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Welcome Dance - the Gym

The streamers and banners are up. So are a zillion multi-colored helium balloons.

The floor is cleared, and the bandstand is up at the north side of the room, ready for Dusted Bunnies to take their places.

The refreshment table, with the (as yet) unspiked punch is in place. There are chips and stuff as well, Chex mix, a few nachos and some guacamole.

Party on, dudes! And welcome to Fandom High.

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Alanna whistled. "Nice. Did you join the fighting?"

"Well, not until I could stand obviously. Though Papa does have an amusing story about how I knocked out an enemy Captain with my bottle ~~this may even be his coat~~... He's prone to tales however is my Papa. How about you? When did you begin your martial endevors?"

Alanna stared at her, jaw a bit slack. "Well, definetly not before I could stand. Coram, he um, worked on our fief, he taught me some basics when I was little. He was trying to teach my twin but, um." She grinned. "Thom wasn't interested. I was. Thom and I switched places when we were 11. He went off to be a Sorcerer and I disguised myself as a boy and went to train to be a knight. I'm a Squire right now, will be a full Knight in a few years."

"Did he disguise himself as a girl?"

"Gods no!" Alanna shuddered at that idea. "Boys are allowed to be Sorceror's, it's just that our father didn't want him to be on. I was going to be turned into a proper lady." She rolled her eyes. "Big chance of that happening."

Pippi nodded again, now here was something she could really identify with.

"Into everybody's life it seems," she said, "A Miss Prisillia must fall... I had this nosey lady on my back all the time, kept trying to get me to move into her 'Children's Home'... Tommy and Annika thought she was after my money but I think her heart was in the right place... Still though, 'no thank you' means 'No... Thank you.'" she shook her head, "Some people."

Alanna snorted and nodded. "Gotta love people who try to run others lives."

Pippi nodded.

"...So, how did everybody react to your not being a boy?" asked Pippi. Obviously Alanna was no longer concerned with hiding that she was a girl, so obviously that whole rigmarole was over, right?

Alanna shook her head sadly. "I live in a different world. Back there, they still think 'Squire Alan' is the one who got sent over here. They don't know I'm a girl, nor will they until I get my shield. Maybe even later. Here, I can be who I am."

Pippi finds herself nodding a lot this evening.

"That's kinda why I came here to. I couldn't deal with the way the school in my town did things. If I wanted to go to school there... I'd have to change... Not that I don't have to change here. Change is what growing up is all about I'm told. But there... I would have to change who I was. Fundamentally, and to quickly."

She looked at Alanna. If Pippi was able to become a pirate captain nobody would be able to take that away from her simply for being a girl. Pirates had guidelines, not a committee that handed out spiffy hats and cutlasses.

"Men are pigs sometimes."

"Oooh yeah. Especially when they get it into their heads that they have all the power."

"Where'd they get that idea anyway?"

"Something about women being the weaker sex." She shook her head sadly. "I'm one of the best fencer's at court, and that's me being honest."

"Ptch. Yeah, I'd like to see a boy carry a baby around in his body for nine months and then push it out like I saw native women doing on Tuka-Tuka island." she rolls her eyes, "Then we'd see who the weaker sex is."

Alanna made a face. "Don't remind me. There are women, in other countries, who are warriors. And even a hundred years ago in Tortall women could be Knights and warriors."

"Where's Tortall? Never been there."

"Probably not. It's in my world, which, is not somewhere you can get easily. Basically, think the fourteenth century, only cleaner and with magic." She let a little ball of purple light form in her palm.

"The former is a natural result of the latter I would think." Pippi says, "That's very pretty! How do you do that?"

"I'm Gifted, and yeah, it's something you're born with, but some students here can do the same spells I can, and vice versa. Mostly, I'm pretty good at healing like I said. Broken bones, scratches, bruises, those are all things I do. Um, and there's just some random spells. I've been working on transformations and transportations lately, with mixed results. My twin's the really magical one." She let the ball extinguish.

"Mostly, I'm just strong." says Pippi, "But I do have a crystal ball that will show me people if I ask it very nicely... I'm not sure if it's me or the ball though." It doesn't occur to Pippi to mention any of the other things she's done in the past; like, fly or make cars run on rain water and glue...

((I only know the Russian version of Pippi, so this? Is hilarious))

"Strength is useful, and the crystal ball thing must be cool. I have no talent for scrying at all."

More nodding. "Yes, both came in very handy when my Papa was captured by a rival band of pirates. The ball showed me where he was."

[[OOC: The only thing I have of Russian Pippi is a picture I got off the internet from a Russian translation of the books. Though I'm re-reading the books for obvious reasons. I'm most familiar with the Swedish movies/TV shows that were dubbed into English. Was there a Russian movie or TV show made?

((ooc: Honestly can't remember. My only memory of Pippi is my dad reading the books to me when I was sick. From that, I'm assuming I was under four.))

Alanna raised a brow. "You travelled with pirates?"

"Naval tradition has a much similar drawback to your situation. I certainly couldn't grow up to be a Captain in the regular Navy... We weren't normal Pirates you see. Only ever caused trouble with certain of other Pirates. Firstly, because they are the ones with all the money. Secondly, they rather deserve it. And thirdly, people who aren't pirates tend to like you as a result. Since there a great deal more non-pirates then there are pirates, you don't have trouble finding a place to dock and re-supply. Sometimes we would be hired to sail alongside another ship and protect it. That was always fun, because the other Captain would often have Papa and I over for dinners."

"That...must have been awesome. So you're going to be a Captain?"

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