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

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

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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Sidon took his duties as a Big Sibling very seriously, and was, of course, incredibly thrilled to locate and meet his newest friend at the picnic. So excited, in fact, that he found himself not even bothering something like looking at nametags when he felt so certain about the fact that he had already spotted his new sibling straight away.

"Pardon the interruption," said the very large, very red, very grinning shark-person all but bouncing up to Mae, "but you wouldn't happen to be Kat Stratford, would you?"

IT WAS AN HONEST AND VERY REASONABLE MISTAKE TO MAKE, OKAY?

"Oh my god." Mae stared up (and up and up and up) at Sidon. "Are you one of the sharks Sparklebus kept in his cargo hold?"

They were just communicating real well over here.

And while Sidon was very used to the staring up (and up and up and, yes, sometimes even up), he couldn't quite say that he'd been expecting a question like that, and his head tilted a little. "I wasn't aware that Sparkle kept sharks in his cargo hold," he admitted, particularly baffled because he didn't know Sparkle even had a cargo hold, but, then again, he didn't really know Sparkle except that he had excellent ideas when it came to helping a person who wore hardly anything pick out clothes for his future-girlfriend. "But, no, I am not one of them. As a matter of fact, I am not a shark at all, but actually a Zora! I am Sidon!" Please, like he'd pass up the chance to give the good-old fist-pump, sparkly-smile bit. "The Zora Prince!"

Look, he was just coming off of a trip home, which sort of sparked back some of the boisterous pride that being at Fandom had tampered down a little, and he was taking full advantage of it.

Wow, okay then.

"Hi Sidon the Zora Prince. I am Mae! The Mayor of Possum Springs!"

You know, while they were putting on airs and all.

"Oh, how wonderful!" said Sidon brightly. "I've yet to meet a mayor before! It is a pleasure to meet you, Mayor Mae, though I now realize I have stumbled into quite an embarrassing gaffe, as I was looking for my new sibling; their name is Kat Statford, though, not Mae, so I can only assume that you are, indeed, not them. No matter, though! It is a day for meeting new people, is it not? Tell me more about your Possum Springs! It sounds magnificent!"

And he meant it, too! Anything having to do with water was a fine name, if you asked him.

"It's a tiny little town in the mountains," Mae said. "It was a mining town and then a factory town but it's kind of . . . between industries right now."

Unless you counted meth labs.

No one counted the meth labs.

Sidon didn't even know what a meth lab was!

"Splendid!" he said. "My home is nestled in the mountains, as well; I sometimes miss them terribly while I'm here, but Fandom Island is not without its own charms, I assure you. Are you coming here of your own volition, Mae, or do you find yourself here under less...agreeable circumstances?"

"Well, it was come here or stay home and deal with everyone looking at me funny. Which one does that count as?"

Sidon took a moment to consider that one, very carefully.

"It would be my own personal estimation," he offered, "that the situation you described so succinctly falls into the category of your own volition, with a caveat for being entirely influenced by particularly leading factors. There are those who are here without the option of staying home as an alternative, so that was mainly where my concerns were from. Though, I regret to inform you, Mae, that coming here might not entirely stave off people looking at you funny, especially if you were to venture out into the mainland. Here, on the island itself, though, most people are far more open-minded."

He liked to think he knew a thing or two about people looking at him funny, after all.

"Why would people look at me funny on the mainland? I'm pretty sure rumors don't travel that far."

She'd been charged as a juvenile, after all. And sent to therapy instead of a correctional facility!

"They are, ahhhh..." Sidon tried to think of the most polite way to put a matter such as this, especially since he knew others were bothered by it far more than he ever was. "Ah. On the mainland exists a society where the appearance of most people is far more...homogeneous. They are not quite so accustomed to individuals with what they have, unfortunately, come to see as odd...fins and headtails," giving his own a small little flick behind him, "for example, or," and he gestured toward Mae herself, "more feline features such as your own. Even their variety in the color of skin is limited to a very small spectrum of options."

Mae supposed to a giant shark, all mammals looked alike.

"I thought people in cities were supposed to be less racist, not more."

And Sidon shrugged a little, not really feeling it was in his place to judge people who didn't really know any better, especially not since he dealt with that enough from people who should know better back home.

"Some worlds," he said, "alas, merely lack the wonderful diversity often enjoyed by others and this, sadly, tends to be one of those worlds."

Mae nodded slowly. "Yeah, okay, this place does not seem to be lacking in any kind of diversity at all though."

He was a shark person, for instance. Also, observe the major disparity in their respective heights.

"Well, no, no, of course not," Sidon readily agreed. "This island itself is quite different. Through a system of portals, some more...cooperative than others," there might have actually been a small note of ire creeping into his otherwise pleasant and magnanimous voice right there; he was starting to feel significantly disappointed with the strangely selective nature of those portals lately, "Fandom Island has the benefit of attracting individuals from a wide variety of places and worlds. I, for example, am from a place called Hyrule. My girlfriend," give him a moment of sap as he said that, please, for he was but a big, giant, totally squishy shark, "is originally from a planet called Ryloth. My roommate is actually from this planet, Earth, and there are a few of them around, as well, such as my friend Tip, but her Earth is a different one, and it's....wildly complicated, but it makes for a very wealth of interesting characters coming and going to this school. Beyond this island, though, things are rather...different."

"So . . . what planet is the mainland, then?"

Yep, Mae has decided you're a space alien, Sidon.

Technically speaking, it was...kind of true?

"The mainland is Earth," Sidon confirmed with a nod, "but not typically the same Earth that most people from Earth that are here are from."

...that was nice and easy to follow, there, right?

"What."

Clear as mud, yep.

"Yes," said Sidon, chuckling faintly, "exactly. It's all terribly confusing at first, but I'm sure you'll find your way soon enough, Mae. Especially as a mayor of your very own mountain town! Do you have someone taking care of the place in your absence? Some sort of...vice mayor, serving in the position in your stead?"

"There's the town council," Mae said. "They've got walking around and looking at things disapprovingly down to an art."

"Is...that one of more significant duties of a town mayor, then?" asked Sidon, who was very intrigued by this other form of governing, though, so far, he was feeling as though a monarchy was far better, as being mayor mostly just sounded like being an Elder, and he sincerely hoped that, even as an Elder, he would never quite be like that.

"It's kind of a figurehead position," Mae said. "You ride the floats, wave to the kiddies, and let the council be the menacing shadow government."

Wasn't it fun when your bullshit ended up being accidentally slightly true. . . .

"....Ah," said Sidon, "I see."

He did not see. Not exactly, really, because when he thought of things like 'menacing shadow government,' he thought of the literal menacing shadow cloaking the central station of his land's government seat. Which basically painted a picture for him of Mae's council essentially being Calamity Elders, which was...a troublesome thought.

"Do you enjoy it?"

This lie was really running away with Mae.

". . . It's a job."

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