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

[bigdamnprincipal]

It may have just been a coincidence that the weather was sunny now that Fandom was back home in Maryland, but no one was going to complain.

Okay, maybe they were going to complain a little since the sun meant it was in the high 90s 32C outside, but that just meant there was a good excuse for all the ice cream on the buffet table of picnic food.

There was the usual second table set up as well, stacked with nametags and lists to help folks locate their siblings and roommates. Once the chairs were set up and the tables were glittered, it was time to welcome the new folks and start a new semester!

[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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Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[sith_happened]

"Probably Obi-Wan," Anakin said. "He does a disappointed look that has you looking for a rock to crawl under."

RE: Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[uncertain_dume]

"... I suppose I should consider myself lucky that I haven't gotten the disappointed look from him yet," Kanan decided. "Mostly, it's the 'I don't even have to try that hard to not look amused, but we both know I am' look."

And he seemed to get that one a lot.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[sith_happened]

Anakin snickered. "I got that one a lot as a Padawan. He's stroking his beard to hide a smile?"

RE: Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[uncertain_dume]

"All the time," Kanan admitted, giving a somewhat more relaxed chuckle. "Kind of makes me wish I could have seen him when he was a Padawan. There is no way he's always been mister Perfect Jedi, is there?"

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[sith_happened]

"He was still pretty perfect," Anakin said with a fond smile. "The haircut did him no favors, though."

RE: Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[uncertain_dume]

"Maybe it's for the best that the Jedi were never known for their great hair," Kanan offered. "With perhaps a few notable exceptions."

The shameless ones who actually cared about how they looked. Not that there was anybody like that here now, right?

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[sith_happened]

Not at all! Nope!

"Or Master Windu, who just shaved it all off," Anakin said. "I tried that once. It looked terrible."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[uncertain_dume]

"The only Master Windu out there is Master Windu," Kanan agreed, nodding. "I'm pretty sure I couldn't pull off 'bald' so well, myself. I'll take long but out of the way for now and consider that a win."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[sith_happened]

"Like Master Jinn," Anakin said, nodding.

RE: Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[uncertain_dume]

"I never got to know Master Jinn," Kanan said, after a moment's pause. "I was maybe a year old when he died."

Did you feel old yet, Anakin?

"But I've heard great things about the man." A pause. "And his hair."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[sith_happened]

Anakin felt ancient, yeah, and he'd met his own great-great-grandkid.

"He was a major influence on Obi-Wan," Anakin said, nodding.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[uncertain_dume]

"Then I really am sorry I never got to get to know him," Kanan said, an actual tinge of regret in his voice. Not that there was really much that he could have done differently. What were his options? Be born earlier? "Maybe you or Master Kenobi can tell me more about him, sometime."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[sith_happened]

"I'd love to," Anakin said. "It might be slightly more difficult for Master Kenobi."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan nodded in understanding.

"I would find it difficult to talk about Master Billaba, and I didn't spend as much time with her as I suppose Master Kenobi would have spent with Master Jinn," he admitted. "But if you don't mind, I would appreciate it. I feel as though I've lost touch of a lot of... all of it, and so far Master Kenobi and yourself are the two only connections to what I left behind that I have."

Well. And the holocron that Depa had given to him on the night she was murdered. But he didn't talk about that.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[sith_happened]

Anakin nodded, biting his lower lip (because he was so, so guilty for why Kanan didn't have any Jedi around. SO GUILTY.). "I only know about Master Jinn from a brief encounter when I was ten, plus the stories Master Kenobi told me, often using that exasperated but not really tone."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[uncertain_dume]

"I know that tone," Kanan replied, smiling faintly. "Master Billaba used one like it with me now and again, too. Is learning how to use that tone a prerequisite for becoming a Master that nobody ever told me about?"

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[sith_happened]

"Yes," Anakin said, nodding. "Plus your Padawan will naturally bring it out in you when they do things you did as a Padawan but need to be corrected anyway."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[uncertain_dume]

"Oooh, no," Kanan said, holding up his hands. "That would require me getting a Padawan. I'm not even thinking about that, yet. There is no way I'm even remotely qualified for that sort of thing."

Really, someday he would have one and still not be all that qualified.

And then he'd lose his eyes. So.