fandomhigh | Ethics, Tuesday

This time, instead of one slightly glower-y robe wearing man in the front of the classroom, the students were treated to two! One tall, one shorter, standing an awkward distance apart and trying not to make too much eye contact while not looking like they were avoiding each other.

It was a difficult thing to do without looking really, really tense and...there were not doing it particularly well.

"I'm Anakin Skywalker," Anakin began, shutting the door at precisely the time class began. "This is ethics, and there are a lot of you in here, so we'll have to insist on you being on time and quiet as we're speaking."

"Indeed. As for me, I am Obi-Wan Kenobi," Obi-Wan said. He glowered rather less than Anakin, thank you very much, though awkward... yes. "As the school board has seen it fit to grant this class two teachers. With that out of the way, we welcome you to class. Ethics is a broad but all-encompassing discipline, more of a way of life than simply a field of study. We must all develop our personal ethics as circumstances and personality dictates, of course, but there are central issues we must all test ourselves on."

Anakin didn't make a comment about setting anyone on fire after making two or three very minor..ish errors in judgement! He was so proud of himself. "I've always run this class as a discussion," he said instead, "and recognize that what is clearly right and wrong in my worldview might not be true in yours. As long as you make a compelling argument, I'm prepared to listen."

Just don't try to eat the robobabies this semester, okay? Okay.

"We trust that you will all remain civil," Obi-Wan said, though privately he somewhat doubted that Anakin would. Call it experience. "If not, measures will be taken. Now that that is out of the way, I am told that it is customary for this class to begin with a round of two truths and a lie. Anakin?"

"That is true," Anakin said. "Give us your name, then two things that are true and one that is not. And we'll know because we're Jedi and we can sense the truth. To help you out, we'll also offer up two truths and a lie." He schooled his face to stillness. "I have been married twice. I've saved Obi-Wan's life ten times, and I love the beach."

If Anakin expected Obi-Wan to react, he did not. Though he had a fairly decent idea of which one was a lie-- which meant he had more questions for later, Anakin. "As for myself," he said, "I once received a rock as a birthday gift, I've won a battle by playing dejarik, and I once spent a year living on an ocean planet."

He was keeping his own neutral. Partly also to avoid making any comments about Cato Neimoidia.

You were hilariously high on that planet, Obi-Wan. Anakin totally saved your life. "Right, then," Anakin said after giving Obi-Wan a neutral look of his own. "You." He pointed to the nearest student. "Name, two truths and a lie."

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"My name is Barry. I once turned my aunt into a gelatinous blob, stopped alien mobsters from killing an alien accountant and I like green beans."

And there went the eyebrow. "It's a miracle you have the time to eat any on that schedule," he said.

"Well I don't sleep much," Barry admitted with a shrug. "And honestly the other two happened when I was in fourth grade."

"Ah, well, we were all young once," Obi-Wan said, both perplexed and amused. He stroked his beard. "Do you have any idea what manner of aliens these were?"

"Not their species," Barry admitted. "The mob aliens were about eight feet tall and heavily armored. The alien accountant looked like a hairball with arms and legs. Also he was hung like a horse."

"Yeah, the only thing I can't picture you doing in those scenarios is eating green beans," Kathy said. "Calling that one the lie."

"You get a gold star, Kathy," Barry joked. "Though I will eat green beans if not given any other choice."

"Well, I was told I was an overachiever this past weekend," Kathy said, with a small smile. "Guess it must be true if I'm racking up gold stars on the second day of classes."

"Who said you were an overachiever?" Barry asked rolling his eyes with amusement. "I may need to validate this claim."

"You remember Gorgon, the superhero with the goggles?" Kathy asked. "It turns out we come from the same LA. I ran into him at a diner while I was waiting for my portal."

And hadn't stammered or made a fool of herself at all. Score!

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