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

[bigdamnprincipal]

In order to give people a place to get away from the traffic jam of the buffet and information tables, most of the chairs and tables for guests were set up further out on the lawn, under a tall blue and gold tent. There was plenty of room for everyone to sit down and enjoy themselves, but it might not have all been dry. Did we mention being grateful that it was just water falling from the sky?

[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. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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Re: More General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[wwiii]

"I don't mind the rain. It's the looking like a big, soggy pigeon that I'm not a huge fan of," Warren replied, turning to Tony with a wry smile. "And the smelling like wet corn chips until I manage to dry out. That part's never really much fun, either."

Unless you liked wet corn chips, maybe.

Re: More General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"You know, I was wondering what that smell was," Tony joked.

Re: More General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[wwiii]

"Oh, thanks," Warren laughed. And, if Tony didn't duck, he was going to get a slightly soggy bunch of feathers to the back of the head. Lightly, at least. Kind of like the Warren equivalent to an affectionate shoulder-bump, without having to actually relocate so that his shoulder was anywhere near Tony's. "I think at least some of that has to be the new kids. On the grounds that they're new kids, and all."

New kids were stinky. It was very scientific.

Re: More General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

Which made it the weirdest bit of guy affection ever. Because Marvel was all about that.

"Hey!" Tony ran his hand over his head to make sure his poor, precious hair was fine. "You're just hoping for more people with wings."

Re: More General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[wwiii]

"Well, would you blame me? I'll take other people who can fly in a pinch, though. Wings are just a nice bonus feature."

Which nobody else had. So unfair.

Re: More General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"I could probably build mechanical wings," Tony replied after a moment.

Re: More General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[wwiii]

"And Karla has magical wingsuits," Warren replied, after a moment of thought, too. "They're not very flattering, though."

Bodystockings with wings. Oh, sexy.

Re: More General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"...that just sounds weird." MAGIC MADE HIM CRY.

Re: More General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[wwiii]

"More or less weird than wings made out of metal?"

Warren just had to check. Metal wings sounded dumb.

Re: More General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"More," Tony decided on. "I mean, at least mechanical wings would make sense."

Re: More General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[wwiii]

"Really? I mean, without rocket boosters or jet engines or whatever?"

He totally didn't see something like that actually getting off the ground. Figuratively or literally speaking, really.

Re: More General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"They could always be used for gliding on top of the thrust from the boot jets." He loved his boot jets. "Plus, they'd look pretty cool."

His version of a cape, maybe?

Re: More General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[wwiii]

"... They kind of would," Warren agreed, after a moment's thought.

Hey. They sounded stupid from the point of view of a guy with wings of his own, but at the same time? They seemed pretty shiny, too.

"Not that I really need a pair of my own," he added. Because, again, what in the world would be do with metal wings? Would the feathers be like knives or something? What the heck?

Re: More General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

Don't be silly, Warren. How could anyone fly with organic metal wings and blue skin. I mean...

"Which is how we know science is cooler than magic."

HE WOULD CONVERT ALL.

Re: More General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[wwiii]

YOU POSED SUCH A CONVINCING ARGUMENT, TONY.

"Well, I don't know. Science hasn't given me a way to hide these things yet, beyond strapping them down or completely taking them away," Warren noted. "Two totally different types of magic have let me hang out on the beach without freaking people out on more than one occasion. That's pretty cool."

Re: More General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"No, but science explains them," Tony replied. Which wasn't helpful at all. "Plus, you don't have to hide them here."

Re: More General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[wwiii]

"Which really doesn't do me any good in a year, when I graduate," Warren pointed out. "I've had them explained to me on a fairly regular basis since I was about seven. I think I could probably tell you pretty much anything about my own physiology that you ever wanted to know, and then more for good measure."

Thanks, science.

Re: More General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"...really?" Tony gave that some thought. "So, you know biology?"

Ew, soft sciences.

Re: More General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[wwiii]

"My dad does own America's biggest producer and supplier of pharmaceuticals," Warren pointed out. "You kind of pick these things up after a while."

Especially when you were bombarded with it for half of your life because you were a genefreak.

"But I've kind of made it a personal mission to stay as far away from syringes and test tubes as I possibly can. I'm more interested in the business aspect of it all, personally."

Re: More General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"Ohhh." His poor nerd rejection. "But not everyone actually does hands on stuff with their companies."

Said the guy who personally held half the patents for products produced by them for the past five years.

"I was looking into some of the biological parts of the tech I saw in Japan."

Re: More General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[wwiii]

"What, for the cyborg implants?" Warren tilted his head a little. No, he wasn't exactly the world's top biologist or anything, but speculating could prove to be interesting, maybe. "Or something else?"

Re: More General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"Exactly," Tony replied brightly. "Though I was looking to simplify it for prosthetic limbs at the moment. It wouldn't be feasible to go further than that if I want it to be easily obtained."

Re: More General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[wwiii]

"True enough," Warren agreed, thoughtfully. "You'd have to find some pretty potent drugs to prevent the body from rejecting something like that. Not to mention some really delicate work with nerves, if you want those limbs to be able to feel, too."

Prosthetic limbs that could feel would be pretty amazing, even Warren had to admit.

Re: More General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"They had these micro-machines that were incorporated into the nervous system for the robotics to work like that, but I don't even know where to start on retro-engineering them," Tony replied. "Something that small and well programed to work with your brain... It's so far beyond anything I've ever seen."

Re: More General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[wwiii]

"Or me," Warren agreed. "Some kind of bio-mechanics... And I didn't even think to figure out what year we were sitting in while we were there. I wonder if a portal could get us back there, if we wanted."

To ask a bunch of angry, terrifying future-cyborg-Japanese people how cyborgs were made.