#and caleb hates every single kid and they despise him

[ali3npixls]

Charlie said to hell with Travis and is now a vampire married to caleb <3

[dumbflickerideas]

hello other anon. i have prepared a list of reasons to absolutely despise w*ll*am for the sickly twink he is

1. his appearance. please. there are so many soft boys in flicker and they just made more GET RID OF HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHERE ARE THE BEARS!!!!!!!! WHERE ARE THE CALEBS OF FLICKER!!!!!!!!! he makes me so mad

2. he is a dweeb to me. band kid. he probably played clarinet and that fact alone sickens me

3. there are too many vowels in his name. three is unacceptable unless you fit the following criteria of having a cool name (claim made by the consonant gang)

4. w*ll*am's lore and ezra. i just. i can't see it. i can't see them together. i dislike ezra but dear LORD they deserve so much better

5. he looks like the type of guy to lose an argument and pull the minor card

6. he probably kins squidward. (see reason 2)

7. i think he would just sound annoying. like. this guy would have the voice of a six year old but deep fried in battery acid, recorded on a 3ds in 2011, and played back in a post-apocalyptic game set in an abandoned apartment complex because his ass would NOT be able to afford a house

8. w*ll*am has a name that ends with m. terrible vile horrendous. why start his name with w and end with m. who made the name i need to find them

9. he would eat spiders.

10. every single w*ll*am player who i come across is a skibidi gyatt among us person and it fits. why does it fit him. i hate that it fits him so perfectly because yes he would say that actually. yes he does want to hear about your poppy playtime backrooms roblox game. he listens to garten of banban playthroughs to sleep.

Eh I don’t see it. honestly. Any male in this stupid fandom gets soft boy fied all the time

jokes on you band kids are my type ( *cough* @dazed-moth *cough*)

OBJECTION. THATS SUBJECTIVE.

bro why are we dragging Ezra like this

i I don’t think he’s even a minor

i can’t defend that you’re right

sounds edible

i have a name that ends with m you dickhead

so would spider georg but he’s an outlier and shouldn’t be counted

sounds like a skill issue

jokes aside that’s scary

[omniscientwreck]

Some of the best things to come out of me and my roommate's high school AU conversation:

- Caleb is a quiet nerd who spends most of high school denying party invitations to study, he's taking AP classes and doing university prep constantly

- Beau skipped from grade 4 to 6, she's the student who's involved in so many things nobody has any idea when she sleeps

- Veth is the single meanest person in the school except for to Caleb and this nerd Yeza who she met because they were lab partners in AP chemistry

- Mollymauk has been at the school for forever, he's failed every single class not because he isn't smart but just because he can't be in the right place at the right time. When he has English he's hanging out in the band room but when he has art he's in History class.

- Essek Thelyss plays clarinet and oboe. He listens to Baroque music and is incredibly pretentious about the superiority of both JS and CPE Bach to any Romantic era composer. He also likes New Wave. He does have a secret playlist on Spotify full of Carly Rae Jepsen, Lady Gaga, and Brittney Spears.

- Fjord is on the football team and nobody knows why, least of all him. He tries out for the school musical as a joke in the 11th grade and finds out he's actually really good at singing and enjoys it.

- Caduceus Clay graduated a few years ago but he comes back to visit teachers and the Nein who he made friends with often. If an adult is ever needed the Nein call him and he's always there within 5 minutes

- Yasha had a rough time with puberty and went through a phase where she was very angry and reclusive and alienated herself from her previous friends. Now that she's found the Nein she's more outgoing and the sweetest person you'll ever meet. She walks absolutely everywhere and somehow always arrives before everyone else.

- Jester Lavorre is everyone's friend it doesn't matter who you are she probably knows your name and at least one thing about you. She's the stereotypical art student who seems to be friends with the art teacher but it's not at all inappropriate. She's a master of bathroom graffiti and even though everyone knows it's her she's never been caught.

- When they talk about the dangers of weed in health class the teacher is going through slang terms for it, one of which is Uk'otoa which becomes a meme with the class.

- Nobody has ever seen Mollymauk Tealeaf arrive to a party. When the energy shifts from 'nobody is drunk and everyone's a little awkward' to 'we've had a couple drinks and everyone is having a great time' you'll know he's there. You just turn around and he'll wave at you from another conversation he's having.

- When Caleb finally does start going to parties you can almost always find him arguing with Yussa over some matter of academia. It ends with them in the backyard doing dangerous magical stunts and getting hurt. Essek sometimes tries to referee but often gets sucked into the showboating.

- Whenever there's a bake sale Yasha and Jester collaborate on dozens of different desserts and they always sell out immediately.

- Beauregard plays auxillary percussion in band because playing only one instrument isn't enough for her brain.

- Mollymauk can technically drive and he does frequently, his car is always inches from a breakdown and he frequently gets distracted. Fjord is a great driver and owns a truck for no discernable reason. If Caleb ends up driving he usually dissociates into the middle distance, not dangerous just not as fun.

- Pumat Sol is the shops teacher that everybody loves. Kids will take shops specifically to hang out with him and make cool shit.

- Beauregard frequently gets in trouble for calling teachers fascists in class and Essek always agrees with her.

- If Beau and Essek are in an English class together they will often overtake the class with an argument. Essek reading into gay subtext, Beau reading into capitalism critique subtext, and Caleb trying to explain why they're both right. The Great Gatsby was a nightmare.

- Beau and Yasha spend ages flirting before finally making out at a party at which neither are drunk. They then go on to found the queer students club and are elected prom queens.

- One time Caleb expresses mild interest in learning a woodwind instruments and joining band. Essek adjusts his schedule to be five minutes late leaving class in case Caleb ever takes him up on his offer to teach him.

- Fjord and Veth are ruthlessly cruel to each other and anyone who doesn't know them would think they hated each other. However, there's a theatre kid named Marius Lepual who they both despise and frequently team up against.

- Molly and Essek run the school's rumor mill. They do a good job of telling Jester or Beth exactly the right tidbit of information to have things blown wildly out of proportion. By the end of any given week there are 5 different versions of the same rumor spreading and nobody knows what's true.

- Jester decides the group chat names.

- One time Yussa and Caleb end up making out at a party when Essek isn't there. He gets jealous and doesn't speak with either of them for two weeks.

- Jester's parents are the ones who will buy the alcohol as long as they promise to drink at home or call them if anything goes wrong.

- Astrid and Eadwulf have been Caleb's friends from middle school. They abruptly transfer to a different school across the city during grade 11 and Caleb is eventually adopted by Jester and Veth and inducted to the Nein after Jester dances with him at a school dance because he's sitting all by himself.

- Molly's catchphrase is 'i have a guy' and he can get anything. Your car ran out of gas at 3am and no stations are open? He'll be there in 15 minutes with a jerry can. You need a paper for 12th grade English on Catcher in the Rye? Give him a day.

- Mario Kart tournaments always devolve into Veth and one other member. Controllers have been thrown and friendships nearly ruined over blue shells.

- The year the Nein graduate the staff are so worried about their senior prank that they nearly cancel class. The prank doesn't happen and they're lulled into a false sense of security until the next fall when they retroactively pull off the most elaborate prank in the schools history.

- When the rest of the Nein are in the 11th grade Molly just fucks off for a year. None of them know where he went, they keep receiving oddly nondescript postcards telling them he's fine and having a blast. When he returns the next summer all he says when they ask where he was is "don't worry about it"

[ianenjoyer]

worst shameless storylines ranked? personally despise the whole who’s gonna top thing with trevor and ian. like, if it’s that important?? just fuck other people? but also fiona being a landlord and cop carl takes the cake

*rubs my evil little hands together* finally more opportunities to talk about my opinions

this is non-comprehensive bc i don’t remember every single awful thing that’s happened on this show (and i blocked out so many) but here’s the ones that stick in my brain

under the cut bc i kinda went off

1. gay jesus

i just ??? hate it so much??? listen, i think this storyline started off relatively okay, if you ignore the cringey dialogue. like ian trying to help kids like him (and mickey) and save them from conversion therapy and other terrible things? okay sounds good, sounds consistent to ian’s character i’m fine with it. but the execution??? 🤢 i hate it so much. it comes off much more like they’re mocking the cause instead of promoting it. and on top of that, apparently ian was supposed to be manic the whole time but, again, the exposition was just terrible and they didn’t really indicate that this was supposed to be ian spiraling as opposed to him just going a little too far. honestly the whole thing is a disservice to ian’s character and everything that he’d been through in the previous 7 seasons

2. fionas landlord stuff

fionas switch from a kind, hardworking person trying to provide for her family to a bloodsucking parasite (also known as a landlord) is appalling. not the fact that she tried to better herself and her situation, but the fact that she constantly put down families like her own and the fact that it was framed like a good thing. like it’s fine to seek out a better life for yourself obviously but i wish she found a way to do it without becoming a capitalist who leeches off other people

3. the weird voting storyline + anytime they try to do political commentary

😐 i’m just repeating myself at this point but shameless’ switch from a gritty family drama that shows the realities of living in poverty and dealing with problems such as alcoholism, mental illness, and inter-generational trauma to a satirical ‘comedy’ that pokes fun at anything and everything is the worst turn i’ve ever seen a show take. honestly i don’t remember much about this except that frank got some creep in office and recruited a bunch of nazis to help him, and that fiona was gonna vote for some pro-capitalism weirdo bc she didn’t want rent-control on her apartment bc she hates poor people apparently

4. carl becoming a cop

i mean we haven’t even seen this yet but skdhdijsj it’s going on here anyways. honestly carl’s whole coming-of-age storyline is just bad. i’m not gonna just repeat myself but i talked about that here. basically it boils down to the show being tone-deaf and trying to do political commentary on things they know nothing about. honestly the last thing we need right now is rich white people in hollywood acting like they understand what it’s like to live in poverty, or live as a person of color, or an lgbt person, in america right now

5. mickeys send off + ian’s other love interests

so what we’ve learned is that shameless doesn’t know how to write off characters without butchering them and then expecting us to instantly forget about them. i understand that noel left the show, so i know they had to write him off, but they didn’t have to be as brutal to his character as they were.

i’m in the minority with this opinion (i think) but the first time i watched the show i wasn’t fully against ian dating somebody else, mostly bc i knew they ended up together. i mean, it is realistic that ian wouldn’t date the same person from the time he was 15, and especially after mickey went to jail it objectively makes sense that he would try to move on. but god the execution of this was terrible. they were just so obviously trying to butcher mickeys character (with caleb) , or replace him (with trevor) instead of, you know, providing us with a believable love interest for an otherwise well-liked, interesting character. i won’t talk too much about s6 but feel free to anon me if you want to hear more of my thoughts bc i have a few

6. anything with frank

i just don’t care about him. i skip every single one of his scenes when i rewatch the show unless he’s interacting with the rest of the family. he’s boring, and i think he’s overstayed his welcome. and yes i know he’s the main character but consider this: i hate him. he exists purely to engage in stupid storylines and say awful things and i want him gone. the fact that he’s still on the show and fiona isn’t is a hate crime towards me specifically smxhdjs. no hate to the actor but :/ there’s literally no use for frank on the show anymore, and there hasn’t been since they moved away from having a central-family storyline with him acting like a thorn in his children’s sides instead of whatever he is now

7. fionas love interests

i think that, kinda similar to ian, they didn’t really know what to do with with fiona’s love life after jimmysteve left. her love interests ranged from okay (mike cup supremacy!) to just boring and awful (ford, gus, sean). it’s just such a disservice to such an amazing character to reduce her to stories with boring love interests over and over again.

8. most of v and kev’s storylines in later seasons

this one makes me sad bc i love v and kev so much but... their storylines just aren’t it anymore. they’re dumb and comic-reliefy and a disservice (i’m using that word a lot wow) to two really amazing characters. they often reduce kev to ‘big, lumbering dumb-dumb’ and v to ‘sexy, sassy black girl’ and it’s just very Not Good, especially considering how interesting and multi-dimensional their characters were in early seasons.

9. karen’s send off

this is so fucking infuriating to me, especially knowing why the actress left the show. trust me i’m not saying karen is perfect or that she didn’t do terrible (sometimes unforgivable) things, but the fact that the send off for a character who was super important to the show for a good amount of seasons amounted to “she has permanent brain damage and lives with a 40 year old man and a baby she didn’t want” is such a huge disservice, both to the character and the actress

10. sammi

i don’t even want to talk about her or how obnoxious she is but i want it to be known that i hate her and that she sucks. she brought basically nothing to the show and i feel like she existed purely just to make me mad.

11. anything debbie did past like. season 3

she’s just so annoying. like with this show i usually don’t hate characters for doing morally gray things bc that’s very much the nature of the show but debbie just consistently used people over and over again while showing no remorse about it. derek (i still can’t believe what she did to him), neil, dereks wife etc. she’s just not a good person, and on top of that she’s not even entertaining to watch so like??? go away. also the fact that’s she’s dating sandy and i’m not is so rude :/

12. that one time sheila said the r-slur like 47 times 

i just remembered this so i’m putting it on here. also this is the only one from an earlier season, which just proves that the shows been tone-deaf about a lot of things the whole time, and that it’s only gotten worse as years went on. i just want to make it clear that when i say i like this show that comes with many many caveats and that this definitely isn’t a show anybody should be watching un-critically

[empirefire]

BREN; english, masculine  -  derived from the welsh word for ‘prince’ BRENNEN; german, verb  -  burn

as far as i’ve seen, every single time caleb has said his former name out loud, he has said it in full: bren aldric ermendrud. even when talking to the scourger he thought to possibly be astrid, he used his middle name even though the chances the name not being recognisable without it to be extremely slim. he hasn’t referred to himself as bren ermendrud once---either always the whole thing, or first name only, and only the former unprompted.

the name ‘bren’ is also an odd one in itself. it has a quite an on-the-nose meaning for a fire mage. besides the meaning of the english name, also very close to the command form of the german verb for burning. the latter would not have gone unnoticed in a german-speaking village and family, and in association to everything that would follow in his life, feels like a cruel joke by destiny if it was indeed a coincidence.

so, jumping off of a theory i saw earlier  ( edit: found it ! ), allow me to speculate on the possibility that it’s not. that caIeb widogast was born not as bren aldric, but simply aldric, and bren was a name that was given to him or he himself took while under ikithon’s training.

renaming, re-baptising, and calling their new recruits to abandon nicknames and names given to them by their families and friends is not unusual for cults. often, especially in more heavily established religious cults, this is tied to the appearance of freedom and rebirth, the new name being tied to the concept of being elevated to something more than they were born as, the names being chosen through their symbolism and meaning. if we are to look at the scourgers as a political cult within the structure of the empire that needs to stay entirely out of the eyes of anyone outside of it, adopting this particular tactic, especially through apparent personal choice, makes sense.

the reasoning behind caleb’s name becoming what it is apparent, but the names of astrid and especially eodwulf have meanings that could be indicators of their tasks within the group, or how they wish to be viewed.

ASTRID; scandivian, feminine  -  derived from the old norse elements áss ‘god’ and fríðr ‘beautiful, beloved’. EODWULF; anglo-saxon, masculine -   ‘pack wolf’

it would make sense for ikithon to have allowed them to choose their own names as soon as possible, using them as first names when working with one another, as a sign of family, as titles, as the thing that distinguishes them from those not chosen, while working as a means of secrecy once they graduate. it wouldn’t be something forced upon them, but something encouraged to be proud of, a sign of their expertise, a codename they themselves get to choose as they reinvent themselves  ( and are given the illusion that they are the ones controlling that transformation )  under the cerberus assembly. at first, it’d simply be something in addition to what they already are... until it comes time to graduate.

from the way the time spent under ikithon is described, it is obvious that isolation was a big part of the brainwashing the blumentrio went through. even before they were pulled aside, they were being interviewed and put on advanced classes, a practice that would seem as positive encouragement on the surface level but also works effectively in making sure that connecting with their peers outside of the three would be difficult. their homes being outside of rexxentrum, being treated differently than other students, coming from a very small social circle to begin with and at least one of them being the type to struggle with making friends---creating a world where they were unable to form attachments outside of ikithon and one another would not have been difficult. this would still leave them with the few they had when they came to the school, family being the most important one, and severing that last piece of attachment is largely what the graduation process was about.

( caleb only ever calls astrid and eodwulf by their first names. this is a stark contrast to how he addresses himself: even when trying to convey possibly life-saving information to jester, he fails to tell the surnames of the two where even the haircuts they had one and a half decades ago are seen as worth mentioning despite even caleb recognising that information being likely useless by now. it’s unlikely that he’d genuinely not prioritise the surnames of these people over how their hair was cut as teenagers, so the choice to perpetually name them by their first names only strikes as odd. the female scourger they talk to in xhorhas also refers to both astrid and bren by their first names. the former isn’t necessarily that strange, but the latter is: caleb is not talked about within the assassins by his last name, as a stranger, especially a despised stranger usually would be. no, she calls him ‘bren’, reducing him to the name that ties him to the empire---even at the face of caleb using the full name---the same way they both speak of astrid, and how caleb speaks of eodwulf. )

at the end of the training, the recruits have three names: their scourger name, their given name, and their family name---bren aldric ermendrud. during the last stretch of the process, they are led to believe their parents to be traitors, insurgents, everything they’ve learnt by now to despise. when the children kill their families, it is not only out of duty, but out of shame and anger and hatred towards them, the kids arriving to a point where they would do anything to remove that tarnish of not only the empire but themselves too, the thought of their own flesh and blood being two-faced, deceptive enemies being hateful enough to want to kill, poison, burn alive the last people outside of the scourgers who care about them.

after those murders, dropping the family name now synonymous of traitors and the name given to them by those who lied to them, would not even be a question. the name of the scourgers being the only one remaining, the one that’s collected praise and status and magical achievements, the name the soldier chose themselves and was not handed to them by those who would stab them in the back in order to topple the empire.

and the cerberus assembly has an assassin whom no one knows, with a name no one knows, who would rather die than be connected to who they once were: astrid. eodwulf.

[destructivestill]

why did you have to stick to me like this?

im a recycled bottle and you're this glue I can't get off, no matter how much I scrape and burn and scrub. Annoying, this proof that I've been used, that I am a damaged product. Who wants to plant something in a jar with the wrapper still on it?

I remember the smell of your jacket. It barely fit me and I didn't care at all. I thought that maybe it meant you loved me, that maybe it was a sign of care in the sea of loneliness and longing I was washed away in at any point without you and I hate you for making me consider you some kind of bouy. You created the ocean, you drowned me, you swept me up and let me get washed away- watched, and coddled and soothed me every time I found my grip back on your anchored safety. Fake, manipulative safety.

How dare you still sit in my mind? How dare you stick to me?

You have no right to my thoughts and my feelings but oh gods, I want you to know them. I think about if you even think about me and how you made me feel. I want to hurt you like that, but any attempt to try makes me feel kind. I don't want to be kind. You make me want to be raging.

Give me my goddamned shit back.

Its not yours, never was.

It was for the person who loved me, who treasured me, tokens of honesty. Symbols of hope that you missed me as much as I missed you while you were fucking other people. The ones you said you wouldn't go back to. The ones you said not to worry about. I want my fucking hoodie back.

Where do you keep all that fucking audacity?

The audacity to recommend me diet pills when I open up to you? The audacity to tell me you love me and leave me as soon as you think you might have to actually fulfill all those promises you made? The house and kids? the love?

I watched you treat me like shit and cried myself to sleep while you were out with your friends. I blamed myself, and you knew that didn't you?

Were you counting on it?

I can't remember you keeping a single promise.

I cannot describe how fully I hate you. How completely I despise you. And yet I loved you so fully, with so much of myself, that it still hasn't completely shaken loose.

Sometimes I think of killing you. And I understand a little part of why people who have been treated shitty will treat others shitty. I absorbed so much of your disgusting personality that I can't get it out in any other way. Just through the desire to punch you square in the jaw and force you to fucking listen to a single word I say for once in your fucking life.

I hope everyone leaves you.

I hope everyone is better off without you.

They deserve it, and so do you.

I hope Caleb said no when you proposed to him.

I hope your new boyfriend realizes you're using him.

I hope someone finally fucking tells you that you're awful at sex.

I hope one day you apologise to me and I can tell you how much I don't and never will forgive you.

And I fucking hope you understand what that means. To be the one person I can never, ever forgive.

You're a bad fucking person, and you need to live with that shit.

[bright-molina]

*looking at the post of the stranger things boys in Nylon Magazine* ok, I’m not saying that Gil need a nerdy younger brother who is completely adorable and best friends with Dizzy Tremaine... I’m just saying Gaten Matarazzo could totally play him. Also Caleb, as the son of Facilier (ooooh or Diego De Vil. I’d say another Ursula descendant but I feel like if Uma had a sibling we’d know about it because the girl had no chill). (1/2)

I haven’t decided about the other boys yet (actually ooooh, it would be cool to split them across AK VK lines…. hmmm Facilier or Tiana for Caleb… so many options for everyone). Basically, I’ve been spending way too long in the descendants tag and it is infecting everything. (2/2) 

Oh my god okay so I looked at the pictures again and I looked up the interview (which is right here) and read it and I COULDN’T AGREE MORE OH MY GOD!!!!

You know I just had to do this and I may have gone a bit overboard whoops Imma put it all under the cut because it got longer than I thought (also all pictures are from that same interview): 

Gaten is definitely Gil’s you get brother. You can absolutely bet that Gil is insanely protective of him.

Thankfully Gaston doesn’t pay either of them much attention. He had everything he wanted with the Gaston twins so most of the time he forgets that both Gil and Gaten even exist. When he does it’s never good. He’s always scolding them for not living up to his expectations and they learned to handle the criticism different ways.

He’s considered nerdy by nearly all of the other kids he goes to Dragon Hall with. He’s still one of Gaston’s kids so he’s very boisterous “That ‘insult’ is shit. You seriously can’t come up with anything better?” He does get along great with Carlos though who he convinced to teach him everything he knows about science and what little tech they can get their hands on.

He’s always been extremely outgoing. Sarcastic, always swears a lot, will always get into fights but rarely win them. No matter how much Gil and Harry try to teach him to fight he always blows them off and goes to hang out with Finn and Dizzy instead.

Finn and Natalia were both taken in by Gothel. She really wanted an heir but didn’t want children of her own so when they were old enough (but not that old that they could remember) she snatched them. Natalia immediately took after her while Finn despised everything she tried to teach them.

He always spent most of his time roaming the streets of the Isle. Him and Gaten both have the same tendency to start fights but not be able to finish them. He was laying in an alley after a particularly brutal one when Harry stepped out of the shadows. “Took a real beating there did ya?” “What was your first clue?”

Harry wouldn’t leave him alone after that. There was something about about the kid that he liked for some reason. Every time Finn started something with another person Harry seemed to appear out of nowhere and scare who ever it was off with lots of threats. “I don’t fucking need you, you know!” “Ya would be dead without me, Wolfhard. Don’t deny it”

Finn and Gaten are both honorary members of Uma’s crew. They secretly love it but always act like they hate it. “We don’t want to be in your shit gang” “Yeah we have our own shit gang” “Well this ‘shit gang’ keeps dozens of pissed off people off your asses so”

**Meanwhile in Auradon**

Caleb is the son of Tiana. He is so much like his parents it’s not even funny. He is a total theater kid. He’s been in as many productions as he’s tried out for, both at Auradon Prep and during the summer. A lot of times he’s proven to be better than even the older kids, something which some of them don’t like.

When you look at him you wouldn’t expect him to be so into music and theater. He can sing, dance, act, the whole deal. But on top of that he’s one of the top students in his class. Everything just comes naturally really.

His absolute favorite person is Noah. A lot of that is that they’re exactly the same when it comes to a lot of things. The two of them are always sneaking into Tiana’s kitchen and snatching food out of the dozens of plates all around the kitchen while she just pretends not to notice.

Noah is Ariel and Eric’s youngest son and takes after Eric so much more, personality and look wise. He loves people, anyone and everyone. He’s constantly making new friends with anyone who will listen to him. He’s so open about everything and has a tendency to rant at times.

He hates those royal events he has to go to and always ends up hiding out in one of the corners of the room where he can get away with messing with the other royal’s kids. Him and Caleb will stand at the edge of the room and end up drawing too much attention to them with all their laughing.

He loves messing with other people in his free time. His favorite people to bug are Chad and Audrey. They are such easy targets and he comes off as innocent enough for neither of them to ever suspect him. Ben knows his secret though, he finds it amusing so he never says anything.

**Once they’re all in Auradon**

Noah met Finn and Gaten first. He was sitting in their room when Ben first took them to the dorms. “Sorry, the door was open and I started exploring. You also might have to restock the mini fridge” They met Caleb later that night and the four of them became instant friends.

They stayed up until three am and still somehow showed up on time the next day. Noah and Caleb both got along with Gil easily. He was so excited and couldn’t stop asking the two of them questions. It was an amusing sight to say the least.

It wasn’t until Harry walked over that they felt intimidated by the VK’s at all. He was tall and the shining hook that was looped on his belt did nothing to ease their nerves. Noah still smiled at him and successfully won him over with his snarky but playful comments.

Caleb got along with Uma almost instantly. Mostly due to the fact that he called her ‘captain’ after hearing about the rest of her pirate crew. He was the first person in Auradon that she genuinely liked and little did he know what that meant for him.

It took exactly three days for Noah to pick up on all of Gaten and Finn’s swearing. Caleb found it amusing because he used to barely ever before. Now he’s almost as bad as them, which is definitely saying something.

The four of them very quickly start getting into so much trouble. The combination of Noah’s pranks, Finn and Gaten’s recklessness, and Caleb’s quick thinking got them into a lot of situations. They quickly become the talk of the school.

Caleb introduced Gaten to theater and surprisingly enough he really loved it. You can definitely bet that Finn, Noah, Harry, Uma, Gil, the rest of the crew, and Dizzy (who had become fast friends with Millie and Sadie) are in the front row at every single one of their performances.

A month or so later is when Finn gets an idea. “I can do that directing thing. All you have to do is boss people around. Plus I get one of those cool chairs” He ends up being really good at it and somehow is the one to direct the production of the end of the year play which he and Noah wrote.

The four of them are absolutely inseparable. You never see one of them without the others. “We’re the fucking dream team”