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Civics - Art of Civil Disobedience Monday 4th Period

Jack waited while the class filed in. On her desk was a small square machine that looked like the world's wackiest printer. Because, essentially, it was. Behind it was a photographer rig with a neutral background and some umbrella-looking light diffusers.

"So the last few classes have been about gettin' out of restraints and gettin' a go-bag ready. Today's was supposed to be about dealing with the cops but the sheriff's," pause, "busy dealin' with some personal crap this week so he's punted to later. Today we're gonna talk about fake IDs. Something I am disappointed to find, every student at this school don't already have three of. Mostly kids use 'em for buyin' cigarettes or booze, which I don't condone, but it's always useful to have at least one extra identity. Even if it's one that exists solely for you to be able to burn it."

"I don't mean with actual flames. I mean, if you get stopped or hassled by the police or anyone, you can give 'em that name and ID info and then walk away and never use it again. It's called a burner identity. Not all of you look human and that'll set you up for some crap across the mainland. Which you already know. Most of you aren't from this reality or this planet and won't be up on all the laws and rules and sh..stuff. Combine the two of those, you got a recipe for more than your fair share of police harassment. Getting caught without identification on you is bad. They'll get all up in your business in a way you really don't want.

So. Today, we're going to set you all up with at least one fake ID. They won't be aged to let you buy booze, sorry. I'm not getting on the wrong side of the principal about that and besides, you can always go to Caritas. The first ID we do, we're gonna give it enough background ident that it'll pass a basic background check and we're gonna photoshop so your picture passes as human."

She looked around the room with a small frown. "This sucks," she said flatly, "We shouldn't have to photoshop anything or make you pass as anything. Believe that I know that. On this planet, on the other side of the causeway, that's all there is and you really don't want 'em finding out any different or you'll get a lot more attention than you want. We're gonna get you at least one little piece of plastic that'll get you past any minor sh..stuff. Then if you want, we can make you more with your real faces on 'em. Or other human disguises, whatever you want.

A good bolt strategy will have at least three different identities. You should also have at least two passports - we're not getting into that today - and at least one of the idents should be solid enough to take more than just a basic background check. Also not getting into that today. Today's just about getting you the basics."

"If you need some time to do your face or whatever, go do it now. When you come back, be ready to have your picture taken. If you strongly object to having a fake ID, sit and.. I dunno.. read about the Constitution or whatever. It won't affect your grade."

She hopped off the desk and went to set up the camera.

[OCD incoming..]

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Strike a pose!

Wanna talk about it? Object? Etc?

Sit and.. dunno, read? Read, maybe? Doodle?

"Think up a name you want. A nice boring Earth name. If you need help, I can come up with suggestions."

You don't want that.

"Think about what your human face should look like. Any sort of features you want? What color hair and eyes do you want? Ears pierced? Facial piercing? Tattoos?"

She's here.

If she's here. She's probably here.

She's probably giggling her ass off at the idea of fake IDs because there's no way she doesn't have at least a dozen.

At. Least.

I.. have learned far too much about how to get a legit fake and what goes into it and how well or not they stand up to different kinds of background checks.. @.@

This is what I get for asking a cop and a bartender for information..

Mae Borowski

Mae wasn't so much conscientiously objecting as just -- feeling too apathetic and out of sorts to get properly into the today's class. She'd barely managed to crawl out of bed this morning, and she was squinty-eyed and mussed, slouching at her desk and not meeting anyone's eyes.

Sometimes she really just hated -- everything.

Astrid Magnussen

It maybe wasn't quite as bad as it had been sometimes, but there were definitely moments where Astrid felt completely out of synch with this class, this school, and everything, but there were definitely no examples she could think of where she would ever want or need a fake indentification. She could, of course, be wrong, so it might actually be useful to have, but what sort of things was she expected to be doing that would even call for it?

Things like what her classmates did?

All she wanted was to go home and make art.

But at least now she could maybe do that under a false alias...

At least Astrid didn't have to worry about needing to make herself look human, though, right? So she felt she had it exceptionally easy on this, too, which was fine, since it wasn't like anything she'd ever expected to need to use.

"Virginia Kolker," she decided, figuring she could go by Ginny for short, and finding something strangely thrilling about chosing the last name of the closest thing she'd ever gotten to a father. Before, you know, her mother murdered him. "And can we photoshop it with red hair?"

She'd done the red before, after all, and it had worked nicely. If she ever needed to slip into a false identity for whatever reason, it would at least be familiar.

Yang Xiao Long

"Holy crap, you can talk," Jack teased her with a smile, "Sure. We can give you any color hair you want."

Once they had the picture, she began working the software to manipulate it. "It's going to give you an address - it's not gonna be here on the island. You'll want to memorize it and maybe look it up on some maps and look around the area. Sometimes you'll get asked about it by someone trying to trip you up - like, they'll say 'Oh you're from this area? I grew up there. Is there still this thing I remember?' and sometimes it's real, sometimes it ain't. It's good to not fall into those kind of traps."

Astrid looked fairly unimpressed by the little joke, because she's heard it probably a million times before from a million different teachers; and considering that, just over a year ago, people thought she had a disorder for how little she talked, she was a downright chatterbox here...

"Is it going to be a Maryland ID, then?" she asked, once Jack had finished explaining. Or can we do a different state? It seems like it'd be easier to work off an actual familiar place rather than try to learn about somewhere new that you've never even been."

You'd hear it less if you engaged more, kiddo.

"The one is for Maryland, yeah," Jack answered, "but we can make you another from your home state if you want. Having a local one is always good because cops tend to treat out of state licenses with more scrutiny. They're less familiar with all of the anti-fraud measures for different states. Makes 'em pay more attention than you want."

But why would she want to do that?

Astrid nodded, though. "That makes sense, too," she allowed.

Ginny Kolker. Maryland resident. Natural redhead. Maybe she went to church and performed in Christmas pageants and hated poetry. Couldn't draw her way out of a paper bag.

It was almost a shame Astrid was pretty sure she'd never wind up having to use her, but in the meantime, she supposed it was kind of cool that there was an option.

Vette

"... This is going to be weird," Vette reported, frowning a little. "My human face? I don't know, surprise me."

She was more disgruntled about the idea of losing her lekku and gaining hair, honestly.

"It is gonna be weird," Jack bobbed her head in a nod, "It's gonna probably cause you some dysphoria if you look at it, and if it does, don't. Just stick it in a wallet or a pocket or bag or whatever if you go to the mainland where you might need it."

Jack putzed around with the software a bit, desaturating Vette's face and then doing a total recolor. Gave her a tan and some freckles for gits and shiggles. Covered the lekku with brown curly hair. Gave her ears instead of ear cones.

The end result.. had enough of her face to be identifiable as the same girl. But it wasn't. "There's the first attempt. Any suggestions or changes you want?"

Vette squinted at the end result, and made a face.

"Oh. Oh, wow. Okay. That's... me, I guess." Hello, yes, there was the dysphoria, there. "On a long list of things I am meant to be, that person does not even place."

And then, after a pause.

"But it works."

"It ain't you," Jack assured her, "It's a picture looks enough like your face structure to pass if it had to. We can change things around if you want."

The resulting picture was definitely human.

[ooc: I'm proud of that find.]

Vette nodded a little, and then lifted her shoulders.

"I mean, I don't have to like it, I just have to be able to use it, right? Mission accomplished, there."

She couldn't look away. It was like a weird train wreck.

"Basically, yes. Hopefully you'll never have to use it but you'll have it just in case," Jack told her.

She set it to print. An amused noise in her throat. She hiked her wallet out and rifled through the..more than three.. fake IDs she had brought with. Sent one spinning across the table to Vette.

It didn't really look like her even though it clearly was Jack.

"I've never in my life looked like that or wanted to," Jack made a face at the picture. Freaks me out even looking at it, like.. what I'd look like if I'd never been me, you know?"

Vette squinted at the picture, and then looked back at Jack speculatively.

"That is super weird."

Suuuper weird. She didn't like that, either.

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