That Beyond Proud Feeling When the Teacher Picks You to Bang Out the Erasers in Elementary School
It’s a surprise, but certainly a pleasant one when the professor for Ninian’s very first class just happens to be someone she knows. Even if they had not grown super close during the time they spent together in Elibe, Sir Kent was always kind to her. He let her ride his horse when she was injured and he never seemed to fear her ability to sense when danger was coming. Even if she still doesn’t understand why it was quite necessary, he often sought her out to apologize for how his partner spoke to her. Seeing him here, in the front of her classroom, does a lot to calm her fluttering nerves.
The class itself is a lot but Ninian tries her hardest to listen and copy down the ballistae trajectory diagrams the former knight of Caelin draws on the blackboard. The dancer has never sat in a formal classroom like this before and her very first class being about something she knows absolutely nothing about is very overwhelming to say the least. There is a lot of ink splatter on her parchment as she tries to keep up with how fast he teaches but a clear effort is made.
After class, she waits until her fellow students have all exited the classroom before approaching the knight turned professor as he’s erasing the chalkboard. With a small smile and a soft voice, she greets him. “Hello Sir Kent...or should I call you professor now? May I offer to help?”
@liegebound
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I'm getting so sick of major female characters in historical media being incredibly feisty, outspoken and public defenders of women's rights with little to no realistic repercussions. Yes it feels like pandering, yes it's unrealistic and takes me out of the story, yes the dialogue almost always rings false - but beyond all that I think it does such a disservice to the women who lived during those periods. I'm not embarrassed of the women in history who didn't use every chance they had to Stick It To The Man. I'm not ashamed of women who were resigned to or enjoyed their lot in life. They weren't letting the side down by not having and representing modern gender ideals. It says a lot about how you view average ordinary women if the idea of one of your main characters behaving like one makes them seem lame and uninteresting to you.
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Reasons why Jon Archivist is truly a character of all time:
Had the police called on him several times when he was a young child
Keeps his rib and the ashes of the season one antagonist next to his stationary drawer
Promised he wouldn’t get lost in tunnels and then immediately got lost in aforementioned tunnels
Has no clue what a joke is
Learned how remarkably easy it is to buy an ax in central London
Had to have two separate interventions
Told people his place of employment before traumatising them for life
The first character he ever said ‘I love you’ to is a cat
Allegedly participated in amdram
Watches documentaries and collects some kind of weird shit (my headcanon is Soviet Union postcards) when he’s not being a paranoid mess
Canonically looks like he hasn’t slept in weeks
Knows nothing about library science
Fell head over heels for a man that he hated until he learned he lied on his resumé
Has been referred to as Jesus or Jesus-adjacent at least twice
Asexual icon
Knows what a meme is and said “LOL” in the first episode
Rode on a merry-go-round sometime during his university days because he was in a weird place emotionally
Died for our Jonathan Sins
Is probably a computer now playing minesweeper with his boyfriend and evil 200+ year old boss
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