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

The lawn was arranged with tables and chairs - some near the food, some not - and there was plenty of food to go around. The school had even wised up and put to-go boxes by the plates, so people didn't have to put food in their pockets to take it with them for later. No one was gonna judge you for making some pocket bacon, but at least now it wasn't a necessity.

[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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Oooh! It was another social experiment! The next Princess Prom wasn't for another year or so, so this was just a bonus!

Entrapta quickly filled up her pouch with all the tiny foods she could spot on the table - and there were so many! Including tiny little burgers! - and then staked out a spot behind a big tree where she could watch.

Different groups thrown together and forced to mingle. Hierarchies formed and broke. It was the perfect place to observe behavior.

"Incoming!"

Why yes, that was a small bundle consisting of a winter scarf, some gloves, and a hat, all being thrown Entrapta's way. Yes, they were purple. Sparkle could appreciate a good colour scheme when he saw one.

Entrapta's hair reached out and caught the bundle before it could hit her. "Ooooh," she said, examining each of them. Camouflage for the social experiment! Wonderful. "Thank you!" she called, waving at him.

Yes, with her hair. Look, it was how she did most things.

Sparkle gave her a grin and a thumbs-up! Either in lieu of a 'you're welcome,' or because her hair was just that fucking awesome.

Possibly both.

Knowing Sparkle, definitely both.

"Are you a merchant?" Entrapta asked, scuttling towards him on a nest of hair. A nest of hair with legs.

Now that she was away from her castle and her servants and her robots, she would need to figure out how to obtain all the materials she would need for her experiments. Locating a merchant would be the first step!

In fact, she should note that while she remembered it. "Log. Hour seven. Hour eight? Hour eight of this journey to the 'school.' I need to remember to find merchants."

"I sell clothes," Sparkle confirmed, finding that he really actually liked the sound of that word. 'Merchant.' Made him sound way more put-together than 'clothing store guy,' anyway. "And sometimes soap, I guess. But mostly clothes."

Her hair was fascinating, holy shit.

"Clothes, huh?" Entrapta looked unimpressed. Considering she was wearing a grease-stained t-shirt and a pair of purple coveralls, clothes likely didn't place high on her interests. "Is there a place I can go for useful things?"

Not nice to say to the guy just handed you clothing to keep warm, Entrapta. Though, to be honest, when she got cold, she mostly just bundled in her hair.

Of course.

Sparkle managed, mostly, to refrain from giving her a stinkeye.

"Depends what you consider useful," he replied. "Food? Music?"

She didn't even change her clothing for prom, Sparkle. It wasn't you, she was just hopeless.

"Machinery!" she declared, all excitement. "Machinery and technology and gadgets and robots! Oh! AND TINY FOOD!"

Sparkle was going to owe Tony so much for flinging him bodily under this particualr bus.

"Try Stark Industries for machinery," he offered. "Or the scrapyard, if you're into restoring broken-down stuff instead, I guess. And," he paused. "Tiny food? I think there might be mini-sliders at Mooby's?"

What was tiny food? Was that tiny food? Sparkle did not know.

Honestly, Entrapta mostly lived on mini pastries, so even Mooby sliders would probably be a step up, nutrion-wise.

"You know lots of things, Clothing Merchant!" she said, with enthusiastic appreciation. And then extended a tendril of hair with a tiny cupcake shaped like a (slightly smushed) pig in gratitude.

"Yeah, I've been around for a while," Sparkle agreed, smiling faintly and accepting that... slightly squished cupcake.

Eh, he'd enjoyed worse.

"Thanks. You have any more questions, feel free to swing by my boring clothing shop."

It was also a good place to be spotted by friend-hungry shark-people on the prowl for new faces.

But Sidon understood that some people separated themselves from crowds specifically because they didn't care to be a part of them, so he tried ensure that his toothy grin was extra friendly as he nodded to the new girl and waved a hand before coming over. "Welcome to Fandom!" he offered brightly. "I am correct in the assumption that you are one of our new, exciting students, am I not?"

Entrapta gasped, face lighting up. She shot up into the air, balanced on her ponytails, until she was face-to-face with Sidon. "Well, hello," she said. "You're very tall. And your teeth are excellent. How far back do they go?"

Well, this was certainly something new, and Sidon had to chuckle, positively delighted to be able to look at someone without craning his own neck or straining his poor, hunched back. His posture truly had taken a toll since coming here, so he took advantage of the opportunity to square his shoulders properly and actually stand to his full height for a change.

"Thank you!" he gushed over the compliment, grinning extra wide for her now that she could see them even closer. "Though I'm afraid they don't go back very far; it's only the one row. I understand sharks of this world have several, but I am not a shark. I am a Zora! I am actually Sidon!" And here, he pumped his fist across his chest, and grinned one more time, this time catching the light just right to make one of those excellent teeth sparkle. "The Zora Prince! And Zora share very few things in common with sharks, beyond a need for water and a few intriguing aesthetic similarities."

Entrapta was only listening to about half of that, her hair pulling out a tape measure to get a general idea of how big he was. "I didn't think you were a shark," she said, darting around him to measure every conceivable part of him. "I thought you might be a princess, though. Princess? Prince. Oh! You said you were!"

She was back to excited again. "Are you from Etheria, too?"

And Sidon, who had never really been measured before, was more than content to just let this new girl do her thing with faint amusement, going so far as to hopefully help her out a little by holding out his arms to assist her in being thorough (but certainly not too thorough, that could be a little bit awkward) in her calculations. He had to admit, he was a little curious about what they might be, but he was fairly certain that, whatever they would, they were undeniably impressive.

"Alas," he informed her with a note of regret, "I am not. I am from a land called Hyrule, and I'm afraid I've never heard of Etheria before. Is it as lovely as it sounds? Why, it just rolls right off the tongue magnificently, doesn't it?"

"It's home to countless untold mysteries!" Entrapta announced and it was entirely possible she would try to get too thorough - in a completely dispassionate, clinical way - so it was a good thing he was ready to gently fend her off. But it was for Science!

Also, were countless untold mysteries lovely? She certainly thought so. "So much science and technology there for us to understand and take advantage of it. And magic! Science and magic existing in harmony!"

And also the Horde and the Fright Zone and Dryl itself was kind of an austere, rocky kingdom, but those were very low on Entrapta's list of priorities.

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