fandomhigh | Kicking Ass, Teamwork-Style, etc. (Wednesday, Period 3/Week 1)

If there was any significance to the fact that the Danger Shop looked like a backyard decked out with a makeshift archery range and training dummies, Kennedy wasn't saying. Anyway, it seemed like a nice mix of kickback and "time to do work." She was pacing back and forth on the far side of the yard by the archery target, waiting for everyone to filter in through what would be the back door.

Anyone who didn't know her might wonder what a short, lightly built girl who didn't look that much older than them knew about the workshop's subject matter, even if she did carry herself like she thought she could take anything on. Or not, if they knew better than to go by appearances.

"Hey," she said once everyone-- she was pretty sure-- had arrived. "So yeah, this is Kicking Ass, Teamwork-Style, just in case you were wondering where you were. If this is what you signed up for, you're in the right place. If not... might be useful anyway, so stick around."

She tucked her thumbs into her belt and kept pacing, looking over the students (and she was sure Vi and Rona were laughing at this concept right now) as she went on. "I'm Kennedy, Fandom class of 2011, and I'm a Vampire Slayer-- which, in case any of you guys are vampires, relax. You're safe from me. Unless you end up snacking on one of the other students, 'cause then we might have to have words."

She paused with a sheepish look on her face, having actually realized that sounded kind of intimidating, and cleared her throat before going on quickly. "So yeah, this is gonna be about working together and, you know, not getting all up in each other's faces." She was such an expert at that, right? There was probably a synchronized Scooby eyeroll happening across multiple time zones right now.

"It's not like the world has to almost end for this stuff to be useful, by the way. Even if you're not gonna go home after Fandom and do this for a living, it kinda helps to know how to work with other people in a crisis situation." (She had not come up with that part of the intro spiel. Or most of it. Willow had listened to her rattle off the first version of it and made a long color-coded list of suggestions. Miraculously, Kennedy had actually taken a couple of them.) "So anyway. I want to know a little bit about you guys, and what you're doing in this class. I know the introductions thing gets really old really fast, but I actually do want to know so I know what to cover here. Name, class, powers if you have 'em and are cool talking about that, something you're good at that would be useful in a fight or a crisis, anything you might want to cover the next few weeks."

Kennedy waited a moment before adding, "Oh, and if you do have powers, don't rub it in for everyone who doesn't, yeah?"

Buffy.

[[the ocd is up! huzzah.]]

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Was she ever not going to feel outclassed at this school?

"I'm Sholeh Zeela a Zhahar, I'm a sophomore, and I don't have any powers at all," Sholeh said softly. She couldn't even claim genius the way the other boy could; she just read a lot and asked a ton of questions. "I'm...not really sure I have anything that would be useful."

"Just because you're not useful in a fight doesn't mean you're not useful," Squall chided her. "There are other things that need to be done during a crisis. You're only useless if you choose to be."

"I--I don't want to be?" Sholeh tried. "And I'm willing to learn?"

Even if she had signed up for this class more for Zeela's interest than her own.

"Hey. Don't write yourself off," Kennedy said gently, but firmly. Okay, more the latter than the former, and a quick nod to Squall. "Let's throw out the 'crisis' part for now. Anything you think you're good at?"

"I'm smart," Sholeh said, but added quickly, "not a genius, though. I don't think. But I'm a fast reader and I'm good at remembering things I read. And, umm, asking questions. I'm really good at that." She offered Kennedy a slight smile. "Though my mothers would say that's more of a blessing that a curse."

Damn it! She'd done it again, used the plural for mothers. Would she never learn?

Well, Kennedy took 'mothers' a totally different way, which really only meant she did a quick doubletake and then looked impressed.

"Would you believe me if I said there are way too many times where me and my friends got bailed out of a whole hell of a lot of trouble-- the frequently bitey, probably doomy kind-- because someone remembered a thing they read?" she asked. (Okay, so half those times were just stories she'd heard about Giles back when the original gang was still in high school, but still. It counted for her purposes.) "Plus, the asking questions. Super useful in a problem-solving situation."

Or annoying, depending on the questions and the questioner. Details. If her own Fandom experience was any indication, reading was useful in any crisis.

In a lower voice, she added, "Besides, genius is kinda overrated sometimes, if you ask me."

Sholeh flashed Kennedy a quick, conspiratorial grin. "I might have to quote you the next time my sister Zeela teases me about spending too much time reading and not enough time doing."

=Yeah, well you're reading prevents any of us from acting,= Zeela grumbled.

::Hush,:: Sholeh said, all sweetness. ::Teacher is talking.::

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