fandomhigh | The Fifteen Labors of Fandom, Session 1, Period 1

At bright and early 9 am, the class gathered in one of the normal classrooms. Once everyone had taken a seat, they'd notice that set across the teacher's desk was a series of items: a sheathed sword, a shield with cloth wrapped around the center, a Greek helm, and a quiver of arrows.

Behind those objects, standing behind the desk, was Hercules. All six feet and five inches of him, dressed in sandals, a sash, and a skirt-like thing. So there was a lot of bare skin on the heavily muscled, bearded teacher. But he totally rocked that outfit like no other. When the bell struck nine, Hercules grinned and began to speak.

"Hello to all of you," he said. "I see some familiar faces in the crowd, and those please me. It also pleases me to see some new faces, as well! For those who do not know, I am Hercules, son of Zeus, Lion of Olympus and former Prince of Power. I did not become a matter of myth and legend through just a matter of birth. While being the son of a god did help a bit, it was only through hard work and overcoming great odds that I was able to forge my own legacy. This class is to give you a taste of those sorts of odds, to give you a chance to think, to battle, to toil, to triumph. If you are familiar with my twelve labors, you might want to study up. If you are familiar with the reality show I did not too long ago, that may help you as well."

He laughed and gave the class a thumbs-up.

"Today is the easiest of the labors you will undertake. You are all aware of the usual tradition of the first day of class, the introduction. Well it would not be a task worthy of a labor to simply introduce yourself. So no, you must instead pair up and introduce someone else in the class. You'll be given ten minutes to pair up and give your partner basic information about yourself. But to make it even trickier, while you are allowed to talk with you partner during the ten minutes, you are not allowed to speak when you actually introduce your partner to the class. And here is what I want you to relay to the class in that nonverbal introduction. Your partner's name, grade, and what they had for breakfast this morning. On a side note, you will always want to have a healthy breakfast before this class. Slaying the hydra on an empty stomach might be quite hard!"

He chuckled. "Oh, and if I hear anyone talking before it is time to do the actual verbal introductions, I shall throw a jumbo marshmallow at your head."

Hercules produced a bag of said marshmallows from the desk and put them in front of him. Next to a small rack of dry-erase markers for the board behind him, in case anyone wanted the easy way out. He clapped his hands together. "Your ten minutes begin now!"

[ooc: Class is in session!]

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Vewwy Quietly.

Yes, your teacher looks like he walked out of a Steve Reeves movie.

Find someone to chat with that you can then introduce to the class.

Non-verbally! Unless you want marshmallows thrown at your head.

Hercules would be happy to chat with you.

Let us see how well this can work in a text based setting.

Warren Worthington III

Oh, Hercules.

... Warren probably actually wouldn't mind having a marshmallow thrown at him. Was that so wrong?

Warren was just shaking his head. Shaking his head and smiling a bit. He had to admit, the teachers were switching up the usual introduction exercises nicely, this week.

Percy Jackson

It was still so weird to have Hercules teaching him but the strangeness wasn't as bad as it'd been last semester. At least he wasn't staring open mouthed at him like a freaking idiot.

Lex Luthor

Percy was trying to think of the easiest, least ridiculous way of doing this. He'd never been that good with charades or hand signals or anything like that.

Maybe he'd just write his stats down or something. That wasn't verbal.

Lex noted that was that teacher from the shuttle again, who, given the rest of the island, might not actually be a far too hardcore historical reenactor after all.

Given that playing charades had never so much as rated a mention on the list of Luthor family activities, Lex decided it would be better for all involved if he just started writing the relevant details down right away.

Asuna Kagurazaka

Asuna wondered why her new sensei's name sounded familiar. Maybe Negi mentioned him once?

Luke Castellan

Princess Rosella of Daventry

Rosella was terribly excited about this class, as was probably clear as she listened with eagerness. She had rather enjoyed Mr. Hercules for the shuttle to the island, and his class sounded like a great deal of fun as well. This was the sort of class she could really take a liking to!

Well, this was, potentially, something that could be really easy or really hard, but Rosella was pretty sure it would be fun. And she already figured out a trick to make it lean more toward easy.

She was simply going to look around for someone she already knew, which would take an awful lot of guesswork out of the activity. The only flaw, then, would be whether or not there was someone she already knew in the class...

Bald guy didn't count. She didn't even know his name, so that was no good.

Lion-o

Sorry, I'm a bit confused about the lesson objective. Are we introducing ourselves to our partners vocally, but to the class with charades, or is it the other way around? Or are we not talking at all? Your OCD conflicts with your lecture a little.

Oops, sorry it was confusing, I have clarified the lecture. Vocally to the partner, then to the class without speaking.

Thank you!

Karla

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