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

[bigdamnprincipal]

Gosh, the summer picnic was so much nicer--and warmer--than the spring one. There were tables and chairs set up in the sun and the shade, and more than enough food for everyone. Hopefully, everyone was up for socializing for a while!

[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 [Summer 2016]

[notfinnyet]

In FN-2187's head, this equated to the galactic government being the United States of America, because that made way more sense than multiple governments on the same planet. "Got it," he said, nodding, and then, "Right, so I'm totally not where I'm supposed to be at all." He didn't sound too concerned about it, though, possibly because this realization had been coming for hours now.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2016]

[rebelseekspizza]

"Happens to the best of us." Dante snagged a burger off the spread 'cause it was there and he was getting to hit the stage where he was hungry. "But here's not so bad. Lots of free food and hot people."

Okay, the pertinent question would probably be so where are you supposed to be, but that answer could always be depressing.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2016]

[notfinnyet]

It was super depressing! Even if FN-2187 didn't quite realize that. "It's just weird," he said, "because they seemed to be expecting me? They had a nametag with my designation and everything." He tapped his breastplate, where he'd stuck the tag that declared, Hello! My name is: FN-2187. It was going to be a bitch to get off.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2016]

[rebelseekspizza]

Yeah, depressing was the furthest from what Dante wanted to deal with right now. Though at least this new kid seemed nice, so so far, he was calling this one a win.

"That happens too," Dante said. He shrugged. "I think half the people here just show up accidentally and the school always knows." He nodded at the name tag. "They usually go with names, not designations, though."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2016]

[notfinnyet]

"Well, this is all I got, so..." Yeah. Depressing.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2016]

[rebelseekspizza]

Sigh. Ah, well. "You seriously have people calling you-- FN-2187?" Dante asked, blinking. "That's kind of fucked up."

Beat.

"Sorry."

Maybe the guy really liked being a couple of letters and a string of numbers?

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2016]

[notfinnyet]

You were the first person to tell him that, Dante! You would probably not be the last. FN-2187 shrugged and said, "That's all they gave me, so what else would I be called?" Since he apparently didn't rate a nickname as far as his squadmates were concerned...

...he hoped they weren't going to get into trouble over his disappearance.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2016]

[rebelseekspizza]

Yeah, Dante had decided fairly recently to stop giving a shit again. Getting involved in the small matter of this guy not having an actual name would be running right over that.

"I dunno," he said, "An actual name? I could call you Eighty-Seven, but that's still kinda weird."

Fuck it. He'd had a few years where no one but his cellmate called him anything other than Subject 64432B. He could spare like, a small percentage of fucks. A .something amount of fucks.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2016]

[notfinnyet]

"Eighty-Seven's fine," FN-2187 assured him. It was no Slips, but it would do. "Or the, uh, Gratuity girl called me FN." Like Eff En. "So you have a name?" He asked it like that wasn't a thing you could just assume in the normal run of events.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2016]

[rebelseekspizza]

Part of Dante wanted to call the kid Benji, or something. Eighty-Seven here had some serious puppy going on.

"Eff enn sounds like you should be a radio station," was his judgment. "I'm Dante. No last name, but who needs one?"

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2016]

[notfinnyet]

Hey, Benji was as good as anything else.

"It's nice to meet you, Dante," FN-2187 said, like he wasn't sure if he was doing this 'greetings' thing right.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2016]

[rebelseekspizza]

Yeah, Dante was going to have to actually put some work into nicknaming this guy. No way in hell was he calling him by a bunch of numbers for longer than he had to.

"You don't do this a lot, do you?" he said, looking amused. "Don't worry. You'll get the hang of it."

He nodded towards the dorms. "I'm in Room 322, if you wanna hang out or you figure out the name thing or whatever."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2016]

[notfinnyet]

'Socializing' was not really a First Order thing.

"322," FN-2187 repeated, nodding earnestly. "I'll remember that." He would, too. You got good at remembering strings of random numbers fast in the First Order. "Do you really only share with one person? We're not even officers or anything."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2016]

[rebelseekspizza]

Benji here was from some kind of military school or something, wasn't he? Huh.

"We've got no officers here," Dante said. "If anyone acts like they're better than you, you just smack 'em."

Probably terrible advice, but Dante didn't care.

"... But yep. One roommate. None, if you're lucky and they bail on you at the end of the term."

He was going to regret saying that once he realized Anders wasn't coming back.