#fantasy high speculation

[feelingtheaster99]

Oh my gosh Beardsley that was SO SMART to figure out the people whose blood crystallizes are the people who TURN DOWN being brought back to worship Ankarna god DAMN

#that’s so interesting that buddy agreed to that so quickly #like the man was FULL helio #then got murdered and was like FUCK THAT I’mma rep this nameless rage god #do you think he knew that was gonna happen #I’m gonna say no and he was so mad at Kipperlilly for murdering him that he agreed #which is maybe what she wanted to happen although as a long term plan that seems… poor to say the least #ankarna #d20 ankarna #buddy dawn #kipperlilly copperkettle #kipperlilly clerickiller #dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #fhjy speculation #fantasy high spoilers #fantasy high speculation #fhjy ep 16 #untapped rage #untapped rage spoilers #live reaction #ally beardsley #kristen applebees #lotta SMART MOVES from Kristen applesbees in the last two Les

[applebees4prez]

it doesn’t seem like the ratgrinders are very good friends. none of them were there to support ruben during the show and it doesn’t seem like they hang out at school. especially considering how much part the bad kids have in kristen’s campaign in comparison to the ratgrinders in kipperlilly’s. i think they’re just a bunch of powerful kids who got stuck together and are making the most of it but probably hate each other. that’s my theory at least.

#i can’t imagine them being friends #the ratgrinders #ratgrinders #dimension 20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #fhjy speculation #d20

[paladinfigueroth]

buddy dawn being the only cleric to accept corrupted ankarna is such a telling thing. we know helio's worship can already veer into rage and conquest so he was already primed to accept it all as necessary.

but also helio just let him die. buddy was so sure that "helio wouldn't have let that happen" and then helio did. and maybe buddy met him in heaven, saw that he's just a frat bro.

and then ankarna is offering him a chance to come back. take a step to the left and worship and different but similar god. his faith is shattered already. it was too easy for him to say yes. he's a kid, after all.

#dimension 20 #d20 #d20 fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #buddy dawn #fantasy high #fhjy spoilers #fhjy speculation #fhjy #d20 fhjy

[thecryptidzenith]

Alright. So this episode was great, but in terms of themes & setting the stage for the rest of the story, this line really stands out:

"You feel something. You look, the Night Yorb twinkling. You've spent your whole summer chasing this. You know all the things you've missed. Your whole summer vacation, all of your friends. Some of you had birthdays on the road this adventure, and yeah, there's lots of adventure, but all of you feel a tiredness in your bones knowing that the reward for saving the world yet again will be going back to school and having another year of working just this hard forever."

This monologue from Brennan is the most thematically/foreshadowy thing we get in the episode, and it does set quite the stage. This is a story about exhaustion and the price of adventure. It's a story about what the hells these six people are going to do with the rest of their lives.

Fig releases something at the end of the episode. Some piece of magic that will certainly mean something later. This is how it's described:

"You've been holding onto a piece of magic for a long time... If you take me, you know what you would save. And you smell something sour and curdled."

"There is a flash of light, a kind of lemony yellow creamy light that flashes out over the hangvan."

Pay attention to that word choice. The magic is "sour" and "curdled" and "lemony yellow creamy." Is it reminiscent of anything?

Gilear's connection with yogurt is established pretty early on in Fantasy High, and yogurt in general serves as a symbol for everything that Gilear is. A sad, pathetic adult and A Normal Guy. Brennan is very insistent when reading out Gilear's stats for the first time that he's just a guy! Some people have to be normal!

But our Bad Kids aren't normal. That's the whole point of them. They've saved the world. Falling to Gilear's level is terrifying. It's literally Fabian's nightmare.

From that part of Pirate Brawl:

"You hear a voice behind you" [Gilear!Fabian] "say: 'It's all going to be all right... I know it seems very far off, but there is a way for you to be happy.'"

And of course, the yogurt, the symbol of mediocrity, is here too. "The yogurt curdles in your stomach." Curdles. The same word used to describe the magic coming out of Fig. The yogurt that Fig gives to Fabian while he's having his breakdown in Leviathan is lemon flavored too.

Of course the primary conflict seen in the trailer is about difficulty graduating. That's a normal problem. That's a normal concern for normal people.

The fear of mediocrity can be strong. Especially for people as exceptional as the Bad Kids. But the fear that you'd be happier taking the easier path, that the road less traveled isn't inherently better, that your hardship is for nothing... that's even worse.

The reasonable thing for Fig to be releasing would be the red growth seen on the minis in the trailer. But no. She releases something lemony and creamy and sour and curdled.

#fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #d20 #dimension 20 #figueroth faeth #no i cant tell if im joking here either #meta #speculation

[astrolamia]

I don't think Kipperlilly has a crush on Riz. I think she has had a one sided rivalry this whole time and has probably been doing as well as Riz has in school but is pissed that Riz has so much more accolades than her as a rogue. Bet she's seething that Riz found the rogue teacher the way she was designed to be found using proper rogue tactics.

#fantasy high #dimension 20 #fantasy high junior year #fantasy high spoilers #riz gukgak #kipperlilly copperkettle #theory #speculating

[embraceweird]

I made a map of the Bad Kid Parents polycule

I may have taken some creative liberties

#add your personal favs #I NEED more Sklonda Sandra Lynn and Lydia content #honorable bad kid mention cathilda ceili but she's out doing her own thing #fyjy #fhjy speculation #fantasy high #d20 #dimension 20 #fantasy high junior year #sklonda gukgak #pok gukgak #hallariel seacaster #bill seacaster #jawbone o'shaughnessey #digby thistlespring #wilma thistlespring #gorbag #roz #sandra lynn faeth #gilear faeth #gorthalax the insatiable #lydia barkrock #cathilda ceili

[purrassicjet]

What if Kipperlily didn't actually find the rogue teacher, but she lied about it using Devil's Honey? She logged finding her so early, so maybe she just didn't. Maybe she was testing the power of Devil's Honey. One last big test before she started her plan (whatever that is)

#dimension 20 #fantasy high #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #kipperlilly copperkettle #fhjy speculation

[thisisnotthenerd]

little bit of a fucked up idea came to mind

what if kristen and gorgug dying on the first day sent the bad kids into pass/fail unknowingly for that year, and they got back into normal grades for sophomore year because they defeated kalvaxus, resurrected aguefort, and raised a deity. also, it contextualizes the nightmare king quest being 60% of their grade, if they’re transitioning from pass/fail to full grades as a party.

the idea here is that the rat grinders are trying to replicate it and get away with it, which is why they’re shady about the lost lucy frostblade and asking about the site of yes!’s birth. while also sabotaging the bad kids.

#dimension 20 #dimension 20 spoilers #dimension 20 speculation #the bad kids #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #the rat grinders #fantasy high #fantasy high sophomore year #fantasy high junior year #musings on the solisian school district

[morphimus]

#jmc #Morphimus' Art #elf #human #pregnancy #this came to me in a dream #tree #art #fetus #pregnant #fantasy #worldbuilding #speculative biology #comic #symbiosis #these aren't specific characters this isn't a fandom thing it's just generic fantasy #high note post

[powersandplanetaries]

Thinking about Kristen Applebees, fleeing a hostile home for people who fully accept her but still feeling guilty about not being there to "shield" her younger brothers...

Thinking about Penny Luckstone, with 18 siblings who are all definitely loved but she's still helping her parents run the house and struggling between duty to a family she loves fiercely and pursuing her own dreams...

Thinking about Aelwynn Abernant redirecting her parents' scorn for Adaine, again and again, not always kindly but eventually, finally standing up to her parents when it became clear what they were willing to do to her little sister. "But Father, Adaine's just a baby..."

Idk guys having some real normal thoughts about the role of eldest daughters in Fantasy High.

#All the other bad kids are only children and we didnt really talk much about kristen's brothers in the first two seasons #So the PARALLELS this season are. well. unparralleled #Im not going to speculate on family lives of the cast members because theyre actors playing a role and their personal histories are private #but wow #parentification #parental abuse #d20 fantasy high #fhjy spoilers #d20 fhjy #kristen applebees #penny luckstone #aelwyn abernant #adaine abernant

[livingathousandlifetimes]

Am I the only one ripping my hair out in concern that Kipperlily Copperkettle has been stealthing to eavesdrop on the bad kids and has just been rolling insanely well due to having something like expertise in stealth like Mary Ann has in athletics because the bad kids have just been checking for invisibility but (correct me if I'm wrong) you don't have to be invisible to stealth well and seeing invisibility doesn't reveal hiding creatures unless they're explicitly invisible right?? I'm so worried that she's just been casually grabbing so much data on the bad kids by rolling higher than everyone's passive perceptions

#fhjy #dimension 20 #fantasy high junior year #brennan lee mulligan #brian murphy #ally beardsley #lou wilson #siobhan thompson #zac oyama #emily axford #riz gukgak #kristen applebees #fabian seacaster #adaine abernant #gorgug thistlespring #fig faeth #fhjy spoilers #fhjy speculation

[feelingtheaster99]

Uh-oh. i do not like the sound of rage-resurrected Buddy Dawn

#rut-ro #kind of crazy to think of them all having been resurrected to worship this god though #cause if that’s the case why didn’t they resurrect Lucy? #dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high #fantasy high spoilers #fantasy high speculation #fhjy #fhjy speculation #fhjy spoilers #fhjy ep 16 #untapped rage spoilers #untapped rage #live reaction #buddy dawn #ankarna #the rat grinders #the ratgrinders

[mambadou]

Crack theory time

Tysm to u/No-One-7128 on the D20 subreddit for this beautiful idea. You deserve full credit.

CHUNGLEDOWN BIM HAS BEEN HIDING IN THE BARRELS FOR A WHOLE YEAR, JUST TO GET FABIAN. We know Brennan is a master of payoff, so this is plausible, at least somewhat

I guess you could say he's been here the whole time

#chungledown bim #fabian aramais seacaster #dimension 20 spoilers #dimension 20 #fantasy high spoilers #fantasy high junior year spoilers #fantasy high junior year #d20 speculation

[paladinfigueroth]

fig helps resurrects ankarna, changes conquest into justice through her sheer force of will, and finds herself in that. she'll see the worst parts of herself reflected in ankarna and she'll say no, tell her it doesn't have to be this way, and things will change.

buddy dawn is a lamb lead to the slaughter. throat slit by his friend and suffocating in a paradise that doesn't feel right. he'll come back, of course he will, but his skin will feel too tight, like something's wrong. and somewhere along the way he'll turn from helio's conquest and burning sun to ankarna's justice and gentle dawn.

#figeroth faeth #buddy dawn #d20 #dimension 20 fantasy high #dimension 20 #fantasy high junior year #d20 fantasy high #dimension 20 fhjy #fhjy spoilers #fhjy speculation #fantasy high

[sunflowerthiefsunny]

Ok, so deductions so far: "It's the only name I can say."

-Kalina is trying to push the bad kids towards information from someone she entered into a spy's tongue curse with.

-The person is in some way connected to Ragh.

-Kalina can say Lydia's name, so the bad kids' initial idea that Kalina was talking about Lydia is wrong.

So, there are a few options for people who are Ragh adjacent:

Ragh is a barbarian, Porter was his teacher; Fig could finally be right about her Porter suspicion.

Ragh saw Jace and Arianwen at the school in freshman year and mentioned it to the bad kids, Jace's inability to become interim principal is really funny so I think he's the more comical choice, but Arianwen going for another power grab (and revenge) by getting the favor of a dead God is possible.

Uh, that racist elf from spring break Ragh hooked up with, probably not a real option, but I'm running out of ideas.

#op #dimension 20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fhjy spoilers #fhjy #dimension20 fantasy high #d20 #dimension 20 fantasy high spoilers #dimension 20 fantasy high #d20 fantasy high #fantasy high spoilers #speculation #gotta be honest here #this seasons mystery is stumping me more than usual #i cant connect any of the pieces

[gingermarshmallow]

OK, ok, ok. So I've been referencing this screencap of the Aguefort staff roster taken from Freshman year episode Family in Flames when I introduce various staff members in the fanfics I'm writing (a couple have not been published yet), and in particular I noticed that the Artificer teacher and the Warlock teacher are not the same, but pretty much all the other staff that Brennan references are.

Over the last week on Tumblr I came across someone posting that Porter, as a Paladin advisor, seemed to be pushing Fig to change her diety away from Cassandra, suggesting that he wants her to switch to this mystery god. Well, Zara was there, too, when that conversation happened. Along with getting Aguefort out of the way and putting Grix in charge (Henry Hopclap had a motherboard), were perhaps the original Warlock and Artificer teachers removed from the picture so these new players could take over?

I wonder this because while yes, some throwaway jokes (like Adaine's scooter) are easily forgotten, Brennan /has/ the names of all the staff. Lucinda and Yolanda and Tiberia were all on that Freshman year roster. I don't think Brennan would forget that they already have teachers for those positions and come up with new teachers. (Terpsichore isn't on that list, either, but I think Freshman year they didn't consider splitting the Bard instructors between music and dance. Please don't make Terpsichore evil! T^T)

So maybe Porter is working with Zara and Henry? Or maybe Zara pushed Porter to make that suggestion to Fig? But I've never trusted Henry or Zara because they were not on that staff roster.

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