Outside the Danger Shop, 7th period

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair was a little sad that it was the last Hunting class and the last Hunting class protest. He had thought about chaining himself to the doors of the danger shop, but studying for finals was taking up a lot of time and Blair hadn't gotten down to town to buy a set of chains. So he was sitting by the doors, highlighting things in a notebook and holding a sign that had two crudely drawn demons wearing leotards.

It may have been the late nights studying, or too much exposure to highlighters, but Blair really thought the Exercise with Demons tag line was hilarious.

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[demonbelthazor]

Bel approached the danger room, carring a blue lunchbox. "Hey, Blair," he said.

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Bel. What's up with the lunchbox?" Blair asked, looking up. "Did you bring snacks for Professor Winchester?"

[demonbelthazor]

"Err, no," Bel said. "Would you believe it's my son? And my father?"

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair blinked and replayed that sentence in his brain for a minute and...nope, still didn't make sense.

"Wanna run that one by me again, man?"

[demonbelthazor]

Bel chuckled a little, then opened the lunchbox to reveal an egg and a glowing white orb nestled beside it. "Ethics class assignment," he said. "Egg baby. The orb is my father's soul...."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter tilted his head at the sign, trying to understand Blair's point with it.

Then again, his idea of exercise often include large amounts of property damage in the junkyard.

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair waved a highlighter at Walter and grinned. "Happy finals week!"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Huzzah!" Walter said with feeling. "But what will you do when there is no class to protest?"

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Well, I'm going to visit Ivanova on her space station for the holidays." Blair said, bouncing. "Then there's always next semester!"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"You are?" Walter was a tad jealous of that. "Try to see me before you go, I think I have a couple of photos she'd like from the anti-emo pool party back at the beginning of summer."

[joxertehmighty.livejournal.com]

Joxer stopped and read Blair's sign.

"I don't get it," he said.

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"You know, exercise?" Blair snorted. "Instead of exorcise?"

[joxertehmighty.livejournal.com]

Joxer stared blankly for a second.

"So you're starting an excercise program?"

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Yes. Every Thursday morning at 5am I'm going to be doing demonic Jazzercise on the roof." Blair deadpanned. "Tell your friends."

[joxertehmighty.livejournal.com]

"That sounds great!" Joxer said. "I'll tell everyone!"

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna sighed, drawing in a deep breath and shaking her head as she decided to just complain or to argue. Both seemed so very tempting.

So she went with both. Kind of.

"You know, sometimes I kick myself for ever actually taking you seriously about this stuff," she started, and then a small, slightly wry grin, "but, you know, hunting actually is quite a good work-out, for both demon and hunter. Of course, results may vary, usually in the form of it having been pointless for one party..."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Actually, I take this very seriously." Blair said, not bothering to look up from where he was highlighting a notebook. "I know that not every demon is nice and not every hunter wants to kill first and ask questions later. I understand that my experience with both sides is limited and not representative of the bigger picture. I also get that for a lot of the students and teachers here this is a life and death topic."

"Which is why taking a humorous approach allows me to still protest for what I believe in without offending people who are dealing with this issue in a less academic sense."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"But don't you feel that perhaps taking a humour approach to it comes off as you belittling the issue? Because that's what I get, when I first see something like this." She nodded her head toward the sign. "That you don't understand the seriousness of it, and you're making fun of a situation that's very heavy-handed."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"I do run the risk of people misunderstanding my seriousness." Blair shrugged. "But I don't just set down a poster and walk away. I'm here every week to talk to people and explain things. To defend my viewpoint and talk to people about theirs."

"If it wasn't a heavy-handed issue, I wouldn't be protesting it. I don't do this because I'm bored and have nothing better to do on Wednesdays. I do this because lives are at stake. Because I believe that things aren't black and white and someone needs to stand up and remind people of that."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"Most of the people influenced by this, Blair, already realize that things aren't just black and white, though. You don't think I feel conflicted every single time I go out for a job? You don't think I'm constantly reminded of what I do every day? Who are you reminding, then? The people who aren't involved, the people who don't experience what I experience, what hunters experience, what demons experience. What message does these sorts of things send to them about us? What is gained by humanizing the demons and demonizing us?"

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

Alanna stared at the sign. Then she stared at Blair. "That's disturbing."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair looked up at the sign and laughed again at the tagline. "Disturbing yet oddly funny."

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

Alanna considered this for a moment. "Nah, just disturbing." She pulled at a bandage on one hand.

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"If you want to be all glass half empty about things." Blair shrugged and pointed at Alanna's hand. "You okay, man?"

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

"I'm not a man!" Alanna said with more than a touch of annoyance that had nothing to do with Blair. "And yeah, it's fine."