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Parents Weekend Meet & Greet, Friday Afternoon

It was a nice fall Friday afternoon, and the park was all ready for people to gather to meet their loved ones, as even the extremely glittery banner hanging over the entrance to the park evidenced:

Welcome to Parents' Weekend 2021!
There was a lot of glitter. Not just on the banner, but... generally everywhere. Sorry, the school administration had ordered a surplus of it, and it clearly all needed to go somewhere, and since it was all in very autumnal shades of orange and red and gold, well, this was just the occasion.

Welcome, family and friends and whoever else the townspeople and/or the school happened to invite! Try not to inhale too much glitter.

[All PW guest applications have been accepted! OCD up, go forth and play!]

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Sign in and get your name tag! Or sign in and wonder what a name tag is!

(Sorry if there's glitter on the name tags.)

(There's definitely glitter on the name tags.)

There's a grand variety of snacks and drinks from all across the multiverse on offer! Most of it is glitter-free! Some of it has edible glitter.

Though why anyone would want glitter-dusted cocktail sausages is anyone's guess.

See who you're here to see, or make new friends! Or both! Or brood, if that's more your style.

*throws glitter at everything*

An unassuming brown-haired man in unremarkable red-and-purple robes poofed into existence on a picnic bench. At least, ‘poofing’ is the word he’d have used to describe it: the sound of the little puff of magic that blew away into the sky on his arrival seemed to demand it.

Rafe hadn’t chosen to be poofed here. He had no idea where ‘here’ was, let alone if ‘poofing’ here had even been possible. He stared at the picnic, the glitter and the banners in abject confusion, followed by— “Your Slowness!” — complete and utter horror as Lady Abigail’s birch hang-stand pitched over beside him.

He grabbed hold of the wood and clung to it tightly, pulling it back onto the picnic seat. “Lady Abigail! Are you all right?” he asked. “Are you hurt? Scared? Oh, I’m so terribly sorry for this unceremonious— poofing!”

The sloth blinked sluggishly and wrapped her claws tighter around the stand.

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“That’s a lot of glitter,” Doc blinked at the name tags after they had signed in and then at his Captain, “are they really necessary?’

Zack smiled, “come on Doc it’ll be fun, Aliza …” he stopped briefly at his wife’s name but continued, “we visited Fandom before and it’ll be nice to support Goose while he’s doing this teaching assignment … the least we can do is where an albeit very glittery name tag,”

“It feels weird to wear a name tag outside of an archeological conference,” Niko remarked as she put hers on, “even though I do agree with Doc, I think the glitter’s a bit too much,”

Zack shook his head, “come on let’s go by find Goose,” he said as he put on his name tag.

“I’m just saying Zack,” Doc commented but he put on the name tag all the same as they moved into the crowd, “besides it’s not like he’ll be hard to find, after all he’s 7 foot, he kind of stands out in a crowd,”

Goose had heard at the last minute that the rest of the Series 5 team were going to visit him that weekend, which he hadn't been expecting since he knew how few resources the Galaxy Rangers had at the moment and were stretched thin so the had been surprised Commander Walsh had approved the visit.

Even though this visit had the potential to also be a disaster since considering their track record, things never went to plan.

"Why is there glitter on my nametag?" asked Noctis, who lifted his up with a frown and attempted to, futilely, shake some of that said glitter off.

As if right on cue a very familiar voice rang out loudly through the crowd, "yo, my Gooseman!"

Iris, meanwhile, was loving the glitter. She felt there could probably be more glitter! But, then again, she was not only finally getting a chance to visit this crazy island, but she was also getting to do it with Prince Noctis! This was, like, complete heaven for her right now, and she would see about maybe getting a glittery nametag for Colonel Bahamutt later, too!

For now, though, she was just giggling a little at Noctis's response. "This is my first time even on this island," she pointed out, "and even I knew there would be glitter. You've been here a million times, what did you honestly expect?"

Doc had gone to inspect the food tables and stopped at the cocktail sausages, "what is it with the glitter?" he remarked, he shook his head, "people actually eat these?"

Goose shook his head, smiling still as he greeted his friends, "hello Doc, Niko, Zack, I'm glad you guys could make it,"

"We're happy to be here Goose," Zack grinned, "I see Fandom hasn't changed much from the last time I was here,"

Solana shook her head at her quite glittery name tag, she would have to ask Alara the significance of all the glitter later.

Jo had no one visiting her and she was rather relieved about that because she didn't want her dad anywhere near Fandom, especially after her last half term at her old school.

So she decided to help herself to some food and find a spot to sit so she could watch what was happening around her.

Alara was looking forward to her sister visiting, while they still talked to each other every week it wasn't the same as seeing her in person so she was definitely excited about the weekend.

"Well except for the part where that was ten years years ago Fandom time," Goose had to stop and think back to the last Parents Weekend where the Foxx's visited, "but no the island is still more or less the same," he agreed.

For all intents and purposes, Jerry was here to see his daughter, but if he just so happened to meet up with ~~his new best friend~~ her boyfriend a few times instead for some good old guy time, bonding over fishing or beers or something, well, then, that was just a coincidence, really! Summer was pretty busy, after all, and so he'd probably be doing her a favor by letting her focus on her work now that she was a teacher by entertaining ~~his new best friend~~ Barry for the weekend, right?

Of course, his confidence of having a great guy's weekend was a bit thrown off course when, in searching the nametags for his own, he happened across one with his wife's name on it, too, which was...odd, because Beth was going to stay home this weekend! Why would she have a nametag? It had to have been a mistake, right?

Well, he wasn't going to let it bother him and get in the way of guys' weekend! If anything, that would work out well. Beth and Summer could do their thing, while he and Barry did there! Parents' Weekend was for the Boys!

"It's so strange that this kind of conservation is normal for you," Niko shook her head, "especially how you only graduated last year and it was 2014 and it's now 2021,"

Solana made her way through the crowd and spotted her sister after bit of searching, "Alara!" she called as she walked over to her.

Beth...really wasn't sure about all of this, but she'd be lying if she said that getting Summer's message early that week didn't set something off inside of her that she'd been trying to escape from for the past couple of years. And, really, so had seeing them all again, her family, that she had....well...

She wasn't going to think about it. Because whatever she had done, the fact of the matter was that her daughter had asked her to come to this thing, and you know what? She was there. She could be out infiltrating a Gromflomite base right now and squishing bug skulls, but she wasn't. She was here. At a Parents' Weekend event in the weird dimension where Summer had gone to school once upon a time.

She found her nametag, failed to brush off some of the glitter, plastered it onto her breastplate, and then turned to look around to figure out where to go to actually find Summer now that she was here.

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