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

The weather was nice, the school wasn't currently under attack from forces not of this universe and they were still in Iceland. Oh yeah, it was day one of the rest of the newbies' lives.

Welcome to fandom, kiddos. Try not to trip over left over sombreros from Thursday!

[~~Please wait for~~ OCD is up! This is part one of the picnic, specifically for meeting siblings, roommates, and teachers. The rest of the picnic is happening here and here, in an effort to keep browsers from breaking for as long as possible.]

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"Faramir told me he was from a different world, but I wasn't sure if he was just pulling my leg," Angelica said. "Do they really have students from other planets here? And...mutants?"

"Mutants, students from other planets, students from a million years in the past or the future," Stephanie reeled off, ticking them off on her fingers. "Maybe sentient robots for all I know. We specialize in diversity here. And I mean really, really diverse."

"Really?" Angelica squeaked, especially blown away by the mention of the future or the past. "And...everyone's OK with that?" Even at the Academy she had to hide what she was from most of the other students, since only a few of them were mutants.

Stephanie tucked both hands behind her head and leaned back a bit, sort of a 'relaaaaaaaaax, it's all good' pose. "Yup. Well . . . not everyone's okay with it at first, but if you want to stick around in Fandom for a while, you get used to it. Like, I come from a world where we have some people with superpowers -- we call them metahumans -- and other people come from places where there aren't any superheroes at all."

Craziness. What kind of world was that?

"Oh, I won't be here long, just part of the summer," Angelica said. "While my old school is being renovated." However long it took for Emma to bring her home.

"M-metahumans?" she said. "Like mutants?"

"Kind of," Stephanie said after a moment, thinking of Iceman. "Well, in our world they don't always get their powers genetically, but it's the same kind of thing."

"They don't in mine, either," Angelica said softly. "I mean, some people are born with powers, and that's bad, but if they get powers from radiation or something, it's okay."

THE MARVELVERSE WAS NOT LOGICAL, OKAY?

Because that made so much sense when you called them something that implied a genetic --

MAKE MORE SENSE, MARVEL. GOD. (Pot, paging kettle . . .)

Stephanie shook her head. "Okaaaaaaaaaaay. I'm not that qualified to debate terminology but I think we're talking about more or less the same thing here. Anyway! That's good. You've got a leg up on some people here who've never even heard of that sort of stuff."

"Why are there people dressed like Vikings here?" Angelica had to ask. She could handle people with powers, so she had to get her brain broken in another way. "Is that the school mascot or something?"

~~WTF ICON. Let's pretend it wasn't that one.~~

"Thaaaaaaat's sort of a long story," Stephanie admitted, scratching at her ear. "Vikings in a spaceship invaded at graduation, and when we woke up the next day we were here instead of outside Lexington Park."

"But we took a bus here," Angelica protested. "I'm sure I didn't fall asleep." True, she'd been engrossed in a book, but it would've been a much longer trip to Iceland.

"And that I have no scientific explanation for," Stephanie admitted. "Which you'll find out applies pretty broadly to Fandom."

"How many mutants are here?" Angelica asked. "Do you know any? I met someone who said her big brother is a mutant."

Emma had made her promise to be careful about what she was and what she could do, but if everyone was so accepting here, it might be refreshing to be honest that she was a freak, too.

"I haven't counted, but I know of a few," Stephanie said carefully; she'd only met Iceman as Robin, so she couldn't admit to that. "There's definitely some here."

"D-do they have to stay in a separate building and take special classes?" Angelica asked nervously. She got to mingle with normal students in some classes, but then there were the training sessions with Ms. Frost and the other Hellions.

"What?" Stephanie looked horrified by that idea. "Ohmygod. No. That would be dumb. We all live in the same dorms -- they might room you with a guy, by the way, they did it to me -- and everything. Promise."

Yes, she had her suspicions about Angelica being a mutant already, in between her nervous questions and what Iceman had told her. See? Some of that detective training had stuck.

But Angelica was such a smooth liar, really!

"With a guy?" she said. "I think that would freak my dad out if he knew. But Faramir said Elphaba is a girl."

If she ahd to live with a boy she'd just die.

Hey, at least she wasn't her boss, who'd probably have been able to find at least five concrete biometric signs of proof that Angelica was lying or hiding something, on sight. It was just a vague guess.

"Well, we've ruled that out, then." Stephanie snapped her fingers. "That's good. Think of it as one less thing to get adjusted to!"

"What else is there to get adjusted to?" Angelica asked nervously, fidgeting with he gold bracelet on her wrist. "There's not like co-ed bathrooms, are there?"

"Nooooo, but sometimes -- so I've heard, I haven't lived through this one myself yet -- there are days when you wake up and find out you have to use the other bathroom," Stephanie said slowly, chewing on her lip. "Or a little kid again. That was fun."

"Use the other bathroom?" Angelica said, dropping her gaze to the lower half of her body, then back up to Stephanie. She started to laugh, not believing a word of it. "You're joking, right?"

"Scout's honor," Stephanie said, holding up a hand. Never mind that she'd never been a scout. "Fandom has its own unique sense of humor."

"But what do you do then?" Angelica said, trying not to look completely horrified. She couldn't imagine turning into a boy.

"Lie down and wait until it goes away," Stephanie said dryly, then relented. "Let's rephrase that: wait until it goes away, because it usually does the next day or by the end of the week, and feel better about the fact that there's a ninety-eight percent chance you're not the only one."

"But I don't know the first thing about being a boy," Angelica said. "Is there any way to make sure that kind of thing won't happen?"

The denial was strong in this one.

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