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[guerrilla_morph]

(( For once, you get to see video from Marco. Sort of. The camera is pointing away from his face, but instead of one lonely garbage can in front of what appears to be a public school. ))

Now that school is out like Alice Cooper, we gotta do the thing. You know what.

(( And like that, a notebook comes spinning and tumbling out of nowhere and landed neatly into the trash. ))

There goes Biology.

(( And another one, although it landed on the rim of the trash can. Marco kicked it so it can fall into the center, disappearing forever. ))

And English! There goes all those lovely paragraphs on how to articulate total bull in book reports.

(( And another, missing entirely. Marco, while carrying his phone, walks over to pick it up and drops it into the can. ))

And there's Math. Ignore what just happened.

(( Another notebook, spinning into the garbage abyss. ))

Home Ecology! Or is it Economy? Either way, teacher didn't do squat, so I slept through it a lot. Maybe I shouldn't have thrown away an unused notebook. Oh well.

(( And finally, the big kahuna, the heavy behemoth of a notebook. It's unnatural how stuffed full of papers it is. It's nearly torn in half as well. It definitely belongs to the trash. ))

And History. It's nice to have a teacher that cared, but I don't. I know plenty of people who are a bunch of history nerds. I can get it from them.

(( Like Jake. What a nerd. ))

I hope that was as satisfying to watch as it was for me. Now my backpack feels 100% lighter.

Comments

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[continuousgroaning]

[Yup, all Tina can do at the sight of this is just make a groaning noise. HOW WASTEFUL!]

Uhhhhhhh...

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[guerrilla_morph]

(( ZOOMS IN ON THAT LOVELY PILE OF NOTEBOOKS. ))

Best thing for summer.

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[continuousgroaning]

Uhhh, I guess it did feel satsifying. Still, it seems a little wasteful, too...

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[guerrilla_morph]

Eh, if you look at it, me going to school seems a waste itself. . .

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[continuousgroaning]

Mmm, I guess so. I still enjoy it, but if you think about it we would get ported out any time and it'd be useless anyway...

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[guerrilla_morph]

That's true and depressing. But I am very good at prioritizing.

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[continuousgroaning]

Yeah, and there's nothing wrong with that! I kinda like going to school just because it feels normal. ... and I wouldn't know what to do with myself all day, anyway. I grew up working in my dad's restaurant so I'm not used to having a whole bunch of free time.

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[d33tached]

You were given an opportunity to be educated in a variety of subjects, and your response is to throw the work you've put into that education away?

[He's lowkey scandalized. This is disgraceful?]

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[guerrilla_morph]

Buddy

my friend


I'm gonna forget this place when I go back home so what's the point

[d33tached]

[Well, that is probably the fairest point he's ever heard, but D33 isn't one to back down from a useless argument.

[Also:]

I am not your friend, nor am I your "buddy".

[They mean the same thing, D33.]

There's no telling how long you might be here before you're sent home. Are you content to remain ignorant during your time here?

[guerrilla_morph]

My fellow imPorts can pick up the slack on my education! The Russians, the Hornets, OTO and those animal robot thingies

the things that matter :)

[d33tached]

[How he loathes those "smiley faces".]

There aren't other subjects which you find value in aside from the current events of this world?

[guerrilla_morph]

(( Marco, being a 90s kid, loves the smiley faces. ))

No. I am a kid of my time, obsessed only with popular culture.

[d33tached]

You are a fool, then.

[guerrilla_morph]

Buddy

My friend


Everyone tells me that every day and somehow I'm still breathing? Causation? I think not.

[d33tached]

As I've said, I am not your buddy.

[Stop calling him buddy, he's getting confused.]

I will leave you to your ignorance, then.

[guerrilla_morph]

ok pal

best to it, then

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[namesaquestion]

If I did that back when I was in school, dad would have hit the roof or something.

[Then again, when a lot of money is spent on your education...]

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[guerrilla_morph]

Good thing your dad isn't here then.

(( Wait. ))

Is he?

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[namesaquestion]

[That gets ugly laughter.] What? A coward like him? No way, and if he ever comes here, I'll make him regret it.

[More like: throw a giant, public, tantrum about Giovanni showing up.]

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[guerrilla_morph]

(( Marco opens a can of soda, the sound of air escaping satisfying to him. Well, Marco has issues, but never had he attempted to have such murderous resentment against his own parents. (The situation involving his mother does not count. ))

Sounds pretty bad.

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[namesaquestion]

Hmph. No shit. To make matters worse, the one who ruined my life and made him a coward's here.

[That's... both a lot of resentment and a lot of Grudge.]

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[guerrilla_morph]

Sounds rough, buddy. Have you ever tried therapy? I hear it helps.

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[namesaquestion]

I don't need that! What good would it do, anyway?

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[h2no]

You coulda saved them and sold them to the next semester students, ya know?

[and it's a waste of books and all that buT MONEY]

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[guerrilla_morph]

You are expecting me to give to charity?

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[h2no]

No, I was expecting you'd sell 'em for your own gain. Do it a lil' bit cheaper than the stores and they'd be gone in seconds, I'd bet.

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[guerrilla_morph]

My notes about how George Washington cross a river is gonna cost money?

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[h2no]

You'd be amazed what people will buy to avoid takin' the notes and doin' the work themselves.

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[guerrilla_morph]

(( THERE'S THE SOUND OF A KID GOING THROUGH THE TRASH AND PICKING UP HIS NOTEBOOKS FOR SOME MONEY ))

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[h2no]

[there's the sound of a jackass laughing]

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[guerrilla_morph]

I'm selling this backpack as barely used.

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[h2no]

Now you're gettin' it! You could probably sign it and get an extra buck for it bein' an imPort possession!

[lasersounds]

Back home, my friends and I would set our old work on fire. [Way to encourage bad behavior, Lance.]

Mom wasn't too fond of that habit.

[guerrilla_morph]

See, I'd get into trouble with that, especially on school property. But it's tempting.

[lasersounds]

That's when you get a group together. Can't catch you all if you scatter.

And definitely do it off school property. You could use a "summer bonfire" excuse.

[guerrilla_morph]

Well, I keep that in mind next time I'm in school. If I am.

[lasersounds]

You thinking of not going back?

[guerrilla_morph]

What's the point? It's not like I will remember what I learn here, and anyway it's bad enough I go to school back home.

[lasersounds]

I can't say I blame you. I used it to fill the time, but it's not like there's a lack of stuff to do around here.

And it sounds like you aren't all that interested in what happens in class.

[guerrilla_morph]

I lived in America and while there's a lot of difference, most of the history is pretty much the same aside from the Cold War stuff. That was long over.

[lasersounds]

Same. I mean, I'm just a boy from Cuba but a lot of the history is still there. Outside of the stuff this Earth hasn't really gotten to yet.

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[am_i_a_monster]

[It seems wasteful to Abigail, but she's more curious about it than anything else.]

Are there any subjects you didn't throw out?

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[guerrilla_morph]

I threw out all of them. Feels good.

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[am_i_a_monster]

Did it feel like you had some power back after a school year of doing what teachers told you to do?