Advanced Combat/Battle Practicum: Students Needed!!
Hey guys!
I’m planning to make a series of comics about my oc’s 3rd-Year elective course: Advanced Combat/ Battle Practicum soon, and I need your help! That is to say, I have a teacher, but I don’t have any students for her to teach...
It’s a fairly complicated course and is notorious for being difficult, so I’ve included more information about it under the cut; however (tl;dr), most students come to the decision to take this class based on the fact that while it isn’t a class for everyone, it is considered a valuable asset once a student has graduated as it can sway larger, more prestigious hero agencies in your favor if you’ve completed the course.
If you think your character would want to be in this class and you’d be willing to let me draw your characters participating in Planarian’s teaching shenanigans please let me know!!
Advanced Combat/ Battle Practicum is only an elective class, so you don’t necessarily have to be in the heroics program to get into it (and if you’re in heroics you don’t necessarily have to take it), but it’s also one of the most notoriously difficult classes in Yuuei (and many teachers can attest to this, as my oc, Planarian, has been teaching this class for the last 30 years) and requires that students outside of the heroics department take a qualifying test before they can be approved to take it.
All students who get into this class take it with each other - so classes 3-A, 3-B, and any students who made it in outside of heroics take it as one class. Outside of the sports festival, this is the class where they come into contact with each other most regularly before graduation.
Advanced Battle Practicum deals not only with advanced fighting tactics, however, but simulations of high-mortality disasters, ransom situations, high-stakes-high-reward problems, and generally grey-area battle strategies and crises. Most lessons are simply presented as “this is your objective; complete it to pass,” and students have completely free reign on how they complete them after that - sabotage, diplomacy, straight up violence, even if the mortality rate (in the form of damaged dummies) or the collateral damage by the end of the mission is horrendously high, it doesn’t matter; as long as the objective is completed, you won’t be given a failing grade.
This means that, no matter how you do it, as long as you complete your objective, there is literally no way to get anything less than a passing grade for that particular assignment; however, the means by which you complete your mission does affect your grade. This is still a hero course, after all.
This is basically a program made to train students in worst-case scenarios that they might encounter following their graduation, regardless of their primary field (ie. heroes who specialize in search and rescue or sting missions, or heroes that specialize in direct combat), and as such, it is a class where the (simulated) stakes are often very high and students are frequently presented with situations where there’s no real “right” answer.
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