fandomhigh | Ethics, Tuesday, April 14, 2015

"Last weekend saw you with an influx of potential children from your futures," Obi-Wan said. "I am led to believe this is not an unusual occurrence..."

Anakin shook his head. "It happens annually, or near enough. Some of those children are more likely than others. Some are practically impossible."

Sorry, Tebb.

"Whereas others might be almost unavoidable," Obi-Wan said wryly. He had had none, which suited him fine. Minding Anakin's children from a distance was enough for him. "Normally, prophecy does not take such... practical forms. But regardless of what form they take, notions of what the future might be are often vague, and easy to misinterpret. It is such ideas about the future we would like to speak of today."

"Precisely," Anakin said. "And prophecies are notoriously unhelpful and stupid about such things."

Not that he was suuuuper bitter or anything.

Obi-Wan began to pace around the room. "So now that you have met these children and seen these futures, my question is: would you work towards them? Work away from them? Do you believe it is even possible to do such a thing? And if you had no children, do you believe that says anything about your future?"

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Like you had a looong weekend.

Or try to nap. They'll notice, though.

"So now that you have met these children and seen these futures, my question is: would you work towards them? Work away from them? Do you believe it is even possible to do such a thing? And if you had no children, do you believe that says anything about your future?"

One of whom is seriously contemplating never interacting with Atton again. Just in case.

FFS, African internet, WORK TODAY.

That person was not Obi-Wan, at least, who looked mainly thoughtful, as per usual.

It had been an interesting weekend.

Ronan Lynch

"I don't want kids," Ronan said, shaking his head. He had enough to worry about besides other greywarens wandering around. "I don't plan on having them and if someone ever asks, I might punch them."

Maybe.

Alana

Celia Bowen

"So, I do want kids someday, and my kid this time was adorable," Alana began, because it was impossible to talk about Ruby and not mention that. "But it seemed like she was kind of a thing that happened because I didn't have better ideas? From what she said it sounded like I hung around on earth after graduation and eventually ... y'know, the birds and the bees."

Somehow it was hard to frankly mention sex around Jedi. She thought she might spontaneously combust if she tried.

"And that's not something I'd work toward," she said. "Not like home is so great, but it's home. I don't want my life or my kids to be what happens because I suck at planning."

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Celia wasn't trying to nap, but she was also reluctant to answer the question for a few reasons. First, and most importantly -- the theoretical father of her theoretical child (children, since she'd said she had siblings) shared this class, and the question of whether Elizabeth ought to be something to be hoped for was a matter better left for private conversation.

But there was another reason she was quiet. Celia had woken this morning from a vivid dream about her mother -- which was odd mostly because she couldn't remember the last time she had.

And now, as she sat in class with her chin cradled in her hand, she found her thoughts drifting to her mother again, stubbornly refusing to focus into anything more productive -- rather, she was finding that if she really thought about her, she could picture her face. Celia hadn't been able to do that for years, now.

"So this weekend has only solidified a decision you had already made?" Obi-Wan asked, tilting his head. "Have you any interest in mentioning why?"

He phrased like that deliberately. He'd met Ronan before.

Alex Mack

Garik Loran

Face shrugged. "I seemed to have decided to cut myself off at the pass," he said. "My kid deliberately didn't tell me anything I could use to figure out how she came to be except that she was adopted. Which I could have guessed myself without much trouble."

"Did you already expect to have a child at some point in your life?" Obi-Wan asked.

Karina Lyle

Face shrugged. "No more than any other human my age might. You know, grow up, find someone you like, have kids, no actual specifics on when any of those might happen."

"Why would I want a kid to disrupt my life?" he asked, shrugging. "It's not like they make me happy. I've got other things to do."

And he knew how angry he was and would continue to be.

"So you would view a child as a disruption, and not an addition or a simple part of your life?" Obi-Wan asked. "Some feel they enrich life and pave a path to the future."

Said the guy who was perfectly happy being crazy uncle to somebody else's kids instead.

"Has any of that changed over the weekend?"

"I'm still not in any rush," Face said. "But she seemed well-adjusted, so I'm more confident I won't mess up too badly if and when it eventual happens."

Cosette Fauchelevent

"And you did not have any second thoughts?" Obi-Wan said. "Do you believe this is indicative of what your future may be?"

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