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[silverworld]

Now, I'd like to announce our new school project. You will be graded for this, of course, but most of all it is a learning experience. All the practical knowledge you gain may very well be put to use in the future. You see...

[She reaches down to pick up a small basket, placing it on the desk before her. What's inside the basket, you wonder? It's eggs. A lot of them. They aren't boiled or anything of the sort.]

For an entire week, you all will be proud parents. These [she indicates the eggs again.] will be your frail, loved children. You may name them, dress them or even try to feed them. As long as your child is still in one piece next Thursday, you pass the project. Of course, one can never become a parent on their own, which is why I've taken the liberty of assigning you all a partner. Both of you will have to cooperate and take it in turns to care for your baby. That is the trick behind parenting, after all. Stella, already being a proud mother herself, is exempt from the project and will be giving a guest lecture early next week.

When I call your names, you will come forth and take one 'child' out of the basket. Once you've all had your turn, I'd like you to take a while to get to know your partner better and make some agreements on the ways you feel this project should be handled.

Ages 6-12:
Kotaro, Chibi-Usa, Nanako
Klonoa, Hanyuu
WW Link, Kyrie
(Saku)Bo, Hikari "Kari"
Yamato "Matt", Rika
Taichi "Tai", Lymle
Takuya, Vivi Aislinn

Ages 13-16:
Simon, Yuzuhira, Hotaru
Karol, Anise
Florian, Shiki
Genis, Kairi
Riku, Seles
Roxas, Shirley
Raenef, Rena
Caesar, Usagi
Sora, Tear
Svein, Rachel
Tom Riddle, Ted

Ages 17-23:
Haruki, Hermoine
Harry, Yuzu
Draco, Charlotte
Atsuro, Terra
Minato, Colette
Alphonse, Uriko
Ryoji, Hero
Sonic, Mitsuru
Souji, Ramirez
Yosuke, Akihiko
Vyse, Estelle
Lloyd, Celes
Stahn, Kinon

Any questions? If not, feel free to start planning child care with your partner. You have fifteen minutes.


[[OOC: The pairings were randomly selected by me, mostly according to age. Whenever there was a third person left in one of the categories, they'd be placed with one of the younger couples in that same category. If I forgot your character, or you see any mistakes, let me know!]]

Comments

probably not, but it's simon's kid so it must be a born digger 8|

[dawndigger.livejournal.com]

[This is too much responsibility for this kid.]

So... um... we have to take care of this egg, huh? I hope we don't break it...

... Does this mean it's also gunna have a thing for wearing short skirts?

[silentfirefly.livejournal.com]

[This, on the other hand, is nothing for Hotaru.]

I'm sure we won't. We just have to be careful Simon-san. [Just gunna cradle this egg carefully.] Should we... set up some kind of schedule or something?

....only if it's a girl. otherwise the manly uncle will protest.

[dawndigger.livejournal.com]

Schedule? Uh... Maybe...? [Crap he knows nothing about scheduling, or planning, or whatever- he just does stuff on the fly.] I should probably let you decide that stuff.

..... you mean boys can't wear skirts? BUTBUTBUT ZOI DID IT!

[silentfirefly.livejournal.com]

Okay. [She's been quietly listening to other 'couples' conversations to see what they should do] Hmm... Should we take turns to take it home and then bring it back to school?

zoi is creepy and a transvestite 8|

[dawndigger.livejournal.com]

I'm kinda worried about that. I don't want my brother to accidentally break it or something. He's, um... not really gentle.

... Good point.

[silentfirefly.livejournal.com]

Oh, okay. Then maybe... Yuzuhira-san and I take it home at nights and you can look after it during the day? [... She hopes her parents had a better plan than this when they were raising her.]

I have those on very rare occasions |D

[dawndigger.livejournal.com]

Couldn't we just bury it for a while? That would keep it safe! [Someone's missing the point entirely.]

Mine are even rarer -_-

[silentfirefly.livejournal.com]

[And someones just staring at you, gobsmacked] Ah... Simon-san... we're supposed to treat the egg like it's a baby. You wouldn't bury a baby would you. [Someone just got his name scratched off the parenting chart.]

/patpat, I'm sure you're fine |D

[dawndigger.livejournal.com]

[Oh dear, that was the wrong thing to say, huh.] Well... it's just that when my parents were out working and I was too small to go with them, they hid me in a hole to keep me safe sometimes. Underground's not a bad place to be. [It's a perfectly good parenting tool. ...When you live underground.]

I am more than fine, if yanno what I mean~

[silentfirefly.livejournal.com]

[They're not living underground Simon... kinda pitying Ainse here] Mmm... but I don't think our sensei will like that. We probably should just take turns to carry it around and watch it. There are three of us, so it should be easier... Setsuna-mama, Haruka-papa and Michiru-mama managed okay with me I think... [Hers just, yanno, managed to juggle three different lives so that someone was always with her. Pretty sure Michiru would have killed Haruka if she tried to leave her in a hole...]

boom-chika-bow-wow~

[dawndigger.livejournal.com]

[Well, if you want to do it the hard way.] I guess we could do that. Um... do we have to name it or something? [Should probably pick a gender, too.]

~<((^_^~<))

[silentfirefly.livejournal.com]

[Hard way, or burying the egg... hard way or burying... hmm :/] Um... I guess we can. [Staring at the egg now. How does one give a round thing a gender?] Should it be a boy or a girl?

[dawndigger.livejournal.com]

[Maybe they could hard-boil it. |D] I don't know much about girls.

[silentfirefly.livejournal.com]

[... You don't hard boil babies Simon B|] Well it could be a boy, if you wanted. I'm okay with either.

[dawndigger.livejournal.com]

[I bet it would be a delicious baby.] Okay, it's a boy then! Um... I'm not very good at names, though.

[silentfirefly.livejournal.com]

[... We don't eat the babies either. B| Keep this up and you won't be having them, ever.] Uh... Ichiro? It means 'first son' in Japanese.

[dawndigger.livejournal.com]

[Good, they're way too much work and he wouldn't be able to take them in Gurren Lagann :c] Ichiro? that's a nice name, I guess. [It's not very exciting or manly, but what can you do. D|]

[silentfirefly.livejournal.com]

[Well we don't hear you piping up with any.] It doesn't have to be that, Simon-san. Why don't you suggest one, and I'll suggest some more and so on, and then we could pick?

[dawndigger.livejournal.com]

[Because Simon always lets Kamina name everything.] Um... how about Gurren?

[silentfirefly.livejournal.com]

[... And once again we pity Anise. :\] ... What does it mean?

....lj why the hell is this thread at the end of the entry all of a sudden.

[dawndigger.livejournal.com]

....Mean? [Why does it have to mean anything. Simon doesn't get it. D|]

... Because LJ's a moron?

[silentfirefly.livejournal.com]

[Because it has to okay.] Yes, like does it have a meaning in your world? Like... Hotaru is the Japanese word for firefly. And, uh... Usagi-san's name is the word for rabbit. Does Gurren have a meaning?

sob. I hate it when this happens, it makes it look so ugly.

[dawndigger.livejournal.com]

[Oh dear.] I don't know if it has a meaning... it's just a name my brother thought up.

There, there bb. There, there. *patpat*

[silentfirefly.livejournal.com]

Oh... It's nice, even if it doesn't have a meaning. [What, attempting to avoid a fight? Never...] Gurren it is.

[dawndigger.livejournal.com]

[Oh man, Hotaru, you have got to get to know this kid. He's less likely to start a fight with a girl than Gandhi.] R-really? You like it!?