Excuse me, I know it’s been a while since fantasy high junior year, but I was wondering if you had any thoughts or head cannons on Adaine and OisĂn as academic rivals in senior year?
OH I HAVE LOTS OF THOUGHTS ABOUT THEM the lack of content has not stopped my brainrot (a curse or a blessing…. who can tell) but senior high inkblade thoughts coming right up
Nothing beats forced proximity. Wizard classes are notorious for giving out group tasks to mitigate the stereotype of wizard shut-ins
General student population has not taken kindly to TRG’s return… and they’re still pretty much approached with caution
Not TBK though. they dont gaf bout these kids
So if she happens to be paired/grouped with Oisin Hakinvar for a lot of the projects, she just learns to work with him in relative peace.
“Peace” being doing most of the work herself because duh. Who else can do anything better than she does?
But Adaine’s idea of “peace” hurts Oisin’s draconian sense of pride.
The second time it happens, Oisin finally gets the sense to tell her to knock out of it and include him in the work.
“Why? You’re already getting a free pass because of me. Just say your thanks and take it.”
“This free pass is gonna bite me in the ass.”
“You think I’ll snitch?”
“I just don’t like owing you anything.”
Their argument quickly escalates until the threats of violence have reached their wizard teacher’s radar.
Which was perfect. Now Adaine can actually complain and have her partner changed without whining or sounding like she was being difficult.
“I can’t do that, Miss Abernant. Mr. Hakinvar is the only one with comparable capabilities as you that if anyone else were paired with you, it would almost be like handing them a free pass.”
There was a compliment there somewhere but Adaine cannot be bothered to dig for it. Not when she was being compared to Oisin Hakinvar of all people.
In the end, Adaine didn’t get a change of partner and was left to deal with Oisin on her own.
Surprisingly, he was not that difficult to deal with. Misgivings aside, Oisin had common sense and worked on his parts well enough that Adaine had no problem with their output.
Doesn’t mean she won’t complain though.
This rivalry was a battle of wits mostly— who could create the most efficient spell? who could cast more practically? who wrote glyphs more intricately?
Wizard classes were also deeply twined together that it was hard not so be in the same class despite having different wizarding schools.
Which also presented arguments in theory and the nature of magic as they see and interact with it in their perspective.
In short, Oisin Hakinvar was a fucking challenge.
When you’re Adaine Abernant, you’re used to being the smartest person in the room.
Sure her friends were smart in their own ways too (Riz was inquisitively smart, Gorgug practically smart, and all her other friends were brilliantly talented), but all of them mostly did not care to have the scholarly aptitude and arcane awareness to actually challenge Adaine.
And honestly? Being the smartest person in the room was kind of dull.
Oisin just had to exist and change that, and now Adaine is both challenged, uncharistically motivated, and driven to come out as the better wizard.
Being the Elven Oracle does not matter when your opponent is an annoying dragonborn who only had comparable capabilities as you do after he killed some rats—
It was infuriating, honestly insulting, and most of all untrue.
Adaine will just have to prove it to everyone when she eventually graduates top of the wizarding class.
That will happen after she tackles the mysteries surrounding her senior year first because Of Course something had to go wrong and it was up to the Bad Kids to actually do anything about it.
No, she will not be distracted by this. She can solve a mystery AND be academically competent. Who do you take her for?
Oisin will have to pry the top spot from her cold, dead hands—
in my head, theres another pov of this from oisin’s perspective but this has gotten too long and i have uni to tackle first. i hope you enjoyed this hcs because i truly have daydreamed inkblade senior year in its full glory in my head at this point.