Beginner's Guide to Heroism, Wednesday - 2nd Period

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Your teacher arrived dramatically, but mostly by virtue of anyone wearing a cape sort of had that air of drama about them. That was, of course, assuming you weren't distracted by the gun show of those arms, however.

"Welcome to class," she said once everyone else had arrived. "I'm Dr. Jane Foster and I'll be your teacher today, but maybe take it a little easy on me. I haven't been in an undergrad setting in a loooong long while."

She set the hammer she was carrying down on the teacher's desk with a dull and satisfying thud that implied that thing wasn't about to move anytime soon.

"So, the subject of the class is heroism and a guide to it. But I think that's kind of broad, don't you? I've always considered heroism more that possible for people even if they're not wearing kind of silly capes." Tsk, no respect for Asgardian fashion out of this one. "Growing up, it always meant not giving up on doing what was right or helping others. But that leads to the question that I want to pose to you all: what do you think being a hero is? That will really sort of inform what kind of class this will be."

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Ready for the gun show

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Graham Cracker

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Vi

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[furrybluefreak]

Kurt Wagner

Listen to the Lecture

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Or maybe sit sadly and feed some birds.

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Hyped as he was about this class, Graham was just going to need a moment to try not to pout over any particularly disparaging comments about capes right now.

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[giveittoyoursister]

Vi was just going to pay very close attention to Jane's arms lecture arms, thanks.

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Okay, there was no way that hammer had the density to -- it shouldn't --

Don't mind the lights glowing at Beta's left temple. She had to scan that hammer and see what was going on there.

And her scans made no sense. Well, there were concrete numbers, and data, but none of it made any sense.

Was this just something she was going to have to get used to here? Because that was going to be a challenge.

Discuss!

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What is your idea of a hero?

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"Oh, I think," said Graham, eagerly, "that what you said is exactly what my idea of a hero is! Someone who doesn't give up in doing what's right and helping others! That's definitely the kind of hero I'd like to be, anyway! And they've got to be strong, too, if not in body," he went a little sheepish, rubbing the back of his neck, with that one, with great emphasis on his noodly arms, "but at least in spirit! A hero has got to be brave, but they also should be compassionate and wise!"

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"Precisely," Jane agreed enthusiastically. "I like to think I was still doing what I could to help with my mind before..."

Well, this bodacious Norse make over via magic hammer.

"Otherwise they're just a strong jerk if they don't have those qualities."

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[furrybluefreak]

"I think, to me at least..." Kurt said with a shy grin, "is someone who does the right thing. That might not always be the most dangerous, glamourous, or whatever. Sometimes being a hero is saving someone from a runaway car. Other times being a hero is standing up for someone who is being attacked. And a hero could be someone who knows when to fight when to strategize when to negotiate and what to do in any situation."

Kurt paused for a moment then added, somewhat timidly.

"I want to be a hero someday. It's been my dream for a while now, to be a part of the X-Men team and to help others, to use my abilities and such to help people. To be kind, just, wise, brave, compassionate, dependable, and selfless."

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"Who are the X-Men?" Jane had to ask. Because, look, it took time to fully get creative control over those properties and then write them into the universe again.

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[giveittoyoursister]

Vi shrugged. "They're fictional," she said eventually.

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"You don't think heroes are real?" Jane asked, more as a clarification than a challenge.

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[scarlet_and_indigo]

"I think a hero is someone who does the right thing even when it's hard," TJ answered. "Whether that's telling a bully where to stick it, adopting a dog, or saving the world."

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Okay, two blue kids. Not any weirder than the residents of New Asgard.

"Where do you think you fall in that idea?"

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Gray was asleep at his desk. He might be snoring a little.

Hopefully he'd wake up before class was over?

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Oh. Oh, no.

Wait, Raiden had mentioned his brother had a condition, hadn't he?

That was why Jane very kindly didn't take it too personally.

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[no_missing_piece]

"My sister," Beta said simply.

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~Magic hammer~

"Anything about her specifically?" Jane asked.

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[noonedecidesmyfate]

"Heroes, real heroes," Belle said, "do what needs to be done even if it isn't easy. They're brave, even when their frightened. Or at least they do the brave thing."

Talk to the Teacher

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Or Mjolnir. Who probably won't talk back.

OOC

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I got a pumpkin spice cold brew and it was a good choice.

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[noonedecidesmyfate]

Our Sbux workers are striking currently. So many college students left without their PSLs.