ext_250630 ([identity profile] mouthy-merc.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2011-05-07 05:53 am

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.]

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Summer 2011)

[identity profile] onapalebicycle.livejournal.com 2011-05-07 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't think anybody ... discriminates?" she said, haphazardly. "And I didn't really notice anyone in that book except the freaky dude with all the eyes."

He kind of stood out.

"It's gonna get weirder," she explained. "This place ... like, some days it'll rain dessert toppings, or you'll wake up the wrong gender, and it just happens and nobody seems all that concerned about it."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Summer 2011)

[identity profile] answer2bheard.livejournal.com 2011-05-07 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"Uh. What."

HE LIKED HIS GENDER JUST THE WAY IT WAS, GEORGE.
Edited 2011-05-07 23:40 (UTC)

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Summer 2011)

[identity profile] onapalebicycle.livejournal.com 2011-05-08 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
"It's all temporary," she said, shrugging. "You wait a day or two and it goes back to normal. I wasn't, like, originally a guy and stuck like this or anything."

George was remarkably blase about gender-switching, and being an eight-year-old. Being dead made her hard to shock.

Or maybe it was all the apathy.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Summer 2011)

[identity profile] answer2bheard.livejournal.com 2011-05-08 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
"That's good to know. I think."

Now he was going to be up awake at night for weeks for fear that he'd wake up the next day with girl parts. Just saying.

"That's still kind of... uh... weird, though."

A lot weird.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Summer 2011)

[identity profile] onapalebicycle.livejournal.com 2011-05-08 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, that's what I've been trying to tell you," George said, helpfully. "This place is fucking weird. You get used to it."

George already mentioned she was bad at being a sibling, right?

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Summer 2011)

[identity profile] answer2bheard.livejournal.com 2011-05-08 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
But she was the only sibling Jim had ever had! It wasn't like he knew the difference, here!

"I guess so, huh?" Huh. "Man. Mom won't believe this if I write home about it."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Summer 2011)

[identity profile] onapalebicycle.livejournal.com 2011-05-08 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
Jim should talk to Reggie some time. They could compare notes.

"Probably not," she agreed. "So is there ... I dunno. Specific stuff you wanna know? Or ... something?"

Totally big sis of the year.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Summer 2011)

[identity profile] answer2bheard.livejournal.com 2011-05-08 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
"I... have no idea," Jim admitted. "I've already had someone ask me if Montressor is in Europe," which would apparently become a trend for the day, "and we've established that I kind of have no idea what people do to entertain themselves around here. I guess maybe just giving me a rundown of where things are in town would help, but even if you don't, I can kind of just see what I can see by wandering around on my own, anyhow. It isn't like this island is huge, really."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Summer 2011)

[identity profile] onapalebicycle.livejournal.com 2011-05-08 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
"I've never been to Europe," George said. Which was totally going to be helpful, right there. "People ... I dunno. Watch TV. Join clubs and hang out. You can usually just ... go to a common room and there will be people there just ... talking if you're ... into that."

Socialization wasn't George's ... thing.

"There's a bar in town that doesn't card," she said. "And a music shop that has some great stuff."

She was trying.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Summer 2011)

[identity profile] answer2bheard.livejournal.com 2011-05-08 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
"A bar, huh?" That could not possibly end well. "And they really don't care how old you are if you stop by there?"

His mother would freak.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Summer 2011)

[identity profile] onapalebicycle.livejournal.com 2011-05-08 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Not that I've seen," she said cheerfully. "I mean, they might not serve you if you were, like, ten? But I've gotten hammered there."

She remembered to add, "The Caritas one. The other one, the vampire one, cards. I kind of want to go in there, anyway, just to see what's up with all the vampires."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling (Summer 2011)

[identity profile] answer2bheard.livejournal.com 2011-05-08 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, Caritas it is, then."

Not because he knew what a vampire was. He kind of didn't. But his ID stated as plain as day that he was only fifteen, and so he'd have a tough time of it in bar number two, there.