Horror 101, Monday

[chosehumanity]

"Today is the day of your final," Mitchell intoned, then clapped his hands, grinning. "We'll be starting off with a few written questions. But after that, I've got something else for you."

He dumped a stack of papers on his desk. It, and several other flat surfaces in the area - including some of the students' desks - had acquired a cup of tea.

"We've talked about a great many fears over the past few weeks," he continued, "But the main one, the most quintessentially human one is the fear of death. The fear of being gone from this Earth, from what we are, the whole lot. Most of our fears come down to that: death."

"So to finish up your final," he continued, sitting down, "I've invited a friend in to talk about it. While you're writing, I want you all to come up with one question you'd like to ask about death, and she will answer it." He peered into the room, searching for Chloe if she was there and smiled slightly. "Don't worry, she doesn't bite."

He tapped his pen on the desk. "Now, get started! You've got thirty minutes."

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[chosehumanity]

Like you're scared of dying.

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[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Effy Stonem

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[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

Alex Karev

Listen to the Lecture

[chosehumanity]

It's your last chance.

Re: Listen to the Lecture

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

On the plus side of things, the chocolate had easily washed out of Alex's hair and off his skin with a long shower. On the minus side, he was sporting some dark bruising around his eye and a cut on his cheek.

Fighting during a fire drill and showing up to his first final looking battered hadn't been the plan but at least he was there and half listening to what the professor was saying.

Re: Listen to the Lecture

[bitten_notshy]

Jack raised an eyebrow at Alex when he noticed the bruising, and dashed off a quick note, then slid it toward Alex's seat. It was probably a risk to pass notes on an exam day, but ignoring it would just feel odd.

Does the other guy look worse?

Re: Listen to the Lecture

[awakestheghosts]

Chloe was a bit worried about the part of the final where someone was going to talk about death and being dead. However, she caught Mitchell's smile and knew that she would be okay and that this wouldn't be someone trying to hurt her.

Re: Listen to the Lecture

[vanillajello]

Kate was tiiired. Fire drills were not her friend. So she looked a little groggy as she listened to Mitchell.

Adding up 'death', 'she', and the cups of tea made her smile to herself, though.

The Test

[chosehumanity]

Featuring three very important questions.

The Test - Question One

[chosehumanity]

Which monster do you identify with most? What does it stand for? Which part of their myth seems most plausible to you, or even most fitting?

Re: The Test - Question One

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

Alex took some time with this one before deciding he identified most with a werewolf. He didn't particularly like the comparison but with the way his temper was, it worked. So, he wrote a semi detailed answer about wearing two faces, being mild mannered (for the most part) most of the time and then having some trigger flip his switch and sending him into angry outbursts that small percent of other times.

The myth part threw him a bit since he really didn't think it sounded plausible to be triggered by the moon but he could see even a monster, even a werewolf still holding onto some of his old feelings and recognizing someone he or she might have loved or cared about even at their most violent.

Re: The Test - Question One

[awakestheghosts]

Chloe was having a really hard time figuring out the right way to answer this question as there were difference in her mind between monsters and myths now and she needed to reconcile them.

Finally, she decided to just start writing and let what came into her mind come out in the test.

The monster that part of me identifies with the most is not what people called the monster in Frankenstein. I'm afraid that I identify with the Dr the most and that scares the hell out of me that I might one day become that twisted that I don't care how I use my power or what it does to people. To most people anything that happened in the story wouldn't seem plausible or possible, but I know better. I've seen it happen firsthand. Monsters are real, but they're not always the ones we call monsters.

Re: The Test - Question One

[icecoldfrost]

Emma was tempted by a flippant answer, but decided to go with honesty instead. Heavily edited honesty, spun to her own advantage, but honesty all the same.

There are days I feel like Frankenstein's Monster, she wrote. Cast aside by my father and beset on all sides by the pitchfork wielding mob for being different. There's nowhere 'safe' for people like me, and never will be, if you listen to people supposedly from my future. Even the North Pole isn't remote enough to allow us to live in peace. And why should we have to hide? After all, are we not in the likeness of man, our forefathers? We were -- are -- children reaching for our parents, who would rather destroy us than acknowledge their own offspring.

The Test - Question Two

[chosehumanity]

What phobia would you say you have? Does it limit you? Would you and have you watched a film about it, and what did it do to you?

or

Answer the same for a phobia that interests you most, if you won't talk about yourself.

The Test - Question Three

[chosehumanity]

What film or book or story do you find defining for horror, for fear? What do you think that says about you, or about the world?

The Final Exam

[chosehumanity]

One question you'd ask about death. Ask it!

[[ please wait for our guest to ping in! ]]

Re: The Final Exam

[whowantstea.livejournal.com]

Annie figured she could do the freaky suddenly-appearing-in-the-room thing, or she could bring tea, but not both. Crockery didn't take very well to flitting about like that.

Thus, after Mitchell's introduction, a young woman in a grey cardigan, not so much older than the students she was facing, walked into the classroom and set a tray of assorted mugs and teacups down on a desk near the front.

Big smile now, for a bunch of American kids who couldn't eat her alive because she wasn't, remember? Right. "Hi, my name's Annie, and I'm dead!" She shot a nervous glance at Mitchell. "Sorry, that sounded less like an AA meeting in my head. Not that we couldn't do with a support group of some sort, actually, but it's not as if you can quit, or avoid it, unless you're a v-- right. Er. Actually can I start that again? Hi, my name's Annie, and everybody dies. Some of us stick around after to answer questions about it."

Pause.

"And make tea. Feel free to grab a mug!"

Talk to the TAs

[chosehumanity]

When they ping in. This was here all along.

Re: Talk to the TAs

[awakestheghosts]

Chloe was here and a little nervous about the final.

Re: Talk to the TAs

[stylin-wizard.livejournal.com]

Alex was here, also a tiny bit nervous about the final and sad that this was their last class.

Talk to the Teacher

[chosehumanity]

He's here one last time! ... Until summer semester starts!

Re: Talk to the Teacher

[bitten_notshy]

"Can you still use me as an assistant for the first bit of summer?"

Apparently, Jack had decided hello was for other people today. Or the exam had rattled him a bit. Or both.

Re: Talk to the Teacher

[vanillajello]

"God, I thought this term was just never going to end."

She'd felt the same way about writing her handwavy as the mun needs the brainpower for RL homework answers for the test, actually.

OOC

[chosehumanity]

I don't want it to be the end of term yet!

And now I've got Howl stuck in my head. Dammit, Mitchell.

Also, much love to thatsamilkshake for playing our mystery guest!

Re: OOC

[whowantstea.livejournal.com]

Who is finally present! Except not corporeally.