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julian and portia’s sibling rivalry gives me life

and then there’s mazelinka, wholly unamused, ready to whack them with her wooden spoon at a moment’s notice

Highschool AU Headcanons

Self indulgent request from Host ~✨

Asra

He takes Zodiacs and Horoscopes way too seriously.

He has a witchery club. It's just him, Muriel, and MC talking about plants.

Smuggles Faust to school in his backpack.

Julian

Drama club vice president.

Has known Lucio since Middle School after he got his arm ripped off by an escaped tiger on a school trip to the zoo. He called the ambulance.

Depressed, stressed, and really well dressed.

Bought a vape once for the clout, cried when he hit it.

Plays Tetris with Muriel on weekends.

Nadia

Valedictorian

"No, Lucio, you can't copy my homework." But also "Oh? Of course you can copy my homework, Portia."

She and Lucio are fighting for Class President and she hates it because the only reason he's running is for the position title.

Watches true crime shows with Portia and gets really serious about it but would never admit it

Portia

Blackmail gossip queen Pasha Devorak.

Once scammed Valerius into paying her 20 bucks for her not to spread nudes of him that she didn't even have.

Nadia's campaign manager.

Used to be Hall Monitor, got removed from the position for using it to eavesdrop on the teachers.

Enabler

Muriel

Orphan that's fostered by Morga. He and Lucio have a Sibling Rivalry™

Fought someone to protect Lucio once in elementary school and will never do it again because he felt really bad afterwards

Everybody keeps trying to get him to play sports but he just wants to take care of his garden.

Lucio

His mom is a professional wrestler and he knows how to fight really well because of it

Drama club president

Dog whisperer. All dogs love him. Even Inanna.

Fancy prosthetic arm he spray painted gold.

MC

Wrote a play based off of the game and got conflicted halfway through and had all of their friends (main 6) write different routes for the story to possibly go down

Asked Lucio to let them do the play for the end of the year performance. He agreed just so he could play the role of the fabulous ghost based off of him.

In every club

Most popular student that's just fed up with all of their friends shit

I came and brought some headcanons.

Since I don't like making headcanons about MCs, and the whole concept is not for me, I'm doing... a side character based on my favorite musicians instead. Who, in my opinion, fit into the Arcana world.

And I'm sure: "Blackmore's Night" is one of them (my beg pardon, I'm an old fan). Since I feel the same aesthetic and the same atmosphere, let's go.

1. This is where I feel the STRONGEST "Girl Power" vibes. What about, say, the "Nadia/MC" route? Portia can be here too (I mean, girl party in a storm on a cliff overlooking the ocean? YEAAH!).

2. I don't know why, but here I feel "Asra/MC" (suddenly!) vibes more than anything else. So, why not?

2.1. "Asra/MC" (or just Azra themselve), so-why-not-2:

So: "The Rowdy Raven". It's easy to imagine R. Blackmore and K. Night as musicians playing in the tavern. Maybe their patron arcana in the Arcana world are also "The Lovers", like Aisha and Salim. I don't think the patron arcana can choose the only person (or couple like "the Lovers" do). I guess "being chosen by the Arcana personification" is not an exclusive offer. It's rare? Well, yes. But I think it's much rarer to be exclusive. It depends, I guess.

Anyway, this is my own headcanon about side characters, which is just giving me a special ambiance as I see it. I like such non-binding vignettes, say:

1. Dancing in the "Rowdy Raven" to this song. Maybe this is a bit of an anachronism ("Lorelei" is a poem by Heinrich Heine, 1824 or even Clemens Brentano's poem "Lore Lay" on 1801) for the "Renaissance" setting of the game, but as long as there is tango (as the most obvious anachronism) in the game itself, this is allowed too.

(Imagine all those old sailors dancing under Mazelinka's leadership. She's sure to have many stories to tell about beautiful sea maidens: she was married to one of them. But with a happy ending. 🖤)

2. Oh, well, it's pretty simple. I think it was one of Julian's favorite songs. Especially for the "sentimental mood" ('cause he is a sweet sentimental boy, you know).

3. This is so obvious that I won't say any more.

I've been listening to them for over 15 years. It's kind of a "band of my youth" and maybe someone will discover "Blackmore's Night" for themselves, idk. Just say something if you want. I always appreciate little vignettes about the whole world (not the "MC with /put your LI here/…" type), but such content is rarely seen here.

Finally, my favorite:

/Lunatic Sun/