Caraway/History

He made his first appearance in the second episode.

In the third episode, Rose accidentally damages her sword. At the same time, Professor Caraway asks to speak to Rose in private, and Rose assumes she may be in trouble. Instead, Caraway reveals that he was good friends with Rose's mother and recognizes her sword. He also comes out as trans to her after she asks why he looked like a girl in their old photos. The two discuss her career at the school.

In Episode 6, Aster enters his Rune Class. Later Aster asks Caraway what a rune is, causing him to laugh, but when he realizes that Aster is being serious he stops laughing and starts looking concerned.

In Episode 8, he dresses as a playboy bunny for the Festival of Fall, and Rosemary finds his costume hilarious.

In Episode 11, Snap is partnered with Cal for boat duty. When Cal insults him and triggers a bad memory of his father bullying him, Snap angrily pushes Cal into the sea. This causes Caraway to reprimand Snap, but Snap vents at him, saying that you can't change how you were born into. Caraway tells him he knows how he feels and explains how transition magic works to him. He encourages Snap to be himself and take whatever path he wants in life.

Meanwhile, Rose and her friends are tasked with helping the merpeople capture the Scypith, and eat seaweed that turns them into mermaids. Then the Scypith attempts to attack them. Elodie appears and uses herself as a diversion, explaining that he primarily targets normal mermaids like her. Later Elodie invites them to her sea colosseum and explains that as a baby, the Scypith was formerly a friend of theirs, but as he grew up, turned evil. She also introduces herself and her friends, Coral and C. Elodie and Rosemary also bond over her pet seahorse, but their fun is cut when the Scypith tries to attack them again. The mermaids then try to form a plan where they can trap the Scypeth and use the horn of the seahorse to turn it back into its normal form.

Meanwhile, Sage panics when witnessing the excessively violent behavior of the creature and her terrasphere goes out of control and ends up accidentally killing it. She cries, but Elodie tells her she knows it's an accident. Caraway and Redbud also assure her that she is not at fault. When Thyme tries to use the seahorse horn on it and it fails, they give up on saving it. All of them oversee Rosemary's mercy killing of the Scypith. As Sage weeps, the High Guardian Spice hug her.

In Episode 12, Mandrake shapeshifts into Lavender and tries to get information out of Rose about the whereabouts of herself and her friends. Though she instructs Rose not to tell anyone else of her presence, the guardian, unable to contain her excitement, tells her friends and they decided to tell Caraway as well. They enter Caraway's office and start telling him about Lavender, but the real Caraway walks into the office and is confused to see a doppelganger, causing the two to have a fight. Olive and Mandrake attack the school by having the latter impersonate Professor Caraway, lead the teachers into a room, tricked them into drinking poison, and locks the door so they can't escape. They also set the school on fire and bar the students from exiting the building.

When the school's loudspeakers announce that all students are mandated to go to the forge for an assembly, Rose, Sage, Parsley, and Thyme don't listen to it, due to witnessing Caraway's impostor prior and fearing that it could be a ruse. Their fears proved correct, but the four manage to fight off Olive and Mandrake, meanwhile, Amaryllis and Snapdragon try to rescue the remaining students. In the end, Olive betrays Mandrake and stabs him. Hours later the fire is put out and the teachers are cured, but Olive is seen being arrested.

At the end of the episode, it is revealed that Lavender is alive and has been working for the triumvirate. She berates Mandrake for failing to kill the students of High Guardian Academy. He begs her to have mercy on him but she refuses, and kills him.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkjxw4BqVwc
2. ↑ https://youtu.be/ZRJvbMR84Ik