Ethics, Wednesday, September 4, 2019 [1st period]

[sith_happened]

Anakin swept into the classroom precisely on time, making sure the door slammed shut behind him thanks to a little nudge from the Force.

Hopefully everyone was already awake and not hungover because that noise was loud.

"I am Anakin Skywalker," he said, Jedi robes swirling overdramatically Snape-like around his ankles, "and this is Ethics class." His eyes roamed the room. "It's nice to see some familiar faces because this is a class that is always relevant. Ethics--your personal moral principles--can evolve over time, and something you find unthinkable one year might become routine in another. The point of this class is to examine where your own personal line is before you are faced with a dilemma in the real world, panic, and make a wrong choice."

Like, say, turn to the Dark Side and kill a whole lot of people. For decades. Theoretically.

"Traditionally, the first week of classes is devoted to introductions," Anakin concluded. "So today I want your name and the second worst decision you've made. The one that makes you wince internally when you are trying to go to sleep at night and your brain is playing the greatest hits of the stupd things you've done."

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Sign in 9/4

[sith_happened]

Reliving past stupidity!

Re: Sign in 9/4

[mother_forker]

Eleanor Shellstrop

Listen to the lecture!

[sith_happened]

Admire his made cloak swirling skillz. He's worked very hard on it!

Re: Listen to the lecture!

[mother_forker]

Eleanor would definitely have thought the cloak swirling was totally unnecessary.

However her main complaint at the moment was that Anakin was unnecessarily LOUD. A very soft audible groan escaped her as the door slammed and she now knew why everyone hates moral philosophy teachers.

Re: Listen to the lecture!

[seriesofbaddecisions]

Okay, Sabine realized, maybe taking this class had been a bad idea.

Re: Listen to the lecture!

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

Personal morals evolving over time?

Something you find unthinkable becoming routine?

Where your personal lines are before faced with a dilemma?

Well. This class was just about a few weeks too late, now, wasn't it?

But at least she could still be amused at the idea of the Dean who drove the colorful shuttle and smiled at her when talking about picnics coming in here as if a slammed door and a fluttering of robes could be enough to chase that impression away.

Re: Listen to the lecture!

[goldfishontherocks]

Not saying Keyleth was trying to make note of the cloak swirling techniques or anything, but if she survived her Aramenté and somehow managed to not turn out to be a total failure in the meantime, well, there was a really nice mantle that came with the title of the Voice of the Tempest . . .

Re: Listen to the lecture!

[chirpchirpchirp]

Vette? Was totally just grinning through this lecture.

Those were some nifty cloak skills, sure, but she was still too smug about the bus to be properly impressed.

Re: Listen to the lecture!

[raisedbybooklice]

Wooooow. Master Skywalker reminded her of the Director. She was far less flashy, but they both gave off the same sense of command.

Though, his question had her shifting a little in her seat. She could see why Master Hargrove had signed her up for this class.

Re: Listen to the lecture!

[following_my_fishie]

Delirium was rocking a pirate outfit today and she envied those cloak swishy skills. Maybe she'd start wearing a cloak for this class!

Weren't you lucky, being that kind of role model, Anakin.

She tried to do a swirl with the bottom of her coat but it just didn't have the same sort of drape.

Sulking Delirium at her desk, check.

Introduce yourself!

[sith_happened]

Name and the second dumbest decision you've made.

Or the third or twelfth if you feel ethically okay with fudging the truth on the very first day. FOR SHAME.

Re: Introduce yourself!

[mother_forker]

"I'm Eleanor Shellstrop," she said holding her temples with her fingers because otherwise she would be pretty sure her brain would explode otherwise. "And other than this hangover right now, I would say my second biggest mistake was taking an ambien and then playing with a hamster. Unless you want to squick out the rest of the class I would not go into further details."

Please. For the love of god. Stop swishing that cloak so loudly.

Re: Introduce yourself!

[handystand]

"Okuyasu Nijimura," he introduced, looking a little uncomfortable. He wasn't one for quantifying his bad choices, even if he'd been doing well at making up for them.

"I don't know if I have any worst decisions," he said, thinking it over. "I've done some bad things that are bad, but they also directly led to me becoming better. But I guess if I have to say something, it's probably the time I tried to crush Koichi's head in the front gate of my house."

Re: Introduce yourself!

[seriesofbaddecisions]

Sabine had to go down a list, past the second worst mistake and maybe the third and fourth, because they were either too personal or something she never planned to talk about and those were in fact two different things.

"Sabine," she said, "and I'm going to go with not checking my phone enough to know I could have missed a certain week on the island."

Re: Introduce yourself!

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

It was difficult choosing even the worst thing Tisarwat had ever done, in this body or any other, when there was a significant disparity of what classified as bad to jer anymore.

But she was hardly about to mention any of them in a room full of people she'd just met who she was trying to impress.

She tried to hold off on responding until later, to listen to what some of the others were saying and get a gauge on what might be expected, and felt she came to an easy conclusion, especially since some of them had probably seen the results of her choice already on Monday morning.

"I'm Leiutenant Tisarwat [ForeverHandwaveyHouseName]," she offered, with a faintly sheepish nod, gloved hands folded in front of her and her crisp brown uniform, "and I'd say the second worst decision I've made was to go and try all the different alcohol this planet has to offer on my second night here."

Sure. That worked. Right there between violently subjugating an entire universe under the constant threat of genocide....and getting purple eyes.

And even those were still wildly up for debate.

"I...probably could have spaced it out a bit more," she added with an embarrassed smile.

Re: Introduce yourself!

[goldfishontherocks]

"Hi. I'm Keyleth." And there was that awkward, almost shy little wave again. "And since I really don't want to talk about my actual dumbest decision, I guess the second one would be . . ."

She glanced sheepishly in Elisabeth's direction with an apologetic smile.

"Not checking to see how people would react to magic before I use it in front of them."

Don't worry, Kiki. That Fog Cloud spell was going to get knocked off the list really easily someday when you cast Wind Walk for the first time, and all of it was going to pale in comparison to your thousand-foot cliff dive.

Re: Introduce yourself!

[unusual_sith]

"Lana Beniko." She gave a little wave as she thought of decisions; only one was really standing out to her at the moment.

"I didn't kill someone who'd attacked me and my friends. They came back later and killed one of us."

Re: Introduce yourself!

[chirpchirpchirp]

"I'm Vette," Vette announced, grinning a little as she took in all the new faces in the class today. "And in order to pick out a bad decision to share, I'd have to have regrets, right?"

She was going to be that student. Sorry, Anakin.

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[gospel_of_oblivion]

"Illyana Rasputin. I decided to hitchhike my way to Mexico from New York," she said dryly. "Almost made it, too."

"...it was only stupid because I should have gotten better shoes before I set out."

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[grandpoobah]

"Uh, I'm Grog Strongjaw," he said. "Right now, I kind of regret poking the thing that brought me here. I mean, everyone's been really nice and all, but I miss my friends and I'm worried they might be like, worried about me and not know where I am. Does that count?"

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[legionqueen]

"Juillenne Milone," she introduced herself. And then nodded at Camden, who was currently sprawled by her side. "And that's Camden."

She sighed. "I'd have to say the second-dumbest decision I've ever made involves getting a wild bear up on stage during a festival."

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[following_my_fishie]

"Um. Hello? Hi. I'm Delirium. Um. I don't make worst decisions or even secondmost worst? I don't sleep so there's nothing that keeps me awake? Um. I do lots of stupid things but that's because they're fun, not because they're bad."

Beat.

"I don't think I understand this question."

Beat.

"But hello! It's nice to meet you, Swishy Teacher!"

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[raisedbybooklice]

Unlike many of her classmates, all of Elisabeth's stupidest decisions were still in front of her. At this point, it was just a handful of childish pranks and regular foolishness to choose from. Her first dumbest decision was obviously spying on the magister; that was why she was here. Second...?

"Probably the time that Katrien and I snuck into Warden Finch's room," Elisabeth said. "We were looking for evidence and he caught us." And neither of them had been able to sit for a week. "Oh. My name is Elisabeth," she added, belatedly remembering the point of this exercise. "Elisabeth Scrivener."

Talk to Anakin!

[sith_happened]

Touchy feely Dean of Students is here for you!

OOC

[sith_happened]

Sorry for the delay in the OCD: toddler's gotta toddler...