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

[bigdamnprincipal]

Despite the fact that this picnic was celebrating the new fall semester, it was still technically summer, and the weather was making that clear. It was sunny, with not a cloud in the sky, and the temperature was seasonably toasty.

With not a minute to spare, the food was ready, the tables and chairs had been spread across the lawn with just the right amount of glitter on them, and everything was ready to welcome a new batch of folks to the island!

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Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[sith_happened]

Anakin's smile looked less strained at that. "It happens more than we'd like," he admitted. "I taught Drama last semester. I have absolutely no expertise in drama."

Other than wearing a cape, stomping around dramatically, and his entire vibe.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[needsacatchphrase]

"I'm hoping to learn about it," she admitted with an amused little smile. "Picked up this hammer, so I might as well really take up the whole mantle of The Mighty Thor."

Did she need to do a mock dramatic voice for the title? Yes, she absolutely did.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[sith_happened]

"The Mighty Thor?" Anakin repeated. "We've had a Thor here before. I think he taught microwaving food."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[needsacatchphrase]

"He did like to try out our 'quaint, Midgardian technology'," she confided. "He's... well, it's a sort of complicated thing. But maybe that's how Valkyrie knew about this place to get me a job."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[sith_happened]

"So Thor is like a title, then?" Anakin guessed.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[needsacatchphrase]

"That's also a little complicated," Jane replied, making a face. "So, this hammer."

Look at it twirl in her hand.

"It has a spell on it that anyone worthy of the name and powers of Thor can use it. And it apparently it picked me."

She too was kind of shocked.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[sith_happened]

"Congratulations, then," Anakin said, smiling. "What are the powers of Thor?"

Probably not related to microwaving things?

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[needsacatchphrase]

"I'm really strong," she said, waving the hammer a little too easily. "And I can kind of fly. And lightning. I grew almost a whole foot."

Wasn't it just the most exciting thing?

Also, there were other changes that didn't need to be mentioned. Because they were a real downer.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[sith_happened]

Padmé would've been just as thrilled about the height thing, and that smile was eerily similar.

"What does 'kind of fly' mean?" Anakin asked. "I can fly in a spaceship."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[needsacatchphrase]

"A space ship?" Don't get distracted by that fun fact, Jane. She took a breath to focus back on the question. "Watch."

She took a step back to give herself some space and toss the hammer down to snag the leather strap at the end of the handle in mid-air to start spinning it.

And spinning it.

And spinning it until it was a blur of speed that pulled her up into the air and out of sight at near lightning speed.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[sith_happened]

"Wizard," Anakin murmured under his breath, holding his hand up over his eyes to watch her go.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[needsacatchphrase]

After a moment or two, she came back down, landing with some force in a very dramatic fashion.

Then beamed and did a 'did you see that?' look and hand gesture at Anakin. "It's still so cool to do."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[sith_happened]

That smile was going to be a problem. Anakin loved that smile. "I like the landing."

He was something of an aficionado of dramatic entrances.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[needsacatchphrase]

"It wasn't too much? I'm still figuring this whole thing out."

Also it was less dramatic than earlier.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[sith_happened]

The lightning would've brought up some definitely less fuzzy feelings for Anakin.

"It's amazing. Don't be shy about being amazing," Anakin said.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[needsacatchphrase]

That was fair at least.

"You sound like one of my friends from back home," she replied with a bit of an 'aw shucks' smile. She really ought to call Darcy before news of a female Thor hit. "I'm much more confident about science, I promise you. I'm sort of learning the ropes along with my class, I think."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[sith_happened]

"Well, if you need heroes, you could probably throw that hammer of yours around here and--" kill one, "--hit a couple," Anakin said. "Depending on what your definition of hero is."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[needsacatchphrase]

"I did run into one from home! Not that I knew her before, but she's a friend of a friend." Oh yeah, just what Wanda needed. An puppy.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[sith_happened]

Anakin gave her an encouraging smile. "It's always nice to have a familiar face."

Unless it was your dead wife's. Cough.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[needsacatchphrase]

Look, it was a perfectly normal thing. She met a Thor doppelganger too!

"But you'll be around if I have questions? Or need to stress over lesson plans. And grading. Oh god, what's the grading scale here?"

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[sith_happened]

"The grading scale is...fluid," Anakin said with another smile. "You'll settle in quickly, but I'm around. I'm in the office with 'Dean of Students' on the door."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[needsacatchphrase]

"And you still teach?" Look, Jane. This wasn't a normal school, this was a cool school.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[sith_happened]

Anakin nodded. "I teach diplomacy this term. I have experience from my old job."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[needsacatchphrase]

"You were a diplomat with a space ship?" Oh yeah, bringing it back around to the space ship.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[sith_happened]

"We're called Jedi," Anakin said with a little smile. "It explains the whole--" he gestured to his Jedi robes, "--look. Or it does to beings from my galaxy."