Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part II

[bigdamnprincipal]

Oh look, there were tables and chairs over here too, away from all the informational stuff. Enjoy the food!

[WAIT FOR THE OCD PLEASE. OCD IS UP. This is the FIRST post for general mingling. Please use this post first, if your browser can handle the comment load. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are here and there is more room for mingling here.]

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Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

And now the cute bouncy blonde girl was even laughing at something he'd said. A lot.

This was just surreal. This was possibly more surreal than Summer's whole Oh, yeah, you're in the future there, big boy bit.

And Cal had no idea how to respond to something like this, so all he gave was a small, thoughtful sounding, "Huh."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[intraspective]

She grinned at him again, still giggling. "You'll do fine," Ino said confidently, "I know it."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"Everyone keeps telling me that," Cal observed, a bit warily because, God. Giggling. He hoped that it didn't turn out that he was just acting like a complete idiot and she had actually been laughing at him the whole time. "It makes me worried about where I'd be if that wasn't the case..."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[intraspective]

She grinned. And was totally not laughing at him. Seriously. "Just keep an open mind 'bout Fandom and you'll be good," Ino said, "that's the most important thing here. Just go with it."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"I can...definitely keep an open mind about things," Cal said with a nod. "Definitely."

He kind of...had to.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[intraspective]

"Good," she beamed, "and if you're lucky your first bit of Fandom weird'll be something like invading multi-coloured sheep. Those were cute."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

And, yeah, Cal was thinking that Ino definitely seemed the type of person to find multi-colored sheep to be cute.

"Multi-colored sheep, huh?"

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[intraspective]

"They were wee and tiny," she said, holding up her hands to demonstrate their size, "I had a blue one that kept trying to eat my hair and had to stop Kabuto from feeding a bunch to his snake."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Wee tiny sheep that at things and could be eaten.

...Interesting.

"And Kabuto is?"

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[intraspective]

"My kinda sorta boyfriend," Ino grinned, "it's a bit complicated 'cause he's not a people person at all, but we get along well enough. He just graduated, but is staying around for a while." A beat. "He likes to mess with people's heads."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Cal's lips pressed together a bit at that description. "Sounds like a nice guy."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[intraspective]

"Oh," she said with a shrug, "he's not. Not at all, though he is polite to people."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"Well, manners are important," Cal deadpanned, although very congenially. Very polite.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[intraspective]

"You're mocking me, aren't you?" Ino wrinkled her nose cheerfully at him. "Whatever. I like him anyway."

For some crazy reason.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"Hey, I don't know the guy and I don't really know you, either," Cal held up his hands, "so I may mock, but I don't make any judgments. That's not my style."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[intraspective]

She shrugged a bit. "Sorry," Ino said off-handedly, "I'm just used to people giving me a hard time for liking him."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"Well," Cal said, thoughtfully, "I'll meet him," he unfurled a finger, counting of his list as he went, "and then I'll give you a hard time for liking him, and then I'll get you some wee tiny sheep that will eat your hair."

See? Cal paid attention.

He was also thinking that whoever supplied the pot at this school was a ridiculously rich man. Or woman.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[intraspective]

Ino totally grinned at him. "We've also had wee tiny knights in armour, and multi-coloured bunnies made of dust." Ino? Was probably not helping to dispel Cal's thoughts about the pot. "So it doesn't have to be sheep. Just wee and tiny and invading."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Cal listed off on his fingers again. "Wee. Tiny. Invading. I think I can remember that."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[intraspective]

"It's terribly important," she assured him, "and that's just the tip of the iceberg of weird here. You know, considering the whole Greece thing right now."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"Not to mention the future thing," Cal submitted, although it was Summer who told him about that, and he thought Summer was smoking some whacky tobaccy too. "The Greece thing works out good for me, since I am Greek."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[intraspective]

"You're not a tour guide though, which is sad," Ino said, laughing, "'cause Lana and I are totally making a list of what traits we like in all the Greek tour guides 'round here. And this is totally a different world entirely from the one I come from so I don't have any idea about the timelines here."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"What year did Summer say it was? 2008, I think? I'm really disappointed there's no nuclear winter. All the books and movies said there'd by nuclear winter by now..."

Because, were there nuclear winter, then everyone might turn out to be effected by all the atomic radiation, and the rest of the world could be little genetically mutated freaks like himself.

There was a slight pause, with Cal eying Ino a little.

"...It's sad I'm not a tour guide?" he asked. "You think I'd make a good one?"

He thought he'd make a terrible one, but it would be interesting to see what kind of person he was projecting himself to be right now.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[intraspective]

...

...

"What's a nuclear winter?" Ino asked, tilting her head at him. "And I don't know, it's just that the only Greeks I've met before are tour guides." A beat. "Either that or serving me food."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"Well, if you're in a room long enough with any Greek, they're gonna be likely to serve you food," Cal commented with a slight grin. "We're very big on our food. Unfortunately, my cooking is only mediocre. And, uh, nuclear winter's pretty much just a big, fat game over. Life stops being able to be maintained on the planet because of all the nuclear energy and atomic power, and everything either dies or becomes all distorted and stuff. Probably would never happen, just a bunch of sci-fi stuff, really...I knew a guy who was really into all that."