Disaster! Or Opportunity, Actually? [Monday, 1st Period]

[good_for_six]

Hope you were all here nice and early kids (and Margo)! Because your teachers weren't. Instead showing up fashionably late and somewhat rumpled. It was entirely possible that was because they stayed up late planning class and the time got away from them, but that extremely noble excuse wouldn't explain the hickeys.

"Hello everyone," Isabela greeted them all enthusiastically. "I'm Isabela, Captain Isabela if you want to be formal or just like big boats, which I'm sure you all do."

Aphra stifled a yawn behind one hand. "Doctor Aphra, my reputation precedes me. Unless you're new." In which case she didn't care. "Anyway this is 'Disaster! Or Opportunity, Actually?' a class all about discovering that success and failure are all matters of perspective." As taught by two bonafide disasters.

"But first there's that old Fandom tradition of slacking off during the first class with introductions." Isabela, saying the quiet part out loud. "I mean you barely have to do anything with that."

Anyone under the tragically mistaken impression that Isabela was going to be a good influence here was by now probably realising that she wasn't.

Oh, no, did that mean Aphra was going to have to be the responsible one? This was not part of the plan. "What the good Captain means is that all that stuff you've been told about first impressions and how you don't get second chances at making them, it's bantha poodoo," she said. "Mostly because you don't even really get to make that first one. Because people like to judge, even when they tell themselves they don't. They'll take what little they know about you and yours and make up their minds before you even open your mouth."

"Which just makes it all the more satisfying when you prove them wrong." By showing that sterotypes and quick judgement were misguided and wrong. "By stealing their stuff, usually. Sometimes stabbing's involved." Isabela, you were a pirate who often openly carried around multiple large daggers, what first impressions exactly were you proving wrong by doing that?

"Shooting is also an option." Aphra, you were making it worse. "In any case, let's hear it. Name, class if you're a student, some outrageous lie about yourself. Because sincerity is for chumps!"

Comments

Sign In [DisOpp 01]

[good_for_six]

Making someone regret hasty judgements! Or making one!

Re: Sign In [DisOpp 01]

[giveittoyoursister]

Vi

Re: Sign In [DisOpp 01]

[pun_king]

Graham Cracker

Re: Sign In [DisOpp 01]

[not_harmless]

Terra Harvey

Re: Sign In [DisOpp 01]

[apocalypsehow]

Number Five Hargreeves

Re: Sign In [DisOpp 01]

[not_a_goddamn_princess]

Margo Hanson

Re: Sign In [DisOpp 01]

[craic_killer]

Clare Devlin

Listen to Aphra and Isabela [DisOpp 01]

[good_for_six]

This class. This class was the disaster.

Re: Listen to Aphra and Isabela [DisOpp 01]

[giveittoyoursister]

The things Aphra was saying about people being judgemental assholes was definitely hitting far too close for Vi, but there were also a couple of things distracting her, and they were all attached to Isabela.

Introductions! [DisOpp 01]

[good_for_six]

Name, class, and an outrageous lie.

Extra credit if they're all lies.

The extra credit was also a lie.

Re: Introductions! [DisOpp 01]

[not_harmless]

"Terra Harvey, I'll be a- what's the word, a sophomore in the fall, and- I've never kissed anyone."

As lies went, it was hardly outrageous, but then... life at Alfea had been anything but because Bloom wasn't there to shake things up with her mysterious changeling ways yet.

Re: Introductions! [DisOpp 01]

[good_for_six]

"Oh, you poor girl!" Was Isabela playing along, or hadn't she been paying attention when Aphra asked them to lie? Even odds. "If the student body is anything like in my day, we'll soon fix that."

Isabela, there was no way the student body could ever be as horny as it was in your day. It was literally impossible.

Re: Introductions! [DisOpp 01]

[giveittoyoursister]

"Vi, I think I'm supposed to be a junior and..." The gears in Vi's brain were taking their sweet time to tick today. "My girlfriend's mom is on the council."

That was definitely the most ridiculous and patently false possibility she could come up with.

Re: Introductions! [DisOpp 01]

[good_for_six]

Isabela winked at Vi. "Is her mother hot as well as powerful?"

She was resigned to the fact it was the wrong kind of bad idea to actually make passes at the actual students, but she could still mess with them a little.

Re: Introductions! [DisOpp 01]

[apocalypsehow]

"Number Five Hargreeves," Five said with a smile that was just too much teeth for someone who looked his age. Which was his 'charm' really. "I don't know, nor do I care what class I'm in. I'm old enough to be your fathers. And I'm a former time traveling assassin for an extra-temporal enforcement agency."

Five, they said to lie, not tell the truth in a way that sounded like a lie.

Re: Introductions! [DisOpp 01]

[jedigrammarians]

"Do you think he's cranky because his boyfriend left for the summer?" Isabela very much didn't stage whisper to Aphra.

Aphra shrugged. "Probably."

Re: Introductions! [DisOpp 01]

[apocalypsehow]

"What?" No, this wasn't going how he wanted it at all. "Harry isn't my boyfriend."

Oh, so he was Belle's boyfriend?

Re: Introductions! [DisOpp 01]

[good_for_six]

Sorry, Five, the friend fiction was already being written. "I realise it feels this way now, when you're mad at him, but you'll change your tune soon enough." Teenagers were fickle like that.

Re: Introductions! [DisOpp 01]

[apocalypsehow]

"I am not dating Potter."

Oh yeah, denial helped loads here.

"I'm not dating anyone. I think."

NO, NOW WAS NOT THE TIME FOR UNCOMFORTABLE REALIZATIONS.

Re: Introductions! [DisOpp 01]

[jedigrammarians]

"If you have to think about whether you're dating someone, you probably are, trust me on that kid."

He didn't want to know how many times Aphra had made that mistake.

Re: Introductions! [DisOpp 01]

[apocalypsehow]

"Oh no." No one must speak of this!

Re: Introductions! [DisOpp 01]

[good_for_six]

"Don't worry, I'm sure you can make it up to them if you just use your words."

So no chance of that, Five.

Re: Introductions! [DisOpp 01]

[pun_king]

"Hi, there!" Practically bouncing with excitement for his first class, Graham gave a big, sweeping wave of his hand. "My name's Graham! Graham Cra--oops!"

It seemed that, in his excitement, he'd knocked his cap askew with his wave and stopped himself to adjust it and set it right again.

"There we go. Anyway, as I was saying, my name is Graham! And I'm a sophomore!" He said it with wide eyes and waggling fingers to help make it sound very impressive. "Now, let's see." His hand now tucked at his chin thoughtfully. "An outrageous lie....hmm..."

It probably defeated the purpose to acknowledge that it was a lie, Graham.

"Ah-ha!" He snapped his fingers. "I know! I actually flew here!

"...and, boy, are my arms tired!"

Did he just....use this as an excuse to drop a terrible joke?

Yes, yes he did.

Was he proud of that fact?

Unfortunately, also yes, as he beamed, pleased and satisfied with his introduction.

Re: Introductions! [DisOpp 01]

[jedigrammarians]

Sadly his teachers also had terrible senses of humour. "Good one, kid."

No, Aphra wasn't going to remember his name despite just hearing it.

Re: Introductions! [DisOpp 01]

[pun_king]

Oh, no, Aphra, don't encourage him!

Because Graham (who was used to most people forgetting his name anyway) lit up like a lantern at that response, pulling his shoulders up even more with a big grin and a small pump of his fist in victory.

He was totally nailing these classes so far!

Yes, it was his first one. But he was clearly off running!

Re: Introductions! [DisOpp 01]

[not_a_goddamn_princess]

Margo hung back in her seat, projecting a carefully curated air of not giving a shit. "I'm Margo Hanson, I'm not in class, and I've totally been in a four-way with several members of the British royal family," she drawled.

Might as well steal one from Irene's book.

"On a couple of horses."

Re: Introductions! [DisOpp 01]

[good_for_six]

Well it wasn't like Isabela objected to the idea of group sex or sex with royalty. "The horses might've been a bit much," she said. "They can't really opt out of the situation."

Re: Introductions! [DisOpp 01]

[not_a_goddamn_princess]

"Talking horses," Margo said, without missing a beat. "They're total perverts, you don't wanna know."

That wasn't even a lie.

Re: Introductions! [DisOpp 01]

[good_for_six]

From the look on Isabela's face as she made a series of size comparison gestures, she was very seriously considering that maybe she did?

But luckily for everyone, eventually she sighed. "You're probably right."

Re: Introductions! [DisOpp 01]

[craic_killer]

"I'm Clare Devlin," Clare babbled, high pitched and nervous, "and I'm in my final year here. And I'm British."

That was an outrageous lie, if you asked the Catholic Irish in Derry.

Re: Introductions! [DisOpp 01]

[good_for_six]

"Oh, aren't you precious!" Was Isabela being reminded of Merril despite Clare being very little like Merril? Totally.

Talk to Aphra or Isabela [DisOpp 01]

[good_for_six]

The real disaster was the teachers who banged along the way.

OOC [DisOpp 01]

[good_for_six]

I've missed this girl. I really, really have.