#this one though

MakeYouSmile: all caps! didn’t expect that

10/6: Be alert, everyone, we have pod people among us

ButterflyBoy: I’m sorry for shouting, but – can you IMAGINE your poor parents having to put up with mine, Smiler?! It would be a disaster!

RepressedFlower: And mine would be worse! Mother would be making comments about ‘the lower classes’ the entire time, while Father just sat there and glared!

RepressedFlower: Never mind the fact that your parents probably have more money than mine…

VorpalOne: Technically your parents would need to fetch mine out of their crypt if they wanted to meet them, but I suspect in my case you mean your parents want to meet Nanny

VorpalOne: Which – well, she’s much better than the Van Dorts or the Everglots, but she will NOT be shy about what she does for a living. May even share some work stories. It’s just how she is.

MoonlightDancer: dad and I are still on pretty strained terms after the Barkis mess, so I’m not sure he’d even want to come :(

PublickOccurrences: Dad: dead. Mom: gone and I hope never to see her again after she ditched the rest of us in the middle of the night. Nick: still alive and would probably be happy to meet your parents!

CommonwealthMinuteman: ...I’m not the only one with two still-living and actually decent parents in here, am I?

10/6: No, no – my parents are also perfectly nice people who would probably get along with the Altons. Hell, maybe they’ve sold some of their hats on their little programme!

MakeYouSmile: they might have! I’ll have to ask

KnightlyCuisine: And my parents – along with my siblings – are lovely people as well.

KnightlyCuisine: If still a little confused about my desire to go into the ‘experimental restaurant’ business instead of following my father’s footsteps into the military.

CommonwealthMinuteman: Come join the Creative Anachronism Society! We pretend to be soldiers – might be good enough for them

KnightlyCuisine: I’m not sure they’d be keen on me ending up an American Minuteman somehow equipped with a hand-cranked laser rifle.

10/6: It would at least make for some interesting conversations over dinner! Anyway, Smiler, when did your parents want to start meeting ours?

MakeYouSmile: ah –

MakeYouSmile: Mum’s exact words were “oh, you should invite everyone’s parents around to ours for a potluck one day!” ^^;

10/6: …

10/6: all right, bets on Victoria’s parents killing Victor’s if we do end up doing this?

RepressedFlower: My money is on “my mother and Victor’s kill each other.”

VorpalOne: I’m not so sure – I think if there’s anything that could make all our various guardian figures get along, it might be “teaming up to shut up Nell Van Dort.”

ButterflyBoy: I really do not want to test that theory.