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

[bigdamnprincipal]

Despite the fact that they were still in Antarctica, the weather for the picnic was beautiful. It was sunny, warm, and clear enough to see many of the icebergs circling the island from the school's location. If people were still cold, there was more warm food than usual out on the tables, and hot drinks were being kept well-stocked.

Along with the tables and chairs near the food, there was a table of nametags, and two signs: one listing the Big Sibling/Little Sibling pairings, and one listing rooms and roommates for the new students.

It was time for the picnic to begin!

[OCD is up! This is part one of the picnic, specifically for meeting siblings, roommates, and teachers. The rest of the picnic is happening here and here, in an effort to keep browsers from breaking for as long as possible.]

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Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[shiniernyours.livejournal.com]

"What this? Yeah." Bender screwed his arm back in. Time to get the lay of the land. "What do you meatbags do for fun around here?"

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

"...m-meatbags...?"

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[shiniernyours.livejournal.com]

Bender rolled his eyes. No, really, they swivelled. "Humans. Mutants. Lobster-creatures." He reached out poke her arm, and because maybe all 21st century humans were slow, clarified, "Not robots."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

...lobster creatures?

She glanced down at the poke. More confused. "T-There's a b-bowling alley, I hear? A-And a m-movie t-theater..."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[shiniernyours.livejournal.com]

"Any of those places sell beer?" Not that Bender was looking buy some, not exactly.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

"T-There's a bar in t-town," she said. "It's c-called Caritas, I t-think."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[shiniernyours.livejournal.com]

"You don't know?" Bender sounded shocked, then suspicious, "You're not one of those teetotallers, are you?"

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

"F-Father would disapprove," she said, trying to explain. "A-And t-there's too m-many people there."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[shiniernyours.livejournal.com]

"Eh, he's not here is he?" Bender shrugged. "And you don't need people to drink. Some of my happiest memories are just me and a bottle."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

"H-His opinion s-still matters," Hinata said quietly. "A-And I t-think that I'd r-rather not."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[shiniernyours.livejournal.com]

"Only if you're dumb enough to get caught," muttered Bender, as he rummaged inside his torso, pulling out and then dropping the empty bottle in disgust. "If you don't drink," Bender sounded disbelieving of that, "Then what do you do?"

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

"I r-read," she said slowly. "I s-study, I t-train... and I w-work on my c-confidence."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[shiniernyours.livejournal.com]

"That looks like it's working," Bender said, meaning the opposite.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

"Thank you," she said with calm dignity, reminding herself what Reno had told her. "Is t-there anything e-else I c-can do for you?"

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[shiniernyours.livejournal.com]

"Let me take you out for a drink," Bender was a semi-professional bad influence, and he had to do something for entertainment.

"There can even be alcohol-free beer." For her. Well, no, he probably didn't even mean that.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

There was no way to gracefully bow out of that. Hinata wished she'd been a bit more specific.

"I s-suppose o-one drink wouldn't b-be so bad," she said. "B-But only o-one."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[shiniernyours.livejournal.com]

"Sure. One." After all one drink could be a big one, and paying for things wasn't a concept Bender embraced when he had the money.

"I guess I'll see you around."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

"I w-will," she promised him.