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Criminal Justice- Monday- 1st period

This class was more or less going to take place in the classroom. Maybe. Kitty had done a runthrough of the syllabus and notes that she'd found for this semester and she had some questions.

"Good morning! Welcome to your actual first class," Kitty greeted them. "I'm going to be honest: despite my long history of superheroing, this class is based on notes from an old class I found and was kind of dying to try. So whoever this The Tick is, this is his fault."

~~This class was a narrative choice.~~

"So we're going to have questions to discuss," she continued. "There will also be ample opportunities for extra credit, and there are times this might just straight up be insane, so buckle up."

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Spoooooon!

There's not a ton of time but you can still get some talking done.

"'Why is crime bad?'" Kitty read from a notecard. "Yep, that's the question."

"Okay, this is real. 'How have your rights been taken away from you a nefarious villain doing evil?'" Kitty read. "Maybe, uh. I think this is more to do with like, your car got broken into or something. And feel free to tell us what happened afterwards and if the nefarious villain was brought to justice."

"What is the cutest kitten you have ever seen?" Kitty looked up from the notecard. "Extra extra credit if you draw a picture."

Yep.

Thanks to Nick for letting me crib.

And now I have to run to get a rental car so I can go back to work, whee!

Astrid Magnussen

"Because it hurts other people?" offered Astrid, cautiously, after a long, long moment of trying to figure out if it was some sort of trick question, or merely just to get it out of the way because it was techincally their first class and they were apparently working off the notes of someone going by the title of a miniscule, blood-sucking bug.

Hurt, also, seemed sort of understated, but, then again, her biggest exposure to crime tended to involve murder...

Well, that was...that was a bit of a loaded question, wasn't it? Or at least it felt that way, to Astrid, who just sort of blinked in response to it for a moment, tracing things back...and back...and back...

It wasn't easy, after all, slowly coming to the realization that the person who had been your entire world your entire life was slowly revealing herself to perhaps actually be the nefarious villain in your story.

But, for now, for this class, after casting a slight glance around the room, Astrid decided she didn't need to go back that far. Or at least she wasn't going to if she didn't have to.

"I was sort of just kidnapped by Krampus and held prisoner in a volcano for several days," she pointed out. And really didn't feel like elaboration, in this case, would be necessary.

And that was only the start of it! But it was a bit meatier than just having a car broken into, without getting into the marrow of your murderess mother conscripting you to foster care hell for the rest of your adolescent life.

After question number two, Astrid was relieved to find that this was the extra credit question, and that the extra extra credit involved drawing, which she could absolutely do and was already starting before she just thought of the first cat she could think of.

After Mae, of course, sheepishly reasoning to herself that cat-faced girls probably didn't count. Especially when they didn't even see themselves that way.

"There was this family of cats that lived in the apartment across the street," she offered, "because when I lived in Amsterdam, and they'd sleep in the window sometimes, hoping for sun." It seemed to have rained almost the entire time they lived there. "I watched them a lot, and they were pretty cute."

Which she'd prove by drawing it, eager to lose herself in the sketch, even if the memory itself seemed a little bittersweet.

Bobby Drake

Okay, semantics were not, like, Bobby's strong point at all, but being obnoxious kind of was. So he was gonna try his best here.

"Because if it wasn't, then it wouldn't be crime," he said, leaning back in his chair.

"My rights have been taken away by lots of nefarious villains doing evil," Bobby said. "Like, especially my right to meet a nice boy and go on a date or something, because, you know, not that I've had much chance to do that, but judging by what happens every time my older self meets someone, we'd be halfway through dinner and some idiot would be bursting through the door all intent on, I don't know, exacting revenge for something petty, or robbing the place, or kidnapping someone. Because that's how it always goes."

The X-Men don't get to have nice things.

(Well, okay, Bobby had to admit that Kitty seemed to be doing okay, but that was honestly probably because she lived here, where the not-nice things were far less frequent.)

"Very empathetic, I like that," Kitty said. Because really... that was kind of it?

"Would you care to get a little deeper into that?" Kitty asked. "Because this could go really philosophical."

"Yeah, sorry about that," Kitty said, because she'd kind of worried she'd run into that answer. "Do you think Justice was served in that case?"

Kitty was going with no.

Theron Shan

Sabine Wren

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