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

[bigdamnprincipal]

Some extra tables had been set up in the shade of the trees on the lawn, away from the buffet in spots where it might be less crowded and much quieter. Well, aside from the mariachi band, but at least their music was entertaining? They might even take requests!

[OCD is up, have at it! This is the FIRST post for general mingling. Please use this post first, if your browser can handle the comment load. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are all here and there's more room for mingling here. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[myownface]

Okay, so the mariachi band was a little weird, but it wasn't like they didn't greet new kids with song and dance numbers back at the group home either. Sparkle would break out his recorder, Lewis would do the singing, and whatever poor new mess stumbled through the door would stare at them like they'd both lost their minds.

It was kind of weirdly homey, almost, that way.

Sparkle was going to contemplate this homeyness over a heap of Mexican food that, overall, managed to balance pretty precariously on his plate, so that he had to be extra selective about the bits he picked off of it, lest he cause an avalanche that could very well kill them all.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[solarhippie]

"Do you think they always have a band at these things?"

Karolina had seen him this morning, and been vaguely reminded of Nico. And she supposed she should try and get acquainted with the people she was going to be at this summer thing with, unless she wanted to just mope around alone all the time.

So, this was Karolina, making contact with a little smile.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[myownface]

"Always? I hope so. It's kind of cozy, don't you think?" Sparkle leaned back to give the girl a lazy little smile right on back. "The Spanish is new, but hey, at least they're going out of our way to make us feel welcome. Or something."

It was the or something that Sparkle really had in mind, there.

"Doesn't look like the dorms have bars on the windows from here, at least."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[solarhippie]

"No, it doesn't," Karolina agreed. Look, she might have had a paranoid thought or two as she'd been leaving LA. "Doesn't look particularly threatening, or anything."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[myownface]

"Kind of have to admit, this isn't really what I was expecting," Sparkle noted. "But then, I didn't look at the pamphlet, either."

Because pamphlets were fake. Faaake. Fake.

"This is positively quaint, really. Like something right out of some kind of crazy movie. Like... all those teen movies, or something like that, you know? The really bad ones that are all Welcome To Perfect High, and none of it is anything like real life really is? This place has free food ad a mariachi band. Those movies are this place."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[solarhippie]

Karolina considered this with a little tilt of her head. "I don't think any of the movies I've seen had a talking pony."

Not that she'd seen said pony yet. She was just a little fixated on the concept.

She pushed hair away from her face and wrinkled her nose up in thought. "But I don't know what I was expecting, really. I just know this isn't exactly it."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[myownface]

"Yeah, me neither," Sparkle sighed. "It's kind of disappointing, actually. I was looking forward to trying to come up with a daring escape plan and everything. Tying together bedsheets to slip out an open window, maybe swimming the Atlantic all the way to New Brunswick or something..."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[solarhippie]

"That maybe might have crossed my mind too," Karolina had to admit. Before latching on to other things making her curious. "New Brunswick? Where's that?"

After the Panem thing with Peeta, she didn't feel like assuming.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[myownface]

"Uh, Canada?" See Sparkle raise an eyebrow. See him raise it but good. "East coast? One of like ten provinces. You must be American, huh?"

Next, she'd be asking him if he lived in an igloo and ate blubber and owned a dogsled. He'd seen the 'I am Canadian' beer commercials, after all.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[solarhippie]

Hey, she wasn't that clueless! Also she'd thought Panem might have been some small state in the midwest she hadn't been paying attention to. Geography was not her strong suit.

But at least she had the decency to look a little sheepish. "From Los Angeles," she admitted. "Sorry."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[myownface]

"Hey, so long as you know what Canada is, you're still good," Sparkle decided. "It isn't like I'd be able to name all fifty states if someone held a gun to my head or something. I wasn't even paying attention to what state we're in now."

No. Really. He wasn't. Lewis had stuck him on the plane, and that had been that.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[solarhippie]

"Maryland," Karolina supplied helpfully, because she did know that much. And she'd had a week to memorize it, mostly embedded in the question 'they're really sending me to a boarding school in Maryland?'

The emphasis, naturally, was what really made it stick. "Oh, and I'm Karolina. Hi."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[myownface]

"Hey," came Sparkle's reply, along with a playful little grin. "Good to know. So."

And up his hand went to cover his nametag.

"Karolina! Guess my name."

Because he hadn't been obnoxious enough yet, and guessing games were fun. Unless she'd looked at the sticker on his chest already, anyhow.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[suitably_heroic]

This was Atton, deciding whether or not he felt inclined to talk to any of these people enough to pass comment.

"What, did you put an anti-grav generator in your hair?"

Apparently he did.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[myownface]

And right then and there, Sparkle was classifying this kid as 'jealous.'

"It's called product," he informed the other boy helpfully. "Some people use it when they want to change up their look. Maybe next I'll be dying it blue. Blue's a good colour."

Really, if he didn't want people to pass comment on his hair, he wouldn't stick it up like that in the first place.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[suitably_heroic]

Yeah, Atton was totally jealous of the kid with the weird hair. Yep.

"Pretty sure you've got enough product in there to start crawling down into your head," Atton said helpfully. "Dye's only going to speed that up."

He was saying it in a slow drawl; that kind of helped, right?

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[myownface]

"Oh, yeah. Because I'm really totally worried about that." See Sparkle worry? He was the worriedest. Which was only a word when he wanted it to be, and shut up. "What does it matter to you what I do to my hair anyhow? It's not growing out of your head."

And he was the second one to ask him if he'd fried his own head or something, too. Sparkle was loving this place already.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[suitably_heroic]

"I'm just asking because it stood out," said Atton, now kind of offended in a seriously sedate way. "Who shat in your breakfast this morning?"

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[myownface]

"I'm sure someone tried," Sparkle reasoned. "Anyhow, someone asks me what's with my hair, I ask them what's with their face. Maybe I want to stand out. Is there something wrong with that?"

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[suitably_heroic]

"Hey, I'm not going to object if someone else wants to make themselves the biggest target in the room if we run into one of those invasions people keep warning me about," Atton said, lifting his chin at the guy. "Keep it up."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[myownface]

"Invasions. Right," Sparkle replied, looking slightly dubious. "Because if the island is suddenly overrun by pirates or something, the first person they're going to go after is the kid whose hair sticks up, instead of... I don't know. The people in charge? Someone who actually has money? You can't honestly tell me that you came to talk to me because you were worried my hairdo was going to get me killed, man."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[suitably_heroic]

"No, I talked to you because I was passing by and you had weird hair," Atton drawled. "And I thought 'hey, that guy has weird hair, I'm going to go talk to him'. But so far, I'm thinking the pony is a better conversationalist."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[myownface]

"The pony, right," Sparkle replied, looking back toward Pinkie Pie again. Yeah. This place was kind of different. "So you ask me if I stuck my head in a... a... thing. A gravity thing. Because that's a great way to start a conversation. I mean, if you want to pick a fight or something."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[suitably_heroic]

"You could've just said 'it's product, thanks for asking'," Atton said. "You know, between you and princess over there, I'm starting to wonder if there's something wrong with me."

No, he wasn't. He knew perfectly well what was wrong with him.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[myownface]

"Yeah," Sparkle scoffed, "weird how you could get an opinion like that around here."

Sparkle knew that there was plenty wrong with himself, at that. Nobody had even had to give him that impression, for that matter. He liked sparing them the effort.

"So, Mister Conversation. What did you do to get yourself stuck here?"