Fandom High 20 Year Reunion Mixer, Community Center, Saturday Evening

[weirderthanthou]

Fandom's reunion mixer was as tasteful as last night's party had been, even if it was twenty years later. And by 'tasteful', we meant 'full of retro 50s robot statues'. They were everywhere, hovering over the food, lurking by coat check, hidden behind the curtains in the dark curtains...

Be careful, folks. They were Out There.

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Arrive/Pick Up a Nametag

[weirderthanthou]

Just to make sure everyone can recognize you.

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[hashtag_chocobro]

"You know," Prompto had to remark, once he'd gotten his nametag and slapped it on and took a look around the good ol' community center, "I was expecting more glitter."

Whether or not that was a sincere dig against the amount of glitter present or merely just memory conflating past experiences to be bigger and more glitter-y than they actually had been was up for debate.

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[pun_king]

You'd think, after so long on the throne already, the novelty of seeing King Graham of Daventry on a nametag would have worn off, but Graham still got a little thrill of pride when he saw it. And dutifully peeled off the back to adhere it to his tunic. Gave his signature red cloak a little toss, adjusted the blue adventire's cap that was definitely going to replace his crown today, and began to look around for all those hopefully familiar faces.

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[not_a_goddamn_princess]

Fourteen years ago, give or take, Margo had left this island and planned to come back. Not right away, but sometime, to meet some friends or shoot some shit or deal with an invasion or whatever.

Fourteen years hence, a small portal opened near the entrance to the community center. Out stepped one high-heeled boot, and then another, before they quickly vanished behind heavy skirts. What? She'd woken up to a closet full of old clothes that morning.

"Fuck me," Margo murmured, as she looked up at the sky. "Guess that was the right meringue after all."

And with that, she strode regally into the mixer.

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[sake_shinigami]

Twenty years was hardly the blink of an eye for a Shinigami, especially for the Seireitei's currently oldest living one. There wasn't much difference at all in the pink-clad figure that came floating so effortlessly into the community center that evening.

Mostly just the eyepatch, really.

And the particularly pronounced sense of relief to have just been able to get away long enough to actually enjoy himself.

Maybe even manage to find a good way to actually stay for a bit again this time...

...running the entire Gotei 13 was exhausting, and he was well overdue for another several-years-long vacation from it!

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[guillermothegreat]

"So this is the community centre," Guillermo explained as he tried to walk backwards through the door and talk to the camera at the same time, it wasn't going that well and he tripped over.

He awkwardly tried to laugh it off.

"Right Community Centre ...We had dances and things like that here when I was a student," he walked over to the table to pick up his name tag, "it doesn't look like it's changed all that much really," he observed as he looked around.

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[in_sidon_we_trust]

Thankfully, the last twenty years had been free of any particularly surging growth spurts on Sidon's part, so he was pleased as punch that he was still able to make it to this thing without it being terribly difficult with the logistics. So he was there, looming as always, proudly wearing his nametag as if anyone would need the help in remembering who he was.

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[special_rabbit]

If she was completely honest, Amaya was a little wishy-washy about the idea of heading back to Fandom for this reunion thing. She supposed it wouldn't be too bad, but she just had so many projects lined up at the shop, not to mention those new parts for the Crumbler coming in, but when Graham had come to her with all that enthusiasm of his about how novel it would be for them to get to go together, well....zards, it was just hard saying no to the kid.

Even without taking into the consideration that he was also her king, and he could always pull a Royal Decree card on her.

He hadn't. And he most likely wouldn't have, because of the paperwork nightmare it would involve, but she wasn't going to deny that there was a certain obligation involved when your king invites you out of a reunion at his old high school where you used to teach.

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[onlyajones]

Jo had been living in Fandom for the past 20 years, so it wasn't like she had far to travel to the event but it did feel weird being at a reunion for the school that she had graduated from.

She was also wearing pants and a blouse that evening, which would be perhaps surprising to people who knew her back when she was a student but she had slowly gotten used to wearing pants and jeans in addition to her dresses and skirts over the years.

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[alwaysonguard]

It felt odd. Really odd. Being back on the island after so much time. Sure Dwight had kept in touch with a few people here and there. But it had been nearly 15 years since he had last stepped foot on the island. So there was a range of emotions washing over him as he walked into the Community Center, made a name tag, and started scanning the crowd.

"Well good to see some things don't change" he muttered as he brushed glitter off his jacket.

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[furrybluefreak]

Kurt walked into the Community Center and a wave of nostalgia washed over him. The place had not changed all that much since he had graduated, really. It made him think for a moment about how things were when he first arrived on the island all those years ago.

With a slight smile, Kurt got his nametag and then began scanning the crowd to see who all was there and if any of the friends he had kept up with here and there had managed to make it as well.

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[anomaly_research_nerd]

Connor showed up at the Community Center with a different kind of nostalgia than most that were gathering there more than likely. While he had had time away from the island over the last couple of decades, he had come back and settled down on the island. So all the fuzzy feelings and memories were mostly being cause by the faces he was seeing as he stood by the table, his terribly glittery name tag already in place.

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[mylandmyrules]

Nell got her name tag and looked around the room fondly. Hard to believe it had been twenty years. She looked confident and relaxed in a colorful scoop necked dress that fell just below her knees.

Her hair was curlier and a darker auburn and those who looked closely might notice the slightest green tinge to the ends of her hair. And although she trimmed carefully, one might notice a small leaf or two growing at the nape of her neck as the evening went on.

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[canlendanear]

It felt weird being back at Fandom and on Earth in general, it had been over ten years since she had last left Xelaya but for the first time in a while she felt up to travelling off world and she was looking forward to the evening.

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[heroic_jawline]

Steve put his "STEVE ROGERS (TEACHER)" tag onto his plaid shirt, brushed non-existent wrinkles from his khaki pants and went into the party to see who was around.

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[apocalypsehow]

Well, Five was there, unfortunately. There and deeply annoyed by whatever was happening here because he knew something was happening, but couldn't figure it out as this was Fandom and it existed to vex him.

So, there was a surly guy in a suit, missing an arm, just sticking to the edges of the party.

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[amitragic]

Ulysses affixed a name tag to his shirt with the resigned ease of someone who'd been coming to events like this here for over a decade, feeling more pointless about it with each passing year.

And yet, he still hoped, as he looked around at who all was here.

(Maybe he had to.)

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[noonedecidesmyfate]

Belle looked older, but not as much older as she should have (living in a cursed town for a while had that effect or maybe she just had good genes). She carefully wrote her name (first name only, just like always) on her tag before affixing it to her dress.

She was looking around for familiar faces. Of course she hadn't made her husband attend this event. He was never much for this sort of thing and he was home with Gideon in any case.

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[intheeyeofthebeholding]

Jon had woken up this morning at home but without Martin. Or the cats. And the place looked different. He couldn't find his tablet, and was starting to get worried, but there was a phone and it opened for his finger. On the calendar was a reunion mixer, so he'd gotten dressed and made it there with only a few missteps.

Now he was looking around, hoping Martin would show up or he at least might know somebody.

There were...oh, nametags! Right. He could do that. He wrote "Jon" on one and stuck it to his shirt.

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[stykera]

Stark had been here last night. Stark had woken up this morning as usual. There was nothing out of the ordinary for him. No time shenanigans for this alien. Not this time.

There were faces here he didn't recognize immediately and so he did fill out a nametag and stick it to his chest.

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[hasaknightjob]

Marc was not bothering with a name tag. He wasn't bothering with dressing up either. He wasn't here to meet new people after all, just check in on ones he knew.

Food/Open Bar

[weirderthanthou]

You know you're going to need it to survive the night.

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[chef_chocobro]

Of course Ignis was going to gravitate toward the bar food as soon as he had a chance, which was basically as soon as Prompto brought him his nametag and he dutifully pressed it onto his jacket, really hoping that it didn't leave any marks or anything on the material.

No, he wouldn't be able to see them, but others could. And it was the principle of the matter, anyway.

And after a moment of considering the options as best he could by smell alone, there was some mild fumbling to get acquainted with the placement of everything before he then had at least something to nibble on before taking to the task of something strong to wash it down.

Dance Floor

[weirderthanthou]

Rob Thomas has been danced from the playlist.

Instead it's all very... 90s?

Shadowy Corners

[weirderthanthou]

A hallowed Fandom tradition.

OOC

[weirderthanthou]

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[okteiviakom]

I feel personally attacked omg.