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

[bigdamnprincipal]

The weather held out nicely during the day, and while that meant some of the tables were right out in the warm sun, others had been carefully placed under some shade, and the gentle breeze had cleared at least a little of the glitter up.

It wasn't totally gone, of course. That wouldn't be any fun!

[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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General Mingling [Summer 2017]

[bigdamnprincipal]

With or without shirts on, because tradition.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2017]

[sampippy]

Xanthippe was neither shirtless nor really mingling. Because keeping your eyes on your phone the entire time you were walking around did not count as mingling by any stretch of the imagination.

If she walked right into any of you... She wasn't going to be sorry.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2017]

[good_for_six]

Isabela was indeed going shirtless, and wearing the smallest bra she could get get away with without gaining a public indecency charge.

You're welcome, new kids.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2017]

[2_old_for_this]

Peter was curious about the new people, so he was going to show up and look around.

He'd be ignoring the food for reasons, and keeping his shirt on because he was an Adult, but it was a nice day out, so why not mingle a bit?

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2017]

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante had his shirt off. He was also sauntering in about an hour after the start of the picnic; he'd grabbed a quick portal over to scope out the newbies today, but that was it.

Mm, sunlight.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2017]

[got_hijacked]

Yeah, Rhys wasn't going to be shirtless either because that was sort of weird. Also he was pale enough to blind people and scrawny as a noodle.

But he was there, keeping an eye out.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2017]

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer had been promised food, and food there was, glorious food, all spread out in the open for flies to land on it, but she did not care one bit. Food! Not pills! She was trying to contain her excitement because she didn't want to give herself that reputation, but when she hadn't had a slice of pizza or even a goddamn potato chip in a few months, it was kind of a big deal.

But she wasn't so hungry that she couldn't start snapping pictures and sending them to Morty to rub it in his face. She even got on facetime to make it particularly sweet. "Hey, Morty. Morty, look at this. Do you see this? Look. Pizza. Pepperoni, ohmygod, it tastes so, so good. It's so greasy and cheesy, just dripping down my chin, oh man, Morty."

"Aww, gee, Summer! W-why do you gotta be such a bitch?"

"Oh, and look, Morty, look at this hamburger, and all these fixings, I am going to have the biggest, juiciest burger you can imagine. They look like they were grilled, too, they'e got grill marks, and--"

"Summer, stop teasing your brother with food."

"Oh! Oh, look, Dad, look at this!"

"Is that...is that...rocky road?"

"Yeah, Dad, it is! Read 'em and weep! You want to send me away to school, well, suck on it. At least I have real food. Stick that in your craw and eat it. Oh, wait, you can't. Ah ha ha ha ha!"

Mmmm, petty revenge never tasted so sweet. But now that that was over, maybe she can go back to being normal and hoping that not too many people saw that.

The Smith family was...a special family.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2017]

[magnusrushesin]

Magnus was lured away from the whole teacher thing for the promise of food. Sometime it felt like he never ate outside of those times with the Glutton's Fork.

"Oh man, I hope they have a double-barrel unicorn blast here!"

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2017]

[snipsnspecks]

Ahsoka was not shirtless. Ahsoka being shirtless in public would likely end badly for all concerned.

Ahsoka, did however have a plate full of food.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2017]

[junebug1500]

June ... was mostly confused.

Very, very confused.

But she wasn't about to show it, so she piled a plate with fruit and cookies and tried not to make eye contact with any of the shirtless people.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2017]

[sharp_man]

Hannibal had his own coffee (and beer, to share with Jono if nobody else) and sandwiches, and since the weather was good, he was sitting at a table in the sun, enjoying it.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2017]

[that_oldsaying]

The chance that Alluka would ever go shirtless at a picnic was less than zero even if she understood the reasoning why. (Which she didn't.)

So she was fully dressed in a cute, pink skirt, black leggings, and a green, frilly top. Her stuffed bunny was held in her arms as she peered around with big, blue eyes.

... and maybe was making her way over to the tables to see how much chocolate she could eat today before anyone stopped her.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2017]

[era_two_triangle]

Oh, hey! Peridot was shirtless!

Heck, Peridot was naked, except for her nametag, which, admittedly, was more than she usually wore. Not that anybody would really know to look at her, since her body also came with a convenient green and yellow bodysuit kind of deal, but she was way more naked than anybody else here, probably.

And she was giving the food table a look. Ugh, with the humans and the eating...

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2017]

[boneyard_girl]

Ada wasn't shirtless, but given the cut of her top it was close. Though really, if you counted the amount of glitter she was wearing, she was totally clothed decently.

Besides, this was pretty much the first day of the year she could run around in tiny shorts and not freeze to death; she wanted to enjoy the sun as much as possible.

And if she had tiny packets of glitter to throw at people tucked in her bag? Well, that was also a Fandom Welcome as much as the shirtlessness.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2017]

[furnaceface]

Leaning back against a tree on the outskirts of the park, mostly just to give the newcomers to the island some idea of what it was they might be getting themselves into, unwrapped but not so shirtless that he wasn't going to wear a leather jacket anyway, was Jono.

Because he was a little shit, that was why. Welcome to Fandom Island, kids.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2017]

[intotheout]

Tip had her old polaroid camera out and was grabbing action shots of the crowd. Specifically she was trying for reaction shots from newbies, but she'd take what she could get.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2017]

[onefootoutthedoor]

Peebee, now with glitter sticking to her skin and clothes in various places, had grabbed herself a plate of food and was . . . not sitting down. She kept roaming from one spot to another, apparently unwilling to stay still for more than a minute or two.

And if she seemed interested in the promised shirtlessness, well, look. She had a chance to do some pioneering exobiological studies here! It wasn't even just the humans! She'd spotted a few other species she didn't recognize. Ooo, this place was going to be fun.

Besides, these humans were pretty easy on the eyes. No arguments there.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2017]

[vdistinctive]

Eliot was actually for real taking the summer off from teaching — the first session, anyway. But coming to the picnic was practically tradition for him now, so he was here anyway, sipping a microbrewed ginger beer.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2017]

[intraspective]

Honestly, it felt pretty weird to go to a picnic here, of all places, when she was neither student nor teacher.

On a whim, Ino had taken some time with her hair this morning and it was done up in an elaborate up-do, complete with a pair of hairsticks.

It was a stark contrast to the black suit she wore as she people-watched but that was alright.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2017]

[cracksmostly]

Merrill had a spot at a nice shady table where she could observe people from a comfortable distance, a plate piled high with food, and a book on Thedosian magical artifacts she'd found in the library. It wasn't the most useful book, since it hadn't come out of Special Collections, but she was hoping to find some information nonetheless.

She might be starting to get more than a little bit preoccupied with eluvians.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2017]

[soniaroadsqueen]

Ringo had come with ATs. Obviously.

In fact, once she'd grabbed a snack, she'd found a little bit of open space and was sort of doing an impromptu little exhibition.

Of course AirTrek was at its best with lots of space to work with, but there were quite a few people who'd basically worked to combine the techniques with break dancing to create some truly impressive tricks. And while that wasn't usually Ringo's bag, she'd picked up enough to still look pretty good as she spun through a series of humanly-impossible flips.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2017]

[retired_hero]

Anne was sticking to the periphery of the picnic for the most part. She was still feeling sort of awkward about this whole thing. After all, she'd never really been a teacher before? Sure, she'd done some training for the Knights at certain points in her career, but that was all fighting techniques, and with cadets to boot, who were all scared to cross her.

She snorted as she slung her bag off her right shoulder and set it on the ground before lowering herself beside it. She really should probably make finding a place to sleep tonight a priority, but she was too busy enjoying no one pointing at her or giving her that Look. Lodging could wait.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2017]

[justlike_a_girl]

Dani grabbed some sandwiches, sodas, and a bag of chips before commandeering a table. She had a live sports app on her phone and set it up so she could watch the Kentucky Derby while she ate. There was plenty of room if other horse racing fans wanted to join her, and she had the latest odds should anyone want to put some money down.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2017]

[thatsweirdright]

Jason did not have a shirtless icon wasn't about to jump right in to this shirtlessness thing, but he was going to pile a plate high with food and find a place to sit.

Now that he knew this place definitely wasn't the punishment the AGSD had in mind, he was feeling much better about the whole thing.

OOC [Summer 2017]

[bigdamnprincipal]

Now, let's hope the real local weather holds out!