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"Coming up this weekend," said Summer, once everyone who was likely to be there that week seemed to be there, and it was time to get started anyway, "is the time honored Fandom event known as Parents Weekend, which is a little bit of a misnomer, since it usually don't just extend to one's parents, and it's usually not even just the students getting visitors, but this place doesn't always sweat the middling details."

“I had a visitor last year for the first time. A…friend,” Stark said. “I’ve been here for years and it had never happened before. I didn’t know she was coming. You might not expect the visitors you get or you might not expect anyone at all. None of my shipmates even knew where I was but she still received an invitation and came here.”

"And I had an ex show up unexpectedly once!" Summer offered out, with that sort of and it made me want to murder everyone sort of cheerfulness. "That was fun! But I've also had my family show up in a more expected way, especially when I was still a student here. So the point is, Parents Weekend is another example of something the island does that seems pretty simple on the surface, but might end up throwing you for a loop."

“I ended up in the pond last year,” Stark said. “For hitting someone. He started it. Someone else’s visitor.” Given the opportunity he would totally hit that guy again. Still. “Try not to do that.”

Summer bit her lip a little, making a mental note to definitely follow up on that story, if she had the chance, before focusing back on, you know, what they were there for. "Needless to say," she said, "it can get a little intense, and way beyond the scope of the whole 'parents and guardians showing up to see how their kids are doing in school' thing it claims to be. So today, we're going to just prepare ourselves for what may come. Are you expecting people to visit this weekend? Are you not? If you're not, is there anyone you should be worried about showing up instead? What about dealing with other people's guests…hopefully without punching? And also, is there anything we," she gestured between herself and Stark, "should know just in case anyone's parents or guardians or whoever shows up comes by to see us?"

“That’s a good question,” Stark said, nodding approvingly. “If there’s anything we ought to know before talking to anyone you might expect or might not expect please tell us. We’re here to help you. That’s what this class is for.” Being Stark, he’d try and help if he could.

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Beta

TJ Wagner

If the lecture raises more questions than it answers…that's good, actually! Sort of. In a way.

Questions were good! Really!

... well, this wasn't making Beta nervous about the weekend at all. Really!

Is this the first you're hearing about this upcoming event? Have you been prepared for it? What sort of things should everyone maybe look out for or do you have any questions about how this whole thing works?

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"I may have sort of begged my folks not to come," TJ confessed. "I like being on my own for a bit, and also there's another version of my dad here already, so that'd just be awkward." Also her mom, but she hadn't learned that yet.

"Yeaaaaaah," said Summer, with a wince of sympathy, not for TJ so much as for TJ's dad, which she felt was a little weird. Dads were not usually a group she cared to sympathize with, considering her own, buuut.... "Meeting different versions of yourself is never not awkward..."

And, in her case, usually violent. And no one needed that.

Then she tilted her head thoughtfully at TJ as she asked, "Do you think it worked? The begging?"

Begging would probably only make her parents want to come more at that age.

"So far, so good," TJ said, crossing her fingers. "I guess we'll find out on Friday."

"Do you have a back-up plan?" Summer then wondered. "Just in case."

Hey, you know, what someone would constitute as a back-up plan in this situation, or whether or not they even needed one, could tell you a lot about a person, and definitely prepare her for it TJ's parents did show up.

"An awful lot of hiding them in the hotel," TJ said.

"Luckily," Summer offered, with an approving nod and a faint grin, "the room service there is really great."

TJ smirked back. "And they're disgustingly in love and don't get to see each other all the time."

Ask about their own past experiences with this weekend. If you dare.

Summer is there if you need to talk with her, and she is absolutely there to hopefully help you feel better about how weird and terrible your family might be.

If her family can't make you feel better about yours, then....ooof.

BIG oof.

Stark didn't have any family that he knew of so he couldn't really make anyone feel better about theirs. Unless an alien saying "I don't remember my family" in a vaguely sad way would help.

He could maybe fill you in on what happened to him last year though.

I did have a funny gif I wanted to post here but now I can't find it, so I've decided 'screw it,' you just get a normal OOC note instead. So there.

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