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Student Council Graduation Mixer [Community Center, Thursday, April 28, Afternoon]

With graduation only days away, guests were beginning to arrive on the island today and Student Council, in accordance with tradition, had pulled out the blue and gold streamers and the inflatable gremlin wall decorations and was hosting the annual Graduation Mixer.

Yes, there were nametags, but there was also snacks, so that balanced things out, right?

Come out, students and guests, and ~~compare embarrassng childhood photos of the graduates~~ get your mingle on! It's the beginning of graduation weekend!

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Get your nametag! Look around for your grad!

Or, since this is Fandom, be surprised by a doppelganger of your neighbor!

Enjoy the appetizers and punch!

Short OCD is short!

Hannibal didn't know if he needed a nametag but he picked one up anyway and stuck it to the front of his shirt. He felt a little less tense about being here but he was still wearing sunglasses as he set off to see what was happening so far.

After picking up a cup of punch, Hannibal wandered aimlessly around the community center, keeping the sunglasses on despite being inside. It just helped him feel slightly more comfortable.

Sure, she was late coming in, but far be it for Ariel to miss a party! She had burst in after hastily getting ready following a span of losing time while exploring. You know how it went. But she was here now, and she was eager to have fun and maybe meet some new people, some friends of some of her schoolmates.

Alex figured since he was graduating, had to make a speech and had a brother coming in, he should show up. He'd gotten a lot of sleep since coming back from retrieving Emma but he was still a little tired.

So, he was downing the punch and leaning against one of the walls, looking around.

A party wasn't a party without mingling, and Ariel was very pleased to see that she wasn't so late that she'd missed out on some of the particularly good snacks. Exploring and picking through trash at the junkyard built up quite the appetite.

Kate had no idea when her brother was coming, or if he'd even make it to the mixer. They'd had enough trouble trying to make sure he'd show up on the right day, or at the very least within the weekend, so figuring out stuff like hours hadn't really been on the agenda.

Kate was here with a glass of punch, regardless. Even if her brother would only show up in the middle of the night, there was no reason for her not to take the chance to meet some of her fellow graduates' friends and families.

Bod wasn't graduating but he'd decided to attend anyway since the closest person to him was graduating and he wanted to be around to support her should she need it.

Punch in hand, he wandered around quietly, taking in the beginnings of an event he hadn't experienced before.

A nametag. Leto found that hilarious and stuck it to his shirt. It felt good to be in a place where he actually might need one.

Oh, a familiar face. He realised how much he had missed Kate, and hoped and suspected she hadn't changed that much. From her point of view he hadn't been away that long, after all.

"Hello, Kate."

Leto picked up a glass of punch but ignored the appetizers for now, and looked for people he knew.

Six months, give or take, since she'd talked to him last. It had probably been the longest six months of her life, though, and she had changed; the practice dummies in the dorm salle could attest to that.

But she hadn't changed anywhere near enough not to do a girlish little flail and a surprised squeal at seeing him. Of course not. "Leto!" she exclaimed, immediately reaching out to hug him. "Holy shit, I didn't know you were coming!"

Well, he was eight years older and had merged with sandtrout.

"I didn't tell anyone." He hugged her back, overcoming the urge to pull away from touch that the wormskin caused. "It's good to see you again." He released her, but kept his arms around her, grinning.

Yes, it was good to see her again.

"It's good to see you too," Kate said, grinning back at him, hands resting on his shoulders. Of course, now she was actually looking at him, noticing the changes that were much more apparent than hers, and her head tilted to the side. "So... How long has it been, since you've seen me? For you."

Arguably, that exasperated look on the face of the woman who'd just put on the Constance Aluko nametag was part and parcel of her job description. The severity of the exasperated look, though, had everything to do with the specifics of her job description: namely being Kennedy's Watcher.

It wasn't that Constance, after two years, was remotely surprised any more at Kennedy's tendency to run off and help save some world somewhere; she was resigned to that.

Just... marveling at the fact that Kennedy had gone off to do that today of all days, with only a hurried and not at all informative text message this morning for a heads-up. She was almost ready to swear that Kennedy had deliberately timed it this way just to leave her in the position of explaining the girl's absence to her father.

Because he was certainly not graduating, Alexander had considered skipping out on this graduation mixer thing, but then he thought of his mother's voice in his head, lecturing on the importance of such events because you never know who you might meet or what you might learn. So the finery was out again and Alexander was hanging out by the punch bowl, thinking that he'd much rather be enjoying ice cream and a terrible film right now.

Raven was trying to keep in denial about graduation, but the activities made it difficult. But at least seeing old friends might help her keep her mind off other things, like her inability to heal Triela, so she decided to check out the mixer.

Raven hadn't seen Hannibal in ages. She had a brief tense moment as she remembered the nightmare about him her father had sent her (or so she still thought), but she banished that thought and smiled at Hannibal as she approached.

"Hello, Hannibal," she said. "It is good to see you. How have you been?"

Well, this whole socialization thing still wasn't Jonothon's strong point, but... given the way that graduation was lingering so stupidly closely on the horizon now, and he wasn't going to get many opportunities to see many of these people again at least for a while...

He was here, keeping an eye open for familiar faces, and ready to duck and cover if it looked like there might be any flying hugs headed his way.

"Hello," Hannibal said, a little surprised she'd come up to him but he also didn't know she hadn't realized it was truly him that night. "I've been...well, I've been lazy, I guess. I've just been bumming around a friend's house."

One of the arguably somewhat better end results of the whole vampire debacle was Kate's newfound ability to quickly notice Hannibal in any crowd. (Not that she'd ever been too bad at it, he was a tall dude and a friend, but it was funny what a few months of half expecting him to be behind every dark corner could do to sharpen one's senses.) She'd spotted him long before she was sidling up to him.

"Thought you'd be all over the snack tables," she said, by way of greeting. "Figuratively."

Jono didn't imagine for a moment that Raven wouldn't know who he was if he stepped up behind her, covered her eyes with his hands, and said, //Guess who, Sunshine.//

That wasn't going to stop him from doing so. He was going to get any inclinations towards being a massive dork out of his system now, while he still had the time around here to do so.

"I'm not that hungry," Hannibal said, glancing over at her. "Maybe later. Hey there. Ready to graduate?"

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