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

[bigdamnprincipal]

Yes, there were more tables and chairs here. No, they were not allowed to be used for making a bonfire. Eat something hot if you're still weirdly cold.

[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 - 2.0)

[intraspective]

"Alice!" Ino greeted cheerfully. "Hi!"

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"Ino," Alice beamed, dropping her a very abbreviated curtsy. "Good to see you, again. How have you been?"

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[intraspective]

That got another grin, and a little twirl. "New students day! Best day of the semester!" Well, if you were Ino anyway. "How 'bout you?"

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"Oh, very nice," she laughed. "I'm well, thank you. Experiencing this picnic from the opposite side, as it were."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[intraspective]

"It's a lot more fun on this side of things," she admitted. "Because then you know what you're talking about and they blink all confusedly at you."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I get that on a somewhat regular basis, as it is," Alice confessed. "I get far less of it on this island than previously, I must admit. My strangeness is less strange here, I suppose."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[intraspective]

"Oh?" Ino tilted her head. "Why? I mean, I don't think I've had any blinking at you..."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"I'm a bit ... strange," she admitted, smiling a little. It didn't really disturb her, any more. "I talk in nonsense loops and I suppose the history of madness puts some off, as well. And the violence, or I suppose the enjoyment of it. You were right, about people with their ethics, and how they feel theirs should apply to you. I very much appreciate the warning."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[intraspective]

"You're welcome then," she said with a slight shrug. "I know I would've liked a warning 'bout it when I came here, you know? It's sorta important, really."

Then another grin.

"And strange? I can handle strange. Madness... well, what can you do? It's, yeah, okay, it's a bit of a big deal? But it's not... the end all and be all of... talking to someone."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"I'm not mad any longer," Alice said calmly. "I was, for a rather long time, but I'm better now. Perhaps I'm still strange, but not mad. Being mad was thoroughly unpleasant, I don't recommend it at all. And I was grateful for the warning. I told a few individuals that I didn't quite see what business it was of theirs, and they appeared to grasp the hint."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[intraspective]

"I'll try not to go mad," she said seriously, since it seemed to matter. "Who'd you tell? If you don't mind me asking, I mean."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"Sokka?" she said, trying to remember if that was the right name. "A boy with a ponytail, wearing a lot of blue, who seemed to think that I was enjoying vaporizing cows more than was proper. Apparently using a blaster is a solemn sort of recreation."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[intraspective]

"...he was upset 'cause you were vapourizing the fake cows that the teacher had told us shoot?"

Um.

"Okay, yeah. That's, uh, none of his business really."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"It truly wasn't," Alice said with a bit of a huff. "Clearly, it's only proper to kill what he termed 'bad guys' because they are 'bad guys,' and not because one likes to shoot a fun sort of blaster. I wasn't aware that the two states were mutually exclusive."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[intraspective]

"Ugh," she said, wrinkling her nose. "That makes about as much sense as what we had to do in Bomb class. I got a detention because I complained when Tyler-sensei told us to send an evacuation order into the fake-enemy stronghold before taking the building out. Who sends an evac order out to the enemy, seriously? I mean, really now, killing people is, you know, always the same? It doesn't matter if they're good people or 'bad guys' when it comes to death."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"If you sent an evac order," Alice frowned, trying to understand, "wouldn't the people that you're trying to bomb escape?"

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[intraspective]

"Exactly my point," Ino said, still disgruntled about it. "But apparently, that's... what he wanted us to do."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"I'm afraid I don't see the point, really," Alice said. "It seems like a waste of a bomb, if you're going to tell everyone to get out of the way."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[intraspective]

"Yeah, I uh... that'd be where the detention came in from," Ino said. "Because, really, I'd rather things make sense when they're like that, you know?"

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"You received detention?" Alice asked. "That seems a bit unfair. Have you gone? I've heard it mentioned, now and again, but I haven't been assigned one yet."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[intraspective]

"I, yeah, already had it," she wrinkled her nose. "Most boring detention yet, really. Just sitting in a library and thinking 'bout why we were wrong."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

Alice giggled. "I think I would have thought harder about how violently I disagreed with all of them."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[intraspective]

That got a laugh. "Yeah, that's... about what happened. And, you know, talking to the others in detention. I totally didn't learn a lesson or anything."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"Were you all ruing your unfair punishments?" Alice grinned. "Plotting revenge?"

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[intraspective]

"Hoping for excitement, more like," Ino admitted. "Normally detention involves monsters, or activities. Not just... sitting 'round and thinking. But yeah, most of us? Didn't agree with the punishments. Three of them were in there 'cause they refused to crash their planes during a simulation. I, uh, can't blame them for not crashing. That's... like... fake-suicide. That's not something teachers should be asking people to do, you know?"