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

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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"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?"

"You got here by poking a thing, too?" See Vette, see Vette look absolutely delighted about that fact, looking up at the huge Rattataki-looking guy. "Was it an ancient relic in a long abandoned tomb?"

These things were important.

"Noooo, it was this like, shiny circle out in the woods. I haven't been through an tomb in a long time," he said. "My friends don't want to explore cool shit like that with me, they're all like, 'It's dangerous,' or 'You might die.' They're gnomes though, so they're a lot squishier than me."

What was that Anakin asked about not thinking before acting?

Vette's eyes, Grog. Vette's eyes had gone wide as saucers.

"I'll explore cool shit with you!"

She didn't even know who he was, but really, in spite of the fact that she had few regrets in life, Vette was really not great at making sound life choices.

"I'm not squishy!"

Probably!

"You do look pretty capable of handling yourself." He had no idea if that was true, but it was probably safe to say about most of the obvious non-humans, right? "Is there anything around here worth exploring? I haven't taken too much of a look-around."

"There are sewers," Vette chirped, brightly. "I haven't been down there yet!"

That was a terrible idea, Vette.

"The preserve is pretty neat, every now and again there's an alot of something-or-other on stampede." She tapped a finger to her bottom lip a few times in thought. "I don't think there are any fun ruins around here to take in, it's a pretty small island, I feel like I would've found those by now, but... Oh! It's almost that month where non-humans can go to the mainland without getting stared at too much! I bet there's plenty to explore over there!"

Vette's favourite month: October.

"Eh, I'm used to getting stared at. But it would be nice to explore new things. Are you good at not getting lost?" Grog asked, for absolutely no reason at all.

"I'm pretty much a pro at not getting lost," Vette promised him. "You don't go into old tombs like I've done and ever come out again otherwise."

"You go into tombs a lot? Do you like shiny things or like, dead people stuff?" Grog asked. "Or just going places other people are scared to go, that's fun too."

"All three of those things!" Vette grinned at that. Vette grinned a lot. "There's a lot of history in those tombs, and a lot of treasure, and if I'm good at getting in and out of places like those, if there are riddles to solve or traps to avoid, I live for that!"

She was pretty much the party rogue.

With more shooty and less stabby.

Edited 2019-09-05 09:39 (UTC)

"Oooh treasure." That got Grog's full attention! "I'm... not good at riddles or traps, but if you need stuff picked up or knocked down, I'm great at those things."

Tanks didn't have a lot of cool skills, but they were still necessary!

"Stuff always needs to be picked up or knocked down when you're exploring tombs," Vette replied. "It's pretty much the first rule of tomb exploration!"

Though, in hindsight, 'make sure the relic you're stealing isn't cursed to send you to a weird island in another galaxy' wasn't a bad one either.

"Sure," Anakin said. "Do you have a history of not stopping to think before deciding to do something?"

The loooong pause there probably answered that question.

"I mean, not all the time," he said sheepishly.

Anakin's lips quirked up. "Maybe you could work on tempering that impulse this semester."

"I don't think I have a bad temper." Minus the whole raging-while-fighting thing, but surely that didn't count. "I'm just not great at like, the whole patience thing when it comes to planning."

"Oh, no, temper like moderate," Anakin said, smiling. "Don't act impulsively quite as often."

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