fandomhigh | Shop Class; Tuesday, Fourth Period [01/30].

Amaya was definitely a morning person who might have actually preferred her classes being a bit earlier in the day, but she was feeling very grateful for the fourth period time slot today! But she was also pretty excited about the lesson today, too, so she was going to eagerly get right to it.

"Now I know last week's class wasn't the most...productive," she said, "and I know I didn't go into depth with a lot of the tools like I would usually like to under....less difficult circumstances, but a lot of them are pretty simple, and I hope you got the general gist of everything regardless. If you have any further questions, you know I'll be happy to go over them, and we've got one more big tool class today before we start getting into individual projects proper, but trust me, this is a good one. Because today, we're going to be talking about welding!

"For those of you unfamiliar, welding is, essentially, when you take heat and fire to fuse pieces of metal together! It's a pretty simple concept, really, where the heat melts the metal, and, when it cools, they form together. There are a few different ways to go about welding, but one of the most popular and easiest....and what we'll likely use most in this class...is the welding torch and there's a few different variations of those, as well, and we'll go over some of them and how to use them, and then we'll....well, get to use them!

"But," here she grinned a little, looking over the class to see if anyone knew where she was already going with this...a pointed look at Beaker ~~assuming he was there omg~~ when she passed over him might help if you weren't actually sure, "...before we get into any of that, we, of course, have to talk about safety! Welding can be a lot of fun, but it can also be pretty dangerous if you're not careful, with risks not only from the fire and the hot metal, but for your eyes, as well, and even your lungs, as the chemical processes can release harmful gases and vapors into the air. Metal work is pretty serious business, so you've always got to be careful if you want to keep doing it in any capacity!

"And once we're done with all that, you'll have the rest of class to work on your welding. We've got a lot of scrap metal here, and so see what you can weld together to make something interesting! I'll show you how to make a scrap metal dragonfly as an example or jumping off point, but the only limit is your own imagination!

"Well," Amaya amended, a beat later, "and I guess what we actually have for scrap metal, but you get the idea. Right, then." She nodded, pounded her fist into her palm. "Let's get to it."

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Sticking things together!

It's all about welding, baby! Who doesn't love a class that lets you put a stupidly hot torch next to metal to fuse it together, really?

Just, you know, please keep the extremely hot fire away from one's self and other people and focus on just the metal, please, and we'll all be good!

And, hopefully, after the lecture and demonstrations, you've got enough confidence to give welding a try! Remember, safety first, so you're not getting near a torch until you're properly geared up, and then you can try to recreate the dragonfly Amaya showed you, or you can pick through the scraps and come up with your own idea! As long as you're giving the welding a fair attempt, it doesn't really matter what you come up with!

Whose good mood very clearly is just because welding is awesome and nooooo other reasons, none at all, just welding! That's how cool it was!!

Hey, look who was leaning in the doorway: Irene, who clearly had nothing to do with anyone's good mood, bearing a now-customary pair of cups.

She was also dressed down once more -- though today it was less borne out of any thoughts regarding getting her hands dirty (though, she might end up using hand tools again later, or at least wasn't opposed), and more prompted by a hope that it was silly to get all done up just to, ideally, undo it all again in just a little while.

It was that same hope that was squashing down a vague worry that showing up to escort Amaya home today would seem clingy, somehow. She was on fairly sure feet these days -- and she felt she had very good reason for them today, thanks -- but the thought tickled at the back of her brain, all the same.

"Welding today?" Irene, did you even need that detective class? Look at that deduction, wow.

At this point, really, Rosa should just hand the class over to Irene with these top-tier levels of dectectiving!

"Welding today," Amaya confirmed, with the typical staunch nod and a perhaps slightly less than typical soft smile. "Good lesson both for the useful skill and to clear out some of my old scrap junk, and, thankfully, none of the injuries were worse than expected."

Look, she had Beaker in this class, that was a more positive statement than it sounded!

"Even the little felt one?" Irene replied brightly as she crossed over to pass over Amaya's coffee. "He seems like such a liability."

Even if she thought he was rather adorable, sometimes, with his meep-meeps and his overall air of semi-helplessness.

Beaker was, categorically and unquestionably, Amaya's favorite student. Her grin grew a little more as she took the offered cup, nodding again, this time with a "Thanks."

And she was going to have a quick first sip before adding, in a very strong bid of confidence for this early in the post, "And, yeah, even the felt one. And you know, you'd think that, but honestly, I've started to think of him as almost an anti-liability. Because he's practically invulnerable, you know, and it never jumps to any of the other students, and he does seem to take safety as seriously as he can, it's just there's always something. Like, if anyone's catching on fire or getting squashed by a mallet or catching an electrical current, I'd rather have it just be Beaker."

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Beaker

"Like a sort of chaos sponge-slash-insurance policy. What are the odds of two Beaker-level accidents?" Irene mused, slanting a fond little smile Amaya's way -- she was such a good teacher, even beyond just the instruction level. "And I suppose if he just springs back, there's not much...harm?"

Other than the ambient explosive distraction of it all.

Stark

Stark had the confidence required for this. For other things maybe not so much but he could handle a little welding.

He wasn't going for the dragonfly. He was thinking something more space themed. Maybe it would end up a star.

And that ambient explosive distraction also brought a good deal of entertainment along with it, too. There was a reason Miguel brought popcorn to their class on Fridays!

"Every time you see him next," she noted, shaking her head with a sort of fascinated awe, "he's practically good as new! That little guy can really take--"

Now, it wasn't unusual, really, especially when Amaya was in a classroom setting, for her to say something that put many, many things other than her actual intention to mind for most people, usually without her even noticing it. But, thanks to the influence of, shall we say, recent events, she actually managed to stop herself short before her mouth went ahead and spilled something that would have put some interesting connotations into her own mind, the sort that really had no business being there in relation to a long time student.

So, she, showing an impressive amount of self-awareness for herself, stopped, and tried about.

"...hold his own," she concluded. "So, anyway!" She remembered she had a coffee and drank very deeply drom it. "Yes. Welding, no singing, still no trips to the clinic. Overall very good day."

Irene was, perhaps unsurprisingly, a very good poker player. She excelled at keeping her features schooled, her expression blank, all traces of amusement and caught innuendo off her face if she wanted.

'If she wanted' being the operative phrase there, of course, so the smirk she was hiding quite poorly was absolutely intended to be seen, even if it came with a side of deniability.

Though now of course she was thinking, and while she'd had some strange clients in her time, none had been...you know, feltily resistant. Huh. Something to not dwell on, right there.

Anyway!

"Imagine if you'd had to sing at the clinic," Irene commented with a demure sip of tea as she tried to chase off the mental images -- both pleasant and huh -- from her mind. "That seems like a very poor day to have a medical emergency. Any kind of emergency, really."

See, that was the sort of thinking that could get people into trouble. Next thing you know, everyone's dealing with a murder carnival or a warehouse district fire while in song.

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