How to Make Friends and Influence People [Tuesday, April 1, 2014]

[sith_happened]

A distinctly soggy Anakin squelched into the Danger Shop in time to meet his class. "I don't actually expect you to be ready to do real work yet," he said, waving his hands toward the variety of exercise equipment he'd placed around the room--most in the "things to hit" range--"and I'm certainly not going to make you talk about anything you're not ready to yet. So hit something or run a lot--I promise it'll make you feel better."

He sighed at the tiny stage that was also in the corner. "Or have a puppet show. One of our visitors left sockpuppets that look like all of the citizens of this island."

The Pinkie Pie one was especially adorable.

"I didn't ask why," Anakin added, "but if you want to be ridiculous as a way to repress, well, here's your chance, and it'll only come around once. Try not to get everything too wet, but that seems to be a pretty lost cause today."

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Re: Talk to Anakin!

[sith_happened]

"You make your own choices," Anakin said, nodding. "No one else can make them for you."

He paused. "A supervillain? You don't seem the type."

He'd taught DOOM, so he knew the type.

Re: Talk to Anakin!

[ultron_junior]

"I'm not," Victor told him vigorously. "And I'm going to make sure I never am. Making my own choices, like you said."

Re: Talk to Anakin!

[sith_happened]

Anakin nodded. "Doesn't mean it's going to be easy all the time."

`Re: Talk to Anakin!

[ultron_junior]

"Most things worth doing aren't easy," Victor offered. "Or so people tell me."

Re: `Re: Talk to Anakin!

[sith_happened]

Anakin frowned thoughtfully. "I'm not so sure. If it's too hard, it's also a sign you shouldn't be doing it. Relationships shouldn't be constant hardship, and neither should your job."

Re: `Re: Talk to Anakin!

[ultron_junior]

Victor took a moment to assimilate that. "Okay, so maybe it just means you shouldn't give up the first time things get hard," he offered.

Re: `Re: Talk to Anakin!

[sith_happened]

Anakin grinned. "Better interpretation. Sometimes destiny is throwing roadblocks up to tell you to just stop."

Anakin, naturally, had ignored all of those.