#bobby rodriguez

[rake-rattrap]

i have so many more of these to make im obsessed

[sugarcubesketches]

I like to think that karaoke is a team tradition

[hippykattrs]

Finally getting around to sharing my Fence miis with the good people of Tumblr :)

[scorp-yo]

How about a little post-meet communal nap while the coaches finish up handling business with the other coaches and refs?

[ryerum]

kings row boys 🤺 photocards pt 1

ive been interested in collecting photocards lately...

[ur-best-american-girl]

day ten: don’t make the mistake of being too predictable

sup bitches. Crisises not averted, but paused. didn’t write anything.

made some collages tho inspired by @rake-rattrap since I don’t normally make those HAH NOT SO PREDICTABLE NOWWWWW

I’m so tired here you go

Fun little details abt each one:

Bobby’s is inspired by the trans flag! I’m sure all y’all know i HC that bobby is on the he => they => she pipeline so yeah it’s also coquette/pink clean girl idk

oh Jesse. King of gifted child burn out. Added the phrase “per aspera ad astra” which means “through hardships to the stars” in Latin (I think) which gives Jesse to me. I made the main focus quotes like “you can’t help but become the sun” (true blue by boy genius) and “destruction is not what I intended for you/but this is what happens to all who follow in my wake” ( a poem from Apollo to Icarus) because I don’t think he means to be a bitch but he’s been raised in the spotlight and hurt so many times that it’s his defense mechanism and he doesn’t mean to hurt people but he’s come to accept it as the consequence of being around him and that sucks poor baby

Aiden. I put so much effort into this. I was going for siren whorecore y2k vibes I think I achieved that. I added a care bear and a teddy bear to represent Harvard paw (aka the best character) I also included a lot of road signs cuz I think he drives to clear his head. And then the song I chose was teachers pet by Melanie Martinez (awful person fire music) because LOOK AT ME AND TELL ME THIS BOY WAS NOT GROOMED AND IS NOW HYPERSEXUAL SAY IT TO MY FACE (haha projecting on characters is fun isn’t it) but seriously. He is hyper sexual he uses sex as a coping mechanism/self harm technique tell me I’m wrong

I made Dante’s mostly soccer inspired since he’s the only non fencer I did add Ronaldo since his treasure is a signed poster of Ronaldo and I think he would drink sprite idk. Whole lot of unrequited love quotes because this boy is PINING. I did add the quote, “may the calm in you win over the chaos around you” because he’s like the opposite of bobby he’s the rock in the choppy ocean like he stays calm all the time and idk we don’t know a whole lot about him so I didn’t have a whole lot to go on.

EUGENE MY BABY BOY I could not find ANY of him on Pinterest (where I make these) like y’all we gotta lock in and post some Eugene to Pinterest anyway I added some orange postage stamps from the Philippines and included the phrase “mahal Kita” which means “I love you” in tagalog i did also add every Eugene image I could find what about it. I made him orange because Jesse already had yellow and I do see Eugene as yellow but I wanted each character to have their own color and he ended up rocking the orange so good for him. Added a goldfish cracker cuz I think he likes gold fish cuz his you get siblings eat them all the time so they’re always in the house therefore he eats them a lot too

Harvard is purple to me. I don’t know why. He is purple. I added some of those aesthetic definition things because he seems like the type to hang those up in his future minimalistic apartment lol. I added fencing elements into his unlike any of the others because I found a pretty stained glass one I liked and then it kept suggesting them and then I found that one picture of the fencing mask on the Christo redentor statue and I added it cuz I think he’s Brazilian idk

ah. Nicholas. I made him a silly little rockstar girlfriend one I did add a lyric from music to watch boys to (I live to love you and I love to love you) that I thought he would listen to while watching Seiji fence and be like “shit why am I listening to this I don’t like him FAH”

Seiji Katayama is old money yacht party pearl necklace striped umbrella summer in Italy. Need I say more? I added a lot of butterflies because they symbolize change and metamorphism and I feel like metamorphosis is a huge part of his character like he goes through a lot of transformations (before Jesse/after Jesse, before France/after France, before Nick/during Nick, etc) also i support suicidal Seiji with all my heart tell me that boy has not stared at knives and his parent’s pills thinking “I could do it. I won’t, but I could” and then convincing himself he actually isn’t suicidal and that thoughts like that are normal

wrote way more than expected and accidentally added a character analysis for a few of them? Also yes, I did add an “admit one” ticket to Eugene (cuz he’s the only one in the actual team who isn’t mainly shipped with someone else on the team) and Aiden (because he thinks he’ll always be alone and self sabotages) what about it

wow I put way too much effort into this lol also feel free to download these I use them as a rotating Lock Screen like feel free I wouldn’t post them if I didn’t want them to be used yk

@fencesummernationals

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Fencing High School Concert Band!AU

Ms. Williams used to be a trumpet player in a jazz band, and she won’t let you forget it. She’ll often make comments about how jazz’s improvisation and small scale make it more interesting than concert band. And yes, she still has a wall of things you can’t say, and she still makes her students do suicide runs. 

Phrases on Ms. Sally Williams’s wall of punishment include:

I forgot my music sheets

Jazz band is not better than concert band

I forgot my instrument

This song is too hard

I didn’t practice

I want a new roommate

And of course, everyone’s favorite:

Aiden dumped me

Seiji, Jesse, and Nicholas all play the alto saxophone. This is more for practical reasons than anything (since having them all play the same instrument makes the most sense given the type of rivalry they have), and I know saxophones are pretty well-suited to left-handed people like Nicholas and Jesse. It’s also an instrument that’s fairly easy for a beginner to pick up, so I think it would make sense for Nicholas to learn the basics of how to play it inside of a year.

Seiji and Jesse used to be in the same band, back in elementary/middle school. In auditions, Jesse would typically end up beating Seiji by a very narrow margin, but in their 8th grade year, they ended up tying and becoming co-section leaders after they both got perfect scores (yes, that’s possible, it happened once at my own school). Seiji thought that he had finally caught up to Jesse, that they were finally equals, and then they both went to a National Music Solo and Ensemble competition that Seiji ended up placing second in and. Well. You all know the rest.

Cut to one year later, and Seiji’s back in the US, competing in a Regional Music Solo and Ensemble competition while avoiding Jesse like the plague. He ended up meeting Nicholas because they ended up in adjacent slots, so Nicholas performed right before Seiji did. Nicholas says he hopes they have a great competition, Seiji rudely brushes him off and then beats by a huge margin, and their rivalry begins.

Ms. Williams ended up scouting Nicholas due to his fast fingers and impressive lung endurance, and he surprises everyone by getting second chair in the King’s Row band (as in, he beat every saxophone student in the audition other than Seiji).

Bobby is also an alto saxophone player, but the thing he stands out most for is his ability to compose and arrange music. For those of you who don’t know, music for alto saxophones is written in a different key than music for other instruments, because saxophones are Eb instruments, while most other instruments are either C or Bb. Arranging music for concert bands means you have to be able to “translate” music between these different keys, in addition to creating harmonies for instruments that play in higher and lower octaves. Sometimes he’ll take an iconic melody from a popular song, then build on it and turn it into something the entire band can play.

Harvard plays the clarinet. Every clarinetist I know has been fairly intelligent and level-headed, so the instrument suits him perfectly. He’s first chair and section leader (meaning that he’s the best clarinet player in the King’s Row band) and he has a habit of acting as a music tutor for other students in his spare time. He usually only tutors other clarinet players, but he ends up helping Nicholas to learn music terms he isn’t familiar with and bits of music shorthand he doesn’t recognize. (When Nicholas first comes to him asking what “andante” and “D.S. al coda” mean, Harvard is torn between excitement about being able to say he tutored someone who plays a completely different instrument than he does, and concern that Nicholas isn’t familiar with basic musical terms that Harvard learned back in 5th grade band.)

Eugene plays the trombone. He failed his audition his freshman year and barely made it into the band as a sophomore, but now that he’s a junior, he’s doing fairly well. He splits his time between band and the wrestling team, which is tough, but he manages to make it work.

Kally used to play the clarinet, but ended up switching to oboe just before starting his freshman year of high school. He was first chair/section leader during his junior year, but he ended up botching his audition his senior year, so he ended up being 3rd chair his senior year. He’s a good sport about it, but you can tell that he’s sad about not being a section leader anymore.

Tanner knows how to play both percussion and the trumpet, and Ms. Williams will have him switch roles depending on how many percussionists a piece needs.

Gian is both a fencer and a trumpet player in this au (we love a multitalented king). He still loves his flick.

Marcus Washington used to be a very talented saxophonist, but ended up quitting band after breaking his left hand in an accident. He came back for his senior year since his school band didn’t have any other saxophones. He’s still a pretty good saxophone player, but there are some notes he has trouble playing due to lingering damage to his hand.

Aiden is a flute player. Half the people in King’s Row’s flute section are just boys who learned to play flute in hopes of impressing Aiden and getting closer to him. Aiden’s also first chair/section leader, but he doesn’t take it nearly as seriously as Harvard does. He doesn’t really bother with the whole “leadership” thing, and he has a tendency to skip out on band rehearsals. He will practice with Harvard though, and you’ll often hear them playing duets together in their room. Sometimes Tanner and Kally will join them, and occasionally Bobby will drop by to ask them to help him test out a new piece of music he’s arranged. 

Dafna, Kenzie, and Marcel are also flute players, and this has resulted in several people making jokes about Harvard having a type. Half of the people Harvard’s dated weren’t even in band, let alone flute players, but for some reason, pointing this out never seems to accomplish much. At least one person has told Harvard that he should date Aiden, since Aiden is clearly Harvard’s type, and that became the first and only time that Aiden has ever punched another student. (Harvard thinks that Aiden decked that guy because he hated the idea of going out with Harvard. Aiden actually decked that guy because that guy was being a jerk to Harvard, and because he hated being reminded that Harvard doesn’t return his feelings. I love dramatic irony.)

The jokes get worse when Harvard and Aiden finally end up getting together. Harvard fully expects Aiden to get mad, but Aiden barely bats an eye at them. Harvard tries to be like “I promise I’m not dating you just because you’re a flute player” and Aiden actually bursts out laughing. And then kisses him. Just alternates between laughing and peppering him with kisses.

It takes years before Aiden actually tells Harvard why he punched that guy. And decades before he admits that he only joined band because he wanted to stay by Harvard's side.

[fence-polls]

Who's most likely to drop and break their phone?

Nicholas

Seiji

Eugene

Harvard

Aiden

Jesse

Bobby

Dante

I'm over a year late to this ask, but I want to know everyone's opinion so I'm making the poll anyways. Thank you Anon, if you someday see this.

Who's most likely to drop and break their phone?

Nicholas

Seiji

Eugene

Harvard

Aiden

Jesse

Bobby

Dante

Voting ended onJul 22