Explain to me about Professional Skills

[Prince Charon]

Originally Posted by cptbutton

My first thought was Sousuke Sagara from Full Metal Panic!. He has been a soldier since he was eight and has no experience of civilian social life. So of course they assign him to go undercover as an Ordinary High School Student. Hilarity ensues.

The alternative was the delicate and clumsy (but brilliant) Captain trying to play bodyguard, which would really not have worked. They had a limited number of personnel who could fit in at the school.

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Originally Posted by Prince Charon

The alternative was the delicate and clumsy (but brilliant) Captain trying to play bodyguard, which would really not have worked. They had a limited number of personnel who could fit in at the school.

Yes, but (a) they set up their cast of characters to create precisely that situation ("If you buy the premise, you buy the bit," as Bill Gresham told Robert Heinlein) and (b) IT'S FUNNY!