Ethics, Tuesday

[saddeserthermit]

Their class today took place in an ordinary classroom, with ordinary desks and ordinary chairs, and an ordinary Jedi in thick robes who looked as if for all the world, everything was ordinary at the moment. Obi-Wan had been with the Order all his life; deflecting feelings such as desire into the Force was old hat.

Mildly irritating old hat that he had to work slightly harder for than usual, but still: old hat. The only thing that was different was that now he held some mild concern as to the identity of the 'Jaye' who had sent him flowers.

"I hope your week with the babies has been educational," he said, when it became apparent that Anakin would be late. "Difficult as some of you appear to have found the task, going by what I've heard on the radio. Today, you may relinquish the children, and we will talk about the lessons you have learned..."

...and speaking of lessons, the kids were getting an unintentional one of completely inappropriate Huttese--and Tusken curses, with a bit of Bothawui thrown in for effect--as a glitter bedrenched blob that could only be Anakin stalked into the classroom and stood in front of the class. "I hate everything and everyone," he declared, then pointed a (glittery) finger at Obi-Wan. "And one word about hate being of the Dark Side and I'm punting you out the nearest window."

Congratulations, class: not only would you be learning educational lessons about babies and curse words, you would also be there to witness the deployment of the nuclear-grade epic eyeroll Obi-Wan had spent years developing: Codename: Anakin. "I would concern myself with letting your anger pass into the Force, first, before moving on to more complicated emotions such as hatred," he said, with barely constrained amusement.

"I haven't missed you even a little bit," the glitter pile muttered. "I've noticed the...sense...of the island as I arrived," he added, "so please don't do anything or anyone you'll regret when this wears off."

It was hard to take a sex-ed PSA seriously from what amounted to a walking, talking, disco ball, so don't worry if you can't, class.

"Good advice," Obi-Wan said, in desperate hope that his own presence might bring some actual respectability and truth to the disco pile's words. "Now, that aside: today, you may tell the class what you learned about responsibility and caretaking in this past week. Please stay at your desks as you do so, for reasons my colleague has already explained."

He'd pull up his hood, however. Anakin was rather safe from any teenager's directed interest, being that there were limits to what one could find attractive about a pile of glitter. But he had been in enough troublesome situations that he'd like to decrease the risk of being the target of anyone's looks.

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[saddeserthermit]

Glittery.

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[iceolatedqueen.livejournal.com]

Elsa of Arendelle

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[gavegoodface]

Garik Loran

Listen to the Lecture

[saddeserthermit]

Glitter pile and celibate Jedi say what...

Re: Listen to the Lecture

[notamascot]

Kaylin was happily memorizing all of the curse words. This was great!

Re: Listen to the Lecture

[sarcastic-vamp.livejournal.com]

Upon seeing all the droid babies her fellow students were turning in, Carmilla was suddenly very glad she'd missed out on classes the previous week.

Turn In Your Droid Babies

[saddeserthermit]

Aren't you glad to be rid of them?

Re: Turn In Your Droid Babies

[thegreywaren.livejournal.com]

Ronan was so glad to get rid of this thing. Not that he'd really paid it much attention last night but still. Glad to be rid of it.

Re: Turn In Your Droid Babies

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

Joker was very, very relieved to be rid of his baby which he and Face had handwavily been doing handwavy things with because HOLY CRAP I FAIL SO HARD LATELY. But he was definitely glad the thing was gone now.

Discuss: Responsibility

[saddeserthermit]

"Now, that aside: today, you may tell the class what you learned about responsibility and caretaking in this past week." How did your time with the droid babies go?

Re: Discuss: Responsibility

[iceolatedqueen.livejournal.com]

Elsa had handed her baby off to Ronan earlier in the week and hadn't seen it since, and maybe that was for the best. It had already been dog-chewed by a half-grown malamute and around the time where she passed it along, it had been encased in a solid block of ice. She was pretty certain she wouldn't have done that if the pollen hadn't made her so skittish, but either way, she comprehended that that wasn't how you treated babies.

"I'm never having children," she declared. "Ever."

That was... maybe not the full and complete lesson, really.

"I can't, I shouldn't. After the time I spent with that thing," it would always be a thing, "and the shape it was in when I handed it to my partner I'm questioning if I'm even fit to be taking care of my dog."

It did help that she wasn't actively repulsed by her dog, maybe.

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[saddeserthermit]

Obi-Wan's first instinct was to ask exactly why it had been necessary to damage the baby, but that seemed needlessly confrontational. "What happened?" he asked instead. "And why did you do it?"

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[not_a_moonie]

Alana had managed not to snicker too much at the talking disco ball. She was very proud of herself for this achievement.

"I learned that I'm okay at it even if I'm not ready for real kids," Alana offered with a little shrug, then remembered Anakin's broadcast. "I mean, fine, I put it in the storage room at work a couple times so I could concentrate, but it needed a nap anyhow."

It was a good thing her parenting skills would improve in the next decade or so.

Re: Discuss: Responsibility

[sith_happened]

Said glitter ball was trying to glare.

It was not going well.

"You wouldn't do that with a real child."

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[pasunereveuse.livejournal.com]

"I learned that I was more patient with the actual, living-flesh daughter that appeared for me over a weekend last year than I was with your poorly-behaved mechanical nightmare," Celia offered, crossing her arms irritably over her chest. "And considering I have never encountered an infant that cried that much, I don't think it was a fair exercise or that the results yielded are necessarily accurate."

Which was to say: Celia rather thought her babies -- should she ever get the chance to have any -- would be better behaved (and far less creepy), thank you.

Re: Discuss: Responsibility

[saddeserthermit]

Obi-Wan had been inclined to be patient with Elsa, because she appeared to be honestly troubled by the whole affair. Celia's attitude, however, did not quite prompt such patience.

"Oh?" he said. "And how many infants have you had under your care?"

Re: Discuss: Responsibility

[beautifulsenshi.livejournal.com]

"I like real children better, my cat hates robots and tries to kill it thinking it's a minion of darkness--" No, really, but Minako had stopped him before it even got scratched! "--and I handwavily passed it off to my co-parent as often as possible because robot babies do not like running laps!"

UNFAIR. Exercise was important! Especially this week!

"Oh, and I really don't get what this exercise was about. I don't. If it was 'responsibility sucks,' you could have given us puppies to walk at all hours. Giving us robot babies just seems like a badly done sex-ed class from a teenage romantic comedy, and I didn't even get a date out of it." Priorities, people!

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[sith_happened]

"Given how some of these babies are coming back, we're not putting you near living things," Anakin replied a little dryly.

Well, as dryly as someone dripping in glitter could possibly manage.

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[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I already knew I was never having kids," Joker replied. "This was just a good reminder that I shouldn't adopt, either." He shrugged. "And, for the record, my sister never screamed half that much."

Re: Discuss: Responsibility

[sith_happened]

Anakin shrugged. "Different babies react differently. Some refuse to be let go of, some need to be rocked to sleep for almost a year...there's no way to predict."

Talk to the Teachers

[saddeserthermit]

One of them is glad this isn't boykissy glitter. The other is happily unaware of the existence of boykissy glitter.

Re: Talk to the Teachers

[saddeserthermit]

Happily unaware of that, yes. Obi-Wan had been trying to puzzle out whether or not the source of the flowers was something he should be worried about since the weekend.

He just hoped this Jaye wasn't a student.

Re: Talk to the Teachers

[sith_happened]

The glitter was in his coffee. Oh, there would be hell to pay if he ever figured out who'd boobytrapped his office...

OOC

[saddeserthermit]

*throws glitter around*

Re: OOC

[myownface]

THIS POST MADE ME HAPPY-SQUEAK A LOT.