fandomhigh | Coping With Change, Friday, Period 3

Jonothon came into class today looking cranky, but… loud. There was no way in hell he was coming into his classroom the same way he'd gone down to work his Groovy Tunes shift yesterday, with his flames in plain sight, so he'd done the only thing he could do under the circumstances, and he'd destroyed a shirt in order to replace the wrappings that had gone missing. And then, because shredded shirts weren't made to go all the way down, he'd thrown a t-shirt on overtop, as well.

So today, Jono was attempting and failing to look casual with the remains of a Hawaiian shirt over his face, and a bright red Pearl Jam t-shirt on over that.

//Right.// Jono was going to have to actually teach this class, no matter how ridiculous he felt just then. //Far too often, when something changes on us, all we can focus on are the bad things. And certainly there are times when the bad things are far, far more prominent than the good. But every now and again, how you react to something and how you recover from it can be changed, improved even, by whether or not you can find some good to it. Like, say for example you've just spent two days trying to find an important article of clothing. And when you finally crack and decide to do something about it, it leaves you wandering around looking like something out of a magazine ad testing for colourblindness, with a few added crocodiles on your face for good measure. You could spend the entire time brooding about how bloody ridiculous you looked-// And trust him, he was. //-Or you could look at the bright side, which is, that bloody shirt that looks a little as though Hawaii vomited on it has been sitting in your dresser drawers since someone swapped it with one of your favourite shirts back on a school trip years ago, and now it's finally actually doing you some good.//

A beat.

//Plus, cutting it up was really quite satisfying.//

What? It had been.

//Today, I'm going to give you a few scenarios, and you're going to pair off and discuss some bright sides. If anybody needs me, I'm right over here.//

Not at all brooding about how stupid he looked, or about Rilla's exclamation on the radio that morning, or anything. Shut up.

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Looking at the bright side!

Paddra Nsu-Yeul

Billy Kaplan

Celia Bowen

Cosette Fauchelevent

Dominic Vasquez

Eleanor Lamb

Joker Moreau

Cecil Palmer

Mercy Thompson

Kathy Li

Anna Korlov

If you laugh at the teacher, you will get a dirty look.

Joker wasn't laughing, but he was going to take a holo.

...Which, unfortunately, involved his whole hand being covered in a shell of glowing light that he pointed in Jono's direction. In Joker's world, it was pretty universally understood as a "scanning for information" gesture, but they didn't have a whole lot of palm-mounted weaponry there.

Jono wasn't automatically assuming that Joker was trying to shoot him in class or something. For a start, the boy didn't exactly seem like the type.

He did, however, turn a raised eyebrow toward Joker, because 'glowing light hand' was somewhat distracting to the class at large.

//Up to something particularly important there, Jeffrey?//

Yeah, and this was the same tool they gave to special-ops types who were supposed to be sneaking around. The whole glowing lights thing was just too cool not to use, regardless of how impractical it was.

Joker looked around at the class, and then down at his hand. "Not really?" he tried. Then he shrugged and hit a button, so that the glowing hand went away and a tiny three-dimensional Hawaiian Face Jono popped up in the air over his wrist. "Just wanted to savor the moment, that's all. Sir."

//... Fantastic.//

That was quite the little setup, there. Jono would have been impressed, if it wasn't for the way he was trying to be appropriately... scathing. Or... something.

//I don't suppose you could savour the moment in a less distracting manner, by any chance?//

It would have been an even more impressive little setup if it were fully decked-out. Joker's was missing all of the really cool features.

"You've got it." Joker saluted. "Sorry. Didn't mean to interrupt class. Do you want me to email you a copy?"

//I... no, thank you. The fewer copies there are of that out there, the happier I'll be.//

He suspected it would end up on a billboard by the end of the weekend.

//Next week, maybe I'll just wear a turtleneck.//

Not on a billboard, don't worry. Joker wasn't the sort to piss off people just for the sake of pissing them off. Saved for later, though. Just in case.

"A black one, I hope. Fits your whole image better."

Pair off and choose a few of these scenarios to find a bright side to, or come up with a few of your own!

- Your roommate has been turned into a porcupine and you're stuck taking care of them.
- Suddenly, single! Your long-term boy/girfriend has just broken up with you without warning.
- Your parents and your best friend's parents have decided to divorce, swap partners, and re-marry.
- Due to terrible writing, the Skywalker family wants you dead. Something about caffeine. I don't even know.
- You really expected to go back to your usual gender after that weird weekend, but...
- Congratulations! You're part of the genetic lottery that sometimes gives people superpowers. Only, when your turn rolled around, mostly you just got blue skin and the ability to piss rainbows.

Yeul looked around for a partner while mulling over the scenarios that they'd been given.

They didn't seem like such terrible things, though Yeul knew she was probably not the best judge of that. Still, she thought she could come up with a bright side to them.

Which wasn't that surprising, all things considered.

"None of these are actually the worst thing that could happen to someone," Dom announced as he turned toward Yeul. "At least you're alive at the end of all of them, right?"

"There are worse things than dying," Yeul said lightly, "but you're right, these do not seem as if they'd be counted in that class."

Unless you were particularly melodramatic, maybe?

While Joker looked for a partner, he practiced growling "I'll get you, Skywalker!" in a menacing voice. He couldn't forget the weekend, so why not laugh at it, right?

"You can send me a copy of the picture," Cecil whispered.

Kenzi would get a kick out of it.

Yeah, billboard. Probably.

"Can you open a holo, or do I need to flatten it for you?" Joker whispered back. These things were important.

"I don't think I have anything to play it that way. Better flatten it."

[Sigh. My turn again!]

He thinks furry pants are high fashion. He might even be digging Jono's new look.

It was a cute look! It probably needed a better hem.

Yes, he's worn worse.

Shut up.

That Pearl Jam shirt is so reminiscent of the Night Vale logo, I had to actually pull both up to compare. Huh.

IKR? Me too!

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