fandomhigh | Heroes v Villains | Period 1 | Wednesday

Loki was waiting for the students to file into the classroom, feet up on the desk and magazine opened on his lap. When they got there, they got there and he'd start class whenever he damn well pleased. They could wait and sit and stare at him for a bit. Eventually, he did get up and smiled at the familiar and unfamiliar places.

"Well, it looks like we're all here. Good. Welcome to Heroes v Villains. I'm Loki and I have a lot of fucking experience with both heroes and villains and all iterations you can think of. No, I'm not going to give you my fucking resume. You'll just have to trust me. I'm probably older than every single one of you and I've seen more in my lifetime than any of you have. It's just a thing. The purpose of this class, in case you hadn't guessed, isn't to talk about fairy fucking tales or movies or shit like that. If you think you know what a hero is, I'm here to fucking tell you you're wrong. If you think you know what a villain is, I'm here to tell you, once again, you're wrong. It's never that fucking clear cut. You never know all the facts and these fucking labels are often given willy fucking nilly without any thought to them."

He stopped for a minute and glanced out at the class, trying to predict who he thought would actually be able to think outside the box and who would have a more difficult time. "Oftentimes, these labels are given to people because of one fucking thing they do. One fucking thing. Someone might run into a fire, save a kid but then they go home and beat the shit out of their wife. A dictator, someone who took power by force, might send his military into a war they can't fucking win, killing thousands, but the fact that he's both made economic and social strides in his homeland is overlooked. It's never fucking clear cut and no one seems to think it needs to be. Time to flip that on its head."

He paused and hopped up on his desk, smile wide and dangerous. He knew way too much about this subject. Way too much. "So, we'll start easy today before getting into the class. Introductions, of course. I want to know who the hell I'm talking to. So, name, age and your definition of both a hero and a villain. If you give me a dictionary definition, I'm gonna call you on it. I want to hear what you think a hero is and what you think a villain is. It'll give me a nice outline of what I need to talk about and who believes what. So, come on, go."

He went to point someone out to start them off before saying, "Oh, and I'll be choosing one of you to be my TA during this. Just whoever I want. Being a teacher is fucking fun that way. Now, go."

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On the list of other things that Jono was too tired to care about? What people thought of him when it was his turn to introduce himself. Let them gawk at the naffin' telepath, today. He'd give them dirty looks right on back.

//Jonothon Starsmore, eighteen years old. And I've never really stopped to separate the heroes from the villains, honestly. There are people who do good things, and people who do bad things, and sometimes they do one or the other for all of the right or wrong reasons. People choose their heroes based on who looks good, it doesn't matter who th'hell is actually out there doing good. And now and again, they'll even get it right when they point a finger and call somebody else th'bad guy.//

Was somebody a little irritated after being attacked by Batman? Yes, yes he was. But his answer would have been the same if he'd been irritated by pretty much anything else, too.

"So, you're another guy that thinks society makes the heroes and villains and not those actually performing the tasks?" Loki asked, peering at Jono.

Jono peered back for a moment, and then, after a moment more, he shrugged the one shoulder that didn't hurt as though a demon had raked its claws down his front.

//Maybe. Yes? No.// Sigh. //There are real heroes out there, I have no doubt about that. Just like there are real villains, big nasty blokes who go bump in th'night and who want to make all th'universe bow down before them, or worse. But the real heroes out there are all too often unsung. People who just want to make things a little better for th'people around them, but they're different and so they're feared, or else they work in more subtle ways and nobody ever knows them for what they are at all. Who society sees as heroes are all too often the people who are easiest to notice when they do things that are bigger and bolder than most could ever imagine. And I've seen too many villains who would have been heroes if only somebody had blinked when there were real, difficult decisions to be made.//

He was rambling.

He hadn't slept last night and it was a wonder he hadn't crawled into the room. He was allowed to ramble.

Loki took all that in before giving Jono a slow nod. It'd been one of the more thought out, philosophical points of view of the day. He liked people who seemed to think a little differently than others.

"How do you feel about being a TA?" he asked, changing the subject a bit. "Want the job?"

Oh, there was an about-face in there, and it had Jono blinking up at Loki in confusion for a moment before what had just been said managed to register in his head. And then he shrugged again. Carefully.

//Why th'hell not? I'm always up for a challenge, mate.//

Could Loki tell?

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"You're hired," Loki said, giving Jono a grin. "I promise I won't make you do anything ridiculous."

Maybe.

//Ridiculous, or too ridiculous?//

There was a fine, fine line. Jono had to make certain he had his priorities straight, that was all.

"Yes," Loki said, deciding to be annoyingly obtuse about things. "Yes, that."

Jono was used to annoyingly obtuse. Jono knew Jubilee.

And so he rolled his eyes toward the ceiling, gave his head a shake, and shrugged it off.

//I'll brace myself, then,// he decided. //There are worse fates than ridiculous, after all.//

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