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Powers, Identity, and The World; Embracing the Real You - Friday, Period One

Students today would be pleased to see a roaring bonfire in the middle of the classroom. There was also a ~~moddable~~ pile of blankets, mittens and scarves sitting just inside the door. Best of all were the rows of steaming mugs full of hot chocolate, with marshmallows bobbing to the surface.

The power might be out, but nobody was freezing to death on Rinoa and Jono’s watch.

//This week, we're well aware of the weather, and… so help me, I haven't got the attention span to throw together a lecture today,// Jono noted from where he was sitting, a respectable distance from the fire, arms crossed in front of him as usual, //so we're going to do something a little different than usual. With no focus comes a completely open floor.//

He could manage a guess as to just why that focus was shot, really. He couldn't breathe in the pollen himself, but he was a telepath, and Fandomites weren't exactly quiet about their frustrations. These were things he was never mentioning in class, ever, while he struggled to keep up very firmly solid walls between himself and everyone else's ambient... feelings.

It had been very difficult for Rinoa to leave Squall this morning and come to class. At least he’d still be there in an hour, when she went back to bed. She had also figured out what was going on, and didn’t intend to surface for the next day or so. Sue her.

“Ask us anything,” Rinoa said. “I don’t just mean about your powers; I mean anything. It’s Valentine’s Day tomorrow. Is there someone special in your life? Someone you have an eye on, but you’re too shy to make a move? Don’t feel like you have to share if you don’t want to, but love and dating and all of that are complicated at your age, even for people that are non-powered.”

//Hell,// Jono added, //they don't have to be questions about love, either. Ask us for recipes. Ask us about our pets. Don't ask anything at all. Tell us about that time you stubbed your toe in the third grade and you got a cookie when you cried even though it didn't hurt all that much. The floor is completely open. What have you got?//

Jono was going to pray that what they had was not a whole slough of sex questions. He wasn't going to hold his breath, though. Not that it would be difficult to accomplish.

“Get some hot chocolate,” Rinoa said, waving to the mugs. “Wrap yourself in blankets, and stay by the fire. Speak up. We’re listening.”

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By the fire!

Elsa of Arendelle

Karina Lyle

Raven Darkholme

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Make yourself as comfortable or as uncomfortable by the fire or far away from the fire as you like, with as many or as few blankets, mittens, and mugs of hot chocolate as you please.

A little bit of crankiness will be excused today.

Maybe people would understand if Elsa took a (comparatively thin) blanket and parked herself as far away from the rest of the group as she possibly could without just outright avoiding everyone, forever? She'd grabbed herself some hot chocolate and if it happened to be freezing over a little, that was entirely because she wasn't sitting by the fire right now. At least she didn't have a screaming droid baby with her. Entirely because it was currently sitting in front of Ronan's door, encased solidly in a block of ice.

This week was fired. By royal decree.

Karina did have a screaming droid baby with her today.

She didn't look particularly bothered by it as she grabbed a blanket, some hot chocolate, and sat down not super close to the fire, but not super far either.

Getting the baby to calm down took her longer, and it wouldn't last the whole lesson, but she managed it after a few minutes. She was actually pretty good with children--even droid ones.

Absolutely every person at this school was attractive. Well, maybe not the pony, but everyone else. . . . Even the old guys! What the hell?!

Raven was not wrapped up in a blanket or hanging out by the fire. Not even so much because she didn't mind the cold (though she greatly appreciated being indoors out of the driving snow), but because she was sort of desperately hoping the cold would help calm her the fuck down.

She knew she should have stayed home, today. Except then she likely would have just started hitting on Amy.

Stupid hot people school.

Anders wrapped himself in blankets and sat a bit apart from the group, looking even more distracted than normal. In the right mood he would flirt with anyone halfway attractive; the problem was that right then, he was finding everyone in class more than halfway attractive. (Including Professor Starsmore, who was almost twice Anders' age and missing certain crucial parts. Which, on every other day, had kept Anders from noticing the fantastic auburn gloss to the teacher's hair and how strong his legs looked and ... he was going to stare into the fireplace in hopes it would stop that train of thought right there.)

To the void with all of it. He needed Nathan, or at least an hour alone in his room without a cat or a chameleon staring at him.

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Celia was going to just be...over here, swathed in as many blankets as she could snag and clinging to her hot chocolate.

Everyone here was beautiful. Everyone at this school was absurdly beautiful, and her skin was -- tight, or something, and she couldn't begin to concentrate on anything. Her mind was too firmly on how she might try her very best to keep warm, later.

Rinoa would understand if she didn't make it in to work today, after all. She obviously knew how cold it was. And if she instead made use of her afternoon with Ichabod -- well, that'd temper things a bit, she imagined.

And if either of their stupid babies screamed through it, she'd take the damn things apart.

And this was another person who chose to huddle in the cold. Being next to the fire might lead to warmth, to comfort, to removing articles of clothing and pouncing on another student...any random student. It didn't matter. Kathy wasn't picky. Not today.

Alex had bundled herself up in many blankets as she could and had positioned herself relatively close to the fire. She couldn't concentrate on anything today and when she did she could feel her face start glowing, which it had not done in those few early weeks after she had first gotten her powers.

So she was trying not to focus on that and buried her face further into the blankets that she had wrapped around herself, hoping that no one would notice.

About literally anything. Ask questions, complain about the weather, complain about the pollen, ask to be excused, show off pictures of your cat on your phone...

Ask... more questions?

Jono's just really hoping they're not questions about sex, honestly.

Anders broke the silence, glancing away from the fireplace. "What's Valentine's Day?" he asked. "All I know so far is there are flowers and a lot of heart-shaped candies."

//It used to be a religious holiday of some sort, I think,// Jono replied, shrugging his shoulders, //to honour the patron saint of something or other. But these days the flowers and the candies are basically it. It's become a commercial holiday meant to sell you things to give to your loved ones because... money. Or love. Or something.//

... Jono was bad at this.

//You're meant to show appreciation to the people you care about.//

Better.

"That's nice, then," Anders decided, smiling a bit. "Not the part about making people buy things. But appreciation's good, isn't it?"

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When she pings in!

Celia was tempted to ask a question, but she was terrified of what idiocy might fall out of her mouth today; she didn't trust herself not to accidentally blurt out something about how she might avoid the less pleasant side effects of her powers in intimate situations.

It seemed a rather bad time to break the window, after all.

When they ping in!

Jono was here, wearing one of his heavier old leather jackets, and was looking decidedly less uncomfortable than he otherwise might.

Bless every telepath who ever taught him how to shield out ambient thoughts, because that particular level of control was absolutely saving his sorry arse today.

At some point during class, Jono would be getting a text.

It's one of those days, is it?

Absolutely one of those days. I've got my walls up something fierce at the moment because otherwise I'll strangle each and every one of my students. How're you surviving?

Jono was so not going to hold back from texting right now. The students could chat amongst themselves for a few seconds at a time.