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Bad Ass Bitch Life Lessons; Wednesday, First Period [01/15].

"Okay, fuck it," said Rosa, because she could drop F-bombs ever since the network switch, and she threw the piece of chalk she'd been failing to write on the board with out the window (which was, it should be noted, closed at the time, but don't worry, she'll pay for that). By the point, the class had been treated to a variety of different efforts on Rosa's part to present to them the actual lesson she wanted to teach that day (even her notes with the aphorism on it was conveniently rendered unreadable by a spilled cup of coffee), until she finally reached a point where it stopped being worth it, because, honestly? She didn't even care.

Still, she was stubborn, to a fault, but she eventually gave in to her reluctant resignation. "Let's just see what the old bag has to say this week."

She flipped on the projector and braced herself for their next nugget of wisdom:

"Every morning, I punch the clock. And the copier. And the printer. And the vending machine..."

Rosa, having just punched many, many things in the classroom, was feeling very called out.

She glowered a little at the comic (considering punching it), and then sighed. "Okay," she said, turning to the class. "We can work with this one. Punching things. It doesn't always work," as they had clearly seen demonstrated that day, "but it does always make you feel better. And then there are times when it does work, and that's pretty bad ass. Punching."

Yay, advocating casual violence!

"Discuss."

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How do I not have a good punching icon for Punchy McGee over here?

Wayne

Nina Argentum

Okuyasu Nijimura

"Lecture."

Hey, Rosa did speak words. Eventually. After all the classroom abuse.

You know, like, this was a really good exhibit "A" for why Nina shouldn't be so unhappy to be stuck in the community center for her class, it really was...

But Nina was, like, maybe also recording this steathily.

Because oh my gosh.

Punching: greatest solution ever or greatest solution ever? The floor is yours, kids.

"Oh, well," Wayne drawled, with his introspective philosopher's squint, "when it comes to punching, I'd just about punch anyone who went and deserved it, but I don't think it does much good to punch inanimate things, as it's not like they're going to learn any sort of lesson from it, they're inanimate things, they haven't got the wherewithall or the sentience to learn anything from punching them."

There was...a pause.

"'Cept maybe 'round here," he amended, "fuck, I don't know. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that any of the objects around here turned out to be able to read at a grade nine level and quote Shakespeare, fuck."

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He...had a point, and considering the amount of equipment abuse Rosa regularly exhibited on various machines around the island...she really did not want to think about that prospect.

"Okay, then," she offered, "what's better out of the three: punching, farting, and watching kids fall off bikes?"

Come on, Farmer's Almanac, don't disappoint her.

"Oh," said Wayne, without even a moment's hesitation or thought, "kids fallin' off bikes, no contest!"

And then, a moment to consider.

"An' then farts, and then punching, because usually if the fists are flyin', it's 'cause someone went and earned it, and I'd rather no one was goin' around earnin' fists in the face in the first place, but, hey, if you're going to go be a fuckin' degen, I'd have a donnybrook."

"Like, oh my gosh," Nina said, all big eyes and doing her best to look like a delicate flower of femininity. "I would never use punching as a solution!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

She'd just beat them with her bookbelt instead.

Punching someone might cause her to break a nail!

Maybe if Rosa didn't know who you were, Nina, she might have considered believing it, but as they stood, that was about as convincing as when Santiago insisted she loooved dogs despite being deathly allergic.

"Never?" she asked dryly, quirking a brow. "Really." Then lifted her chin. "Why not?"

"I mean, like, that's so hard on your hands!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she said, stubbornly maintaining her flower of femininity vibe as much as possible. "You don't know where someone else's face has been!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Rosa at least had to appreciate the effort.

"That is true," she allowed. "There are a lot of nasty faces out there."

And she liked to think she'd punched many of them, indeed.

"But it's the 'never' part that I'm having trouble with. A Bad Ass Bitch should always be ready and willing to punch someone...or something...if it comes down to it...no matter how nasty."

Again. She had punched many nasty faces. And would gladly punch them again.

And again. And again.

"And, like, I totally understand that in some circumstances that I'll have to make due," she said earnestly. "Which is why I am never without a book or the ability to set people on fire................"

Really now, Rosa. Why punch people when you could light them on fire?

... though it was hard to be a flower given that statement alas.

Well, for one thing, punching had a much smaller risk of other things setting on fire...

But Rosa smirked, juuuuuust a little, because, yeah. Yeah.

"Generally," she noted, "I feel that the fire thing should be a bit closer to the last resort side of things," sidenote, Nina, arson was bad, please don't, the paperwork for it was a bitch, she should know, because of all the apartments she'd burned down because people she'd worked with had been in there once, "but I do like the personal touch of smacking someone with a book."

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If someone or something was trying to hurt her, Nina had zero problems setting them on fire.

"They never expect it," she said brightly, "and, like, if you're searched for weapons, they barely ever realize that trashy romance novels count............"

"You don't, like...have an ability or anything where, I guess, the trashier the novel, the harder it hits, do you?"

Look. She'd heard Nina's radios, and she'd been living on this island way too long, it seemed totally plausible, to the point where she might actually be disappointed if the answer was no.

Nina's radios were a national treasure, don't even!

"I mean, like, I've never quantified that," she mused thoughtfully. "But it doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility..............."

"...usually works," Okuyasu said with a nod. "Even if my other teacher would say no. Punching has really worked for me as a whole. If it weren't for almost killing my best friends we'd never have ended up as best friends and we wouldn't have stopped that serial killer."

Yeah, Captain Extra here was really getting some mixed messages here, but who was he going to believe, really? The hot cop, or the pervy grocery store owner?

"Wait, hold on," said Rosa, who wasn't sure if she really got all that, especially since she was admittedly only paying half-attention. "Let me get this straight...."

She had to take a moment to figure out which point was the most important one to address first.

"Did you almost kill your best friends by punching them?"

"Well, one I was kicking in the face after trapping his head in a gate," Okuyasu said, looking a little embarassed about it. "But Josuke and I got into a big fight and that involved some punching. I did get hit in the head with a flower pot, but that was my mistake. Josuke's the one who does the punch-punch-punch stuff, really."

He was going to skip over the 'shot in the face with tiny bullets' part of that day, that wasn't a needed detail.

Although, fair warning, she felt that if there was ever a day where she shouldn't be blamed if there was punching as a result, this would be it.

It wasn't a great defense, no, but she'd still stand by it.

Posting this class after yesterday's class feels weird, but in the best way possible, wtf, Summer.

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