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

The last picnic for new arrivals had involved a bonfire, but there was no need for artificial warmth today. The weather outside was sunny, and just breezy enough that no one would roast, hopefully. There were tables and chairs arranged around the lawn, along with a long table of food, drinks, and desserts for anyone who stopped by.

There were stacks of nametags for people to label themselves with, and lists to help folks find their siblings and roommates. With everything in order, it was time to welcome some new people!

[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. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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"Judy, Paula, Georgina, and Ringo, yeah." Lottie tilted her head. "What, America has a different set of Beetles?"

"Well, no, I mean, yes, I mean--not America."

Right. That cleared things up quite handily.

"Okay, so I think we might need to back up a little bit. What do you know about the concept of the multiverse?"

"Is that what you call the songs that are in the vicinity of 18 minutes long?"

What? They'd just been talking about music.

"No, but now that you mention it..." Wait, no, no getting sidetracked. "Okay, so we have the universe, right? And you know how everyone talks about parallel dimensions, where everything's the same except for one tiny detail or whatever? That's what the multiverse is. A collection of all the parallel dimensions in reality. In my version of the world, the Beatles are a band of five guys. In yours, it sounds like they were actually kinda cool."

"My mates and I love them," Lottie said. "Though they did get right weird towards the end." She pondered the multiverse theory as Kathy had explained it. "Cor, we musta created BUNCHES of universes when we had to keep goin back to stop the train derailment!"

Kathy took a moment to wonder how popular opinion regarded Lottie's version of Yoko Ono, especially if she'd been gender-swapped as well. Huh.

"Probably," Kathy said, realizing she'd probably gotten the easiest little sibling on the planet, at least as far as Fandom explanations went. "Most of the hows and wherefores are pretty theoretical, as far as I know, but going back in time sounds like it would spiral off into thousands of new universes. My friend Barry might know more about the science of it, but he's hermiting in his lab."

As usual.

"Oooo, is he a mad scientist? We got a few of those back home. Always accidentally makin zombies when they're tryin to create renewable energy."

That wasn't quite how Tim had managed it, but then Lottie hadn't really been paying attention at the time. Being tiny and all.

"Not a mad scientist and definitely not the zombie-creating sort," Kathy said firmly. "But brilliant beyond all reason, yeah."

Brilliant enough to be aware of how easily he could become that sort, which was why he'd created his Ethics Committee.

"Definitely the kind of guy who'd get temporal mechanics."

"My mate Mildred's dad is like that," Lottie said. "The nice kind of crazy smart, I mean. He's a Quantum Physics professor at the college and talks about things like comic strings and weevil-holes."

Those were not quite the things he'd talked about, no. But in Lottie's defense, she'd gotten this second hand from Mildred.

"String theory and wormholes?" Kathy guessed.

She didn't know much about quantum mechanics, but she had a baseline, at least.

"Sure," Lottie agreed easily. "Mildred was doin a lot of gloating when she told me, she could've gotten it wrong."

Mildred really likely hadn't gotten it wrong.

For all Kathy knew, in the universe where the members of the Beatles had all been women (and spelled their name properly), the proper terms really could have been comic strings and wormholes.

"If you're curious, the library has a great science section," Kathy offered. "You can explain stuff to Mildred next time."

"That sounds suspiciously like school work."

"Not if no one's assigned it to you and you're doing it for fun!"

This was just the kind of person your big sister was, Lottie. The only person to sign up for extra classes in the summer.

". . . But it's summer!"

"...And? Books still exist in the summertime, you know."

"I do my best to forget that fact at the last bell of school in the spring."

Kathy sighed. "You'll do well at Fandom, then," she said. "Most of Fandom's classes are kind of a joke."

There were the odd exceptions, but...yeah. Not many.

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