COMC: How to Sex Your Furby

[dinosaurman.livejournal.com]

It was the promised second half of Care of Magical Creatures, and it was being held in the same calendar year! In the same season, no less!

Normally, COMC would have been a boring lecture followed by a group activity. Today, though, the professor was unprepared. Unprepared, unmotivated, and uninterested. So instead, written on the chalkboard was an assignment:

Male Furbies
-Larger body size
-More pronounced curve of the beak
-Longer fur tuft on top of head

Female Furbies
-Smaller body
-Longer toes
-Wider hips

WHAT GENDER IS YOUR FURBY? DISCUSS.

Since he was technically supposed to be in the room while he was "teaching," Grant was sitting at a desk at the front of the room, reading a book. He'd even put it down if somebody asked him a question. And while Grant was normally a stickler for proper terminology, there was no way in hell he was going to tell his students to "sex your furby."

((COMC Rules: There are no partners or assigned groups. This is an open RP to all students, even people who aren't on the list or don't have furbies. If your character is furby-less, you can assume they pick up a loaner furby at the door. There is no right or wrong answer. If you need prof or TA attention, PLEASE put a note in the subject line.))

Comments

[papayagami.livejournal.com]

"Well. Good for him." He growled as he leaned too much on the knee. Or because Near was pissing him off again. "One would think you like being hit, you seem to encourage it often." Okay, now he's just being mean.

[cardarchitect.livejournal.com]

"Honesty can be difficult to bear, Yagami-san. I was not raised to couch harsh truths in pretty deceits to make them more palatable. That would have been an insult to L's name."

Anger lead him to speak the next words.

"As would your son's survival have been."

[papayagami.livejournal.com]

"Fair enough," he said with a hardened face. Why couldn't Light have killed this bastard, too? That, of course, was never leaving his head. "You still deserved that."

[cardarchitect.livejournal.com]

"I am sure believing that will make your failings easier to bear. It is always simpler to lash out when upset. Mello is much the same way." He mock-bowed.

[papayagami.livejournal.com]

For some reason, that comment made Soichiro chuckle. "Really? I'd hate to imagine his reaction to that." The moment starting to pass, Soichiro stood up a bit straighter. "If we're going to fight, we should hold off till after class."

[cardarchitect.livejournal.com]

"Is that a challenge, Yagami-san?"

[papayagami.livejournal.com]

"Only if you care to make it so."

[cardarchitect.livejournal.com]

"I have no love of quarreling, physical or otherwise. I regret that you find my truthfulness troubling."

[papayagami.livejournal.com]

"Hm. Not the best use of energy." Soichiro sighed. "Never thought I'd get along better with Mello. At least we haven't traded blows."

[cardarchitect.livejournal.com]

"He would not have stopped at one."

[papayagami.livejournal.com]

"Neither would I."

[cardarchitect.livejournal.com]

"We shall hope, then, that it never comes to that."

[papayagami.livejournal.com]

"Indeed. Now I think we should get someone over here before we go at it again."

Wrong choice of words, not that he knows it.

At any rate, May-Lah Kah had wandered over from Ofdensen's area to Soichiro's.

"Near. This one is different from our furbies. Smaller."

[cardarchitect.livejournal.com]

Attention immediately snapping back to his studies, Near eyed the new arrival.

"Yes... yes, I can see the anatomical variations. It is very likely, then, that this is a female and you and I have males."

[papayagami.livejournal.com]

Soichiro rolled his eyes. "As if the similarities between Toh-Dye and Matsuda weren't already in the teens."

[cardarchitect.livejournal.com]

That brought to mind the extremely silly mental image of a Furby with a firearm; Near had met Matsuda under rather different circumstances than Soichiro had known him.

"I will take your word for that," he said blandly.