Electroclash | Sarah ([personal profile] electrocynic) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2012-05-30 03:16 pm
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Heroics, Fame, and You, Wednesday, Period 4

Electroclash was idly playing with her phone as the students filed in. If it constituted as playing that she kept saying "|phone send text|" every ten seconds or so. If it was a game, it was probably called Let's Bug Alex Until He Responds, The Miserable Git. She was yet to get a hold of him, yep. Once it looked like everyone was here (they weren't, but everyone knew how little she cared), though, she left the phone be for a while, and even got up from her chair, scooping some stuff up from the desk.

"Today, trading cards," she announced, as she handed a stack of trading cards to the nearest student, to be passed out randomly among the class. "Those are some examples from back home. Dunno how familiar you are with the basic concept, but basically the idea is to collect them because you have nothing better to do, and you like to pretend you're still too cool for stamps – which, by the way, you're usually not."

To be fair, Electroclash had never really seen the point of collecting anything, ever.

"From a hero perspective, they're part of your public image. It's a way for your face to be out there. Personally, I find it a bit shit and borderline degrading, 'cause the stats you get for your recognition factor and whatever are usually utter bollocks, but I don't make these decisions, and it makes for an easy class assignment." Fear, class. "Two weeks ago, I had you take promo photos. Since then, I've picked my favourites and had a trading card made for each and every one of you."

She picked up another stack of trading cards, and gave those out to be passed out as well.

"As you can see, they're blank except for your picture ––" Which was without fail the worst one they'd taken two weeks ago. "–– and your name ––" Which was whatever codename she had given them in the first session – in Bucky's case, Annoying Cat. "–– so the rest is up to you. Fill your cards in, and try to be honest. No one here has Excelsor's recognition factor, or the world's most fascinating fucking origin story. When you're done, you can present your card to the class. Now get to it."

She went back to harassing Alex, in the meantime.

[OCD up!]
hasadestiny: ([doing] comic geek)

Re: Sign In [Fame 05/30]

[personal profile] hasadestiny 2012-05-30 12:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Lex Luthor

Re: Sign In [Fame 05/30]

[identity profile] whitequeensfire.livejournal.com 2012-05-30 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Angelica Jones
ultron_junior: ([zap] and now we electronate things!)

Re: Sign In [Fame 05/30]

[personal profile] ultron_junior 2012-05-30 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Victor Mancha
angelo_wings: ([spec] triple triad)

[personal profile] angelo_wings 2012-05-30 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Rinoa Heartilly

... I made this icon special.
selfhelphero: ([com] a job well done)

Re: Sign In [Fame 05/30]

[personal profile] selfhelphero 2012-05-30 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Billy Kaplan
godofxbox: ([comic] samurai armor)

Re: Sign In [Fame 05/30]

[personal profile] godofxbox 2012-05-31 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
Alex Aaron
hasadestiny: ([doing] writing)

Re: Work on Your Card [Fame 05/30]

[personal profile] hasadestiny 2012-05-30 12:30 pm (UTC)(link)
On the one hand, Lex wasn't entirely sure how his photo had gotten that dire (though it was far from the worst he'd ever had taken, yay for paparazzi?), on the other. Trading card of him, it was all his comic geeky heart had ever desired.

Re: Work on Your Card [Fame 05/30]

[identity profile] whitequeensfire.livejournal.com 2012-05-30 01:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Angelica was sure her photo couldn't have been that bad. SHE WAS A TOP MODEL DAMMIT. And she was kind of boggling over the idea of having a card.
ultron_junior: ([pb] brown t-shirt)

Re: Work on Your Card [Fame 05/30]

[personal profile] ultron_junior 2012-05-30 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)
The photo was pretty bad; Victor was almost certain he did not look like that -- or at least not all the time.

He started to fill out the card, giving himself a higher than average origin story stat. It was a cool story that usually didn't help him much, and no one in class could argue with him about the rating.
Edited 2012-05-30 14:21 (UTC)

Re: Work on Your Card [Fame 05/30]

[identity profile] nonelikemesince.livejournal.com 2012-05-30 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
. . . really? Where had that picture come from? And did Anakin really have to fill this out?

It was entirely possible that he'd spend half the period writing up a quick computer program to generate the stats for him, and the other half tweaking the program.
angelo_wings: ([ros] is that true?)

Re: Work on Your Card [Fame 05/30]

[personal profile] angelo_wings 2012-05-30 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"Can I just use my Triple Triad card?" Rinoa asked, frowning at the aforementioned horrible photo. "It has a better picture of me."

It was possible she wasn't really paying attention to, um, much of anything.
selfhelphero: ([pos] tiny smile at you)

Re: Work on Your Card [Fame 05/30]

[personal profile] selfhelphero 2012-05-30 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Billy was pretty horrified by his picture, but he still thought it was kind of cool to have a card of his own.
angelo_wings: ([ang] good puppy!!!)

Re: Talk to the TAs [Fame 05/30]

[personal profile] angelo_wings 2012-05-30 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Rinoa was here. Working on a card for her dog. Because Angelo was awesome and thus totally got her own card.

In fact you could trade Angelo's card for 100 elixirs. That was how awesome Angelo's card was.

Hey, she didn't make the rules.
selfhelphero: (Default)

Re: Talk to the TAs [Fame 05/30]

[personal profile] selfhelphero 2012-05-30 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Billy was here, making sure his card was perfect. Well, as perfect as it could be with an awful picture, but everyone had to start somewhere.