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

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It was Fall! It was stupidly humid today and it was about a billion degrees, but the picnic area was full of apples, pumpkins, and those decorative corn stalks that looked cute until it rained. There was food on tables--including more Cup Noodles than strictly necessary--and chairs scattered throughout the lawn in front of the castle.

Welcome, new and old, to Fandom High! It's only gonna get weirder.

[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 [Fall 2021]

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Was someone shouting her name?

Someone was shouting her name.

Why was someone shouting her name? Had she done something wrong already?

Oh, no. They were going to send her home and while she really hadn't been all that keen to leave Alfea in the first place, her father was sure to give her that disappointed look she hated so very, very much and she really didn't want to have to do that.

She straightened up, figuring the least she could do is face the music, and headed towards the sound of someone calling her name.

"Yes?" she said. "I'm- that's me. Terra."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2021]

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"Oh, good, you look normal and not like you want to eat me," Clare burbled happily. "Me roommate from the summer is a wee bit peculiar. Hi! I'm Clare and I'm here to help you get adjust to your new school!"

All of this, of course, was spit out at about a thousand miles an hour with a thick Northern Irish accent.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2021]

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Oddly enough, there was a Realm of the Otherworld whose people had an accent that was… startlingly similar.

Not that they came to Solaria- or at least, the part of Solaria that Terra was familiar with (so, Alfea’s grounds, basically)- all that often.

Still, the end result was that Terra wasn’t caught entirely flat-footed by that accent. It did take her a moment to puzzle out what Clare had said, though. Most importantly, the fact that she wasn’t in trouble. She’d deal with the ‘normal’ bit (and the fact that there were people here who looked like they might want to eat other people, apparently) in a minute, really.

“Oh,” Terra said, relaxing just a bit. “That’s a relief. I thought I might be in trouble.”

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2021]

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"Why?" Clare asked. "Did'ye threaten someone on the bus ride here?"

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2021]

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“No!” Terra shook her head. “At least, I don’t think I did?”

Terra was absolutely the kind of person who worried they might have packed a gun in their carryon when going through airport security, despite not actually owning a gun.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2021]

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So was Clare! They could be the most neurotic together.

"You'd know if it happens," Clare said wisely. "At my old school my friend Michelle did it because it was a wee first year in our seats but then it turned out that the wee first year was the sister of Big Mandy who's terrifying and then we all had to get detention and Sister Michael was very disappointed."

Breathe, Clare.

"Anyway, welcome to America, unless you are American, in which case, welcome to this great whomping castle that no one told me America has?"

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2021]

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“American?” Terra repeated, in her British Solarian accent. “Oh, no, no. This is my first time in America, actually. I’m from, er. Solaria? I don’t suppose you’ve heard of it.”

Dowling had said this island, while firmly part of the First World, was a place where many people knew of and understood magic. So. Maybe?

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2021]

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"I haven't," Clare said. "Is it near Wales, then?"

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2021]

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“No, no, it’s, ah- not in this world. Not at all. Solaria is a Realm in the Otherworld. The fairy world?” Terra told her.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2021]

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Clare stared at her for a long, long time.

"...but fairies are wee," she finally managed.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2021]

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Terra Harvey had been called a lot of things in her fourteen years, but 'wee' was... not a term she'd heard in reference to herself in recent memory.

"No," she shook her head. "At least, not anymore? We used to be able to shapeshift, but now," she gestured at herself. "What you see is what you get."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2021]

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Clare took a moment to digest all of that. "...should I've brought you a plate of milk instead of biscuits, then?"

That's what she'd been taught the Fair Folk in Ireland preferred!

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2021]

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"Milk?" Terra echoed. "No, no, that's- biscuits are fine. Biscuits are great."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2021]

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Clare held out the packet. "They're Jammie Dodgers," she said.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2021]

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Terra's eyes widened. "I've heard of those! I always wanted to try them!"

Go figure, the Otherworld had access to Instagram and Harry Potter, but not one of the most popular British biscuit brands.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2021]

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"They're my second favourite," Clare said, "but I didn't know if you would be a terrible person so I didn't bring the chocolate ones."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2021]

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“That’s fair,” Terra nodded. “I could’ve been my brother, after all.”

Sam wasn’t actually all that terrible, but as a little sister she was morally obligated to find him so.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2021]

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"Brothers do not get chocolate biscuits," Clare said.