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 Big/Little Sibling [Spring 2019]

[teensybitdeadly]

Prompto had already listened to her for longer than most people did - not that Entrapta talked to many people - so he was already her new favorite person. "It's magic!" she announced. "My magic. All the princesses in Etheria are born with magic! Most of them are Elemental Princesses with their respective runestones, but I don't have a runestone. But I do have magic hair and who needs magic when you have technology? Or better yet: both!"

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Spring 2019]

[hashtag_chocobro]

Who needed magic when you have technology or better yet both??

Ohhh, Prompto liked you, you hair-riding princess, you.

"Princesses, huh?" he grinned a little. "I think you might just be the person I'm looking for, then. Entrapta, right? I'm Prompto," yes, you said that already, but that was also, like, a whole long-winded hair-explanation ago, too, "I'm actually your Big Sibling! I'm suppose you help you, like, get acquainted and comfortable with the place, make sure to answer any of your questions, stuff like that. And that's pretty cool, actually, about the magic, because, where I'm from, all the royalty is totally born with magic, too, only it's more connected to crystals than runestones, maybe hair, too, I wouldn't know, but I'll fight anyone who tries and tells me there isn't something magical about that perfectly broody mop on top of Prince Noctis's head."

Slight pause.

"Nothing nearly as epic as yours, though," he felt the need to add, lest she wind up being tragically disappointed should she ever meet Noct.

Also, he did sort of just ramble on without confirming that, yes, this was his Little Sibling, so if it turned out that this wasn't Entrapta and just some other princess...er...oh well?

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Spring 2019]

[teensybitdeadly]

"You - you were looking for me?" Entrapta asked. "Nobody ever looks for me. And I've never had a big sibling."

He seemed more of a medium-sized sibling, to be honest, but she'd need to get out her tape measure to be sure. Maybe it just mattered that he was bigger than her?

Because he was that. Entrapta was very short. That was one of the reasons her hair was so useful! It meant she could be taller and see things.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Spring 2019]

[hashtag_chocobro]

"And I've never had a little sibling," Prompto said with a shrug. "So we're kind on on the same level there. I have had a big sibling, though, when I first got here, and that's Sabine, so she's great. Short hair, wears really cool, colorful armor; if you get a chance to talk to her, you should. She definitely helped me with a lot of my questions..."

There was eventually a point where Prompto's own rambling kind of reached an awkward stop where he wasn't sure what the next step was supposed to be.

"Soooo, uh," he tried, "do you have any questions? Where are you from? I mean, I've probably never heard of it, but it's still nice to know. That was one of the first things that really tripped me out about this place when I got here, people come from all over the place, and I've never heard of anything. I never even heard of Earth before I got here, either, though."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Spring 2019]

[teensybitdeadly]

"Me neither," Entrapta admitted. "I'm from Dryl, on Etheria." She looked to see if that rang any bells for him. "And I have questions. Lots and lots of questions. Where do I go for lab space? Does the school have tiny foods and fizzy drinks because I only brought enough for the trip? Do you know what the First Ones are? Is there any First Ones tech around? If so, can I experiment on it? Are there servants? Or should I use robots? Are there robots? Where did the shuttle go? Can I play with it now? What does 'going to school' actually mean?"

Fortunately, she paused for another breath on the easiest question for Prompto to answer.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Spring 2019]

[hashtag_chocobro]

And those were....those were lots and lots of questions, just like she said, and Prompto realized that he kind of had his work cut out for him with this job, and he wondered if he was like this with Sabine when he got here. He liked to think he at least gave Sabine time to answer them, though.

And he was going to try his hardest to remember all of them, but with remembering and trying to find the best spot to wedge in with answers, he knew he was definitely going to miss something. But, hey, if it was important enough to Entrapta, she'd probably be more than happy to backtrack, right?

"Okay," he jumped in when he could, "first, lab space, I'm sure there's some in the school, maybe talk to the science teacher about something like that? He might know; I know the shop teach was pretty cool about us using shop space if we needed. Uhhh," crap, Prompto, don't stop to think, she'll start in with more questions if you give her an opening, "plenty of food, there's usually stuff in the common rooms, but there's also restaurants and Turtle & Canary's kind of a general store, lots of stuff there, I don't know what the First Ones are, so I don't know if there's First Ones tech because I wouldn't know what that is, there aren't servants here, sorry, but there are...some robots, I think? But not many, and going to school here means going to whatever classes you're assigned to once a week and doing whatever the teacher's doing for that class that day, which is way different and a lot more casual than what I'm used to. Sometimes you might even have days where you don't have any classes."

Which he thought was nice, because it meant he got to play more video games, but he had a feeling that Entrapta was the type that liked to keep busier than that.

And he think he got...most of them? Probably not all of them, but he felt pretty proud of what he managed to spit out!