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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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"Might be the skin tone," Jack mused, thinking about it, "Little too peachy." She looked around for ickle-bickle and pointed at him, "Try something more that shade or darker. Swarthier."

That was a word. Someone had used it about Kaidan once and it conjured up the mental image of someone in a swashbuckling outfit and made her laugh for a solid ten minutes. So she kept that word.

Fjord's gaze followed to where she was pointing, and he considered Kanan for a few moments before nodding, casting the illusion spell on himself again.

So, himself. But... yes, swarthier. Made sense enough, he supposed. Hell if he knew what the non-orcish half of his parentage looked like, but it was rare to find a merchant sailor who hadn't worked up a hell of a tan after a few years at sea, all the same. He glanced back at Jack, brow raised in question.

"Yes? No?"

Jack gave him a critical ~~role~~ look over and nodded. "Yeah, that's better. It makes you look less uncanny valley. I still like your regular look better but I'm biased."

Fjord met that with a wry smile, and once again dropped the illusion.

"Well, thank you, then," he replied. "I'll bear that one in mind, next time I need to leave the island. Green doesn't tend to go over well on the mainland. Around here, it's a little more comfortable living in my own skin."

"Yeah, the planet's pretty full of humans and they're kind of all as.. jerks.. about aliens of any kind," she said sourly, "Even their own kind. They get better in the next century or so. My Earth does, anyway. Still have some of the bigots but they're fewer in number and nobody really misses them if they find themselves accidentally jettisoned into vacuum."

Oops. Who would possibly ever have done that to someone?

"I want to say that's reassuring," Fjord mused. "Seems like no matter where you go, there's at least someone like that."

It wasn't easy being green.

"Here they typically at least pretend to be decent."

"Always gonna be someone who thinks there has to be a pecking order and that they got a right to be higher up on it than someone else," she said, "Insecure motherf..jerks.. gonna be that way all the worlds around. It's when they're the majority instead of a small, skulking minority that it's bad."

She looked up at him, "People that matter won't care what you look like. People what care how you look shouldn't matter. So I keep getting told and sometimes, most times, it's even true. More often than I ever figured it would be true, even."

Little bit scary.

"Can't deny that," Fjord replied, nodding. Looking thoughtful. "Seems to have been the case in my life, anyway."

Where he'd come from, what he was, those things hadn't mattered when he'd been taken in. Hadn't denied him a place on Vandran's ship. He sure as hell wouldn't have made first mate, otherwise.

Wouldn't feel half as comfortable in his own skin as he did. And he still had a long way to go, he recognized that.

"Generally is. I'm human as fuck and where I'm from what I can do makes 'em want to classify me subhuman." Jack snorted loudly. "Used to, anyway. Got kind of a reprieve on that after the war. Can't really look at your big badass biotic heroes and still in the same breath call 'em subhuman mutants."

Not that there weren't some people who tried.

"Even without that? I'm female and I don't fit the mold for it. Never have. When you can't fit the mold, break the damn thing. Be as you as you can be."

"Make a new mold?" Fjord's lips pulled into a faint twist of a smile, lips parting, but not nearly enough to put his damaged tusks on display.

They were about due for more filing down.

"You know, I actually envy people who can lean into that and make it work. Respect."

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"Ah, you'll get there," Jack assured him, "If I can, anyone can do it."

No - truly.

"That's the goal, I suppose," Fjord mused. "We'll see how things go."

He had put a lot of time and effort into fitting in as well as he was able, after all. His people weren't generally known for their fantastic people skills.

"You ever need a break from all this," Jack gestured around at the sea of still-mostly-humans, "hit me up. I'll haul you home for a weekend where about the worst you'll get is a bunch of little blue beauties wanting to climb you like a tree."

The Asari would be on him like cats to catnip. Tall, broad, easy on the eyes, and with an entirely new genome? Catnip.

Fjord... remarkably managed to not let his brain short out a little, there.

"Sounds like quite the experience," he replied. "Who knows, maybe I'll even take you up on that."

And then he'd spend the whole time having serious brain malfunctions. It'd be good for him!

It'd be great practice for later when he had to put hookers on layaway!

"Offer's there, my dude," she said complacently.

He never would go back to collect on that down payment, either.

"And I'll bear it in mind," he said, giving her a little smile. "Much appreciated."

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