+ Too Cool for School +

[vitaelamorte]

Who: Everyone!
Where: Yasogami High School
When: 6/28-7/1
Rating: Warn if you go higher than PG-13
Summary: Open log for the Persona 4 event! Everyone is spending some time as students and instructors at Yasogami High School in Inaba, Japan.
The Story:
For the weekend, everyone is either a teacher or a student at a Japanese high school. Enjoy Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and look forward to exams on Monday.

The full event description is located here and the plot post is here, with a Q&A thread where you can ask questions.

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Georgia Mason | student | ota

[choosetruth]

Newspaper Room

[Most of Georgia's spare time is spent here. As far as she's concerned, it's more important than her actual school work. Sure, the stories she gets tend to be pretty low stakes, but it's good practice for when she graduates. She's going to be a journalist. That much she's sure of.

She's not sure she'll be able to actually publish the piece she's working on now, but it still feels good. She'll need to do a lot more research to back up her general frustration and anger, but she's got no doubt her instincts here are right. Mr. Pines is a fraud and should not be teaching. And if she can get him fired, she won't be stuck in summer school with him.

For now though, it's all opinion and anger and not nearly enough facts. Sometimes, you need to do that to get your thoughts straight before the real work begins.]

Library

[She might prefer her work at the newspaper to her actual classes, but she's aware that they're still important. She's got plans, and those plans will be a lot easier to achieve if she does well in high school. So she's in the library, at a table piled high with books, and focusing very hard.

Disturb her at your own risk.]

Lunch

[On the off chance you feel like running into Georgia when she won't destroy you for interrupting her, she does occasionally take meal breaks. She's actually looking up at the world around her even, watching people through her sunglasses. Hard to say who exactly she's looking at. Might be you. Might not be. Maybe she's just thinking about her next story.

Either way, she's about as relaxed as she gets. She won't smile at anyone who approaches, but she'll at least nod cordially. It's the best you can expect from her.]

Wildcard

[CHOOSE YOUR OWN SCENARIO I'm sure we can find something if none of these work.]

Lunch

[teamfun]

[This is about as relaxed Georgia gets and Louis will take it. He hops onto the table, obnoxiously stealing a bite of whatever she happens to be eating. He won't try to steal her coke though- even he has some sense of self-preservation. ]

Watcha doin?

[choosetruth]

[He still gets a glare through her sunglasses. She's eating that.]

Playing basketball.

[What does it look like she's doing?]

[teamfun]

[The glare does nothing, his grin remains the same. ]

Oh yeah, you're gonna go far for the team this season, I can tell.

[Just stealing more of her food.]

So. How goes your crusade against Pines? You winning any ground?

[choosetruth]

Crusade? I have no idea what you mean.

[She smiles, baring her teeth.]

I'm just preparing for the final.

[teamfun]

[Louis laughs, leaning back a little. Oh, that smile promises so many things.]

Oh, so there's no dastardly plan to get Pines canned? How sad. I had high hopes.

[choosetruth]

I intend to publish all of the dumbfuck things he's said in class. How the administration reacts is up to them.

[And if they don't fire him, she'll have another article to write.]

[teamfun]

[He lets out a low, appreciative whistle.]

Getting him with the bureaucracy of the school board. I like it. Direct.

[choosetruth]

And hopefully effective. [Her expression darkens.] The fact that he got hired at all doesn't speak well for them.

[teamfun]

[Louis gives a shrug, helping himself to more of her food.]

I mean the faculty aren't exactly famed for their great life decisions here. This was pretty inevitable, hiring an actual crazy person, I mean.

newspaper room

[beatupgrass]

[A wild teacher appears.]

I heard from like five different students you're tryin' to get Pines fired, and I just want you to know that I've always been lenient on your physical science grades, even if you'd make a shitty engineer.

[Look, his engineering-dominated physical science classes are really not accessible to people who don't want to make things explode.]

[choosetruth]

[She likes Rocket, even if his classes are a frustrating level of dangerous. At least he's not teaching kids to lie.]

You know I'd ace every safety protocols test if you ever gave them.

[beatupgrass]

And instead I give you credit for making sure your brother follows 'em and doesn't blow my frickin' lab up. Everyone wins.

[choosetruth]

And you get to keep your lab to only desired levels of on fire.

[beatupgrass]

You joke, but here's the thing- you can't teach fire safety without an actual fire, Georgie.

[choosetruth]

...I'm pretty sure most fire safety instructors would disagree.

newspaper room;

[thereporter]

[ Although she does oversee the journalism class and the newspaper, Julia does her best to let the students take the lead on mostly everything. It's important to her to encourage their own development as journalists, and she considers herself a guide.

She also likes to make sure they don't overwork themselves, but that's pretty much a losing battle when it comes to Georgia Mason. ]

I know you don't want to hear it, but you do have to go back to your room eventually.

[choosetruth]

[She glances over her shoulder, her fingers still flying over the keys.]

I'll go there when I'm done. Promise.

[An easy promise to make when there's no definition of what "done" will look like.]

[thereporter]

Does 'done' exist for a perfectionist?

[ Julia grabs a seat and rests next to her, although she avoids reading over her shoulder. She hates when people do that. ]

What giant are you toppling today?

[choosetruth]

Mr. Pines. The fact that he's even allowed on school premises is alarming enough. That he's an actual teacher is just bullshit.

[thereporter]

Wow. I appreciate your enthusiasm, but I'm going to ignore the language.

[ There's a smile on her face that says that's only because of politics and nothing to do with actually being offended. Cussing is scientifically healthy, after all. ]

What's your proof?

[choosetruth]

[She's a writer! She uses all words available! She shrugs and turns, toying with the thumb drive in her hand.]

Attending his class. The idiot tells so many stories of his past crimes. And I record all my classes.

[thereporter]

You have recorded proof?

[ Her eyes widen, but now she's totally on board. ]

What has he admitted to?

[choosetruth]

I'd say "everything you can think of", but I'm pretty sure no one sane would think of half of these crimes. I don't even want to ask about llamacide.

[thereporter]

[ Oh no. That poor llama. Julia crosses her arms. She's trying to hold back the urge to demand the tapes so she can learn everything but... That wouldn't be very beneficial for Georgia, would it? The only way she's going to learn is by doing. ]

Okay. You go get him. I'll edit it when you're done. [ Julia is ready to leave her to her whims but... ] Okay, I can't. I have to ask how the llamacide came up.