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fandomhigh2022-05-09 09:23 pm
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Disaster! Or Opportunity, Actually? [Monday, 1st Period]
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!"
"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!"
Re: Introductions! [DisOpp 01]
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.