Lavender Moon Arts School

**Lavender Moon Arts** is a fictional upper 6th boarding school / University located in the UK, accepting year 11 to University levels in the Urania's Mirror comics in which the group attends.

## Map

Lavender Moon Arts Boarding School, The Isle of Avalon, Glastonbury, Somerset, United Kingdom, BA6 8BG

## About

**Lavender Moon Arts** is a high-performing prestigious arts school located in the southwest of England in the county of Somerset, England.

Founded as ‘Lavender Artem School’ in 1880 as a very traditional all-boys upper boarding school, with castle buildings surrounded by luxuriously landscaped outdoor spaces and beautiful playing fields designed by Prince Arthur's gardeners, it's no wonder it quickly became the talk of the country.

The school opened around the remains of St Michael's Church at the summit of Glastonbury Tor, or The Isle of Avalon in the late 1800s and as a finishing school for young men. Due to its immense popularity, it later became a mixed boarding school 50 years later in 1930, specialising in everything related to the arts.

Lavender Moon Arts are proud to churn out only the best musicians, artists, actors, designers, and more, with more than 6000 applicants each year. Many students were put on a waiting list before they were born.

Throughout the years, Lavender Moon has produced some of the most famous musicians of all time, including a great number of band members who have made rock history. Their most modernly famous are the boy bands *piXie, The Buggs* and *No Correction.*

The school possesses a gym, an indoor and outdoor swimming pool, an archery room, 3 theatres, 10 recording studios and multiple dance halls, as well as countless other rooms for various other art. There is also an abundance of rabbits who live coincidentally on the isle who are very friendly and are descendants of a pupil's rabbits who got loose and started having a lot of babies. These rabbits are often found "dancing with fairies" in the mist in the very early hours of the morning and often are found with collections of crystals. It's theorized that the students sometimes gift the rabbits with crystals and magical objects from the town below for good luck.

The living quarters are divided by year in each of the towers (around 200 in each tower), but each has a house common room in various parts of the living part of the castle. Students are in 2 people's bedrooms with students of the same presenting gender. There is a great dining hall on the ground floor where a lot of assemblies are held and where everyone is given the finest school meals.

Through the guidance of the headmistress, Professor Clair Tsukino-Smith, she is determined to show the world Urania's Mirror for the shimmering star they were always meant to be!

## Physical Description

Sitting on the Ynys yr Afalon (meaning “The Isle of Avalon”), or The Tor, a massive floating island sitting on a mysterious fog just above the quaint town of Glastonbury, is a gorgeous mix of medieval and Elizabethan architecture in the form of an immense, whimsical looking château sporting purple gables and white limestone walls.

With its astonishing arrangement in its English country gardens in riotous colours on just the exterior, it's no wonder the castle needs such continuous upkeep by both professional gardeners and the students themselves. The castle itself has 60 spires, 10 towers, three stages, a splendid greenhouse and just over 700 decadent rooms across the building. With mullioned and stained glass windows in oriel styles adorning the school, it is rather unsurprising that it's listed as one of the most beautiful estates in England.

When you step inside, the interior is equally as opulent. Tasteful tapestries and paintings garnish the cherry wood walls as high, gothic moulded plaster ceilings ornate overhead. Many of the rooms still hold the original Elizabethan and Victorian design but are updated subtly with modern speakers, electricity, a heating system, lifts, and clear classrooms for working as well as clean and exciting dorm rooms and common rooms for all 1000 students.

In the 1940s, just after becoming an only arts college, the isle of which Lavender Moon Arts rested jumped from the ground and started physically floating. The townspeople and the students, both were not at all surprised and just continued about their days. A lot of strange things happen around the isle, and those who live around it try not to question it too much.

## History

Lavender Moon Arts is an Elizabethan castle originally belonging to the Duke Nutere, built around the remains of St Michael's Tower from the 14th century, and the supposed final resting place of King Arthur.

The original name for Lavender Moon Arts was Nutter Castle, a spelling error on the Duke's last name, Nutere. The magnificent 7,000 square and 65,000 cubic meter construction were built for Duke Mervyn Nutere in the 16th century after his duties to Queen Elizabeth I on Glastonbury's Tor, a large mysterious island that stood above the earth and was said to be the entrance to the Celtic Otherworld.

The castle was huge just for only one duke, and many of the locals were repelled by his actions and his blatant disregard for the spirits and fairies who lived there. Of course, Duke Nutere, a devout idiot, then proceeded to hang 60% of his citizens who he suspected to be witches on the bountiful apple trees that grew on his land.

After only 10 years of living there alone with his all-female cast of servants and 253 witch trial ghosts, Duke Nutere died a mysterious death on his chamber pot in the middle of the night, supposedly after eating a very sour apple pie.

The castle was passed around as an English heritage castle for many years, but no one wanted to live there due to the fear and taboo around what had happened to Duke Nutere. It fell into disrepair and was scheduled for wrecking, until Sir Henry Artem, one of the friends of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, fell in love with the building in 1870, and revamped the building to be a boy's boarding school, like one he attended when he was young.

It was finally opened in 1880, and Sir Henry Artem named his new school Lavender Artem, after his late wife. The name changed to Lavender Moon after his passing in 1939, and eventually became a mixed college or a finishing school for older students, accepting young adults 16 and above. It evolved into an exclusively arts school after the war in 1945, and it became extremely popular with young people aspiring to be on the radio and young designers.

Out of respect for their first headmaster, Sir Henry Artem, Lavender Moon Arts kept its uniform from 1880 and has very few revisions. Many of the people at Lavender Moon Arts have a deep respect for their uniform, many loving that it isn't a hideous colour like their previous school uniforms.

Other than its famous alumni, such as *No Correction*, Lavender Moon is famous for its uniforms (despite being entirely optional), the only upper 6th / University in England with a set uniform.

## Classes

Digital art
Illustrating & calligraphy & hieroglyphics
Design & sleek modern tech
Fashion & Textiles
Makeup art, SFX & body paint
Designer baking
 Dance
Jazz
Tap
Modern / street
 Movement
Gymnastics
Figure skating
Synchronised swimming & diving
 Drama
Modern acting
Interpretive acting / dance
 Music
Modern Music
Instrumental
Singing & composition
Mixing
Music business

## Uniform

Feminine presenting students wear sailor shirts with their house sewn on their collar, and mid-length purple tartan skirts or shorts, as well as little star buttons. They also have ruse coloured bow ties with their year colour in the middle. They have the choice to either wear dark purple or white socks or tights.

Masculine presenting students have white shirts with light purple collars with their house sewn on, and a dark purple tie with stripes according to which year you belong to. They also have dark purple blazers and can choose between black, purple or white shorts or trousers.

Although the uniform is entirety based on choice, over 90% of students at the university wear it, based on these answers.

The original uniform all had dark purple kilts and a sailor uniform worn by boys only, and the girls wore a long purple dress with a white collar and their house sewn on. This changed in the 50s to look more similar to the modern uniform.

## Attendees

Known 1st years: Rikku Lavender, Yumiko Morikawa, Alexander Orion.

Known 2nd years: Peppa Porosenok, Robyn Tsukino

Known 3rd years: Litzy Bloom, Bunni Jane, Gallagher

Known 4th years: Joy Everain, Sylvalia Vylaris, Florent Stone, June Julian

Known 5th years: Tristan Storm.

## Trivia

* The school didn't have real plumbing until 1920.
* The bunnies that surround the place have been there since the 50s, after a girl named Elaine lost her two "female" rabbits after sneaking them onto the premises. The bunnies stayed around the area because nobody has ever been able to catch them.
* Lavender Moon Arts is often mistaken for a secondary school, when it is actually a university or college. However, it won a world award in 1999 for having the world's nicest school uniform anyway.
* Many people can't believe people would actually go to the lengths of wearing a school uniform when they're above the age of 15. They can't either. It's just so cute.
* Some people in Comic Con San Diego in 2008 won an award making fan uniforms of Lavender Moon.
* Many of the students mix up or put their own take on the uniform, such as wearing both gender uniforms or sewing new things onto it.
* Often in the summer holidays, people flock to see the castle in all its glory, especially as its sitting right on top one of the most spiritual places in England.
* A group of students in 2012 tried to bulldoze the building during the night while drunk, claiming that 100s of people shouldn't be "sleeping on top of King Arthur's dead body, it's well gnarly".
* A few of the students like partying in the fog of the island, claiming to see fairies and they're "the best at partying, like, ever".
* Although being an arts school, nothing unproblematic happens between the students and the residents of Glastonbury. Many of the students love the place so much, they end up moving there after.
* Friday - Sunday are the visiting days for the town, only certain groups of students at a time. Many students take a bus up to Bristol to have fun there.