Parents' Weekend Brunch, Sunday

[always_someone]

The weather was still holding out for the weekend, decently warm with a few clouds here and there in the sky, and the weekend itself was coming to a close. Your illustrious Student Council had gone through the paces of organizing a brunch so that Fandomites could have one more day of school-provided quality time with their visitors, and so three were tables out with all manner of food provided, for folks of all dietary needs.

Don't worry, students. Things that weren't necessarily safe for human consumption had been clearly marked as such.

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Mingle!

[always_someone]

With your friends! With your family! With people you don't particularly like! With people your family doesn't particularly like! Whatever!

Re: Mingle!

[in_sidon_we_trust]

Though free of the burden of his own guests to watch over, far be it from Sidon to not take advantage of the thoughtful spread for the brunch, as well as welcome the opportunity to meet anyone else before they left for the weekend. He wanted to take his appointment to the Student Council very seriously, and that meant also being present and representative at these events...even if he would have been present and representative at these events regardless.

Re: Mingle!

[puppy_fair]

Zack... kind of had a guest this weekend. Hell, there were potentially three of them, and the less he saw of any one of them, the better.

Tseng had known. There was a lot to work through with just that knowledge alone.

That said, he was coming here with his dog anyway. It wasn't like he could avoid the Turks forever, and if Tseng managed to find him at all, he preferred it be with other people around.

Re: Mingle!

[ponytailedturk]

"Zack."

Tseng hadn't wandered into the brunch yet, no. He was standing on the outskirts, sticking, somehow, to shadows even though the sun was shining up above. It was a talent he had. Staying just out of sight.

Clandestine dark suits. It was a Turk thing.

"You're looking well."

Re: Mingle!

[puppy_fair]

"Am I?"

Zack didn't so much as turn around to face the man. There was something wary, almost icy in his voice as he held out his hand, calling Girl back to his side.

"Guess I must be."

They both knew damn well what the alternative very nearly was.

Re: Mingle!

[usual_suspects]

Darth Vowrawn continued to be amused by this entire thing, as well as interested in the potential of this island.

Which right now meant that he was showing up to this event, watching all the people here.

Re: Mingle!

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan and Jack arrived very late. She'd already stopped at Luke's for food and some form of masochism made Kaidan think bringing her to the park brunch thing was a good idea.

Spoiler alert: It probably wasn't.

Re: Mingle!

[puppy_fair]

Was there a dog trotting her way over to say hello in the hopes of scoring some free bacon from one of the local humans she knew really liked dogs? Why yes. Yes there was.

Kaidan! Incoming Girl!

With, of course, a Zack trailing along behind, smiling crookedly.

"Hey! Sorry, she's off-duty today, which means she needs to visit all her friends."

Re: Mingle!

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan didn't have any bacon or he certainly would have shared. "Hi, Girl! Hi buddy, how are you? Are you getting all the attentions today? Is everybody petting you? They should! You're such a good Girl!"

"Hey, Zack," he smiled, after giving appropriate attention to the doggo, "This is Jack, crew of the Normandy and basically my bitchy baby sister. Watch out, she bites."

Look, he felt it was only fair to warn people.

Re: Mingle!

[suitably_heroic]

There was a grumpy looking Atton, a cheery looking Mical, and a... well, it was always hard to tell what Visas's face was doing at any time...

... Anyway, there were three of them, sitting at a table and chatting among themselves.

Atton got grumpier, Mical got more cheerful, Visas stayed Visas.

Re: Mingle!

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan walked over when he spotted Atton. "Hey, Atton, you working tonight or taking it off?"

He nodded politely to Mical and Visas. Not knowing Visas name, he didn't want to exclude her by greeting Mical with his.

Re: Mingle!

[suitably_heroic]

"Probably taking it off," Atton ventured, "You ever try drinking with Mical staring at you? It doesn't end well."

Re: Mingle!

[bunsen_honeydew]

Bunsen stopped by the brunch hoping to see Vette, as per Hannibal's recommendation, or maybe another likely victim candidate for a extremely prestigious lab assistant gig at Carnegie Mellonhead.

Which was a super legit university. Really.

Re: Mingle!

[meepmeepmeep]

"Meep meep meep meep," Beaker said as he walked passed. "Meep meep."

Re: Mingle!

[bunsen_honeydew]

"Quite all right, quite all right," Bunsen said, turning to get a good look at this new student. "I say, you aren't Vette, but do you happen to know her? I'm looking for a lab assistant for next year."

Food & Drink!

[always_someone]

Having had guests with somewhat... unusual tastes in the past, the tables were stocked with all kinds of delicious looking treats, some kind of questionably delicious looking morsels, and one or two things that were pretty clearly not food to most sapient beings at all.

Just to cover their bases.

Still, if it could be even loosely interpreted as a lunch food, it was there, and so anybody who showed up to eat today would have plenty to choose from!

Re: Food & Drink!

[the_last_of_us]

Oh, there were even more kinds of food here than there had been at the gathering on Friday!

Naturally, Ariel had to try one of everything that was deemed safe for human consumption. And some things that weren't, but were apparently okay for half-Jaridians.

So yeah, don't mind the kid with a literal mountain of food, bookended by a bemused-looking Lili and Liam, both of whom had far more reasonable plates on the go.

Re: Food & Drink!

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan spotted Liam and his guests. He had a quiet word with Jack, who glanced over and saw the small. She grimaced but nodded.

They walked over. Jack a couple steps behind Kaidan and off to his right. "Hey, Liam. How's your weekend been?" Thumbed toward Jack, "Wound up with a surprise visitor. This is Jack, crew of the Normandy and basically my enfant terrible sister."

Re: Food & Drink!

[firstofitskind]

Which just confirmed Liam's suspicions that the Universe worked in mysterious ways, because wasn't it strange that a portal to Kaidan's reality opened just in time for a surprise visitor to arrive? "Hey," Liam nodded in Jack's direction, sticking out one gloved hand in greeting. Handshakes would never be his favorite, but the gloves helped it feel less intimate, at least.

"You're not the only one who got a surprise visitor," Liam said with a shake of his head. "Verity's siblings and cousin showed up on her doorstep yesterday. On the other hand, I was expecting these two. This," he gestured at Lili, "is Lili, probably the closest thing I've got to a sister, and her daughter, Ariel."

Tables!

[always_someone]

For the sitting at! And for the eating! And probably also for the talking. Preferably not with your mouths full, but nobody can stop you from doing that if you really want.

Re: Tables!

[hashtag_chocobro]

Did one have to have had guests or parents visiting to take advantage of the Parents' Weekend brunch? Prompto had no idea, but it was really hard for him to say no to a situation where there was a lot of food to be had and a lot of people around, and he was pretty sure he could make something up if anyone questioned him about it. Did they check that sort of thing? Maybe it was the thought that counted; he totally would be here with his parents if they could have made it, after all!

Of course, he probably wouldn't be there long, anyway, since sitting alone at a table while other people ate with their families was probably going to do a quick job of kind of bumming him out a little. Something he didn't even think about until it was pretty much too late.

Re: Tables!

[puppy_fair]

"Go on, Girl... Get him!"

Hey, Prompto! Guess who had a happy dog trotting over to solicit affection. Go on, guess.

Did you guess yourself? Because Zack wasn't going to let a friend of his sit alone at a table for long if he could help it, and he most certainly could.

Re: Tables!

[magnusrushesin]

"So, this is pretty weird," Magnus said. And had been saying it since the Red Robe had found him. And then extra once the guy reappeared as Barry Bluejeans again. Because magic or something.

Garfield was probably involved.

Re: Tables!

[liches_get_stitches]

"You're tellin' me, buddy," Barry said, poking at the little coin that told him shit about himself.

OOC!

[always_someone]

Save me, I'm packing my apartment up today and my father's coming to help.