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

[bigdamnprincipal]

The island was still thankfully, blissfully normal, so fingers were crossed that the picnic would go off without a hitch.

The weather was pleasant enough - sunny, but not so hot that people would melt outside - and all the decorations had been safely pulled out of storage. There were tables and chairs set up with blue and yellow balloons, a table for all the information the new students would need, and enough food to probably feed two islands. It was time to welcome some new folks, everyone!

[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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Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2019]

[bigdamnprincipal]

Somehow, these are our current role models for the teenagers. Hurray?

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2019]

[solarhippie]

Hey now, some of them were perfectly valid role models! Or, at least doing their very best to be one.

Which was to say that yes, Karolina was here, sporting a nametag that said Guidance Counselor Karolina on it (no last name, but there was a small rainbow sticker instead), and curious to see what the new batch of people would be like.

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[firstofitskind]

Liam wasn't new people, but he wasn't about to let that stop him from sidling up to Karolina anyway. "Hey," he greeted with a grin. "Been a minute, hasn't it?"

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2019]

[brat_inslayage]

Yeah, okay, the rainbow sticker was what got Kennedy's attention, but she had a speculative look on her face by the time she wandered over.

"Sorry in advance for the out-of-left-field-ness of this, but did you go to school here before?" she asked. "Because I feel like you were one of my students the last time I taught here."

She tried to make a point of remembering at least something about all of her students and the people she'd ever trained, but wow, was that making her feel even older now.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2019]

[imafuturist]

"Still here, huh?" Tony asked with a teasing grin.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2019]

[my_own_advocate]

Lucifer was still wearing his dark blue suit, though he'd swapped the purple shirt out for something more... lavender.

Whatever. He looked impeccable, as always, and the sneer at the whole... picnic-with-children-ness of it all on his face was minimal. (Which was noticable, by anyone else's standards.) "Right, so is there an open bar..."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2019]

[special_rabbit]

So, a new face was always a good place to start in picking out her teaching buddy for the semester; it was a method that hadn't failed her yet, and if it worked, it worked!

So Amaya offered up a wry grin and a nod of her head in greeting. "Not for the welcome picnic, usually," she said, sounding almost apologetic, "and I don't think anyone even usually gets around to spiking the punchbowl like they do at all the dances."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2019]

[magnusrushesin]

"Anything's an open bar with enough determination and a flask," Magnus said. Because yeah, this was clearly the right conversation to be having. This right here.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2019]

[following_my_fishie]

Delirium was at the picnic mostly to show willing. She didn't have a new sibling and she didn't have a new roommate but there were new students so she was there with Barnabas to show them the old students, and she was probably the oldest of them.

Lucifer caught her attention and made her blink. Then squint. Then look at him through each eye individually while the other eyelid was closed. Then look at him with her eyes closed.

And then she looked around in case her brother or her eldest sister were here. She didn't feel them but maybe they were hiding. Didn't appear to be the case. So what was he doing here? This wasn't a piano bar.

Barnabas watched her with the attention of a sight hound. The same way he watched her anytime something caught her attention for more than two seconds. "Delirium?" he murmured quietly, "Is something wrong?"

"No-oo," she said slowly, uncertainly, "I don't think so? Maybe no? He's here but he's not quite him but only he really is him because there's never more than one of him but.. " Her voice trailed off, she was busy finding new ways to look at Lucifer.

Wandered a little closer. "You look different," she noted to him directly, "Are you different than the you that's you with a piano in the city that's all noisy or the you that's usually in the other place that's way more noisy and screamy? You look like the same you but also a different you and there's never been more than one of you, I'd remember that, so.. are you different again?"

A beat.

"You're not blonde anymore." Beat. "No but you weren't blonde at the piano place either, only in the other place."

Beat.

"Hi. Why are you here?"

She was confused. Lucifer wasn't really known for liking people.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2019]

[sharp_man]

Well, sneer or no sneer, it was good to know that there was one more fashionable teacher at the school.

"Unfortunately not, but I can offer some excellent coffee," he offered.

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[firstofitskind]

Liam still wasn't sure how he felt about anyone considering him any sort of role model, but he was absolutely going to try his best.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2019]

[notallbluemonks]

"What the fuck, man, you're teaching now, too?"

Hi to you too, Liam.

At least Beau looked amused?

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2019]

[special_rabbit]

So help her, Amaya really had gotten to enjoy these things and was really looking forward to the start of a new semester to infuse something other than weekly dread into their lives, after the summer they'd all had.

The free food always helped, too, especially since she was actually pretty keen on eating meat again these days.

Mostly, though, she was playing a little game of Spot the Newbie and wondering if she'd have any of them in her class, while also keeping an eye out for any adult-type faces that might belong to her latest fledgling teacher that was supposed to be flying under her wing. And even though it hadn't happened in a while, she still sort of felt she should go check and see if anyone washed up on the beach first for that, before hitting up the picnic for it.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2019]

[died8yearsago]

Rosa was...there. Leather jacket, arms crossed, faintly glowering. Business as usual, really, with the mild irritation of someone who was contractually obligated to at least make an appearance.

Which, to be fair, she probably wasn't. She was, however, spiritual obligated to be annoyed about her teacherly duties, even if the welcome picnic was always amusing as hell with all the dumb little wide-eyed newbies. She was already thinking about making bets on who might break down, who would be catching flies longest, and maybe even hoping for some kind of fight.

She was really surprised there weren't more wrought-from-misunderstandings-or-clashing-cultures fights as these things, honestly.

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[betterthanaplan]

"You know, if my high school teachers had looked more like you, I might have actually gone to class more often."

He wouldn't have. High school was terrible.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2019]

[brat_inslayage]

Wow, it had been a while, huh? And the truth was, Kennedy hadn't been back in Fandom more than maybe once or twice since that time a few years ago with -- well. That stone out in the preserve that occasionally brought the dead back, and that was not so much with the good start-of-term vibeyness. Though, to be fair, she'd had her hands full with training Slayers and running the security agency and her college classes and, you know, the occasional apocalypse.

But -- now that she and Willow were back in New York, she was a couple of years out of college, and the São Paulo branch of the whole Slayer operation had enough experienced locals to take over the reins -- she'd found herself at a couple of loose ends. Guess that was part of why she was back here again.

And okay, part of it might've been that she'd been climbing the walls without enough to keep herself busy, and driving Willow a little bit nuts, since the teaching gig this time around had been Willow's suggestion. Whatever. In any case, it was actually pretty good to be back and she was wandering around the picnic with her thumbs tucked through her belt loops and a half nostalgic, half almost-proprietary smile on her face as she took in the familiar sight of the school and the island at large.

She remembered the time, at the end of her last teaching stint here, where she and Tara had talked about feeling like they'd sort of outgrown this place, and that was a thought that was heavy on the bittersweet, but. Maybe she'd outgrown that feeling, too.

/Help, Red,/ she thought plaintively at Willow, and their private telepathic connection was easy for even her to make across dimensions, after years of practice. /I'm old now./

Kennedy got the sense of warm laughter bubbling up inside her head, and she grinned a little bit. /Oh, sweetie. I'll have a hot bath ready for your poor aching joints when you get home tonight,/ Willow sent back.

And if she spent the rest of the picnic grinning a little more broadly, well, listen, the implications beyond the 'poor aching joints' thing were good ones, okay?

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2019]

[notallbluemonks]

You know what, Beau was intending to go see what Karolina wanted from the food tables so she could bring her a plate, but there was something about the way this unfamiliar woman was looking around kind of like she owned the place that . . . didn't rub her the wrong way, exactly? But it did bring out the competitive streak in her a bit.

"'sup," she said, jerking her chin upward just a minute amount, and crossing her arms with her hands shoved under her biceps to try and make herself look a little more buff. Which was kind of ridiculous, since she already had a couple of inches and a decent bit of muscle mass on Kennedy. But oh well.

[[This was 300% going to happen and I'M NOT EVEN SORRY.]]

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[throughaphase]

Kitty might not have ever actually talked to her teaching buddy at least as far as I could find, but she recognized the name, and figured she should look for a familiar face, since it was easy to be a familiar face in a small town.

...Mostly. There were ways that could backfire.

Anyway.

"Hi, Kennedy, right?"

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2019]

[magnusrushesin]

Excuse you, Magnus was an amazing role model! If your role model was a super well armed dude who wanted to wrestle giant animals.

Like a fantasy Paul Bunyan or whatever.

Either was, he was there and even had a name tag stuck to his armor. Even though he didn't have a teaching buddy or anything. He'd still totally help out by confusing people.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2019]

[imafuturist]

Tony, with his coffee in hand, and looking tanned and relaxed from his little get away from this place, was there as well. He at the very least could be sort of considered a role model. Maybe not in the movies anymore, RIP Spidey 3.

But mostly he was just enjoying the picnic and keeping a careful eye out for anyone familiar.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2019]

[betterthanaplan]

Duke was here for the food.

He was not here to mingle with teenagers, so once he'd stocked his plate, he headed for what was clearly the adults' section before grabbing a seat and looking over the crowd.

. . . Okay. So this high-school-in-a-castle was definitely starting to climb his personal scale for weird.

"Is this supposed to be a high school or a sci-fi convention?"

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2019]

[throughaphase]

Kitty, who was a great role model thank you very much, had kind of had a tough couple weeks with separation anxiety, so she was making a point of not carrying Lexi around with her everywhere today. Because she really couldn't do that when she was teaching.

Also because these picnics could very easily go weird and after this last summer she didn't trust anything, anyway she was here with something to drink and it was all fine.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2019]

[sith_happened]

Having driven the origami nightmare glitter bomb of a bus back from the airport, Anakin was now drinking the biggest coffee he could find and glaring at everyone. There were three students that were asking for a detention right now...

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2019]

[heroic_jawline]

Steve had been the star of many, many PSAs thank you, narrative. He was an amazing role model! The rest, maybe not so much, but!

He was standing with perfect posture in the khakis and plaid shirt Tony hadn't managed to accidentally burn yet, looking approachable and interested in what anyone had to say.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2019]

[sharp_man]

Hannibal would argue that he was a wonderful role model.

And he was...well, his "person suit" was.

He was here, anyway, with his thermal bag of coffee, homemade soda, and finger sandwiches.