fandomhigh | Ethics [Thursday, January 10, 2013]

Anakin, as usual, was rigidly on time for class. Hopefully everyone else was as well because he closed the door behind him as he entered the room, coming within centimeters of catching his robe in the hinges.

"Good morning," he said. "I'm Anakin Skywalker and this is Ethics. If you're in the wrong place, now's the time to get up and flee."

If you were in the right place, it wasn't bad advice either, depending on Anakin's mood from week to week. He paced in front of their desks as he spoke, Jedi robe swirling behind him. "Most classes this week focus on introductions, but I'm the Dean of Students, so I'll figure out who's who as we go along. Fandom as you might have realized already, is a multi-dimensional nexus where beings from many different places and times come together." He made sure to look each student in the eyes as he spoke. "As such, what you may feel to be moral and immoral might be completely different than the person sitting next to you. I encourage discussion, even heated discussion, but it must be phrased in a constructive way. Responses like 'yes, but that's dumb,' 'yes, but you're dumb', or punching someone are not constructive and will not be tolerated in this class."

He'd had all of those reactions himself before but this wasn't about the ethics of the Ethics teacher.

"We'll touch on unpleasant subjects in this class, some of which might not be all that hypothetical to your life's experience," he added. "If you prefer not to discuss a particular scenario, just let me know by shaking your head and I'll skip you until the next week."

Anakin clasped his hands together. "Now, let's begin: if you had to choose between killing one person in order to save five others, or doing nothing even though you know that doing nothing means that those five people would die before your eyes, what would you do? And what do you think would be the right thing to do?"

He liked to start them off easy.

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"Neither," she said simply. "With my Guardian, I wandered the land. A nomadic lifestyle. Being here has been... different. Not bad," Yeul added, "but different. It's been a very long time since I've spent so much time around other people."

"Guardian?" Anakin repeated, catching the capital letter.

Yeul nodded, clasping her hands in front of her. "Caius, my eternal Guardian. I..." She took a deep breath. "Long ago, the Goddess gave me her eyes so I could see the paths of the future and guide my people. Caius, my fiercest and most loyal protector impressed the Goddess with his devotion and when he fell in battle, she gave him her heart so that he would always be with me."

"In a Force-ghost sense?" Anakin asked, looking slightly confused. "Shows up to offer advice and be unhelpful?"

Obi-Wan.

"No," she said. "As solid and real as you and I. But he never ages and he never dies."

"And he allowed you to come here alone?" Anakin asked.

"He felt it would be safer for me here," Yeul said. "Not from outside danger, that he can protect me from, but from my own gifts."

"What kind of gifts?" Anakin replied. "Are they way you choose to just watch events happening?"

"I see the future of the the world," Yeul said. "Not peoples' everyday futures. I cannot tell you what the weather will be next week. But when there is a crossroads, where someone's decision will alter the entire course of history, I will see the futures that result from the decisions before they occur."

Yeul paused.

"By themselves, they are not why I do nothing but watch," Yeul continued slowly. "But for the gift I was given, there was a price. Every time I have a vision, my lifespan is drastically shortened."

Anakin winced. "How many visions have you had?"

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