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

[bigdamnprincipal]

Behold! More tables and chairs, away from all the informational stuff! Enjoy the food!

[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 - 2.0)

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Always happy to receive pettings, Prince Oscar Pedro's purring increased to a continuous motor hum.

"Aw, you've met Ino?" Because, yes, Chad, that was the important part of what Ichigo said. "She's one of my fake little sisters."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[first-guardian.livejournal.com]

"The big sibling thing?" Ichigo glanced up at Chad for a second.

Okay, the cat was friendly. It was still ugly, though, but it couldn't help that. "I haven't met mine yet. Some guy named Jack Burton?"

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

"I'm not sure I know him," Chad admitted, a mite sadly because he sometimes felt bad not knowing people around here. Prince Oscar Pedro, meanwhile, nuzzled up into Ichigo's hand a little more, eagerly wanting more pets and perhaps even ear scritches. "But, yeah, the sibling program. She's actually the little sister of my little brother, but that makes her my little sister by connection. I've got a lot of 'em. Little siblings here."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[first-guardian.livejournal.com]

Ichigo couldn't quite help but think of Shibata and it didn't surprise him at all to hear Chad was collecting little siblings. He was the right guy to protect them too.

He absently scratched Oscar Pedro's ear as the thought brought many others along with it. He didn't quite think this was the place to ask Chad about hollows however.

"I think I prefer being the big sibling myself," he said quietly. "So what's the school like? Beside weird?"

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that response didn't surprise Chad at all either. He grinned a little, remembering Ichigo's little sisters. More that he had them than what they looked like; he couldn't remember what they looked like and when he tried...

Chad grunted, the grin disappearing and the colour fading a bit from skin. Any attempts to picture Ichigo's sisters inevitably lead to images of a female version of Ichigo, which...was not pleasant. And were even more vivid with Ichigo standing right there.

"Good," he grunted weakly. "It's...good. Good school."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[first-guardian.livejournal.com]

The grunt caught his attention and Ichigo stopped petting Oscar Pedro. It was probably a good thing he couldn't read Chad's mind. "Are you alright?"

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

At least now Chad knew that there was a possibility that if they all turned into girls again, he might have someone just as ugly as he was. He shuddered a little, and then tried his best to move on. "Yeah," he grunted. "Fine."

"You'll like it here once you're used to it," he added. "A lot different than Japanese schools, but I like it."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[first-guardian.livejournal.com]

"I hope so. I hate to get stuck here and not like it," he glanced down at the cat again. "Ino said there aren't any uniforms. Did I mention that she's a ninja? One of her friends is an alien." His mind was still hurting just a little.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad rubbed the back of his neck again. "Uh, yeah," he said. "That stuff's really common around here, too."

He...decided he wouldn't mention that having an alien as a friend wasn't so odd at all when your boyfriend was an alien. He figured Ichigo was dealing with enough brain breakage than to have...that dropped on him. Especially when even the Ichigo from his timeline wasn't all that comfortable with it.

"It's the normal kids who are kind of the weird ones here..."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[first-guardian.livejournal.com]

So pretending to be normal would make him weird. He just couldn't win on the whole blending in department.

Which left him to wonder. "Do they know about..." he motioned towards Chad's arm.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad grunted affirmatively with his small nod. "Not everyone," he said. "But there's no point in keeping a thing like that secret around here. For a while, I wasn't even sure if I could still do it, because you..."

Because he was in Japan, and he remembered being told that his own powers had manifested partially because of...

"I can, though. Strong as ever."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[first-guardian.livejournal.com]

Ichigo could fill in the blanks and he frowned - more so. He couldn't imagine right now telling anyone new about being a shinigami. Not unless he had no choice.

And his curiosity won out as he finally did ask, "Have there been any hollows here?"

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad shook his head. "No Hollows."

He hesitated, though, mulling over whether or not he should say more. "No real ones anyway, but...two years, no Hollows. At one point, last summer, there was a Shinigami captain here, though." He figured Ichigo should know that much if he was asking about Hollows. He just figured it wasn't necessary for Ichigo to know which captain. "So it's not...entirely possible that we aren't going to run into things from...our version of the world."

Ichigo himself being here was a good point in that case.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[first-guardian.livejournal.com]

No hollows. His fingers closed around his badge and he felt something inside him drop. He didn't come here to escape his duties as a shinigami. It never occurred to him that there might be some place where there weren't any hollows.

What kind of world was this? He stared at the naked cat. No hollows meant he didn't have to fight. He wouldn't have to use his bankai and he wouldn't have to rely on that thing inside of him.

"I didn't know that," he said quietly. "You'd think there's hollows anywhere."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad shrugged. "We only knew they even existed not too long ago," he pointed out. Longer for him, of course, but...He shrugged again, and his hand absently went up toward his neck, perhaps in a similar tick to Ichigo's own with the badge, although he didn't notice that. He did notice...or remember, rather...that the coin wasn't there any more, and his dropped his hand back to his side.

"Different world," he said. "Similar, but different. Different rules of the afterlife, I guess. No Hollows, or Shinigami, or Soul Society, but you can still take a portal back to the world...our world...which does."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[first-guardian.livejournal.com]

He couldn't just turn back when he committed to something.

"You'd think the afterlife is the same everywhere," he followed the movement of Chad's hand and frowned a little, noticing something missing. "Where's your chain?"

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad had hoped Ichigo wouldn't have noticed that, but, well, of course he did. It was Ichigo.

But he wasn't exactly sure how to explain it to Ichigo, because the other boy definitely knew how important that chain had been.

"It's, uh....with someone else now. Someone important," he added after a moment, so Ichigo didn't get the wrong idea. "Lot can happen in two years, Ichigo."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[first-guardian.livejournal.com]

He'd watched Chad get beaten up for that coin, there was no way he was going to not notice.

"Yeah, it can." A lot had happened in just a month after all, but if Chad had given it away than that was his business. That really had to be an important person.

"As long as I don't need to go beat someone up," he added with a slight grin. Maybe it wasn't his Chad exactly, but a deal was a deal.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

That managed to get a bit of a grin out of Chad. "Not on my account, anyway," he said, knowing full well that it would be pretty shocking if Ichigo was able to go without a fight...or at least an argument...with anyone for too long.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[first-guardian.livejournal.com]

Ichigo wouldn't really have understood why Chad would think that. Possibly because he hadn't run ito Katchoo yet, but then he wouldn't think so after that either.

"Good, let's keep it that way. So... Anything else I should know?" He knew it was a dangerous question.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad grunted a little at that. "How much time you got?" he asked in a wry sort of rumble, and then shook his head, trying to think of what the really, really important stuff might be.

"Gremlins? Bad. Uh, when weird and tiny things start showing up, don't freak out." He imagined Ichigo probably would anyway. "It's actually really normal around here."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[first-guardian.livejournal.com]

That earned him a stare. A long stare. "I was in Virginia and now I'm in Antarctica. How's that normal?"

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad was okay with that stare. Chad actually kind of missed that stare.

"We were in Madagascar last week," he informed Ichigo. Oh so helpfully.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[first-guardian.livejournal.com]

Chad was lucky then as Ichigo didn't seem to be stopping any time soon. "Which makes this more normal how?"

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad shrugged again. "The moving's actually not normal," he admitted. "That just started this summer. But it's starting to be normal."