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

[brat_inslayage]

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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Re: Talk to the TAs [KA,TS Week 1]

[whitequeensfire.livejournal.com]

"Things got kind of bad back home," Angelica said vaguely. "But it's so good to be back here now. To stay."

Re: Talk to the TAs [KA,TS Week 1]

[longislandiceme]

"They've got a bad habit of doing that," Bobby said knowingly. Because, well. They did come from very similar universes after all. He knew exactly how that sort of thing worked. "If you wanna talk about it," he glanced around the class, "later, I'm told I can sometimes be a good listener."

Re: Talk to the TAs [KA,TS Week 1]

[whitequeensfire.livejournal.com]

"I'd like that," Angelica said, nodding. She hadn't really talked to anyone about what had happened, and since Bobby had been one of the ones to tell her the X-Men weren't really evil, it'd be good to talk to him about it.