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

The weather was lovely, the newbies had survived their shuttle, and yes, all the holes in the lawn from graduation had been filled and covered with new grass so everything looked normal and pretty. Well, pretty, at least.

[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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Good food, good company, and good weather for shirtlessness! Traditiooooon!

Edited 2018-05-12 07:58 (UTC)

I love when I don't have to lie that the weather is nice. *lies in the warm sunny spot*

Breq had picked up some food and found a seat in the shade, watching people walk past her. She tried to assume a neutral yet not completely blank expression, but found it hard to know if she succeeded or not.

Well. The school seemed to have gone all out with the food spread, which shouldn't have surprised Astrid too much if she considered how they went all out with the glitter on that banner. She wondered if the janitors cursed the school constantly, having to sweep up the sparkly remnants after the bus shuttled off toward the island.

And it was an island, too, near an ocean she'd lived near before, but far on the other side, an ocean she found much colder than the one back home, but that wasn't necessarily a bad thing.

The food wasn't a bad thing, either. When she felt no one was really looking, a few things that would keep well, like rolls or maybe a sandwich, pieces of friut and definitely anything pre-wrapped, might have been slipped into her bag for later. If everything else was an indication, she wasn't exactly going to hard up for food here, but old habits from never knowing where your next meal might come from didn't fade easily.

Then she filled a plate up with a modest amount of whatever looked best and found her way to a table off to the side a little, a good one for people watching, her sketchbook out and open for anything that might strike her particularly strong between eating and just soaking it all in.

Jason had made it to the food tables, at least, before his knee just noped right the fuck out of this nonsense and he found himself hobbling over to the closest table and grabbing a chair. He’d just be here for the forseeable future, thanks.

Norman wasn't shying away from the crowd today, which was actually something of an accomplishment. He'd parked himself at an empty picnic table with a plate of food and a can of Coke, and was looking around at the new faces. And sort of ignoring the gremlin ghost who was standing on the table in front of him, alternating between pretending to be able to eat his food, and trying actively to block Norman's view of the rest of the picnic. Since he was mostly see-through, it wasn't all that effective, really.

Norman rolled his eyes, seemingly at nothing, and then turned a look toward the ghost.

"Do you mind? I'm being social."

Well. He was existing in the same area as other people. That was kind of the same thing.

Edited 2018-05-12 12:29 (UTC)

Peridot didn't care much for the food at all, and she didn't wear clothes, so going without a shirt wasn't exactly a new and novel development either. But she did have a Pumpkin, who she was throwing a stick for, in the hopes that her little friend would run and fetch it.

Pumpkin, for the most part, was just looking at the stick, and then looking back at Peridot, giving a confused little whine until Peridot went to fetch the stick herself before throwing it back the other way again.

This could continue for a while.

Edited 2018-05-12 11:40 (UTC)

Oh, Sidon loved the welcome picnic, so full of fresh promises and plenty of new introductions! He drifted between snagging bites of food from the table here and there to drifting around the picnic, looking for faces new and old to chat with, and enjoying the general atmosphere of the event. True, it never took much to make Sidon happy, but being around people enjoying themselves was certainly one of his favorites. Bright toothy grins for everyone!

Octavia was here strictly to eat her fill of the food, and to take some of it back to the apartment with her. Sure, life on the island was different from life on the ground in that food was plentiful, but the scavenging mentality was a hard thing to shake. Especially when you thought it unwise to do so.

So she was loading up a plate and also the bag slung over her shoulder, occasionally pausing to examine something or other she hadn't seen before.

On one hand, this whole thing set Sabine on edge, and getting shuffled off to some school on a planet she'd never heard of made her nervous for a lot of reasons. But at the same time, it wasn't an airport or a Portalocity lounge somewhere, so she'd deal with it at least long enough to get some real sleep.

She had her helmet on, mostly so she could take pictures through it without being obvious, and was off to the side somewhere, leaning against a tree and watching. This was just really not how she thought this day would go.

Either this was one of the new students or Sidon needed to compliment someone on their excellent new outfit. And, really, he'd started conversation on much less before, anyway.

"Hello, there!" he called out, waving a hand above his head as he approached. "Are you a person I already know hiding in there, or is this someone new for me to meet?"

Jaylah found a seat where she could reasonably keep an eye on the crowd, finding so many people around him a little uncomfortable without familiar faces. At least there was food available.

That was a total plus.

Manfred was starting to get a headache, which was not the best sign, but he was going to have to deal with it, since this place was unlikely to stop being...this place. So he'd put his sunglasses on to at least cut down the glare of the sun, and was helping himself to the free food. Even with the headache, he was still a growing boy with a healthy appetite.

Well this was new. Sabine didn't recognize the species, but it had been a little disappointing that this place seemed so human.

"You don't know me. I'm just temporary," Sabine said after a moment's thought.

Rey always tended to come to these, even if she just sat off to the side. There was, after all, free food, and old habits died hard, so she had a seat at a picnic table with a plate, watching the festivities.

"Temporary?" Sidon asked, his head quirking slightly for a moment before his radiant disposition flooded right back in, and he laughed. "Well, then, we shall have to make the most of what time we have! Allow me to introduce myself." And he nearly radiated with energy as he built up to one of his favorite things in the entire world; really, he didn't understand why more people didn't take advantage of having customary catchphrase greetings.

"I am Sidon!" he announced proudly, with an eager pump of his fist across his chest and the most shimmering sharktoothed grin he could muster. "The Zora Prince! Who might you be, so finely clad and ready for battle?"

So it turned out Theron was kind of terrible at this whole being sociable thing, but there was free food, and he was a growing teen.

Was...was that a Gremlin? After the clown at the station, Astrid supposed she wouldn't be surprised if there was a costumed mascot hanging around the school, too, and she figured it was either this little green thing or the big red thing, neither of which seemed to fit her idea of what a gremlin would look like, but what did she know?

She did know that it was a really interesting design, especially the geometrical shape of the thing's hair, and it was going to make for a really interesting drawing. She particularly liked the challenge of trying to capture a certain gleam of the sun off the texture that was clearly not the sort of fabric and foam she'd expect from a mascot costume.

Hey, now! Peridot wasn't a gremlin. But she had once been crowned queen of the gremlins, and there was a very important distinction, there. She threw the stick, none the wiser to the audience that she had apparently gained.

It was Pumpkin who had noticed first, in fact, and rather than paying any more attention to Peridot's rather one-sided game, she was trotting over to investigate the new person, pumpkin-guts tongue lolling out of her mouth and her little pumpkin vine not-quite-a-tail trailing along behind her.

She barked.

Yeah, and that was another thing...

Astrid looked up from her drawing, blinked at the little pumpkin thing that seemed to have barked at her, asked herself if the little pumpkin thing had barked at her, and then concluded that she couldn't deal with that answer right now, and did the only thing she could think to do to deal with it.

Which was stopping her drawing of the maybe-Gremlin, flipping to a fresh page, and starting to draw the pumpkin thing.

She'd have time to figure out whats and whys later; she could compartmentalize like a champ.

One reason Sabine was glad for the helmet: she had a thing going today and it was better that people not see her trying not to smile right now.

"Sabine. No title for me," she said.

Pumpkin, for her part, mostly just made herself comfortable there on the grass. Say what you wanted to about the little pumpkin thing, she was a very good model.

It was a few more moments before Peridot realized that she was actually, truly throwing the stick for herself, and she made her way over to investigate what was going on.

"Pumpkin, you missed," she accused, before peering speculatively at the new person. "What are you doing?"

Ahsoka wasn't quite sure how she felt about this being her last welcome picnic, so she picked out a quiet spot for people watching.

Hannibal was only teaching at the community center this term, but that didn't mean he wasn't going to show up and meet people.

And completely avoid the food in favor of his own insulated bag of sandwiches and thermos of coffee.

Peter was...sort of teaching? More "having movie night somewhere outside his apartment", really. But it would probably be good to get out and meet people.

He found himself a glass of lemonade and looked around to see anyone he knew or might want to know.

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