fandomhigh | Love & Romance, Hollywood Style [Period 4, Class 5]

Drake was playing some somewhat creepy music when the students arrived for class. "Today we're going to take a trip to the dark side," he said. "No, don't go running for the nearest witch with a vanquish potion, I'm talking about obsessive love. I've got two examples for you today."

A snap of his fingers, and the projector started rolling. "In ~~meta for~~ Sleeping with the Enemy," Drake began, "Laura is married to an abusive, controlling, possessive husband. So she fakes her own death and runs away to start a new life. Of course, psycho hubby hunts her down. He beats up her new boyfriend and tells Laura that he loves her, he can't live without her, and he won't let her live without him. But Laura's built up a spine in the meantime, and she grabs a gun and blows the psycho away.

"Now, in Fatal Attraction," Drake continued, "the sexes get reversed. Dan cheats on his wife with Alex while his wife and daughter are out of town. When wifey comes back, Dan cuts things off. But Alex doesn't want to let go. She makes a suicide attempt and then starts stalking Dan and spying on his family. She even boils the pet bunny. Eventually she decides to kill Beth, Dan's wife, seeing her as the obstacle between her and Dan's love. Dan attempts to drown her and then Beth blows her away."

Drake stopped the clips and turned his attention back to the class. "Alex claimed to love Dan, and Laura's husband said he loved her. Was that really love? What would you do if you were caught up in those circumstances? And why do teenage girls sometimes think ~~sparkly~~ controlling, suffocating ~~engine-stealing~~ boys are so dreamy?"

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"Alex claimed to love Dan, and Laura's husband said he loved her. Was that really love? What would you do if you were caught up in those circumstances? And why do teenage girls sometimes think ~~sparkly~~ controlling, suffocating ~~engine-stealing~~ boys are so dreamy?"

"I'm not going to be ignored!"

"I can't live without them. And I won't let them live without me."

No bunnies were harmed in the making of this post.

Also, orange and yellow are not valentine's colors.

Dinah Lance

"That's crazy possessiveness, not love," Dinah said, "And hey!" She folded her arms, disgruntled. "Maybe because they have no experience, and those guys are intense. But still. Hey."

Kennedy

Kennedy's comment was possibly entirely predictable. "Why do girls think boys are all that at all, anyway? Never got that."

Not the point, young Potential. Not. The. Point.

"That's an entirely different class, my young apprentice," Drake said. "Sex ed was last semester."

Drake nodded. "No experience seems about right," he said. "I mean, some people are totally into the possessive thing, but most teenagers hardly know better. And Uncle Drake will come beat anybody who treats his kids like that with a hardcover volume of the sonnets of Shakespeare."

Kennedy was mostly resigned to TAing this class by now, which didn't stop her from constantly shooting wary glances Drake's way. She had her feet hooked in the rungs of her chair and a half-curious, half-skeptical look on her face.

And kept sneaking quick games of Doodle Jump on her iPhone.

Emma Frost

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Joan Girardi

Joan was still kind of exhausted after the last few days but she managed to keep her eyes open.

"Why do you think girls are?" Joan asked.

She figured it was a fair question and her exhaustion meant her filters weren't up.

"It's not about love," Joan said. "It's about control. And those guys are really good at breaking down any sense of self esteem a woman has so she thinks that she doesn't deserve to be treated any better."

Someone had listened to her father's rants about domestic abuse one too many times.

Paige happened to wander past the classroom just in time to hear Drake's lecture. She had been on her way out of the building, but she decided to stick around.

After class, she went back to the classroom to talk to him. "You coulda used your buddy Cole as an example for this class."

Warren Worthington III

Emmett's eww-face was... expressive. "A little controlling is fun. I mean who doesn't want to be thrown up against the wall and f--" Right, class. "--ondled now and then? But the bunny-boiling and dirty towels thing is right past hot and into restraining order."

"I think the 'hot' factor is pretty much dependant on who the one doing the 'fondling' is, too," Warren offered. "It's one thing to be attracted to someone. It's another thing entirely to actually consent to a relationship, which is a point that the characters in these movies seem to be missing entirely."

Chloe Saunders

"Well, it was her husband in the one movie," Emmett pointed out. "But I'm with you. I may not say it very often--" Ahem. Hi, hot blond dude. "--But I sure as hell know what no means."

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Hey. Hey, so not apprenticed to a demon, thanks, and even as a joke it freaked her a bit; Kennedy's eyebrow twitched.

By way of covering it up she spread her hands and held them up. "Hey. Know all I wanna know about that part, don't need the refresher course." Ew. "Just saying, I never saw the big deal."

The girl had been out for eleven years, which was honestly insane; you'd think she'd be over making gratuitous statements like this by now. Oh, no, wait. She was sixteen and obnoxious, so... not really, no.

Edited 2010-02-03 16:20 (UTC)

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