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

[bigdamnprincipal]

Look! More tables and chairs and food! It was like a miracle!

[WAIT FOR THE OCD PLEASE. OCD IS UP. This is the SECOND post for general mingling. Use this post if your browser can't handle the comment load of the first mingling post. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are here.]

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Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[intraspective]

"I totally like it here," Ino assured her, "and most everyone's really nice." A beat. "And I don't know if Virginia really is all that forward or if we're just special," she admitted, "we get all sorts here."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"Everyone's seemed very nice so far," Alice smiled. "And I suppose it isn't Virginia at all, right now, but Greece. Still. Things are rather more modest in Oxford, or at least they were last I noticed."

Perhaps a lot had changed in eight years.

"I don't mind the oddities, they make me feel rather at home. I just hope no-one is enforcing the dress code."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[intraspective]

"Well," Ino said thoughtfully, "I don't think we've got one. It'd be a bit hard really, all things considered."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"I suppose I meant the lack thereof," Alice confessed. "So long as no one cares that I'm not about to run around starkers, then I'll do fine with everyone else dressed as they are."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[intraspective]

She grinned. "Oh, good. And you'll, I hope, appreciate the shirtlessness of the guys?"

Ino definitely appreciated that.

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

Alice flushed a darker red. "I suppose ... with such artistic surroundings, it would be a shame not to ... appreciate the view."

Some very Victorian part of her was tsking in disapproval.

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[intraspective]

Her smiled widened. "No one minds if you look," she said reassuringly.

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"Well, I'm certain the Queen would disapprove, but she's very old and it's none of her business," Alice laughed. Not quite realizing Victoria had been dead for a very, very long time.

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[intraspective]

...

...

"Queen?" Ino asked.

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"English," she explained, gesturing vaguely to herself. "Her Majesty the Queen likes to say rather a lot on the subject of decorum and proper morality, but I've left her island for this one and she's only a figurehead anyway, so it's not her concern at all."

Alice's mind worked in strange roundabout ways.

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[intraspective]

"Right," Ino said, pretending she understood that, "well, then, yeah. Totally not her concern."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"Where is it you're from?" Alice said, remembering her manners at long last. "I'm Alice Liddell. Oxford, England. This planet, which it seems I should start specifying, as many aren't from this planet at all."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[intraspective]

"I'm one of those not from around here at all," she admitted with a laugh. "Yamanaka Ino, Ino's my first name, and I'm from Konohagakure in the Fire Country."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"Kono-ga ..." Alice squinted. "No, I didn't get that, sorry. Ino I did, very nice to meet you, and Alice is my first name. Which you probably gathered from explaining yours was second-first. I believe some Asian countries do that as well."

She hesitated before going on. "Does the ... Fire Country mean there's ... a lot of fire, there? Or is it a creative name, the way Turkey doesn't have a number of birds in it?"

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[intraspective]

"We call it Konoha, for short," she smiled, "and yeah, the closest thing my world is to this one would be Feudal Japan but with radio and such."

"Mm?" Ino blinked, then laughed. "Ah, no, no! We're the Fire Country because it's hot, and we've got a lot of trees, see? And my village's name translates to 'Village Hidden in the Leaves'."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"Someone earlier was telling me about radio," Alice said cheerfully, "though I've never been to Japan. And that's a lovely name. I beg your pardon, I thought perhaps there was some ... special reverence to fire, or a great abundance of it."

Alice and fire ... didn't get on, exactly.

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[intraspective]

"Well," she said, "I wouldn't call it a special reverence to fire, but we do follow the 'Will of Fire'. Which is, pretty much, a belief that as long as we don't give up then we'll always continue on no matter what."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"Fire is certainly ... determined," she said, nodding. Hungry, she would have said. Insistent. Consuming. She shook her head, trying to clear those thoughts from her mind. "Does that help? Your beliefs, I mean, does it keep you from giving up."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[intraspective]

"I don't give up. Ever," Ino said grinning. "That's not my ninja way."

Which, really, answered that question.

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"You're a ninja?" Alice asked. "I rather thought those were gentlemen clad in black. Is the fiction far from the reality?"

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[intraspective]

"Ninja born and raised," she shook her head, "and that description sounds like our ANBU, they handle the worst of it. Most the rest of us wear colour and everything."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"Is it as dangerous as I've heard?" she smiled. "Or is that a glamorisation as well?"

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[intraspective]

"Oh no," she said, smiling but her eyes were suddenly serious, "it's dangerous."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

Alice hesitated before lowering her voice. "Is it exciting?"

She'd had no formal training, but the blade gleaming in her hand ... how could it not be?

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008)

[intraspective]

Ino leaned forward and said just one word.

"Always."