When the students arrived, they'd find the teachers up at the front of the classroom as usual. Anakin, not like usual, was eating a giant bar of chocolate
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Re: Chocolate or None?angry_pie_sliceSeptember 29 2016, 11:17:10 UTC
Peridot was beginning to grasp the purpose of the whole have-and-have-not theme that this class seemed to be so fond of. She was also making faces at her helping of chocolate, and looking around for anybody who didn't have it who might have been standing behind the line with her during that lesson with all the questions. Because if she was going to give the nasty stuff away to somebody who appreciated it more than she did, she at least wanted it to be to someone else who was actually on her level.
Re: Chocolate or None?angry_pie_sliceSeptember 29 2016, 17:00:22 UTC
And if Peridot was trying to ever so casually hold the chocolate bar out toward Ada in silent offering, well... she appreciated that solidarity far more than she appreciated the chocolate.
Discussion QuestionsaddeserthermitSeptember 29 2016, 08:30:48 UTC
Life's not fair and that sucks. How do you stop yourself from being jealous of what someone else has? And how do you react when you're the have to someone else's have-not?
Re: Discussion Questionangry_pie_sliceSeptember 29 2016, 11:22:35 UTC
Peridot frowned a little at the question, and then shook her head.
"I'm not completely certain there's really a point to jealousy," she decided. "There's no sense in wanting to be a Sapphire when you're a Peridot. At least where I'm from, we are what we are. I could be exceptional among Peridots, but I'm never going to rise above my station. Being upset that some other Gem is rarer or more valuable than I am doesn't change any of that."
Re: Discussion QuestionsaddeserthermitSeptember 29 2016, 12:30:45 UTC
"In those of us who feel jealousy, it has precious little to do with change, and more the dream of seeing such change be done," Obi-Wan mused. "Or perhaps that's wrong as well. Sometimes people find solace merely in the act of being jealous, of having an enemy." A pause. "Not that that's healthy."
Re: Discussion Questionangry_pie_sliceSeptember 29 2016, 12:36:18 UTC
"Making enemies rarely is," Peridot agreed, and then frowned a little. "For clarity's sake, Gems are capable of the same range of emotions as humans, as least as far as I've observed. Any statements about emotions being pointless come from me."
She tilted her head a little.
"And I would rather limit my enemies to those who are more of a risk to my well-being than those who simply have more than I do."
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"Eegh," she muttered under her breath.
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Everybody always had something someone else didn't. Why her teachers liked beating the point to death, she had no idea.
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Albeit one she might feel compelled to split, but still.
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At the back of the room.
That level.
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Look, the Four Steps Back Club had to have solidarity. It was the only way people behind the line ever managed to survive.
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Ugh, chocolate.
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"I'm not completely certain there's really a point to jealousy," she decided. "There's no sense in wanting to be a Sapphire when you're a Peridot. At least where I'm from, we are what we are. I could be exceptional among Peridots, but I'm never going to rise above my station. Being upset that some other Gem is rarer or more valuable than I am doesn't change any of that."
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She tilted her head a little.
"And I would rather limit my enemies to those who are more of a risk to my well-being than those who simply have more than I do."
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