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

It was unseasonably warm in Fandom today, which was good news for anyone who didn't want to have to worry about bundling up, and bad news for anyone hoping for a snowy picnic. Traditions were traditions though, so there was still a bonfire going and plenty of supplies for s'mores and hot chocolate among the variety of foods and drinks that had been prepared for the new folks.

Once everything was set up and un-tasteful amounts of glitter had been brushed off of everything, it was time to be welcoming!

[Have at it, everyone! | Siblings | Roommates | Teachers | General Mingling | OOC]

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Well, considering that it wasn't a very long list at all and Libby had already had the chance to meet the other two names that weren't hers on it, she had a feeling that she might be able to figure out who this girl dubiously looking at the list might possibly be. Which was definitely making her feelings swing more toward nervous again. Sometimes, she felt Zo's look had a bit of a hard edge to it, but this girl made Zo look like she may as well be heading off to church!

But if they were going to be roommates, she hoped they could still get along.

"Oh," she said, a little softly but hopefully enough to get her attention. "Are you Vi? Or is it Vee? I'm Liberty." And she nodded at the list and her place on it, so she wasn't left wondering why some random girl who probably looked like she'd just come waltzing out of some prairie book was talking to her.

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But Vi was so approachable and charming with her piercings and facial scars and half-covered tattoos!

"Yeah, Vi." See, she didn't even grunt her reply! Even if it took her moment because it was weird hearing people use her name again.

Libby was pretty sure she'd never even spoken to someone with tattoos before, but, then again, she'd never spoken to a blue person before today, either, so it seemed this journey was going to just be chock-full of firsts, right out the gate.

"Then I guess," she said, plowing ahead and not about to let a short answer like that dissuade her; maybe Vi was just shy, for all her bold and hard edges? "we're going to be roommates! If it helps, I'm used to sharing a bedroom. You kind of have to, in a family our size."

Even though she had a feeling sharing a room with Vi was going to be absolutely nothing like sharing a room with Patience!

It was unlikely to say the least.

Yeah, shy, let's go with that. Far fewer questions with shy.

Vi's hands were suddenly absolutely fascinating. "I used to share a room too." She rolled her shoulders and turned to face Libby properly. "So, you got a big family, Libs."

Vi's attention to her hands just there (and, even more so maybe, the used to) did not completely escape Libby's notice, but she certainly wasn't going to press anything, especially when they'd surely have plenty of time to get to know each other better when maybe things were a little more settled and calm. But the slight variation on her usual nickname had her smiling. She kind of liked that.

"Not as big as some," she admitted, because, really, for a Quiverfull family, they had just been starting out, and with everything that happened, they probably weren't going to be getting much bigger, unfortunately, "but there's seven of us now, now that baby Hope's come into the world. And I'm the oldest," she added with a small laugh, "so, yeah, I'm definitely pretty used to sharing."

Good thing Libby liked it, because she'd be hearing it a lot from Vi.

"Wow, Libs, seven." And topsiders liked saying trenchers bred like rats. "You know they have ways of preventing that now, right?"

That had been an extremely awkward afternoon with Babette, especially given how incredibly unlikely Vi was to ever personally need to use that information.

Libby was certainly not without awkwardness in that area, either, although that was definitely a criticism that she wasn't unfamiliar with in regards to her family's lifestyle. She felt her face getting a little warm with a blush.

"Oh, we're actually very religious," she explained, a little tentatively, because she had a feeling that word would fall on Vi more like it did on Zo rather than it did on Guillermo or Kurt on the bus here. "We don't believe in birth control, and that every child is a blessing straight from God."

Very astute and accurate feeling there, Libby.

"What kind of fucked up Piltie cult shit is that?"

Not one to mince words, was Vi.

And the words they were weren't doing anything to chase the red on Libby's cheeks away any time soon!

But it was fine! This was more of what she had been expecting, really, when she knew she was going to be going to a secular school out in the real world; she just sort of felt that Guillermo and Kurt and Jo had probably lured her into a false sense of security and thinking that maybe there were more people like her around here than she expected. But it made sense, that there would be people like Vi, too.

And that she'd have the challenge of having to live with her, too. But it would be a good test! She'd have to deal with all sorts of people if she wanted to be a nurse, she had to start somewhere...

It wasn't like she didn't know her upbringing was odd, either. And Vi should probably know about it, too, if they were going to be stuck together.

"Some people call it Quiverfull," she offered, helpfully. Or maybe not so helpfully, actually. "Because every child is like an arrow in the quiver of God's righteous warriors..."

And she was already bracing herself to wince at Vi's reaction to that, but she would have felt worse if she'd have lied about it and wasn't honest with her.

Vi's entire body went tense, her hands automatically curling into fists.

It wasn't like she didn't know that people believed a whole bunch of different things, it was impossible to live someone like Piltover and not know that, and that just because someone believed something that sounded stupid and messed up it wasn't necessarily going to cause any harm to anyone (and that Vander had made sure the ones that were into actual harmful shit knew just how limited the Lane's welcome was). But if the first half of Libby's explanation made Vi remember gnawing hunger, Mom and Dad's bowls being empty so her and Podwer's could be a little more full, how fucking skinny Mylo had been when Vander found him, and all the kids who hadn't been lucky enough to have someone like Vander or Benzo, then the second brought back blood and smoke, and bombs and death.

"So your cult isn't just stupid and selfish." Part of Vi knew she wasn't being entirely fair to Libby, it wasn't really her fault someone had filled her head with toxic sludge. A much larger, angrier part of Vi needed to hit something, and sharp words had always been a fallback for when there was nothing and no-one to punch. "Good people don't think of kids as weapons."

And even though Libby had been prepared for a negative reaction, she still winced deeply when that shoe finally fell. Really, usually expected disapproval or mockery or something like that, but not as many people got mad about it. Zo had been pretty mad about it, though, but Vi...she seemed...this was much more than Zo's disgusted irritation, Libby felt like she could practically feel the heat of Vi's anger radiating off of that reaction and she honestly had no idea what to even do about it.

Today was probably a lot for both of them, maybe she just needed to give it time. It wasn't as if they wouldn't be stuck spending a lot of time together if they were going to be roomates, after all.

"I...I'm sorry," she said, genuinely, although she wasn't sure if she was apologizing for her upbringing so much as the fact that it clearly made Vi upset. "I know most people think it's a little...odd, and that there's a lot...wrong with it..." Something she herself was struggling with herself, honestly, "but I just....I didn't mean to...."

She sucked in a shaky breath that she tried to use to muster up something more firm and resolve.

"I just thought I should be honest," she said, with more confidence, "if we're going to be living together. But I promise I won't bother you any, if you don't want to be bothered."

Which was honestly a little heartbreaking, if that was the case. She was sort of excited to get to share a room with someone new and different. Maybe it wasn't too late for them to still be friends, but...Libby could tell, it likely wasn't going to be an easily won friendship.

And explaining why she was so mad, would've required Vi to be far too honest. More than she could be after two years in Stillwater.

Instead she made herself relax, uncurling her fists and rolling her shoulders. "Don't worry about it, Libs," she said with forced lightness. "You pick the bunk. I'm just gonna take a walk."

Maybe she'd find something to use her fists on along the way.

Catching her lower lip underneath her teeth before it could start trembling, Libby nodded stiffly back, knowing that Vi telling her not to worry about it was pretty much only going to make her worry about it more. But she supposed that response was a lot better than it could have been, and the last thing she wanted to do was already start pressing her luck more than what she already had, and she nodded again, a little easier this time.

"Okay," she said, stepping back as if to show just how willing she was to give Vi as much space as she needed in the meantime, and wondered if she would be spending the rest of the day just trying to think of how to best just stay out of her way or somehow make it up to her that she was stuck sharing a room with the weird fundie kid with way more religion and siblings than sense, apparently.

She would have added that she'd see her around, but she guessed Vi would probably rather not have that particular reminder.

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