fandomhigh | How to Make a Radchaai Entertainment; Friday, First Period [05/22].

"Morning, everyone!" said Amaya, greeting the class eagerly because, let's face it, she was just sort of used to pulling most of the conversational weight when she co-taught a class, so it was just habit for her to take charge right out the gate. "I hope you're feeling inspired today, because we're going to get started on developing our Radchaai entertainment. Now, there are two ways we could approach this story, and that's character-driven or plot-driven," maybe? She didn't actually know, but she'd read something like that!, "and we thought it would be more interesting to start with character-driven, so that's why today, you'll be working on what kind of character you'd like to play in our entertainment, and then next week, we'll figure out how to put all your unique characters together in the plot."

That was how it worked, right? Maybe? It made sense to her, and so why not?

"In general," Amaya added, "there are certain character archetypes that typically make up a good entertainment, but that doesn't necessarily mean you have to have those characters, but, in general, that's what'll fit in nicely with a good plot."

Seivarden, finally managing to get a word in, added: "Not all archetypes work well in a Radchaai entertainment, and since that is what we're making, we might have to adjust your first ideas."

"So today's about workshopping!" One of Amaya's favorite words, even if the context was just slightly different. "Think about what character you want to play, make a proposal, decide how they might fit in with the characters your fellow actors might want to play, and we'll see if they're a good fit or what direction we might want to take them."

And that was...it! Time to grab some tea and start brainstorming some ideas that one teacher would likely put down while the other actively encouraged them!

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"We have a few character types we need," Seivarden said. "A hero. An enemy. A love interest. A best friend. Any particular type that interest you?"

She looked at the students. "Suggest a character, listen to the feedback and discuss what kind of relationship you have to the others."

This should be....interesting! Yes let's go with that.

Wayne actually...had a few ideas, of the sort of character he might be able to play for this disaster of a movie they were apparently going ot make in this movie, but none of them seemed to really fit, so he might have to appeal to his classmates and instructors on this one.

"I don't..." he started, squinted a bit, then tried again. "I don't s'pose there were too many farmer types on space ships, realleh...."

Because of course, if he was going to play anything, it would probably have to pert'near just be...himself. But, you know....in space.

"No," Seivarden said firmly. "No farmers."

Really.

Yeah, Wayne had sort of been expectin' a response like that.

"But how you gonna be stuck on a spaceship fer all that time," he, who had barely left his tiny little rural podunk hometown, reasoned, to the person who actually did live on a spaceship fer plenty of time, "and not have any fresh food? You jus' gonna survive on rations the whole time? Freeze-dried, mega-dried, salted and canned processed junk fer for however long? What if there was some sort of hydroponics situation goin' on? You could prob'ly have hydroponics on yer spaceship, or at least a botonist or something..."

Despite the arguments, he was not, in fact, married to this space farmer idea, but he felt it was still good enough of one to be given a fair shake in the court of his peers and instructors.

Seivarden paused.

"There is skel, and it's completely irrelevant to the plot."

"We don't know that," Wayne pointed out. "We haven't gotten to plot yet, it could be about anything, even skel. Fuck, I'd watch a movie about skel."

Then his head tilted.

"Now what's skel?"

He wasn't just bein' contrarian, after all. He'd gladly watch a movie about skel if it meant knowin' what skel was.

"Skel is what you eat if there's no other option," Seivarden said. "It's boring and nutritious, and it's not grown on ships. Nothing to make a movie about."

She looked horrified.

"They made a movie about corn," said Wayne. "Why not a movie about...skel?"

It was said with a particular emphasis and a particular squint that seemed to suggest he might actually be growing quite fond of the word. Amaat save them all.

"Doesn't even have to be the whole movie about skel, could just be a character about skel. Doesn't even gotta be a farmer of skel, mebbe just a scientist-type that's taken to studying...skel."

"There will be no entertainment about skel," Seivarden said firmly, looking around for Amaya to support this decision.

"I would like to be the star," Tahani said immediately.

As long as she didn't want to be a space farmer star Seivarden was fine with that, so she smiled.

"What kind of star?"

"A very large one," Tahani said. "Like Gwyneth Paltrow."

"What kind of character is she?" Seivarden, who had never heard of Gwyneth Paltrow, asked.

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