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

With all the rain that had blown through earlier in the week, the school administration had been worried that welcome picnic day would be wet and gloomy. Thankfully, it was sunny, warm, and beautiful outside, and everything had been set up just in time for the shuttle of new folks to arrive. There was a buffet table of food and drinks waiting, along with the list of Big and Little Siblings, the list of roommates, and more name tags than they'd probably need for three picnics.

Also, there wasn't a single flower out on the lawn after last weekend. Just saying.

With everything in place, it looked like it was time for the first summer term to begin!

[OCD up! This is part one of the picnic, specifically for meeting siblings, roommates, and teachers. The rest of the picnic is happening here. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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Jono felt that he was something of an expert on the subject, really, since he'd met some of them before anyone else on the faculty but Anakin, and he'd taught others for the past few semesters. He looked vaguely amused as he looked out over the crowd.

//The old ones went through nothing shy of hell last semester,// he noted. //They're tough, they'll last. The new ones... it's a difficult call. The ones I've talked to so far have varied between timid and utterly lost to 'saved an alternate dimension,' at least. We'll likely have a couple that survive the summer, I suppose.//

"Metaphorically speaking." Since unless they'd changed things since she graduated, they still weren't allowed to kill students. Not even the annoying ones.

//Metaphorically,// Jono agreed, //tempting as it is sometimes to just smack them upside the bloody heads, sometimes.//

"But that might knock some sense into them," Cara said. "Can't have that."

//Really, if some of the things that hit this place can't smack sense into them, we don't stand much of a chance,// Jono pointed out. //Now, I'm not saying that some of them are hopeless, but...//

Well, he thought it, from time to time.

"But some of them are hopeless." Cara and tact would never be the best of friends.

//Some of them are especially hopeless,// Jono agreed.

Tact was overrated, anyhow.

Careful, Jono, Cara might start to like you. "Should we take bets on who has the most hopeless?"

//I'd be up for that,// Jono chuckled. //We picking them out of the crowd, or going to wait until we actually have a chance to get to know some of them? I'd say we could probably go by which breaks down crying and tries to leave the island, first...//

He cared for and was protective of all of his students. That didn't mean he couldn't have a little harmless fun at their expense.

"Out of the crowd," Cara said. "I'm curious about your instincts."

Jono nodded thoughtfully, and then looked around the crowd for a moment, pointing at the girl with the ridiculously long hair.

//She's got a backbone hiding in there, but if we see a repeat of what went on last semester, she'll be one of the first to crack, I think. Too much, too fast, and she strikes me as a sheltered one.//

[Sorry! Free comic book day turned into an adventure.]

Cara nodded in agreement. "The one with the glasses." Sorry, Felicity. "She looks like she's from a place close enough to this one that the differences will creep up on her."

"Of course they'll both be better for it if they manage to get past the cracking." You got a fun perspective on undergoing mental trauma when you were a Mord'Sith.

[np!]

//Oh, almost certainly,// agreed the former X-Man. //It probably won't actually kill you around here, but if it doesn't drive you bloody mad, it'll probably make you stronger.//

"Or it'll do both." Cara still had concerns about most of the island's residents.

//Or that,// Jono allowed. //Actually, now that you mention it, there is a fair bit of that. Though I suppose around here, a break with reality is almost the same thing as just accepting what goes on around the island as 'normal.'//

"I'm surprised we haven't had anyone snapping all the way and declaring themselves some kind of god."

No, she hadn't met Thor, why do you ask?

//At least, beyond the ones that actually are gods,// Jono mused. //Or as close to it as they get.//

Jono actually thought Thor was pretty okay.

That little brother of his, on the other hand...

"Wait, that's actually happened?" She wasn't sure if this was better or worse than 'the Creator' running off with a boy.

//Really, it can't be that surprising, luv,// Jono replied with a shrug of his shoulders. //Hell, from my world alone they've probably had four or five, over the years. Asgardians and Olympians, mostly, I think...//

Thor, Loki, Hercules...

Cara's mythology was not your mythology, Jono. "Right."

That was a hint of a smirk, somewhere around the corners of his eyes. It wasn't really myth so much as fact, where he was from, but he could at least grasp that it wasn't the same everywhere.

//Of course, we might be running off different definitions of the word 'god,' as well. It seems to differ somewhat, from place to place.//

"We should be grateful the Keeper is unlikely to try enrolling any time soon." What with the trying to wipe out all life and everything.

//I'll take your word for that,// Jono decided. //Most of the mad gods that I've learned to be wary of have come to school here at one point or another, so I'm sorry I can't say the same.//

He was side-eyeing Loki again. Because Loki.

"You'd notice if they had," Cara assured him. "Mostly from all the death and the banelings."

//I'm not sure what a baneling is,// Jono noted, //but it has 'bane' right there in the name, so I'm going to just accept that it's probably unpleasant.//

Smart lad.

//Let's hope that it doesn't come to that, here, then. I'm certain the island has plenty of other nightmares to drag us through, anyway.//

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