#AYDA IS GONE?????

[autistic-damian-wayne-truther]

when fhjy first got announced i made a note of things i was excited to see…..

I TAKE IT BACK I TAKE IT BACK NONONONONO GIVE ME ZELGUG BACK

#im actually sick #ZELDAS DAD BRINGING HIS THINGS BACK???? #RAGH SAYING TRACKER ASKED IF SHE COULD REACH OUT???? #AYDA IS GONE????? #im having a really hard time guys #d20 fhjy #dimension 20 fhjy #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #the bad kids

[rrat-king]

brennan really said fuck yall no more npcs

#gilear! gone #ayda! gone #aelwyn! gone #he really said sophomore year happened and never. ever again #d20 #fantasy high #fhjy #dimension 20

[sbiderverse]

something something an archdevil has full immunity to fire something something (it's the thought that counts 😌)

first time making a lil comic and making an animation!! had to do it for them

#figayda #dimension 20 #fantasy high #fantasy high sophomore year #d20 fantasy high #d20 fanart #figueroth faeth #fig faeth #ayda aguefort #yeah this may be 40+ frames i may have gone overboard what about it #the trouble i had to go thru when i remembered tumblr is not gif size friendly #54mb size gif whomst #had to screen record it and convert it to a gif?? to have the least loss of quality?? #yes i have watched good omens recently why do u ask #my art

[rollaroundincompliments]

Brennan said no beloved NPCs for you

#dimension 20 #fantasy high #ayda? #gone #aelwyn? gone #tracker? gone #zelda? gone #gilear? gone #arthur aguefort? gone #hilareal? gone #kathilda? #also gone apparently???? #at least our buddy ragh and 2/3 of figs parents are here #gorthalax is probably in a gem or something idk #i cant believe they just left squeem in the desert #the most beloved of all fantasy high npcs

[sunblazes]

hi! can you post your figayda piece where its an adventure time redraw, I'm pretty sure? I'm not sure why but I cant find it, and Ive been thinking about it.

I CANTFIND IT EITHER ?? HERE IT IS THOYGH I think I modified it from the original one I posted but alas..

#mara art #im going.to Tag it anyway im upset it’s gone #fantasy high #dimension 20 #fig faeth #ayda aguefort #figayda

[bisummers]

3rd episode was so funny and so good i am so hyped

#dimension 20 #fantasy high #im still said ayda is gone but it was great

[dyketrickfoot]

your episode just fucking bit me

#tracker ayda gilear hallariel aguefort zelda aelwyn gone... everyone is sad and broke and breaking up what even matters.........

[its-captain-sir]

GORGUG AND ZELDA ARE BROKEN UP???? THIS IS SO SAD WHAT

#first kristen and tracker's stuff and now this 😭😭 #AND AYDA'S GONE THE WHOLE YEAR TOO 💔💔 #love is LOSING for this crew #fhjy spoilers

[valiantlyannoyingbread]

guys, hear me out: the bad kids are in the wrong timeline

in theory, the seven and junior year should be happening at the same time. we see gilear and arthur aguefort on the first day of school in the seven, but in junior year, they're suddenly gone. arthur said that time was going to be weird this year because he's traveling with ayda, so maybe something gets messed up and the bad kids end up in a fucked up timeline? and then we have the gilear devil thing with fig, and gilear suddenly having the confidence to propose to hallariel and he starts having good luck? plus there's the stuff happening with the winter solstice, aka the shortest day of the year (in the Northern Hemisphere at least; idk if spyre is flat or on a globe), which also seems to have a magical time significance?

idk i guess we'll find out

#dimension 20 #d20 #d20 spoilers #dimension 20 spoilers #fantasy high #d20 fantasy high #d20 fhjy #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #dimension 20 fhjy #dimension 20 fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fantasy high spoilers #squeem #the seven #d20 the seven #dimension20 #bad kids

[burntmyleg]

*MAJOR SPOILERS FOR EPISODE 2*

OOH THE BAD KIDS ARE GOING THRU IT. TRACKERBEES BREAKUP. FIG AND KRISTEN CLOSE TO BEING EXPELLED. RIZ AND ADAINE FINANCIAL STRUGGLES. FABIAN ALL ALONE IN SEACASTER MANOR. AYDA IS GONE FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR. FIG HAS TO WRITE AN ENTIRE ASS ABLUM. HANGVAN NEEDING INTENSE RENOVATION AFTER BEING DEALT SO MIUCH DAMAGE. AELWYN AND ADAINE JUST START TO HEAL THEIR RELATIONSHIP AND THEN AELWYN MOVES OUT. GORGUG AND ZELDA BREAKUP. THE PURE FUCKING BURNOUT EVERYONE IS FACING.

NOT TO MENTION FIG AND GILEAR SWITCHING LUCK (i have theories brewing about this btw).

WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK BABY.

#dimension 20 #fantasy high #fhjy #riz gukgak #kristen applebees #adaine abernant #fig faeth #gorgug thistlespring #fabian seacaster #fantasy high junior year spoilers #fantasy high junior year

[smolidotti]

I don’t want just them gone from reality, I want the space they occupied in reality to be gone as well.

-Ayda Aguefort

#smolidotti #dimension 20 fantasy high #dimension 20 #d20 fhsy #d20 fantasy high #d20 #ayda aguefort #dimension 20 fanart #figayda #fantasy high season 2 #fhjr #fhsy #fantasy high junior year #ayda fantasy high #d20 fanart

[mulligans-tavern]

https://www.tumblr.com/doomed-to-wanda/747617028751474688?source=share

Inspiration above

TW death, grief

---

Five Funerals

They lose Fig first.

Comes with the territory when you're an archdevil - somebody's always looking to take your spot. "Don't worry about it," she says, opening a Planeshift to the recording studio. "It's just the usual rebellious fiends. Icythorz and Bolhondrus and the rest. I'll be back before you know it." She looks resplendent in black leather, the Unfaithable Bass slung across her back, riding the fiery Daymare surrounded in jagged red shards.

Adaine knows before everyone else, but can't believe the vision to be true until she learns that Ayda is gone, too. She scratched every memory of Fig out of her notes before starting over - it was too much pain to bear. The five of them know how it feels.

---5---

It's a few years before they take another hit. Another mission to the Mountains of Chaos, another world-ending calamity to be stopped because Who Else Is Going To Save The World? A small misstep, a miscalculation (six where there should be five, they're only five now) and suddenly the routine becomes deadly.

Riz takes the fall. "It's easier this way," he says, in his last moments. "I'll still see you." And he does. Agent Gukgak Jr., now, with some extra responsibility. But he still comes by. Sometimes. Every so often. Often enough.

---4---

Kristen is next. Only one thing could bring down the most gifted cleric of the age - sacrificing herself for her friends. Third time's the charm when it comes to death, it turns out.

Gorgug is the most hopeful that she'll come back, that she'll find a way again, like in the Nightmare Forest. But Adaine knows this is the end. Even Arthur Aguefort agrees. He quotes Alanis Morissette at her funeral. The followers of Cassandra pull out all the stops.

Adaine, Fabian, and Gorgug have their own ceremony at Ashgrove, next to the Gukgak family plot. It's quiet. Bucky cries into Ragh's shoulder. Aelwyn, Jawbone, and Gertie collect flowers. Tracker stays for a few minutes to say goodbye.

---3---

They quit adventuring after Kristen's funeral. And they don't lose anyone else for a long time. Riz still visits, every few years. They talk about the good old days, how silly it was that Baron was so terrifying when at the end of the day it was an honest conversation that finally did him in. There's rumours that Kristen has ascended to goddesshood herself - Adaine doesn't buy it. She's not the type to be revered.

They come out of retirement for the only reason they would - to bring back one of their own. They finally found Fig's soul, trapped in a ruby in the darkest levels of the Abyss. They can't ask anyone to come with them - it's too dangerous, it's too personal. It's missions like this that kill people.

And when it's all over, when Adaine carries Fabian's burnt, unconscious body back to Morded Manor, they have another funeral to plan.

Gorbag and Roz have already passed, and Wilma and Digby are too old to make preparations, so it falls to Jawbone to organize it. He knows they don't want a lot of fanfare. It's at Ashgrove again, just Adaine and Fabian and the Thistlesprings, and Aelwyn and Ragh. Sandra-Lynn is back in Solace - she sends Adaine a heartfelt text saying she appreciates the invitation, but she can't bring herself to come.

Riz doesn't show for the ceremony - he's desperately scouring the heavenly realms, trying to make sure Gorgug ended up somewhere he wasn't afraid of. Orcish heaven doesn't have him, he reports, and neither does Cassandra.

If he's trapped in the Abyss with Fig, at least they have each other.

---2---

Adaine sees Fabian's death the night of Gorgug's funeral. She needs to prepare, she tells herself. She knows it's going to be hard. She needs all the time she can get, and she needs to know which goodbye will be their last.

They grow old together. Not romantically, although some speculate. Fabian becomes a multiclass advisor at the Aguefort Adventuring Academy. Adaine works in Bastion City as an archivist, with occasional trips to Fallinel for Oracle services. They go for vacations sometimes, but never for too long. The memories find them no matter where they go. Sometimes Adaine wishes she could be Ayda, scrape off the old wounds and start fresh. Arthur talks about her sometimes. She's never had the same spark as that one lifetime, he says.

Adaine watches the wrinkles grow beside Fabian's eye, watches his hair turn grey, watches the Future of Dance become its Mentor. He trades his Battlesheet for a cane-sword, then a regular cane. He takes to wearing the Gregorian necktie to classes, no matter how much it clashes with his outfit. They both wonder how many of their own teachers lost party members.

Adaine holds Fabian's wrinkled hand on his deathbed, in his old room at Seacaster Manor. He grins, flashes the same perfect teeth as on the first day of Freshman Year. "Bet you didn't see this one coming, did you?"

"I did," she whispers, tears streaming down her young elven face. "I knew it would end like this. But I always hoped it would last forever."

They're the last words he hears.

It's not the first funeral Adaine organizes. All the Bad Kids held one for Buddy Dawn, back in high school. She and Fabian worked together on the services for Jawbone, Ragh, and Chungledown Bim - who finally caught up to Fabian in both of their old ages. It is the first funeral she has to organize alone.

Some of Fabian's students attend. Arthur Aguefort gives a short speech, and a few students hear the story of Kalvaxus' return for the first time. Adaine sits with Aelwyn in the front row, a few seats down from Hallariel. Gilear records the service to show Telemaine later. Riz is somewhere deep undercover - he maybe hasn't even heard yet.

She always knew she'd be the last. She didn't expect it to hurt so much.

---1---

Adaine stumbles through a few years before she finds herself again. They pass so fast without a mortal lifespan to hold up against them. She drifts between Fallinel and Bastion City for the most part, with occasional return trips to Elmville. Aelwyn always has a place for her to stay. Seacaster Manor was turned into a dormitory for Aguefort students who needed a place to study, or sleep, or stay away from home for a while. Tracker converted Morded Manor into a temple/bed-and-breakfast for worshipers of Galicaea. Strongtower Luxury Apartments was demolished soon after Fabian started teaching at Aguefort. It seems like everything is different now.

Adaine visits Leviathan once, on a whim. The Compass Points hasn't changed a bit. On a chance meeting in the stacks, Ayda looks at her with a spark of familiarity.

"Adaine Abernant?"

"Yes... you remember me?"

Ayda shakes her head. "There are mentions of you in my journals. I leave journals for when I regenerate-"

"I know. I remember."

Ayda looks intrigued. "I wrote that you were a great wizard, and a good friend. I hear from other sources that you are the Elven Oracle. Perhaps you can shed some light on why the pages around yours are torn to shreds or redacted to the point of unreadability?"

Adaine places a gentle hand on Ayda's shoulder. "I don't know if you'd want that. You lost someone you cared about, so much that you thought it was better to forget her than to bear the pain of losing her."

Ayda considers this. "Is it better to forget?" she asks. "Would you give up the memories of those you lost, in order to keep a logical mind?"

"No. Not for anything."

"Then we should talk."

Adaine smiles. "I'd like that."

---2---

*end

Thanks for reading all the way through! I wrote most of this at 2am and the conclusion the next morning. Please take a reblog to share with your friends or drop a like to let me know you enjoyed - or hated - the story!

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[stone-stars]

i'm thinking abt fig and specifically "the second you see her you're gonna feel like yourself again. i get it, your girlfriend's out of town, it sucks"

it's like. fig's fear in the nightmare forest, that everyone loves the illusion of her and not the real her, that no one wants to hear a bass player solo. the one person in the world she has irrefutable proof that that's not true for, who she saw sees the real her with her own eyes, is ayda. ayda, who is gone and traveling across time.

and in the meantime, fig doubles down on helping her friends. she focuses on helping kristen and cassandra, helping riz with the mystery, solving things for the bad kids. she becomes a paladin because she's so devoted to her friends. that conversation she has with sandra lynn where she says she feels nauseous when asked about herself but so excited about other people. "i don't even wanna exist." sandra lynn suggests she asks the bad kids what they think of her and fig says no, she doesn't want to. it's scary to her.

and it's just... fig doesn't want to think about herself and she doesn't want to try to figure out what her friends think of her either. she's so content to focus on them, and almost everything she's done this season is for her friends. in rp and also mechanically-- becoming a paladin, focusing on mystery and fucking with ruben in the downtime, even just... going to school. she's doing that for the bad kids.

and she looks at ankarna, who has been corrupted by the things other people wanted her to be. the bad kids' influence on fig is positive, but it could just have easily been not, if she had different friends. if she was dedicated to people who weren't trying to do good.

"what do you think happens when i wear off and ayda notices the real you?" "i hope she finds something that i didn't know was there."

there's one person fig knows for a fact has always seen through the illusions of her, and sees something worthy of love. and she's out of town. so she gets it. it's hard.

#fantasy high junior year spoilers #fhjy #fhjylb #hanbles #i'm not sure why i am thinking so hard abt this today #i think maybe it's the fact that to me. #fig doesn't see ankarna as like... A Deity who is above mortals #she sees someone so very much like her #if she had gone down a different path #consumed by the illusion of her-- the version who is created for others

[natjennie]

okay i am like wayyy too stupid to actually theorize but I was thinking about some things because fig mentioned her not feeling like herself because ayda was gone and it's interesting because like.

it does feel like brennan purposefully separated the couples, right? kristen and tracker were rocky at the end of sophomore year but starting the season with them and gorgug and zelda broken up and also ayda leaving feels.. important. maybe it's just thematically about how junior year really stresses relationships and it would be too overwhelming to have another set of priorities on the pile. but idk.

and then also think about ayda maybe me remember aguefort's video message and the fucking quangle.

that's gotta be something. chronomancy is always key and aguefort has literally referenced himself as having a track record of saying important shit. so maybe there's something about cassandra and ankarna and their corruptions and deaths happening in the wrong order. or shit with the rat grinders and kipperlilly having beef with riz since freshman year.

again, I am not smart enough to actually piece anything together. but I think this might be something.

#i defnintely think the quangle is gonna be something #brennan wouldnt just have aguefort drop some random lore about a chronomancy thing #and just never talk about it again #fantasy high #d20 #dimension 20 #fhjy

[howlbear]

I know it's the point of Aguefort being gone, but I'm actually offended by how little Ayda I've gotten this season give me what I'm here for BRENNAN

#ayda aguefort #dimension 20 #D20 #fig x ayda #Fantasy high #fhjy

[fangirlingpuggle]

Half asleep fantasy high time travel AU idea where bad kids are still adventuring team as adults a big bad they’ve fought manages to get away and decides to take an Arthur Aguefort approach and use chronomancy to fix their problems taking on the bad kids while they’re still kids before they start the Aguefort adventuring academy or more accurately on their first day.

So, as the bad kids are arriving, they all suddenly get attacked and are of course freaking out (Golden horde is also freaking out because this is not his plan)

However, before they can hurt any of them cur future bad kids showing up and wrecking shit all the first episode before detention bad kids seeing their badass older adult selves and then either

A.

Bad kids have to stay in past to catch bad guy and protect younger selves as this chronomancy has gone multiverse theory and they only have a one-way trip back so cant lave til bad guy is caught.

Adaine: So we’re definitely in separate time line right?

Kristen: I mean Aguefort’s exact words we’re ‘no consequences you can go apeshit’

Adaine: Awesome *Instantly starts kicking shit out of her parents after wrapping her younger self and Alewyn in a blanket passing them Boggy*

Riz totally shots Goldenhoard, while him and Kristen are yelling out ‘HEY KALINA YOU BITCH SHOW YOURSELF’ Kristen having Cassandra’s power and kinda just going and speed running whole Nightmare king thing. Also her picking up her younger self and siblings up while her goddess appears just to flip off her parents.

Fabian’s younger self not being a fan of his older self being a bard… until Fabian kicks his ass while on his way to go get his bike for this timeline.

Younger Fig being so confused by the fact older Fig is Gilear's biggest fan and Gilear also super confused and trying not to cry because his daughter clearly isn’t going to hate him forever and he was sure she would. Fig also going to younger self like ‘Hey please stop with the transforming self you don’t need to it’s all good… hey maybe check out Leviathan for no reason’ she totally teasing her younger self because I have the best girlfriend ever.

Gorgug setting his homunculus on coach daybreak and also porter also sending a van after them to run them over.

Or

B.

They need to keep younger selves safe so scoop them up and throw them in the hangvan and take them to the future with them to keep them safe.

Cue all the freshman bad kids seeing how their lives are

Adaine seeing she has a family that loves her, Jawbone giving his daughter the biggest hug emotional to see her as she was when she was younger and Alewyn just uber protective over her baby baby sister and Adaine not believing she’s so loved.

Fabian shocked to see his older self as a bard (And he may have tried to sneak in and sue the weird elven sheet his older self has used not that he will ever admit it) but also his mother is sober… and a total badass. He also

Fig seeing herself with a good relationship with all her parents (also for some reason all her and her friends love Gilear) also she has a paramour whose a fucking amazing phoenix who younger Fig keeps tripping over herself to flirt with (disguising herself as her older self) Ayda thinks this is humorous older Fig is amused but also Hey get your own paramour.

Riz meeting his older self who is a badass with tattoos and so many friends. Also he works with angels. He is totally awestruck.

Kristen being shocked by how different her older self is and having a lot of realizations about herself. Also, her new goddess is the coolest and really happy to talk things through with her (Cassandra wants to keep her in this timeline, and is trying to figure out a way to break the timelines so she can get her as her prophet in the other timeline to without all the nightmare king stuff she’s the goodness of mystery she’s sure she can do it)

Gorgug meeting his older self whose a barbarian and an artificer and super smart and has a homunculus called Chloe and is so confident and smart.

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