[azuldragon.livejournal.com]

"It's what servants are for!" She argued. "How long are we going to keep this monstrosity?"

Re: Pair #8: Maron Kusakabe & Princess Azula

[gods-gymnast.livejournal.com]

"Most people don't have servants," she pointed out. "So this is teaching responsibility on a level that most of the class might understand. And we're supposed to keep him for two weeks."

Re: Pair #8: Maron Kusakabe & Princess Azula

[azuldragon.livejournal.com]

"Two weeks? You mean for fourteen days?"

Someone was starting to sound hysterical. Azula tried to keep it off her voice because it might just get her sent back into an asylum. Not that she'd know what it took to be sent into one.

Re: Pair #8: Maron Kusakabe & Princess Azula

[gods-gymnast.livejournal.com]

"Fourteen days," Maron repeated, frowning slightly at Azula. "Are you alright?"

Re: Pair #8: Maron Kusakabe & Princess Azula

[azuldragon.livejournal.com]

"Of course," she answered quickly. "We should work out a schedule then, Kusakabe."