#elmville

[smolandweirdwriter]

 High Elves are effectively polyphyodonts. Most lose their teeth first at around 20 or so, some a little older or younger. (20ish is considered early adolescence for High Elves, while adulthood is around 100.) Unfortunately, no one bothered to inform Adaine of this. Her teeth begin getting loose one day and she gets so scared and starts thinking she’s dying or cursed. Other species lose their teeth when they’re children. She’s not a child. She’s been raised—naturalized, really—as a Solesian citizen, and Solace is, first and foremost, a human-centric country. So she thinks of her age as a human might. And yet. Her teeth are loose. 

She calls Aelwyn, who laughs at the panicked, high octaves of her voice. “Adaine,” Aelwyn says through giggles. “You’re not cursed. You’re losing your baby teeth.”

“I’m not a fucking baby!” Adaine cries, more afraid than angry.

Eventually, she figures it out. It sucks to lose your teeth. But also, weirdly, she kinda likes the slight pain in her gums it prods. She likes poking her tongue around the tender space left by the lost tooth. She really likes the amount of ice cream she eats afterwards. 

There’s a common urban legend that elf teeth get sharper with each regrowth, and that the older an elf is, the sharper their teeth. This isn’t exactly anatomically accurate. After the first loss, their canines are substantially sharper and longer, effectively becoming fangs. These are the only teeth that aren’tever replaced, but they do grow a bit as a High Elf’s life goes on. Most aren’t exactly even, and most are about an inch, but it’s considered a beauty standard in Fallinel to have perfectly same-length canines spanning about 1.5-2 inches. “Fang implants” are common, but they also require extensive, expensive surgical processes. Adaine thinks that’s fucking stupid, because she can barely manage needing to recalibrate how she chews her food after her fangs grow in because she can feel them sliding against her other teeth and her lips and she keeps accidentally biting her tongue with teeth that, if she chomps too hard, draw blood. 

Fabian claims he gets tooth implants to feel “more connected to his roots” and because “they look fucking sick” but they all know it’s in solidarity with Adaine. 

Fig is actually very helpful in the adjustment process for Adaine because she also grew fangs—hers came in during high school when the rest of her tiefling heritage began showing. She, Adaine, Lydia, Ragh, Aelwyn, and Jawbone have a group chat called “fang fam” (named by Fig). 

[thequeenwanderer]

Be honest, would you read Fantasy High fanfiction set at Augfort Adventuring Academy that's mostly canon compliant....... But about a completely original party of characters?

More information about the Let-Downs under the Read More

The Let Downs (or The Disappointments)

A gnelf (half gnome/half elf) wizard boy who refuses to cast spells that aren't rituals, despite being the son of two combat mages.

a history-obsessed, autistic dwarf girl who is upset that her Samurai fighter classes don't focus on historical weapons and don't appreciate her homemade accurate armor

A super friendly Hobgoblin barbarian who cheerfully uses rage as an outlet for his anarcho-communism (yes, he does know the Cubbys)

A first gen Solisian half-gnome/half goblin who is friends with everyone despite the horde of termites and fungus always in her wake as a swarm ranger/spores druid

An ultra wealthy earth Genasi, a literal golden boy....who has the strictest parents, with the highest expectations of this generations holder of the warlock pact, but secretly longs to be a bard

And! The new girl, a recently immigrated from a nameless isolated village in the Baronies, desperate to learn how to control her violent dragon sorcerer powers...only to discover sorc classes at Augfort dont teach anything.

These are the Let-Downs! Classmates of the Bad Kids. Living their own lives in Elmville. Can I interest you in their story?

[bacchuschucklefuck]

typical tavern scene

[midnightfox450]

The fact that Riz Gukgak (the boy who doesn't know how to take a break, who is deeply afraid of drifting apart from his friends, who "has a hard time connecting to his dearest friends unless he can feel useful") was the one who manifested a creature that forced The Bad Kids to work together again and robbed them of having a proper summer break is so poetic.

[needlepointbear]

I think when they have free time, the bad kids take riz to really high places and let him jump and fly with his glider angel wings. Like a sugar glider

[rrat-king]

i'm obsessed with the bad kids and the rat grinders as foils in unintentional ways, and it really shows the systems that failed the rat grinders.

kipperlilly and gorgug as kids who are consumed by a rage they cannot control, but where in freshman year gorgug was able to channel that rage in a productive way, kipperlilly is still struggling, having it used against her.

riz and mary ann who are a little odd, a little socially awkward, but both make it onto the blood rush team, but where riz is able to help out his team mates, supported by his friends in order to let him succeed, mary ann, despite playing a good game is considered a "freak" and where riz's party gets his little oddities, her party doesn't seem to.

like these teens are so similar but experienced life in such different ways, having such different supports or lack there of and that's why they are so interesting

[greatpistachiopie]

cloaca's doing its best actually

[ornitharts]

Still a little strange that no one could find Lucy’s body with magic when she was literally right there in the woods next to the school. Maybe something about the glyph or whatever hid her body from the spells they used, but it’s still a little weird to me.

[purrassicjet]

I like to think Sandra Lynn is a local celebrity in Elmville.

Not because of her time as an adventurer, oh no, it's her Ranging prowess that garnered the attention of the Elmville press.

It all started when she graduated from the cadet two months early. Probably due to some feat of heroics that I don't want to headcanon right now. She probably held off a bunch of monsters all by herself or something like that. The details are irrellivant, but it got her in the local papers. She freaked out a little when they asked for an interview, afraid that they would dig up her past, but they were solely interested in her achievement.

She appeared off and on during the interviening years. She'd take down some monster that was bothering people, or win some sort of completition, and they'd do a small story on her.

Her popularity really picked up at the end of Freshman Year, when she was credited with saving The Seven from their imprisonment. She tried to convince them that A, The Seven had basically saved themselves by the time she got there, and B, The Bad Kids actually killed Kalvaxus, but when she refused to put local reporters in touch with any of the children involved, she was convinced to give a statement. People admired her for her willingness to rush into potential danger again so soon after she had nearly been killed.

She faded into the background about the Sophmore Year adventure, only giving a statement about the visiting Sylvare and leaving all the popularity to the Bad Kids, who were already famous through Fig and the Cig Figs.

During the Night Yorb Summer, she became a pillar of the rescue effort. The police were too focused on the crime spike to bother with actually helping people, so it became the job of the Solesian Rangers to manage rescue efforts and other natural disaster related things. They handed out food, made sure people were being civil with each other, and were there to resuce people who got stuck in the dark. Sandra Lynn stepped up to run the main rescue efforts while her Base Captain communicated with the Ranging higher ups. Everybody learned how to recognise her face, and learned that Mordred Manor was the place to go when you needed help and it would always be given to you.

People still recognise her from that time, thank her for helping their family members when nobody else would. She's been interviewed about it repeatedly since, but she maintains the stance that she was "just doing her job".

As she starts attending Ranging competitions again, and continues to serve Elmville as a Solesian Ranger, she starts to wonder if the local paper really wants to speak to her about the things she's done, or that the citizens of Elmville just like knowing that she's still active, just in case.

[peopleareaproblem]

Some "minor" things from the Carlos Luna summary that have popped up in Junior Year:

the original Shrimp Party

Fig never going to class

Porter telling Fig she's good at rage

I assume these things got mentions in the summary specifically because they reappeared in Junior Year, so I combed through the video again looking for more "unnecessary" details...

General weirdly specific stuff:

we see Madam Silvaine's character card, even though she's a very minor NPC

the gang maybe went a bit too far while interrogating Biz

Gorgug was fed a flower by Telemaine

Ragh was hooking up with Fathethriel

Fathethriel helped Aelwyn trick the Bad Kids

Arianwen:

Arianwen taught at Hudol

frequent focus on Arianwen and her character art

Gilear:

Gilear couldn't become the guidance counsellor because Jawbone got that job

Gilear was living in Hallariel's garage

Gilear briefly died

Fabian was having visions of turning Gilear-esque in the future

we haven't seen Gilear in a while huh? everyone forgot him

Gilear was in the wheel well

"Fig's dads have the worst luck" (direct quote)

Gilear finds the sin armors, refuses to put on the kink armor

Gilear dies twice in Hell

Gilear has to stay out of the Forest of the Nightmare King because they can't keep spending their diamonds revivifying him

after saving the day, Gilear got a little proud in the pride armor and died

Those sure are a lot of minor details about a character who hasn't been in Junior Year since his brief appearance in episode 3, huh?

[rooolt]

need a sklonda/gorthalax update from Brennan so desperately, like are they still together? What’s their relationship like? How do riz and fig feel about it? I simply must know everything I think about them daily

[order-of-the-forks]

Something so stressful about making a campaign featuring children in which it is reinforced time and again that they cannot trust the adults around them that are supposed to be guiding figures of authority and that asking adults for help can and will put them in direct danger

[bacchuschucklefuck]

okay unironically I love so much that porter is like this world SUCKS its BAD here and it HURTS you why do you care abt it!!! and literally every single bad kid is like ngl we just hate ur ass it does not matter what ur philosophy is

[voxmilia]

I'm sorry

You're telling me that Elmville has a fucking in n out????

[malachitebeck]

Was just conked on the head with the memory of Ecaf existing. A literal sentient mirror who was close with Fabian and (I think?) not a fan of Riz. ...Do you guys think that was one of the four ways Brennan mentioned that the Bad Kids could have gotten into that confrontation with Baron.

[perdamian]

love jawbone but god damn he should not have been counseling kipperlily copperkettle. he lives with 3/6 of the people she discusses in their sessions… he is literally adaines adoptive father like how is that not immediately clocked as a conflict of interest? are there no other therapists in elmville????