High School AU first conversation

I still think strawberries though.

SageYesterday at 11:15 PM

Probably if it is a common allergy those people always get specialized plates would be harder to make all the food allergen free

[11:16 PM]

Strawberries would be an easy one to avoid

ZubiYesterday at 11:20 PM

Yeah. But he is so that kid.

[11:21 PM]

Like, between this and Theo's comments we are almost to a high school AU right now.

Esren'nilosYesterday at 11:21 PM

I think the magic future ship doctor has treatments for all food allergies.

ZubiYesterday at 11:21 PM

You can't stop it, Josh. He's THAT KID in his SOUL.

[11:22 PM]

I bet he plays the trombone, too.

[11:23 PM]

That kid is always in the band.

Esren'nilosYesterday at 11:23 PM

 Probably.

SageYesterday at 11:23 PM

What are you saying about trombonists

Esren'nilosYesterday at 11:23 PM

But he's now Duo.

ZubiYesterday at 11:23 PM

True.

[11:25 PM]

Duo: one of the "fun" band nerds. Sometimes goes to parties, which always surprises everyone. Once got drunk and sang the national anthem from the roof... in French. Helped devise the best prank in school history.

1

Esren'nilosYesterday at 11:27 PM

That is basically what Duo is.  Dalarei was...not sad, but more introverted and sheltered.  Duo is that nerd given full agency.

ZubiYesterday at 11:27 PM

Plays the saxophone, but can also take it on most brass instruments. No one is sure where he's from.

[11:32 PM]

Grax is... one of the cool kids, but going through some shit after his older brother died in a car crash last year. Spent the summer... somewhere. Jail? No one's sure, lots of rumors. This year, it's like a different person. Full class schedule, loads of school sanctioned activities, 3 sport athlete but also in the band, does he have a time turner in his letter jacket? Burning the candle at both ends. Still popular, elected class president.

1

[11:33 PM]

The kid everyone knows and likes, but no one really knows.

Esren'nilosYesterday at 11:33 PM

...I need to do an episode where we go to the High School AU.

ZubiYesterday at 11:34 PM

Hehehe.

Esren'nilosYesterday at 11:36 PM

Duma is definitely the jock.  Like, he's not a bully, but he's not the cool kid.  He's just the big guy who plays football and hangs with the rest of the team.

ZubiYesterday at 11:38 PM

Friendly, gregarious, awkward and very good looking.

2

[11:39 PM]

I would keep him trans too.

2

Esren'nilosYesterday at 11:39 PM

Von Kemp is the weird foreign kid who was probably home schooled before coming here.

1

ZubiYesterday at 11:39 PM

People like him anyway. he brings food.

1

Esren'nilosYesterday at 11:40 PM

Duma is trans in all timelines.  It's just not always trans the same way.

[11:41 PM]

...I kind of wanna age Aevarnis up cause I feel like she'd be a great guidance counselor.  But that feels like a cheat.

ZubiYesterday at 11:47 PM

Xho is the super-intense serious-seeming nerd girl most people don't quite get. Not really well-liked, partly because she won't let anyone cheat off her, though she's a willing tutor. Her parents are diplomats from some country no one cares about so she's lived everywhere and speaks several languages much better than English. Also involved in too many damn activities--every school play, knowledge bowl, math league, multiple mostly non-popular sports (track, tennis, basketball maybe). She's in band too but plays percussion which is weird. Doesn't have to take off her glasses to be the hot chick, but the personality puts a lot of people off. Keeps to herself, often found in the library. Rumor has it she memorized the dictionary, but that's not true. She was busy memorizing the Constitution.

1

Esren'nilosYesterday at 11:48 PM

That being involved in too many activities is also how she and Grax meet.

[11:48 PM]

Normally, they'd have vastly different social circles, but now...

ZubiYesterday at 11:48 PM

Yup.

[11:49 PM]

I will forgo doing Theo and Sage 'cause their own players would know better than I do.

SageYesterday at 11:50 PM

I can’t think of what Sages high school equivalent would be

ZubiYesterday at 11:52 PM

Probably the poor kid from the wrong side of the tracks who has a job in the cafeteria to help his family make ends meet?

SageYesterday at 11:53 PM

That makes sense probably a loner who gets along better with the staff than the other kids

Esren'nilosYesterday at 11:53 PM

But, at the same time, is super nice and kind and will totally give up his last bit of money to make a small child happy.(edited)

SageYesterday at 11:54 PM

Yeah

Esren'nilosYesterday at 11:54 PM

Also, had a serious accident at one point and now has a metal plate in his head.

ZubiYesterday at 11:59 PM

Aevarnis is the popular girl who's popular because she's actually super nice and helpful to people around her and everyone just thinks she's cool. She's friendly to everyone from all the cliques and makes it a point to include people you wouldn't expect in activities. She's great with people and writes the advice column in the school newspaper (which is a website because print is dead).

2

August 5, 2020

Esren'nilosToday at 12:00 AM

Targal is the kid from a military school family with a major stick up his ass and an awful superiority complex.

ZubiToday at 12:01 AM

Grax's brother was the actual All-American Boy, Captain America Clark Kent type.

Esren'nilosToday at 12:02 AM

Captain of the football team, but also a straight-A student and already being scouted for an ivy league school.

[12:02 AM]

Then one party later...dead.

[12:02 AM]

And since Grax's mom was already an abusive, manipulative shrew and his dad wasn't around...

ZubiToday at 12:03 AM

Nasty rumors about that accident too.

[12:04 AM]

Who was driving.

TheoToday at 12:04 AM

Theo's a delinquent who is far too smart for high school.  He gets in trouble a lot because he's rude and treats a lot of teachers like idiots, but has a 4.1 gradepoint average.  He breaks into the AV club constantly.

1

ZubiToday at 12:04 AM

They definitely kicked him out.

[12:04 AM]

Then they made him president.

[12:04 AM]

... then they kicked him out again.

Esren'nilosToday at 12:05 AM

Also, Theo has, at some point, made some home grown explosives.

1

[12:05 AM]

Just to see if he could.

ZubiToday at 12:05 AM

Definitely on at least three government watchlists.

[12:06 AM]

... that he knows about. ... because he hacked their sites.

TheoToday at 12:06 AM

HE's the one who makes tennis ball cannons, spends a lot of time in the metal shop, and makes increasingly complicated pumpkin catapults.

ZubiToday at 12:07 AM

He was also the one who implemented the best prank in school history.

1

Esren'nilosToday at 12:11 AM

There's an episode of Community where then Vice President Joe Biden was gonna visit the school, so the secret service go to the college to check it out for threats.  Abed is tagged as a potential threat...cause racism, fear of autism and lack of emotion, and also interest in strange things, but he notices him, so the special agent woman just...checks his room.  The two meet and have chemistry so later in the episode, Abed makes a reference to napalm to intentionally get himself on a watchlist so that she has to keep watching him.  At the end of the episode, he's watching a movie in his dorm while she watches him from a car.  When it ends, he talks into the lamp (clearly where a mic is hidden) saying "this was fun, we should do this again".

[12:11 AM]

....and that's how I imagine Theo.

ZubiToday at 12:11 AM

Aww, that's about right.

Esren'nilosToday at 12:11 AM

Community was a great show and I love it.

TheoToday at 12:11 AM

Yeah, kinda.

SageToday at 12:13 AM

We definitely have to do something with the high school au at some point now

[12:13 AM]

Adventure High

Esren'nilosToday at 12:13 AM

That sounds like an Adventure Time spin-off.  I approve.

ZubiToday at 12:14 AM

You're welcome.

[12:14 AM]

I TOLD YOU I WAS MAGIC.

SageToday at 12:16 AM

Also probably not like hard drugs but Sage is definitely at least got a line on marijuana

1

Esren'nilosToday at 12:18 AM

Viex is a straight-A student whose parents largely ignore them, so they have learned self-sustainability to a creepy degree.

[12:19 AM]

I should go to bed soon.

[12:20 AM]

I am tired and I have to get up tomorrow for some car bullshit.

SageToday at 12:20 AM

Yeah early day tomorrow

ZubiToday at 12:20 AM

Go sleep. Do Williamson and whoever else tomorrow.

Esren'nilosToday at 12:21 AM

SageToday at 12:21 AM

So just asking for tentative plans right now we are thinking Star Wars tomorrow and LC on Friday ?

ZubiToday at 12:22 AM

Yep!

[12:22 AM]

And I have squish to do with Josh when he feels like it, if.

Esren'nilosToday at 12:25 AM

It'll be a when...just not sure when.

SageToday at 12:26 AM

Yeah still a kind of busy week

Esren'nilosToday at 12:26 AM

I'm sorry.  Birthday mixed with doctors mixed with car stuff mixed with job stuff.

SageToday at 12:26 AM

And national chocolate chip cookie day is over for us east coast folks

[12:27 AM]

At least the play isn’t happening

ZubiToday at 12:27 AM

Didn't even eat one.

Esren'nilosToday at 12:28 AM

I also have many shows to catch up on.  Losing the anime was...probably smart, frankly.

1

[12:29 AM]

At some point, I was in the kitchen and my dad looked at me and just "wow, you look so tired."

[12:29 AM]

Which...yeah.

ZubiToday at 12:30 AM

If it's stressing you out we don't have to play twice this week.

Esren'nilosToday at 12:30 AM

Playing's easier than running.

SageToday at 12:30 AM

1

Esren'nilosToday at 12:30 AM

It's mostly this whole shifting therapists thing.

1

[12:33 AM]

I watch a show called Corporate.  It's an absurdist, deeply-cynical comedy about corporate culture, marketing, capitalism...basically just life in the American business world in the modern day.  They just did an episode about one of the characters dealing with his depression.  It was...frankly it was fantastic and way smarter than most dramas I've seen tackle the subject.  But my second favorite part is at the end his friend wants to put a cap on everything by taking credit for him getting better and how it's all fine and he just goes "actually, no, you did basically nothing and I'm gonna have to manage this for the rest of my life".

1

ZubiToday at 12:33 AM

Esren'nilosToday at 12:33 AM

They even have the symbol of his depression (a man in a beat up dog costume) still around, just muzzled.

1

ZubiToday at 12:33 AM

Though a lot of people who have clinical depression don't.

SageToday at 12:34 AM

I am sorry for completely melting down earlier today

Esren'nilosToday at 12:34 AM

My favorite moment is the thing that actually gets him to stop listening to his depression and taking charge in his life is that his depression tries to make him feel bad by telling him his cat doesn't love him.  And that's the one thing he just won't accept.

1

[12:34 AM]

It's ok.  We all completely melt down some days.  I am sorry I've been pushing you.

ZubiToday at 12:35 AM

His cat both loves him and hates him, and also doesn't give a single fuck about him. Because cat.

2

SageToday at 12:36 AM

I really should have watched that

[12:36 AM]

It's ok.  We all completely melt down some days.  I am sorry I've been pushing you.

@Esren'nilos  you haven’t been pushing me too much

Esren'nilosToday at 12:36 AM

I think it's probably still on the Tivo.  We can watch it another night.

SageToday at 12:38 AM

I need to push myself harder anyway

ZubiToday at 12:39 AM

I don't think that's necessarily true, and if you look, no one said that.

1

[12:42 AM]

Grax plays the trumpet, I think.

[12:43 AM]

Hasn't been in band since sixth grade but somehow managed to bag first chair this year as a senior.

Esren'nilosToday at 12:43 AM

Saxaphone.

[12:43 AM]

I feel like Grax is more of a sax man.

ZubiToday at 12:43 AM

Hmm, true. Tenor sax, though.

[12:43 AM]

Not an alto sax.

Esren'nilosToday at 12:44 AM

Also, Caleb, I don't think you need to push yourself harder, no.  What you need to do is not get angry at yourself for being where you are.

ZubiToday at 12:44 AM

Played the trumpet in sixth grade, which made it more surprising he even joined the band as a senior.

[12:45 AM]

Was never in the choir before this year, but had a garage band.

Esren'nilosToday at 12:45 AM

Why a tenor sax over an alto?

ZubiToday at 12:46 AM

Richer sound.

Esren'nilosToday at 12:46 AM

Ah.

[12:46 AM]

Fair.

ZubiToday at 12:46 AM

Less reedy.

Esren'nilosToday at 12:47 AM

I really should go to bed.

ZubiToday at 12:47 AM

Go to bed!

[12:47 AM]

Shoo.

Esren'nilosToday at 12:47 AM

Night.

SageToday at 12:47 AM

Gnight

[12:51 AM]

Sage probably isn’t in the band but gets along with most of the low brass section especially if there is a tuba section

ZubiToday at 12:52 AM

He helps carry stuff in for the band, so they let him into football and basketball games for free.

1

SageToday at 12:52 AM

Sage probably works the schools concession stand for the home games at least

ZubiToday at 12:53 AM

Oh, point. Maybe he sits with the band after halftime when the stand closes.

1

SageToday at 12:54 AM

Yeah but definitely away games they could always use an extra pair of hands

ZubiToday at 12:54 AM

Trust me, nobody wants to carry a trap set anywhere without help.

SageToday at 12:55 AM

True

[12:57 AM]

Honestly Sage is probably fairly invisible, but interacts with almost everyone between food and drugs

ZubiToday at 12:58 AM

The drugs thing seems odd to me, he seems like someone who'd obey the rules.

[1:02 AM]

Until absolutely necessary, anyway.

SageToday at 1:02 AM

That is true  I wasn’t thinking anything harmful , I don’t know if Sage is that law abiding if the rules seem too strict or against his code

ZubiToday at 1:03 AM

He has definitely gotten into trouble giving kids meals who haven't paid up their accounts though.

SageToday at 1:04 AM

Until absolutely necessary, anyway.

@Zubi  that is true Sage may not like a system but he will work in it as long as it seems to be working that is why he hasn’t really gotten into any issues with the command structure yet though some things have most likely irritated Sage

[1:05 AM]

He has definitely gotten into trouble giving kids meals who haven't paid up their accounts though.

@Zubi  for sure and probably snuck food out for them if he can’t do it officially

ZubiToday at 1:07 AM

Well, you're actually not allowed to simply not feed them.

[1:07 AM]

You have to give them an "alternative" cheaper meal, usually a PB&J.

1

SageToday at 1:07 AM

True but they robably have the cheap shit

ZubiToday at 1:08 AM

I'm guessing he gave them a regular dinner and a couple extra fruit cups or whatever to take home.

1

[1:10 AM]

I would guess people are more likely to think he deals than having him actually do it.

1

[1:10 AM]

Also, probably Native American or Hispanic or something.

1

SageToday at 1:10 AM

Fair

ZubiToday at 1:10 AM

Xho is probably Asian, Grax I would guess also definitely not white.

SageToday at 1:11 AM

Could stick with Italian Mediterranean

ZubiToday at 1:11 AM

Whether that's white or not is a moving target.

SageToday at 1:12 AM

True

ZubiToday at 1:12 AM

Duma's probably black.

[1:14 AM]

Theo maybe Scandinavianly white.

[1:15 AM]

Maybe even a partial albino kid.

SageToday at 1:15 AM

Yeah

TheoToday at 1:15 AM

Theo's a mutt, but he's probably got some Greek, too.

1

ZubiToday at 1:17 AM

Albino, then? Or not gonna do the exotic (natural) look?

ZubiToday at 1:32 AM

I think this Jo would be part Indian, part Chinese.

1

SageToday at 1:47 AM

Von kemp lrobably easy Eastern Europe or Russia probably

ZubiToday at 1:48 AM

Absolutely.

SageToday at 1:59 AM

I shoulders and  sleep I am going with josh later this morning at this point

ZubiToday at 2:00 AM

Go get some rest!

SageToday at 2:00 AM

Will do a little more prep work for SW then sleep

SageToday at 8:59 AM

... dreamed of doing food coordination for a school sporting event

Esren'nilosToday at 9:05 AM

Given conversation last night, that is lind of funny. :)

Esren'nilosToday at 10:45 AM

Dropped car off.  Now a 2 to 3 hour wait for them to finish.  Fucking recall.

ZubiToday at 11:39 AM

Least you don't have to pay for it. So is Grax what, half Italian, half... Middle Eastern of some kind? Trying to think of who's demonized the most so they can be literally demonized.

Esren'nilosToday at 11:41 AM

I don't see why the high school cant have elves and tiefling.

[11:45 AM]

If he can't be part demon, he is half Italian anf half British.  Cause Englad is the real hell

[11:47 AM]

White people can be Demons here.

ZubiToday at 11:56 AM

True!

Esren'nilosToday at 11:56 AM

So Grax is debatably white here.

ZubiToday at 11:56 AM

Britain is pretty evil.

1

[11:57 AM]

Jo is gonna sound British. One of her parents is from Hong Kong.

Esren'nilosToday at 11:57 AM

Your phone hates your character's name. :)

ZubiToday at 12:08 PM

It does, but she will be Jo for this version.

Esren'nilosToday at 12:08 PM

Ah.  Fair.

SageToday at 12:12 PM

I think Native American probably fits Sage best in this scenario

1

Esren'nilosToday at 12:15 PM

You guys are of course forgetting who else would be there.  Morn, Zebos and Go'und of the Bureaucracy.

ZubiToday at 12:16 PM

Bullies.

Esren'nilosToday at 12:16 PM

Oh, and Incara, who is definitely the guidance counselor. :)

ZubiToday at 12:17 PM

Hell!Mom.

SageToday at 12:17 PM

I mean the bureaucracy itself is th private religious school in town

1

ZubiToday at 12:18 PM

Jo's parents wanted to send her there but she wouldn't go.

1

[12:19 PM]

There was a big argument. They also want her to go to medical school but she wants to study constitutional law.

Esren'nilosToday at 12:21 PM

Morn was kicked out of the Bureaucracy and Go'und just picks on kids after school.

ZubiToday at 12:21 PM

She argued that public school is a pillar of American citizenship.

1

Esren'nilosToday at 12:21 PM

It should be(edited)

ZubiToday at 12:22 PM

Also in the magicless version she's a cancer survivor and also survived some other horrible accident that killed everyone around her.

[12:22 PM]

All Jos are idealists.

Esren'nilosToday at 12:23 PM

So, the other cadets are friends she made in the cancer ward?

ZubiToday at 12:23 PM

Yeah, probably!

Esren'nilosToday at 12:23 PM

Williamson would be miserable here.  No voice at all.  Has to use a board to talk.

[12:24 PM]

Or an ipad

ZubiToday at 12:24 PM

Though a few people probably learned her sign language. Jo probably did, this version is good with languages.

1

Esren'nilosToday at 12:24 PM

That'd be nice.

ZubiToday at 12:24 PM

Other version would be too if it was easier to do in 5.0!

Esren'nilosToday at 12:25 PM

Sorry. :(

ZubiToday at 12:25 PM

Limitation of the system. It's OK.

Esren'nilosToday at 12:26 PM

I do get the limitation, but it does remove options.

SageToday at 12:28 PM

Sage would probably have learned at least some sign language

1

ZubiToday at 12:29 PM

Pretty sure everyone assumes Jo is a lesbian.

Esren'nilosToday at 12:30 PM

Probably

ZubiToday at 12:30 PM

Which is not true, but she is bi, so it's not totally wrong either.

Esren'nilosToday at 12:35 PM

Half truth

ZubiToday at 12:37 PM

She died on the table for a minute or two when they were removing the cancer.

1

Esren'nilosToday at 12:38 PM

Jo will never not be dead.

ZubiToday at 12:38 PM

Not this version.

Esren'nilosToday at 12:38 PM

Well...she was dead.

ZubiToday at 12:42 PM

Yep.

[12:42 PM]

Still can't have kids either.

Esren'nilosToday at 12:43 PM

Ovarian cancer?

ZubiToday at 12:43 PM

Yep.

Esren'nilosToday at 12:43 PM

Sucks

ZubiToday at 12:44 PM

It does!

[12:49 PM]

Also 100% certain that she would have aided and abetted Sage's food charity thefts if given the opportunity.

2

[12:50 PM]

And may well have given Duo and Theo helpful suggestions for the Best Prank in totally deniable ways. (edited)

1

SageToday at 12:51 PM

Probably was just. A throw at line but going off the metal plate in the head for Sage probably was in an accident causing a skull fracture and  probably has some memory issues due to that and that is why Sage works in the kitchen to try and help not just support the family otherwise but also the medical bills.

1

ZubiToday at 12:51 PM

Makes sense!

Esren'nilosToday at 12:56 PM

Man, even in the high school au, you guys need tragic backstories. :)

1

ZubiToday at 12:56 PM

Just trying to get 'em to match up.

1

SageToday at 1:04 PM

Right that’s why I did the memory thing Sage does not know everything about their past in the base game

[1:06 PM]

Also Sage in the high school au is probably gender neutral and probably ace

1

ZubiToday at 1:15 PM

Makes sense.

Esren'nilosToday at 2:08 PM

Someone here needs to write this fanfic.