fandomhigh | Superheroing 101, Thursday, Period 4

Another week, another class. It was sort of horrifying how Electroclash was finding herself falling into a routine with this thing. Wasn't she supposed to hate it with all her heart and soul?

Eh. The SPA instructions were still a pain in the arse, at least. And she was having to consult them anyway. "Our esteemed friends at the Super Powers Authority," she drawled, once everyone had come in, "have decided to divide this class into ––" Finger quotes. "–– 'thematic subcategories' because that's supposed to make you brats find it easier to learn or something." She wasn't sure if it was working but hey, she didn't care! "So, what your thick skulls are supposed to have learned up until now is superhero basics. Names, costumes, teaming up, all that exhilaratingly fun stuff. Now, we're gonna move on to what I consider to be the most important section of this course, and that's superhero problems."

Of which there were many. Though some of them may have only been problems in her view, but then wasn't encouraging healthy debate supposed to be a good thing for young learners, or some shit like that?

Electroclash leaned back in her chair and mourned not being able to prop her be-gogo-booted feet up on the desk for fear of flashing minors. "And we're going to start off easy because I don't feel like doing a lot of work today." What a surprise. "So, I want you lot to tell me what you think might be some basic superhero problems. And if you get it wrong I will laugh at you but it probably won't affect your grade, so don't worry, suck-ups." She pointed to a student at random. "You. Go first."

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Problematically!

Lex Luthor

Raven

Kate Daniels

Billy Kaplan

Edited 2012-02-09 15:41 (UTC)

Stephanie Brown

Elphaba Thropp

Luke Castellan

Tony Stark

Sam LaCroix

Shane Gooseman

Or pass notes, or nap, or whatever.

What do you think might be some of the most basic problems a superhero might run into?

Messy threads are welcome if you want to comment on each other's suggestions. Electroclash cares not about being neat.

"There's always going to be someone wanting to earn their badass stripes by taking you down," Kate suggested. The easiest way to get noticed and instill worry in a population was to take out the biggest and most powerful protector. Taking out one person was generally considered simpler than, say, blowing up a building.

"Or by taking down the people close to you," Billy said. "Being a superhero means putting your loved ones in harm's way, if anyone ever finds out who they are."

"Which is why a lot of the ones in my world tend to have secret identities," Stephanie agreed. "The few who don't are really badass."

Looking at you, former-mentor Black Canary.

She frowned. "And of course, the bigger a badass reputation a superhero has, the harder the bad guys'll try to take 'em down, publicly, which means more collateral damage and more innocent bystanders in harm's way . . ."

"And that's just people looking to make a name for themselves," Lex added. "When it's an actual personal grudge, you'd have all the stops being pulled out."

Sure the example Lex was thinking of was Warrior Angel and Devilicus here, but it wasn't like real people couldn't go to the same extremes, look at what happened to people who crossed his dad, who didn't exactly have superpowers.

"It wouldn't be a game or have any time outs to recover from the last time someone attacked you," Tony added. "You'd have to always be on point to survive every time you went out in your... ridiculous costume."

Or suit of armor. SAME DIFFERENCE.

If he's there.

Billy was there, taking notes on the kinds of problems that everyone was coming up with.

Hey, being a nerd and a suck-up hadn't failed him much so far, so he was just going to keep on keeping on.

He might rethink that in a couple of moments. Because something had caught Electroclash's eye in the SPA class plans for next week, and at first it made her scowl – and then it made her turn towards Billy.

"Hey, Sycophant." Sorry, Billy. "How are your superhero ethics?"

A weird question, perhaps. Although maybe not when you considered the source.

Billy blinked for a moment at the question, and decided that most likely better than yours was probably not a wise response, no matter how true it might be. "Where I'm from, being ethical and being a superhero pretty much go hand in hand. So, I'd say they're good. Why do you ask?"

Hey, the whole reason Electroclash was even here was because she lacked proper ethics. It was pretty much like a badge of damn honour, at this point.

"'Cause the SPA pricks are wanting it covered next week," she rasped, shoving the course schedule his way. "Want some teaching experience?"

Hey, it was either this or making Jenny travel across the pond to come talk about how everyone should just be nice to each other.

Billy looked at the schedule and perked up, grinning at her. "Really? You want me to teach about ethics? I can totally do that," he said. Especially if it meant keeping people from learning the wrong things.

What, like the opinion that it was okay to do whatever you wanted with your powers, as long as you didn't get caught?

"All yours, kid," Eletroclash drawled, smirking only a little derively at his enthusiasm. "Hell, I'd let you teach the whole course if I could."

Sadly, the SPA would find out.

"I don't know if I'd want to teach the whole course." The first day had been nerve-wracking enough and oh god, he was going to have to stand up in front of everyone again, wasn't he? Well, it was too late to back out now. "But I won't let you down on this."

She might laugh at him, but she maybe she wouldn't be disappointed.

Electroclash waved a dismissive hand. It was hard to disappoint her with something she didn't care about beyond serving her time here.

"Just do it, mate. That's all I ask."

And possibly some entertainment from him having to speak in front of the class. Yeah.

She doesn't care about your problems but she's there.

Mrh, I was going to post this six hours ago but then the uni network didn't let me online for the whole day.

... Also I love that I never did catch every instance of typoing Heroing as Herping.

Edited 2012-02-09 15:13 (UTC)

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