fandomhigh | Advanced Criminal Justice, Class #5, Period 1, 01.24.06

[OOC: Thanks to

bridge_carson for the random inspiration for this class. Low-impact and character-rich? Woo. Class Info Post.]

The Tick was sitting at his desk looking slightly tired. Lockheed wasn't in class today. It was probably going to be an easy discussion.

"Hello, class! Lockheed is not with us today. He had something else to take care of. Today, we're taking a slight detour in our discussion. Today, we're talking about your experiences."

"I know that we have a lot of people from different cultures here, so I thought it would be keen to talk a little about Justice in your original environment! Please share some information with the class about a Justice organization from your home. It can be a superhero team, the military police, your local sheriff's department, or even the occasional lone individual who tries to write the wrongs in the world. As long as they are for justice and, I suppose, according to my earlier statement, are organized, share that bit of you with us!"

"Your metaphor of the week is the shift key on a keyboard."

"For extra credit that is actually related to the lecture for once, please name your favorite Defender of Justice from your home!"

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During class, Tick had flipped through the graded homework Rory had given back to him. He noticed something kind of weird with it. "Rory, could I speak to you for a moment?"

Metaphor

Justice is the shift key of Society, keeping the words of Truth, Freedom and Law properly capitalised, yet still ensuring that they are not stridently capslocked!

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My favourite Defender of Justice from my home is Hercules. He is the son of Zeus and travels the land protecting all the little people and stopping evil warlords ~~like Xena~~. I really hope that I get to meet him one day.

Callisto was always a little bit of a Hercules fangirl as a child.

"Uh, there aren't any, back home. I mean there's the occasional roaming do-gooder but on the whole there's really no-one into the whole organised fight for Justice."

"Well, where I come from there is a military group that tries to fight for Justice for people from all over ~~the galaxy~~ ~~the universe~~ the place. They do this every day, even though most people don't even know their names or what they're doing, so I suppose that makes them superheroes of a sort."

"Like I said, even individuals, the 'roaming do-gooder' if you will, work for this discussion. What kind of people to this back home? Any specific do-gooders you can share with the class?"

"Ooh! A crack squad of mysterious heroes, travelling all over in the name of Justice! Keen! Can you share anything else about these Scions of Greatness?"

"The Shift Key of Mitigation allows for the Adjustments of Justice to be made quickly between different Cases of Criminal Activity."

"And, uh, I can't reveal their true identities, of course, since they're superheroes and all, but my favorite superhero from back where I come from in Colorado would probably have to be The Medical Napoleon!"

"There's um...Hercules, and uh, Hercules's friend Iolaus, and uh, that's all I can think of."

"Hercules? As in Hercules? Ooh! Keen!"

Tick thought for a moment. "Who is this Iolaus guy?"

"Uh, their team is called the SunCircle and they've already saved thousands of people from disaster at the hands of Notorious Evildoers like The SnakeHeads, The False Prophets, and the SoulSuckers." Vala was warming to her topic.

"He's, uh, Hercules's best friend ~~and I do mean that in the same sense as Lee and Crichton~~, and they grew up in the same village and studied together at Chiron's academy, and they roam all of Greece together fighting for Justice." Callisto did not sound like an overenthusiastic eight-year-old. Really. Because she was a bitter and cynical seventeen-year-old, and they do not sound like that.

"Ah! He's Hercules' sidekick!" Tick tsked. "History isn't kind to sidekicks. So few are remembered. It's unfortunate."

"Ooh! SunCircle! I'm going to have to see if I can find any information about them. They sound keen!"

Jaye frowns. "Um. The cops on TV are cool. Yeah, I got nothin'."

Marty looks disheveled, hungover and like he was rudely awakened by getting his butt pinched by some greenskinned guy with horns.

He looks blearily at Professor Tick. "Um... Back home?"

Marty draws a complete mental blank and starts grasping for straws.

"Um... My ex-girlfriend's dad worked for a car company and blew the whistle on a faulty sunroof that leaked."

~~doink-doink~~

~~CHUNG CHUNG~~

~~Oooooh. Don't even try to deny the DOINK~~

~~*denies the DOINK*~~

"Well, I guess I'm part of it where I come from," Aeryn says. "It's military and we really step in where we're needed to restore some sort of order ~~and really to torture and shoot up people who don't agree with us, but you're not getting me to admit that, and it's all done in a very professional fashion anyway~~."

"So the local police aren't extraordinary in any way?" Tick asked, sounding disappointed.

Now Aeryn has to figure out which one the shift key is.

Oh little shift key. So often ignored in the grand keyboard that is justice. Your importance in making offenses truly "capital" are overlooked in the grand scheme that is the qwerty system of society. Without it crimes would only be ~~lowercase~~ minor ones and defense lawyers would never exclamate.

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