Heroics, Fame, and You, Wednesday, Period 4

[electrocynic]

For once, Electroclash looked to be in an okay enough mood as her mostly-new batch of students filed in. Or, at least she wasn't actively scowling at them. You had to take what you got with her, okay?

"Alright, kidlets," she drawled once it looked like everyone who was about show up had done just that. "As some of you know ––" Possibly all, if they knew how to read their class timetables. "–– I'm Electroclash, and this is Heroics, Fame, and You." She barely kept herself from rolling her eyes at the class title, and picked up some stuff off the table. "Basically, I'm supposed to tell you how you can get your face on stuff like this." She held up a comic book and a stack of what appeared to be trading cards. "Or how not to make a complete arse of yourself in the promotional photo shoot for your first cereal advert campaign, and all that stuff. But we'll get to that starting next week."

Because bah, like she'd prepared an actual class for the first week? Please.

"Today is introductions, and if you couldn't see that one coming I am sincerely wondering how you even made it through the door today. I want you to tell me your name and your power. If you don't have a power, tell me something else that's special about you." No reason. Like, say, fodder for their new capenames. "Or if you were in my last class, just tell me something amusing about yourself. We have a whole class's worth of time to kill here, kids. Let's get to it."

"Oh, yeah, one more thing," she added, glancing at the paper on her desk, "says here I'm supposed to have a grad assistant called... Rinoa? So yeah, that's one TA. And Flying Sycophant ––" Sorry, Billy. "–– you get the other spot. Now, introductions."

[OCD up!]

Comments

Sign In [Fame 05/09]

[electrocynic]

Famously!

Re: Sign In [Fame 05/09]

[ultron_junior]

Victor Mancha

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

Percy Jackson

[hasadestiny]

Lex Luthor

Listen to the Lecture [Fame 05/09]

[electrocynic]

Or class... introduction thingie.

Re: Listen to the Lecture [Fame 05/09]

[ultron_junior]

Victor was frowning a little bit during the lecture. Not that he wasn't aware people used the hero thing for fame, it just seemed ... kinda sordid to him.

Besides, he doubted anybody wanted Ultron's kid on a cereal box.

Introduce Yourself [Fame 05/09]

[electrocynic]

Name and power/special thing if you're new, amusing factoid if you're not.

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"Percy Jackson and I..." Well, he had an assortment of powers to choose from so he was trying to figure out which one to use here. "...can breathe underwater."

Hey, that was an easy one. He'd just been doing that yesterday, in fact.

[electrocynic]

"Yeah?" Electroclash didn't look particularly impressed with that. They had people like that back home. She-Force had made out with one once. "You got gills then, Fish Boy?"

... The narrative would've said sorry, but Electroclash really wasn't.

Re: Introduce Yourself [Fame 05/09]

[ultron_junior]

"Victor Mancha," Victor said, with a tiny wave. "I can control metals and electricity."

Which was a simple way to put it that didn't involve announcing the robot thing again.

Re: Introduce Yourself [Fame 05/09]

[electrocynic]

Electroclash raised a mildly interested eyebrow. Because hey, her name was Electroclash. That last bit was right up her alley.

"Is that a psionic ability or ...?"

Re: Introduce Yourself [Fame 05/09]

[hasadestiny]

"Lex Luthor. I'm from the past." The far distant past of 1996.

Re: Introduce Yourself [Fame 05/09]

[electrocynic]

"No, you're Invisihair," Electroclash reminded him. Because she was nice like that. And probably going to forget his real name again in five minutes. "Welcome back."

Re: Introduce Yourself [Fame 05/09]

[godofxbox]

"I'm Alex Aaron," Alex said, "and I have fear powers. And I kind of know what's going to happen sometimes, but that's really hit and miss."

Re: Introduce Yourself [Fame 05/09]

[electrocynic]

"Fear powers?" Electroclash questioned. "Does that mean you cause fear in others, or that you... I don't know, piss yourself in a manner that stops crime when you're frightened?"

For her, this was a legitimate question. Some people had shitty powers. Also it couldn't be stressed enough that she was a horrible person.

Re: Introduce Yourself [Fame 05/09]

[monkeymonkeydie.livejournal.com]

"My name is Bucky Katt, and I'm a certified genius."

Not certified by anyone. Just sort of "certified". Really, his superpower was to be incredibly annoying, but he wouldn't admit to that one.

Re: Introduce Yourself [Fame 05/09]

[electrocynic]

"You're a cat," Electroclash drawled, trying not to look taken aback by the fact that one of her students was a talking cat. She was... about half successful. "So I doubt that."

Re: Introduce Yourself [Fame 05/09]

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

Luke would've facepalmed at Percy being a jerk but he knew from previous experience that Electroclash deserved it.

"I'm Luke Castellan." There, easy part down. "And I held up the sky once. It sucked."

That wasn't quite amusing but Luke thought the teacher would be amused by it at least.

Re: Introduce Yourself [Fame 05/09]

[nonelikemesince.livejournal.com]

"Anakin Solo," he said shortly, nodding. "I'm a Jedi Knight." Which he was now going to have to qualify to differentiate it from an Imperial Knight, huh? Of course, explaining what a Jedi did would also help, but he still didn't remember that the concept wasn't as ubiquitous here as at home.

"I'm also really good at puzzles and computer programming."

Re: Introduce Yourself [Fame 05/09]

[whitequeensfire.livejournal.com]

"My name's Angelica Jones," Angelica said when her turn came. She took a breath, because even though she knew it was safe, she couldn't help but remember what had happened in the airport when she'd gone to visit her father. "I'm a mutant. I can control microwave radiation."

Talk to the TAs [Fame 05/09]

[electrocynic]

Once they ping in!

Re: Talk to the TAs [Fame 05/09]

[selfhelphero]

Billy was cursing his player's internet was caught between being honored to be a TA again and being annoyed that he'd never get rid of that nickname. There were worse things to be called, thankfully.

Talk to the Teacher [Fame 05/09]

[electrocynic]

She's here and not looking like she hates all of you.

Re: Talk to the Teacher [Fame 05/09]

[angelo_wings]

And lo and behold, there was the famed Rinoa.

"H!, I'm Rinoa, I'm your graduate TA," she said brightly, offering her hand. "Do I need to do the whole introduction thing like everyone else did?"

Yes. Please offer yourself up for the humiliation conga. This could in no way be a bad idea.

OOC [Fame 05/09]

[electrocynic]

I had to see it to believe it, but 21 Jump Street was actually pretty good. Huh.