Room #405

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

m_samuelle and I are moving into room 405. Anyone interested in hand-to-hand combat, bitching about authority figures, and, well, brooding, is welcome to stop on by.

Comments

[demonbelthazor]

Put me down for the hand-to-hand combat and bitching about authority. No use for brooding. I'm right across the hall.

[m-samuelle.livejournal.com]

Always looking for another hand-to-hand combat partner. Welcome. As for the brooding... I do not believe that I brood, although Nikita says that I do. I feel that I am merely... restrained.

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

I try for restrained (my old teacher was always blathering on about "there is no emotion, there is peace" and stuff) and I end up with, apparently, whiny. I don't see it myself, but my teacher told me my tantrums as a kid were the stuff of legends.

He just didn't seem to notice I'd grown out of them.

[m-samuelle.livejournal.com]

Teachers never seem to properly respect the growth you have made. Frustrating.

[demonbelthazor]

Brooding leads to angst. Angst leads to doing really stupid things for the wrong reasons. If you need to clear your head, fighting is so much better.

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

*chuckles ruefully*

That sounds familiar. Master Yoda (he's around here somewhere, teaching philosophy I heard) is always telling me that "fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to the Dark Side of the Force."

I'm not so sure, though.

[demonbelthazor]

Tell me more about this "Dark Side." Sounds cool.

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

*frustrated sigh*

I don't know too much about it--every time I ask for more details, my old Master would get all twitchy and change the subject.

You know about the Force, right? Energy field binding the universe together? The light side is about living in harmony with the universe with mutual trust and respect and stuff. The Dark Side is all about emotions--hate, anger, jealousy, fear of loss--the stuff, that as you said, leads to doing really stupid things for the wrong reasons.

But all emotions can't be that bad, right? Which is what I kept bringing up to my old Master. I think he got sick of me asking the same questions over and over again, and leapt at the chance to send me here.

[demonbelthazor]

Moping and angst leads to stupid things. Anger and hate? Those give you focus...a purpose. I think they give you strength and determination. Why would they want you to suppress your emotions? They don't want you to be strong?

[m-samuelle.livejournal.com]

I agree. Fighting is an excellent way to clear your head - though I find that fighting with a clear head definitely gives one an advantage.

[julian-lawless.livejournal.com]

I was hoping for a chance to keep my skills in practice. Julian Sark, down in 209. A pleasure to meet you all.

Nor do I brood. I ponder, occasionally, but brood? I leave that to Sydney others.

[m-samuelle.livejournal.com]

Welcome, Julian.

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Excellent. Good to meet you. Do you prefer Julian or Sark or some kind of nickname?

[julian-lawless.livejournal.com]

I prefer to go by Sark. And I reserve the right to practice my hand-to-hand skills on the person that calls me "Jules". *small smile* I imagine you'd do the same to someone who referred to you as "Ana" or "Kinnie" or something along those lines?

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Let's just say that I might be here because of what happened to the last unfortunate being who called me "Annie" without my permission.

Stupid childhood nicknames.

[julian-lawless.livejournal.com]

*lifts an eyebrow* Annie? That is unfortunate. Whatever you inflicted on him was nothing but fair.

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

That's what I said. Apparently shaving a Bothan bald is a crime on some worlds. Who knew?

[(Anonymous)]

was interested until the brooding...
I might stop by

[m-samuelle.livejournal.com]

Mr/Ms Anonymous...

We shall attempt to keep all brooding at a minimum while practicing hand-to-hand combat.

[pure-blooddraco.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't have much use for hand to hand combat (wands y'know). But I can always do with bitching about authority figures (as long as it doesn't get back to my Father or the Dark Lord). And I am always looking for some good brooding. It's not easy having this much angst. I daresay I'll beat the damn boy-who-lived in the "whos got more angst" contest soon.

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

You are certainly in the right spot, then. Pull up a *glances around the room, moves clothing from chair to bed* chair and stay a while.

Boy-who-lived? Who's he?

[pure-blooddraco.livejournal.com]

Boy-who-lived? Who's he?

That's the nickname for this kid, Harry Potter, who just happened to survive a death curse when he was a baby. Whoop-di-shit. He didn't do anything, his mother did! And then he comes into school trying to act all noble. Please, just because you've saved the school 4 or 5 times does not mean that your shit doesn't stink. And he goes around all the time all "Woe is me, I'm Harry Potter, I've got no parents!".
I don't know what he's complaining about. He at least has friends and the whole wizarding world bloody worships him. What about me? My father is in prison, my mum is off her rocker and my master keeps sending me on suicide missions! It's not easy being the antagonist, somebody has got to take the "con" side to things. There's never no "Oh nice work breaking Harry Potter's nose Draco." or "Wow, you spent the whole year plotting a way to kill the most powerful wizard in the world so you can save your mum? Impressive!"

So. I've heard through the grapevine you have trouble dealing with your Masters. My master asks a lot of me too. What do yours make you do?

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

It wasn't so much what he made me do, but what he wouldn't let me try. I'm already way better a Jedi than he is, and he's totally holding me back, refusing to let me learn everything. I can totally handle it, too, but it's all "You're too young, Anakin" and "you're not ready, Anakin," and "stop looking at me like that, Anakin."

Wait. That last one might not have been Master Kenobi.

Anyway, I'm glad to be away from him for a while. Even if Master Yoda is here and I'm pretty sure he doesn't like me all that much.