saddeserthermit: (obi-wan: secrets with anakin)
saddeserthermit ([personal profile] saddeserthermit) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2015-02-17 11:03 am
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Ethics, Tuesday

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.
sith_happened: (Anakin: going temple smiting omg)

Re: Talk to the Teachers

[personal profile] sith_happened 2015-02-17 10:35 am (UTC)(link)
The glitter was in his coffee. Oh, there would be hell to pay if he ever figured out who'd boobytrapped his office...
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Re: OOC

[personal profile] myownface 2015-02-17 10:36 am (UTC)(link)
THIS POST MADE ME HAPPY-SQUEAK A LOT.
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[personal profile] suitably_heroic 2015-02-17 10:39 am (UTC)(link)
GOOD. GOOD.

Atton: *IS NEVER TELLING*

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[identity profile] iceolatedqueen.livejournal.com 2015-02-17 10:49 am (UTC)(link)
Elsa of Arendelle

Re: Discuss: Responsibility

[identity profile] iceolatedqueen.livejournal.com 2015-02-17 10:56 am (UTC)(link)
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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[personal profile] gavegoodface 2015-02-17 11:16 am (UTC)(link)
Garik Loran

Re: Discuss: Responsibility

[identity profile] iceolatedqueen.livejournal.com 2015-02-17 12:04 pm (UTC)(link)
She hadn't meant to! She'd intended to hand it back maybe somewhat neglected, but at least in one piece.

"My dog mistook it for a toy," she explained, her cheeks flushing bright pink. "And I didn't notice until the damage had been done. And then the island started doing... doing this, and..."

Maybe a little wave of her (very definitely gloved) hand would properly get the rest across. To a teacher who knew nothing about her powers, sure. Panic was a pretty universal notion though, right? She had kind of panicked, between the pollen and the blizzard that hadn't seemed to be letting up.

"It was an accident."

Story of her life, really.

Re: Discuss: Responsibility

[identity profile] iceolatedqueen.livejournal.com 2015-02-17 12:31 pm (UTC)(link)
"I try to be better about... things like that."

Really, at this point, it wasn't even that she needed to keep her powers a secret. Around here, nobody really cared. Except maybe Anna. Anna... was never allowed to know. But Anna wasn't in the room.

It was more force of habit than anything, the fact that she wasn't just openly discussing that she had serious self-control issues.

"There were a lot of little things factoring into what happened. That's really not an excuse, because you're right. I did lose sight of my priorities, and I... I can't really afford to do that."

In fairness, the droid baby had never been her top priority, though. It ranked pretty low, somewhere on the same level as 'make certain your stockings are properly folded' or 'maybe today I'll learn to knit.' It possibly even ranked a, 'I wonder how s'mores would taste if you added peanut butter.' And that was if one was being generous.

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[identity profile] thegreywaren.livejournal.com 2015-02-17 12:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Ronan Lynch

Re: Turn In Your Droid Babies

[identity profile] thegreywaren.livejournal.com 2015-02-17 12:40 pm (UTC)(link)
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: Discuss: Responsibility

[identity profile] iceolatedqueen.livejournal.com 2015-02-17 12:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"I wouldn't be a mother in the first place," Elsa said, simply, if a bit firmly. "For a... number of reasons I'm not about to discuss in class. Ever. And if it was an actual person, I would've cared enough to find somebody else to take care of it, because that's the best thing that I can do for anybody that relies on me for half as much as an infant would. I can't be that kind of person."

Being a Queen was different. She could rule a kingdom from a distance. But she couldn't even bring herself to hug her own little sister. She couldn't raise a baby.

Re: Discuss: Responsibility

[identity profile] iceolatedqueen.livejournal.com 2015-02-17 01:08 pm (UTC)(link)
She would have appreciated that if she'd known. It wasn't that she wasn't prepared to talk about it if somebody asked, these days. But it wasn't the sort of talk she wanted to have with an audience the size of the entire Ethics roster. That sort of talk came with too much guilt and too many raw emotions for that.

"I suppose the trick then is knowing who to ask for help," she noted, biting her lip for a moment. "If it's a big enough responsibility, not many people might be willing to step up to accept it."

Or if it screamed half as much and looked half as horrifying as the droid babies did, while still really only being simulations of life. She didn't think anybody was crazy enough to want one of those in their life.

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Karina Lyle
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Alana

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