Advanced Bird Haberdashery, Wednesday, period 2

[betterthanaplan]

Octavia was right; Duke absolutely should have just stayed home and cancelled class. But it was the first week, and everyone else seemed to be doing just fine with the whole "we got kidnapped by a monster and held in a volcano" thing, and Duke was determined to push through and be normal, too.

As normal as anyone could be, teaching a class on how to make hats for birds.

They were in a regular classroom this time, rather than the Danger Shop, which Duke was pretty sure meant they'd be dealing with actual live birds, which was just -- awesome. Sure. At least class one seemed to be porgs, judging by the flock hopping around the room. That worked out well, since Polly Lobster had followed him all the way to school.

There was also a wide array of bowls, baskets, buckets, and other small objects that could conceivably be placed on a small head that maybe didn't start with the letter B. So . . . improvised hats, then. Good to know.

"Hi." Duke waved to the class. "I'm Duke. This is --" He winced. "Advanced Bird Haberdashery. The moral of this class is 'don't piss off the moose'. You all look like you've been here awhile, so I'm not going to bother to explain that further." He looked at the porg sitting on the teacher's desk. "These are porgs. You've probably seen them around by now. They're friendly. Kinda judgy. No sense of boundaries." He was wandering off topic. "I guess . . . give them hats."

He picked up a small, brightly colored bowl, flipped it over, and put it on the porg's head. How was this his life.

He looked up at the class again, wishing he'd brought himself a cup of (heavily doctored) coffee. "And . . . tell me your name or something. I don't really care."

He really should have cancelled class this week.

Comments

Sign in

[betterthanaplan]

With a hat!

Re: Sign in

[seriesofbaddecisions]

Sabine Wren

Re: Sign in

[hashtag_chocobro]

Prompto Argentum

Re: Sign in

[amitragic]

Ulysses Zane

Listen to the lecture

[betterthanaplan]

Or don't. Whatever. Duke doesn't care.

Re: Listen to the lecture

[scoffs_at_tradition]

"I was almost positive this class name was a typo," Shuri muttered. "We're actually making bird hats?"

Re: Listen to the lecture

[betterthanaplan]

"That's what the moose tells me," Duke said. "If we do it a few times, maybe we can move on to other random topics or something."

He fully expected to be just showing them random movies or something by February. And his expectations would be entirely dashed by weekly deliveries of both birds and hat making materials.

Re: Listen to the lecture

[scoffs_at_tradition]

"I suppose a follow up question wondering why the moose thinks birds need hats is just going to make both of our heads hurt," Shuri replied.

Porgs and Improvised hats

[betterthanaplan]

And maybe introducing yourself too, sure.

The porgs and objects-to-be-improvised-into-hats are totally moddable. I expect at LEAST one lampshade, though!

Re: Porgs and Improvised hats

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"Sabine," she said, already drawing on a piece of paper that would become a hat. "I don't know how I ended up in but I might love it?"

Today's class in particular was bad when she was about to redo her armor because it might end up with a porg on her pauldron now?

Re: Porgs and Improvised hats

[betterthanaplan]

Duke flicked his hand in what could charitably be called a wave. "Yo. Glad to hear it."

The narrative said "porg pauldron" like it was a bad thing.

Re: Porgs and Improvised hats

[amitragic]

"Uhhhm, so I guess I am in this class." Awkward! "Hi. Again."

He was trying to make a porg wear a small flower pot upside down on its head, while he said both those things. For the record.

Re: Porgs and Improvised hats

[betterthanaplan]

"Of course you are," Duke said, sounding deeply resigned. He had officially offered to sell one of his students pot. He was pretty sure that was on a bingo card out there, somewhere. "How ya doing."

Re: Porgs and Improvised hats

[amitragic]

"Like I shouldn't be here." Ulysses didn't care that it was rhetorical, no. "And neither should you, probably."

It wasn't even any personal concern for Duke, more just Uly's continued bafflement at being two for two for having teachers who'd been dangling over a lava pit yesterday and were still somehow showing up for ther job today.

Re: Porgs and Improvised hats

[hashtag_chocobro]

"S'up?" said Prompto, sparing a sympathetic sort of smile toward their poor, beleaguered teacher, when it got around to his turn and he paused his bottle-cap (hey! Still started with a B!) gathering for a moment. "I'm Prompto, and I loooove birds, and I loooove hats, so odds are? I'm gonna looooove this class, too!"

At least he tried to keep the bounciness down? Out of respect? But come on! It was PUTTING HATS ON BIRDS CLASS!

Re: Porgs and Improvised hats

[betterthanaplan]

Duke just kind of blinked at him for a long moment, then nodded.

"Sure. Cool. Bet you can . . . take pictures of the cute birds in hats or something, too. Good times."

Re: Porgs and Improvised hats

[hashtag_chocobro]

"Like...a little...bird-hat fashion show!"

Just go ahead and put those ideas in his head! Sure, he'd have likely come around to it on his own at least a few classes in, but now it was definitely happening.

That response sort of dampered his reaction a bit, though, and he was now frowning at Duke. "Dude," he said, "you sure you're okay? I mean, birds with hats is pretty awesome, but it's not, like, that awesome..."

Re: Porgs and Improvised hats

[scoffs_at_tradition]

"I'm Shuri," Shuri said with a little wave, holding her porg with the other arm. "Do headdresses count as hats for you? Because I can make something with cloth that would look amazing."

Re: Porgs and Improvised hats

[betterthanaplan]

"Don't see why not," Duke decided. "Go nuts."

It was not like he was going to be grading any of this stuff.

Re: Porgs and Improvised hats

[legionqueen]

"Juillenne," she introduced herself. "And this is Camden," she indicated the large mountain cat currently sprawled lazily in the aisle beside where Jules sat.

"She... probably won't eat any of the birds. I hope." Couldn't promise anything though. Sorry. Cats gonna cat.

Re: Porgs and Improvised hats

[betterthanaplan]

The porg in the cereal bowl squawked and hid behind Duke. Duke looked nonplussed. “Can you, like, give him a big breakfast first or something? Kind of defeats the purpose if your hat models always get eaten.”

Talk to Duke

[betterthanaplan]

He's sitting at his desk with his head on his arms, while a porg wearing a child's cereal bowl nibbles his hair.

But sure, try talking to him.

Re: Talk to Duke

[thatwaslucky]

Rey was making the rounds and checking in on people, so of course she had to stop in here after class. She could kind of figure out pretty quick how he was doing, even if Zed end up asking anyway.

"Hey," she sahd quietly, coming over to the desk.

Re: Talk to Duke

[betterthanaplan]

Duke glanced up, then made an attempt to straighten up and look alive. "Hey Rey. Sorry about missing yoga yesterday."

That was totally what she was here about, right?

OOC

[betterthanaplan]

Unlike Duke, I am VERY EXCITED about this class! I have a whole giant list of birds and hat types and I WAS NOT GOING TO SKIP ONE JUST BECAUSE HE'S TIRED!

Sorrynotsorry, Duke.