Self Defense, Thursday, Period One

[suitably_heroic]

This week around, the Danger Shop had been set up to resemble Fandom. Hey, the sim was in the system, might as well make as much use of it as possible, right?

Atton himself came stomping in more or less on time. "Okay," he yelled, "I had an entire conversation with my mirror this morning that was about as embarrassing as it was traumatizing, which means the island is being a--" ...string of mean Twi'lekki words, apparently, "--and I don't want to deal with it because all of my defense mechanisms are built on a network of carefully constructed lies."

Beat.

"Ugh."

He slapped a blaster onto a table of other blasters.

"So, instead of starting off with the fighting moves I had planned, today, we're shooting things. Silently. Grab one, grab a friend, work on your reflexes."

He pointed at Sparkle. "You, come see me after class, I have something for you. Don't ask questions. That's good advice for everyone here today, actually."

He smashed his fist down on a red button and not entirely realistic-looking monsters suddenly spawned all over town. There.

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[suitably_heroic]

Truthfully and hating it.

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[bearmaidenfair]

Vider Bearskin

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[gavegoodface]

Face Loran

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[theheadkid.livejournal.com]

Travis Coates

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[not_a_moonie]

Alana

Listen to the Lecture

[suitably_heroic]

Short as it is.

Pair Up Or Go Out Alone

[suitably_heroic]

There's monsters overrunning the city. You get a blaster and a small display you can clip to your wrist. Each monster shot adds a point, but if a monster touches you, it takes off two of your points.

Go forth and shoot.

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[theheadkid.livejournal.com]

Jumping right into the guns again, Travis saw. He sighed and picked one up before he headed out to try and stay alive. He doubted his odds.

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[not_a_moonie]

"Want to work together?" Alana asked, holding a gun in her hands. "You're cute and seem like a decent guy, and since this is all a sim I don't even mind too much that I'll probably have to save you."

She sighed. "And apparently I'm blurting out everything on my mind. Okay. This sucks."

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[theheadkid.livejournal.com]

"Well, it's not like it's not true." It couldn't be not true, not today. "You're pretty cute too and I'm not gonna have any shame in hiding behind you should something nasty happen. I'm not a skilled fighter."

Way to make yourself look awesome, Travis.

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[not_a_moonie]

"Kind of noticed that in class last week," Alana acknowledged. "But at least you know it so I don't have to pretend to think you're good to spare your ego. Besides, everybody starts from somewhere, right?"

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[bearmaidenfair]

"I'm not any good with these things," Vider announced. "Somebody be my partner."

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[dauntless-four.livejournal.com]

"I'm very good with these things in no small part due to my massive daddy issues," Four volunteered, then groaned in frustration. "Let's shoot things."

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[bearmaidenfair]

"I also have massive daddy issues, and you're really hot, so that sounds great," Vider said, and then, likewise, groaned. "Yes. Shooting things. Good."

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[dauntless-four.livejournal.com]

"Shooting things is much better than me blushing because girls here think I'm hot," Four agreed, then shook his head hard. "There's a reason I don't talk much."

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[myownface]

Sparkle really wasn't the sort to deal with monsters alone.

That said, Sparkle was even more not the sort to go actively looking for a partner that he could potentially end up spilling his guts to, so he was keeping his mouth shut, taking a blaster and a display, and doing his damnedest to slip away before anybody got any ideas about partnering up today.

He was going to lose so many points today, and he didn't care.

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[beautifulsenshi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, right, good luck with that Sparkle.

"Help me," Minako hissed, grabbing his elbow before he could get away. "I cannot pair up with any of the guys in this class because I am totally going to blurt out that they're hot and we should make-out and while you're hot you're my best friend so at least I don't have to worry about making a total idiot of myself."

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[myownface]

"And it helps that we both know I'm more queer than a three-dollar bill and not really interested anyway?" Yes, Sparkle. That. "I was actually trying to sneak off before anybody could ask to be my partner, because being around people means I'll probably start blurting out things I'm not emotionally stable enough to share with other people, but if you promise not to ask too many questions it might not be so bad. I suck at fighting things, though. I mean I've used blasters and guns a few times but if we're looking at the odds, I'm gonna get tagged by those pixel things a lot before the period is through."

UGH.

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[beautifulsenshi.livejournal.com]

"Is there such a thing as a three-dollar bill? If there's not, we should make one. We'll call it 'the Sparklenote' and it's good for a DDR session where the only talking we have to do is trash-talking," Minako promised. "--and if it helps, I'm going to get tagged, too. The only guns I've ever used are at the arcade."

Talk to the Teacher

[suitably_heroic]

Who's going to be over there, trying to avoid being talked to.

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[myownface]

After class, as instructed, Sparkle shimmied over to Atton and gave him a strained grin and a terse nod.

He so did not want to make words happen right now, ugh.

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[suitably_heroic]

Neither did Atton, so hey, maybe together they could keep gut spilling from happening. "I got you a military hold-out blaster because I'd be pretty upset if you died." Beat. "Ugh. Anyway, I can't carry weapons on campus, so I dropped it off at the weapons locker. If you didn't have one with your name on it before, you do now. Congratulations."

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[myownface]

D'awww. Sparkle would've made some clip about how he didn't know Atton cared, except... that would have been lying. Instead, he just gave Atton a thankful grin, and shrugged his shoulders.

"I didn't have one before this, nah. I mostly just used the training weapons because it wasn't like I was going to run out and get my own archery equipment or whatever. But thanks, like, I appreciate it. Now maybe if I actually put in the proper amount of time it takes to learn how to do that sort of thing right, I'll be at least slightly less likely to get eaten or something the next time something attacks."

... That hadn't been too bad, at least.

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[suitably_heroic]

"I'll drag you out to the shooting range some time when I can actually talk you through something without having to play 'dodge the landmine'," Atton offered.

That one wasn't terrible. It wasn't like Sparkle didn't know Atton was basically made of secrets.

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[suitably_heroic]

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