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

There was the bonfire for everyone who thought Maryland in January was a little too cool for their taste, as well as the ~~moddable~~ warm food and drinks, and chairs and tables in the school colors of blue and gold. Some tables were also set a little further away from the crowds.

Because there were always people who preferred the fringes.

[OCD up! 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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"Are you dead?"

Ikol cawed in annoyance at that conclusion, but stayed silent beyond that to allow Loki to continue on his path of questioning.

"Um... do I look dead?"

Actually...

"I mean, I'm not. Not last I checked." He would be incorrect. "Do dead people usually run around without shoes?"

Yes, apparently!

"From time to time," he admitted. Then he gave Jack a firm poke in the arm. Because of godly reasons.

Clearly this was the single most godly poke to the arm that Jack had ever gotten.

It was possibly also the first arm poke that Jack had ever gotten, godly or not. He blinked, lifting a hand to rub at where Loki had poked him.

"And do you see a lot of dead people around here, by any chance?"

"Just one." AND SHE HARDLY COUNTED. "Do you see many?"

"Not that I'm aware of."

Oh, the things that Jack didn't know about the Guardians. Those memories that he didn't have sure would come in handy, wouldn't they?

"But then, I don't really tend to go looking for them, either."

Well, maybe if he stopped trying to ruin Easter...

"What are you then?"

Look, it wasn't Jack's fault that Bunnymund was the sort to hold a grudge for a full half-century, here.

"Jack Frost," he replied, looking curiously at the other boy. "The spirit of winter?"

Bunnies, man. Bunnies.

"Ah." Loki gave him another appraising look. "I am Loki of Asgard. It is nice to meet you, I assume."

For now.

Ugh, bunnies.

"It's nice to meet-" Anybody. "-you, too. Loki... Mischief, right? Norse pantheon?"

Jack had a lot of time to learn about fellow legends over the past three centuries, at least.

"Correct!" Oh, and how happy it made him that someone knew it without assuming the worst. Or that he was crazy. "At your service."

Well, Jack was a big fan of mischief in general! And fun. Mostly fun. And he really wasn't in any position to call the guy crazy, all things considered.

Plus Loki got bonus points for being able to see him.

"Great!" It was! It really was! "So... what is this place? I've spent three centuries with people walking right through me, and then suddenly I come here and half the people that walk by me stop to ask me what I'm doing up in a tree."

"Welcome to Fandom," Loki replied, waving his hand out at the crowd. "This fair island is a sort of dimensional nexus where all sorts gather to learn. Or fornicate. Hormones all over the island."

Whelp. That was that. All Jack was going to think about now as he looked around the other students here was fornication.

Maybe he'd use that later, and draw stick men doing horribly inappropriate things on the dorm room window in the frost for Charley...

"The hormones are a normal mortal teenager thing, right?"

He had to check.

Somewhere, Charley is crying on the inside.

"I would assume so," Loki assured him. "It is quite the preoccupation on the internet."

"I've only ever seen other people using the internet," Jack shared, looking curiously at Loki. "I can't really just go out and buy a computer or anything. It's mostly full of, uh, sex, then?"

Sex was one of those things that Jack managed to not think about too often. A result of spending three centuries convinced that physical contact of any sort with someone who could see him was going to pretty much be right out of the question.

Loki nodded at that. "You can always use the computers here now. The rest of the internet is of great value."

Wikipedia for instance...

Jack was totally going to search himself on Wikipedia, now. Thanks, Loki.

"I don't suppose you'd be willing to show a wayward winter spirit how, by any chance?" Jack shot Loki his most winning smile. "The highest form of technology that I've held in my hands... pretty much ever... is a stick."

Which was, as one might be able to tell by looking at the staff in his hand, very definitely... a stick.

At least he had't mentioned TV Tropes or Twitter yet!

Loki looked from the boy to the staff for a moment before shrugging and pulling out his phone. "You may borrow my phone if you wish."c

"I may?"

Well, that was way easier than Jack had anticipated, really. He blinked, and held out his hand for the phone, kind of staring at it with a flat-out mix of wonder and bafflement on his face.

He really, really had no idea what to do with it, now.

"So... people just... touch the screen part and it does things, right?"

"Indeed," Loki replied, peering over Jack's shoulder. Ikol took that time to perch on the top of the staff as well. "Simply touch the button that looks like an S and it shall take you to the internet."

StarkTech, of course they had their own browser.

Jack glanced up at the magpie as he came to perch on the staff, gave him a quick smile, and then did as he was told, giving that S a light tap.

It was fortunate that touchscreens were capacitive, not heat-sensitive. So much of the magic of discovering the internet would have been lost in that moment, otherwise.

"That," he shared as the browser loaded, "was way easier than I thought it would be."

"Is it not? The peoples of Midgard are most ingenious about such things."

"I might have to get one of these," Jack mused, poking at random links as different pages loaded. "I kind of feel like I've spent a lot of time missing out since these things were invented, now."

Huh. What was a '4Chan?'

GO THERE, JACK. IT'LL BE FUN.

"You can also use it as a phone." A beat. "If you wanted to."

Who used a cellphone as a phone these days?

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