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fandomhigh2016-05-24 07:53 am
uncertain_dume) wrote in fandomhigh2016-05-24 07:53 am
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Off The Grid: Laying Low for Beginners, Tuesday, Period Two
This week, they were back in the classroom, Kanan looking only slightly disappointed by that fact. Practical experience was all the better to learn by, in his opinion, but it only went so far if people didn't have a chance to actually do the exercise. So! Lecture class it was!
He crossed his arms over his chest as he stood at the front of the room.
"So," he said, looking at the students gathered, "this week we'll be talking about tells. Little things that give you away as you to whoever might be keeping an eye open. It could be a facial feature, could be a nervous habit you don't even realize you have. Scars, clothing, the timbre of your voice..."
He shrugged his shoulders.
"Some of those things, you'll be able to hide or change. Some of them, you obviously can't. You can't turn a Togruta into a Chiss without some pretty impressive holo-technology, or whatever illusion-creating equivalent there might be where you're from. If there's not an equivalent, then you need to get creative. Ahsoka used a cloak during last week's exercise to hide her identity completely in order to slip out of the cantina unnoticed. There's one good way of doing it, just so long as the cloak is something that people aren't going to pick out as odd."
Or the Jedi robes. Great for huddling under in the cold and the rain. Little bit of a dead giveaway.
"It's worth thinking on those tells that you can't change, and seeing if there is a way you can hide them if you need to. This week, though, we'll be focusing on those tells that you can. Those little things you might not realize are there. Habits, mostly, like a quick dart of the eyes toward an exit when you're worried you might be about to be found, or reaching for an item that you carry on you that you find to be a comfort. Hell, back in my smuggling days," had he mentioned he used to have smuggling days? Oh well, "a friend of mine pointed out that I had a habit of running my hands through my hair when I was nervous. I found a way to fix that."
By pulling his hair back into a ponytail. Simple fix, but it worked. It meant his hand kind of detoured to stroke at his beard now, but the beard obscured his face a bit, distracted from some of his more prominent features, so it had been a trade-off.
"Some of you are new enough that the people here might not have picked out your habitual tells yet," he continued. "But odds are they aren't the ones you're trying to avoid, either. Take a few moments to talk among yourselves if you're comfortable doing so about any tells that you might have noticed in one another, or, if you're comfortable sharing with the class and want some advice, feel free. Otherwise... just keep this lecture in mind. Spend the next week trying to pick out little habits you do when you're nervous, or angry, or relieved. Ask yourself why you're doing something when you find yourself reacting to your surroundings, and think about whether that's something you might want to figure out how to mask. It could save your life someday."
[OOC: Open!]
He crossed his arms over his chest as he stood at the front of the room.
"So," he said, looking at the students gathered, "this week we'll be talking about tells. Little things that give you away as you to whoever might be keeping an eye open. It could be a facial feature, could be a nervous habit you don't even realize you have. Scars, clothing, the timbre of your voice..."
He shrugged his shoulders.
"Some of those things, you'll be able to hide or change. Some of them, you obviously can't. You can't turn a Togruta into a Chiss without some pretty impressive holo-technology, or whatever illusion-creating equivalent there might be where you're from. If there's not an equivalent, then you need to get creative. Ahsoka used a cloak during last week's exercise to hide her identity completely in order to slip out of the cantina unnoticed. There's one good way of doing it, just so long as the cloak is something that people aren't going to pick out as odd."
Or the Jedi robes. Great for huddling under in the cold and the rain. Little bit of a dead giveaway.
"It's worth thinking on those tells that you can't change, and seeing if there is a way you can hide them if you need to. This week, though, we'll be focusing on those tells that you can. Those little things you might not realize are there. Habits, mostly, like a quick dart of the eyes toward an exit when you're worried you might be about to be found, or reaching for an item that you carry on you that you find to be a comfort. Hell, back in my smuggling days," had he mentioned he used to have smuggling days? Oh well, "a friend of mine pointed out that I had a habit of running my hands through my hair when I was nervous. I found a way to fix that."
By pulling his hair back into a ponytail. Simple fix, but it worked. It meant his hand kind of detoured to stroke at his beard now, but the beard obscured his face a bit, distracted from some of his more prominent features, so it had been a trade-off.
"Some of you are new enough that the people here might not have picked out your habitual tells yet," he continued. "But odds are they aren't the ones you're trying to avoid, either. Take a few moments to talk among yourselves if you're comfortable doing so about any tells that you might have noticed in one another, or, if you're comfortable sharing with the class and want some advice, feel free. Otherwise... just keep this lecture in mind. Spend the next week trying to pick out little habits you do when you're nervous, or angry, or relieved. Ask yourself why you're doing something when you find yourself reacting to your surroundings, and think about whether that's something you might want to figure out how to mask. It could save your life someday."
[OOC: Open!]
Re: Discuss!
He could have just left it at that, he supposed. But there was definitely another trait that he had that was kind of distinctive. One that he was hoping to eliminate, or at least mitigate, by taking classes like this one. "I also, ah. Have a habit of flinching. When things come at me too fast. Or people."
Re: Discuss!
He smiled faintly.
"That's a natural reaction," he noted. "We're hard-wired to do it in response to something our minds perceive as a threat. Our arms go up to protect our soft vital parts, we squint and pull our heads away to protect our eyes. Flinching itself isn't a bad thing." He held up a hand as he continued, "But it sounds to me that you're less concerned about the reaction, and more concerned about what sets it off."
Re: Discuss!
Re: Discuss!