001. Class in Session

[copesetic]

[It's another beautiful morning in Union and what does that mean? For some students, it means being up at 8am for Professor Albert Heinrich's Pokemon Ethics lecture course. The giant blackboard in the university's smaller lecture hall is covered in notes all written in neat and even rows of white chalk and Albert paces in front of it. Today's class, as it's near the beginning of the term, is an overview of Legend of the Savior and an open discussion on how humanity came to be so arrogant in the past and what they can do as a society to prove that humankind has learned in the time since the Savior.

If any student wants to speak up in class all they need to do is raise their hand. If they want to discuss today's lecture, feel free to catch Albert after class. If anyone's late, they'll need to stand at the back of the room but are still required to participate. Disruption will not be tolerated! Professor Heinrich has a reputation for being something of a nurturing hardass; try and stay on his good side.

And remember, Pokemon are allowed in class, but if they can't behave the consequences are on the trainer.]

((ooc: Any sort of interaction is welcome for students! He takes all ages in his class and encourages lively debate either with him or each other so long as it doesn't become disruptive. If it does you might get detention.))

Comments

[a_gentle_boy]

Um.

[It was a strange question, he knows, but...]

I think I just wanted to ask... what you think about all of this. The story and -- everything we're supposed to be learning now...

[copesetic]

What I think personally?

[Albert takes a moment to think of how to answer, folding his arms and crossing his legs at the ankles as he leans against his desk. He doesn't like to impress his personally held beliefs on his students, preferring to let them come to their own conclusions.]

I'd like to hear what you think about it first, if that's alright.

[a_gentle_boy]

[No it was not OK Lucas preferred not to have opinions on important things in case they were wrong. ...He supposes that's probably not the point of this class, though. After stammering for a moment or two, he'll eventually manage to be coherent.]

Well...

I guess I'm asking...

If you think it's all real. It's not about the message - all of that is good, and I think people forget it sometimes. Or a lot of times. But... it's hard to believe things could ever get to that point. War and complete destruction...

I've... only ever met one Pokemon that killed humans without a reason I could understand. And maybe that's my fault.

[copesetic]

There's always a reason, just as there's always a reason for people to do the things they do as well. They're not always good reasons, but something has to drive someone to act, positively or negatively. That's part of the nature of living beings.

[He tilts his head a little at Lucas, postulating that there must be something that happened to him to have him ask such a question. Still, Albert has a duty as a teacher to remain on the subject matter, though he takes a more open ended approach to try and get Lucas to open up a bit.]

It's my job to teach the legend as fact, that these things really happened and that's why there are Enlightened. It's what we've all been taught from a young age, and we can see the evidence around us just through who we are and our small numbers. But that's only one interpretation and only from the Human point of view. As I pointed out today, there are different ways to tell the story and it's been written all these myriad of ways throughout our history.

What do you think happened, Lucas? If you wrote the history of the Savior, how would the story go?

[a_gentle_boy]

...Um.

[This was a strange question and Lucas doesn't really have much of an idea where it's supposed to go. He'll go along with it, though.]

It would be a lot more boring, probably.

I don't want to think we ever tried to destroy each other. No matter how bad it gets... there should always be another way. There should've been more than one Savior - more than one person who knew the right thing to do.

...And everyone would have a chance to be... more. It's not fair that you don't get a chance just because you were born to the wrong people, right? It should be a gift... to help people and Pokémon understand each other even better.