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

[bigdamnprincipal]

Picnic-ing in January - still not the best idea ever! But there were tables and chairs set up in the sun, and a nice bonfire going, and plenty of warm food for everyone to encourage socializing for as long as possible.

[OCD is 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 [Spring 2016]

[tigerundercover]

Raven jumped, then spun around with a smirk. "Why you," she said, not actually angry. "Happy New Year."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[kenselvren.livejournal.com]

"Happy New Year," Jalian said back, grinning. "You should grow eyes in the back of your head," she teased.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[tigerundercover]

"At a welcome picnic, I shouldn't need to," Raven returned. "Though it would add an extra little something to freak out the new kids."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[kenselvren.livejournal.com]

Jalian laughed. "Have you freaked out many yet?" She frowned. "Will any be a problem, do you think?"

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[tigerundercover]

"One girl kept trying to avert her eyes," Raven said. "So I got her to shake hands with me. She seems like the Victorian type, though, so it might have been what I'm wearing as much as the blue skin." As to the other question. . . . "And they'd better not. Or they'll have to learn quick."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[kenselvren.livejournal.com]

"Ah!" Jalian looked around. "Lucille?" she pointed her out. She was the most covered-up girl that Jalian had seen here. Apart from Cassandra, anyway, but that was different.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[tigerundercover]

"That's her! She called me 'Miss Raven'. She's going to be fun to tease."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[kenselvren.livejournal.com]

Jalian grinned. "She's my little sister. She seems very lost, but has strength. I have promised to protect her from evil people, though," she teased.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[tigerundercover]

"Well, that's fine. I'm at worst morally gray."

So far, anyway.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[kenselvren.livejournal.com]

"That's fine, then." Jalian grinned. "Did you have a good holiday?"

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[tigerundercover]

"It wasn't bad. I went to visit Charles in Oxford. First Christmas without his parents. We spent it at the pub."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[kenselvren.livejournal.com]

Jalian snorted. "Were there many drunk people?" Drunk people could be funny, or annoying.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[tigerundercover]

"There were all the drunk people. Apparently getting blotto in the pub on Christmas Eve and singing bawdy Christmas songs is quite the tradition around Oxford."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[kenselvren.livejournal.com]

That made Jalian laugh. "Are there many bawdy Christmas songs? I thought it was a holiday for a religion."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[tigerundercover]

"Maybe once upon a time," Raven said. "But celebrate a holiday long enough and someone's going to write something dirty about it. Especially when lads are involved."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[kenselvren.livejournal.com]

"Boys, you mean?" Jalian had heard the term, but she wasn't sure if Raven meant something more by it than just "young males".

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[tigerundercover]

"English boys," Raven said. "It might not be quite a thing yet in the '50s, but English boys have a whole 'lad culture'. Basically, they're excessively silly."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[kenselvren.livejournal.com]

Jalian laughed. "Most boys are excessively silly. Even here."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[tigerundercover]

"Well then, these guys must be astronomically silly, if they bothered to put a name on it."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[kenselvren.livejournal.com]

"Are they fun silly?" Jalian asked, grinning. "What are the songs like?"

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[tigerundercover]

"For a bit. I think it's probably more fun when you're also a drunken lad." Charles seemed to have had a grand old time, for instance. "Mostly, the songs are loud and very poorly pronounced."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[kenselvren.livejournal.com]

"Were you being a lad?" Jalian asked. It seemed the next logical question.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[tigerundercover]

"No." Raven sighed. "Charles would have disapproved."

And made grumpy faces and sent her scolding telepathic messages all night.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[kenselvren.livejournal.com]

Jalian's expression said what she thought of Charles. She probably shouldn't actually say anything.

"Your brother sounds very annoying."

Jalian was bad at "should". And tact.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[tigerundercover]

Well, Charles was annoying. And very, very self-righteous.

"He has his moments," Raven said, because annoying or not, he was her brother. "But he was the first person I ever met who wasn't afraid of me, so I forgive him."