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Arts and Crafts with Friends!!!, Tuesday, Period 2

Class was ~~handwavily~~ notified that their first session was to be held on the rocky bits of Fandom Island. Upon arrival, they would find that someone had set up some precarious looking -- but surprisingly sturdy -- picnic tables amongst the rocks, and covered said tables with paints and glue and bags of googly eyes and pipe cleaners.

And, yes, lots of glitter. It was basically tradition.

Pinkie greeted the class gleefully. "Hellohellohello! I'm Pinkie Pie, and this is Derek, and we're your teachers for this session's funtabulous Arts & Crafts workshop!"

Derek, it seemed, was ~~being shamelessly modded~~ just going to let Pinkie take this one on. Poor long suffering fool.

"And this is Gummy!" Pinkie said, pointing at the tiny little alligator sitting blank-eyed on her head. "He's my pet. It's great to have pets! Almost anypony's life can be improved with a faithful little companion. But not everypony can have every kind of pet. Some ponies don't even want the responsibility of a little critter pet. Some ponies, like my very bestest sister Maude, prefer a nice, loyal pet rock. And that's why we're here!" She flung her hooves out in the traditional V. "Today, you're all going to find a fun little pet rock all of your own! We've got lots of things to decorate your pet rock with and make him or her or it feel real extra super special! And 'cause it's the first day, when you're all set, we'll get to introducing ourselves -- and our new extra special rock friends!"

Now aren't you all glad you signed up for this class? You get rock friends.

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Ready to rock

Nathan Byrn

Rapunzel

Isaac Lahey

Anders

Kira Yukimura

Isabelle Lightwood

Alex Mack

Paddra Nsu-Yeul

Joker Moreau

Andros

You're actually doing the activity before introductions. This class is so avant garde!

Painting was something Nathan could do and do pretty well. He didn't actually know what to paint on the rocks so he just went for a few abstract designs.

Rapunzel took to this particular activity like a moth to a flame, or like a girl with minimal childhood companionship to the idea of personifying an object.

One of the two.

Either way, by the time she was done, Rapunzel's rock had googly eyes, a bright smile, and a wash of pastel colors that faded into a sort of swirling design on its surface. She was pretty proud of it.

(Pascal, on the other hand, seemed jealous.)

Barry's rock was a dark tan with googly eyes and appeared to have an afro. The mouth of the rock appeared to have a tongue hanging out. He also fashioned arms and hands out of pipe cleaners with the hands forming a simulated "Fist of Rock".

Isaac's rock was just going to be painted with a bunch of blobs and no discernible facial features. This was really stupid.

Right. Painting. Painting a rock.

Anders wasn't sure he saw the point of this exercise -- as pets went, rocks were nowhere near as interesting as cats or even chameleons -- but he'd give it a go. He came as close to decorating his rock like a calico cat as his somewhat limited talent would allow.

This was actually a nicely calming exercise after bungee jumping, so Kira's rock was quickly painted pink and covered in bits of glitter because that seemed like the most appropriate thing to do with a talking pony as a teacher.

After some consideration, Alex's rock ended up being painted bright green with googly eyes.

Joker kind of liked the texture of the rock he picked up, so he didn't want to paint over it too much. Some googly eyes and a reasonably decent smile completed the rock itself, and he spent the rest of the allotted time weaving a baseball cap out of blue and gold pipe cleaners.

"I'll go first!" Pinkie said. "I'm Pinkie Pie, like I said before, and I've been a teacher at Fandom now for -- omigosh, years and years and years! It's so much fun! And this," she held up a purple painted rock with a teeny tiny gray rock painted on what was presumably its flank. The rock was wearing a tiny silver party hat. "Is Rochelle! Say hi to everypony, Rochelle! . . . I said say 'hi!' . . . SAY HI!"

The rock said nothing. Pinkie smiled as though it did, though, and pointed to one of the students. "Now you!"

Derek would introduce himself or not, as he pleased. You could bet any rock he might pick would end the day covered in glitter, though. Rainbow glitter. With extra large googly eyes.

Let's be real, Derek was be glittered the moment he agreed to teach with Pinkie again.

He sighed at the whole talking to random people thing. "I'm Derek, your other teacher."

Who had a googly eye glued to his stubble. He didn't know how or when that happened.

"I'm not painting a rock friend. But you all have to."

"It's alright, he already had a pet," Pinkie assured the class, who were clearly very worried about Derek's faithful companion situation. "His name's Puppy Joe, and he's the jealous type." This last was meant to be whispered. And it was. Extremely loudly.

Derek sighed again. Because... well it was true. That dog had attempted to terrorize both Isaac and a pair of wolf slippers because if it.

"I'm Rapunzel!" she said eagerly, waving around at the rest of the class. "I'm, um...a junior, I guess? I just turned sixteen, so I think that's right."

She held up her rock, squinting at it. "Is it okay if I haven't named her yet? I feel like it'll come to me with time."

There was a throat-clearing noise from her shoulder, and Rapunzel lifted her hair to the side to reveal a chameleon, who was alternating between staring daggers at the rock, and looking curiously at Gummy. "And this is Pascal. He's a chameleon!"

"That's alright," Pinkie said. "That just means when you do think of her name, it'll be the bestest name for your pet rock ever!" Yes. That was clearly exactly what it meant.

Pinkie gasped as she caught sight of Pascal. "Omigosh! He and Gummy can be best friends!"

"Nathan." He didn't go any further than that. "I haven't named my pet rock. It's just a rock. I'll probably forget about it after I leave this class."

"Your poor rock!" Pinkie was appalled. "How will he know who he is if you leave him forgotten and nameless?"

That's right, Nathan. Your rock is now male.

"I don't think it'll care," Nathan said, glancing down at his brightly colored rock. "It's just a rock. I'm sure he'll be fine."

"Well not with that attitude!" . . . Wait, what? "That just shows what you know about rocks." This was an accurate statement. "Poor little rock. Such an igneous beginning."

"I don't really care about rocks," Nathan said, shrugging. "I like art, not rocks."

"I'm Barry. I'm a senior," Barry said looking amused at the class in general. "This is my pet rock Jeremy Jr."

"Hi, Jeremy Jr.! Nice to meet you!"

Yep, she was waving at the rock.

"He's very well styled. Good job, Barry!"

"Thanks," Barry replied with a shrug. "He's modeled after a friend at home. They have a similar IQ."

Which was mostly an insult to the rock.

"How sweet!" Or, you know, not.

"I'm Isaac. I'm about to be a senior." Which Pinkie probably already knew because he seemed to be cursed to be in every class Derek taught. "And my rock's name is...Clyde."

Isaac probably had almost as much glitter stuck to his scalp as Derek, by this point.

"Hi Isaac!" Pinkie greeted. "Hi Clyde! Welcome back!"

"I'm Anders," Anders said, a smile quirking around the edges of his mouth as he held up his rock. "And this is Ser Pounce-a-Lot. Only he doesn't so much pounce just yet."

"Awww," Pinkie said. "Is he just a baby rock?"

Because rocks absolutely had life-stages that related to animals.

Anders looked confused for a moment but then caught on. "Er. Yes. That's exactly why he doesn't pounce yet. And not at all because he's a rock and not a cat."

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"I'm Kira, and I'm a sophomore," she said. "And this is... uh, Rosa." That was an appropriate name for a pink rock, right?

"Hi Kira!" Pinkie greeted. "Hi Rosa! What a pretty rock!" Surprise, the pink pony liked the pink rock! "Welcome to class!"

"Isabelle Lightwood, senior." She held up her rock. It had a face. And also glitter. "This is Alexander."

There was a chance she was going to take the rock back to the Institute and give it to Alec. Who'd be absolutely thrilled about having a rock for a namesake, sure.

"Aw, he's so cute!" In that way that rocks were so cute, sure. "Welcome to the class!"

"I'm Alex and I'm a freshman," Alex said, she held up her rock, "uh...I haven't named my rock yet,"

Joker grinned at the pony. "I'm Jeff Moreau, but you can call me Joker. This here's Rocket, and he's the fastest darn rock in all of Fandom. Say hi, Rocket!"

He held up his rock and waggled it around a little bit. In a high-pitched voice, "Rocket" said "Hi folks I like friends you're all awesome -- oooh Rochelle lookin' good hey baby are you single? Rowwwr!"

One of whom will talk your ear off.

And the other teacher would listen to you with creepy intensity. Or because he was desperately hoping you'd leave.

I have apparently lost the ability to spell "teacher" on the first try. Pinkie keeps trying to be a "teater".

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