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)

[the_merriest]

"I've heard that, too," she nodded. "I guess it makes sense. I mean, this world's a big ball, isn't it?"

She didn't think Spira was. Pretty sure Spira was flat and all.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

"Yes," Warren agreed. "The world is around. You might also be surprised to learn that the sky is blue, and grass is, in fact, green."

He'd found someone who managed to make Captain Stronghold look intelligent.

This was earth-shattering, really.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[the_merriest]

That earned him an enormous glare.

"I'm not from this world," she announced. "Excuse me for not being all up on the local geography. I was right, wasn't I?"

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

"So was I," Warren noted. Because grass totally was green, and he could return a glare with the best of them. "Why did you come over here, anyhow?"

Please, please please, not to be social. Please.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[the_merriest]

"Because you looked grumpy, and people like that usually need hugs," she said.

This would certainly help his day.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

He was going to stare at her. Stare at her like perhaps she'd grown another head on her shoulders, and it had grown legs and jumped off and started to tap-dance on the table.

...

"I don't do hugs," he informed her. Because he figured that she might want to know this.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[the_merriest]

"Awwwwwww," Rikku said, grinning. It was a very evil sort of grin. "Someone hasn't been hugged in ages."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

For some reason, Warren didn't like the look of that grin in the least.

"That might be because nobody is stupid enough to try."

And Warren was a crankypants.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[the_merriest]

"How stupid am I again?" Rikku asked, bouncing up and trying her very best confused face. "I mean. I wasn't really clear on the whole, grass-being-green, thing. It is green, right? I mean, I'm clearly pretty darn stupid."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

"Clearly," Warren replied. Dryly. He was hoping that attempting to drill a hole through her skull with his eyes would work. But that, sadly, wasn't his superpower at all. "Don't do it. Just don't."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[the_merriest]

"Becauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse," Rikku said, "you asked nicely? And you said pretty-please? And you said it all nice and sweet, like someone who's not a grumpybutt?"

She was so going to get decked.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

"I'm not going to say 'please,'" Warren practically snarled.

She was going to get decked. He was going to enjoy decking her. Really.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[the_merriest]

"You aren't?" Rikku said, eyes wide. "You mean ... you want to be hugged? I guess ... mayyyyyyybe ... I could ... fiiiiiiiiind someone ..."

She was possibly walking around the picnic table. Maybe. Theoretically.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

Warren was not going to move. Warren was going to stay firmly planted in his seat, damn it, because he was here first and this was his spot and he hated everything. Did she know that? He did. Especially her, right now.

"Don't. You. Dare."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[the_merriest]

She did. She really, really did.

"That didn't sound like please," she said, innocently. Standing perfectly still. Waiting.

She could wait.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

"You're not going to hug me," he informed her, very matter-of-fact-like. Because if she did, he'd light her hair on fire and then throw her in the ocean.

He'd do it, dammit.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[the_merriest]

"I think I might," she said, pretending to think it over. "I've been saying I would for ages, and I'm halfway over here already. I mean, it seems to me like I'm going to."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

"No," Warren replied, weighing the pros and cons of lighting his entire body on fire for a moment. On the one hand, he'd be distinctly not-huggable. On the other hand, he'd be breaking some pretty major rules, there.

"No, you're not."

If she got any closer, he'd just lob a flaming cookie at her, instead. Yeah.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[the_merriest]

Rikku sighed. "You're seriously no fun. I mean, you realize that, right? Besides, maybe I want a hug. Maybe I've just been pestering people all picnic long because I haven't been hugged in a long time, and this whole thing about you is an enormous cover. And here you are, rejecting me."

Very, very sad eyes, looking at the ground. "I guess ... I can ... go without. Today."

There were levels, to her evilness.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

"Good," Warren grunted. "Go without."

What? He was supposed to sympathize, here? That was simply asking too much.

Even if he was making a point not to look at the sad eyes thing. It might have been a breaking point, there.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[the_merriest]

"It's ... not like I haven't before," she offered, bravely. "Some days you just ... can't find anyone to hug, can you?"

This was a sad little weak smile.

The levels to her evilness were, perhaps, secret subterranean depths. Caverns.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

"Some days, you don't bother trying," Warren clarified, dryly. Warily. "Somehow, I've managed to survive this long without a daily supply of hugs."

It had been difficult, but dangit, he'd managed.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[the_merriest]

"Don't you ever ... miss them?" Rikku sighed. She was a master of sighs. "I mean. I do. I suuuuuuure do."

It had possibly been entire hours, for her. If she hadn't tackleglomped anybody at the actual picnic. Which was highly unlikely, for a whole picnic to go by without any tackleglompings.

Shhhh. Do not derail from the evil.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

Warren gave Rikku a look.

It was a pretty flat look.

"There's nothing to miss," he informed her. And really, it was true. His mother was hung up over her work and his father, and his father was locked away for a couple of lifetimes. Hugs hadn't really been a priority in the household of Baron Battle and family.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[the_merriest]

"Okay," Rikku said, straightening up cheerfully and walking over to him. "That's it. You're getting hugged, and that's final."

She was certainly reaching out with that intention. It wasn't necessarily final.