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

[bigdamnprincipal]

Throughout the lawn, tables and chairs had been set up and scattered, some out in the bright, sunny center of everything, and some in the darker, more remote areas.

Eat up, folks! Don't let that food go to waste!

[OCD up! This is the picnic post for general mingling. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are all here. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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Re: General Mingling [Summer 2014]

[tigerundercover]

"You must have a system, then. Or a speech prepared, maybe. For how to tell people about all the different kinds of weird that happen here."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2014]

[abitlowkey]

"Yes, but first you must learn what is normal to them," Loki replied. "I would not have started with 'odd powers' should I have had you as a little sibling, for instance."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2014]

[tigerundercover]

"You might have," Raven said. "When I first got here, I didn't let anyone know I was a mutant. Even after they mentioned mutants in their universes, or that there were other blue students."

It still didn't generally come up in casual conversation, though she was getting more and more comfortable with people knowing.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2014]

[abitlowkey]

"I do know your name," he pointed out. Which was apparently enough with some people in Marvel. Some people who Loki had done team ups with.

HEY, MAGNETO.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2014]

[tigerundercover]

"So you know another me? It seems like no one in the mutant universes do."

Or, rather, they were all too nice to break it to her that she was evil.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2014]

[abitlowkey]

"I believe it was more in passing," he said, also unwilling to break the evil thing to her. "I had more dealings with Magneto than you. And Dr. Doom."

THAT BODED WELL.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2014]

[tigerundercover]

"I don't know either of them," Raven said. "Why would anyone call themselves 'Dr. Doom'?"

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2014]

[abitlowkey]

"Because his name is Victor Von Doom." Convenient, right?

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2014]

[tigerundercover]

Raven shook her head. "No. I don't believe you. That is not a real name."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2014]

[abitlowkey]

"It is so! You may ask... Alex. Or perhaps Evan!"

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2014]

[tigerundercover]

"Is he a mad scientist? That sounds like a mad scientist name."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2014]

[abitlowkey]

"You would be correct," Loki admitted. "Though my last dealings with him were in Latveria."

Which was a real country. That existed.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2014]

[tigerundercover]

"That's part of the Soviet Union, isn't it? No wonder he's a mad scientist."

Because Russia.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2014]

[abitlowkey]

Those damn Russians!

"I am... uncertain. I have only known it as part of eastern Europe."

Way to be old, Raven.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2014]

[tigerundercover]

It was one of her talents. "I bet it is, in my time, at least. Most of Eastern Europe is. It's called the 'Iron Curtain'."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2014]

[abitlowkey]

"That sounds ominous," he granted her. Kindly.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2014]

[tigerundercover]

"So does 'Dr. Doom'," Raven said. "Someone's very good at naming things."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2014]

[abitlowkey]

"I suppose it really was fortuitous that his name was a clear warning." Or old comic book name conventions.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2014]

[tigerundercover]

"And what do you do and this Doom doctor do together? Play parcheesi?"

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2014]

[abitlowkey]

"I gather he and my older self had been up to certain kinds of mischief."

Like genocide.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2014]

[tigerundercover]

How whimsical of them!

"You have an older self," Raven said. She wasn't sure if she'd heard about that, before, or not. "Is that an ice giant thing?"

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2014]

[abitlowkey]

Right?

"No, it is rather unique to me," he replied. "He died and reincarnated into me."

Without the whole birth thing. And it was just the best way to describe it so people sort of understood.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2014]

[tigerundercover]

"Do you have all his memories? He must've been pretty good at mischief, after all."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2014]

[abitlowkey]

"No, I am a fresh slate."

Save for his access to the Internet, the nightmares, and Ikol.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2014]

[tigerundercover]

"Is that better, or worse, do you think?" Raven asked philosophically. "On the one hand, you don't have to worry about remembering his bad stuff. On the other, you have to relearn everything all over again."