i love the bad kids dynamic so much like theyre high schoolers and theyre best friends 😭💜
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Kristen: "Oh, I see. 'Cause I thought that teacher found you so you don't have to take any classes."
Adaine: "Right."
KIPPERLILLY/BRENNAN'S EXPRESSION!!! 😭😭✋✋
THE AWKWARD SILENCE HERE! 😭✋
Gorgug & Fig: *eating chips with Kristen's salsa hat*
Brennan: "You see that"
Kristen: *eats chips from her salsa hat*
Brennan: "she..."
Kristen: *rubs the salsa chip all over her face* 😭✋
(Brennan's laugh! 😭✋ & Ally's laugh! 😭✋)
Brennan: "She looks at you and says,"
Kipperlilly: "It's nice to be able to focus. How are things going with your goddess?"
Kristen: *scoffs* "It's been a lot better. Did you hear? She passed."
The awesome caption team: (all laughing)
(LOU HIDING HIS FACE! + THE CONCERN ON ZAC'S FACE! 😭✋ I CAN'T! 😭✋)
Ally: "I actually meant that seriously."
Brennan: "Yeah."
Ally: "Yeah."
Kristen to Riz: "Is this going well?"
Riz: *shakes his head* "We're gonna head out."
Kristen: "We are gonna head out. I can't move too fast."
Riz: "Good contest."
Ally: "I'm trying to run, but I'm-"
Brennan: "As you walk away, it's like five seconds later, and you see that Kipperlilly now let's you get a little bit away so she can say,"
Kipperlilly: "Your goddess passed?" *echoing* "How can you cast spells?"
Brennan: "And the whole campus hears it."
Riz: "Passed the test."
Kristen: "Passed the test...to give me extra spells."
Ally: "And then I try to Spider-Man web." *laughs*
Murph: "Can I prestidigitation?"
The awesome caption team: (all laughing)
Emily: "I also prestidigitation."
Lou: "I'm gonna cast Pyrotechnics. And I'm just gonna shoot off a 💩 ton of fireworks."
Brennan: "I'm gonna say right now that all of you do whatever you need to do. I'm gonna say the difficulty of covering that is a 40. And you may add all of your checks together."
Murph: "You in a salsa hat."
Siobhan: "I'm gonna cast Nondetection on Kristen so nobody can tell that it's not coming from her."
Lou: "Pyrotechnics, just" *waves his hand in the air*
Emily: "I'm casting-"
Murph: "Prestidigitation."
Ally: "But do we have any Bardics going around that we can try to..."
Emily: "You don't want mine."
Ally: "Okay."
Emily: "I'm gonna cast Fear because it creates an image and I'm just gonna create an image of a huge nefarious spiderweb."
Ally: *spiderweb-shooter noise*
Brennan: "So what everyone sees is Kristen shoots spiderweb that also produces a elephant-sized spider that begins to run amuck on the campus as Kristen ejects from a Jump spell straight over the school into another field."
The awesome caption team: (all laughing)
Lou: "Through fireworks."
Brennan: "Through fireworks."
Lou: "Through fireworks."
Brennan: "Everyone starts screaming."
Ally: "Passed the test to gimme extra spells!"
The Bad Kids chanting: "Kristen! Kristen! Kristen! Kristen!"
Adaine: "Wow, I'm voting for her for sure."
Riz: "You've seen the shrimp jump, and now have you seen the salsa jump?"
Brennan: *laughing*
Adaine: "I'm so wet, it's burning my face."
Brennan: "Food trucks peel out from the ****ing giant spider."
Gorgug: "Get outta here, losers."
The awesome caption team: (all laughing)
Brennan: "And with that, what better not to engage in our very first downtime."
Gorgug: "Phew!" *wipes forehead*
Riz: *laughs*
Fabian: "We gotta get it together." *laughs*
Kristen: "Yeah, I'm so sorry."
Riz: "Kipperlilly knows that your other god died but didn't know that this one just died."
Kristen: "*** **** it!"
Fig: "Well, I actually liked that you played it honest, though. 'Cause she's telling us lies and you just told the truth."
Kristen: "That's true, but-"
Fig: "Well, until you didn't."
Kristen: "Until I lied big time. But you guys really covered it up. Okay?"
Fabian: "Passed the test."
Gorgug: "Hey, do we need to lock it in?"
Fabian: "Yeah, we lock it in."
Kristen: *takes off her hat* "You guys, I'm really sorry."
Riz: "Let's all never talk to Kipperlilly ever again."
Fabian: "Throw this hat away."
Ally: "Can I do an insight check on when I confronted her about the teacher finding her and her not finding the teacher?"
Brennan: "Yeah. Yeah."
Ally: "Did she give me any- Like, did I ice through one little barrier?"
Brennan: "Give me an insight check."
Ally: "Okay."
Ally gets a 14 on the insight check.
Brennan: "Once again, she didn't say anything in response to it, which feels like a confirmation of it to you, but you didn't see it rattle her. You didn't see anything... Like, in other words, on a 14 you can't get any insight into it. But fundamentally, I think maybe Kristen would feel on some level that if you were to say, 'Hey, that was a ******** technicality,' she'd almost be more proud. Do you know what I mean? Like, literally if someone were like, 'Hey, the spirit of that rule is you're supposed to find the Rogue teacher, not have the Rogue teacher find you. She would be like, 'A success against the spirit of the rule is actually more enticing to me.'"
Ally: "She thinks she gamed it and that's actually more impressive."
Brennan: "Yes, precisely."
Ally: "Okay, got it. *** ******."
Siobhan: "I wonder if the Rogue teacher found her to say, 'Hey, grinding is not the way to do this and you actually have to study and you're in trouble.'"
Ally: "Or she like put herself in danger and that's why that person died. The Rogue teacher had to step in and-"
“I don’t know if I’m artist, I’m just a really good friend” said in a DnD game, the most collaborative of art forms, the place you tell stories with your friends 😭 Fig baby you can be both, you are both. Fig/Emily has every right to explore different classes and maybe decide to move away from bard but I do hope Fig realizes that she has created a false dichotomy. Being an artist isn’t selfish. Creating art for someone can be such an act of love.
Relatedly I really missed Ayda this episode. I think her clear eyed-ness really helps Fig see herself. Fig really could have used her support in trying to figure out what she wants.
There’s something so painful about the canon aroace character being the only one to be able to take stress for his friends. When you’re aro/ace and you’re not gonna have a romantic relationship your friends are so important to you, and you’ll take on stress for them in the way that some people would with a romantic partner. That’s how it feels for me anyway.
Nothing as good as Brennan’s excitement when someone nails his mystery. Emily looked so proud when Murph cracked it. And Murph was loving Emily’s class confusion so much. I love how they support each other at the table.
I felt such relief that Kristen was able to salvage a little bit of her connection with Cassandra. I loved that doubt has meant escape from oppressive systems of thought for her.
I guess I’m thinking a lot about the relationships in this episode, huh? Everyone rolled for academics and extracurriculares and even the mystery. But no one really rolled for relationships when it came to the bad kids themselves (Fabian and Ivy/Mazy does not count). I think my biggest fear is that the stress tokens are going to result in fractures within the group, that their friendship isn’t going to withstand academic exhaustion and dead gods and identity crises. That’s part of the arc, I’m sure, but it’s a part I really want to be resolved well.
On a silly note the fraction of a second where I could see Brennan’s magic wheel of improv scrolling behind his eyes before he landed on “lick me” for Baby? Pure gold.
Youre kidding me. Porter is a multiclass teacher and he wont let one of his students multiclass your fucking kidding me he called gorgug a c+ student while hes taking freshman-junior artificer classes i hate his guts so much my fucking goodness maybe gorgug wouldnt be a c+ student if he wasnt taking on a 400% workload you bitch i hate himmmmmm
kristen in her everywoman outfit has her hair in a low ponytail so now I’m convinced cabbagetree kettlechips was pissed because ponytails are her thing
that’s why there were shrimp burritos at school on monday
my favorite moments of episode 7 of fantasy high junior year!!!:
all of the assembly shenanigans in front of brennan’s anti-shenanigan man
grix drug testing everyone and then chasing down and netting students who fail (i love you max durden)
salsa hat (all i could think about was despicable me 2)
"i thought that teacher found you so you don't have to take any classes" silence *gorgug dips*
all of the bad kids immediately leaping to cover kristen’s mistake and accidentally ruining Catflower Dogtree’s food truck campaign
“do we have any bardics going around?” “you don’t want mine”
adaine works at basrars with a recommendation from her sister (and has to bully old wizards who harass her for prophecies)
fabian making his house an indie coffee shop lofi beats to study hall for everyone (even… freshman) so he isn’t alone in his house
GORGUG GETS SPECIAL SECRET NAT 20 RULES AND THEN ROLLS TWO IN A ROW
kristen working really hard for cassandra just makes my heart so happy
"detective baby!" "the ball has a new partner' "or archrival"
night classes being good for fig (adhd)
riz being immune to the downtime mechanic and still taking stress tokens for his friends
adaine becoming a school supplies dealer
fig as a paladin for cassandra???
fig and porter’s relationship has been my one of my favorite bits since freshman year and everything about them this episode was so fucking good and funny ("i can't even rage" "yes you can" "you're fucking right i can")
choke on grapes, bitch and fig’s hatred of porter literally saved her from expulsion
“you’ve never told anybody to choke on anything!!!”
gorgug/zac’s frustration with porter being fig’s multiclass advisor as well (“you’ve gotta be fucking kidding me”)
fabian HAS to take a call from his bank
“you missed your shot, playboy” (i can fix her)
dead wife montage dreams of wanda childa
kristen and riz figuring out all the lucy/god shenanigans
Henry: "I just wanna say, Gorgug, I am blown away by how much you are applying yourself and you should be so proud. You have not been set up for success, frankly, in the bureaucracy of this school. And it's really incredible. You have a gift for this. And I know that you're trying to figure out- There are parts of what you're pursuing that kind of don't click, but I just want you to know that I've never seen someone work as hard as you are working and NOT figure it out."
Gorgug: "Wow. Thank you. Yeah, I feel like, I don't know, I feel like I'm just learning a lot and you know, good class, right?"
Brennan: "You see that Unit, one of your classmates goes"
i’m trying to catch up with as much dimension 20 as i can before fantasy high junior year, i’m currently on a starstruck odyssey, and can i just say: there is truly no greater example of ally beardsley’s dnd progress than the parallel of ally as kristen applebees willingly taking 36 points of damage, bringing kristen down to 3 hit points as kristen plummets multiple stories due to a failed attempt to use a ribbon dance as a way to fly down 10 stories, and ally as margaret encino willingly taking 11 points of damage, bringing margaret down to 3 hit points so margaret can fall 30 feet from a camera nest, walk up to a giant corn guy, and say “you suck” as all the intrepid heroes look on assuming this to be usual beardsley tomfoolery, only for margaret to walk away & trigger an attack of opportunity which gives murph as barry a chance to push this guy off a ledge & possibly win them the entire encounter & over 1 million credits. INSANE. ally beardsley i’m obsessed with your mind