http://nojackassfile.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] nojackassfile.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2011-02-08 11:47 am
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Paranormal Activity, February 8th

The fact that his TV kept playing chick flicks instead of the damn weather channel left Alaric pretty irritated. He so hated romantic comedies. He asked the kids to meet him down at the Danger Shop, which had been transformed into a shooting range.



"Right, so, I think fate or whatever the hell is running this island is telling me I should stick with the Valentine's theme for class today," Alaric said, rubbing his forehead. "So we're going over Cupid."

"Cupid is generally known as the son of Venus and Mars, the goddess and god of love and war, respectively. His Greek name is Eros," Alaric explained. "The most popular mythological story involving Cupid is the one where his mother asked him to put one of his famous love arrows--not what it sounds like--into this girl Psyche in order to make her fall in love with the vilest thing in the world. The plan backfires when Cupid scratches himself with one of his own arrows and makes himself fall in love with Psyche instead. He stalked her for a bit until Jupiter made the girl immortal so she and Cupid could be together forever, which I am sure pissed his mother off."

"Nowadays Cupid is generally found on Valentine's Day cards and is used in lazy writing in popular culture to make people fall in love and then later they can have an excuse to emo once the spell wears off." He really, really hated these romantic movies he was being assaulted with. "Seriously, lazy writing. I have never had experience with Cupid, but if he really exists, I suggest you stay away from his arrows."

"Today for an activity we're gonna play with bows and arrows because that's fun, and I really don't feel like having romance shoved in my face anymore than it already is today," he said. "So go ahead, grab a bow and arrow and hit the target. For those of you who are afraid of using actual arrows, I've provided some of those suction cup ones for you. Have fun. Don't kill your fellow classmates."

Re: Shoot bows and arrows

[identity profile] brat-intraining.livejournal.com 2011-02-08 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Kennedy wasn't sure if Cupid existed as such in her world-- although she wouldn't put it past the universe if some chubby diapered little demon went around hitting people with love spells. She just knew that in principle, love spells were a bad idea. Although sometimes hilarious. As at least half a dozen canon episodes demonstrated.

But whatever; she didn't really care about dwelling on that, because she got to shoot things today. So yeah, she took her sweet-ass time going through the equipment for a bow and some arrows (real ones, thanks) to her liking, then went off to put as many arrows into the target as she could. Which was most of them; she was good, but not as good as she was with her crossbow.