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]

[spin_kick_snap]

That was--that was a whole lot of casual going on over there. It was hard not to notice someone that big. Or that green.

For a moment, Kathy caught herself staring. Then with an internal lecture on rudeness, she headed over to say hello and welcome him to Fandom properly. She'd been raised with manners, dammit, whether she'd momentarily forgotten them or not.

"Hi," she said with a wave when she got within polite speaking distance. "I'm Kathy, welcome to Fandom!" Wow she felt tiny talking to him.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[oldstrongest1.livejournal.com]

That's because she was tiny compared to him. "I'm Skaar," Skaar said. He noticed the staring but he was used to that reaction. Usually it immediately preceded people running away or monsters rushing in to attack. He accepted anything other than those reactions - even continued staring - as reasonably polite.

"Thanks." Of course, having a loose definition of politeness didn't mean he had many good ways to start conversations. Most of his neighbors in the Savage Land were dinosaurs. "You're not one of the other new students, right?"

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[spin_kick_snap]

She was taller than Ringo, at least? So he was only almost two feet taller than she was, rather than more than that.

"I've been here for about three years now," she answered, giving him a smile. She didn't mind carrying the burden of making conversation. If nothing else, she owed it for the few moments of hardcore staring. "Senior now, arrived the summer before my sophomore year. Which is why I can tell you that pretty much whatever you've heard about the school is true. There's too much weirdness that does go on for anyone to bother making something up."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[oldstrongest1.livejournal.com]

"Trust me, if there's anyone who has no reason to doubt that a place can be weird, it's me," Skaar said. "It's just a question of what kind of weird it is."

[OOC: Sorry, ping got lost in the shuffle. SURPRISINGLY BUSY NEWBIE DAY FOR ME.]

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[spin_kick_snap]

"Has your big sibling had a chance to explain stuff to you yet?" Kathy checked. "I don't want to go over old ground or anything, but if you have questions, I'm happy to answer them. I didn't get a new little sib this semester and I feel lost not having anyone to explain things to."

[No worries! I'm generally slow myself. GLAD YOU'RE HAVING A GOOD NEWBIE DAAAAY!]

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[oldstrongest1.livejournal.com]

"Squirrels, gremlins, invasions, etc. She covered the basics," Skaar said. "I'm looking forward to the invasions."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[spin_kick_snap]

"Did she mention the more, ahh, personal transformations?" Kathy asked. "Or the occasional visitors?"

Kathy took a minute to picture waking up to discover a child maybe a foot shorter than Skaar calling her Mommy and asking for breakfast.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[oldstrongest1.livejournal.com]

Skaar answered the yes/no portion of the question in a way that was fully consistent with the sibling thread, which is currently in SP at the time of this ping and has not yet gotten into detail of some of those items. Once he had answered that portion appropriately, he continued, "What kind of transformations and visitors did you have in mind?"

Potentially for general knowledge, or perhaps to add to the previous examples which had not been written about yet.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[spin_kick_snap]

"The biggest one is always the gender shift," Kathy said, careful to use language that did not suggest that there were only two genders. That had nothing to do with Skaar, she was just the social justicey of all social just warriors. "You wake up one day as a different gender than the one you're used to. That's usually good for some screaming around the dorms. Or waking up as a little kid. Or waking up as somebody completely different and living out an entire new lifetime for a weekend."

That one, at least, you didn't know anything was wrong until Monday. And then you were left flailing at all of the insane things you did all weekend.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[oldstrongest1.livejournal.com]

"That first one will be a interesting for people since I don't own any shirts and I'm huge," Skaar deadpanned.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[spin_kick_snap]

"I'm sure we can rig you up an impressive toga made from curtains and bed sheets," Kathy said with a laughed. "Or maybe you can start a protest about how it's unfair that men can go topless and women can't."

Kathy might almost be willing to go along with a topless protest if it was coached in enough Tumblr verbiage. And Raven would be there regardless.