Fandom High Graduation Ceremony, Class of 2011, Saturday Early Evening - Part One!

[prof_of_cunning]

The ceremony was once again held at sunset for the benefit of the graduates’ less diurnal guests, but the lawn was well-lit with twinkling blue and gold lights draped across bleachers, stage, surrounding trees and specially-assembled trellises, giving the overall effect of a peaceful fairy grove. (Not, say, Las Vegas. Tasteful twinkling lights.)

The staff having taken note of every previous graduation including the most recent, the lights had been purchased from Acme Decorations Studio with a money-back No Coming To Life And Terrorizing Your Party Guests Guarantee... and there was a rather large cache of weapons stashed in a trunk behind the podium. The chance that it would rain toys that could later be used for self-defense was slightly less than the chance that there would be a need for self-defense.

No one could say Fandom High wasn’t a learning experience.

[Open and welcome Class of 2011! Welcome | The Procession | Speeches | Diplomas | OOC]

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Re: Welcome!

[longislandiceme]

"She's sticking around as long as the school will let her," Bobby told Rinoa. "I'm thinking of maybe hiding her under my bed after that..."

Re: Welcome!

[angelo_wings]

"We could get her a suite at the hotel," she decided. "Find her a job in town? Or is there vampire stuff she needs to get back to? I keep feeling like Squall and I need to be going back, but the world-saving bit is over. I hope."

Re: Welcome!

[longislandiceme]

"Mostly just college," Bobby said. "She wants to go, which- considering that when we first met, she was convinced she couldn't, I'm not about to hold her back from that, not really. I get that, though, about the feeling like maybe you should be there and not here? I usually try and arrange my classes so there's time for me to go home for a few days if I have to," he admitted.

Re: Welcome!

[angelo_wings]

"Quistis wants Squall to go back," Rinoa admitted, shaking her head. "He was supposed to be in charge of Garden -- the school? But he left it to her, and she keeps ... hoping he'll take it back again."

Re: Welcome!

[longislandiceme]

"In charge of a school, when he hasn't even graduated this one?" said the guy who still technically had legal guardianship over a bunch of kids, some of whom were barely younger than he was.

Re: Welcome!

[angelo_wings]

"He graduated from there already," she said easily. "We just came here for cover. You can graduate as a SeeD at, like, fifteen, I think. So long as you pass the exam. And Cid just up and left everything to him last year, when things got crazy. I kind of don't understand why."

Nobody did. There was an entire hierarchy in place, and Cid had thrown it out the window in order to put Squall in charge of things.

Of course, thanks to some screwy timelines, Cid had known that Squall was going to save the world, and had thought he could use the on-the-job training, but he hadn't exactly shared that with anybody else.

Re: Welcome!

[longislandiceme]

"Weird," Bobby said, shaking his head. "She can't, like, make him come back if he doesn't want to go back to stay just yet, right?" he had to check.

Re: Welcome!

[angelo_wings]

"No, she can't," Rinoa said, flushing slightly with a smile. "He's my Knight. That kind of takes priority over anything else. Which is ... nice for me."