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

[bigdamnprincipal]

So, the heat meant that many of the tables and chairs had been set up in the shade, and someone had found outdoor table umbrellas in blue and gold, god help us all. But hey, a little heat never hurt anyone who wasn't a vampire, right?

Ahem. The picnic was open for warm, sunny business.

[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 [Fall 2016]

[thewrathofkaan]

Roscoe whistled when he caught a glimpse of her. "Damn. You too." He couldn't help his gaze drifting to that bikini top, but he didn't think Ringo would mind. "I just decided I need summer to last forever."

Without bikini tops and cutoff shorts, was there even a reason to live, really?

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2016]

[soniaroadsqueen]

A year ago, she'd be blushing and ducking her head. But spending that year in Fandom had helped her get a lot more comfortable with herself, and if she'd minded the looking, she wouldn't have worn her current ensemble. In fact, she even grinned a bit at Roscoe's obvious appreciation.

She giggled. "I don't know. It's been kind of unbearably hot the past month or so. I think I might be ready for Fall."

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2016]

[thewrathofkaan]

"You say that now, but soon I'm going to have to wear a shirt and you'll be sad," Roscoe teased. "But I do like pumpkin spice coffee drinks. Having those again will be nice. And not sweating all my makeup off by 10 in the morning."

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2016]

[soniaroadsqueen]

Ringo laughed. "I don't mind wearing shirts. Actually, before I came to Fandom, I doubt I would have been wandering around in a bikini-top." Comfortably abbreviated clothes, sure, but actually skimpy? She was still getting used to that.

"And I've never really done a ton of make-up, but I imagine that's pretty annoying."

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2016]

[thewrathofkaan]

"Everyone else's loss, Fandom's gain," Roscoe teased. "This place is so good for that, isn't it? We're all so, like, comfortable with ourselves. I mean, I was even before I got here." He wasn't embarrassed of that, either. "But back home, I knew all these kids who were really shy and self-conscious and stuff, but people here pretty much know what they're about."

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2016]

[soniaroadsqueen]

"Well, some of us are still shy and self-conscious underneath," she pointed out self-deprecatingly. "But I'm working on it."

RE: Re: General Mingling [Fall 2016]

[thewrathofkaan]

"Pff. You shouldn't be," Roscoe said - and maybe it was a touch condescending, because he didn't really know anything about what it was really like to be self-conscious, but he meant it in a complimentary way. "I feel like, man, the way you ride those ATs? You're obviously awesome. Nothing to be shy about."

He smiled at her. "So how's your picnic going for you? Met anyone cool yet?"

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2016]

[soniaroadsqueen]

Ringo grinned at Roscoe, the expression a bit grateful. "Well, I know I'm awesome at AirTrek," she allowed. "Everything else, well, I'm still figuring that out."

"And so far it's going pretty well. I got a cool little sister!" She was beaming excitedly about that. She liked Margaery.

RE: Re: General Mingling [Fall 2016]

[thewrathofkaan]

"Me too!" Roscoe said brightly. "She has a shaved head. It's pretty sick." He beamed. "Which one's yours?"

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2016]

[soniaroadsqueen]

"Her name's Margaery. She's, like, from another world. One where they don't have cell phones or anything."

Ringo looked thoughtful for a moment. "Shaved head. Oh! Is it Negasonic Teenage Warhead?" She asked that as if it were a totally normal sounding name.

Or, rather, as if Ringo was just used to people having odd-sounding (to her) names.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2016]

[thewrathofkaan]

"Yeah! You met her?" Roscoe was feeling an unprecedented big-brotherly sense of pride. "I don't think I met Margaery, but that sounds like a tough adjustment. Negasonic was, like, totally cool with the weird shit."

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2016]

[soniaroadsqueen]

"Yeah, I saw. She was, like, totally taking everything in stride. Didn't seem weirded out by anything." Or just didn't care, which didn't occur to Ringo as a possibility.