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FINALLY entering the Astronomy classroom after the 'House Elves at work. Please do not disturb' sign had been removed, you see nothing out of the ordinary other than an especially clean classroom. The desks are arranged in their usual semi circle to help created a more personal and inviting environment. The late afternoon sunlight shines through the windows to give the room an almost heavenly glow.
In the front of the classroom is the professor's desk sitting before a massive chalk board that appears to be empty for the time being. Professor Flamsteed is currently leaning against his desk with his bum while finishing up a comic book he had started while waiting outside the classroom for the elves to finish their work.
Did you remember to use the lint roller on the small table outside of the classroom? It was there next to the sign that reads, "Not to be used as a brush for your hair" and has the signature of a former student in the bottom right corner.
So come on in and have a seat. Class will begin shortly despite the hour delay due to a conflict in house elf cleaning schedules.
⌦Lesson Progression
▸ question 1 :: what does astronomy mean to you and why do we study it? Don't forget your nifty name tag!
▸ question 2 :: can you identify any of these "famous" science fiction figures?
▸ question 3 :: imagine you are an evil mastermind, how would you go about destroying the Earth?
▸ activity 1 :: practice making a planet using the colored bags of "sand" provided
▸ activity 1 :: UPDATE. Optional spellwork and last call to practice
▸ activity 2 :: LET'S DESTROY THE SOLAR SYSTEM!
classroom diagram for the activity
▸ activity 2 :: STANDINGS UPDATE! 1. Hufflepuff 2. Slytherin 3. Ravenclaw 4. Gryffindor
▸ activity 2 :: RULE MODIFICATION. Please read. STANDINGS UPDATE! 1. Gryffindor 2. Ravenclaw 3. Slytherin 4. Hufflepuff
▸ activity 2 :: LAST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION! 1. Slytherin 2. Ravenclaw 3. Gryffindor & Hufflepuff
▸ no more green planets
▸ CLASS DISMISSED! Congratulations Ravenclaw!
OOC: Sorry for the serious delay in starting time, but let's just be glad and thankful for the hard working SnitchSeeker.com techies for fixing the slight server hiccup <3
Class will officially begin in approximately 20 hours from the time of this post.
This lesson has officially started! Please do not announce your character arriving late and just pretend like they have been in class all along. You are free to jump in any time and should use the lesson progression links to keep up.
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...and if someone else had mentioned Frieza, Gabriel was far too focused on Flamsteed to notice. 'BLAHBLAHBLAH GABE SAYS STUFF BUT RUBY DOESN'T LISTEN' He reached down and grabbed one of his sister's hands; whether she liked it or not. To center himself...'...BLAH BLAH BLAH'
Ruby barely noticed Gabe taking her hand, she was used to him being weird so whatever. She just held it and eyed the professor, sort of interested in spite of herself.
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Entirely missing the point, Airey chuckled and puffed out his chest a bit. He HAD in fact been the top of his class, and he was quite pleased that his persona seemed to exude this. He was quite fond of his academic achievements.
He turned to look at the board again. They weren't all THAT bad, were they? Shrugging off the thought, he instead focused on the more scientific inquiry about how space effects the body. "Space and space travel effect the body quite drastically, but that is not the case for all the beings present here. Several of them are capable of standing in the vacuum of space completely unharmed, unlike the human body which would be totally deprived of oxygen and swell up quite like Veruca Salt from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory did when she turned into a giant blueberry. Any watery surface like your eyes and mouth would freeze over as well."
So, long story short, no...they were not "unattractive" due to space. But an interesting question. Perplexing. But interesting.
"While some are less of a villain than others, and some arguably not at all, yes. They are, for the most part, categorized as villains."
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Seeing no other raised hands, Airey gave the blackboard another firm tap to make the remaining names appear so that the board now read 'Marvin the Martian, Unicron, Species 8472, Frieza, Nero, Sailor Saturn, Tolian Soran, the Drej, Darth Vader.'
"Just for the record," he said. "Number 8 is from the animated film Titan AE." Pity none of them seemed to have known the 2000 film. Had a soundtrack to it that seemed to be on trend with what young witches and wizards were listening to these days.
"As pointed out, these characters are known for being villains for one reason or the other, but a primary reason they are dubbed as so is because they share an ability in common." One among many likenesses, but just the one he wished to focus on for now. "Each of these characters is capable of destroying an entire planet. Whether this is through magical girl powers like Sailor Saturn, a giant space station like Darth Vader, or physically devouring them like Unicron, they are all a fictional representation of how the Earth could be destroyed."
Such a cheery topic, yeah?
"Some astronomers have jokingly coined the term geocide, meaning the complete annihilation of planet Earth. KABOOM!"
See, Miss Cambridge? KABOOMs were happening today.
"This has been depicted in countless texts and films over the years in multiple end of the world scenarios. So, if you don't mind humoring here for a moment, I want you all to imagine yourselves one of these fictional villains and you have your sights set on destroying the planet." All entirely hypothetical, of course. "How would you go about doing this? How would you demote Earth from being a planet."
Demote from being a planet. HEH. LIKE PLUTO. HEH.
Get over it kids, it wasn't a planet when you were born. It's okay. Find peace. Think about blowing up the Earth and what not. Mmhmm.
OOC: Again, I am terribly sorry for the delay guys. We had a pretty big earthquake in my area (a 5.0) and there was a lot to deal with over here because of it.
Class will resume as soon as I can post again, which will be at least 15 hours from the time of this post. Thank you all for your patience <33
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So Nero was the name of the only semi-attractive one. Ruby wondered if he was rich. Obviously he wasn't real but if he was rich at least it would make up for the unfortunately placed tattoos. This way too, if class got super boring, her daydreaming would have at least a BIT of substance.
But oooooh how would she destroy the earth? Thinking about a few bits and pieces that she'd heard Gabe mention over the years, words that actually seemed relevant to this particular topic, Ruby stuck her free hand up.
"Slingshot it into the sun! Like with the gravity of a bigger planet. Put a tractor bean thing on the moon and drive it there or something." PAAAUSE. "After getting all the cute boys off the planet, and all the valuables first of course." Paaaaause. "Oh and my friends. And family." She supposed them too. Ruby squeezed Gabe's hand.
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Now this is slightly more interesting than wondering why Maddie was drawing handcuffs. Now if Dante was a super villain. Because only super villains would destroy the earth. It was true. He would need a fedora, walking stick with a sword hidden in it. Plus a nice car. With all that sorted then he could work on his master plan.
"I would have my minions infiltrate all the governments and start a Worldwide Nuclear War. So Earth will basically destroy itself."
Every villain needed some valuable minions.
No need to get you hands dirty with giant lasers from outer space or any other things that could be destroyed by a wanna be hero. Though i guess the bombs could be destroyed by heroes. Well, not like they would get the chance too. But having awesome super powers would make this much more easier. Though Dante does not read enough of those to know which hero/villains had enough power to destroy earth.
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[spoiler] “Right you are!” he exclaimed, pointing to each of them. Sweet solstice it seemed like Mr. Mordaunt was quite the Star Wars fan. He gave the prefect an appreciative glance, as well as one to Miss Clarke and Miss Lynch for their contributions as well. They just weren’t as rabid as the Slytherin was. Clearly. There was still hope to get them to appreciate Star Trek over Star Wars. Mr. Mordaunt was clearly a lost cause. “Mr. Mordaunt gave a brief overview of the character Darth Vader.” He gave a quick wink towards Miss Wu….Wuu….Wulfweardsweorth’s direction. Close, very close on the name. “And for those who are fortunate enough to sit near Miss Wayne, you were able to hear an impression of his signature voice and most famous line.” Well, save for that ridiculous NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO at the end of Episode III. “Darth Vader is ranked 3rd by the American Film Institute in the list of greatest movie villains in cinema history and arguably the most iconic in all of science fiction. This character made his screen debut all the way back in 1977.” Which was even before Old Man River had been born, yeah?
He gave Miss Valentine a quick salute as well, being the first to identify the character. As well as one to Mr. Foster.
Well done you lot. Well done indeed to recognize this classic.
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Seeing no other raised hands, Airey gave the blackboard another firm tap to make the remaining names appear so that the board now read 'Marvin the Martian, Unicron, Species 8472, Frieza, Nero, Sailor Saturn, Tolian Soran, the Drej, Darth Vader.'
"Just for the record," he said. "Number 8 is from the animated film Titan AE." Pity none of them seemed to have known the 2000 film. Had a soundtrack to it that seemed to be on trend with what young witches and wizards were listening to these days.
"As pointed out, these characters are known for being villains for one reason or the other, but a primary reason they are dubbed as so is because they share an ability in common." One among many likenesses, but just the one he wished to focus on for now. "Each of these characters is capable of destroying an entire planet. Whether this is through magical girl powers like Sailor Saturn, a giant space station like Darth Vader, or physically devouring them like Unicron, they are all a fictional representation of how the Earth could be destroyed."
Such a cheery topic, yeah?
"Some astronomers have jokingly coined the term geocide, meaning the complete annihilation of planet Earth. KABOOM!"
See, Miss Cambridge? KABOOMs were happening today.
"This has been depicted in countless texts and films over the years in multiple end of the world scenarios. So, if you don't mind humoring here for a moment, I want you all to imagine yourselves one of these fictional villains and you have your sights set on destroying the planet." All entirely hypothetical, of course. "How would you go about doing this? How would you demote Earth from being a planet."
Demote from being a planet. HEH. LIKE PLUTO. HEH.
Get over it kids, it wasn't a planet when you were born. It's okay. Find peace. Think about blowing up the Earth and what not. Mmhmm.
OOC: Again, I am terribly sorry for the delay guys. We had a pretty big earthquake in my area (a 5.0) and there was a lot to deal with over here because of it.
Class will resume as soon as I can post again, which will be at least 15 hours from the time of this post. Thank you all for your patience <33
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Yay, she was right! Ophelia totally knew she was, but it was still nice for the recognition. Because she was totally feeling good about herself right now. Yay! Also, look at all of the pop culture she was missing! Maybe she needed to get in touch with Caelen right away to watch old movies and television shows. Because one thing she shared with her family was the determination for right answers and on a lesser extent, recognition. It was a Clarke thing. She didn't expect YOU to understand --fake snobbiness and a little flip of her blonde hair--.
Also, destroying things? As the youngest child, Ophelia thought about destroying things often, though it was most often when she was eighteen and walked into her siblings rooms and destroyed things with spells for the years of annoyance and torture they caused her.
Hehehe, completely stable.
But the thought of destroying a planet? That was interesting. Did she have like a bunch of technology in this scenario? Or was she just being herself and destroying a planet? These questions were important. Raising her hand, the firstie formulated her answer quickly.
"Well, do I have any cool weapons? Or is it just me as I am now? Because if I DO have awesome magic or weapons, I would either use a destructive spell, find a way to catch all of the planetary debris and then put it in a giant plastic bag. Or even just use a giant ray gun thing. But if it's just me now..." Deep breath here, her brown eyes scanned the classroom quickly and then she continued. " But if it's just me, I would go into space with an icepick and start HACKING at it." And then the shorter girl used her sort of muscly arms to imitate pickaxing something. Because that was normal behavior. Sorry in advance for the term Professor.
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What a great question the professor asked! Kace smirked and wondered how he would go about destroying the earth. He saw a lot of movies dealing with that aspect but all of them sort of failed. He heard people would have minions. But Kace had another idea....
He raised his hand and said, "Professor I would get an evil scientist and sent him out to make like potions that could be radioactive and then infuse the potion with like a nuclear gun or even a laser and he can aim for the earth and it could blow up!" He didn't want to get his fingerprints on the gun incase he got caught. But how likely would that happen? Kace did think about this stuff. No shame there.
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How would they destroy Earth? Was that what this lesson was about? Penelope didn't want to think about it. If they were talking about ways to destroy planets, the activity was probably not going to be anything that she would like. Maybe they would be making things explode, but Professor Flamsteed's activities were impossible to predict. Whatever it was, it did not look like today would be her day. The best she could hope for right now was not ending up in the hospital wing.
Ooooh, destroying things! Morbid or not, that sounded cool. Norah's hand shot into the air. "You would have something physical to make it really small or destroy it. I'm not sure how I'd do that, though, because Earth is so big. Maybe I could get superduper good at magic and then shrink it from outer space." Then she could be an astronaut, YEAH! She hesitated slightly before continuing, "But just wiping out all the people won't stop it from being a planet, right? 'Cause all the other planets don't have people or plants or ANYTHING and they're still planets." Right? Then what made a planet a planet? Norah raised her hand once more to ask the question that had just struck her. "Professor, what makes a planet a planet anyway?" That was a good question, right?
Angel looked at the Professor and smiled as she raised her hand. "Simple really, I'd put them under some sort of mind control and make them destroy themselves." Angel didn't want to do any of the heavy work, that would just be too easy, but watching them destroy their own planet and each other would be fun and entertaining. "You might as well be entertain whilst watching the planet go down in flames."
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Marigold was liking this class. It was a bit more muggly, which meant she understood it better. As for destroying the world? "I would probably get into a high branch of government, until I became prime minister, then led England to take over all the other countries. I would let them live happily for a while, to be lulled into a false sense of security." She paused. "Then I would destroy the world."
Jumps in. (Comments on Gabe and Ruby because he's still naive to their Siblingship)
Mom says I have no sense of direction, so I packed my bags and right.
Ceo was B-O-R-E-D
He had nodded off a few times here and there even with his House Jimmy Bursting his voice box every now and then. He just didn't get Astrology....Astronomy whatever. His attention was taken by Gabe who had snagged the very Bonny Slytherin's hand. That Liar! He can't get on his Case for snogging his House Mate who had Pumpkin Chapstick so that was a thing then go and take a girls hand into his!
Not Fair at all.
This having had caught his attention made him hear the House Jimmy's question. While annoyed that he heard it. The Question intrigued him.
So Ceo cared enough to answer it. "Weel foremaist a'd tak' control o' a' scientist's brains." Yeah Good start if he could do that then.... "Then hae thaim create a deedly airborne virus that is immune tae a' environents oan earth. Next a'd hae thaim spread th' virus o'er th' globe"... No wait there was a cooler way. Like Undead and stuff. YEAH the undead were always the best World Enders! "...Did ah mention this wis a zombie virus? aye sae th' scientists wid be infected by it, 'n' spread wi' thair teeth. All fowk in th' world wid be turned wi`in a year 'n' na alien woud wantae land 'ere." Ceorlic smiled then put his hands on his desk like he cared for this class.
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Professor Flamsteed got a nod for finally saying her name right. Thanks, professor.
And she was hurriedly jotting down the mass of information meeting her ears, because one never knew when it would come up again. Yes, even the stuff about the fictional evildoers. But then......wait had he just said what she thought he'd said? What did that have to do with Astronomy?! A joke?! Oh for fruit's sake, there was nothing funny about........oh, geocide. Still not funny, but less serious than what she had been thinking. Because this only happened in movies and TV shows, right?
Her classmates had some good ideas, but they weren't very practical, were they? "I would drop a lit match into each of the world's stores of gasoline, including the ones under the gas stations and then while everyone is busy dealing with the aftermath of that, send a giant asteroid, twenty times larger than the one that ended the dinosaurs, hurtling towards Earth. Hopefully, by the time anyone notices it, it would already be in the Earth's atmosphere and there wouldn't be a thing anyone could do about it." And Earth would be nothing but a giant flaming ping pong ball, bouncing off the other planets. Maw-hahaha. Pinky held at corner of mouth.
Then, a sudden sobering thought occurred to her. "Or you could just let the Muggles continue to do what they're doing, causing a huge and permanent change to the climate and making the hole in the ozone layer larger and larger." Shivers for that one.
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Although she admitted that the start of this lesson was rather odd and very muggle orientated, Layla kind of liked the way that the Professor accepted her answer. She received a salute, the same salute he had given her when she arrived in the classroom and gave him a smile in greeting. She replicated that smile now, slightly larger than before. Currently known as Miss Grumpy rather than Miss Ackerly to her dormmates, Layla was actually capable of smiling sometimes.
She listened to other people’s answers, agreeing with some. She did not know all of the answers nor did she feel it was necessary to write them down when she was told who they were but she still listened.
But his next question did not seem to be astronomy related at all and the Ravenclaw was momentarily confused as to where exactly this lesson was headed. Were they all going to pretend that they were supervillains or something? Because quite frankly she didn’t think she wanted to get involved with that at all.
She thought for a brief period of time over how she was going to answer him. She had no idea nor did she feel any need to ‘take over the world’ and so she barely passed a thought over it. She raised her hand cautiously after listening to everyone else’s bizarre and downright morbid ideas.
“I guess I’d start from the inside out. Won’t it be easier to target the Earth’s core first?” Why were they even thinking about this? “If you can ignite that then it’s likely the rest of the planet would explode very quick afterwards.” How exactly she would go about that was another matter. Giant pieces of TNT? A huge missile? Who knew? “Either that or you could target the Earth’s atmosphere too. Changin' the Earth’s atmospheric composition would eliminate what it is that makes this planet diff'rent from all the others. No life on the planet means that, to us anyway, Earth would be ‘destroyed’ of it's lifeforms and everythin'” And then target the core to finish it once and for all.
Seriously? She thought this was supposed to be a scientific lesson..
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Jasmine listened as her classmates gave their ideas for destroying the Earth. Some were pretty clever and some were a little frightening. She found it kind of difficult to go into evil villain mode, but finally came up with an answer.
Jasmine raised her hand and began to speak. "If I was one of the villains, first I would try to get the Earthlings to do the dirty work for me. I'd encourage them to use lots and lots of plastic, aerosol sprays and paper. Cut down the trees. Then I would destroy the recycling centers so they'd have to use more resources. The evironment would eventually be ruined and the Earth would not be fit for life. Although, I would have to be a very patient villain for this to work and I believe that villains are generally not patient by nature.". So that was clearly not the best of ideas.
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Sophie was totally cool with this lesson. She was following just fine, learning which characters were from Star Trek vs Star Wars and enjoying Flamsteed's gentle letdown to those whose guesses were incorrect. She even took some notes - mostly just making sure she knew for the future that Star Trek was the one Flamsteed was so hung up on - and squiiiiiiinted as the conversation took a turn for... the annihilation of the earth.
Well. She hadn't expected that.
Nor had she anticipated Flamsteed asking them to put themselves in the shoes of an evil villain and SHARE their method for how they would go about destroying the planet.
Now, Sophie Brown was no loon, but... even innocent, hypothetical talk of such things electrified her nerves. It wasn't that she was worried that it would give anyone ideas - she was worried the first things that came to her mind were so elaborate and sensible in the annihilation of the earth that some people might question if she had given this a lot of thought. Which she hadn't. But so many DIFFERENT ways that she thought would have high success rates came to mind all at once, and she... snorted a little. And was, absolutely in no way, going to share a single thing.
If you had a brilliant mind that, over a certain turn of events could turn evil, would you really want to let up on that?
She would continue her apparent vow of silence for the day, thank you.
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SPOILER!!: Previous Phoenix and Professor Posts
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Phoenix was feeling a little clueless and doodling on the edge of his parchment, considering the classroom, when he felt something hit his mess of hair. "What the..." He looked around and...
"Gary!" Phoenix recognised the guy, obviously, and gave him a thumbs up, totally forgetting he was in a lesson. He pulled the rolled up bit of paper out of his curls, doodled a snake with a smiley face on it, and threw it back at the boy. Then...
WAIT! LESSON!
"Astronomy's super cool, sir. Cause the galaxy is like, totally gorgeous and sparkly and there's all this stuff nobody knows about and you can space travel and all that but like, it has all this extra meaning as well, y'know? Like with magic and stuff and mapping the stars. It's dead awesome and stuff cause it's kinda futuristic and kinda like the past at the same time cause it's always been there so... yeah."
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SPOILER!!: Phoenix & Gary XD
Airey was....distracted when his eyes fell on Mr. Toros' robes. How in Merlin's soggy socks had he not noticed the...adjustments before? It was...well....it wasn't BAD per say, but uniforms were UNIform for a reason. Imagine if astronauts had decided to customize their spacesuits! Sweet solstice the disasters that could occur...
"Mr. Toros...while I always wish to encourage the art of self expression, perhaps you could refrain from doing so with the very threads of your uniform?" Just then, a ball of parchment came out of no where and got stuck right in the boy's mass of hair. 3 POINT SHOT!
"And could you, Mr. Striker, refrain from wasting paper and tossing it at your classmates?" Although he did have to applaud the boy for his good aim. Just in his head because, well, needed to be professional.
And Mr. Toros' answer was as sparkly as his robes. So thumbs up to you, good sir!
Gary tried not to laugh loudly and get the professors attention on himself when the paper landed on its aim. He closed a hand over his widely grinning mouth and was about to prepare another when the dude with shiny robes turned to him...it was Phoenix Toros.
Of course. Who else would wear sparkly robes to classes anyway?
The Slytherin caught the paper Phoenix threw back at him in the air and opened it just to see the Gryffindor's art work of a snake. He blinked at the paper. What did that mean now? What was Phoenix trying to imply by sending him the paper back with a snake on it? Now that was a wonder. Gary wanted to know. But the professor apparently had seen his paper ball shooting. No, no. No one could see or spot Gary Striker when he didn't want to be seen. The professor probably had come aware of it when Phoenix simply yelled his name just like any obnoxious Gryffindor would do. Obnoxious as he was, it did't mean Gareth thought in a negative way about him. The sparkly boy had this odd geniality attached to himself somehow.
Gary grinned as the professor commented about the Gryffindor's shiny robe threads yet the grin vanished when he heard the man pronounce his name. The Slytherin just stared at the professor not saying anything in return. Not waste paper? Meh, it was not wasting at all. Actually he had been doing good use of the paper yet he didn't expect the lion head of house to understand that. Now that he had been warned, though, Gary didn't dare making another paperball. Instead he just glared at the pictures that were shown with a not-so-interested expression. He didn't really care who they were and, except the man in black in the picture no 9, they all looked ridiculous.
SPOILER!!: Phoenix
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"But sir, it's still the uniform." It was still black and red with the Hogwarts logo. "The seams just needed re-sewing." Bad lie, probably. But he'd convinced himself that was the case so... yes. "Don't you like it? I think it really fits Gryffindor, that's all." He was showing some house pride...
As for the paper. "It's alright sir, he just needed to tell me how attractive I am." ... Yep. He grinned, showing he was actually joking, and leaned back in his chair. Gary totally thought he was attractive. Phoenix knew that. He had solid proof.
AND HE GOT A THUMBS UP. YAY! See? He was awesome.
.........
"LOONEY TOONS!" Phoenix pointed at the first one. But he actually had a really important question, and he figured Airey would be the one to ask. "Professor, why aren't there as many girls as guys in sci fi stuff?" You know, since there was only one on the board?
Important question, okay?
Still staring at the pictures with a bored expression, Gareth sighed a bit out of boredom yet there was also the fact that he was doing it on purpose hoping the professor would find it annoying that this Slytherin found his topic, get offended by it and throw him out of classroom. Then Gary could be out, free to do whatever he could do. However, it didn't look like the professor cared about it at all, let alone finding it annoying or offending.
His mind was busy with such things until the shock of what Phoenix said snapped him out of it. He immediately sent a glare towards the Gryffindor not knowing what to say. He was embarrassed yet ready to hurt anyone who would dare trying to make fun of that.
SPOILER!!: Professor
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Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie
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Seeing no other raised hands, Airey gave the blackboard another firm tap to make the remaining names appear so that the board now read 'Marvin the Martian, Unicron, Species 8472, Frieza, Nero, Sailor Saturn, Tolian Soran, the Drej, Darth Vader.'
"Just for the record," he said. "Number 8 is from the animated film Titan AE." Pity none of them seemed to have known the 2000 film. Had a soundtrack to it that seemed to be on trend with what young witches and wizards were listening to these days.
"As pointed out, these characters are known for being villains for one reason or the other, but a primary reason they are dubbed as so is because they share an ability in common." One among many likenesses, but just the one he wished to focus on for now. "Each of these characters is capable of destroying an entire planet. Whether this is through magical girl powers like Sailor Saturn, a giant space station like Darth Vader, or physically devouring them like Unicron, they are all a fictional representation of how the Earth could be destroyed."
Such a cheery topic, yeah?
"Some astronomers have jokingly coined the term geocide, meaning the complete annihilation of planet Earth. KABOOM!"
See, Miss Cambridge? KABOOMs were happening today.
"This has been depicted in countless texts and films over the years in multiple end of the world scenarios. So, if you don't mind humoring here for a moment, I want you all to imagine yourselves one of these fictional villains and you have your sights set on destroying the planet." All entirely hypothetical, of course. "How would you go about doing this? How would you demote Earth from being a planet."
Demote from being a planet. HEH. LIKE PLUTO. HEH.
Get over it kids, it wasn't a planet when you were born. It's okay. Find peace. Think about blowing up the Earth and what not. Mmhmm.
OOC: Again, I am terribly sorry for the delay guys. We had a pretty big earthquake in my area (a 5.0) and there was a lot to deal with over here because of it.
Class will resume as soon as I can post again, which will be at least 15 hours from the time of this post. Thank you all for your patience <33
But...
...Hadn't the class just started to become interesting? Oh, yeah. Kabooms and destroying a planet, especially Earth, sounded very, so VERY, interesting to this Slytherin boy. He quickly sat straighter and considered what he could do to cause an amazing, preferably perfect, KABOOM to destroy everything.
"Oooooo...!!!" This was exciting.
Of course, there had to be chaos among the living before he would destroy the whole planet for it could be just plain boring to destroy everything in an instant.
"Professor, maybe we can send a Phoenix Toros to the space. Very offended by how sparkly that boy is, the sun would destroy itself and the sun being destroyed, it would soon cause the end of the planets."
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...... Demote....... from planet. Oh. Oh boy, Toby KNEW this one. And AIREY knew that TOBY knew it, because he knew that Toby was fond of that one movement: VIVA LA PLUTO.
He raised his hand and EYYYYYYYED his pogo buddy. Like, not in a mean way, in a squinty sort of be-nice-about-my-baby-pluto.
"I dunno about destroying anything," he said, pacifist that he was. "But if I wanted to demote Earth, I'd find a way to go back in time to before the Earth got it's proper shape, and then shrink it wayyyyyyyy down, so it wasn't big enough to have it's own gravitational pull or anything and stays being a weird shaped rock. Maybe I'd move it out of the Sun's orbit too, just to be sure. That way you're not really destroying anything, you're making it so that it never happened."
Ahem. "Not that I'd ever do any of that to a planet." Just so everyone knew. He'd picked the most out of this world (heh) hypothetical method for this too, all on purpose.
Maggie giggled and wrote the name down. Only that name. She circled it and drew a few stars around it. Heheh. Unicron.
She was starting to pay attention in class even. And she jumped a little in her seat when the professor went all KABOOM! Kaboom. What would they do to destroy the Earth. She had an answer to this. "From the inside." Oh. Right. Hand. Maggie lifted her hand. "Like-" And then she just pointed to Dante. "What he said." That had sounded very clever yes.
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How would she destroy the Earth?
Did Professor Flamsteed even KNOW her? Clearly not, because she would never do anything like that. Even hypothetically. Lux loved this planet and everything that was on it besides mean people and some of the animals. But even they shouldn't be destroyed, so she made a point of not answering.
Except.... Toby had a pretty good idea of how to deal with things without actual destruction. Yep. Nodding her head in agreement at what he said, she was all for making the planet have never existed because at least nothing would die that way.
All super villians who had the purpose, and could have accomplished destroying a planet. And now it was up to them to bring out a super villian pretended plan to destroy the EARTH?
Hmmmm...
hmmm...
hmmm???
She widened her eyes as her classmates answered, in the most insightful, clever way of how they 'would' do it. Paloma resisted the urge to shake her head. She wasn't so fond of seeing her super home destroyed, but she had to think...at least one way, to have a little malicious heart like those movie and comic villians. Maybe not the smartest, but she had to try! Raising her hand and clearing her voice, she spoke: "Well...if I were a villian, and taking credit from old and weird stories, well...I'd sort of make a complot between many super bad guys who want to destroy each other with nuclear weapons and one day....KABOOOMMMM, they would actually do it. And because of all that nuclear reactions going everywhere, the Earth's atmosphere would actually break like a crystal ball, and the Sun's rays would hit us really hard, making the most atomic reaction here, and then the Earth would explode." Yeah....she wasn't evil, at all. Good thing that she wasn't persuasive, at all.
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SPOILER!!: Eden and Airey
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So Clara was freaking out, Eden didn't know what to do--YIKES--she just eyed her friend...and then the professor came over--OH NO WERE THEY GOING TO GET IN TROUBLE?! Eden winced a lot--but then--oh. He was being nice! Eden smiled up at him and just patted Clara--"Clara--you can go, and I'll meet you after class? OR I can leave--" she didn't want to leave, but she WOULD for Clara, OKAY?
Hmph.
And then he was starting the lesson--okay--Eden kept her hand on Clara's back but listened...a little. Astronomy--space--whooh. She scribbled down what Astronomy was--and everything else he said that SOUNDED remotely important, and she looked up at the little pictures--WOW EDEN KNEW ALMOST ALL OF THEM. Almost. Darth Vader seemed to be a popular answer--she was all SMUG. Thank MERLIN for having a muggle mother, eh?
She raised her hand slowly--and was about to name number six, Sailor Saturn...But some OTHER girl got it--She shot the girl a wide grin. WOW SHE KNEW IT TOO?! "Sailor Saturn, yes--number six--like she said--" she grinned and tucked her hair behind her ear. She hadn't watched or read that series in FOREVER. And that girl.....Eden was now staring intently at her. Why did he pick, like, the least known sailor girl, eh? Eden was all for Sailor Jupiter.
SHE HAD TO BE COOL.
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“Stellar,” he nodded to the two Ravenclaws ladies. And if anyone were to ask him why he knew about her he was going to point his finger at his sisters. Well, one of his sisters. The planetary aspect mixed with foreign culture had been fascinating to him as a child. “Sailor Saturn first appeared in printed form back in 1994 in a Japanese comic book series titled Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon and, as Miss ...” Er...what was that seventh year’s name again? Awkward pause was unfortunate. “....Huxley pointed out a misunderstood character and quite complex. Despite her perceived villination by several characters, she was also one of the more popular comic book and animation characters during the series’ peak in popularity.”
Waaaaaaaaaay back before any of them were born.
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Seeing no other raised hands, Airey gave the blackboard another firm tap to make the remaining names appear so that the board now read 'Marvin the Martian, Unicron, Species 8472, Frieza, Nero, Sailor Saturn, Tolian Soran, the Drej, Darth Vader.'
"Just for the record," he said. "Number 8 is from the animated film Titan AE." Pity none of them seemed to have known the 2000 film. Had a soundtrack to it that seemed to be on trend with what young witches and wizards were listening to these days.
"As pointed out, these characters are known for being villains for one reason or the other, but a primary reason they are dubbed as so is because they share an ability in common." One among many likenesses, but just the one he wished to focus on for now. "Each of these characters is capable of destroying an entire planet. Whether this is through magical girl powers like Sailor Saturn, a giant space station like Darth Vader, or physically devouring them like Unicron, they are all a fictional representation of how the Earth could be destroyed."
Such a cheery topic, yeah?
"Some astronomers have jokingly coined the term geocide, meaning the complete annihilation of planet Earth. KABOOM!"
See, Miss Cambridge? KABOOMs were happening today.
"This has been depicted in countless texts and films over the years in multiple end of the world scenarios. So, if you don't mind humoring here for a moment, I want you all to imagine yourselves one of these fictional villains and you have your sights set on destroying the planet." All entirely hypothetical, of course. "How would you go about doing this? How would you demote Earth from being a planet."
Demote from being a planet. HEH. LIKE PLUTO. HEH.
Get over it kids, it wasn't a planet when you were born. It's okay. Find peace. Think about blowing up the Earth and what not. Mmhmm.
OOC: Again, I am terribly sorry for the delay guys. We had a pretty big earthquake in my area (a 5.0) and there was a lot to deal with over here because of it.
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Eyes. She can feel.... eyes. Huxley’s gaze slid sideways and caught a fellow blue robed one STARING at her. Had this one been male she would’ve given a mock flying kiss. But this one was female. She wasn’t interested in females... least not enough to do mocking kissy faces. So attack eyebrows goes to you Missy.
And incredibly enough, her attention returns to Professor Pacman, not because he nearly forgot her name—she only had one that’s easily seen, but because his next question was EXACTLY what this upperclassman was interested in. World domination is child’s play. True power lay in something else...
“Well given that I don’t have a glorified scythe that doubles as a glorious scepter--- yet.....” she is definitely not discounting the possibility that she could obtain it, or better yet, create one “I will have to find other means to complete this task.” Leaning back into her seat and pressing the tips of her fingers together she continues “First I will put out a couple of jobs ads and have them transmitted into space. The ads would call for contractors— a miner, a broker and an engineer. I will meet with the engineers first and finalize a plan. Next I will have the miners start excavating resources deep within the Earth’s core, then have a broker arrange the storage and sale of these. Give it a bit of time the mining would prove to destabilize planetary structure, causing it to implode dramatically. It is then that the engineers will finish the work, clearing debris and making way for an intergalactic highway.”
“So I meet the objectives—the demotion of Earth into a non-planet, and I would be set for life.” Hmm maybe she should start putting an ad out now yeah?
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No joke, villains were some of the BEST characters. There was something about the way they were ready to get what they want. Nothing can make a story better than a good ol villain. Their only drawback was that they were so freaking STUPID sometimes. Getting themselves caught like that. Digging holes in their own plans. Sigh. Stupid.
Unicron sounded like unicorn and that was NOT a suitable name for a villain that can physically devour planets. Just saying.
The topic turned to one of blowing up the Earth, which sounded like too much work but he was still dead pleased with where this was going. Especially when that kid over there (Dante) said something about infiltrating the governments and starting a war. Brilliant. You'd just be the one to provide the equipment but they'd be the ones to blow themselves up. Simply brilliant.
What would he do if he was a villain? WELL. After a while, Grayson raised a hand in the air and said, "See, I like the idea of blowing up the earth from the inside out. Planting a couple of things down there that'll really get the Earth shaking." Only problem was whether it could survive the overly hot conditions down there. "OR, if you're sneaky enough, you could nudge some of the damages inflicted on the Earth and make it worse. Pollute the atmosphere even more so that the planet overheats or freezes completely on its own. Pull the planet closer and closer to the Sun OR push it further and further away. Whatever works."
AND, in this case, they would have a safe ticket out of the situation, right? He wasn't going to blow up something unless he knew he was safe.
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An explosion sounded the most reasonable to her, but that was so easy and quick. Where was the fun in that? AJ was a fan of pranks and having a good time so she wouldn't just making the planet go boom. Oh no, she would being having way more fun than that.
With an angelic smile on her face, she raised her hand. "I would get to know people on the planet... get them to be my friends. I would learn everything there is to learn about them, and slowly but surely use their powers against them. The key to being successful is to not go in there announcing your arrival and just start explosions." While that would be fun, it was all be pointed to you, and what if you didn't cause a big enough explosion? It would be too late. Your mission would have failed, and now YOU have a target on your back. "You mastermine little details... like all of the power failing. Who could have done that? Surely not me because I am your FRIEND. Then the food sources mysteriously go away? Again, the finger isn't pointed at me because I am still your concerned "friend" With them all in my back pocket I would have the planet destroyed while their people cried on my shoulder." Ahem. Not that she WOULD do that, it was just that if you WERE going to do something. Why not do it right?
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Err...demote Earth as a planet? That meant she'd be saved, right? Because, otherwise, she was SO not in with this demoting Earth plan. BUT...if she would be saved, then she guessed she could come up with an idea or two.
"Well," she said, raising her hand, "Earth wouldn't be much without water or oxygen, would it? So I guess I'd find some way to suck up all the water from the Earth or deprive it of its oxygen." Slingshotting it to the Sun sounded cool, too. Sophie had heard some girl mention that one.
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They were getting to destroying the earth? Making it not a planet? Imagining they were villains? All easily doable. If you wanted to get rid of something there were a couple ways you could effortlessly go about it, especially if you were a villain because those tended to be strong enough to pull off whatever schemes they set their minds to.
"I'd go with a collision, just for the show." Lex considered, reflectively. Might as well have fun doing it, yeah? "Have a planet of equal or greater mass slam into the earth then watch the planets crumple and shatter with the impact sending what would now only be space rock hurtling through the galaxy. Reckon they might hit other planets but that wouldn't be my concern if I was a villain that didn't even live in the milky way to begin with."
She would assume she wouldn't be living there because this was all about explosions and Merlin knew you didn't blow things up in your OWN backyard when there were other options out there.
It was just...bad form, you know?
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SPOILER!!: the quiet and TOTALLY attentive listeners
Thankful for no protest from Mr. Hirase - and that he was not close enough to be able to see certain drawings done by certain Ravenclaws - Airey gaze went around the room and paused briefly at each student who did not have their hand raised. Mostly just to let them know that their listening and note taking was equally appreciated.
Was Mr. Hazelwood giving Mr. Mordaunt a look?
Shrugging his shoulders, the astronomer looked towards the first hands being raised and continued with the lesson.
Entirely missing the point, Airey chuckled and puffed out his chest a bit. He HAD in fact been the top of his class, and he was quite pleased that his persona seemed to exude this. He was quite fond of his academic achievements.
He turned to look at the board again. They weren't all THAT bad, were they? Shrugging off the thought, he instead focused on the more scientific inquiry about how space effects the body. "Space and space travel effect the body quite drastically, but that is not the case for all the beings present here. Several of them are capable of standing in the vacuum of space completely unharmed, unlike the human body which would be totally deprived of oxygen and swell up quite like Veruca Salt from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory did when she turned into a giant blueberry. Any watery surface like your eyes and mouth would freeze over as well."
So, long story short, no...they were not "unattractive" due to space. But an interesting question. Perplexing. But interesting.
"While some are less of a villain than others, and some arguably not at all, yes. They are, for the most part, categorized as villains."
Airey nodded and leaned forward a bit to balance himself on his toes in anticipation for the first year to finish his thought...only to find that the boy wasn't going to. Alas.
Falling back onto his feet, heels to the ground, and offered a small but encouraging wink.
Hopefully next time he would finish his thought and share his thoughts.
"Perhaps in an alternate universe, Mr. Scabior," he chuckled.
Ah, yes, well, that was much better.
"Apologies, Miss..." Cue a long dramatic pause as he played over the manner in which she had pronounced her name so he could hopefully say it correctly this time. "...Zanthopolos."
Nailed it.
SPOILER!!: #1, Marvin the Martian
Giving his wand a flick towards the board so that the name Marvin the Martian appeared in place of the number 1 below the pictures. “Correct,” he nodded towards the semi circle of students - see, it did start with an M, Mr. Newell. “First seen in an episode of Looney Toones titled Haredevil Hare, which aired on July 24, 1948, he is the most comedic personality in our line up.” He gave an approving nod to Mr. Rehman, Miss Valentine, Miss Carrington, Miss Samson, and a salute towards Miss Ackerly before Miss Bayless went on about….Alex Trebek? He threw her an amused expression as he walked passed humming a certain tune to himself before stopping in front of Mr. Sparkly Robes Toros.
And it wasn’t that he disliked the robes per say - although he really was not a fan of sparkle anymore - but more that other professors were not as...relaxed with self expression as he was. Ahem.
And then there was his question (which made him briefly look towards Mr. Scabior) and he took a deep breath before replying. “Unfortunately, it is not on the agenda to go into the history of science fiction - although you are welcome to stop by my office and discuss it with me if you wish - but there are many outstanding female characters and writers in science fiction. In fact, the character Nyota Uhura from Star Trek was revolutionary for many reasons.” Something that they could look up on their own time because he needed to move along.
He smiled, amused at the Gryffindor for her deductive reasoning - even if it wasn’t correct. “Number 2 is in fact from a Marvel universe, but it is not from Guardians of the Galaxy. The picture you see here is actually Unicron from Transformers.”
And the name appeared on the board below the picture.
SPOILER!!: #4, Freiza!
Stellar. There were some familiar with Japanese animation and comics here. He, although he would not admit that, was probably the least familiar with the faces belonging to that genre. “Excellent,” he nodded, trying not to chuckle at Mr. Foster’s response...or give eyes to Miss Cambridge for possibly implying that Dragon Ball was for dumb people. Even if the entire series had been made based on jokes and puns originally.
Oh blast. He had entirely forgotten about his starring contest with Mr. Banner...who was still locking eyes on him. Well, obvious who had won that battle. He offered the Ravenclaw a congratulatory salute before addressing the rest of the class. “Number 4 is indeed Freiza, whose name derives from the katana - one of the Japanese alphabet’s - pronunciation of freezer. As has been mentioned, this character appears in a Japanese cartoon called Dragon Ball Z and also appears in the Dragon Ball comics which were first published one hundred years ago.”
He threw quick smiles at Mr. Lecium, Miss Valentine, and Miss Robles - who gave a very accurate description of the character, for the record - and then looked to Miss Janvier and snorted back laughter.
“No, I will not be attempting to turn you into aliens,” he mused. “Although, what constitutes as an alien is purely perspective. To the majority of these figures here, were they real, we would be the aliens.” Cue eerie Twilight Zone music? He was tempted to conjure some of it from his own wand, but managed to refrain from doing so.
There was a time and place to burst out into song and right now...well, actually...right now was still appropriate. But no. Not the first lesson. He could restrain himself.
SPOILER!!: #3 & #5 & #7...cause Star Trek things go together!
AHA! He had found a fellow Trekkie amongst the sea of students. Stellar. Steeeeeeeeeeellar. Airey’s face lit up like a firework at the Ravenclaw’s answer and threw her two thumbs up...only to have his nose wrinkle as she messed up the name of his childhood hero.
Rock. Please. He wasn’t some wrestler. He was a legend!
“Very good, Miss Montgomery, Mr. Atreyu, Mr. Stark,” he nodded. “Nero, number 5 in the line up, is a character from the 2009 film simply called Star Trek, which was a reboot of the original series titled Star Trek which debuted in 1966...featuring an alternate reality...or perhaps an alternate universe.” Just to go back to the notion of them all currently living in a multiverse.
Close, Mr. Atreyu. Star Trek and not Star TRACK
“Likewise, number 3 is also from the Star Trek universe. A series called Star Trek Voyager and is referred to as Species 8472 and while I suppose they do bear some resemblance to a bowtruckle...or a threstral...I can guarantee that they do not eat fairy eggs.” Endearing sentiments...but no. Definitely not.
“Number 7 is a character by the name of Tolian Soran who appears in the 1994 film Star Trek Generations.”
SPOILER!!: #6, Sailor Saturn!
“Stellar,” he nodded to the two Ravenclaws ladies. And if anyone were to ask him why he knew about her he was going to point his finger at his sisters. Well, one of his sisters. The planetary aspect mixed with foreign culture had been fascinating to him as a child. “Sailor Saturn first appeared in printed form back in 1994 in a Japanese comic book series titled Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon and, as Miss ...” Er...what was that seventh year’s name again? Awkward pause was unfortunate. “....Huxley pointed out a misunderstood character and quite complex. Despite her perceived villination by several characters, she was also one of the more popular comic book and animation characters during the series’ peak in popularity.”
Waaaaaaaaaay back before any of them were born.
SPOILER!!: #9, Darth Vader! *heavy breathing*
“Right you are!” he exclaimed, pointing to each of them. Sweet solstice it seemed like Mr. Mordaunt was quite the Star Wars fan. He gave the prefect an appreciative glance, as well as one to Miss Clarke and Miss Lynch for their contributions as well. They just weren’t as rabid as the Slytherin was. Clearly. There was still hope to get them to appreciate Star Trek over Star Wars. Mr. Mordaunt was clearly a lost cause. “Mr. Mordaunt gave a brief overview of the character Darth Vader.” He gave a quick wink towards Miss Wu….Wuu….Wulfweardsweorth’s direction. Close, very close on the name. “And for those who are fortunate enough to sit near Miss Wayne, you were able to hear an impression of his signature voice and most famous line.” Well, save for that ridiculous NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO at the end of Episode III. “Darth Vader is ranked 3rd by the American Film Institute in the list of greatest movie villains in cinema history and arguably the most iconic in all of science fiction. This character made his screen debut all the way back in 1977.” Which was even before Old Man River had been born, yeah?
He gave Miss Valentine a quick salute as well, being the first to identify the character. As well as one to Mr. Foster.
Well done you lot. Well done indeed to recognize this classic.
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Seeing no other raised hands, Airey gave the blackboard another firm tap to make the remaining names appear so that the board now read 'Marvin the Martian, Unicron, Species 8472, Frieza, Nero, Sailor Saturn, Tolian Soran, the Drej, Darth Vader.'
"Just for the record," he said. "Number 8 is from the animated film Titan AE." Pity none of them seemed to have known the 2000 film. Had a soundtrack to it that seemed to be on trend with what young witches and wizards were listening to these days.
"As pointed out, these characters are known for being villains for one reason or the other, but a primary reason they are dubbed as so is because they share an ability in common." One among many likenesses, but just the one he wished to focus on for now. "Each of these characters is capable of destroying an entire planet. Whether this is through magical girl powers like Sailor Saturn, a giant space station like Darth Vader, or physically devouring them like Unicron, they are all a fictional representation of how the Earth could be destroyed."
Such a cheery topic, yeah?
"Some astronomers have jokingly coined the term geocide, meaning the complete annihilation of planet Earth. KABOOM!"
See, Miss Cambridge? KABOOMs were happening today.
"This has been depicted in countless texts and films over the years in multiple end of the world scenarios. So, if you don't mind humoring here for a moment, I want you all to imagine yourselves one of these fictional villains and you have your sights set on destroying the planet." All entirely hypothetical, of course. "How would you go about doing this? How would you demote Earth from being a planet."
Demote from being a planet. HEH. LIKE PLUTO. HEH.
Get over it kids, it wasn't a planet when you were born. It's okay. Find peace. Think about blowing up the Earth and what not. Mmhmm.
OOC: Again, I am terribly sorry for the delay guys. We had a pretty big earthquake in my area (a 5.0) and there was a lot to deal with over here because of it.
Class will resume as soon as I can post again, which will be at least 15 hours from the time of this post. Thank you all for your patience <33
BEAM. Eden actually beamed at the very nice and handsome professor and leaned back in her chair...all smug. YEAH. SHe had gotten it RIGHT and stuff. For once, the new 'claw felt SMERT. She grinned as she scribbled down some important things and then....wow.
Destroying the eaaaarf?! Eden thought about it. It was an easy question for her. "Sir--wouldn't you just--wouldn't you just have to make some aliens REALLY mad?" she asked, wide, blue eyes. "Just--I KNOW aliens exist--" they did. HER MAM HAD SEEN A UFO BEFORE OKAY. "They DO exist AAAAND--and--you just have to make them mad and let them do all the dirty work. Insult their intelligence--or even just ask them politely--COME BLOW UP THE EARTH PLEASE--" and then Eden realized she was RAMBLING and being CRAZY so she blushed and quieted herself a little. "Basically--just get some aliens involved. Technically--no blood on your hands, either." Yep. All the aliens fault.
SPOILER!!: Huxley
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SPOILER!!: Eden and Airey
Eyes. She can feel.... eyes. Huxley’s gaze slid sideways and caught a fellow blue robed one STARING at her. Had this one been male she would’ve given a mock flying kiss. But this one was female. She wasn’t interested in females... least not enough to do mocking kissy faces. So attack eyebrows goes to you Missy.
And incredibly enough, her attention returns to Professor Pacman, not because he nearly forgot her name—she only had one that’s easily seen, but because his next question was EXACTLY what this upperclassman was interested in. World domination is child’s play. True power lay in something else...
“Well given that I don’t have a glorified scythe that doubles as a glorious scepter--- yet.....” she is definitely not discounting the possibility that she could obtain it, or better yet, create one “I will have to find other means to complete this task.” Leaning back into her seat and pressing the tips of her fingers together she continues “First I will put out a couple of jobs ads and have them transmitted into space. The ads would call for contractors— a miner, a broker and an engineer. I will meet with the engineers first and finalize a plan. Next I will have the miners start excavating resources deep within the Earth’s core, then have a broker arrange the storage and sale of these. Give it a bit of time the mining would prove to destabilize planetary structure, causing it to implode dramatically. It is then that the engineers will finish the work, clearing debris and making way for an intergalactic highway.”
“So I meet the objectives—the demotion of Earth into a non-planet, and I would be set for life.” Hmm maybe she should start putting an ad out now yeah?
Once again, Eden sat back, having answered ANOTHER question, and feeeeelt the eyes---OH. It was the girl that knew about Sailor Saturn--and Eden kind of waved, regardless of the horrible look she was receiving from her. RUDE. Eden just raised an eyebrow as if to ask WHAT DID I DO? But them looked back at Professor Airhead----FLAMSTEED. Flamsteed. Eden did NOT think he was an airhead AT ALL but his NAAAME was just--UGH. She got it all jumbled in her brain.
Great.
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DRAGON ball comics huh?
Kyroh scribbled down the the name so he could look them up later. And then he started drawing a Dragon, because they were talking about Dragons. Or Astronomy? One of the two.
Destroy the world? Be a VILLAIN? Kyroh wrinkled his nose, almost ready to protest but he figured that to BEAT the bad guys you sometimes had to act like a bad guy right? Yeah. Plus it could be fun to think like a bad guy. And even Maddie had a good point with the litter! And the Head Girl too. Hm. "Well first of all Professor I wouldn't tell the good guys my plan after I captured them." Yeah. That was always stupid move number one. It was KIND OF like telling Flamsteed his plan now but that was okay.
"But THEN I'd befriend all the world leaders and it would work cause I'm still little and kinda cute I guess. And then after I'd convince them to make me a kid leader of the world and beg them to let me pass one law. And then when they said yes I'd take off on a spaceship all the way to the moon and make an official law that the Earth was no longer a planet." Bam. Easy peasy. Planet DEMOTED. "THEN just to make sure people didn't by pass my law i'd use a meteor moving machine and move a really giant meteor right in Earth's path and make it smash into Earth." Just in case. Precautions y'know.
They were just ALL lucky that he wasn't a bad guy.
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