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Ethics, Monday, August 28, 2017

Anakin, dressed in his usual Jedi robes, was in the front of the classrooms, sneaking pleased smiles at his partner when he thought Obi-Wan might not notice. He'd missed him over the summer, shhh. "Welcome to Ethics," he began, "a class that is something of an institution in this school."

"We endeavour to teach you all a little bit about ethical quandaries you might run into in your life, of all kinds," Obi-Wan said. "Some of these lessons may be uncomfortable. Much as life is often uncomfortable."

"But it's better to prepare here, in a classroom where the situations might be hypothetical, than to be placed in a situation with only bad options and not enough preparation."

Or more than enough preparation and just really terrible instincts. Anakin.

"None the less, we will post the basic summary of the class to the classroom door a day before it begins. If you opt not to engage with the class material for any reason, you may tell us so, no questions asked," Obi-Wan continued. "Now... today's class will be about lying."

"Everyone does it," Anakin said, "even if they couch it in terms like 'truth from a certain point of view'. You cannot be honest every moment because sometimes you just can't say, 'yes, dear, that dress does make you seem huge' if you want to remain married."

Obi-Wan coughed. "Sometimes the truth does differ based on your point of view," he said swiftly. "Regardless. Today, we do introductions and test your acumen for lying - and detecting lies. Anakin here will lead you off by telling you three facts, one of which is a lie."

Anakin inclined his head at Obi-Wan with a little smirk. "Of course, Master. I was once the best pilot in our galaxy. I have four children. I was known as the Great Negotiator."

"As for myself, I sat on the Jedi Council, I have two brothers, and I once received a rock as a birthday present," Obi-Wan said lightly. "Which of these are truths, which the lie?"

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Easy for Ahsoka, maybe not for the rest of you.

"I was once the best pilot in our galaxy. I have four children. I was known as the Great Negotiator."

Sidon stroked his chin carefully as he considered the gentleman who had escorted them onto the island thanks to the bus, which made it very easy for Sidon to imagine that a great pilot title might not be far from the truth at all. Knowing little else about the man, though, the other two made it a bit more difficult.

"I am sure the pilot thing must be true," he mused outloud, wondering if by doing so he might manage to have Anakin give something away by way of reactions or comments, "but the other two...you have seemed very mild-mannered and calm thus far, leading me to believe you would have the patience and reserve to be a Great Negotiator, and I'm sure being a Great Negotiator would have to be necessary with four children nipping at your heels. So allow me to pick the children one. I certainly believe you have offspring, but specific number of your progeny is something that can easily be altered into a lie."

"Well reasoned," Anakin praised with a smile, "but ultimately incorrect. I have four children: two with my first wife, who passed away, and two with my second."

Sidon snapped his fingers. "Drat," he said, though there was a small smile that his reasoning was still praised. "Is it the title, then? If the title is not the lie, then I shall expect you to prove it by negotiating with me to believe it!"

Anakin laughed. "The title itself is not a lie. It just belongs to Master Kenobi."

"In the whole galaxy, really?" One corner of Peebee's mouth was twisted up in the kind of smirk that usually accompanied supremely skeptical -- or amused, like in this case -- questions. "I mean, that's pretty subjective, right? So I can't say whether that's true or not. Matter of opinion and all that. And you don't strike me as a super negotiate-y kind of person, but that's also a matter of, well, my opinion. So I'm not gonna gamble on either of those being the lie."

"So it's the number of children?" Anakin replied. "How many do you believe I have?"

Honestly Peebee had just taken a guess.

"Hmmmmmm," she said, tapping a finger against her lips in the appearance of serious thought. "Seven."

Admittedly, she just wanted to see what kind of reaction that would get. (Look, she hadn't yet worked her way through human cinematic canon yet, or there would have been a Sound of Music joke in there.)

Anakin laughed. "No. I really do have four children."

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onefootoutthedoor - 2017-08-29 23:18 (UTC) - Expand

'Best in the galaxy' was pretty damn broad, but Jason had also been the best (albeit in a tiny-ass fishing town) at something, once upon a time, so he figured he had a pretty good bead on when someone was exaggerating versus just repeating a fact regarding that sort of thing.

He also didn't look old enough to have four kids, but then- why would he pick a lie that seemed on the surface to be so obvious? For all Jason knew, the kids could be quadruplets or something.

As for Great Negotiator- well. From what he'd seen of him during the workshops over the summer, Skywalker's style of negotiation was 'You're going to do things my way.' Maybe he was more willing to compromise when he wasn't making people run around and do ridiculous tasks, but Jason was gonna hedge his bets anyway.

"That last one."

"Why do you think it's the last one?" Anakin asked.

Jason shrugged. "The one about the kids seems too easy, because I bet you get a lot of people thinking you're pretty young for that, but maybe you have quadruplets, or they're adopted, or your wife or partner or whoever just had 'em pretty close together, or they have different parents," he ticked off on his fingers. "Plus I know what it's like when people consider you the best at something. So that leaves the last one, which- I dunno. I mean, you're patient enough to deal with teenagers, and we're mostly assholes, but I call bullshit on you being great at dealing with boring-ass peace treaties or whatever."

"I am really...not great dealing with boring-ass peace treaties," Anakin agreed. "Master Kenobi is the Great Negotiator."

Ahsoka was still sniggering. Still.

"Too easy, Padawan?" he asked.

Ahsoka held her thumb and forefinger a few centimetres apart. "Little bit."

"I sat on the Jedi Council, I have two brothers, and I once received a rock as a birthday present."

The last part of Obi-Wan's made Sidon laugh. "Where I come from," he said, "a rock can be a wonderful present, especially if it comes from a Goron! I can easily see you serving on a council, and it did not pass my notice that Anakin Skywalker called you Master. So I believe I am going to guess that the lie is about your brothers. This may be a half-truth. You may have a brother, but I am emboldened to suggest that you do not have two of them."

"It could be one brother born of blood and one of circumstance," Obi-Wan said, but then his mouth curved, "But I suppose that would be cheating."

"I'm not sure about that," Sidon mused. "Brother can mean a great many things, not all of them denoting a blood relation, so if I were to assume you meant blood-relations only, then it is a fault of my understanding, not of your truth. Is that the correct answer, though? Do you not have two brothers?"

Well, for starters... what the hell was a Jedi Council? Jason had nothing on which to judge the authenticity of that statement, so. Could go either way.

Brothers? Well, give him a few minutes conversation and Jason could probably tell whether or not this dude had any siblings (that he'd been raised with, anyway), but otherwise, who knew?

The rock thing. Hmmm. Did he mean like, some random-ass picked out of the river rock? Or a gemstone? Jason honestly had no idea.

"The rock thing." It was a complete and total guess, yes. "Also, what the hell's a Jedi Council?"

"It's a Council," Obi-Wan said easily, "Full of Jedi."

He was terrible like that, sometimes.

"Thanks for clearing that up."

"What kind of rock was it?"

What? Peebee wanted to know.

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