Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen

[culbutiri]

Characters: Nesir Aeser, you
Setting: Floor sixty two (beach), floor seventy two (door maze)
Format: Either
Summary: It's Nesir's birthday, she decides she should actually get round to reading her regain, and then sets herself a challenge
Warnings: Maybe talk of assassins/murder/last event. Nesir is generally not a nice person though she is not actively murderous at the moment...

[Beach] Nesir was quite surprised when she saw the date, though she knew it was coming up. In a few days she would have been in this place for an entire year and today she as sixteen. Nesir's birthday had never been celebrated and she wasn't about to start doing so in this fake place but she noted that she was a year older and that in her world she would have been considered an adult today. Ready to be apprenticed or to go out and find work, if she hadn't been a temple acolyte, if she hadn't been a dark trained assassin who had been training and working since she could walk.

The last few days she had spent training, working out her anger and frustration of being stuck in a room with Sephiroth for a week, of the hallucinations and the hunger. It helped that they ahad decent food, even if it was all pumpkin flavoured, which reminded her of her first month here, a year ago. She failed to see why in a world where everything was an illusion they had to eat pumpkin, surely there were other foods they could pretend to give them.

As it was the 'reward' she had been given had been thrown into her trunk and ignored for the last few days. Because as curious as she was, she at least knew when she was too angry to deal with more things. But today was as good as any day.

She liked the beach floor, because as little as she had actually spent time on the seafront as a child the sound of the sea reminded her of home, so she sat on the sand, cloak drawn around her and took out the folder. As expected it didn't have that many answers, the first few entries were almost medical, her and her sisters birth was recorded; they had been early it seemed and no one had expected there to be two of them.

Anyone on the beach floor would see Nesir lost in her reading, a half angry, half confused, sad look on her face.

[Maze] It was always good to be challenged, and Nesir needed something to focus on. For once she didn't feel like killing things, though she would, if need be. Her daggers were ready. She hadn't tackled this maze before but she set off, determined to solve it.

A decision she was beginning to regret a few hours later when she opened yet another door, to more doors, helplessly lost.

Comments

[culbutiri]

She do be being very irritating [She sighed and then grinned] It do be being the second level, you do be being a trainee at first and then you do be being tested and becoming an acolyte and then when you do be being ready you do be being tested again and be being a warrior or a priest or priestess if you do be having magic.

[altitonant_emperor]

You have my sympathies for putting up with her then. Those sort of people do get tedious.

[ Hidetsohi knew very well about dealing with annoying others in the school hallways. ]

That make sense. [ He sounds like he means it when he says that. ]

[culbutiri]

Tedious do no even be covering it. [She nodded] So I do be being part way there, I do be having a lot to be learning though.

[altitonant_emperor]

[ He grins. ] Everybody always does, wherever they are. If anybody said they didn't, I wouldn't really believe them.

[ There's a little dry self-decaptation in that remark. ]

[culbutiri]

That do be being true, only fools and liars do be saying they do be knowing everything.

What do you be wishing to be teaching?

[altitonant_emperor]

I don't have any solid preferences at this time. [ He rubbed his chin. He'd say something like 'social studies' or 'human ethics" but lol he remembers her nonsensical morals. ]

Something useful, probably. Something that would make the next generation look at the world more clearly.

[culbutiri]

Like philosophy? [Dubious morals or not Nesir enjoyed philosophy] Would you no be getting angry if your students did be arguing with you?

[altitonant_emperor]

Philosophy? That's a bit much. [ Honestly, it was only after Minato's friendship Hidetoshi had actually developed the patience needed to deal with kids. Likewise, he probably would have been very terrible at kids. ] But arguing with me would imply expressing independent thoughts, which shouldn't be discouraged. That's a good thing.

[ He crossed his arms. ]

[culbutiri]

Do you no be liking philosophy? It would be being interesting to be teaching I would be thinking. [Then again she has no idea about philosophical thought in Hidetoshi's world. She smiled] You will making a good teacher I would be thinking.

[altitonant_emperor]

I don't have any issues with philosophy. [ He clarifies. Yeah, he doesn't think to realize they probably discuss philosophy in different ways in their worlds. ] It's merely that the closest I've had interest in it was my speech and debate classes. Philsophy is also usually not taught in middle school or high school levels.

[ Hidetohi flicks a stray lock of hair out of his face, grinning. ] The compliment is appreciated.

[culbutiri]

What do they be being, middle and high school? [And why was philosophy not taught in them]

[altitonant_emperor]

[ He gives her the basics. ]

They're part of the school system. A child usually starts at preschool at a young age, then attends kindergarten, moves up to grade school and onto middle school, then high school. In that order. [ He pauses. ] If you successfully graduate high school, you can apply for college.

[culbutiri]

That do be being a lot of stages, what if they do be failing a stage? Do they be having to leave? Do you be getting a choice in going to these schools?

[altitonant_emperor]

[ Hidetoshi coughs into his fist. ]

There's no worldwide standard. Like I said before, in my country the law requires mandatory education for everybody, but your parents can choose which school their children attends, or they can homeschool them instead. That's their right.

[ God, it's a good thing he likes lecturing. ] If you fail a grade or don't graduate with the rest of your class, you're usually held back for a year, or given extra classes to take. But you're not kicked out. [ He sniffs. Well, unless you are guilty of disruptive or harmful behavior. Then it's removal from school or suspension. ] Any teaching staff worth their degrees would take steps to locate the problem and help the student through it until they're proficient.

[culbutiri]

But some people do just no be good at everything, do you need to be passing every subject? How many times can you be being held back? What happens if you do no be being allowed to be applying for... [What was that word...] Colge?

[altitonant_emperor]

No. For example, from middle school or high school onward generally you select what classes are most relevant to you, or will gain you the most credit. [ He sounds like an information booklet, he sighs to himself. ] Math, literature and some other subjects are the main classes you're required to take and pass. Others are optional. I can't speak for all cases, Nesir-san.

I wouldn't know. I've never been held back. [ He internally grimaces at the mispronunciation. ]

[culbutiri]

[She nodded, it sounded like a complicated system but she figured it would have to be complicated if everyone had to take place, after all everyone had different strengths and weaknesses, it would make no sense to have one system for everyone.] And if we do be restoring it all will you be graduating high school?

[altitonant_emperor]

[ Hidetoshi made a slight hand gesture. ] That's correct. By all rights, this would have been my last year in high school, had the untimely end of the world not intervened.

[culbutiri]

[She nodded, Hidetoshi had managed to make the system sound not as stupid as when Tohko had explained it.] I do be understanding, even if it do be seeming very complicated.

[altitonant_emperor]

Hn, good. But yeah, it is complicated.

[ Hidetoshi agreed. One side-effect of the Tower was that it had made him a great deal blunter in seeing that maaaybe systems aren't as clear-cut to others as they are to him. ]

[culbutiri]

[She nodded] Many people in my world do no be being educated and can no be reading or writing, so it do be being a way to be ensuring everyone do be I do be supposing.

[altitonant_emperor]

[ He charitably does not reply with, "It's because you live in what I'm pretty certain is the Dark Ages." ] That's unfortunate. Well, higher education is a right everybody ideally should have, even if the system that provides it to the masses in mine isn't perfect.

stop confusing her with your post enlightenment babble

[culbutiri]

[She blinked] A right? [A right to be educated? That was... strange. Really Nesir wasn't sure anyone had a right to anything, the light god followers thought everyone deserved to live; unless they did not serve the light god of course.

She guessed it might be better if more people were educated, but surely some people didn't need to be...]

no you can't stop him it's not babble!

[altitonant_emperor]

[ He said firmly; ]

A right. Everybody has it. No matter what sort of beliefs or background, everybody has the right to given a chance to learn, and an environment where that can happen. It's not right to be denied that opportunity. [ That's the damn rules say, after all! ]

[culbutiri]

[She blinked at him in surprise] You do really be thinking that? [She sounds more genuinely curious than anything else] Everybody do be deserving it?