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

The tables and chairs had been scattered around the lawn - some near the food, some not, some in the shade, some not - and the food was ready for anyone who wanted to come by and greet the new people.

Enjoy your last picnic where shirtlessness will be enjoyable until next summer, 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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Get to know your new classmates and teachers and try not to break them just yet, please!

Noooo summer, come back!

Octavia had no particular interest in greeting new people.

But she had a great interest in food, so she was piling her plate high - and pocketing things that could be pocketed. If it was free for the taking, she was taking it.

Vette was starting to kind of resign herself to the possibility that she A) Probably hadn't been having a weird fever dream all morning and was actually on some weird backrocket world somewhere surrounded mainly by humans, and B) Had no idea what she was doing, but at least the food looked good.

Not that she knew what any of it was. It was still more food than she'd seen in one place in a long while, and so she was looking thoughtfully over at the food table, wondering how much of that was safe to eat. She could probably get away with picking over what the humans were eating...?

Probably.

But...I did. I'm right here!

Norman kind of actually liked picnic days. They were basically the only days of the year where he got to stuff his face full of potato chips and still not feel like the most awkward kid on campus.

He was smiling as he made himself comfortable at one of the picnic tables with, yes, a plate full of food including but not limited to chips, and looked around to see if he could pick out the new faces from the old.

And occasionally looking off into the distance to watch a ghost-shark swimming around, trying futilely to chomp down on a ghost-pterodactyl. Because there was never a dull moment on Fandom Island if you could literally see the spirits of invasions past, apparently.

One thing Astrid had to admit was that this place definitely knew how to welcome new people. It was such a stark difference to the unceremonious shipping of foster kids from one place to the next that it almost made her forget that she was a ward of the state and she was pretty much only here because it was the only place they could put her.

Almost.

She stayed off to the side, of course, sitting on top of a table a bit removed from the cluster of others, sketchbook open in her lap as she wondered about what sorts of fucked up stories all these newer people had, trying to pick them out from the more familiar faces, taking it all in for a moment before she finally decided to start drawing, letting her long blonde hair create a curtain over her face and her work, with occasional glances up. She'd grabbed some food, but for now, until the scene started to come together a little bit more, she'd left her sandwich and little bowl of fruit untouched.

Duh, of course Summer was going to show up to the newbie picnic, even if she'd admit she was doing it less to meet and greet any new students or teachers and more to just parade around the fact that she was back. She wasn't looking for new faces, she was looking for familiar ones, but she'd be lying if she said she wasn't intrigued by the unfamiliar ones. It would be interesting to see if she could successfully pick out which new faces were New New and which were just Over the Summer New.

Not only another non-human here, but another twi'lek!

Hera grinned as she came over to say hi. "Hi! Nice to see familiar lekku with all the humans here. Don't worry, most of them are okay. Doesn't make it any less weird."

Naturally, with his Big Sibling duties taken care of, it was time for Sidon to enjoy the picnic , as well as find the other new faces and introduce himself to the other new students as well! His pumping arm was stretched and ready to go, his teeth felt particularly shiny, too! But first...he would have to swing by the food tables to grab something to eat, picking out whatever he could locate that had fish in it, as well as a slice or two (or five, he was a growing young Zora!) of pizza, the one human food he continually managed to find palatable for some odd reason.

You'd think a guy who was best friends with a prince would be a little less excited about a castle. But it wasn't like Prompto had ever been inside the palace in Insomnia and the idea that he might get to one day seriously overwhelmed him. This castle wasn't nearly as impressive, but it was still a. freaking. CASTLE. Ohhhh, he was getting so many pictures of this, he was going to run out of film soon, but he just kept snapping away, getting a few shots, at least one or two selfies with the castle in the background, and then he turned his lens toward the picnic as a whole, all the decorations, all the people, he wanted to capture it all.

And then the food! Definitely some pictures of that, his mouth watering as he considered the incredible spread of offerings. Were these all for them? So far, this school. was. AMAZING! It sure beat the pants off of his old school, so maybe this paperwork error was a blessing in disguise.

He snapped more pictures, using the camera in between them as a way to help him curb his desire to just grab one of everything and wolf it all down. Last thing he'd want to do is to fall into old habits in the middle of a new beginning! Pace yourself, Prompto; take a second and choose wisely on what looks the best...

...ah, screw it! It was a picnic, right? So now the real trick was going to figuring out how best to balance the three plates he'd filled as well as his drink until he made it to a table.

The tip of Vette's right lek raised a little in greeting, and she turned a smile toward the other Twi'lek, looking more than a little bit grateful to see at least something approaching familiar around here.

"I was beginning to wonder if I'd ever see another Twi'lek around here," she confessed. "Nothing about any of this makes any sense."

"That won't get any better," Hera said wryly. "This place is weird; it's best to just roll with it." She lifted her own lek in greeting and stuck out her hand, too. "Hera Syndulla."

Sidon was thrilled to meet any new fellow students, of course, but he had to admit there was a particular excitement that raced through him when the new face he spotted just happened to belong to someone who was not human. Humans were all lovely and wonderful, of course, and the category of non-human was so vast and varied, but it played such a big part in helping him in those moments where he felt so strange and out of place around here.

"Pardon the interruption," he said, approaching the girl and tilting his head a little, smiling faintly and trying to seem friendly, "but you're one of the new students, aren't you?"

"Summer!" Hera was coming in for a hug now. "I'm so happy to see you back. How have you been?"

There was a brief moment where Vette considered giving Hera a very different name from the one that came from her mouth as she reached to take the offered hand.

"Vette," she said, regardless. "And tell me about it. Everything's written in High Galactic and apparently I'm supposed to be going to school here? I'm afraid to ask how it gets weirder."

Vette looked up at - thank the stars - somebody who wasn't human. She gave the boy a smile that was more relieved than anything else, the tip of her right lek lifting faintly in a silent Twi'lek greeting. Not that she expected the boy to understand Twi'lek signs, no, but when encountering her second non-human of the day, it just seemed like the thing to do.

"Apparently, that's me," she said, blowing out a breath that was equal parts amused and awkward. "Surprise, I guess?"

"Hera! Hi!" HUGS! Like Summer would ever not want hugs from one of her favorite people ever. "I'm good! No, actually, I take that back, I'm great! I'm so sorry I haven't had a chance to come see you yet since I got back, but I've been swamped with getting everything all set up with the new place and the store. How are you? Sounds like there's been a few interesting weeks around here lately."

Hera groaned. "The High Galactic was the worst! They use it here everywhere - it's not a high-class thing, just the only alphabet they have for Basic. How much do you know already?"

Well, his headtail did seem to wave a little bit behind him, but that was far more from just excitement than it was any sort of greeting. His smile grew wide at her reaction, recognizing the relief in it, finding encouragement there.

"Oh, there's no shortage of surprises around here, I assure you!" he laughed, bowing his head a little. "Please, allow me to introduce myself. I am Sidon!" And here, of course, he pumped a fist in the air across his chest, his smile growing as wide as it could, a flash of teeth that caught the sun just right every single time. "The Zora Prince! And I hope you'll find you enjoy it here; I know I certainly do."

There were foods here that Nell had never seen and people wearing less clothing than Nell had ever imagined. She tried to keep her eyes politely turned away from those less-clothed than she thought she''d be looking at, but it was awful hard with so many of them.

Still, she was starving, so she figured she'd best make herself a plate of something to eat before she found a quiet place to sit and try and collect herself.

Eventually, she found a place on the grass where she could put her back right up against a tree, put her hands on the grass and let them calm her a bit.

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"No problem. I was hoping I'd see you here, though. As far as weeks..." She shrugged. "Fandom, you know?"

Vette grimaced.

"I had to get somebody to point me to my own name on all the registration sheets."

So. None?

Prince? Well, now Vette was definitely out of her league, though he was so charming (how could anybody be anything but charmed by a smile like that?) that she couldn't help but smile back.

"And I'm Vette," she didn't really have a trademark gesture for her introduction, so she settled for a shrug of her shoulders and a little grin. "The lost and confused Twi'lek. You've been here for a while, Sidon?"

Hera nodded. "I was a little better off, but not much. I can get you the books I learned from, if you want. Until you figure it out, just ask questions and bluff a lot."

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