How to Make Friends and Influence People [Tuesday, February 18, 2014]

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"So this weekend was the one right after Valentine's Day, which meant that many of you had some unexpected visitors," Anakin began. "Children, in some cases completely impossible children, with expectations about how your life is currently playing out, which might be wildly different than the reality. That can take some delicate negotiations, especially if your co-parent is someone you aren't dating or, worse yet, can't stand. How did your weekend go? Did you get through it without anyone bursting into tears? Do you have the first clue of what I'm talking about?"

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Missing your kids. Or not!

How did your weekend go?

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Did you have to conduct delicate negotiations with people you don't like? Did you lie to a small child? Did you sleep through all of the weirdness?

Talk to Anakin!

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Who is feeling very, very old when he realized that Cade had a kid.

OOC

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My gardener found a cockroach the size of my hand on the porch today. I am sooooo over rainy season.

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Taylor Brink

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Joker Moreau

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Joker grimaced. "It was traumatizing, and it sucked. The kid was not just impossible, but creepy. I liked it better when I was scheming to steal your diamond mine."

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Korra

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"So many notes," was Korra's helpful contribution.

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Jessica Drew

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"I was out of town and missed basically all of it," Jessica said. "Lucky me, no kids!"

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"How creepy?" Anakin asked. "I've met creepy before."

Like Raven'a Anakin. He would have been happy to dropkick that child through the portal himself.

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Anakin arched up an eyebrow. "Notes?"

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"Have you had them before?" Anakin asked.

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"Human/robot hybrid. Glowing eyes." Joker shuddered. "Not. Physically. Possible."

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Well, he was talking to a man who'd once been more than half machine...

"Fun for you," Anakin said dryly. "Did she? he? tell you how that'd happened?"

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Anakin had been a cyborg. COMPLETELY different. This kid was a freakish abomination of nature. ...Kind of like Victor sitting over there. Oops?

"Oh, that was the best part," Joker complained. "He wouldn't tell me jack. Kept going on and on about not wanting to create a temporal paradox." He sighed. "So, you know, precocious. Hoora~ay!" He spun a finger in the air, in mock celebration.

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Anakin chuckled. "At least you didn't have to work out custody issues?" he offered.

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"Oh, I would have loved the 'no, you take him' argument. That would have meant I could fob him off on someone else, at least for a little while."

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"No off button?"

Anakin, you're a terrible person.

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"I wish. But thankfully there was a sleep mode." Ha.

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Mercy Thompson

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"I didn't have any children show up," Mercy said. "So I pretty much just stayed out of the way."

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Anakin snickered. "Heh."

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"Have you had any in previous weekends?" Anakin asked.