#i need MORE AYDA

[queerpiratebrainrot]

Brennan, we have a problem.

We haven't had a SINGLE trace of Ayda leaving cute messages for Fig in SEVERAL episodes. Unacceptable.

[charlie-artlie]

location marker set: where everybody knows your name

happy murderbot day! ive been kicking around this au thing for a very very long time and finally was able to squeeze it out juuust before the new book releases 💦 i think ive drafted this comic 5 separate times, so apologies if it doesn’t make sense at all lmao. explanation is below the cut 👇

so what if when murderbot destroyed central and targetcontrolsystem and 2.0, it… failed? what if something about the alien remnant kept them alive in there? but damaged, confused, and corrupted. so 2.0 wakes up. its memories are corrupted, but tcs uses what it has access to to put together something plausible to get 2.0 to let its guard down, so it can get close, so it can take it over. repeat ad infinitum. whenever 2.0 is lucid enough to do so it starts spamming assistance needed requests, but anyone who’d be willing to help it is long gone by now. it’s just them down here now, alone together.

unless tcs pokes the tiger too much and 2.0 eats it! but that probably wont happen

[the-greatest-magic-of-all]

If you think about it, there's a good chance that Ayda and Fabian could've crossed paths long before Sophomore Year. Since Fabian said that Bill had taken him to Leviathan several times before and would've undoubtedly met with Garthy, even in passing, I don't see why the two of them couldn't have been friends for the day or two.

A bored seven-year-old Fabian finding Ayda curled up underneath a table with her spell book because it's the only place in the Gold Gardens that's quiet enough for her.

The two of them introduce themselves with their full titles (Fabian Aramais Seacaster, son of Bill Seacaster and The Wizard, Ayda Aguefort, Mistress of the Compass Points Library) which both appreciate and agree that the practice should be more widespread.

Fabian being immediately on board to test out any and all of Ayda's known spells. Rushing up to somewhere high to test out Feather Fall, Jump, and Longstrider. Trying to see if they could stretch the 120 feet limit of Message any farther or make Sleep work on someone with Fey Ancestry. Fooling around with Prestidigitation and sending secret letters in Illusory Script.

Heading up to Compass Points to stargaze and test out their knowledge of constellations. Fabian proudly points out the formation that he's named after. Ayda proudly shows off her collection of books and gets Fabian to sign up for a library card though he can hardly read yet because all the letters won't stop moving. Which is okay because she will read to him as long as he'll listen.

He teaches her how to dance. She takes him flying. Fabian scraps his knee and with Cathilda nowhere around he's this close to crying and though Ayda has no healing spells, she brings him an orange and that's good enough. When night comes, they sing sea shanties to each other until they fall asleep on the other's shoulders.

They say goodbye like they've been friends for years instead of days and Fabian promises to write to her and that his Papa will bring him back soon. But Ayda doesn't see much of him until he's back in her library with a band of strange, young Solisians looking more haunted than she's ever seen him.

Just... Fabian and Ayda being like summer camp friends without the summer camp.

[mothsgotghosts]

Just so everyone is prepared, when fantasy high junior year comes out next month, I will lose my shit. I'm gonna be screaming HOOT GROWL HOOT GROWL going insane losing my mind etc etc

[deconstructthesoup]

Okay, I was hesitant about Fig giving up being a bard, but her becoming a freaking paladin is literally the best thing ever

[brittlebutch]

one thing i do love about Brennan's storytelling is how often he creates characters who carry Anger with them. like, it's not an anger that subsumes or permeates who they are, nor does it tend to Remain throughout the entirety of their arcs, but it's there, in Zelda, and Hob, and Evan, and Ayda, and Nikhil, and so on. Characters who snap and snarl and growl and shout, and - and this is Key - are never like, reprimanded, or corrected, or resented for it. i cannot express how much this means to me

[twinstxrs]

boo *exu calamity au’s your bad kids*

[moodr1ng]

hmm after putting a couple scenes from my script into renpy with some photos as background stand-ins + the need for some cgs here and there, i def think it could work as a vn.. i think ill finish my script before i start more seriously working on it just to be sure everything would work as i want, but i think actually if i include a little bit of narration here and there (theres technically narration in my script, though its meant to describe the panels and not to actually be narration, but some v light narration in a vn could work) itd be pretty solid i think 🤔 and itd allow me to include even more dialogue LOL which ive been making efforts to reduce but i definitely could stand to put in more. both carié isle and linnion/kèravie as a whole have a tonnn of worldbuilding where i kinda had to reduce exposition to a minimum for a comic medium. but in a vn the characters could do a lot more talking about this stuff. also i had decided to make the comic black & white bc full color is too hard for a comic for me but for a vn i would get to make it full color :)

[girlypopification]

here is da thing. ..

[bruqh]

the battle this ep is convincing me of the “things are happening out of order” theory

[slumbering-shadows]

Nothing more devastating than finishing fantasy high sophomore year and finding out junior year is dropout exclusive.

feeling very much like this rn

[dropoutconfessions]

It makes me incredibly angry when people say "Riz is canonically aro/ace" and act like you're a horrible person if you ship him with people. Like. Nowhere in the show is it ever stated that he's aro/ace. The conversation people reference as him being "canonically" aro/ace is just him expressing his lack of very specifically sexual attraction, and even then the response from his dad (and by extension Brennan and the show as a whole) is that it's okay, and that it's specifically unclear whether he's ace or whether it's just not something that's happened for him in specific yet. It is intentionally vague as to whether he is ace or not, and there's genuinely zero indication in the show that he's aro other than that he doesn't have a love interest which could be completely unrelated.

Right so I'd like to share my opinion on this for a brief moment. I am still fully here to give people a voice, but this is just, an issue that kinda hits close to home since I'm demiaro.

The most annoying thing in a lot of media is when representation is shoehorned in as a list of labels and buzzwords we're given. Queer people should not have to turn to the screen and say their full identity in order for them to be canonically queer. That's what subtext is for. That's what good writing does. Is not spell it out for you when it's not necessary to do so. They do not need it to be spelt out for it to be very clear that he's ace/aro.

I am going to assume ignorance here instead of assuming malicious intent. The idea that the reason he isn't ace, is because "it's not something that's happened for him in specific yet", is an extremely common thought process behind asexual erasure. I'm sure that's not what you intended, but that is something to reflect on in general.

Both Adaine and Riz have yet to have relationships or display crushes (not counting junior year since most of the evidence comes from sophomore year) . Adaine hasn't gotten an entire nightmare sequence / arc around dealing with here friends all finding partners and leaving them alone. Adaine hasn't expressed or had conversations about any lack of sexual or romantic feels to the extent Riz has. Adaine is headcanoned as ace/aro by some people. Riz is more than that. Riz is very much canonically ace/aro if you do the slightest bit of character analysis. There's accidental coding and then there's Riz Gukgak.

List of every single Riz trait that is hella ace/aro coded

A lack of sexual and romantic attraction to other people (I'm not counting the time where he said he was kinda into Sexy Rat, that whole scene was a bit, and absolutely insane)

Making up a partner/crush in order to fit in (I have 1000% done that and so have a lot of acespec and arospec people)

A fear of being left behind by his friends because of a belief that they will find partners and move on from him, largely caused by alloromantic culture's insane emphasis on how the most important relationship is a romantic one

The fact that almost every other fantasy high pc has been in a relationship or a crush (kristen had tracker and gertie, gorgug had zelda, unit, and mary ann, fabian had aelwyn, ivy, and mazey, adaine had oisin and possibly zayn depends on your interpretation, and fig has had ayda and a string of professionals in a variety of fields across seasons 1 and 2) with only riz as a single character

The fact his sophomore year arc was entirely about his lack of sexual/romantic attraction and fear of being left alone because of it

Like not even a joke, it was that and his dad, that was the whole arc

His junior year arc was also about his obsession to stay together as a friend group, which like I mentioned above, is very clearly based in his asexuality and aromanticism

I am not going to stop people from shipping characters ever. If you want to rewrite character sexualities, that's fine by me, I'm a big believer in "Don't Like, Don't Read". I am not gonna pretend like characters are not their sexuality in canon so that people feel justified in writing their stories. People who rewrite character sexuality can do so without making everyone else assuage their guilt for them. I know I'm on the "piss on the poor" reading comprehension website, but it's not hard to tell Riz is ace/aro in canon, and pretending otherwise doesn't help your case.

[dullgecko]

I was thinking about events after fantasy high and was wandering what it would be like 100ish years after.

Still alive would be

Fabian: looks to be around 65ish if he was a human. He’s settled down after having his own adventures at sea spends a lot of time with the remaining bad kids and his family having come to terms with the fact the he’s the last “mortal” bad kid left.

Adaine: still looks young as elves tend to do. Spends most of her time hopping from fallinel to elmvill doing oracle duties spends a lot of time attempting to help reforms in fallinel aided by the worshippers of galacaia who worship the late saint o’shaughnessy’s vision of the god. (She also raised Ayda after she reincarnated)

Fig: in her true form dosent look a day past when she became a archdevil but having fully come into her fiendish side she can shift her appearance often taking a form simmilar to a fiendish version of her mother. She spends most of her time in hell at the bottomless pit doing archdevil stuff. But makes sure to spend at least one day a week with Fabain and Adaine.

Passed away

Riz: spends his time working for the lower planer reconnoissance task force with his dad. He works closely with Fig in the hells and manages to sneak plenty of “coincidental” meeting with the other two bad kids when meeting with Fig.

Kristen: works in heaven providing guidance to Cassandra and Ankarnas followers. Also works closely with fig as Cassandra’s chosen she has a innate connection to Ankarnas’s Chosen

Gorgug: I think Gorgug just rests after death his life was so packed with working as both a barbarian and artificer teacher at Aguefort as well as Aguefort seeming go to him for issues. He still finds ways to talk to the bad kids with Kirsten and Cassandra’s help as he mostly stays in there afterlife.

There is absoloutly no way that even death would manage to separate them for more than a month at a time. Tops. They're a bonded set do not separate. Plus, if they're not keeping an eye on them Riz WILL work himself into a second death he already did it once before (there is absoloutly zero chance that Riz died of old age, either he gets killed by someone else or his shitty habits catch up to him early).

They all need mandated chill out time together to stop from going insane. Fig sets it up before the first of them dies, way back in highschool, with a forever binding pact (they all had a little bit of a freak out when they got drunk, started chatting and they all realised their life spans would be so wildly different). At least once a month, EVERY month, for the rest of time they have to spend at least a full day together as a group. Not even death can stop that.

[sadqueerenergy]

You don't understand I physically need Ayda to survive.

if we only get like one episode of ayda being back i’ll actually be so upset u don’t understand

[m00nymonster]

Tag You're It

Prompt: chaos

SecUnits, as a rule, don't interact with young humans. We're barely tolerated to outright feared by adults, and adult humans try to protect their young. The smaller they get, the less exposure they're given to us. At least, on the Corporate Rim.

"Thank you for helping Amena babysit," Farai said as Tano hovered nearby. Tano looked hesitant, but nodded anyway. It wasn't like there was another option. Ratthi and Gurathin were busy working on a paper, Arada and Overse were on their own date, and Pin-Lee didn't like small humans. That left Amena outnumbered six to one. Those odds were bad for anyone, so I had...not volunteered, but I also hadn't said no when Mensah asked me to help.

She now was looking at my drone, a little worry on her face.

"Are you sure you're comfortable?" she asked. Tano made a shooing motion to the door and said, "we haven't had a date night since--well. We're overdue."

"SecUnit and Amena can handle this," Farai said with a confidence she was clearly projecting. She kissed Mensah lightly, then pulled her to the door. "We need to go, Ayda."

Mensah glanced at me.

"I've had worse odds," I said dryly. Tano laughed outright, then pulled Mensah out the door.

"Be good!" Farai said, and followed. The door shut.

"Okay," Amena started, her arms crossed. "Listen up--"

"NOT IT!" screamed one of the taller small humans, and immediately began to run. After a chorus of "not it!", the smallest started chasing the others.

"No tag in the house!" Amena yelled, but the group was already running through the house, screaming as they did so. Amena groaned.

"I hate babysitting," she muttered. I looked at her. I wasn't going to admit it, but I wasn't exactly sure what to do. Adult humans were enough of a pain and they (usually) didn't have the impulse control of a small, dangerously neurotic fauna.

The screaming intensified, and the smallest human crashed into a coffee table, knocking a vase off balance. I dashed forward and caught it before it hit the ground.

"Neysaan!" Amena growled. "You almost broke First Mom's vase!"

"My knee!" Neysaan sobbed. I can never guess ages, but this one barely reached 100 centimeters and still had the chubby cheeks of a baby. He cried loudly as blood seeped from a scrape. The other children ignored him completely and continued their game.

"SecUnit," Amena sighed, "could you--"

I had already found the first aid kit and handed her the wound sealant. It was novel to use it on someone else. Neysaan continued to cry.

"Oh, settle down," Amena ordered and sprayed the sealant onto the child's knee. His sobbing didn't decrease. "Do you want a kiss?"

Neysaan nodded. I took a step backwards. "I'll be back."

I left Amena to comfort her brother and followed the screaming to the kitchen.

"That's enough," I barked, trying to channel Mensah's tone of voice when she scolded her brood. The small humans froze comically. I'd gotten it right. "Now--"

"SECUNIT'S IT!" one of the children screamed, and they all scrambled out of the room. I glared but started to chase the one who'd screamed. I couldn't go at my top speed in the cramped space, and small humans are surprisingly fast for their size, but I still caught up in seconds. I steeled myself, then reached out and tapped them as I said, "Freeze!"

The child froze. A second dashed by, and I tapped her as well. "Freeze!" I said again. She immediately stilled, one foot still in the air, panting. I'd changed the game. A third tried to dash forward to free her siblings, but I tapped her as well. Finding the last two was not a challenge. I had just captured the last as when Amena walked in, Neysaan in her arms. He was sucking his thumb.

"You're playing freeze tag?" she asked, disbelief in her voice.

"SecUnit cheats," the last child complained. "It runs faster'n us."

"You're the one who decided it should be It," another squawked. "It always wins!"

I shrugged. "No more tag."

There was a chorus of "awwww"s, and one "But SecUnit!", but Amena growled and they quieted.

"No buts," she snapped. "Let's just watch a movie, all right?"

When Mensah returned home with her spouses, Amena was reading on the couch and I was watching episode 12 of Toward Tomorrow on the largest display surface in the living room.

"It's quiet in here," Tano said as the door closed.

"It was a little crazy at first, but we got it under control," Amena said, looking up. "Did you have a nice date night?"

Mensah smiled. "Yes."

Amena yawned. "Good. I'm going to bed." She paused. "Did you know SecUnit knows how to play freeze tag?"

"It...what?"

[out2pasture]

FANTASY HIGH: THE REMIX - a next generation au

Adaine + Oisin - The O'Shaugnessy Twins, Ophelia is a Draconic bloodline sorcerer and Puck is a very maryanne-core wild magic barbarian (I think it would be really funny for 3 wizards (Zayne would help raise them ofc) to have to try to figure out how to raise 2 kids who are inherently magical and explosively so).

Fig + Ayda - No kids of their own but the Manor/Library is a safe space for kids who need it and theres this one young teifling, named Argo, they've basically adopted who is a cleric of Ankarna.

Kristen + Gerty + Tracker - Gerty is trans and you can pry that from my cold, dead hands, their son, JB is a Cassandra Paladin. He eventually multiclasses into Swarm Ranger. Kristen was the person who carried the first time and vehemently refused to do it again, so Tracker did it the next time and they had a little girl.

Gorgug + Maryanne - its canon that Gorgug FUCKS, so they have 2 kids already and an egg they trade off who carries it on them in a baby bjorn to incubate. Maryanne works making cozy games. Gorgug is the Artificer teacher and the tutor for 'uncommon' multiclasses and is 100% uncle Gorgug to the entire party, A Jawbone type if you will.

Fabian + Mazey - They have a whole passel of artistically inclined babies, the oldest of which , Boann, gets to Augefort first and is The Bard of all time. Shes giving the princess who was kidnapped by pirates and is slowly becoming a member of the crew, she plays fiddle and dances.

Riz - He grew up to be a PI and while he doesn't want a partner hes always wanted to be a dad so when he found an orphaned Goliath baby while investigating the disappearence of said baby and their parents, he adopted Pock "Juno" Gukgak Junior who is a rogue just like their dad.

((You guys can pry Fabian and Adaine being really ademant about having more that one child out of my cold dead hands too, Adaine wants her kids to be there for each other the way Aelwyn was for her (after she finished being evil) and Fabian doesn't want any of his children to feel as lonely as he did growing up.))

Additional notes:

- Jawbone adopted Adaine, Aelwyn, and Kristen after he and Sandra-lynn got married, Kristen is the only one who kept her last name

- After Tracker came back they hunted Gertie down and explained polyamory to her and convinced her to go to therapy for her weird temper and attachment issues

-Tracker and Kristen are nesting partners and Gerty used to come and go, but she became a much more constant presence once kids entered the picture

- Adaine and Oisin didnt get together until the end of college when they reconnected, they were in couples therapy from the beginning just in case

- Gorgug's kids are either not old enough to go to Augefort yet or a few years ahead of The Party, but next year his 2nd youngest will enter in a party with The Littlest of the Applebees

- Mazey proposed to Fabian via dance recital, they are the hot older couple you can spill all the tea to

- The O'Shaugnessys, Applebees, and Fayeths live in Mordred Manor (the fayeths' bedrooms are in Leviathan at this juncture),the Seacasters live in Seacaster manor, and the Gukgaks live right next door to the Seacasters.

- Puck is trans and Ophelia is hard of hearing, theyre both just as autistic as their parents.

- Argo has a prosthetic leg

- JB picked Cassandra for himself, Kristen would never pressure him one way or another and neither would Cassandra.

- He also has the BIGGEST crush on Puck

- Boann has crippling Eldest Sister syndrome, but would rather die than ask for help.

- Juno is basically a humanoid jungle gym for their father, it comes with the territory of being twice your dad's size before you hit puberty. Riz will either stand on a table or make them crouch down to reprimand them, "Pock Pila Gukgak Junior, come down here!" Is a common refrain in their home

- Ophelia only uses her magical hearing aids when she's at school or in combat, all of Mordred Manor, knows Spyre sign language so she's very rarely without an interpretor, Augefort himsef created an archanotech professional interpretor for classes. Her party members also know or are learning SSL.

Edit:

Changed Pock Juniors nickname to reference another Nonbinary PI that i hold dear ;)

Edit 2:

Finally finished Junior year and made some adjustments accordingly!!! Im so obcessed with Gorgug and Maryanne!!! Also did some clarifying about a few things! Soon everyone will have names, not just Juno

Edit 3: Names!!!

Adaine: Ophelia and Puck O'Shaugnessy

Fig: Argo Firethistle (their human parent is a gnome)

Kristen: Jawbone "J.B." Applebees-O'Shaugnessy-Bladeshield (a big hypenated name is very lesbiancore IMO)

Fabian - Boann Seacaster (I really wanted to name her Terpsichore but Brennan beat me to that one)

Riz - Pock "Juno" Pila Gukgak Jr.