(OOC: For simplicity's sake I'm gonna say this is before the display of affection. That may have been your intention and your comment was in two parts since it was in response to an earlier comment, but I just wanted to clarify before moving forward since I didn't want to make assumptions and make things confusing because of said assumptions on what you intended)
When the Professor approached as they discussed the possibility of a study group, Maven got even more excited, "I'm so happy to hear that! I had some ideas already, but if you have any insight or ideas on how best to put together such a thing I would be open to suggestions. I haven't put together a study group like this before, so if there's anything that could be done better to help everyone's learning experience I'd love to implement it!"
Devil, meanwhile, continued to look frozen. Internally, he was rapidly being forced to acknowledge something he had not wanted to.
He can't teach anyone anything.
Sure, he could offer basic translations for stuff. But when asked about the deeper context, etymology, why things were the way they were, the things needed to give someone a deeper understanding of why a language works the way it does? He didn't know shit. To him, it just was what it was. He was just making guesses that the Academic was teaching some weird (to him) old Curator-based dialect based on the fact that he reeked of the Masters and had used that as a jumping off point to call the whole class into question. Because he didn't want to face the obvious fact that he couldn't teach his lover how to be fluent in his native language and she needed to learn from another human. And now his ego got him into promising to teach a bunch of strangers?!
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Re: After Class
Date: 2025-06-24 12:49 am (UTC)When the Professor approached as they discussed the possibility of a study group, Maven got even more excited, "I'm so happy to hear that! I had some ideas already, but if you have any insight or ideas on how best to put together such a thing I would be open to suggestions. I haven't put together a study group like this before, so if there's anything that could be done better to help everyone's learning experience I'd love to implement it!"
Devil, meanwhile, continued to look frozen. Internally, he was rapidly being forced to acknowledge something he had not wanted to.
He can't teach anyone anything.
Sure, he could offer basic translations for stuff. But when asked about the deeper context, etymology, why things were the way they were, the things needed to give someone a deeper understanding of why a language works the way it does? He didn't know shit. To him, it just was what it was. He was just making guesses that the Academic was teaching some weird (to him) old Curator-based dialect based on the fact that he reeked of the Masters and had used that as a jumping off point to call the whole class into question. Because he didn't want to face the obvious fact that he couldn't teach his lover how to be fluent in his native language and she needed to learn from another human. And now his ego got him into promising to teach a bunch of strangers?!