died8yearsago | Office Hours Master Post: Big Clump of Offices; Saturday [09/25].

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Office Hours Master Post: Big Clump of Offices; Saturday [09/25].

It was that weekend where that floor of the school that contained all the teachers' offices actually got some (or any, really, for most weeks) modicum of use and traffic, and on that floor of the school that contained all the teachers' offices was a particular block of offices occupied by a small army of very diverse instructors that all shared on thing in common.

And, no, we weren't talking about them all being stuck holding office hours for potential parental (or otherwise) visitors to take advantage of, but there was that, too.

[[ look, I have eight teachers. If that doesn't call for PW OCD, I don't know what does. ~~Please hold for said OCD!~~ OCD is up! SP warning (unforuntately!) in effect! But here is where you'll find all my teachers san Summer for their office hours! ]]

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Even though Amaya had left most of her projects back at the forge, her office definitely had a distinct aroma of smoke and metal to it. She only had a couple of students this semester, though, so she wasn't expecting a whole lot of visitors, which hopefully meant she could finish up on some design plans for silverware, for some new knives, and work on polishing up another fixture she'd finished with regards to what she and Dwight had planned out.

So at least it was unlikely that if anyone did come in, there'd be something flying at their heads as she worked.

She did, occasionally, toss a ball back and forth in a rhytmic patterned against the wall shared with Rosa's office, and a few thunks would respond back, and she'd snort at their secretly coded messages and get back to work, and try not to be a little worried that the expected sake interruptions from the office next door were a little less frequent than she was expecting.

Rest assured, Movie Class-chan, Shunsui would much rather be dancing between the offices doling out sake right now, but his parents weekend came with guests already installed, and since once of those guests was his very focused and determined little lieutenant, he was practically chained to his desk and the paperwork he avoided having to do by being at Fandom in the first place.

"Don't worry," Nanao assured him as she shifted and organzied through her own stack of papers, most of which Shunsui was convinced were blank and only used as an intimidation tactic, "if anyone shows up to discuss your students, we will give you privacy, but there's not point in wasting time when we have it at our disposal, Captain."

Jūshirō was just going to sit aside, enjoy his tea, and only beam at Shunsui unabashedly whenever his friend sent a disparaging, pleading look his way.

Considering that their class has almost as many students as it did teachers, and one of those students was the little sister of one of the teachers whom they all already knew and loved, Gladio was expecting a pretty quiet weekend, but it seemed like the thing to do, to still hold office hours, and if he was a little honest with himself, it sort of amused the crap out of him that they'd even given him an office in the first place, truth be told.

Still. It was a good time to catch up on some of his reading, even if there was, occasionally, a worrisome sound coming from the office next door. If he wasn't mistaken, it sounded an awful lot like a man being smacked upside the head with a very thick stack of papers....

No elaborate flavor text here. Just picture a nine foot tall sharkman sitting behind a relatively small desk, in a room where he had to practically squeeze through the door, and looking utterly delighted about the whole thing.

That's all you really need.

And, sure, Sidon would have much preferred to hold his office hours down by the docks or at the beach or something, but he wanted to keep up with and respect the tradition of it all!

Plus, Prompto was being a very good friend by someties jogging down the hall from his office on the other end of it and spritzing him a few times with a water bottle as he checked in, which wasn't necessary, of course, but it was an amusing little joke that helped break up the motonony, all the same!

Solana was making the rounds of meeting Alara’s teachers that morning, after she had met one yesterday and decided to work her way from the end of the office block.

So Prince Sidon was the first teacher she was meeting that day.

Alara had not really told her what this class was about or about her teacher, so Solana had no idea what to expect.

“Hello?” She called with a tentative knock on the door.

"Hello!" A bright, booming, thrilling voice with a particularly posh lilt to it responded back with eager excitement. "Wonderful, I have a guest! Please, do come in! Make yourself comfortable! Forgive me for not getting up at the moment, I appear to have gotten myself inconveniently wedged into the desk, I do not believe this furniture was made with Zora royalty in mind!"

Solana entered the room and blinked, she was trying not to stare but it took her a few moments to respond, "uh hello," she said again, "I'm Solana Kitan, I'm Alara's sister."

"Ah, yes, of course!" Sidon chuckled a little, gave one more attempt to squeeze back out of the desk, failed, but didn't seem in the least bit bothered by it. "Solana! How very nice it is to meet you! I am Sidon!" Despite being stuck sitting at the moment, he was still going to pump his fist across his chest and flash his visitor a sparkling grin that caught just right to send a little sparkle off the tip of his fance. "The Zora Prince! And Alara is a wonderful student! It's so refreshing to see people so interested in learning about other places! Although I may be biased, since the other place I am teaching about is my very own home!"

She couldn't help but smile at Sidon's enthusiasm, "it is nice to meet you as well Sidon or do you prefer your highness?" she had never met royalty before so she wasn't entirely sure. "I'm glad that Alara's doing well here," she paused, the curiosity getting the better of her, "I had wondered about the class title , I must admit I have never heard of Hyrule, is that on Earth?"

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"Just Sidon would be perfectly splendid," he assured her happily. "After all, I am the prince of the Zora, not the prince of Fandom! And Hyrule is another world all together, very far removed from this one, but that is the sheer wonder of this place, is it not? That there could be so many fantastic people, all from such fascinating and brave new worlds!"

"It sounds incredible," Solana was intrigued, "we don't get many visitors at home due to Xelaya having such high gravity, I do love learning about other places though, the universe is so vast,"

"From what Alara has shared with us," Sidon said, "Xelaya certainly does sound like it would be an intriguing place! I do wonder about that heavier gravity and how it might affect a mighty Zora such as myself! I am quite strong, after all, although I am more accustomed to the weightlessness that comes with water! I like to think I can handle it, though!"

“I couldn’t say for certain,” Solana tilted her head as she considered, “we don’t really have a species equivalent back home for comparisons sake but it could be possible, most species can’t visit without an eco suit but most don’t have strong physiologies either,”

"I have dealt with other planet's different gravities in the past, as well!" Sidon offered, perhaps bragging a little, especially considering how his chest seemed to puff proudly at this information. "I've been to space a few times, the love of my life is a Twi'lek, and she had expendanded by galactic experience considerably! I'm actually the most well-traveled Zora in all of our history! It's really sparked a certain wanderlust, so it's difficult not to be fascinated by anywhere that might offer something new and exciting! That is why I have ultimately decided to teach the history of my own world, with the hopes of inspiring that spark within others, such as your dear sister!

"It has been a while, though," he admitted, perhaps a bit more solemnly. "I might need to practice some deep dives should I ever plan a visit! The pressure down at the ocean floor can be quite considerable, after all!"

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“We could always arrange a visit to try, my father would be very interested to meet you, especially being Alara’s teacher,” Solana smiled, she would have to be a bit creative with certain aspects because their parents didn’t know the full extent about Fandom, “I would love to travel and see other planets but my studies these days don’t really allow for the time,”

"And I would be very interested in meeting him!" Sidon let out a laugh. "Especially being Alara's father and an all-around man of the multiverse! But study of the mind can also allow us to traverse great world in a different fashion! What is it that you study? I'll bet it is just riveting and full of new knowledge and fascination!"

"I'm studying ~~handwavey subject because the show never mentioned it~~, I'm in the Honours program at University and I hope to eventually pursue my PHD, but it's a field where there's room for plenty of exciting options to research," she told him with a smile.

Rosa had considered just putting up a sign directing anyone who wanted to talk to her to the D&A office on the far side of the island, hoping that most people wouldn't want to make the trek and just drop the whole thing, but then she realized that the people who would bother with the trek were likely the most annoying and determined people, and so it just wouldn't be worth it.

At least here, she could keep up the tradition she and Blackstone had of morse code messages through the wall that they shared, and she did have the opportunity to start going over schematics and probably talking with some of the other teachers, especially those surrounding her, about the Halloween Heist. Because, yeah, she may not be teaching BABSG this semester, but that just meant she really couldn't skip it this year!

It was just a matter of figuring out how to wedge that into a math cirriculum effectively....

Summer had definitely waited for the end of the day to do this, and, a part of her half-hoping Rosa had already left and gone home for the day, she drifted over to the clump of offies, straight to Office #26, where she knocked on the doorframe and poked her head in.

"Hiiiiiii, Rooosaaaaa," she drawled in her best attempt to seem innocent, unassuming, and generally harmless and well-intentioned. "How's it goiiiiing?"

And here Rosa was starting to think that she'd ~~probably~~ make it out of his whole thing scott-free and without anything annoying happening.

And then this showed up on her door.

Rosa looked up and kept looking at Summer for a good, long moment of silence, hopefully long enough to make her squirm a little before finally just asking, simple, to the point, with a faint hint of 'this better be good or else I will be throwing a knife at you' underneath it all: "What do you want, Smith?"

And that knife? Would totally be fair!

Summer chuckled a little sheepishly, holding up her hands a little in defense. "Okay, so, I know the moose kind of did you dirty this semester by giving me your class, and I do feel bad about that," although you had to admit, she was pretty good at it and it was a totally legit position for her!, "but...what if I told you that I could make it up to you?"

Pause for dramatic effect. Smirk for the camera.

"And it has to do with your Halloween Heist."

Rosa's eyes narrowed.

"Shut the door," she said, after a overly long, drawn out silence. "I'll grab the squirrel rum."

She was already in the desk drawer, pulled it out, and clunk the bottle on her desk, leaning into it as she glared intently at Summer.

"Now talk."

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Ignis rather did miss spending so much time in this office as he had his first semester here, and, as he settled in behind that familiar desk, started to wonder if he should make more time for it again. It felt like less of an oasis this weekend, though, with the constant thumping (was it a code?) coming from the office on one side, and Prompto, being in the office on the other side, constantly bopping back and forth to ask him questions or just to say hi because he clearly could not sit still.

Needless to say, between all of that (it was a code! He was sure of it now; perhaps he could even begin to break it?), he had plenty to do, in addition to also planning a menu for dinner tonight since they'd have both Iris and Noctis with them this evening, as well as wondering if any guests of his adult students would drop in, in which case he was definitely practicing his how to put this delicately approaches...

After a while Doc left Goose’s office, being a gourmet chef himself, he had heard that Walsh had signed Goose up for a cooking class and well .. the idea of Goose cooking was something he had to see for himself how he was doing, even if he had his suspicions that the teacher had his hands full with Goose as a student.

Also Doc was going to have to correct Goose’s kitchen before he returned home, he had never seen a fridge full of so many takeout containers.

He found the office at the other end of the floor and knocked, “hello, I’m Doctor Walter Hartford, ‘Doc’,” he introduced himself, “I’m visiting Shane Gooseman for the weekend. I believe he’s in your cooking class,”

Ah. Well. It was a good thing Ignis had been mindful to keep his decorum on hand, then!

"Doctor Hartford," Ignis stood from where he sat at his desk, smoothed out his jacket, and gestured toward one of the chairs in front. "Ignis Scientia. A pleasure to meet you. Please, have a seat. Mr. Gooseman is indeed one of my cooking students, and I daresay the experience has been quite illuminating for the both of us thus far."

“Likewise,” Doc said with a grin as he took a seat, he chuckled, “after serving with him this past year, I’ve certainly learnt when it comes to the Gooseman that it’s best to expect the unexpected,”

"And since I'm quite certain attempting to predict quite where we'll end up," Ignis smiled faintly, as he now sat down again himself, "is an exercise in futility, so I'll not even attempt to do so. Still, they have yet to burn down the community center, and he is in similar good company with his fellow classmates, so that bodes well.

"What sort of service," he then ventured, with more than just a conversation interest, "if I may ask?"

It turned out that their little conclave of wayward chefs was quite the militant one, it would seem!

“Well that is good progress for Goose,” he grinned, “if he’s left something in tact and not destroyed it,”

“I serve with the Galaxy Rangers,” Doc explained, “series 5 taskforce, resident computer expert and hacker but I consider myself a man of many talents including cooking if I do say so myself,” he said with a smile.

"Is that so?" asked Ignis, leanig forward slightly, always intrigued to find himself in the company of a fellow epicurean. "Is your passion for food something you've always found to be a part of yourself, or is it a more recent discovery?"

“I’ve always had a passion for food,” Doc told him, “my grandmother loves to cook and she helped raise me, so I suppose she helped inspire that part of myself and then of course at my Alma Mater it was a core component of our studies that we knew how to cook and bake,”

Ignis's expression softened to hear of the origins of Doc's call to the culinary arts. "A key skill that should really be found far more frequently than it is in most educations," he then mused in a agreement, before his head tilted with another thought. "You said Galaxy Rangers? Would I be mistaken in assuming that this has to do with space travel, or did the people who named your group simply have a flair for the dramatic?"

“Well the Galaxy Rangers do tend to be on the eccentric side,” he also had no shame in including himself in that and honestly you would have to be pretty crazy to want to serve on the whole, “but we also travel to other planets that need our help with law and order or establishing first contact with planets that would like to join the League,” he explained.

Prompto had almost considered asking Summer to switch offices with him, at least for the weekend, because, yeah, yeah, yeah, he understood that #3 had special meaning for her, too, buuuuuut it was also his old clubhouse, and that had to count for something, right? But, ultimately, it was kind of cool that he, Ignis, and Gladio all had their offices together at the end of the hall, even if Gladio's was on the other side, and so he stuck with his own, was looking around it, and thinking that he should really do something with this space, since he had it. He started snapping some pictures that he could use to plan later, bounced on over to ask Iggy a question here or there since he was right next door, and just generally had a hard time just sitting at the desk and waiting for people to stop by if they wanted to, because 1) it was kind of exciting, being a teacher on parents weekend! and 2) it also felt weird, just being a teacher on parents' weekend. Maybe he should take a break at some point and start bouncing around to Nina's teachers' offices, as her brother and everything, but he already lived with half of them.

....a visit to Skywalker was never not a good time, though, right? And he didn't know this other new guy yet, so maybe....!

It would figure, though, that as soon as he left, someone might show up, so maybe he'd better not? He didn't know! He just had way too much energy right now! Maybe he shouldn't have bummed that Ebony off of Ignis after all...

Because I did not just make all that OCD only to have the world end!

SP is very likely for all my pups today, but, gosh darnit, I am gonna try!

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