[FIELD CLASS] In the Beginning... (p6)

[Ice Queen]

"I'm guessing Desu?" Roch asked, tilting his head slightly at the picture. "But she's not a professor, so..."

The punk boil would probably spend the rest of the class pondering what teacher liked sparkles and pink as much as the silent ToTer. It would haunt him even more than the picture itself, which was sad. But after as many glitter attacks as he'd had inflicted on him, that was nothing.  

[Carhop Cavalier]

A year ago, Amphi would have found the back of her head suddenly attacked by a hot coffee projectile rocketed from Gene's mouth. Luckily, the Doppelganger ghoul had learned how to control herself and not spurt her coffee out whenever something ridiculously funny popped up. Like Mr. Darcy's glitter picture.

Another faculty member's, right. Like any of them believed that.

Okay most of the class probably did, but whatever. Darcy totally had a penchant for boils in glitter.

"Danny, don't talk at all, okay?" She whispered to the flame demoness, keen to make sure her friend didn't fail. Daddy's credit card couldn't fix grades, unfortunately.

Chimarii

 

[Sosiqui]

Malodore blinked at the sudden appearance of... sparkles and... what was th-

Oh.

It sat back in relief as the abomination vanished from its view, and it resolved to erase it from its mind as well. It had already pulled out its notebook and penstrictor, so it merely continued sitting attentively as it had before, dutifully making a rough sketch of the second slide on its paper.

It wasn't a very good sketch.  

[Inu-Mitsu]

Mitsu had turned her attention from Shun to the front of the room in an instant as the teacher came in. As the projector lurched to life she stared unaffected by the first slide only to squint her eyes at the second.

"What is that supposed to be? The sky?"  

[Blade Kuroda]

With things needing to get started now, Shun looked to the front, giving the first image a bit of a flat stare. Borrowed equipment? Shaking his head, he let out a breath and looked back in time to see the real image that was supposed to be displayed. It did look like a sort of sky, as Mitsu asked.

Ah. So they wouldn't need notes or the like then. Good.

Sitting back, he just waited and listened.  

[Bronze Coffee]

His attention snapped to the professor when he walked in and then blinked. Well now. That first image was really something ugly, wasn't it? He just snorted and shook his ehad, ears flicking forward to pay listen to the professor talk. He had no phone or anything to put away. Technology was something that escaped the Stag's mind. So, he looked around the room and watched students scurry to do as directed before looking back at the image. It was a calming one.  

[chiickadee]

Danny took out her phone and did exactly what Darcy said not to.

She started texting.

carhop calvalier

Text to Gene: ok i will txt ((((8

blade kuroda

Text to Shun: r u sure he means boobs?? i feel bad ):

nyxtsuki moon

Text to Amphi: 8o) it has a nose lol

ice queen

Text to Roch: ur dumb hahaha

 

[Blade Kuroda]

Feeling his phone go off, Shun reached into his pocket to check it.

...

It was a text message.

Really?

He stared down at the screen for a few moments, trying to decipher it, but couldn't make much sense of it. Him reading was bad enough in most cases. Chatspeech only served to confuse him further. And so he just put his phone back.

chimarii

 

[Pixie Nyxie]

Amphi blinked at the slides and then frowned. Her phone busying.

Chimarii

Text to Danny: I like the emote! Its so cute!! emotion_kirakira

 

[Ravvlet]

Darcy gave one long-suffering sigh at the sudden sound of phones going off.

Inu-Mitsu

He answered the wolf girl's query with a curt nod. "It is, and isn't- it's a black and white artist's interpretation of the human sky, on a cloudy night and partial moon. Darkness, with the barest hint of light. For creatures who rely on FEAR to survive, each night is a new beginning, rife with opportunity."

He clicked; a new slide.

"In the beginning, there was man, and darkness. Not just shadows, but total absence of light- before modern technology, before torches and lamps and flashlights. The moonless night. And when man observed the darkness; there became FEAR. This is all basic information - not very different from what you've perhaps seen in a Scareling Primer. FEAR is not restricted to darkness, but fear of the dark is instinctual; it is one of man's first fears, besides the fear of death, and fear of oblivion. It is a child's fear, but one that many humans may never grow out of."

He dimmed the lights further, skipping to the next slide.

"Fear of the darkness combines these elements- the fear of death; of oblivion, or the unknown. Primordial humankind once huddled around their fires, their sources of light, and stared blindly into the dark; and they were afraid."

"It is in these shadows, that this FEAR began to take many forms. It defined us. As mankind grew- so did their FEAR, from indefinite thoughts and ideas to more abstract concepts; some of their own invention. Our shape is a direct reflection of the fears of man; our culture derived as a perversion of theirs. We are their dark mirror. However, there are many kinds of men, just as there are many kinds of Halloweeners. Each of us has our own culture, our own mythos based on our inception."

He glanced up from his presentation, pointing at the three students who'd checked their phones.

"You three. Can you tell me what FEAR you believe your species or race was based upon? Please, share with the class." He looked at them expectantly, before glancing around the rest room.

"If any of the rest of you would like to add to the discussion, feel free."

chimarii

Nyxtsuki Moon

Blade Kuroda

 

[Blade Kuroda]

Looking up at the slides, Shun listened to the professor as he explained the origins of fear and whatnot. But then, he found himself being called upon. He couldn't help but feel like the fact that his phone going off sort of singled him out a bit.

Letting out a huff, he leaned back in his chair and stared back at Darcy.

"Death. More or less," he stated simply. He was a grim reaper after all.  

[chiickadee]

Danny blinked as the teacher stares and asked her a question. Unlike the others maybe, Danny did no have a good pokerface. She didn't even think to hide her phone under her desk, to disguise the trouble she was making.

Luckily for her, the teacher asked an incredibly easy question! At least, Danny thought it was easy. "Oh! Oh! Fire! Fire made fire demons." Hopefully the teacher wasn't expecting a lengthy, detailed answer, because that was about all Danny would be able to come up with.

Unfortunately for her, and fortunately for the teacher, she'd missed the entire section on humans clinging to fire for light. She would've had quite a few comments to say about how fire was very, very scary.

She looked to Amphi and smiled, pleased with her answer. Then she looked back down at her phone and returned to texting, lesson not learned.  

[Pixie Nyxie]

Amphi frowned at the slides and then at the teacher before holding her own phone up with her answer...

Couldn't very well talk could she?

Quote:

Drowning, Led astray by beauty...or both?

At least that's how she thought of it to be honest. What was more scary then being trapped by beauty and then dragged down to the deep abyss of water...Amphi sighed happily. It seemed like a beautiful thing in all actuality...  

[poke mattix]

The slide themselves were interesting in a sense. The last one she was curious about, wondering what it meant and who the person in the picture was. Some sort of monster?

When the teacher asked the class what their origins were, Poke thought about it for a moment. "Humans had different opinions about what lived in the ocean depths, and some told stories about dragons who attacked ships in the middle of a raging storm, tearing it apart and leaving no one alive" She answered.