fandomhigh | Ethics [Tuesday, January 5, 2nd period]

Anakin walked into his classroom precisely on time and gave the students assembled there an appraising glance--lingering a moment on a few faces--as the door clicked shut behind him. If you were late, you weren't getting in. "I'm Master Anakin 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, if I don't recognize you already--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 sacrificing yourself wasn't a statement, but was merely pointless." His gaze swept the room. "How long does it take for you to realize you can't fix everything by yourself? Have you ever learned that lesson?"

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"Trust me when I say," Arthur continued, "That I would dearly wish that I was. Not that any of my hypothetical offspring were anything but the picture of health, but it's still a bit..."

How good was Leia at madlibs?

"...off."

[[ ask anyone i thread with on a regular basis. apparently my current record stands at 'i left to get coffee and came back to seven edits in my inbox' ]]

Ow. Ow ow ow. Somehow, time traveling relatives were easier to deal with than hypothetical ones.

"And then they just...go away?" she said.

"After the weekend," Arthur said, with a nod. "It's really quite disturbing. People cry." By which he meant the crying was disturbing.

"If I can handle my daughter from the future, I guess I can handle that as well," Leia said slowly. "They're just random possible children?"

Wait 'til she found out about random gender-switching.

"Exactly," Arthur said, smiling in what he hoped was a reassuring way (it was. Somewhat. He wasn't that inept at the art of the reassuring smile) and added, "I had one with a complete stranger."

Who became a friend later, but--

Oh. No, let's stay with the happy denial part where that was just impossible. Much safer in that end of the pool.

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