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

[bigdamnprincipal]

There were plenty of chairs and tables by the bonfire, and some further out on the lawn for anyone who might want to enjoy their food alone, or just gaze at the new folks and try to figure them out. All of these potential activities were valid!

[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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Re: General Mingling [Spring 2021]

[utterly_alone]

"Most people don't pick their names," Lydia pointed out.

At least, she hadn't, not that she objected to it.

"My father's pretty bad but he's not that bad," she added. Just sort of...ineffective.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2021]

[apocalypsehow]

That sounded worse somehow. All the Hargreeves children would walk all over him.

And not just because Allison.

"Most people aren't adopted by a reclusive billionaire with delusions of grandeur."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2021]

[utterly_alone]

Lydia fairly walked all over Charles, much less to say how Delia treated him.

"That sounds like a book I'd read," she told him honestly. "You've got a bunch of siblings?"

She, naturally, was an only child. All the better to be endlessly lonely.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2021]

[apocalypsehow]

"Six of them." You can guess their names easily.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2021]

[utterly_alone]

"How'd you get stuck as five of seven?" Lydia wondered. "Also, I'm an only child and that sounds like a literal nightmare."

Way worse than the reclusive billionaire dad part.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2021]

[apocalypsehow]

"I was the fifth one he found, presumably," he replied dryly. "There were a lot of kids born at the same time as us. We were just the ones he managed to get."

Sure. That made sense to people outside the canon.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2021]

[utterly_alone]

"Can you all teleport?" Lydia was keeping up with the important parts, at least. She wouldn't mind having siblings if it meant they all had a superpower, probably, though it might also make them more annoying.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2021]

[apocalypsehow]

"No, they all have different powers. Except Vanya. She's normal." She most decidedly was not.

But he had mixed feelings about that book still. It was good to have something to tell him what he missed out on, but also... yikes, Vanya.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2021]

[utterly_alone]

"Sucks for Vanya," Lydia decided. "Normal people are boring, though if you're around teleporting or whatever, at least she's probably not willfully normal."

The way people could just purposely not see things killed her, a little.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2021]

[apocalypsehow]

"She was the only one of them who would listen," he said a bit wistfully, glancing away like the old man he was.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2021]

[utterly_alone]

"Maybe that's her power," Lydia suggested. "Listening."

It honest-to-goodness was kind of Lydia's gift. Just being observant.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2021]

[apocalypsehow]

Five shot her A Look for that one. "Regardless. She was normal. And the rest of us were supposed to fight crime or whatever."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2021]

[utterly_alone]

"And instead you're here, and secretly old," Lydia noted.

Didn't look a lot like fighting crime, to her. No judgement, but just saying.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2021]

[apocalypsehow]

"I haven't seen any of my family since I was the age I am physically right now," Five replied. And it was almost nerve-wracking to think of being able to see them again.

That would change the moment they were in the same room and the bickering took over.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2021]

[utterly_alone]

"So it's been awhile," Lydia said mildly. "I mean, I'm kind of here to get away from a family situation, so that sounds pretty okay to me."

Though she wouldn't want to be away from her dad that long, if she was honest. Delia, sure, but she actually liked her dad on the rare occasions when he was paying attention.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2021]

[apocalypsehow]

"Yeah, doesn't it just?" he muttered, just clamping right on down on those emotions until he could go rescue Dolores. It was how you survived, you see. You just bottle it all up until it breaks out in a murderous rage.