Caritas, Thursday

[wrongkindofsith]

Even if she was a realist about it, Cara was still a bit disappointed that Kitty can't gone for her brilliant 'replace Tino with a murdersaur' idea. That didn't mean she couldn't at least imagine what it could have been like.

Tino, in a rare display of wisdom, had taken one look at Cara's smile and was working at the other end of the bar tonight.

[Open, no ocd!]

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[suitably_heroic]

"I tried to feed my students to some dinosaurs today," Atton called.

Yeah, that was his opening line as he walked into the bar. What?

[wrongkindofsith]

"I tried that before break." With her simulated flock of adorable murderfluff. "Did yours survive?"

[suitably_heroic]

Atton shrugged. "I gave them tasers," he said, settling down at the bar.

[wrongkindofsith]

"I didn't, more fun that way." For them or you, Cara? "What'll it be tonight."

[suitably_heroic]

"Just a glass of Coke, please," Atton said, leaning over the bar. "And hey, I'm trying to teach them how to survive. I have to at least make it sporting."

With tasers.

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara slid the glass over to him. "This is why I prefer my class, there's a lot more scope in what I can put them through for their own good."

[suitably_heroic]

"Sometimes I think you just like torturing the students," Atton said, snagging the glass.

Unlike him! He tried to be practical!

[wrongkindofsith]

"I'm really not," Cara said, far too lightly. "It's barely teasing."

At least compared to her own training.

[suitably_heroic]

Atton'd had his fair share of Sith training, too, but thankfully for everyone ever he had not lost his sense of perspective.

...

Okay, more accurate was that he had more or less regained his sense of perspective.

"Sure," he said, also too lightly, and sipped his drink.

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara had a sense of perspective, it was just a bit skewed still.

"Besides, there's no way they can actually get injured, they're practically coddled."

[suitably_heroic]

"I dunno," Atton said. "I'm waiting for one of them to accidentally slug some other student with a stapler, or something."

[wrongkindofsith]

"If they do that they can personally explain to Zoe why the class are too careless to be trusted with staplers any more."

[suitably_heroic]

Atton shrugged. "That's more or less why I ran today's class," he said, "I recorded it."

[wrongkindofsith]

"It's too removed," Cara said after a moment. "Same as hearing the squirrels talking about you on the radio compared to facing people who actually saw you act that way."

[suitably_heroic]

"Nah, it's a visual," Atton said. "Visuals always hit people harder. And it's one-to-one, not a squirrel scritch to broadcaster ideas kind of thing."

[wrongkindofsith]

"But you're still not making them actually have to think about how exactly they fucked up. Talking means they have to engage."

[suitably_heroic]

"So does watching a student getting eaten by a dinosaur," Atton said. Practically.

[wrongkindofsith]

"Only if it's a real one. They're used to watching fake monsters pretend to each people in the movies," Cara pointed out.

[suitably_heroic]

"Not even if I programmed the sim to be extra gory?"

[wrongkindofsith]

"They'd probably start looking for popcorn," Cara said. "Though if you made them explain why that was the wrong reaction."

[suitably_heroic]

"Anyone ever tell you you're a cynical person?"

Pot, meet kettle.

[wrongkindofsith]

"I'm a realist," Cara protested. "If I was a cynic I'd say they'd still get popcorn if it was a real one."

[suitably_heroic]

"No, that would make you a sadist," Atton pointed out. "Or something."

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara grinned. "Sadism would be not letting them have any of my popcorn."

[suitably_heroic]

"We need to get you working on your own dictionary," Atton decided. "So I can look these things up."

[wrongkindofsith]

"I make perfect sense." Not really, Cara. "It's this place that doesn't."

[suitably_heroic]

"Or your universe is just screwed up," Atton pointed out. "I mean, so is mine, but differently."

[wrongkindofsith]

More like the specific part she'd been unlucky enough to spend a majority of her life in. Not that Cara would phrase it like that.

"Do people randomly burst out singing in your universe?" she asked. "Because they don't in mine." Clearly that made Fandom the more screwed up place.

[suitably_heroic]

"No," Atton allowed, "But that might actually be a nice break from all the pain and planet-eating?"

[wrongkindofsith]

"Planet. Eating?"

That said it all really.

[suitably_heroic]

Atton was from such a fantastic time in the GFFA, really.

"Yeah," he said, "That one was messed up."

To put it mildly. Nihilus, you creep.