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)

[peace_n_war]

Warren quirked an eyebrow and grunted. Again. Clearly he was a master of conversation.

"Not weird yet," he stated. "My last school was on a flying island that constantly moved, and a member of the student body turned all the faculty into babies in an attempt to rule the world."

See, now he was sharing. It was in an attempt to convey how thoroughly unimpressed he was, so it was entirely possible that he wasn't aware that he was now partaking in what most people commonly knew as 'small talk.'

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"Huh." Yeah, that was pretty weird. Even for Teddy. "Alternate timelines?"

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

"What?" Warren's quirked eyebrow was getting a bit of a workout, here. "What about them?"

Maybe one of the kids could puncture the fabric of space and time. Maybe the freaky mad science teacher had come up with a machine that could do it. But Warren himself had never had experience with them, so he had never really bothered to learn about them, himself.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"Where did you go to school?" Teddy finally asked. "It sounds like a SHIELD helicarrier or something."

Or maybe the Initiative.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

"A what?" Warren made a face while he tried to puzzle that one out. "I went to school at-"

...

Wait. Not supposed to talk about that.

"A school that happened to fly. Nothing special about it at all."

Really. See, he was totally convincing.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy just gave him a disbelieving look. "Are there super heroes where you're from?"

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

Warren was going to return the disbelieving look.

"No?"

That right there? Was a no that clearly said, 'Yes, and I'm doing a terrible job covering this fact up.'

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

And now the fanboy inside Teddy was just bouncing with glee.

He might have done a little on the outside too.

"You don't have to worry about that here. Everyone is really cool about the whole... super powers thing."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

"I suppose they would have to be." Warren considered for a moment. His options were to continue sitting at the loner table with company, which really defeated the purpose, or to give in and just be social, damn it. So he lit his hand on fire. "Superpowers aren't really unheard of in my last school."

Possibly because it was a school for children with super powers. That usually had something to do with it.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Which was just so many levels of awesome if you asked Teddy.

"Cool! So you're like Johnny Storm," Teddy said, looking around. "He's from where I'm from, only... not. The one I know is older and blonder. Here, um, less so."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

"Never heard of him," Warren said, letting his hand go back to normal and looking around to make sure there wasn't anyone else coming by to start a conversation. "I'm Warren Peace."

There was a moment's pause.

"I take it you meant that alternate timelines are a normal thing around here, when you suggested them?"

[I have to run off to work, now. It's been a pleasure! SP, if you'd like?]

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"Teddy Altman." He grinned and nodded. "Here, back home. You get used to them."

[[SP, is love]]

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

"I'm sure you do," Warren replied with a shrug. "After going to my last school, nothing really seems strange anymore."

This was Fandom. Something would strike Warren as strange sooner or later.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Probably the weetiny things that popped up from time to time.

"And the classes are good about these kinda things too," Teddy added. "There's one on blowing things up this time."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

"Blowing things up?" Warren had to think that one over. "This place doesn't seem very different from my old school at all," he decided. "Are there many students here with powers?"

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"I can shape-shift! And have super strength." That wasn't meant to come out so... boasty.

He ducked his head faintly. "I know a girl who can use water as a weapon. And there's Johnny who's like you. And there's a few ninjas, I think."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

"Being a ninja is a superpower?" This was news to Warren. But upon further consideration, he decided that it had to be at least more super than turning into a guinea pig or a puddle or glowing, anyhow. "I suppose it could be."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"...it seems pretty cool," Teddy said with a shrug.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

Warren shrugged, too.

"It probably is. There weren't any ninjas at my last school, though. Guess there's going to be plenty here that I haven't seen before, too."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"Well, they are ninjas." And with that, it was pretty clear how much of a dork Teddy really was.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

Warren was going to have to stare for a moment, there.

Yeah. Yeah, Teddy was a pretty huge dork.

"Any classes that are worth taking besides the one on blowing up things?"

Warren really didn't need to take a course in order to be able to smite things in a ball of flaming death, after all.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"I'm taking one on traveling the galaxy," Teddy replied, trying to remember any others that looked interesting.

"There's one on fashion, you'll probably want to avoid. The teacher is, well... insane."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

"Aren't most teachers?"

Warren's experience with the faculty at his last school had given him some pretty solid notions that adults in general were... kind of nuts.

Really, he wasn't far from the truth.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"Insane in the tried to attack me and my friends back home kind of way," Teddy replied, making a face. "And calling me nubile on the radio."

Gross. Just so many levels of gross.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

Oh.

"The best I have is the gym teacher who drops cars on students to see if they've got super strength," Warren mused.