#home school Jean

[tinstol]

It’s giving conversion therapy

Just kiss already

How dare you stand where he stood

Was not expecting Jean to be so based. He is now my favorite male character

Girl it’s not like you and your dad have the relationship of the year

[wereflamingo-in-thai-dramaland]

[suntails]

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[made-my-peace-with-all-the-bad]

Lore update: so turns out I was doing the essay wrong and needed to completely redo it and that was not fun at all BUT I did get it done in time (submitted it at 11:42, it was due at 11:59)! Was it good? Fuck no. Am I expecting a fairly bad grade? 100%. Do I care at all rn? Not at all

[seriousbrat]

Oo more lily clothing questions: how does she dress in the wizarding world, is it just standard robes or does she put her own flare on it? How important is personal style to her as a whole? How modestly does she dress? Do wizard conservative standards affect this?

Ooh interesting question! I do think that Lily's style would come through in her choice of dress robes and any casual robes she might have owned. She was obviously only 21 when she died and I'm not sure she would have at that point made the inexplicable decision that all adult witches and wizards make to transition to full-time robe wearing** but she might have owned maybe one set of casual robes apart from school robes. Anyway, I think she would be drawn to kind of fun, unique, colourful robes that aren't just the standard black. I've used this picture as inspo for Lily's dress robes before, and I've also described her as having a plum-coloured set (I think that's a good colour for her lol)

I think her personal style is fairly important to her-- she likes clothing, she has good taste, she has fun with it, but it's also not a full-flung obsession or anything. I don't think she'd own a LOT of clothing either, basically just the right amount.

Re: modesty... I think by today's standards she'd definitely be considered fairly modest, and honestly I think it's not wizarding conventions that affect this but even just the Muggle standards of the time, especially for a small town in the Midlands. (where honestly a girl simply.... wearing jeans might be frowned upon by older residents lmao. i'm joking but also not entirely.) That being said I do think she could have moments where she'd dress a little more provocatively or would take a bit of a risk, especially if she was going for a night out or something I could see her in a strappy top or a bit of a shorter hem. For the most part though I think she'd pretty much just be average for a teen girl in the 70s, although the significantly more prudish Petunia would definitely jump at every chance to call her a slut for showing a bit of thigh or wearing a tighter top lol.

** okay, REALLY off-topic but: is it just me but like.... this is what I would consider, not a plot hole, but a lore hole in HP. Or at least it's really confusing to me. It's stated that the Weasley kids wear muggle clothes during the summer, but then Molly and Arthur seem to be somewhat clueless about dressing as Muggles, and the wizards at the world cup are even worse than them. How does this happen? Presumably if the Weasleys are dressing their children (and Molly even makes jumpers, which are presumably meant to be worn with trousers) in Muggle clothing they also would know enough to dress themselves.

Is the implication that wizarding children usually wear Muggle clothes until they reach adulthood and somehow forget how to dress as a Muggle once they get out of the habit? Or is it just the Weasleys who dress their children like Muggles? Perhaps they do so because it's less expensive than buying enough sets of robes for each child?

I can't imagine pureblood children like Draco wearing Muggle clothing on a daily basis-- maybe the Ministry provides each child with one set of adequate muggle clothing for stealth purposes when travelling to Hogwarts??? Maybe wizarding children only started dressing in Muggle clothes during the 90s so it's a recent thing??? I have literally been confused about this for so long. This is why I fully understand the choice made in the films to make robes into kind of eccentric old-fashioned clothes rather than full tunics or whatever.

[ayesukkhapisit]

Love will make us forgive and start seeing our own worth.

[soulofamy]

as someone who loves classic literature, i really love how much it feels like each character in soulcalibur's story is influenced by the literature from the culture they come from. the japanese characters, especially mitsurugi and yoshimitsu, were probably the ones writers spent the most care with but i LOVE how much you see it in the european characters too. sophitia, cassandra, and aeon are all characters that feel like they were plucked out of a greek tragedy, and you can see so many echos of storybeats that many greek tragedies had. i guess its not hard to feel like that when the greek gods are so intertwined with their stories but still, it honestly feels so well thought out. to avoid being repetitive, im linking an in depth analysis from @laikaflash that talks about this right here

but i think my favorite example of this is raphael and amy tbh, but mostly raphael. as someone who so enjoys classic french literature, i cant help but see bits and pieces from the different stories i love laced throughout raphaels story. the fact that he was the head of his house at the beginning of his story and is in good standing with the king, but is then framed for conspiracy and has his life ruined, reminds me so much of what happened to edmond dantes from the counte of monte cristo. dantes had a much more humble beginning than raphael but still, that undeserved fall from grace at the hands of someone who was jealous of him, forcing him to be on the run from the law, i see that parallel.

then we have the fact that he adopted a little orphan girl while on the run from the law, and then was able to lie his way back to the top with the hopes of raising and protecting her, which makes me think of jean valjean and cosette from les miserables.

but i think the thing that gets me so excited thinking about this is that they chose not to give these storybeats to a character who is meant to be viewed as heroic, they gave them to someone who is objectively a terrible person. they flipped these stories from classic french literature on their heads, which i think makes it very exciting to try and speculate where his story will go from here because he as a person is such a departure from dantes or from jean valjean. it also makes me wonder what else they will take inspiration from for him going forward (minus the dracula stuff because that all feels more aesthetic than anything. then again ive never read bram stokers dracula so i could just not know what im talking about)

anyway im curious to know which other characters take inspiration from their country's classic literature. i know siegfried is literally named after a knight from legend, i know groh is supposed to be based on the knights of the round table, xiba is based on the monkey king from journey to the west, im not sure if kilik is either. but still, i would love to know about talim, about the koreans, xianghua, honestly everyone on the roster

[taco-bee]

I WISH LIFE WAS LIKE A GACHA GAME WHERE I HAD SO MUCH TIME TO TRY ON STUFF AND MAKE A OUTFIT BESIDES T-SHIRT AND JEANS

I LOOK LIKE A 5 YEAR OLD

ALSO IM ALEAYS WHEREING A JACKET CUZ IT MAKES ME FEEL SAFE- SO IM ALWAYS WHEREING MY WINTER COAT

I JUST WANT TO BE A HOT GIRL ;-;

[tidemoonchild]

Headcanons & Musing

Hank as stay at home dad!

[hsslilly-blog]

claire’s father 100% knows it was sebastian who told claire’s mother about the affair (because who else would have been? claire?). and sebastian knows he knows too.

[wereflamingo-in-thai-dramaland]

I think White is the shadow class president, the one they should have had and the one they will turn to when Maki ends up betraying her classmates because her interests don't align with theirs. White is fierce and protective and rebellious, but she's practical and knows when to cooperate for immediate survival. And I'm getting the impression that they all respect her. Yes, even Jingjai. Especially Jingjai, who imo lashes out at her extra because she's disappointed that the girl who looked like the most likely friend to her ended up being not what she expected. I'm not saying White is the one they would have voted for if they had the chance to vote, because they would have voted for Nai because people see a tall dude and think leader, but they would have been wrong.

[hyp-no-tic]

A+ parents right there

Since [Fuji] was born a girl, she must be disciplined. She must learn to obey my order. But what's with her? She keeps causing trouble and argues wit me unstoppably. What a useless daughter.

Jingjai is the problem between her dad and me. Her behavior is disgusting. She's a spoiled girl. She only spends time hanging out. She doesn't care what others say about the way she dresses. She doesn't have the qualities of a lady. Everything a sucky Thai woman does can be found in my daughter.

Pailert's family members mustn't care about others. We don't show mercy or sympathize with someone who isn't on the same level as us. But Nai doesn't understand this. Someone this stupid is not different from a trash.

Hugo doesn't deserve to be my son. He shouldn't have been my son. He doesn't deserve to use my surname. If I could choose, I would exchange Hugo's life with his brother's.

[Jean]'s ungrateful. He betrayed his own dad. He should have been thrown away and dead like a stray dog.

I want [Biw] my daughter to continue being a little 5-year-old girl. I don't want her to grow up. The more mature she turns, the more she knows about things.

[ayesukkhapisit]

the moment we were all jean

[heretherebedork]

Since you said you needed Home School to be at least a little gay: First of all, same. Secondly, I think it's likely that in such a big cast there's at least one character that's queer, especially since this is a show about abused kids, and from the flashbacks we've seen so far, every kid's abuse so far has been a different shade (ableism in Pennueng's case, sexism in Fuji's, neglect in Phleng's, etc.) so it wouldn't be out of left field if one of the kids' brand of abuse was homophobia (as you said, this is gmmtv). Do you have any theories as to which character could end up being lgbt, btw? As much as I like the idea of PhlengBiw, I don’t think it'll be either of them. My money's on Jean because there were moments where I got the vibes that he might be into Hugo but idk. What do you think?

I did absolutely say that Home School should be a little gay and I would not be surprised if one of the characters was, in fact, queer to add homophobia to the list of parental issues.

Now, as to which character... I could see Jean. Honestly, he's perfectly likely. I'd rule out Mek or Mork because I'm fairly sure their issue is going to be their parents pitting them against each other actively

But active theories beyond 'sure, could be him'? No. I don't have anything active yet because a) I feel like I need more time with some of these characters to make predictions and b) I want it to be Tibet because he's already one of my favorite characters and I would love that for him.

I also don't really suspect it'll be Biw. Whatever her issue is, I suspect it has more to do with her bows and sometimes more childish choices than her sexuality but that is just a guess. But, pfft, don't let that stop you. Never let canon stop you from enjoying a pairing.

So... to be clear that I don't really have a strong prediction yet is to be clear that I don't. But I could see Jean or Tibet or could be Biw! Lots of choices remain and a lot of that depends on how the story is handled.

But I do really strongly suspect that we will get homophobia from at least one set of parents. Because it is GMMTV and it fits in the theming they're doing with each set of parents having a different issue with their perfectly amazing child.

[belphieslilcow]

I think people who change into pajamas before bed are a myth

[justlyric24]

Why is Jean’s backstory (and character as a whole) so underdeveloped compared to the rest of the characters??

He’s the only character that we didn’t see have a conversation with his parents in ep 10, we only saw the aftermath 🤨

Like is there gonna be a plot twist regarding his character or was Indy busy during filming or something idk 😭