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

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

Whoever worked their magic to ensure that the welcome picnics had nice weather had cut their mojo very close this time around. The weather was lovely today - sunny and hot enough to make it clear that summer in Fandom had finally begun - but the overnight thunderstorms had left puddles all over the lawn that hadn't quite dried up yet.

Still, the tables and chairs had managed to be scattered around, along with the buffet table of ~~moddable~~ food and drinks, and the information table with name tags, the Big and Little Sibling list, and the list of new roommates. The only thing missing was people to enjoy the festivities!

[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 in an effort to keep browsers from breaking for as long as possible. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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"That's the attitude!" Jessica said encouragingly. "And almost everyone has their weird things. Sometimes, I think the completely normal people from sane worlds feel like the real weird ones."

"I guess if there were enough of the ones from superhero worlds, they would be."

Charles would have a fit studying all this.

"Well, we also have people from space. So add that to the superhero worlds, and, yep, the completely normal people from completely normal places are way outnumbered," Jessica said. "But they get used to the weirdness fast enough. Out of necessity, really."

"Does anyone just decide to go back home?"

"Sometimes, I think. I mean, I don't know if they're too freaked out by everything or if they have their own things going on at home, but not everyone makes it to their graduation," Jessica said.

That almost made it sound sinister. "How long have you been going here?" Raven asked.

"It'll be a full year this fall," Jessica said. "Assuming I don't have my own things going on at home that mean I need to go back for more than a weekend. I'm pretty sure that won't happen, though."

"So you like it, then?" Raven asked. "I can handle superheroes and ponies and things if it's a nice place to live."

"Ninety percent of the time, it's kind of great. The people are almost all really nice, the weather's a little weird, but not too terrible, the classes are relaxed but informative," Jessica said. "But then goofy magic things happen now and then."

"Goofy magic things."

Was that a technical term?

"So, you've stayed with me this long, I have to ask you to believe me now," Jessica said. "But sometimes things happen. Boys turn into girls. Girls turn into boys. Your children from the future show up for a couple days...."

Raven nodded along with the gender swapping -- she could be a boy any time she wanted to, at least as far as biology went -- but the future kids gave her pause. "Time travel? Really?"

Her world being a little behind another one, sure, she could work around that idea. But actually traveling through time?

"I just throw my hands in the air and yell 'Magic!' at that one," Jessica said.

"Okay," Raven said. "What's the weirdest part of the school?"

Was it the time travel? She was thinking time travel.

Or possibly the pony.

"You're only in class for about two to five hours per week," Jessica said. "Depending on your schedule. And yes, I rate that over kids from the future. But I'm a nerd with nerdish priorities."

If she were completely honest, it would have been the fact that she of all people was junior prom queen. And head cheerleader. Because seriously, what the hell? But she wasn't bringing that up right now.

"Do you study a lot at home, then?" Raven guessed. Two to five hours didn't seem like long enough to learn everything you were supposed to learn in high school.

"They have online classes to help you progress with stuff that the regular teachers don't teach," Jessica said. "Or in my case, since I live in Crazy Science World, I try to keep up with science journals from back home."

"I'm not sure I could follow one if I tried." That wasn't playing at dumb, either. The science journals her brother followed were pretty damn science-y.

"I barely can, and I have a pretty solid pedigree in crazy science. Almost much everyone I could count as family is involved in it to some degree," Jessica said.

Well, was involved in it. All of those people were dead, though, which was horrifying. She'd thought about it enough to not be horrified by its appearance in this narrative, though.

"My brother's into science, mostly genetics," Raven said. "But our parents are mostly into money and throwing big society parties."

And not always noticing that their son had adopted a foster sister. Living with a young telepath could be . . . interesting.

"Genetics?" Jessica asked. "That's what my family did a lot of work in. My... well, 'father,' especially."

Yes, she finger quoted. That's what you get, Otto! Finger quotes!

"Oh! Are you adopted?" Fun fact! The use of finger quotes has been traced as far back as 1927!

"It's... a very complicated situation," Jessica said. "There have been a lot of parental figures and now I'm kind of on my own. An emancipated minor, I guess."

"I'm sorry," Raven said. "I didn't mean to bring up anything bad. Being on your own is tough."

She'd been quite the little homeless urchin in her day.

"Oh, no, it's nothing too bad, relatively speaking," Jessica said. Well, except for the mad science and everyone being dead and cloning. Still, she gave a comforting smile. "It's just something I'd need a flowchart and a whole lot of time to explain and I don't have any of that handy."

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