Young padawan Gilliam learned the
jedi mind trick at the astonishing age of six. However, he’d not learned to
identify the situations that called for its use, and those that did not.
His
favorite part of the mind trick was the gentle hand wave. Virtually every jedi
used the same gesture, though the motion served no purpose. Eye contact and
voice timbre were what counted. Regardless, the hand motion was so common that
the gesture alone was enough to convey meaning.
For
example,
Jedi
1: “How did you manage to get such a deal on those robes?”
Jedi
2 gives only a small wave in response. Jedi 1 understands that the poor robe
merchant had been hornswoggled.
Standing
in line at the jedi academy’s cafeteria, Gilliam would address the female lunch
jedi. “I shall have the—” here he’d pause, finishing with a grand wave, “lasagna.”
Gilliam: serious, assertive, mind trick.
The
lunch lady, caught off guard, (she never imagined the jedi mind trick to have
any relevance in the buffet line), would suddenly look vacant. She’d use her
light-spatula to place a helping of lasagna on Gilliam’s plate, before suddenly
snapping out of it. Indignation! “This is the lunch line! You can already have
whatever you want! Now cut that out, for Han’s sake.”
“This
smells delicious,” Gilliam would say, with another wave.
“Yes,
the lasagna smells…Agh! Gilliam!”
