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

[bigdamnprincipal]

So this week had been... less than great overall, but everyone in town was okay again (as okay as they ever were, at least) and now there were new people to welcome to the island! Thankfully, the weather was warm and sunny, perfect for anyone who wanted to take part in some shirtless shenanigans, and the front lawn of the school was all set up for yet another tasty picnic. There were tables of blank name tags, lists of information, and enough food to probably feed two Fandoms. Time to be welcoming!

[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 [Summer 2019]

[cypher_can_fly]

"Huh," was all Owen said, at first.

Then, a moment later, "No Scars though?"

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

[hashtag_chocobro]

Hmmm. Well, a 'huh' could be a very good and understanding response, or a 'huh' could also have been an indication of just all that blowing through one ear and out the other, which he wouldn't exactly be surprised about, because it was kind of a lot.

"Well, I mean," Prompto shrugged a little, "I'm sure someone's got some scars, you don't go into a fight like that and not come out completely unscathed."

He wouldn't touch emotional scars on this one, because, yeah, no, those ones were running a little too deep and tender at the moment and he was trying to not think about that today if he could help it.

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

[cypher_can_fly]

"No, I mean, Scars, creepy scavengers made up of lots of bugs shaped like humans?" ... Owen's home planet was, uh. A lot.

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

[hashtag_chocobro]

Prompto's eyebrows took a little jaunt up toward his hairline.

"Yeah, no," he said. "None of those. Yet. Or that I know of. I mean, anything's possible. My friend has a daemon made out of peanut butter and jelly, so....I don't know, give it a few months, and we might. But, I mean, no offense, dude, I kind of hope not, I hate bugs, they're so icky. Blech."

Prompto was making no effort to hold back his disgust on that one, making a face and rolling out his tongue for a moment before shivering. Especially picturing all those bugs in a creepy scavenger human shape as described.

PASS.

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

[cypher_can_fly]

"And nothing tried to kill you before or after these vampires showed up?" Owen pressed. "No... major catastrophes, wolven attacks, that sort of thing?"

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

[hashtag_chocobro]

"Well, I mean," Prompto offered, "a bit before that there were these snowmonsters that attacked the town. And there were giant bees," again, a shiver, bees were close enough to bugs, "that attacked at graduation? But that's all I think I've gotten to experience, but anything else was probably before my time, I'm sure there's a bunch others, it doesn't stay quiet around here for too long, and if it's not something attacking the place, it's just the island doing....weird stuff. Like, there's this one time when everyone kind of turned into kids? Oh! Oh, and here's a big one that I kind of wish someone had definitely told me about before hand, but apparently, after prom...which is like a big formal dance thing?...there's a possibility that your potential kids from, like, the future show up."

And totally mess with your head and traumatize you for pretty much the rest of your life, but, hey, no big deal, right?

Prompto was just doing what he could to save you the surprises he'd been in for, Owen, buddy.

With the threat, he was now realizing, of Owen thinking he was completely out of his mind, but....eh, there was a learning curve. He could handle being thought of as crazy until the first bout really smacked him in the face.

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

[cypher_can_fly]

"Where I come from, you're dead if you step outside the walls with the right equipment," Owen volunteered.

He took another bite of the roll. "And I'm just going to assume the rest of that is you having me on."

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

[hashtag_chocobro]

"And that's fair," Prompto said. "I know what I sound like, but you'll see. I mean, I know I've got a pretty good imagination, but it's not that good. You can't make some of this shit up. One thing I will add, though, is that you definitely want to stay away from any little ugly green monster dudes running around the island. Those are gremlins, and if they bite you, it's mostly harmless, but it makes you think you're someone else for a while."

That first thing he'd said, though, Prompto shifted a little and offered up a faint smile, because he definitely felt the need to go back to that. "And it's like that where I'm from, too," he offered. "About stepping outside the walls being pretty much a death sentence."

Something he said with a pang in his chest, too, because he really should have known better.

"But it's safe here, man, most of the time. Just the occasional attack, and, even then, everyone here is really good at fighting or, if they're not, they're really good at doing other things to help. Trust me, though, I get it. It took me about a month to even be comfortable with the night sky around here, no lights, no walls, no nothing, just us and the wide open world..."

And then he discovered it was kind of the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen, but, clearly, it had made him grow a little soft in that respect.

"It's good, though. It's nice."

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

[cypher_can_fly]

"As long as fighting and occasional excitement is your bag, by the sounds of it," Owen said, tilting his head. "Say, is there anywhere around here you can go to learn that sort of thing? Asking for a friend."

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

[hashtag_chocobro]

"What? Fighting?" Prompto asked, his own head tilting in an unconscious mimic of Owen's. "Well, I mean, I don't think there's anything really formal about that, but half the classes here seem to have some sort of fighting element to them. A bunch of the teachers could probably teach you a few things, and a lot of us will get together and train sometimes. I know I'm a pretty decent hand with firearms, but there's still others, like my friend Vette or my girlfriend Yang, who're, like, way better. And there's lots of people who know swords and things like that, too. I guess it's just a matter of what you..r buddy is interested in, and then a matter of figuring out who to talk to or just making the time, I guess. But, yeah, no shortage of people who can teach fighting around here, like, at all."