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

[bigdamnprincipal]

The weather was warm, the food smelled good, and there was a good chance the new folks were a little extra glittery. What else could go into a perfect day for the picnic?

[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!]

Comments

General Mingling [Fall 2019]

[bigdamnprincipal]

Try not to freak anyone out too quickly? Possibly?

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2019]

[justice_undone]

Breq had just picked up a soda to start with, mostly being here to see who the new students were. Perhaps someone would be interested in music, and in working a shift at Groovy Tunes.

No, that wasn't entirely true. She also wanted to run into old friends, as getting her new basement apartment in order had made her a bit of a recluse. Not that she minded. Obviously. It was just good to make sure to stay in touch.

Mostly, she told herself, she was looking for employees, knowing well enough that putting up a note on the shop door might be more efficient. Looking at the people gathered, she took a sip from her glass.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2019]

[okteiviakom]

As was tradition, Octavia was here, piling her plate high and stuffing her pockets with what would keep well.

And, okay, occasionally glancing around at other people. 'Social' might not have been one of her desriptors, but sometimes a girl got curious all the same.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2019]

[cypher_can_fly]

"Ah, my favorite time of the semester," said Owen, who'd only been here for one so far. "Free food and sunshine!"

He had no intentions of freaking anyone out. He was just parking himself in a sunbeam with a plate full of sandwiches, instead.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2019]

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

Thankfully, the Dean had warned (it probably had not been meant as a warning, but she had taken it as one) Tisarwat about the picnic, so she was at least prepared to witness the mildly horrifying experience of seeing all those people eating with their bare hands. It didn't make it any less uncomfortable, though, and it had effectively robbed her of her own appetite. She was honestly starting to feel a little worn down by it all, so she was grateful to find a nice, quiet table a bit off to the side, where she could sit, and she set the fishbowl on the table in front of her, slouching a little with her chin in her hand.

Her plan was to people-watch, but that was difficult, with all the eating, so her attention mostly just went to this fish, green and purple scales shining as it started to swim around and around and around...

Aatr's tits, now that song was stuck in her head.

And she was feeling too tired to realize that she'd started humming it a little, a few of the words slipping out of her as she traced a gloved finger along the glass, following the fish's graceful circles.

"It all goes around
It all goes around
The planet goes around the sun
It all goes around..."

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2019]

[hashtag_chocobro]

It started out simply enough; Prompto went to go grab his food, loading up a plate, figuring, hey, he'd had a really busy and dramatic and maybe even slightly traumatic weekend so far, he could splurge just a little, but then, just as his plate started to get a little bendy with the suggestion that maybe he was pushing his plate limits too far, he got a fresh whiff of deja vu, a faint whisper of a Careful there, cowboy. You got all that, or do you need a hand?

Aaaaaaaand now he was sad.

Cool.

Super cool.

Good thing he had all this food now! Excuse him while he went to find a good spot for eating your feelings!

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2019]

[in_sidon_we_trust]

Sidon had been looking forward to this all week! How could he not love the welcome picnic, with all these exciting new people to meet, all these exciting new people to be surprised by his sheer magintude and energy and size, and, most importantly, all these new introductions to be had! He, of course, was helping himself to bites of fish here and there, maybe a slice of pizza or two, but he'd much rather spend his time getting to know all these marvelous new people!

And, yes, he knew it was probably hard to not notice a large and exciteable red shark person, especially if you were new.

But he'd learned over the semesters to really bank on that. He made for an excellent ice breaker by merely existing, after all, and so he'd exist to his fullest extent!

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2019]

[notallbluemonks]

Yep, Beau was here for the food, naturally. And while she wasn't shirtless, exactly, you all were welcome for the excellent view of her abs.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2019]

[howareyanow]

Well. Pitter-patter...

Wayne was...back, after some disappointing news that he never was expected to leave in the first place. Still, he tried to squeeze in as much chorin' back home on the farm as he could, as if one could have a reserve on that sort of thing and stock up, because he sure as fuck wasn't ever going to get nearly enough chorin' done around here.

But he was back, and he was resigned to his fate, and he was....

....wearing a suit.

Fuck, Nina had better be showin' up to this thing to see this, that's all he had to say about it.

But he had a pop, and he went to go stand somewhere a bit out of the way. He would have sat down, but he'd hate to go and get one of his two nice suits all wrinkleh.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2019]

[sake_shinigami]

Shunsui knew he had been absolutely terrible about socializing, which was a shame, really, because it didn't take long stepping outside on this island to be reminded of exactly the reason he'd come back. Thankfully, events like the welcome picnic made it easier for him to not only be social, but also be lazy about it, because pretty much all he had to do was show up, smile and tip his hat, and offer out sake to those he might deep particularly interesting.

At first, though, for now, he was going to find a good place where he could sit and lounge with languid comfort, watching the whole thing with pleased bemusement, because there was just something so nice about a gathering of so many beautiful people, just getting to know each other, enjoying themselves, being completely and hopelessly bewildered by the ever-present confusion that this place cultivated like a fine, aging wine...

He sighed wistfully, poured himself a little sake from his jug, and sipped.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2019]

[crack_that_whip]

Trevor wasn't exactly a social butterfly, but he wasn't going to turn down free food. Ever.

So, he was there with a plate piled high to eat as he watched the crowd. Another round of strange classes for him. Yay.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2019]

[chirpchirpchirp]

Hey, if people were going to freak out about aliens, better on day one, right? Vette was looking pretty at ease as she moved through the crowd, a plate full of far too much food for any one human to eat.

Pretty at ease. Maybe even pretty smug. The shuttle looked great today, hadn't it? The folded paper glittered so nicely in the sun.

Lekku wrapped around her shoulders so that they weren't within easy tugging range of curious new hands, Vette was humming and popping the occasional blueberry into her mouth, without a care in the world.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2019]

[somethingwithturquoise]

Yeah, right. Like Summer was going to miss this welcome picnic. It could very well be her last one! And that was a crazy thought, wasn't it? Still, she got herself some food and something to drink, and sort of sat down on top of a table somewhere to do some good old fashioned people watching while trying not to get a little despressed about the whole thing.

She was really going to miss this.

But she was definitely going to enjoy it while she could.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2019]

[uncertain_dume]

Nah, Kanan wasn't a teacher this semester, but he probably would be again eventually, and he liked to be aware of who was making their way to the island these days. After all, previous newbie picnics had brought along Mandalorians, Sith, and general pains in his ass.

He'd brought Stance along, because of course he'd brought Stance along. The pup liked people, after all.

And made a great distraction from anybody looking at Kanan too hard if they also happened to be from a certain Galaxy nowhere near here.

So far, so good.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2019]

[thishouseishaunted]

Look, it would not be Mae's fault if people couldn't handle the full impact of her Mae-ness.

She grabbed a comically large amount of food and hopped up to sit on top of one of the picnic tables. She could almost see over everyone's heads from this height. . . .

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2019]

[hernando_fuentes]

Hernando heard about the welcome picnic and went to stop by while on his way to Sparkle's store. He had a leather messenger bag with him, the kind professors sometimes carried to class. There was a small mission he had to perform there.

Lunch, and low-key checking out any new people, seemed like a good plan for the moment. He helped himself to some sandwiches and those little pickle-cream cheese-ham pinwheels that seem to just appear at every picnic ever and went to find a seat nearby.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2019]

[biotic_psychotic]

Jack wasn't teaching this term. The summer hadn't been great for her mood and she wasn't sure she trusted herself to stay on level while she had students in a room and even she knew they didn't deserve to have her bad mood taken out on them.

She was leaning against a tree, loose and looking nothing but bored, arms crossed over her chest. Black pants and boots, a ripped up t-shirt over a binding tank-top, she didn't really give the first impression of 'teacher' anyway.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2019]

[always_someone]

Norman really wasn't the world's most social butterfly, no. But even he had to admit to some curiosity about the new kids, which was why he'd found his way out onto the front lawn with his usual small stack of zombie comic books and was... socializing.

Sort of.

By sitting somewhat people-adjacent and reading such exciting tales as the comic book adaptation of classic horror film, My Baby Was a Zombie.

Hey, it was a good one.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2019]

[seriesofbaddecisions]

Sabine had been feeling better after getting away from Fandom for a bit, but she'd spent most of yesterday trying to shake off the residual gross feeling by changing her hair. It was shorter- it'd been too long before, anyway- and started out green, fading to yellow at the tips, and you know, it did help.

She found a seat at a table with a plate of food so she could watch who was there, see if anyone looked particularly interesting.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2019]

[thatwaslucky]

Rey wasn't sure she had a reason to be here outside of nostalgia, but she'd decided to lean into that nostalgia a little and find a seat at a table. It felt a lot weirder to be here a year after school and after everything, especially when she was probably going to spend the whole time observing.

But hey, free food.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2019]

[amitragic]

By now, Ulysses had relocated his sunglasses to the top of his head, though all that really did was let everyone see the kind of confused way he was looking around. If anyone was looking at him. He was honestly kinda hoping they weren't?

Anyway, there was food out, and as soon as he realized that, he also realized he was starving. So, he was just going to hang out by the snack spread for a while, if that was okay with everyone.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2019]

[backstageteleporter]

Well, at least the food was pretty good? Kuroko had started small, and was just polishing off her first plate when she glanced over at the buffet tables and realized that the tray of these little sausage things rolled up in bread was almost empty.

Then she spotted someone who looked like they were heading straight for said almost empty tray.

Kuroko's scowled. Then there was a weird digital humming sound and she disappeared from under the tree she'd been standing by and appeared at the table right by her target plate. She figured she better play it safe and just took all of the sausage things. Then, with a triumphant grin, she was right back in her original spot, but now with a full plate.

Victory!

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2019]

[unusual_sith]

It was lovely weather, and there was food, and there would probably be new people to meet, so Lana was here. She was in her local clothing, a dark red tunic and grey pants, with sunglasses on, though they were currently pushed up into her hair as she surveyed the buffet table.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2019]

[grandpoobah]

Once he'd been assured that it was all right, Grog headed directly for the food. There was a lot being offered that he didn't recognize, but if it smelled like meat or looked like meat, it had ended up on his plate.

He was still at least slightly convinced that this was all just a really vivid dream, but at least his brain was making things taste good!

OOC! [Fall 2019]

[bigdamnprincipal]

And now I crash and sleep for a bit. See you all in the morning!