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Friendship 101, Wednesday, Period 2

Today's classroom was not entirely unlike last week's, though the floor and walls were far more soft and squishy than they were bouncy, as might be evidenced by the fact that instead of (quite literally) bouncing off the walls, Pinkie was instead sitting patiently in the middle of the room with a stack of cards in her mouth.

Don't worry, those wouldn't be too slobbery when it came time to pass them out.

We hoped.

Derek looked as surly as always next to her, hands in his pockets because he wasn't allowed to do anything with the cards. Oh no, not after the locker room fiasco. "Friends compliment each other," he ground out. "But also offer criticism to help each other."

Pinkie smiled around the cards and started trotting around to the students, nudging them with her head if necessary to get them to take one from the stack. When every student present had one, she smiled again and threw her front hooves into the air. "Today, you're going to practice offering constructive criticism! You each got something to critique your partner on, so pair up and get started! Ooo! Ooo! But your partner says something that you think feels mean and not friendly enough, then hit them with a bat!"

She whipped a brightly colored foam bat out of nowhere and waved it cheerfully in the air.

"Pinkie's voice is grating," Derek said as an example. Yes. An example. Pinkie whacked him in the knee with the bat.

"Derek's criticism was honest," she explained to the class, as she started manifesting and stacking up enough foam bats for everyone to use, "but kinda mean. He didn't even address it to me!"

That didn't stop him from smirking at least. "Get into pairs."

"And have fun!" said Pinkie. "Nopony likes a grumpy gus!" Derek.

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Wonder if every class will now include Pinkie somehow beating up Derek.

Pair off!
Criticisms:
Alec Lightwood: your partner always eats all the toppings off the pizza before anyone else can even get a piece.
Billy Kaplan: your partner has had a large beetle living in their hair for two weeks.
Bucky Katt: your partner sheds. Aggressively. All over everything.
Cassidy: your partner deleted your entire Netflix queue.
Emily Thorne: your partner enjoys humming terrible music. Loudly.
Jackson Whittemore: your partner wants to watch the Notebook for the twentieth time.
Juliet Darling: your partner breathes funny. Like a whistling noise. It's really annoying.
Kate Daniels: your partner finished the milk and put the carton back in the fridge.
Kenzi: your partner steals all the napkins. All of them.
Lex Luthor: your partner recorded over all of your Wendy the Werewolf Stalker VHS tapes. (Wait, people still use VHS? Wow.)
Marasiah Fel: your partner wipes Cheeto cheese all over everything.
Mercy Thompson: your partner refuses to upgrade their old stereo because anything that isn't vinyl is "too mainstream".
Peter Wiggin: your partner only knows one joke. It's twenty minutes long, and the punchline is that it has no punch line. They tell it at any given opportunity.
Petra West: your partner eats paste.
Rapunzel: your partner uses puns. All the time. Bad ones.
Rilla Blythe: your partner shows pictures of their pets dressed up in people clothing to everyone they meet.
Ryan Clark: your partner collects angel figurines to the point where it has become disturbing.
Stiles Stilinski: your partner spams everyone on Facebook with game updates.

When they ping in

Pinkie was snuggling into the soft floor, rolling around happily.

Juliet Darling

Lex Luthor

Juliet frowned at her card. How was she supposed to tell somebody she didn't like the way they breathed?

Juliet was ready to offer constructive criticism to anyone who wandered into earshot. Possibly without being asked.

Alec Lightwood

Alec wasn't sure he would actually criticize someone for this in the real world, since plain pizza was just fine, but he dutifully looked for a partner to whom to break the news.

Stiles Stilinski

Ryan Clark

Jackson Whittemore

Rilla Blythe

Rilla frowned quite severely. "Cats are not dolls," she lectured. "Don't put them in dresses, no matter how cute they look."

Not that she knew. Cough.

"The cat liked it," Juliet protested. "And I had to. I needed some distraction from your breathing."

Kate Daniels

Kate was hardly a model fridge-user, but since she was being ordered to criticise...

"How hard is it to throw a damn carton away?" She was clearly ignoring any need for introductions today.

"Well, I could stop breathing, but I think that might cause you a bigger problem," Rilla replied.

"I know that, but you could go see an allergist," Juliet recommended. "You do this whistling nose thing. It's probably bad for you."

That's why she was criticizing you, Rilla. For your health.

So sweet!

"And those dresses are probably ruining the cat's circulation," Rilla countered. "Not to mention making it the laughing stock of the neighbourhood."

Juliet sniffed. "I'm not sure how you can hear people laughing at the cat when you're whistling all the time. Anyhow, the cat should learn to suffer for fashion."

"They are laughing quite loudly," Rilla said, which didn't exactly help her own case.

"And cats shouldn't wear clothes. They have fur. A bow is all they need."

Marasiah Fel

"But bows are so common," Juliet argued. "You can't express anything about a cat's personality with a bow."

"I-- what?" That was not a very polite criticism, Kate. Catching on and doing his best to be convincing, Alec replied, "Well. The, um, the bin is really far from the fridge. I guess."

"It's a cat," Rilla said. "Doesn't it express it's personality just fine destroying couches?"

"That's where I got the clothes," Juliet said. "The cloth came from a pillow she shredded."

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"Oh, well that's different!" Rilla said, completely losing track of the point of the conversation.

Polite criticism wasn't Kate's strong point.

It was possible she'd fail this class.

"Next time, maybe try out some target practice," she suggested.

"Isn't it?" Juliet agreed enthusiastically. "So, see, I had to make a little dress for her."

"I would have, but I... didn't want to spill any on the floor?" That sounded legit, right? "At least I didn't--" he checked his card quickly-- "eat all the toppings off of the pizza we ordered last night before anyone else could take a slice."

Derek was going to stand over here. And not roll on the floor like his coteacher.

Please don't ask him for help with compliments. It would end in tears.

Mercy Thompson

Mercy was laughing inwardly because she knew a lot of older werewolves who considered 33's too new-fangled.

Mercy was happy to help anyone out. Or just watch to see if Pinkie hit Derek again.

Petra West

Billy Kaplan

Bucky Katt

"You smell funny," Bucky told her. "Like, weird funny. Not like hasn't-bathed funny. You should really try a prescription deodorant or something."

No, that had nothing to do with what was written on his card. He wasn't even intending it to be part of the assignment -- it was just how he was saying hello, today.

"Aren't you charming," Mercy said dryly, but wondered if actually he smelled the coyote on her. "You're the one who only wants to listen to vinyl records."

It could be the coyote, or it could just be that he decided to be belligerent today. Frankly, it's not like even Bucky himself knew for sure.

Bucky frowned at her and scratched his head. "What?" he asked. "No, that's Rob. I don't listen to records, I break them. What are you talking about?"

Mercy waved her card at him. "Nope, sorry. Today that's you. Vinyl records."

Kenzi

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