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

[bigdamnprincipal]

Over on this part of the school lawn... yeah, it was still chilly. Stupid winter, doing its winter thing. But there were plenty of chairs and tables for people watching, feasting on warm foods and drinks, and generally attempting to meet the new folks!

[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 [Spring 2018]

[squidpiddge]

"You were born on an island where people only eat garbage because your mom was a sea witch," Molly repeated. "I don't know where that makes sense, and I come from a place also very strange."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2018]

[refused2berescued]

"Well, she did try to usurp the throne of Atlantica from her half-brother by turning his youngest daughter into animate sea kelp," Uma said proudly, because again, raised by villains. And Ursula was one of the most evil and most powerful, now that Maleficent was a lizard. "But yeah. That's pretty much it."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2018]

[squidpiddge]

"Yes, but that's something she did," Molly said. "You didn't do anything to deserve garbage food for your entire life."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2018]

[refused2berescued]

"Well, yesterday I kidnapped the king, held him hostage, snuck into a royal ball, put him under a love spell, and then attacked everyone on board," Uma said, because hell yes she was proud of that. Except for everything that had gone wrong, like getting tricked by a fake wand, the love spell breaking due to 'true love's kiss,' gag, and conceding the field to Ben at the end.

But the evil stuff, that she was proud of.

"Except now I'm here, instead of being on the Isle."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2018]

[squidpiddge]

"But these were the people who had forced you to live on an island eating garbage since you were born, right?" Molly said. "They... probably deserved it."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2018]

[refused2berescued]

"Ben is their son, he's my age," Uma said. "But yeah. He kept telling me he'd give me a chance." Her lip curled. "I didn't need him to give me a chance, to be 'part of the solution' to a problem his family made." She airquoted that, salt and sand falling off her fingerless gloves. "I told him I'd find my own way out."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2018]

[squidpiddge]

"Ben's the king?" Molly asked, making sure she understood. "Honestly, coming here sounds way better than being back on garbage island or in their weird and also evil civilization."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2018]

[refused2berescued]

"He's the king now," Uma said. "His parents decided to step down and make him be king a few months ago."

Yup. Perfectly rational adult thing to do: put a child in charge of everything. One more in a long line of brilliant decisions.

"And--yeah. The food's better anyway. But I left my crew behind." Uma frowned. Friends didn't leave friends back on the isle. That was the promise that she and Harry had made, after the coronation when Mal had chosen good and had forgotten all about them.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2018]

[squidpiddge]

"Leaving friends behind is never good," Molly agreed. "Especially when they're victims of a terrible regime. Or, at least, that's how I'd report it."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2018]

[refused2berescued]

"I didn't say friends, I said crew," Uma snapped quickly.

Even if she, in the privacy of her own thoughts, considered some of her crew friends, maybe, that didn't mean she was willing to admit that out loud.

"Villains don't have friends, we have underlings."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2018]

[squidpiddge]

"That's a shame," Molly said. "Friends are better than any amount of treating people like they're not worth anything."

You were pressing some of Molly's buttons, Uma.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2018]

[refused2berescued]

In fairness, that was also what villains did.

"Friends are a weakness that can be used against you, assuming they don't turn against you first," Uma said flatly.

GIL AND HARRY WERE AN EXCEPTION TO THAT! AND JUST CREW ANYWAY! SHUT UP SHE WOULD FIGHT YOU.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2018]

[squidpiddge]

"Oh, now I see what you mean by being a villain," Molly said. "Must be awfully lonely, if you ask me."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2018]

[refused2berescued]

Uma shrugged. "Hard to be lonely when you're just trying to survive."

Not entirely true. You could be lonely and struggling to survive at the same time. But that was admitting weakness. And that was worse for survival than loneliness was.