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

[bigdamnprincipal]

Despite the not-so-great weather earlier in the week, the weather today looked nice and... well, decent for the end of December, and while the rest of town might still have signs of last week's snow, there were no traces left outside the school. (It just meant one less uncomfortable question for the big siblings to deal with, you're welcome.)

The buffet table was ready, set as far as possible from the glittered-out blue and gold tables and chairs. The winter bonfire was crackling for warmth and food-toasting opportunities. The lists of siblings and roommates had been double-checked. It looked like everything was ready for a picnic!

[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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Re: Meet Your Teachers! [Spring 2019]

[uncertain_dume]

"I cleaned out the bus," Kanan muttered, facepalming the instant those balloons were secured to the nearest picnic table and he had a hand free again. "If there's any one thing students around here know best, it's glitter."

And infecting him with it, like some sort of horrible glitter fungus.

Re: Meet Your Teachers! [Spring 2019]

[biotic_psychotic]

"Yeah, I can see you cleaned it. With the all of you," Jack pointed out with a laugh.

She almost did it without asking but checked herself. "Do you want some help?"

Consent. It was a thing she was working on.

"Or do you want to stand there in all your shiny glory?"

Re: Meet Your Teachers! [Spring 2019]

[uncertain_dume]

"Please, save me," Kanan replied, smiling crookedly. "I haven't had time to really do much about this yet. Didn't want to miss the picnic."

Or maybe he was looking for an alibi in case one of the students dismantled the bus once he was here.

Re: Meet Your Teachers! [Spring 2019]

[biotic_psychotic]

"Alright. It won't get all of it but I should be able to make you look a little less like you just dived headfirst into a pool of the sh..tuff," Jack answered readily. "Lose the hair tie for a second or it'll all bunch up there."

Re: Meet Your Teachers! [Spring 2019]

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan grimaced a little at that particular direction, but pulled in a breath and removed the fastener a moment later, letting his hair hang loose around his shoulders.

Which was already driving him nuts, all of two seconds later, so... that was great.

"Any little bit helps, right?"

Re: Meet Your Teachers! [Spring 2019]

[biotic_psychotic]

"Can't hurt," she agreed. Took in that fidget. Made a fist and let it glow white while she corralled the dark energy. She wanted to knock the glitter off, not punt Kanan into a wall or something and that took a whole lot more control than she ever bothered with.

Her hand moved in a small flick as though she were shooing away an insect. There was a very tiny concussive pop when the wave of energy connected. The effect would be roughly like having a large industrial fan suddenly turn on in front of you for a couple seconds before it shut off again.

Re: Meet Your Teachers! [Spring 2019]

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan pivoted his foot just slightly and bent one knee, bracing against that force that was pushing against him. And then, just like that, it was gone again, and Kanan was immediately lifting his hands to pull his hair back into the fastener again.

"Phew," Kanan said, glancing down at himself, pleased to note that he was significantly less sparkly, now. "Yeah, that's actually a huge improvement. Thanks."

Re: Meet Your Teachers! [Spring 2019]

[biotic_psychotic]

She bobbed her head and rocked back and forth on her heels for a second. She wasn't used to thanks of any sort and it made her a little uncomfortable but the moment passed.

Snickered when she saw the more or less Kanan-shaped outline done on the ground in glitter and tossed her head at it. "You do like to leave an impression."

Lamest joke ever. Shut up.

Re: Meet Your Teachers! [Spring 2019]

[uncertain_dume]

"Proof of my sparkling personality," Kanan replied, giving the Kanan-silhouette an amused once-over.

He could do lame jokes too, see?

Re: Meet Your Teachers! [Spring 2019]

[biotic_psychotic]

"Nope," Jack said immediately, "Can't have. I've already got one of those from this island. Sorry, buddy boy, you're going to have to choose another personality to have."

Re: Meet Your Teachers! [Spring 2019]

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan blinked, and then laughed a little, shaking his head.

"Okay, no sparkling," not even for the sake of a good pun. He'd have to cope. "I suppose I should be thankful I get a choice, hm? Let's go with 'cynical,' then. I do cynical well when I really set my mind to it."

Re: Meet Your Teachers! [Spring 2019]

[biotic_psychotic]

Hey Sparkle even had the right name for it, and she was going to be so put out in a few minutes when she saw he wasn't the englittered one.

"Cynical is practical," Jack allowed, "It ain't great, but as long as it ain't your default, fine."

That's a mighty big glass house she just slung that rock at.

Re: Meet Your Teachers! [Spring 2019]

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan paused for a moment.

"If I'm being entirely honest, I have no idea how you'd categorize my default."

'Dad.' His default was very steadily edging into dad mode.

Re: Meet Your Teachers! [Spring 2019]

[biotic_psychotic]

"Uptight," she responded with a smirk, "Way too uptight and in need of some serious fun. See? You are glad I'm here."

He was going right into that bucket with Liara, of people whose world she was gonna shake like a snow globe.

Re: Meet Your Teachers! [Spring 2019]

[uncertain_dume]

"Oh, come on, I can't be that bad."

... He'd crankily pulled a stack of sequin seat covers out of a bus before coming here. He was absolutely that bad.

"But... yeah. I'm glad you're here."

Re: Meet Your Teachers! [Spring 2019]

[biotic_psychotic]

"You are that bad," Jack chirped at him with a grin, "You've been hanging out with Kaidan too much. He's a bad influence."

Well he was.

"Moderation is for monks."

To the Jedi, yes.

Re: Meet Your Teachers! [Spring 2019]

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan almost immediately let loose a small huff of his breath between his teeth that might or might not have been a laugh.

"Yeah, funny story..."

Even if he was kind of a shitty Jedi.

Re: Meet Your Teachers! [Spring 2019]

[biotic_psychotic]

She made chinhands right at him. Again with the ridiculous doe-eyes. "Tell me the funny story, Kanan! Tell me the story!"

Remember when you said you were glad she was here?

Re: Meet Your Teachers! [Spring 2019]

[uncertain_dume]

At least that earned a bit of a soft chuckle and a shake of his head? It was hard not to be amused, okay?

"I might be leaning a little more into the 'monk' side of things these days," he offered. And then paused. Considered. Awkwardly reached up to scratch his chin, looking thoughtful. "Though I'm not exactly great at it."

He was still inclined to follow Hera around like a puppy, for example.

... And there was this worrisome addiction to cupcakes.

Re: Meet Your Teachers! [Spring 2019]

[biotic_psychotic]

"Good," she expressed immediately, "Don't be. Churchy monk types who think they're better than everyone because they don't get laid are the worst."

Sorry not sorry, entire Jedi order.

"Nobody likes a sanctimonious prick, Kanan," she informed him, "And I've already got one of those back home anyway so that's out for you, too."

Re: Meet Your Teachers! [Spring 2019]

[uncertain_dume]

"Duly noted," Kanan replied dutifully. "Isn't exactly like there's anybody around who'll hold me to all of that, anyway."

Skywalker? Rand? One didn't have the time of day for him and the other was a great-kriffing-grandfather at this point. So.

"I figure so long as I keep my head on right, I'm probably not a complete disaster anyway."

Re: Meet Your Teachers! [Spring 2019]

[biotic_psychotic]

"GOOD," she repeated adamantly, "The last thing you need is to turn out like that."

Opinions. She shared.

"Plus the other thing I already got is the uptight as..jerk.. who could use a good f..shagging. You're running out of options here."

Re: Meet Your Teachers! [Spring 2019]

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan was kinda already of the opinion that he could use a good f-shagging, but these were things he didn't share with the world at large, generally. He wasn't going to be that guy who got all hung up over a girl and then made his pining too obvious, after all.

Weird change of pace from the life he'd been living before he'd met Hera, though.

"And that's all the categories I could possibly fit in, huh? Nominally cynical, uptight or uptight asshole?"

Re: Meet Your Teachers! [Spring 2019]

[biotic_psychotic]

"Nah, there's more. I've also got uberjock, testosterone-fueled rage machine - and you can't even compete with a Krogan quad so don't try, bitingly sarcastic sniper, too twee for words bouncemistress, calm collected and annoying, Mr. 'I think I'm funny but not' speed machine, and then there's Vega," Jack drawled, "Who you sound like so much it's creepy, but thank f..god you don't act like him. One's enough for all the galaxies. EDI's the only normal one of the lot and that's because she's a machine who can encode her personality matrix to whatever she wants."

Looked him up and down, "We need to find you something unique."

Re: Meet Your Teachers! [Spring 2019]

[uncertain_dume]

Cowboy warrior-monk!

"Unique, huh?" Kanan pursed his lips for a moment while he mulled that one over. "I guess 'gunslinging disaster Jedi' is a little too specific, huh?"