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

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Well.

It was raining popsicles and suntan lotion today. Because Fandom liked to make the newbies cry sometimes. Yes, the island had a sense of humor about these things.

We've all learned to accept that and move on with our lives. Well, all of us except for Britta. But she's the worst.

[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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Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[endsthegame]

That, and there was only a limited supply of new teachers around, and some of the male ones were wearing nametags already.

"Andrew Wiggin," Ender offered easily. "I believe the school has assigned me to help you adjust to the teaching life."

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[givehimahand.livejournal.com]

That would be going by the less than certain knowledge that he was in a land where The Kingslayer was not well known. Even by the small folks.

"Teaching? I'm no maester, Andrew," he replied. He was, however, starting to wonder what sort of dream this was. The heat of summer, the wrongness of the 'snow', and now this? "I can assure you of that. I would drive them to tears in Oldtown."

He would have thought a dream this odd would have at least involved Cersei. Or perhaps the Maid of Tarth.

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[endsthegame]

"Ah," Ender said, making some mental logic leaps about Jamie's presence here. "I take it you didn't intend to come here."

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[givehimahand.livejournal.com]

He much preferred the dreams where he was whole again...

"And just where is here?" he asked, ignoring the phantom twitch of fingers that were no longer there. That threatened to prove this was less than the mad dream he took it for. Too much wine, perhaps.

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[endsthegame]

"Fandom Island," Ender said with a wry, if sympathetic, little smile. "Think of it as a beacon, drawing in the wayward, the lost, and the rather easily inconvenienced. Many wind up here by accident."

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[givehimahand.livejournal.com]

"An island," he said with amusement. "How far I must have travelled then. I hadn't known my horses capable of walking on water."

Definitely a dream. The heat of an almost forgotten summer baked him with in his armor, like the fever in Harrenhal had. He could almost see that wench's ugly face contorted up in confusion at his ramblings.

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[endsthegame]

"Well, we do have a land bridge," Ender said. "As well as some rather less obvious means of transportation."

His next smile was a little less on the wry end. "I realize you probably think you're hallucinating right now," he said, "And no amount of assurances on my part will change your mind. However, I did have a question for you."

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[givehimahand.livejournal.com]

"And what might that be?" Jaime asked pleasantly.

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[endsthegame]

"Would you happen to be related to Tyrion Lannister?" he asked. "He's been teaching here for some time."

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[givehimahand.livejournal.com]

He flinched at the mention of his brother, eyes going sharp and hand on his sword pommel in an instant. To what: defend or attack, he didn't know.

She's been fucking Lancel and Osmond Kettleblack and Moonboy for all I know.

"You will have to excuse me if I don't find that a very funny jape, Andrew." He smiled then, but it did not reach his eyes.

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[endsthegame]

Ender held up one hand in a placating gesture. "It was not my intention to offend you," he said. "Or to hurt."

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[givehimahand.livejournal.com]

"And just what does this man look like?" he asked, smile stiff on his lips. "My supposed brother."

Fellow Kingslayer. Perhaps the histories would draw some conclusion from that.

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[endsthegame]

"Very short," Ender said, with another, fleeting smile, "As blond as you are. I haven't really spoken to him myself, mind."

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[givehimahand.livejournal.com]

'Very short.' Even the more polite company did not mince words when calling his brother 'the imp' or simply a dwarf. It was strange to hear someone be kind about it.

"That's all?" it would be hard to not mention the lack of a nose these days. Just as it would be hard to avoid mentioning Jaime's own maiming when describing him.

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[endsthegame]

"Yes, that's all," Ender replied. He regarded Jaime thoughtfully.

"Is that surprising?"

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[givehimahand.livejournal.com]

"My brother was wounded in battle. The scars are hard to miss."

Did that mean someone simply had not heart about the Battle on the Blackwater? Or something that felt like a horse kicking him in the chest.

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[endsthegame]

"I don't remember him being particularly scarred, but time plays tricks with us here," Ender volunteered. "I ran into my own older brother here-- who's at present younger than me."

He glanced towards the crowd. "Though if it'll settle you more, you should find your brother before I continue talking at you about things you're not yet inclined to believe."

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[givehimahand.livejournal.com]

"Time plays the cruelest tricks on us all," he said lightly, following Ender's gaze.

"You haven't a clue who I am beyond my name, do you?"

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[endsthegame]

"Not in the slightest," Ender said. "Going by your attitude, you're important, wherever you are from. But most of us are."

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[givehimahand.livejournal.com]

"I have a reputation," he corrected dryly.

Before everything he might have agreed with that assessment, though.

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[endsthegame]

"It's the same thing," Ender said, "Just from a different perspective."

He'd have a reputation for a while. It would just... change over time.

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[givehimahand.livejournal.com]

Jaime watched him for a moment, assessment of the boy shifting just a bit. "I think I liked it better when I thought this was a fever dream."

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[endsthegame]

"Welcome to Fandom," Ender replied, mouth tugging up a little. "It'll hardly be the only time you'll think that."

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[givehimahand.livejournal.com]

"I hope there is wine here at least." And less ice pelting him. "Where I left, winter was well on it's way. I was expecting snow, not sweetened ice."

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[endsthegame]

"It's summer here," Ender offered. "The sweetened ice is our way of cooling down - though it's usually not falling out of the sky. That's purely the island at work."