Diplomacy, Tuesday, September 2, 2025 [2nd period]

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Anakin was wearing a fabulous gray hat while trying his best to pretend that he wasn't. "Hello, everyone."

Ahsoka was not wearing a hat, instead she had a garland of flowers draped around one montral. "Welcome to diplomacy, a subject we are both highly familiar with." Because that was something people needed to worry about when the moose was involved.

"We are also very good at it," Anakin added, which was a more debatable statement. "And because it's the first part of the semester, we're going to go with the more obvious first class assignment: small talk. Meet everyone in this class-it's not difficult--and come away with their name and something they think is interesting about them." He shrugged. "You don't have to agree that it's interesting, but you can't show that on your face or in your mannerisms. While you're learning this about others, you must also impart your name and something incredibly uninteresting to the other people. Faking being enthusiastic is also an important part of diplomacy."

"You will be quizzed on this next class," Ahsoka added, because it was the start of the semester and they got one warning. "Because another part of diplomacy is that you don't have to care about those little details, but you do need to remember them."

Anakin nodded. "Ahsoka and I will also be participating," he said. And no one could even curse about that today!

And it could have been worse, they could have had class tomorrow led by two Padawans.

Comments

Sign in 9/2

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Faking interest.

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[fears_no_one]

James Flint

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[mustbeawitch]

Lydia Bennet

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[mostnonheinous]

Billie Logan

Mingle!

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Meet each person and find out something dull fascinating! And then remember it for next week!

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Anakin was there, with his hat. He was thrilled about both things.

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[mostnonheinous]

"Hello, Mr. Professor Dean, dude!" Billie greeted as she fairly bounced over. "As you may remember, I am Billie S. Logan. A fun fact about me is that I made my television debut as a tiny baby, broadcast live accidentally to my entire planet! And how are you doing today?"

Girl did not possess a shy bone in her body.

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[sith_happened]

"I'm quite well," Anakin said, looking very amused. "What does the S stand for in your name?"

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[fears_no_one]

Flint stood over by himself in his amazing flower crown, trying (and failing) to look the slightest bit approachable.

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[mostnonheinous]

Lucky for him, Billie did not require an appearance of approachability to be willing to approach someone.

"Hello there! I'm Wilhelmina 'Billie' S. Logan. What's your name?"

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[fears_no_one]

"Flint," Flint replied in a British accent. "Hello."

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[mustbeawitch]

Lydia was here, with her lovely flower crown that had made doing her hair ever so difficult this morning, and trying to think of things about herself that were dull. It was harder than you might think!

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[mostnonheinous]

"Hi! That is a lovely flower crown you're wearing. I'm Wilhelmina 'Billie' S. Logan. And you are?"

Did anyone think they were leaving this class without getting an introduction from Billie? They were wrong.

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[mustbeawitch]

"Good morning, Miss Logan," Lydia said with a curtsy. "I am Miss Lydia Bennet. I trust that you are well?"

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[fears_no_one]

"Miss Bennet," Flint said with a tiny nod of his head. "How good to see you again."

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[mustbeawitch]

"Captain Flint," Lydia said with a slight curtsy. "It is always lovely to see you, sir." Especially in a flower crown. Whimsy suited you, Flint.

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[mostnonheinous]

Billie was rocking her fabulous new hat, thank you, and would be a bit sad when it vanished back to wherever it had come from, later.

For now, she was circling and mingling like it was her job.

She was going to be so good at this class.

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[mustbeawitch]

"Professor Skywalker," Lydia said with a little curtsy of greeting. "Good morning, sir."

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[sith_happened]

"Good morning, Miss Bennet," Anakin said. "Again. This is a shift from yesterday's, isn't it?"

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[mustbeawitch]

No, no, Anakin, yesterday she had been wearing a shift. Which perhaps accounted for the faint blush staining her cheeks now. "Ah, yes, sir," she said. "I do hope I shall acquit myself rather better here than there." There had been much floundering there.

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[giveittoyoursister]

Flower crown perched rakishly I her hair, Vi could be uneven at socialising, but luckily she had Flint to make her look much more approachable by comparison.

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[fears_no_one]

Game recognized game, and Flint nodded gravely at her.

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[snipsnspecks]

Did the way the flower crown hung off her montral make it look like someone had been playing ringtoss with with Ahsoka as the target? Yes. Did she look concerned about that? Not at all.

Talk to Anakin & Ahsoka

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In addition to the small talk.

OOC

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First day of school here. I regret to inform you that Little J is a senior.