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"why are you on your phone all the time" my frands :) hope this helps!

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Once you get to a certain level of advanced maths, you basically become a wizard.

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"It can wait until we get home it's fine." Riz protested, but didn't move when Fig threw one of their spare towels around his shoulders and clipped it in place like a cape with one of those little claws she used for her hair sometimes.

"We don't know when we're going to get home, and I saw how much you winced when the innkeeper called you ma'am. Plus, its time for a little update to your style and this is the perfect excuse."

There was a little rumble from the captive goblin but that was about it, Riz relaxing a little as Fig pulled a comb carefully through his curls which now reached past his shoulders. She was right, he was getting a little bit scruffy and the length made it harder for people to tell he was a guy.

He couldnt really blame them, telling goblins genders apart was hard for humanoids. Most of them couldnt even see the subtle pattern differences along their tails (not that his were very clear anyway) and, he had to admit, having hair this long really made him look like his mom.

It was a cool night out in the Red Wastes, and it had been a cool night for weeks now. Half of the summer already gone as they tracked down The Night Yorb across half of Spyre, fighting cultists and monsters as they tried to find a way to seal it away again.

They'd been so busy that Riz really hadnt had time to get his hair trimmed, and it had already been a bit shaggy before they left. Now it was actually becoming annoying (he kept having to bum hairties off the girls because his kept going missing. Note to self: investigate where hair ties disappear to whenever you take your eyes off them. Main theory? Arcane fluctuations causing mini teleports, like what happens with socks in dryers).

The goblin was currently sitting on a stack of boxes and coolers full of their food, dragged out of the van so they could stop and have dinner while Gorgug made a few repairs. Riz had been about to duck back inside to go over his notes again but had been promptly kidnapped by Fig, sat down on top of the pile and told to sit still while she fiddled with some battery-powered clippers Adaine had pulled from her jacket.

She'd already ambushed Fabian, though his hair grew nowhere near as fast as Riz's so it had only been a quick tidy up of his undercut. Riz would have to sit down with him later and redo his braids though, one of them was half pulled out from a fight they'd had yesterday against one of the wastes many mirriad of 'shit that wanted to eat them' .

It was nice getting his hair brushed though, Fig being careful of his ears as she got all of the tangles out before she started trimming everything shorter with a pair of scissors. He was almost dozing by the time she finally started getting to work with the clippers, the buzzing making his ears itch but he dared not flick them in case she accidentally nicked one.

He'd been expecting her to just trim up the back of his neck when he suddenly felt them starting to go higher, mouthing opening in protest as he went to turn around and get her to stop.

"Fig what the fu-?"

"Gah! Hold still dude, or you'll end up going full Aguefort. Let me cook you'll look good I promise." Fig grabbed his shoulder with one hand to hold him still, only putting the clippers back against skin when he turned back around and went still agian.

"Like I said, we're doing an update to your looks and its going to be great. I've wanted to do this for ages."

Riz could tell she was grinning even if he couldnt see her, staying still even as she put the clippers down and picked the scissors back up to do a last little trim. Soon enough she made a little noise of satisfaction, unclipping the towel and shaking out all the hair that it had caught before holding out her little makeup mirror so Riz could get a good look at himself.

Wow.

Okay.

If he thought he looked a bit like his mom before he really looked like his dad now.

He turned his head from side to side, getting a better look at the undercut before he ran his fingers through the longer curls left up top. Just a few stray clippings falling to the ground as he shook it out and ran his palm over the back. "Wow this is-" "Good right? I knew it would suit you." Fig beamed, folding the towel back up once it was mostly hair-free and hugging it against her chest. "Yeah, its great... Thanks Fig." he paused, closing the mirror as he looked over at her. "You'll have to be the one to help me upkeep this though, or its just going to go back to scruffy in like... a couple weeks." "Hah, well, I brought this on myself then. Didn't I?"

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What I love about Riz and Fabian goes as thus:

Riz is ridiculously competent at so many things, and most of the coolest moments I remember from Fantasy High involve Riz doing something amazing. And yet, he is so vulnerable to peer pressure, has low self-esteem and cares so much about his loved ones that he puts himself in harms way to help them no matter what. I loved in junior year how Brennan was like "Only Riz is allowed to take a stress token for his friends no matter what", because he is the fucking glue of this group and they might die without him XD

Fabian has an amazing arc, but throughout it he never loses his rich kid vibe, dorkiness and caring nature. He acts so confident and a lot of the time has the ability to back it up, but the rest of the time he is just so endearingly dumb. I just watched Boys' Night, and I loved how Lou was like "In his head Fabian's like 'The LAN party sounds kinda cool', but he knows he should be thinking what cool kids would wanna do'." Like, this kid has the looks of a mean cool kid but he just can't help being empathetic and dorky and kind of a himbo, which makes him genuinely cool

And I love them together, because they cover for each other's weaknesses in more ways than one. Riz can make Fabian excited about things Fabian normally wouldn't let himself enjoy, and Fabian drowns Riz in assurance and praise when Riz is feeling down about himself. They both have daddy issues and feel pressured to be like their fathers, which they can work on together. They're both genuinely impressed by each other's abilities and show it without hesitation, but they're both also cagey and bad at talking about their own feelings so there's also some drama potential (which I think makes a ship more interesting). But at the end of the day they wear their hearts on their sleeves and they end up communicating sooner or later, because they care about each other too much to leave each other alone

This has been my brief love letter to Fabriz, I rest my case

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this background reaction killed me

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this is an appreciation post for lou wilson’s weirdly sharp canine teeth

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We might lose our beloved Tara depending on how things pan out after this cliffhanger

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we need to invent a way to explain how deep running and pervasive and subliminal racism and antiblackness is without immediately sounding like an insane conspiracy theorist

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low quality fabian bardic inspiration pirouette✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

working on something hehe✍️👀

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I FORGOT ONE OF THE SKETCHES FOR THAT COMMISSION POST FOR @dullgecko

For details go see the other post here

This is Riz walking through the ruins in the Goblin King's castle, drawing his weapon at a sudden sound and movement, and then dropping it when he realises it's just one of the proto-goblin things.

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Commission Posting time!

@dullgecko Commissioned a bunch of sketches from me of her concept for the original creatures from which Goblinoids were created in the Fae Wilds.

The idea is that The Lady of Air and Darkness created the first sentient and sapient Goblinoids from these little creatures running around that were like a monkey/cat/bat/marsupial mashup.

And then those little critters are still there running around when modern goblins kinda return to the Fae Wilds much later to re-establish the Goblin Court, and are basically like mischevious little shits that annoy everyone and they're looked on very fondly as ancestors.

This is all kinda within the Dimension20 Fantasy High & Court of Fey and Flowers universe, but also works for DnD settings outside of that.

Here though we have cameos from Riz Gukgak and our shared OC Dex (Yes he's doing the Jake Gyllenhaal ferret meme).

Also the Rock Wallaby reference was from our trip to the Australian Reptile Park last time she visited me in April (Rock wallabies are such a mood).

Anyway I am still open for commissions! I am happy to do any level of commission, feel free to message me here if you're interested.

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Fabian getting his last name stolen from him by a member of the Goblin Court and given to their King. The only way to get it back is to become the Goblin King’s Knight and perform various daring quests and services for him for a year and a day. At first, he only knows the King as his Majesty, none speak his name (at least to him) and his quests are given to him via messenger.

It's only when he tasked with guarding the King’s carriage and assassins sent by Maglubiyet that he finally catches more than a glimpse of them and it's because the King somehow snuck out of the carriage and is killing more assassins than he is.

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Shitty screenshot accidentally perfect representation of how it felt to hear this question

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woe. fantasy high be upon ye