ATTACK of the fucking CLONES!!!!!!!

[azurelunatic]

Dawn is dragging me with her on the epic trip to go see the movie tonight. Included will be a large sampling of her local family, including a lot of kids. Some teenagers, some starting to do the belligerent thing.

I shall have to plan diversions. She wasn't sure how OK with that I'd be; I do wonderfully with kids past the age of reason, as long as I'm not supposed to fill in totally for their parents. With a certain person who I was a surrogate mother-figure for, the situation totally bombed out. A little (a day or three) is fine. Two weeks+ is not. One movie should be great fun.

One of the guys in my class group has seen the movie already, and is probably going to be burning copies for the people who beg him on their knees.

1 am, baby. AZ Mills mall.

Darkside's going to absolutely strangle me in the morning. He's going to want spoilers, and I'm going to want sleep. He's already read the Pat Wrede version (so have I; we traded AotC for DI; Wrede for Bujold, and then returned the books the next day) but he still wants to know what's up.

I'm going to be hyper all afternoon. Wow. Hyper. Wow. Star Wars.

I'm thinking I may go in light costume; either classic Queen Amidala makeup or some light Jedi or Princess Leia hair. I almost have the hair for it now, without the black yarn to fill out the puffs. ...No, not quite.

I'm going undercover in any case; this is the branch of Dawn's family that freaks out about all things witchy. Considering that it runs in the family, and the kids really need proper training before something odd starts happening more than it already is, this should be interesting. Rings off; necklace hidden.

Star Wars! Wheeee!!!

Comments

Re: silly question

[iroshi.livejournal.com]

I had no training growing up, only support that I wasn't imagining things. I put my first shield around myself at 16 (and promptly freaked out). Took me three months to learn what empathy was and what had happened. First time I'd ever been alone in my head, you see. Scared me. :) I still managed to learn pretty well on my own.

If I start at 13, and explain to them what's going on, ask what they've seen, and go about it in a systematic manner, there shouldn't be any problems. All they're likely to have without actually trying things out (things that at the moment they don't know exist to be able to try them) is extra senses that most people don't...which isn't likely to be a problem without training, as long as they aren't ridiculed or told they're lying if they talk about them (and their father has *specific* instructions in that matter that he has agreed to.)

Training

[azurelunatic]

Sounds like a good plan. I am still discovering all the little tricks I picked up before formal training ensued.

I am still amused that once I began contemplating the art, my friend Savil gave me some books without me even talking about it...