hashtag_chocobro | The Danger Shop; Monday, Lunchtime [05/27].

There was a part of Prompto that was really wondering if they could potentially get in trouble for doing this, but it seemed, to him, that the danger shop should definitely be free use for a couple of teachers for Very Important Things during school hours when no one else was using it, right? Right! Besides, this was a guy who had the prestigious honor of being one of the few students that had gotten detention at this school in recent years (albeit much more recently for the school than for him!) for all sorts of rule-breaking shenaningans, so, really, if anything, acting first and apologizing later when it came to school property was ultimately just on brand for him.

Besides, it was easily going to be the best way to teach Liliana all about cars and driving, and he'd meticulously put together a whole program to do so, and he was hoping it didn't go too much to waste. But, while the rum being set out for the squirrels had more to do with the fact that this whole driving thing was meant to be a surprise for Ignis, it didn't pass his notice that it would probably help a little if them doing this was actually a big fat no-no.

Only time would tell! If anything, they could at least get in a lesson before getting thoroughly busted and reprimanded, and that was what counted. So he was just going to be taking some time to check over his mock-up of the Regalia he'd programmed in and also the motorcycle he'd added in case they wanted to take a stab at that, too, and then just waited for his student to show up, with a wistful sigh toward the motorcycle.

Man, he really should look into getting one of those...

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In his defense, she did have a whole rant about nit knowing hardly even the first thing about it!

And now she was talking about pivot points!

"Well," said Prompto, with maybe a faint, tentstive sort of smile, "I guess that covers a good chunk of turning, which I was going to get into after we kind of mastered back and forth and going and stopping..."

And Prompto was doing an excellent job of not giving her esoteric orders based on the presumption she would know what he was talking about. And having been in a car even one time also helped. ~~Okay and so was some of what Dean had taught her. Some.~~

"But going straight backwards was hard," she said, as if this made obvious sense. "I had to figure out how the car moved because otherwise, the slightest shift out of alignment and I didn't know how to put it back. Thinking the back wheels pivoted when going in reverse like the front ones do going forward meant the car wasn't doing what I expected it to do. I had to figure out what it was doing, and I wasn't going to figure that out just by going back and forth."

"Why do I suddenly have the feeling that you just skipped right over the crawling stage and went right to running?" Prompto asked.

Look, his frame of references was very specific at this stage in his life.

"We would have gotten there. I'm trying to make sure no stone gets left unturned."

He was being thorough! That's what Iggy would do!

"It's like all anatomy," Liliana said, tone cooling as she recollected herself. "You can teach about things in discrete pieces, like a hand or a foot, but when it comes to movement none of that is actually helpful unless you look at it holistically. How it all fits together. Walking isn't just legs and feet, it's hips and centers of gravity and balance and swinging arms which leads to shoulders...I have built and rebuilt enough bodies to know what to look for when it comes to figuring out movement."

"Well," Prompto countered, "I haven't rebuilt any bodies at all, but I've rebuilt a lot of cars and trucks. Never taught anyone to drive one before, though, so I guess we're both learning. You wanna play around with turning and things now?"

He was kind of wondering now what his whole role in all this was supposed go be if she was just going do her own thing....

....guess how to answer questions in a way that didn't cause her to just glare at him, he supposed.

....gods, why did he agree to do this, again?

She still didn't know what she didn't know, Prompto! Like that reversing was a thing at all.

"Okay." She looked at him expectantly. "What do I need to know about turning?"

Yeah, but he didn't know what she didn't know, so how was he supposed to know how to help her know it without awkwardly stumbling over things she did know???

Prompto looked warily back at Liliana, took in a deep breath, and decided to just info dump everything he could possibly scrounge up about turning, tip to tail, anatomy of the car and offers to slip under the carriage to show her, even, with an extra emphasis whenever he referenced the pivot point, acceleration points, blah di blah blah blah and leave it up to her to decide what was useful.

Which, like, he knew she had a phone,did that phone just not have google?

Using Google required knowing what to look for, and how, and what sources were trustworthy, especially now that Google was forcing AI search results, and then also skill at translating something read into something physical.

Just because she was making connections that you didn't expect and not following your exact plotted course didn't make your teaching not valuable. Noctra might skip ahead to reading not long after learning her ABCs, but that didn't mean she instinctively grasped the concept of vowels.

Once again, she made him pause so she could write everything he was saying down, sometimes interrupting with a barrage of questions, sometimes making him repeat certain things until she was sure she understood it and could repeat it back to him in her own words. She took him up on his offer of the undercarriage and while it was clear she didn't give a fuck about the overall mechanics of the car, learning about how certain things affected how she could control the car were deemed necessary and important.

And once they got back into the car, she seemed much more confident and comfortable behind the wheel, sometimes muttering to herself little snippets of what he'd said to match it up to what was actually being done.

Well, a look at the undercarriage would surely lead to a peek at the engine, too, so hopefully Liliana brought plenty of paper to write on. And then Prompto was left wondering what other parts of the car he was failing to mention as he settled back in.

"So I guess...now we work on turning?"

She had a whole notebook! Liliana was a nerd and very notebook-oriented.

...Though, admittedly, she took fewer notes about the engine, seemingly content with 'engine makes cars go,' with the occasional interesting bit here and there.

They worked on turning, which mostly involved Liliana asking Prompto for turning-related goals that he wanted her to achieve and the parameters she needed to achieve them in. Regardless of anything else, she was going to get an A+ in driving. She was very determined.

The Danger Shop; Monday, Lunchtime [05/27].

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