Sex And Candy, Wednesday, Second Period

[steel-not-glass.livejournal.com]

"So, one of the problems of fairy tales is that they are sometimes contradictory in the messages they try to teach," Cindy said, as students filed into the Danger Shop, set up to look like a vast forest with a single path winding through the middle. "Some of them try to tell you that so long as you follow the rules and work hard, everything will be okay. Others make a point of life's unfairness, where people even decent people get the short end of the stick and children die for getting dirty. While most of them stress how important it is to be kind to those you meet, no matter how lowly or common they appear to be, some show how easily kindness can be repaid by cruelty. Sure, most of those usually end with the bad guys getting their comeuppance, but most of those endings seem tacked on at the last minute. It's the suffering that gets most of the attention."

Of course, part of that could be blamed on sheer human nature and what people found most interesting to hear about, but that was a lecture for a different day.

"So, today, we're going to experiment with the arbitrary nature of fairy tales," Cindy continued, and please ignore that little grin she can't quite get rid of. "Your job is to deliver this basket--" and with the click of a button, there were a stack of picnic baskets by her feet "--through the woods to Grandmother's house. Stay on the path and don't forget--" She clicked another button and stopped biting back the grin. "--Your little red hood."

[Many thanks to furnaceface for helping me iron out the OCD!]

Comments

Listen to the Lecture

[steel-not-glass.livejournal.com]

Eye the hoods dubiously...wonder if there's anything good in the basket...

Re: Listen to the Lecture

[trigons_child]

Raven didn't like the cruel stories naturally, especially when it was kindness repaid that way. The hood, on the other hand, didn't bother her, since she usually wore a cloak of a different color.

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[awakestheghosts]

Chloe wasn't thrilled about the hoods and this was one of those stories she had never liked.

She liked it even less now.

Re: Listen to the Lecture

[onlymistaken]

Cally actually thought the hood was rather attractive; not, perhaps, weather-appropriate for wearing outside the Danger Shop, but still pretty.

Re: Listen to the Lecture

[notmyownage]

Soooooooo essentially the lecture meant they had no idea what to expect while doing this assignment?

Or maybe they weren't supposed to get the hoods dirty.

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[whateverknight.livejournal.com]

The cloak looked silly on Squall, especially overtop of a leather jacket, but he made it work by very clearly not caring.

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[godofxbox]

Alex eyed the red hood warily, then decided that at least it wouldn't show blood.

He was practical that way.