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[notyourlight]

Characters: There are way too many people to list. Anyone interested in becoming a Jedi with Anakin and Jacen Solo B|
Location: Hakawa Islands
Planet: Mon Cal/Dac
When: Friday
What: The first meeting of what is to be the new Jedi Order made up of Outworlders
Rating: PG

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GROUP NAME DISCUSSION

[notyourlight]

[soloing]

[Jacen steps forward first, unfolding his arms and looking around at the group] It may seem like an unimportant topic in comparison to the others, but I think it's important for us to decide what we'd like to call ourselves to denote our separation from the Jedi of this era. If we denote ourselves as Outworlder Jedi, we're running the risk of being linked to galactic suspicion already being cast on us for what we are.

But perhaps that's an inevitability we should be willing to embrace.

[imwotchingyou]

[ Tonks has been thinking about names. ]

The New Jedi Order? The New Order? No. I suppose The Order has dibs on anything with 'The Order' in it, yeah?

[breakmychest]

The less-stuck-up order?

[Spike is helpful. Really.]

HOW THE GROUP WILL OPERATE

[notyourlight]

[soloing]

And of course, there's one other matter that requires addressing.

You've all perhaps noted by now that we're without a single Jedi Master in our number. Which means that we're going to need to make some difficult decisions in regard to how our Order is structured and how our choices will be made as a group.

I have a feeling at least one of us is going to throw out the term 'Council', so we might as well address that first.

[imwotchingyou]

I don't think a council is necessarily a bad thing. Some of us are going to be naturally more adept in other areas, some of us won't be.

[omnombouquet]

A Council would give us better insight. I'd feel more comfortable if there was one. [There's a long pause.] I'd be more comfortable if any of us were Masters.

QUESTIONS ON VIEWS OF THE FORCE

[notyourlight]

[slayerdom]

Okay, so wait. [ Sitting was great and all, but Buffy could only take so much of someone else monologuing before she had to stand up. Not impatience, exactly, but something close to it. ]

Not ignoring emotions. Definitely something I can get behind.

I don't know about anyone else here, [ she glances around at the group, ] but back where I come from, my emotions are my power. Love, anger, sadness. They're what makes me strong. Having people that I care about to protect. I guess -- I guess what I'm saying is that I'd like to know what you mean when you say mastering them.

[notyourlight]

[It's called ADD...]

My strength comes from my emotions as well and by mastering them I mean that you'll learn to control them rather than letting them control you.

[He takes a few steps closer to Buffy so that those watching can see the two of them in a single glance. He doesn't want it to seem like he's speaking down to her.]

To experience emotions such as anger and fear and sadness is natural and a being should be allowed to process them. If not they don't know how to handle those emotions when they confront them again. However, not being in control of those emotions means you can easily lose yourself to them and fall to the Dark side.

[slayerdom]

Control, but not ignore or carve out? [ A smile. ] Think I can live with that. As long as we're not getting overly meditate-y to do it. But, I thought you said we weren't using big ugly buzzwords like Dark Side here?

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS/OBSERVATIONS

[notyourlight]

Re: MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS/OBSERVATIONS

[sand_wormie]

Far enough. Luke sat, pulled his knees up to his chest, and gasped for breath. He hadn't gone that far - enough so people wouldn't look at him - and he hadn't really run, but he felt strange, overwarm, a little queasy, and his heart was pounding in his ears. Part of him wondered if the incredibly high humidity here was making him sick.

He was upset in that tight roiling way that told him that if he didn't do something he'd burst into tears, which was exactly what he didn't want to do. His vision was already blurring. So he did what he tried never to do, what he always deflected or turned into sighs or just sublimated.

He got very, very angry.

It was a tight anger, messy and wet, not the kind that wrecking something would help with, and anyway something in Luke hated the thought of doing that, but he had to do something, he had to demonstrate that this was not okay

[soloing]

[It's afterwards that Jacen sees this, and he sighs. He hadn't expected Anakin to say that, but perhaps it was best now that it was out there. He recorded a holo in response, when he could get on his own for a moment]

I'm sorry, Luke. You have to know we had our reasons.

[sand_wormie]

[Time has passed, and Luke's calmer now, but he's still very not happy.]

Sure you did.