#they would appear for like 5 seconds before the Jabberwocky came and destroyed them

[sleepyorchidmonster]

@planetary-implosion I'm glad you asked!💖

Firstly, I LOVED your idea to mix Pomefiore with Scarabia, Cave of Wonders Pomefiore would be AWESOME!!

I'll see if I can summarize most of my thoughts when coming up with this scenario (fun-fact: it was going to be a prompt for Whumptober day 1, with Kalim asking an injured Riddle how many fingers he was holding up while the others berated him because "Kalim we're TINY, he can't even SEE your fingers" and the housewardens acting like a safety net with the DPS strategy).

Rambling under the cut because it got a bit out of control. 😅

When I first though of this idea, I mainly wanted to use Savanaclaw for Pomefiore, so no Cave of Wonders Opulence, unfortunately.

All I could think of was a bunch of animals made of potions and chemicals running around, like a pack of poison hyenas stalking the hallways while an elephant made of toxic fumes just strolled around (The science-focused Vice-housewardens like Jade, Trey, Rook and Ortho would have a very fun time throwing different chemical compounds whenever the animals decided to attack them)

The overall design would also change, like, it's still Pomefiore, but the interior looks exactly like the Afterglow Savanna's palace, with plenty of traditional african textiles, and a sun that never sets. Maybe even a stained glass section depicting a starry sky with the kings of the past...

As for Ignihyde, it'd actually mix with Scarabia, so all the eletronic gadgets there would basically become enchanted artifacts that can also talk with others (important because Crowley, being the wise headmaster that he is, forgot to assign an Ignihyde member to Ignihyde so no one understands technomancy in the technomancy dorm).

The architecture has changed, now inspired by the inside of some beautiful Mosques (think Nasir-ol-Mulk Mosque, for example).

And that would cover the main dorms for this adventure! As for the other four....

Heartslabyul would be Ignihyde flavoured, with an interesting mix of science and nonsense, including gravity fields, a door that requests a password and will lock after five tries (Riddle had to blow it up or else the students would still be trapped there). Equations that make no sense at all, robot flamingos and hedgehogs playing alongside the real animals, robotic card soldiers and A LOT of holograms. The theme is basically a cyberpunk wonderland with some greek accents, an even crazier dorm layout, and a code that NO ONE understands.

Savanaclaw with Octavinelle, where everything in flooded and the wildlife is a mix between animals commonly found in the savanna and other sea creatures. Everything is bioluminescent, and it's really pretty to look at, especially since the seabed is basically just a glowing savanna, with algae and anemones living alongside baobabs and other plants (not that anyone other than merfolk can see it, since everything DID get flooded. There is a new restaurant in the dorm, though, with a menu focused on traditional Afterglow Savanna cuisine.

As for Octavinelle, it got mixed up with Pomefiore, so now the Monstro Lounge is as luxurious as it can get (Azul spent HOURS taking pictures so they could replicate it later on). There's just the small issue of a dark basement filled with dangerous potions, as well as some scary poisonous and venomous deep-sea creatures just waiting to attack the students (the creatures are now hiding because the tweels scared them off).

Thanks to Diasomnia's influence, Scarabia now features a gothic castle, the architecture a mix between both places. The dorm's overall magic output also increased, so there are plenty of dangerous artifacts running amok, and the carpet can now travel though time.

And, as a bonus, here's Idia's "Riddle on-field DPS strat", with the roles of each housewarden in the final fight against the Jabberwocky, a platoon of card soldiers and a squad of giant marble chess soldiers:

- Leona acts as a sub DPS basically, using his magic prowess to deal some extra attacks to important targets, as well as sand any attacks or debris that may get in the way;

- Azul and Kalim are coordinating their efforts for buffs and heals, while Kalim also uses Oasis Maker for AOE attacks whenever the enemies start outnumbering them;

- Vil is using his magic for debuffs, while also helping Azul and Kalim out, if needed;

- Idia is keeping track of everyone's blot levels, using his curse to burn away excess blot. He's also controlling a small army of drones;

- Malleus is basically the Zhongli of the group, keeping a shield up at all times while also using his powerful magic pool to help out with everything else, especially his own attacks;

- The Bandersnatch is helping with the fighting, as well as a general mean of transport (he's basically the Bandersnatch from the Tim Burton movie);

And Riddle is just casually summoning a hurricane and setting everything on fire like Himeko in the Last Lesson animation.

Twst event where NRC's magic goes haywire and the dorms swap themes. Like, it's still Savanaclaw, but everything is flooded, or there is a gothic castle in the middle of scarabia (the architecture is a mix between diasomnia and Scalding Sands, though).

In an effort to solve the crisis, the students must find the artifacts responsible for keeping the magic at the school. There are three different items, one in Pomefiore (the oldest dorm), Diasomnia (the dorm known for its magical prowess) and Ignihyde (they installed the system).

Crowley organized three groups:

- The dormheads for Diasomnia, the most dangerous of the three;

- The vice-housewardens for Pomefiore;

- The freshmen plus Cater, Floyd and Silver for Ignihyde.

Starting with Diasomnia, the dorm swapped with Heartslabyul, with plenty of hedgehogs and flamingos running around, as well as the regular gravity defying architecture.

As soon as the housewardens passed though the mirror, everyone but Riddle became as tiny as a mouse, which is okay, since at least they won't get separated and lost in the maze of corridors. Riddle is getting a headache from all the bickering, though.

However, Diasomnia's influence is still present, so this version of Heartslabyul is a bit creepier. Card and chess soldiers dripping with blot stalk the hallways, beautiful roses with a metallic scent bloom among the thorns, painted by headless knights. There is also the Jabberwocky wandering about.

After a near death experience (Riddle was thrown at, at least, five walls by the Jabberwocky and was almost beheaded, only to be saved by the twst version of the Bandersnatch), they decided to go to the kitchens, looking for a way to return the others to normal (or at least Malleus, whose dragon form is no bigger than Grim at the moment).

Unfortunately, there was nothing of use in the kitchens, though they did find (and fight) one of Lillia's cooking attempts, brought to life and in excruciating pain for existing.

They manage to power though by using Idia's "Riddle on-field DPS Strat", where they let Riddle fight while providing him with shields, healing and buffs. He used Zettaflare thrice.

After securing the artifact, the dorm returned to normal. Which is great, since Riddle was five seconds away from passing out.

Bonus:

Idia: This'll be Ez! It's not like the Queendom is KNOWN for having dragons, right?

Riddle: *walking faster*

Idia: Riddle!?

*Roars in the distance*

Riddle: Malleus, I need a shield RIGHT NOW- *gets thrown into a wall*

Kalim, later: Are you okay?

Riddle: Just a concussion and a few broken ribs, no problem.

Idia: Bruh

Leona: What do you think, Malleus? Missing the tines when you used to loom over all of us?

Malleus: I'm still taller than you, Kingscholar.

Malleus: Rosehearts, why are the gargoyles wearing party hats?

Gargoyles: Because it's our unbirthday party!! *Spits out confetti*

Idia: are we running in circles?

Leona: Riddle, we've been here before...

Vil: I remember that weird painting.

Riddle, whispering: SHUT UPPPP!

Bandersnatch, after we finish everything: WHY WERE YOU ATTACKING THE STUDENTS !!!????

Jabberwocky: Wait, there were no intruders?

Bandersnatch: NO, YOU FOOL!!!!!

Housewardens, minus Riddle: Are you KIDDING ME-

[stripesthesupervillain]

Mad Hatter's quirks relating to the Lewis Carrol books

Traits directly from the book:

These are just a reference for me to look at for future Batman fanfiction and shitposts because I want to get them right, and perhaps for anyone who hasn’t read the book Alice in Wonderland, or its sequel, Through the Looking Glass. If Jervis is truly trying to mirror the Hatter to the letter, he should get all of these. 

If you want to see the traits alluded to instead, they’re under the cut. If you’re interested in some of my personal headcanons, they’re also just under the cut.

Anyways, here we go.

- According to illustrations, he’s small and wears a proper dress shirt, coat, and bowtie, along with a large hat with a card stuck in the top reading “In this style 10/6”

- The Hatter appears in chapter 7 and 11 of the book, Alice in Wonderland. He’s with the March Hare and the Dormouse, who can be perceived as his best friends.

- In Through the Looking Glass, he actually makes a small appearance, and is one of the four reoccurring characters, the others being the Hare, Alice, and her real cat, Dinah. He’s referenced being in a prison/dungeon (no idea why) in chapter 5, but you meet him in chapter 7, where he’s inexplicably let out of prison (again, no idea why) and watching a lion and a unicorn duke it out.

- Also on that note, he isn’t called the Hatter, he’s called Hatta. The March Hare is called Haigha (pronounced Hayor) (get it? Hare?), and they’re both messengers for the white king but it’s clear they’re the same characters; they’re practically best friends, and Hatta is seen always sipping tea and eating bread, and is depicted as wearing the same exact hat as before. So yeah, he can also go by Hatta, and will sometimes call the Hare “Haigha”. No Dormouse, though.

- If you attempt to sit down uninvited at his table, he’ll shout “No room! No room!” even if there’s tons of room available.

- If you sit down without his invitation, he’ll be grumpy. Even though the Hare does this, Jervis can offer you wine even if there’s no wine at the table, calling you out for sitting without an invitation.

- He has an odd need to cut Alice’s hair. “Your hair wants cutting.”

- “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” This is the most common question he’ll ask people. Those who get it right will put him in good spirits with them.

- The answer to the riddle, by the way, is “I haven’t the slightest idea” or just saying you don’t know. There is no answer. Lewis Carroll never came up with an answer until a bunch of fans of his work wrote to him, so Jervis stays faithful to the book.

- He’ll easily confuse you if you contradict yourself. For example, when Alice says that “I mean what I say” is the same thing as “I say what I mean”, the Hatter replies with the notion that it’s like saying “I see what I eat” is the same as “I eat what I see”.

- He has a pocketwatch that tells the day, month, and year instead of the time. And it’s two days off.

- He can’t tell the time because he believes that it’s 6:00 all the time. This is because Time, who is described as a person, doesn’t like him, and thus stopped moving for him.

- 6:00 was British tea time back then, which explains his obsession with tea.

- He loves stories, and will demand one from others.

- He also sings. Yes, he sings. “Twinkle twinkle little bat, how I wonder what you’re at. Up above the world you fly, like a tea tray in the sky.” Luckily, that’s all.

- He’s also no stranger to rude remarks, even calling Alice stupid at one point.

- There’s a point where he tries to shove the oversized Dormouse into a teapot. I like this idea because I like imagining Jervis grabbing Riddler by the hair and slamming his head into a teapot.

- He collects hats to sell them, so he has a large variety.

- He has a large fear of the King and Queen of Hearts. In fact he gets extremely anxious in these situations when under a lot of pressure and fumbles when he speaks to the point where he even fucks up a few of his movements, biting a piece out of a teacup instead of his bread.

- This is a rule for practically everyone in the book: if someone is trying to make sense of things, they’re automatically an idiot. If you try to reason with something weird Jervis says, he’ll probably think your stupid. That’s the attitude of almost every character in the book.

Jervis’ possible quirks according to the books:

These aren’t particularly attributed to the Mad Hatter, but can be used as references that are good to know. Most of these are about Alice or Wonderland in general.

- Alice prefers picture books, so, being in a place of imagination, it would make sense the Mad Hatter would like them more. However, being a genius, he will read regular books if he really must. He just finds them boring.

- Despite speaking more than proper English, there are some made up words sometimes from the book that Alice or the characters use, like the infamous phrase “Curiouser and curiouser,” which was a word made up and coined by Lewis Carroll. Though, it’s not considered a legit word. Examples also include “pleasanter”. Some are just completely made up, like “brillig” (meaning 4 o’ clock), or “mimsy” (a cross between flimsy and miserable). Expect Jervis to use a few of those.

- The metaphors are very odd and almost always come from the books, and are hard to understand. For example, “shutting up like a telescope” means to get smaller. 

- At one point, Alice gets confused about who she is, believing herself to be another little girl instead of Alice. It would make sense for the Mad Hatter to call other people he believes to be “Alice” by that name, believing they’re just confused over who they are.

- He’ll sometimes speak to animals as if they’re people. Does he expect them to answer? Maybe.

- Alice is actually learning French. It would make sense for Jervis to deliberately learn French for this purpose. He just might be bilingual.

- Alice carries around a box of comfits and enjoys marmalade. Jervis might be more favorable to sweets.

- Most of the denizens of Wonderland are animals, so it can be guessed that Jervis would have a love of them.

- “We’re all mad here,” says the Cheshire Cat. Jervis could very well know he’s nuts and just rolls with it. Hell, he might even desire it, possibly refusing psychoactive treatment.

- Flowers can talk, too. Yeah. Apparently, the only reason they don’t is because the ground is too soft. Jervis might speak to flowers or something. He doesn’t speak to daisies, because they’re annoying.

- In fact, pretty much everything can talk to him.

- Not trees, though. Trees bark. *wink*

- The Looking Glass world is actually a separate world, where everything is backwards. The more practice you have riding a horse, the more you fall off it; if you want to stay in the same place, you have to run as fast as you can; you have to pass around a cake for everyone to eat before you cut into it. Those sorts of things. So if you get thirsty, expect a dry-ass biscuit for refreshments, because yeah, that happens, too. If Jervis believes he’s in this world, the things he says might make even less sense than before, and he might demand you call him “Hatta”.

- Being a messenger in Through The Looking Glass, that might contribute a bit to his character. Maybe he’ll talk about serving the white king or, y’know, going to prison, or how he needs to get the drums to “drum” the lion and unicorn out of town after watching their fight. Yeah, it’s a weird book.

- Some of the sayings in the book can be interpreted differently, and some of the poems can get kinda dark. You might see him use those to express his opinion or mood. 

Personal headcanons:

- It’s already been established he’s short as fuck, but hey.

- Jervis names every supervillian and hero in Gotham after a character in the book. For example, Jonathan is the March Hare, Batman is the Jabberwocky, Joker is the Queen of Hearts and Harley is the king, things like that. Anyone who’s a doctor or police officer or just a citizen are usually reserved to the rolls of “Cardsmen” or “soldiers” or just “chess pieces” and “pawns”.

- He has very proper English and uses complex vocabulary, as well as made-up words from the book. The only ones who can really understand him completely are Scarecrow, Riddler, and Batman, who have read the books front to back to understand him.

- He has a copy of Alice’s Adventures with him at all times. He’ll hand it to someone if they can’t understand what he’s talking about. Scarecrow dubs it “Jervis’ dictionary”.

- To calm himself down from a particularly harsh schizophrenic episode, he hums some of the rhymes from the books.

- The rhymes and phrases he mutters to himself when it gets quiet also dictate what mood he’s in. Usually he’s pretty cheerful, but the poems get darker as the more disgruntled or sadistic he feels.

- He’s prone to suddenly stopping himself in random conversations and quiet situations to squeal that he’s late or needs to deliver a message or something like that. He’ll continue to freak out for a good thirty seconds before calming down and continuing to talk like nothing happened.

- No one actually knows what he’s late for, but reminding him of it is a good way to stop him in his tracks for a good few seconds. The only time this doesn’t work is with a serious event going on or if he’s upset.

- His most prized possessions are his hat and his copy of Alice in Wonderland, but in case those are every destroyed, he has, like, twenty other duplicates at home.

-He is bilingual in both French and English.

- He’ll take a hammer to any copy of the Burton movies he comes across.

- He owns a Tiger lily that he likes to talk to. He keeps it watered and generally well kept.

- Many of the sayings he takes from the book and he’ll use to express his opinion or desires. For example, if he offers you wine, it means he’s annoyed with you and he doesn’t consider you an ally. If he says “your hair wants cutting” it means he wants to kill you.

- The “tea party” refers to the rogue’s gallery in general. So anyone like Two-Face or Joker is considered a part of or invited to the tea party.

- Speaking of which, I might as well name everyone after an Alice in Wonderland Character, huh? Alright, let’s do this. These are the names Jervis refers to everyone and why.

- He adores animals, since Wonderland is practically made up of them.

Batman: The Jabberwock. In the poem, it’s considered the most dangerous of beasts.

Robin: Jubjub bird. Also something you need to watch out for, apparently. Appears in the Jabberwocky poem, but in passing.

Batgirl: Bandersnatch. Also appears in the same poem in passing, but is still pretty bad. Also said to be fast.

Jervis Tetch: Hatter/Hatta. Duh.

Scarecrow: March Hare. C’mon, the two worked together. They’re pretty much best coworkers. Also because he’s pretty intelligent and plays along with Hatter’s rhymes and whatnot.

Riddler: The Dormouse. Also intelligent and can understand Jervis. Nerd squad.

Joker: Queen of Hearts. Yeah, I know, he’s a guy, but the bitch is insane in the book, executing everyone for the craziest of reasons, kinda like Joker.

Harley Quinn: King of Hearts. Still debating.

Catwoman: The Cheshire Cat. Not good, not bad, and likes to disappear and be sly and all that. Plus it’s a cat.

Poison Ivy: The Tiger lily. Basically rules the other plants and is top-dog. Plus its a talking plant.

Mr. Freeze: Mock Turtle. This one was kinda hard to decide. He’s always sad and a bit of an abomination. Not really a villain like the other are, like how the Mock Turtle isn’t a real turtle. Might change.

Zsasz: Carpenter. A god damn murderer. The Carpenter got a bunch of baby oysters to trust him and then killed them

Killer Croc: Walrus. Basically the same as Zsasz, but you can now include the fact that he’s an animal and eats the oysters.

Clayface: I actually can’t think of anything. Griffin, maybe? Wouldn’t suit him.

Bane: Also hard. Maybe the Lion?

Professor Pyg: The Duchess. Basically a play on him being obscenely ugly. Has a weird obsession for correcting things, and the Duchess’ baby turns into a pig, too, so yeah.

Doctors/People/Police: Cardsmen/Pawns/Chess pieces/soldiers.