Plus We Have a Motorcade [Thursday, April 3, 2014]

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

"All those in favor of pretending most of this last semester never happened, say 'aye'," Josh said, coming into the classroom. "So ordered. Okay, so when the President goes out, a great easy photo-op is to stop in at a local food place and take a picture with the owner. You can talk about the importance of small business, health insurance, increasing the minimum wage or whatever, plus you get a tasty meal out of it." He clapped his hands together. "So today's very difficult assignment: if you were visiting Washington DC, Chicago, and Austin, what would you order?"

It was possible Josh was just hungry today.

Comments

Re: What food would you ask for?

[tigerundercover]

"The one that only talks about plane crashes has to be one of the fake ones."

Re: What food would you ask for?

[abitlowkey]

Loki sir pressed a smile, nodding encouragingly. "I am certain you will be proven right. Eventually."

Re: What food would you ask for?

[tigerundercover]

"In my time," Raven said, because a 16 year old doing the 'in my day' schtick was totally a reasonable thing, "the news had to actually report news."

Or, you know, propaganda presented as news. Mostly that second thing.

Re: What food would you ask for?

[abitlowkey]

"I think you are just precious," Loki announced. "I think we ought to be the very best of friends."

Somewhere... some version of Magneto was not okay with this.

Re: What food would you ask for?

[tigerundercover]

"Do you still think you're a very short blue frost giant god?" Raven asked. Not because this was a deal breaker. It was just useful information to have.

Re: What food would you ask for?

[abitlowkey]

Loki sighed. "I like you older and far more murderous."

Re: What food would you ask for?

[tigerundercover]

. . . Wait, what?

"I'm not murderous."

She hadn't even been that traumatized yet, after all.

Re: What food would you ask for?

[abitlowkey]

YET.

"My apologies. More... mercurial?"

Re: What food would you ask for?

[tigerundercover]

IT WOULD HAPPEN, DON'T WORRY.

"I don't know what you're talking about," Raven said a little primly, though even she had to admit it was an apt term. "I'm just a perfectly normal teenager."

Who could shapeshift.

Re: What food would you ask for?

[abitlowkey]

"Who is a shapeshifter." Thanks, Loki.

Re: What food would you ask for?

[tigerundercover]

Raven rolled her eyes. It worked well to disguise the way she then shifted them side to side to see if anyone reacted to that information badly. "Yes, fine, who's a shapeshifter."

Re: What food would you ask for?

[abitlowkey]

"You are from when mutants are new, are you not?" Like Loki cared about those reactions.

Re: What food would you ask for?

[tigerundercover]

"Well, before anyone knows about us, at least," Raven said. "We don't actually know if we're totally new or not."

Re: What food would you ask for?

[abitlowkey]

"Ah," Loki said, thinking of Evan now. "I might offer you warning that the first of your species is best left be."

Re: What food would you ask for?

[tigerundercover]

"Wait, you mean you know who that is?"

Re: What food would you ask for?

[abitlowkey]

"Yes." Well, thanks, Loki. "But there are others! You might have better luck with Namor."

Ahahahahahano.

Re: What food would you ask for?

[tigerundercover]

"There's more than one?" Raven asked. "Wait, how do you know all of this? Did they find a mutant mummy in Egypt or something?"

Re: What food would you ask for?

[abitlowkey]

Loki blinked at that. "Oh no, he is still alive."

Ish. Maybe.

Re: What food would you ask for?

[tigerundercover]

"I would be, like, nintety by now."

76, actually. Ish. Maybe.

Re: What food would you ask for?

[abitlowkey]

"Yes you would," Loki replied enthusiastically. "Namor, if I recall correctly, was active in the Second World War of Midgard. And the first of your kind makes him but a babe in arms."

ALL STILL ALIVE SOMEHOW.

Re: What food would you ask for?

[tigerundercover]

"Midgard?" Raven asked. "Is that from Tolkein?"

SORRY NOT SORRY.

Re: What food would you ask for?

[abitlowkey]

"That would be Middle Earth," Loki assured her. "Midgard is this earthly plain."

Re: What food would you ask for?

[tigerundercover]

"I've only heard it called 'Earth'," Raven said. "Or maybe 'Terra'." Hey, she read science fiction, sometimes, okay? "Wait, wouldn't that make this Namor guy part of World War II? I remember World War II. It wasn't that long ago."

Especially not when you were from 1954.

Re: What food would you ask for?

[abitlowkey]

"Did you not have a Captain America?" Because he was just so dreamy and patriotic.

Re: What food would you ask for?

[tigerundercover]

SORRY LOKI WRONG FRANCHISE.

"Not that I remember."

Mind you, she'd been, like, seven in 1945.