fandomhigh | So You Say You Want a Revolution: Week 1, Period 3

Aly was enjoying being back in a classroom, perching on her desk and watching the students make their way into the class. She smiled at the students who had that shiny patina of being brand new to Fandom and nodded to Ino ~~if she was there~~ as a student she'd known before. Once everyone was close to seated, she stood up, leaning back against the desk.

"Good morning. I'm going to admit straight off that I might be a little rusty with this whole teaching thing. It's been a little while," she gave a little smirking smile that said you could take her seriously at your own risk. "I'm Alianne of Pirate's Swoop. You all can call me Aly, duani is acceptable if you're uncomfortable with just a nickname, but the first person who calls me Miss Aly gets me unhappy."

"This class is 'So You Say You Want a Revolution.' If you're not interested in revolutions, pretend because you already missed the class on Canada. During the term, we're going to talk about why formenting revolution can be a good thing. We're going to discuss what revolutions can be used for, how they can be put together, and why a failed revolution can be just as effective." She gazed at all of them with a slight smile. "And yeah, I hate theory so practicalities will be covered. Demolitions, weaponry, organisation, magic - or not, tactics." She grinned. "And my favourite, intelligence."

"Ten years ago, I helped organise a rebellion that put my Queen in power and have served as her Spymaster ever since - when I wasn't teaching here, of course. Almost everything I'm going to be teaching you is what I learned during the rebellion and in the years since. And if I didn't learn it there, it's something that was useful to me at the time." She paused for a moment before adding. "In spying, your brain is almost everything - half of spying is half mental which I've said many, many times before. A single person can't put together an effective revolution. But a single person can destroy one. And a destroyed rebellion feeds only the ravens and Stormwings. It's a dangerous game. And one you have to commit to fully if you're going to succeed."

"Today I'm going to be traditional - for once - and get to know all of you. I'd also like to hear what you think about revolutions and rebellions. When are they appropriate, what would it take to rebel against the current power structure of your home country, society, or even this school." She smiled mischievously. "I'm looking for a TA or two too so if you're interested, let me know."

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After class, Percy stuck around and wandered over to the teacher. He didn't know why since he didn't tend to mix well with teachers but he was fairly sure she wasn't going to attack him.

"I've never had a teacher that just taught a class on revolutions and rebellions," he said absently. "Usually it's part of some boring social studies unit."

She wasn't an idiot. She only attacked gods if she knew she was going to beat them.

Aly chuckled at his comment. "You're not wrong about it being boring," she admitted. "And a class about 'great rebellions in earth's history' would probably work at Fandom, but I'd put myself to sleep teaching it and few of you would learn anything worth learning other than how to not pay attention."

Not getting attacked made it a fairly decent day in Percy's book. It had happened before so he was always wary of it happening again.

"I can barely stay focused in interesting classes so boring ones would end up being nap time," he said honestly, shrugging. ADHD was good for some things, not good for others. "It's good that you have experience though. Probably makes it easier to teach the class."

And it made him more likely to pay attention if it wasn't straight reading from a textbook.

She eyed him, amused at his candor. "So, blowing up schools on accident? Sounds like you might have some experience too."

Percy scratched his cheek which was more a way to stall than anything else.

"Uh. I was just kidding. I haven't blown up anything," he lied, not really sounding all that convincing. Considering she was focusing on that, he figured he wouldn't believable. "I don't have any way to do that."

Aly raised an eyebrow at him. "You're going to need to learn how to lie better if you want them to be, you know, believed," she pointed out.

Lying was more Nico's thing than Percy's, anyway. It was the little things passed down from their daddies that really differentiated the two boys.

"Well." He shouldered his backpack a little more and shrugged. "It was only like...three schools and it wasn't my fault. Trying not to die."

That was still vague, right? Even people who weren't demigods got attacked.

"Usually the best option, not dying," Aly said easily. She smiled at the slight defensiveness. "Don't worry, I don't care what you've blown up and if it was your fault or not. I generally figure you should blow up things on purpose if you're going to, but that whole not dying thing trumps it."

"I don't plan on blowing anything here up," he shared with another shrug. He hadn't seen a need to yet, at least. Now, if Luke started going all...Kronos-y, things might change but he wasn't there yet.

"It's just..." He paused, brow furrowed. "...things tend to blow up around me and humans tend to see it and then I end up a fugitive or something. It's stupid how many times that's happened."

Which meant everything going boom wasn't his fault. Not totally, at least.

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