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

Everyone had been keeping a close eye on the weather, and gave a sigh of relief as it turned out to be a pretty decent day. Sure, it was still a little warm, but it wasn't humid, or raining something strange. You had to take your wins where you could get them around here.

As usual, there was a buffet of food awaiting the folks on the welcome shuttle, and blue and gold tables and chairs were set up across the lawn, most still covered in glitter from the last picnic. Sorry ~~not~~! Happy picnic day!

[OCD is up! This is part one of the picnic, specifically for meeting siblings, roommates, and teachers. The rest of the picnic is happening here. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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Sabine had no idea what her expression was at hearing that one.

As soon as he'd taken the picture, she asked, "Wookiee, huh? Where are you from?"

And now Prompto's laugh went a little embarrassed, almost like he'd been caught in a lie of some sort. He ducked his head, rubbing the back of his neck with his free hand. "A place called Insomnia," he tried, "ever heard of it?"

No one so far had, so he wasn't expecting much. Which was so weird, who hadn't ever heard of one of the biggest cities in all of Eos? Bizarro.

"'Wookiee''s just something I picked up from someone on the shuttle here. She said it was a good word to help get people to smile for a shot, and she really nailed it. See?"

With a few presses of a button, he'd scrolled through the digital images of all the pictures he'd take so far to turn it around and show Sabine the selfie he'd taken with Vette, big old grins on both their faces. It was....probably one of his favorites so far, even if he still thought it was weird that she was blue.

"Never heard of it," she admitted, looking at the picture. "Oh hey, another Twi'lek!"

It felt weird when so many people from all over were or passed for human here.

Welp. At least being this far out, Prompto could probably stop worrying about running into any Nifs who might give him trouble for being loyal to the crown.

"Twi'lek?" he asked. "Oh, is that her, uh...."

Tribe? Clan? Nationality? What was the right word to use in this context?

"...what she is?"

Now it just sounded crass to ask it like that...

"It's her species, yes," Sabine corrected. She wasn't going to expect everyone to get that sort of thing right on their first day. "Everyone human where you come from?"

Species sounded...even more crass, almost. Prompto's brow knitted as he encountered the sort of question he'd have never imagined having to answer before.

"I mean," he said, rubbing his neck again, "I...guess so, yeah, mostly. I mean, there's people and animals and daemons..." And...whatever it was magitek soldiers were, which just gave Prompto the creeps just thinking about it, "but those are, like, you know, all really different."

"Well, it's going to be a little different here," she told him. "You'll find some people here who might be species or colors than you're not used to. It's not a lot, which is still weird, but you get used to it."

Unconsciously, Prompto found himself rubbing his right wrist, underneath the strap of his black gloves, then stopped abruptly when he realized what he was doing. He was quiet for a moment, wanting to ask something, not sure if he should, if it would kind of be...not cool...but Sabine so far had seemed pretty level so far, and he didn't feel he'd give him too much crap if what he asked was going to just sound really stupid and naive.

"So..." he ventured cautiously, "she's really...blue? That's not just a....like, really good make-up job?"

"She's really blue," she nodded, not judging at all. "She's from another planet. There are a few of us here."

Trying to sneak that one in casually.

A different...planet...

Prompto's face filled with red.

That explained why no one here had heard of Insomnia! And why that Lana girl with the cool eyes hadn't even heard of Eos! Geeeez, he felt like such an idiot now! But different planets???

Also, he noted to himself, that bus driver was probably definitely not talking about an airship.

"Wait," he said, holding up his hand, looking down at the ground while his brain tried to catch up with this spinning information. "Does that mean we're on a different planet? Right now? What's the planet called? It's Eos, right? Eos."

"Earth," she said. "Welcome!"

Did that make it better?

"Earth," Prompto repeated. And then one more time, as if that could help give it some more believably. "Earth."

But then he laughed a little, held up a finger, shaking it slightly in the air. "Wait a second," he said. "No, no, I think I know what this is. This is just a really...really...really elaborate joke, right? Hazing the newbies, seeing just how many you guys can get to fall for it, right?"

RIGHT??

"You think anyone's going to sit and get that much blue makeup done just to prank a handful of new kids?" Sabine asked.

That...was a very good point, yes.

"...some people are just really dedicated to their craft?" Prompto tried.

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"Sorry, no. It's okay, I think a lot of people think the same thing when they show up." Sabine had not. Sabine had figured out a good portion of the weirdness before she even got to the island. "You're in for a weird day, tomorrow will be better."

"Weird's okay," Prompto decided, smiling faintly. "I think I can deal with weird."

He..was pretty weird himself, in his own estimation, anyway.

"Good, then you'll do okay," she told him. "Is there anything else you're curious about? Any questions you have?"

There was so much stuff for new kids. So much.

"Mmmmmm...."

Yes. Yes, Prompto had questions, so many questions, probably about a million questions, a million and one, almost too many to know which to ask first, but then one did manage to rise to the top and begged to be asked.

"Yes. I have at least one," he held up a finger, "very important question. If Vette's really blue...is that," the finger now pointed at Sabine's head, "your real hair color?"

The most important questions!

"Not even close, and it'll be different as soon as I'm bored with it," she answered. Changing it was just a process. "What else?"

"Nice," said Prompto, his grin tilting a little. "But I like this color, it looks good. But it'll be cool to see what you come up with next..."

And he'd really kind of focused on trying to make that sound as smooth as he possibly could, so, despite plenty of questions, he suddenly drew a blank for all of them.

"Uhhhhh, um, well...what are the classes like? Are the teachers pretty strict?"

Bus Driver said he was a teacher, though, and he seemed pretty laid back and cool, but he could have been an exception and not the rule.

She sort of wanted to pat him on the head.

"A lot of the classes barely count as classes," she said, and added, "but some of them are pretty good. They're not typical, but there are some where you actually learn things, and the teachers I've had have been pretty good."

And then, "One or two also barely count as teachers."

There had been a class on Netflix.

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