Fandom High Graduation Ceremony, Class of 2018, Early Saturday Evening [Part 1]

[bigdamnprincipal]

As soon as the sun was down, everything was ready for the graduation ceremony to begin. The lawn of the school had been lit up with blue and gold lights, which reflected nicely off of the glitter scattered throughout the lawn. Yes, glitter was going to get all over everything, sorry.

There were chairs set up for all of the graduates, and plenty of seats for guests to come and watch. The weather was beautiful, cooling off after the hot, sunny day, and everything seemed quiet, calm, and normal. You know, for now.

Congratulations, Class of 2018! You made it to the end!

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Diplomas [Grad 2018]

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Once the speeches were over, Zoe came back up to the podium, and called each graduate's name to give them their diploma.

[Please wait until the diploma-receiver has pinged into their appropriate thread before commenting with reactions.]

Ahsoka Tano

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Re: Ahsoka Tano

[snipsnspecks]

Was Ahsoka feeling very ambivalent about this whole thing as it was nothing like the kind of ceremony she would have had if she hadn't left the Order (well, except for Anakin being here)?

Yes, but you wouldn't know it to look at her.

Re: Ahsoka Tano

[uncertain_dume]

At least, up in the seats, Kanan kind of understood how off this ceremony in particular probably felt.

He was applauding extra loudly for her regardless. Maybe more out of sympathy than pride. Maybe with a bit of a pang in his chest that he was hell-bent on ignoring. They might have been robbed of their respective ceremonies in different ways, but all the same...

Hey, congrats for making it to this one, Ahsoka?

Re: Ahsoka Tano

[sith_happened]

Anakin cheered embarrassingly loudly for her. "GO AHSOKA!"

Re: Ahsoka Tano

[era_two_triangle]

Sure, Peridot didn't spend much time in their room, but technically she and Ahsoka had been cohabitating for some time now, and so Peridot was here to show her support during this ceremony of adolescent educational acknowledgment.

She wasn't sure quite what to do, but she was paying enough attention to applaud while everyone else was while she was standing on her chair.

And to holler a "Commendations and praises on your achievement!"

Learning was still a work in progress.

Re: Ahsoka Tano

[futurespacemom]

Hera barely knew Ahsoka, but she figured folks with lekku had to stick together, so she was smiling and clapping for her.

Dante

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Re: Dante

[rebelseekspizza]

"Hey, go figure." Dante took the diploma, rolled it up, and twirled in the air. "No take-backs."

Re: Dante

[furnaceface]

This was just bloody weird. Dante was one of those students who had felt oddly like he wasn't quite a student from the get-go, a little too detached from 'normal student' things even by Fandom's standards, a little too well-versed in the real world to really have that 'shiny new student' feel about him. Hell, he'd been through a lot since he'd been that lad who hadn't trusted him for all the flame, had grown in ways that only Fandom could teach.

And he was a damn fine music shop employee besides.

So of course Jonothon was clapping a little extra loudly for Dante as he went up and took the diploma. He'd earned it.

Re: Dante

[smilestopscars]

Ezra whooped and clapped loudly for this one. Of course.

Eric Bittle

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Re: Eric Bittle

[omgnochecksyet]

And that got little victory shimmy, this time with diploma in hand.

Hyacinthe

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Re: Hyacinthe

[vrajna_kralis]

"My thanks," Hyacinthe said, taking the diploma and holding it over his heart to bow slightly to Zoe. And then he turned towards the audience, giving them a far more extravagant bow, one befitting the Prince of Travelers.

Kaylin Neya

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Re: Kaylin Neya

[notamascot]

Kaylin took the diploma with a nod. "Thank you," she said as formally as she could manage.

Mara Jade

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Re: Mara Jade

[giveherahand]

Mara held up her diploma a little wryly. Four years and she hadn't been publicly outed as a spy. That was an achievement, right?

Plus the Emperor hadn't come for her graduation. That was its own achievement.

Maria DeLuca

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Rey

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Re: Rey

[thatwaslucky]

Rey walked up, took her diploma.... and realized she wasn't sure if she was supposed to do anything else, so she just kind of headed off quickly just in case.

Rhys

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Summer Smith

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Re: Summer Smith

[somethingwithturquoise]

Obviously, they just saved the best for last. The fact that it also happened to correspond alphabetically was just coincidence.

In her head, Summer had planned to get her diploma, turn to the crowd while holding it up, and say something like "Yeah, that's right, bitches!" or "Boo-yah! Summer OUT!", but when she was actually up there in the moment, she somehow got a little flustered and just sort of took the diploma with a nervous chuckle and a "Thanks!", waved it at the audience a little with a stupid, proud-of-herself grin, and hurried off the stage.

Hey. The very much normal teenager doing a normal teenager thing and being a little embarrassed about how much she was digging it had to come out sometimes, and when it came out, there wasn't much room for grandstanding.