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]

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

Hey! He'd just blithely talked about an invasion right before Christmas! That was chill!

"That's the plan," Julius said. "No more animals, no more video games, no more...bullshit. I just want things to be...you know. Easy. For a bit."

He realized how whiny he must be sounding and reversed course. "Got back in time to pick classes, so that's cool, right?"

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2021]

[amitragic]

He didn't sound whiny.

Although even if Ulysses had thought he did, he would mever have admitted it.

(He did, however, raise his eyebrows a little at that 'bullshit', because that seemed... new?)

"Yeah," he said. "Though, I kinda seem to get my classes assigned, like, at random half the time."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2021]

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

It was! Blame a year spent wandering through a video game world with a band of merry assholes. Thanks for nothing, Arbati!

...Though he was already trying to curb the impulse.

"I know Bob - my brother Bob, you didn't meet him - was picking my courses for the first few semesters, but he didn't this time?" Julius said.

Technically, Uly hadn't met any of his siblings, though he'd seen the aftermath of Julius's run-in with Chelsie and helped him to his feet. Because he was great and hadn't deserved to have that thread dropped and I am SO SORRY but I think it got lost in the sea of notifs but also SO SORRY.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2021]

[amitragic]

Honestly, Ulysses felt like he'd come as close to meeting Julius's siblings as he would ever care to. They all seemed like dicks.

"Hey, that's great," he said. "What, uh, what classes did you pick?"

Were they sharing any?? was what he was really asking, of course.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2021]

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

According to Bob; he was going to be Julius's favorite brother eventually. Julius hadn't heard that, but even so would have considered it a very low bar.

"Uhh, yeah, hang on." His phone still in Nina's possession, Julius pulled out a sheet of paper from his jeans. "I signed up for, uh, Adulting 101; Diplomacy, Relationships, and Tactics; Career Development; CLUE; Culinary Fundamentals, and, uh. Disappearing in the Modern World."

There may have been a theme there, yes. Hopefully it wasn't super-obvious?

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2021]

[amitragic]

If only because that sounded like it was over half the classes that were on offer!

Ulysses kind of blinked at it, yeah. "Oh, wow, you -- you really picked classes," he said, somewhere between awe and... something else. "But, um, hey. I'm in the Career Development one too."

And then in one other class, but they didn't need to talk about that.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2021]

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

"Yeah?" Julius asked, brightening. "So, uh, this is probably stupidly dorky, but d'you wanna sit near each other or whatever?"

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2021]

[amitragic]

'Stupidly dorky' was also a pretty apt descriptor for the grin that bloomed on Ulysses' face.

"Yeah," he said. "I would -- that'd be cool. Like, that'd be really cool with me."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2021]

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

"Fuckin' awe--" He stopped and rubbed the back of his neck. "I mean, uhh, awesome," he amended. "That's really cool. Thanks Uly."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2021]

[amitragic]

Ulysses huffed out a laugh that sort of sounded like he'd forgotten how.

"You're super welcome, Julius."

... To ruin whatever chance Ulysses had had of paying any attention to the actual class.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2021]

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

Hey, that just meant they could be study-buddies, right? And that would be cool, too!

God, he was such a dork.

"Getting sucked into computer games and turned into animals notwithstanding, this place is pretty great, you know that?"