fandomhigh | Creative Weaponry; Tuesday, 1st Period. [02/06].

The class would be meeting back in the classroom that day, something that Amaya looked genuinely apologetic for, but, at the same time, she had bigger fish to fry. The desks were all shoved aside, though, clearing out a space in the middle, where she'd laid down a big canvas cloth, and set around the edges were small sculpting kits, one for each of them.

"Have a seat in a circle on the cloth, if you don't mind," she instructed them as they came in. "If it's too uncomfortable for whatever reason, there's cushions and chairs and a few low stools, too. Today's going to be a little bit different, kind of an emphasis on the creative part the class. So a lot less hitting," again, she did look terribly sorry about it, too, "but hopefully still fun.

"Somehow," surely nothing to do with the fact that she still didn't think to take off her gloves when she typed in orders, "we got a particularly large order of fancy soaps at the shop this week. It's fairly clean lot on this island, I'll give them that, but not that clean. However, soap is pretty malleable. It's a lot easier to whittle and carve than something like wood and stone, it's more forgiving and, around here, a lot less valuable. So today," and she walked to the center of the circle and upended the box, pouring out a plethora of soaps in various shapes and sizes, colors and scents, "we're going to carve our own weapons.

"I've noticed a lot of you like to go big," she noted with a sideways smirk of absolute approval, "so I hope the challenge of going small with these mini weapons is a good one. Obviously, this isn't a practical exercise, unless we find ourselves shrunk down one day fighting clods of dirt,"--hey, anything was possible--"so feel free to go as crazy with it as your imagination lets you. These don't need to be functional, but they do need to be interesting. And, really, one of the best things about making weapons is coming up with something impractical and then figuring out how to make it work later.

"We have plenty of time, too, so feel free to spend it all expertly crafting the most exquisite soap weapon you can, or go the other way and build up a whole soap arsenal. It's really up to you."

[[and the ocd is ~~coming~~here...huzzah!]]

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So fresh and so clean, clean.

There isn't much, but there are little cases of shinies to be distracted by. And soap. So much soap.

There are soaps of all shapes, colors, and scents scattered in the center of the canvas now, some of them just boring old bars, some of them already carved into cute animals and flowers and what have you, all waiting to be turned into little teeny pieces of badassery.

Well, it would be a little difficult to actually fight off much with little tiny soap weapons, but Amaya did sculpt out a few little tiny soap bad guys if anyone wanted to try. Or they could equip a little tiny soap warrior and send him into the fray.

It was a very silly (and nicely smelling) class today.

She really is enjoying equipping her soap army when she isn't checking in on what the kids are doing.

Go little, or go home.

Peebee

Peebee might've let out just a tiny bit of a sneaky cackle as she gathered up some soaps and started work on hollowing them out -- her idea was to whittle them down to fairly thin shells, fill them up with water or glycerine, then leave them around like slippery little caltrop bombs. Maybe not the most effective, but hey, she could appreciate a good pratfall.

Gratuity Tucci

Tip found a nice big, gently scented soap -- if she was going to be working with it for hours, she didn't want to end up with a migraine -- and turned it over in her hands for a bit, pondering her options.

She had an odd idea to make something that could be used to smash the kyriarchy.

She went with a tiny war-hammer, something like a double-ended claw hammer. She figured the full-size version could be, like, spun. By someone probably much larger and stronger than she was, considering it would be extremely heavy, but still. Spin one way and it was smashy, spin in the other and it cut and smashed!

Yang Xiao Long

Yang grabbed a couple bars on the larger size and immediately cut them in half lenghtwise before she began carving.

At the end of it, she had what vaguely resembled four long hair pins. Which were going into her hair, as she wound it around the base of her ponytail.

Amaya made some rounds around the room, taking particular interest in everyone's work since it was likely on a much smaller scale than what they'd been working on so far.

"And what are those going to be used for?" she prompted with a faint grin as she saw Peebee's hollowed out shells. She had an idea, of course, considering the class thus far...

Okay, now this one was going to need some explanation, though Amaya had a feeling that, with Yang, she wasn't going to be disappointed with the answer.

"So, you're planning to kill....with fashion?" she ventured.

Jason Lee Scott

"I am always a fan of a good hammer," Amaya commented with approval as she leaned in for a closer look at what Gratuity was working on. "Especially if it's multifunctional. What inspired this particular design?"

Jason was... not having the greatest time with this exercise. He had an idea, sure, but every time he got his bar of soap whittled down almost the way he was envisioning, he'd apply just a bit too much force and end up with a bunch of crumbly soap-bits.

"Uh, have you ever gotten soap in your eyes? It hurts," Yang said, pulling out one of her pins to show Amaya the very very pointy end. "It'll probably hurt more if I go for the eyes with something stabby."

"It's soap," Amaya offered, hopefully helpfully but she still wasn't sure if she had the whole 'gentle-guidance teacher' thing down quite right, "not stone. It really only takes a light touch to get through it."

"Smashing the established order of society," Tip said. "Only, you know, literally."

"Yeah," Jason made a face. "I'm beginning to see that."

'Light touch' coupled with 'super strength' was something he still occasionally struggled with.

(It was probably for the best that Peebee had been MIA for the better part of last semester, she likely wouldn't have been pleased about the week their room spent without a door.)

Ahsoka Tano

"Hard to think of a better inspiration than that," Amaya said with a faint snort in her smirk. "Really clean up the situation!"

Honestly, she couldn't help but be proud when she pulled off a pun. Even if she shouldn't be.

"I like it. Keep up the good work."

And, sure enough...not disappointed.

"That's bankin' on the fact that you could get 'em out of your hair in the moment," she noted, "but that's still pretty good. So long as they haven't got a bucket of water."

Tip smirked and slapped her hand over her mouth. "That's terrible!"

She'd never had a dad, so she didn't have an immunity built up yet to bad puns.

"You'll get the hang of it," Amaya prompted, trying to sound encouraging. "There's....definitely plenty of soap, so if it takes all class and most of the bars, so be it. Balance is important for a weapon, after all, so you just gotta find the right method for yourself."

"Aw, zards," said Amaya, with a literal-mindedness that proved exactly why she would never match her countrymen when it came to punnery, and she snapped her fingers, "and here I thought that one was actually not bad at all."

Tip giggled. "It's okay. I'm pretty sure 'terrible' is the best a pun could ever get."

Kaylin Neya

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