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

[bigdamnprincipal]

In spite of the icon Wintertime had officially reached Fandom, and the chill in the air meant it was time for a combination picnic and bonfire! There might not be shirtless greetings today (or maybe there would be, such a diverse population was bound to have different freezing points), but there was plenty of warm food and drinks for everyone to indulge in as they welcomed the newest residents and celebrated the start of a new semester!

[Flying OCD-free since it's been working well. Have at it!]

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[suitably_heroic]

"Fine," Atton said, with a sigh. "I still think I prefer just doing vocals, but I guess it won't hurt."

They could start the Very Unusual Force Users Band!

[unusual_sith]

They could recruit...

Okay, they'd be a very small band.

"Though if I'm recalling correctly, there's not a lot of guitar in classical music," Lana said.

[suitably_heroic]

"There's actually such a thing as classical guitar," Atton noted. "It was introduced in Earth's baroque era, about… five centuries ago."

He'd been doing his reading.

[unusual_sith]

"Huh. I'll have to do some more research, apparently; I missed that." In her defense, there was a lot of Earth music, and a lot of things about it to learn.

"I did learn more about jazz," Lana said, "which isn't as close to jizz as the names might suggest."

[suitably_heroic]

Atton sighed. "Bebop is a form of jazz."

[unusual_sith]

"Ah, okay." Lana cocked her head at him. "You don't like it?"

[suitably_heroic]

Atton shrugged. "It's not my style," he said. "My interest in Earth music started with metal. And I'll cop to some classical composers being kind of metal. Like, have you heard Beethoven? But other stuff, nah, not so much."

He picked up his coffee.

"I don't like music when it puts on too many airs, I think."

[unusual_sith]

Lana grinned. "Have you heard some of the operas? Death, destruction, rage, anger - and that's the Earth sort. You should give it a chance."

[suitably_heroic]

Atton pulled a face. "Sounds a lot like musicals," he said. "Or vaudeville."

[unusual_sith]

"You say that like it's a curse," Lana noted. "I've seen a few musicals; they're a bit simplistic, but not all horrid."

[suitably_heroic]

A short pause. "My old friend was all into that kind of stuff." Atton sipped his coffee. "I never got it."

When your identity was as many layers of bullshit as Atton's was, you lost any appreciation for art based on deliberate artifice. At least in his experience.

[unusual_sith]

Lana shrugged. "Fair enough. There's plenty enough other sorts we can skip it. Earth has a ridiculous number of cultures for one world."

[suitably_heroic]

Atton snorted. "I'm not saying we shouldn't teach it," he said, "I just don't like it. I bet we'll find something you hate, too."

[unusual_sith]

"Very likely," Lana agreed.

She would hate chirpy pop songs.