Room 317 [evening]

[tatooine_doofus]

Luke had decided that since he'd been in his room for a year, it was time to finally put up evidence that he lived there. Since he didn't have stuff, that took the form of photographs and holos of friends: he, Han and Leia right after the first Death Star, he and Wedge drunk later that same night, he, Rikku and Dawn looking giggly and high on sugar, he and Jaina, he and Rory, he and Tori...he and Z.

There weren't any photographs of him and his father (those were stuffed into a drawer at the moment) and he kept taking down Artoo's offering of a holo of him and Gavin believing they were Siegfried and Roy.

Corellian rock music was playing and the door was open. If he was caught staring off into space, well, he might've been reliving parts of last week's date with Jo.

[OOC: Open like a thing that is not closed.]

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[solo_sword]

Jaina had never known him at a time that he wasn't. "If it helps, he does seem to be trying, at least," she said. She couldn't say she agreed with his methods, but she did get the reasoning.

[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

She shook said appendage, "Probably not? I've heard weirder."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke nodded. "I'll call her this weekend," he promised.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"Really?" Luke asked politely.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"Are you in his class?" Luke asked, sounding interested.

[solo_sword]

She nodded. "I'm curious," Jaina admitted. "It's an Ethics class with the man who was Vader. I've had more than enough ethical discussions to last me a lifetime, but I want to hear what he says."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"I'll bet," Luke said dryly. "Has he said anything yet to make your hair stand on end?"

[solo_sword]

"Not so far," she said. "He's bolder than I expected in class, but he talks to me differently than he does to the group."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke sat crosslegged on his bed and motioned for Jaina to join him. "Bolder how?" he asked. "And differently how?"

[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

Cassandra nodded, "Yeah. Seen a lot of weird stuff."

[solo_sword]

Jaina sat, tucking one leg under her. "He just doesn't seem to want to hear excuses, and he'll challenge people until they've thought through their answers. When I talk to him, though, I get the impression he's actually listening to what I have to say personally, and he actually tries to help."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke grinned. "Gremlins? Rancors? Your niece from another dimension?"

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke nodded. "That sounds like him," he said quietly. "Is he helping you?"

Trust Luke to focus on someone else's issues rather than his own.

[solo_sword]

"A lot of what he says makes sense," said Jaina, and yes, that was vaguely unsettling to her still, but she didn't worry about it. "Even if I can't always use the suggestions he gives, I have to think about why and what I can do instead."

[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

"Well, none of those..." Her voice trailed off with an implied "yet".

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke looked very amused. "You'll fit right in. If you get bit by a gremlin and think you're a gay German magician, Artoo'll take pictures."

Artoo let out a little electronic giggle.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"And if he starts leaning towards parts that feel wrong, you'll say something," Luke said, trusting her completely.

[solo_sword]

"Without hesitation," Jaina said immediately.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke nodded. "It's not that I don't trust him..." he began.

Except that it totally was.

[solo_sword]

He still needed to earn it. "But?" she prodded.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"He hasn't done anything to indicate he was sliding back--and Force knows Umbridge was an incentive--but I just can't accept it. I'm not sure if it's my emotions clouding the Force, and I certainly don't want him to feel watched or trapped." He glanced over at Jaina. "I think you're in a better position than I right now to keep taking his temperature."

[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

"I heard about gremlins. They sound very weird." Then again, so did a lot of stuff she'd been told about regarding Fandom.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"As far as I can tell, they can't really be negotiated with. They don't hurt you if you're okay with being humiliated for a while."

[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

Cassandra shrugged, the truth was she didn't have enough social skills to know when to be embarrassed or to understand why it would matter if she were. "They don't make people do dangerous things, then?"

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"Like fling themselves off buildings? No," Luke said. "I've heard that you might go sing in town, though."