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How to Make Friends and Influence People [Tuesday, April 15, 2014]

Anakin was typing as angrily as someone texting with two thumbs onto a comlink could when the class arrived. People were being Wrong on the Internet about The Amazing Race, Anakin's favorite show, and that couldn't be allowed to stand...and Rory had taken a hard line years ago about giving people migraines by thinking very hard at them. Typing in all caps was all he had left.

"Sometimes people are stupid and wrong," Anakin began, finally looking up, "and no amount of sweet talking will fix that. Today you have three scenarios to work through: one online, one using a telephone, and one in person. Think of this as prep for your final exam: break some truth to these people."

He went back to texting. Angrily.

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"Ah," Elsa replied, wrinkling her nose a little. "I'm not certain how I feel about them using the good name of trolls that way."

She still wasn't convinced that the things that had been attacking people a few weeks back were really trolls.

"One of Tenzin's kids," Korra explained. "He's five, and an airbender so when I say he whooshes about the place..."

Yes, Korra was making 'whoosh' gestures with her hands.

"...good name of trolls?" Anakin repeated. "I must not have met the right sort."

Anakin laughed. "I know the feeling. Both of my children are strong in the Force. It makes for a messy meal if they decide something is gross."

"You must not have," Elsa replied, blinking up at him.

And now she was confused about so much more than the internet.

"... What sort of trolls have you met?"

"Tenzin's got three others," Korra said with a grin. "I mean Rohan's just a baby, but sometimes I'm surprised he can manage to dress himself properly."

Cosette hesitated for just a moment while she fought off a faint sense of apprehension; it might have showed as a brief flicker in her otherwise steady expression.

"Well. I could be mistaken, and if I am I'm very sorry," she said carefully. "I'm not up to date on the latest fashions just yet, and of course there are just so many to keep track of around here, everyone coming from so many different places and times as they do. It's just that you seem to have two completely different boots on, that's all."

"It takes a certain skill," Anakin agreed, "especially when everyone's screaming and ten minutes late."

"And even then, sometimes a guy can slip up." Was she doing this subtlety thing right?

Victor went through the boards responding to all the longer posts on This Team with "tl;dr," and replying to the others with spelling and grammar corrections. It was a good day to be a troll.

"There's no way I'm--" Anakin began, staring down at his feet. "Oh."

Very well! Too bad Anakin was being dense.

"That's true. He has a lot on his mind."

Mercy Thompson

Cosette half-smiled at him. "It's hard to notice sometimes, I know, when one's in a hurry, but just think if you'd only remembered to put on one! That would be far less pleasant."

"And soggy," Anakin said with a tiny smile of his own. "Thank you for pointing out my mistake."

And there was a sentence he wouldn't have said five years ago.

Somewhere, Tahiri was keeling over in shock.

"It's only right," Cosette answered, because while she might be good at managing her father when he was being unreasonably stubborn she also took all his good traits to heart. "I'd hope someone would do the same for me."

She paused, laughed softly, and added, "Either way, I'm glad you didn't end up soggy as well."

"Me too," Anakin admitted. "This weather has been ridiculous. At least we can dry out this time, right?"

The look on Cosette's face was almost an extremely faint smirk, or it would be from someone a little older and more self-aware. Mostly, she just looked amused.

"Ridiculous even by this place's standards?"

You had to make sure of these things.

"Exactly," Korra said. "Which is why no one would judge him if he say...wore the wrong shoes."

Jessica Drew

Jessica's post was simple.

If you want real competition, watch The Challenge on MTV.

She figured that would annoy some people into forgetting their silly argument.

Again, Jessica was going the direct route, this time with a text. She figured it would let the bad friend stew a bit and drive them nuts.

3 strikes and you're friend-dumped, Coffee-Late. You're on your own to make things better if you want.

"Eff why eye, your boots don't match," Jessica said, sticking with directness. "Sorry, but it was hard not to notice."

Toby Logan

"Well, I'm used to this place," Anakin said. "I've been here almost a decade."

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