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Anakin Skywalker ([personal profile] sith_happened) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2013-04-25 09:41 am
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Ethics [Thursday, April 25, 2013, 2nd period]

"Welcome to our final class together," Anakin said as he passed out the exams. "I hope you've learned something about yourselves in our time together so that when you're faced with a tough situation, you can make a choice you can live with."

That's what passed for as touchy-feely from Anakin, folks. Sorry. "There are no right and wrong answers on this exam, but I do want you to explain your answer. Don't answer what you think I want to hear--answer how you'd honestly react."

Re: Talk to Anakin [4/25]

[identity profile] nonelikemesince.livejournal.com 2013-04-25 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Anakin half-smiled, just for a moment. "I think I know the feeling."

Re: Talk to Anakin [4/25]

[identity profile] nonelikemesince.livejournal.com 2013-04-25 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"Maybe both," Anakin admitted. "Even if I wasn't technically teaching Sannah and Valin, I shouldn't have let them think, even for a little while, that the mess we were in was all their fault just because they did what they thought I would do."

Re: Talk to Anakin [4/25]

[identity profile] nonelikemesince.livejournal.com 2013-04-26 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"Or that," Anakin agreed, smiling faintly in response before that expression faded into guilt. "It's too easy to do that when I'm beating myself up for my mistakes getting others killed."

Re: Talk to Anakin [4/25]

[identity profile] nonelikemesince.livejournal.com 2013-04-27 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"I didn't ask for this," Anakin said with quiet frustration, though part of that was because he knew perfectly well that he loved playing the hero, and therefore he'd set himself up for it. "I never set out to be some shining symbol of -- of everything."

Re: Talk to Anakin [4/25]

[identity profile] nonelikemesince.livejournal.com 2013-04-28 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Anakin just looked at him for several seconds, silently, and finally gave a hesitant smile. "You get it. I'm . . . really glad."

It seemed like a little thing, but it made a surprisingly big difference.

Re: Talk to Anakin [4/25]

[identity profile] nonelikemesince.livejournal.com 2013-04-28 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"I've been warned all my life about turning out too much like you," Anakin replied. "And I've been warned about my anger more times than I can count. And it wasn't until after I got here that I understood this, but . . . it's either accept what we have in common or resent the comparisons for the rest of my life."

Re: Talk to Anakin [4/25]

[identity profile] nonelikemesince.livejournal.com 2013-04-29 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
"I might have," admitted Anakin. "It's tempting. Really tempting, most of the time. But it's a comparison that no one will ever, ever let me forget and to be honest I don't have the time to spare for resentment."

Re: Talk to Anakin [4/25]

[identity profile] nonelikemesince.livejournal.com 2013-04-29 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"I know," Anakin said very seriously, though to be fair he made a lot of his own rather terrible decisions. "It took me a while, but I think I've figured that out."

Would it stop him from possibly trying too hard to prove it to others, though? Probably not.

Re: Talk to Anakin [4/25]

[identity profile] nonelikemesince.livejournal.com 2013-04-29 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"I wish," Anakin said after a moment, "I'd had a chance to actually know you -- you, not him -- earlier."

Re: Talk to Anakin [4/25]

[identity profile] nonelikemesince.livejournal.com 2013-04-29 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Anakin caught that look, and adopted a mock-stern expression. "Don't you start on that now, too. We can't both do that at once."

Re: Talk to Anakin [4/25]

[identity profile] nonelikemesince.livejournal.com 2013-04-29 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's not your fault," Anakin reassured him. "I understand that now."

Re: Talk to Anakin [4/25]

[identity profile] nonelikemesince.livejournal.com 2013-04-29 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Anakin laughed ruefully. "I don't even do very well at anticipating the ramifications of my choices the next day."

Re: Talk to Anakin [4/25]

[identity profile] nonelikemesince.livejournal.com 2013-04-30 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
He was going to remember this soon, wasn't he?

"When you put it that way, it's better than 'when you're older you'll understand,'" Anakin remarked -- lightly, but that mood faltered. "Enough beings have died because of me already."