fandomhigh | Urban Survival - The Uglier Side of City Living, Wednesday, Period 2

Okay. Deep breath. First time in front of a classroom. Well, okay, it wasn't Sparkle's first time in front of a classroom, he'd done that roughly a billion years ago when he wound up temporarily inheriting a class, and then became Electroclash's minion for the remainder of a semester. But this wasn't that. This was something else, and Sparkle was in front of a classroom because he'd wanted to be, and now he had students.

So. Deep breath. Exhale. Teenagers could smell your fear and all that.

"Shit. Okay. Hi." And those were going to be Sparkle's first three words in front of a class of actual students here to learn what it was he was teaching. This was off to a stellar start already. "I mean, Hi. And welcome to Urban Survival. I'm Sparkle-- that's it, just Sparkle, I'm not giving you my last name and don't Mr. Sparkle me or anything, that's some kind of dish soap in Japan. I'm from Toronto, which is the largest, most populated city in modern-day Ontario, Canada. It's also probably not anything like half of the cities you guys know."

Hey, he was breathing now! This was good. He glanced around the room, taking stock of the different faces there. It was actually a bigger variety than he'd expected.

He could work with that.

"But that's not going to matter. Not entirely. Even if the cities change, what you're going to need in order to survive if you're out on the streets in them is going to remain fairly consistent. And people might differ a lot from place to place too, but you know what they say about the more things change..." He gave a little smile and a shrug of his shoulders. "We make it work. Starting next week, we'll make it work. This week, I'm gonna be one of those teachers. Yeah. I want to get a feel for who I'm teaching. So, let's hear a little about you guys. Your name, a little bit about what it is you consider a city back home, and what you hope to pick up from here before the end of the semester. Like I said, I'm Sparkle, from a big modern city in the land of hockey and Tim Hortons. And I'm teaching this class because... I've been there. Done that. Which I guess is enough to make a guy qualified around here, at least when job applications are being vetted by a moose or something. There. Easy. Your turn."

... Wait, was that all there was to it?

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"I'm Ahsoka and I grew up on Coruscant." Which was going to skew your expectations even when the majority of your experience with other cites wasn't them being active warzones. "I guess I'd like to figure out smaller cities."

Sparkle, at the very least, resisted the urge to give a low whistle.

"Doesn't get much bigger than Coruscant, anyway," Sparkle agreed. I can see how the smaller stuff might seem intimidating in entirely different ways, if everything is.. well. There."

Seriously, what didn't Coruscant have?

~~Besides Jedi.~~

~~Functioning democracy.~~

"Yeah," Ahsoka said. "You go between the upper and lower levels and it's like going to another world without even leaving the planet."

~~Touché.~~

"In other cities, you can sometimes find the same thing just going from street to street," Sparkle noted. "They don't have a whole planet to kind of funnel people away out of sight under, but I don't think there's a city in the multiverse that doesn't end up with something similar in one way or another. New buildings become old buildings, old buildings become cheap buildings, cheap buildings become neglected buildings..."

He shrugged a little.

"I'm oversimplifying it," he admitted, "like, a lot. But that divide is something I'm going to want to go over in depth later. It'll probably be one of the more depressing parallels I can draw between Coruscant and the smaller places, I'm guessing."

"Probably," Ahsoka agreed dryly.

"Glad you signed up for such a happy class yet?"

At least Sparkle gave a wry smile along with that one. He was well aware this was not exactly smiles and funtimes, the class.

"Oh yeah, I can tell it's going to be laughs a minute."

The sarcasm as coping method was strong with this one.

At least you were in good company there, Ahsoka?

"I'll try not to let it stay too bleak," Sparkle promised. And then, as an afterthought, he added, "has that hood been working out for you?"

... Shut up, he worried.

"My lekku haven't dropped off from frostbite yet," Ahsoka replied flicking her fingers at her left one. "Or my montrals."

If those fell off, they'd really have to worry.

"Good," Sparkle replied, giving her a little smile. "You kinda need those. If we do hit a really cold snap and it isn't enough, stop back by the shop and I'll add more insulation, there. I was mostly taking a shot in the dark that first time, anyway."

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