fandomhigh | Love & Romance, Hollywood Style [Period 4, Class 1]

Drake walked into class with his own personal soundtrack, bopping his head to the music. "What is love?" he said, addressing the class when the music ended. "That's a good question. Love is a many splendored thing¹. Love bites, love bleeds, it's bringin' me to my knees². Love stinks³. In the dead of night, love bites⁴. Love is like oxygen: you get too much, you get too high, not enough and you're gonna die⁵. Love is friendship set on fire⁶. Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness⁷. Love is hard to get, impossible to hold, straight and narrow, like a burning fuse⁸. Love hurts, love scars, love wounds and mars any heart⁹. Love is like war: easy to begin but hard to end⁶. Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away¹⁰. Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired¹¹. Love is a state of grace, transcending time and space¹². Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile¹³. Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear¹⁴. Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend¹⁵. Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own¹⁶. Light of the world, shine on me, love is the answer¹⁷. Love is like a snowmobile flying over the frozen tundra that suddenly flips, pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come¹⁸."

Drake settled on the edge of his desk. "Love comes in all shapes and sizes, and in this class, we're going to look at some types of love that Hollywood is awfully fond of. There's obsessive love, tragic love, vengeful love, unrequited love, courtly love, destructive love, tough love, the love that dare not speak its name, and happily ever after love, just for example."

He looked around the class. "Some of you I recognize, but for those of you who are new, I'm Drake Dèmon, Fandom High's Demon-in-Residence. You can call me Drake, or Oh Captain My Captain, or even Hey You. Now tell me your names, class, and reason you're taking this class. And whether you are in love or have been in love. And, since I'm still working on the syllabus, let me know if there's a particular flavor of love you want to see covered."

¹ Frank Sinatra. ² Def Leppard. ³ J. Geils Band. ⁴ Judas Priest. ⁵ Sweet. ⁶ Anonymous. ⁷ Oliver Wendell Holmes. ⁸ Alannah Myles. ⁹ Nazareth. ¹⁰ Dorothy Parker. ¹¹ Mark Twain. ¹² Britney Spears (shut up). ¹³ Franklin P. Jones. ¹⁴ John Lennon. ¹⁵ Martin Luther King, Jr. ¹⁶ Robert Heinlein. ¹⁷ England Dan and John Ford Coley. ¹⁸ Matt Groening

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Talk, pass notes, take a nap.

"Now tell me your names, class, and reason you're taking this class. And whether you are in love or been in love. And, since I'm still working on the syllabus, let me know if there's a particular flavor of love you want to see covered."

I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else.

Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.

Kennedy

Kate Gregson

You know, there was the part where Kennedy could have devoted some thought to answering the question Drake had posed, or the question of why the hell was she in this class, except there was the whole part where holy freaking crap he did say demon, right?

Oh, the bitchface was on, and Constance was so getting called later today.

Edited 2010-01-06 13:56 (UTC)

Jean Grey

Kate was starting to have second thoughts about taking this class. Her mind had been a lot clearer about love when she'd signed up. Ugh.

She was just going to have to pull through with a(n un)healthy amount of cynicism. And at least Weird Teacher Guy still seemed entertaining.

"Kate Gregson, junior, here to watch Weird Teacher Guy in action." She smirked a little at Drake. Sure, she'd originally picked this class also for the possibility of mocking concepts of romance, but... She wouldn't have mentioned that to him, anyway.

"And I've never been in love. Thought I was, but no."

Chloe Saunders

Emma Frost

This? This was not a class Emma had put on her schedule-choices at all, and so she was going to slouch down in her chair and sulk.

Okay... she wasn't sure how she ended up in this class because she knew a lot less about love than she knew about being on the run and in hiding -- and really, that said something.

She ducked her head over her desk and started taking notes. At least she liked the teacher, so maybe this class wouldn't be a complete embarrassment for her.

"Emma Frost, junior, here because someone in the office obviously can't read paperwork properly," she complained. "No offense, Professor Dèmon. I simply don't believe in love."

"Happens to us all," Drake said easily. "We get confused or blinded and sometimes it takes awhile for the mind and the heart to agree."

"Why not?" Drake said. "It's the greatest thing ever!"

"It's not real," Emma replied crisply. "It's just a pretty name that people use for lust or infatuation."

Dinah Lance

Dinah's shields were way up. And she was slumping way down in her seat, matching her mood. I haaaate my life.

"Dinah Lance, senior, paperwork error." Before last semester, Dinah might have signed up for fun; during last semester, too. Now? Noooot so much. Although the teacher seemed entertainingly insane.

"Um. No, haven't been in love. Crushes. And I've gotten really close, maybe." Whatever-it-had-been with Jak wasn't going to progress any further than severe-like-friendly-love-and-trust now. Wait. "Okay, I was in love once while under a love potion," thanks, Karla. Heh. "But I don't know how accurate that was. It felt great, but I acted crazy-stupid. I'd like to see... oh, I guess courtly love." She put her chin down on her crossed arms. "Something that makes someone a better person. Not an idiot."

Didi

"If you don't believe in it, it might never be real for you," Drake pointed out. "But it's plenty real for other people. What about love of family, or love of a friend? Non-romantic love, do you believe in that?"

Joan Girardi

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