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

[bigdamnprincipal]

Thankfully, the weather on the island today was fairly nice for the tail end of December, but there was still a medium-sized bonfire going in the middle of the lawn, partly due to tradition and partly due to the potential for shirtlessness (which, Zoe supposed, was also tradition.)

The usual tables were set up with warm foods, nametags, and lists for the new and old folks to find each other. Once everything was set up, it was time to celebrate a new year and the start of a new semester!

[OCD is up! I'm consolidating this down to one post, so bring all your new and old folks over here! Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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Re: General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[soniaroadsqueen]

"Oh, I didn't know that one." She shrugged apologetically. "I've got a handkerchief if you want to borrow it, though."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[studyingfear]

"I would appreciate it," he said, looking at his hands distastefully. "I'll get it back to you once it's clean again."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[soniaroadsqueen]

Ringo reached into her pocket and fished the thing out, rolling over to him on ATs to hold it out.

Handkerchiefs were harder to throw than brownies.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[studyingfear]

He took it with grave dignity, finishing his brownie as he did so.

"Thank you," he said. "Do you throw brownies at many people?"

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[soniaroadsqueen]

"Well, those who look like they need it." Via whatever criteria Ringo used, which was convoluted and mostly came down to "whenever I feel like it".

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[studyingfear]

"I feel blessed," Rufus said dryly, wiping his hands. "Only not."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[soniaroadsqueen]

"By my amazing presence?" Ringo put on a smug expression. "You should."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[studyingfear]

He eyed her.

"What do you want?"

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[soniaroadsqueen]

"What, a girl can't check in on her friends at a picnic?"

Sorry, Rufus. You'd talked to her a couple of times, so now you were friends.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[studyingfear]

He'd been having a bad day, Ringo.

You were making this worse.

"... Friends," he said flatly. "What."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[soniaroadsqueen]

Ringo rolled her eyes. "Uh, yeah. Friends. You know, people you hang out with on occasion? Talk to?" She nodded at the handkerchief. "Borrow stuff from?"

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[studyingfear]

Rufus looked vaguely appalled as he glanced at the handkerchief. He was deeply tempted to thrust it back at her and storm off only, no, Dark Nation was falling asleep and handing her a used handkerchief was disgusting.

"I would call that mere acquaintances," Rufus said, after a moment.

He was terrible at friends.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[soniaroadsqueen]

"Oh, yeah? Lots of your acquaintances give you brownies?" That brownie had been an (unintentional) trap, Rufus! Haha!

And don't worry, plenty of Ringo's friends were terrible at friends. Just ask Lucille!

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[studyingfear]

He would probably get along reasonable well with Lucille, that was the thing.

They could both ignore the other and it would be quite pleasant.

"Laced with poison, perhaps," Rufus said. "Or they want something from me."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[soniaroadsqueen]

"Want something from you?" Ringo looked at him doubtfully. "Like what? To pet your dog?"

Well, Dark Nation was cute.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[studyingfear]

"Dark Nation invites that--as if I could stop them," Rufus said, a bit ruefully. Fine. Fine. He didn't have to like it but he didn't have the energy to figure out how to get away from Ringo without doing something that would cause people to pay attention to this corner of the picnic.

"No. My father is... very important and has many enemies." Rufus' lip curled up very slightly. "I'm his heir."

It wasn't paranoia if people really were out to get you.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[soniaroadsqueen]

"Oh." Ringo hadn't known that, and she stood there for a moment considering it.

"That sounds, um, complicated?"

She chewed her lip for a moment. "Being an heir is pretty stressful, huh?" Funny how she sort of sounded like she was speaking from experience.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[studyingfear]

"It's a fact of life," he said, though the glance he gave her was considering.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[soniaroadsqueen]

Ringo nodded. "Yeah. No one really asks if you want to be an heir, huh?"

And it wasn't like you could, you know, not be one once you were.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[studyingfear]

"Do you not care for being an heir?" he asked, wondering.

Besides, it was vaguely more tactful than telling her he only hated being the heir because it meant he wasn't in charge yet.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[soniaroadsqueen]

"Hmm. Sometimes?" Ringo admitted. "But it was easier, I think, than after." Being queen was harder than merely getting ready to be queen.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[studyingfear]

See, now that was interesting.

"Oh?" he asked. "You're a ruler in your own right?"

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[soniaroadsqueen]

"I suppose? Technically?" Ringo reached up and tugged idly at one of her pigtails. "I left most of that behind when I came to Fandom."

It had been a very welcome reprieve.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[studyingfear]

"...Doesn't that make you a poor leader to have done so?"

Like. Seriously. Rufus was judging you, Ringo.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[soniaroadsqueen]

"Maybe," Ringo admitted a little sadly. "Though there wasn't much need for me by the end. There was peace, so there wasn't much need for a Thorn Queen."