Soooo fucking like. Sick and twisted that Fantasy High/Elmville is the setting it is and the Bad Kids don't rely on public transport to get to school and back because they're all relatively close and also Solace is based on a country where public transport is just not as much of a thing outside of major cities. So much wasted scene potential you don't understand. I think there's this special kind of brooding and yearning you can only do on a long ride home where you're not actively controlling anything so you can just. Stew on your thoughts. And you're surrounded by people and still alone. And it's. It's perfect for moody teenagers. Ok.
Ragh Barkrock was fucking MEANT to take public transport home with Dayne and let him sit in the last seat while he stands next to him and holds onto the hand loop thing from above and then like. Stumble when there's a sudden stop and have Dayne laugh at him. Does anybody fucking hear me.
Or Fig who was clearly made to walk for twenty minutes to the one bus stop (everything is still mostly wood and the schedule is there on paper, not one of the fancy displays that shows you when the bus is coming like in the city) closest to her (the old Faeth home is in a rural area) every morning. And to be one of the only people to get on the bus every day and recognise everyone else but never talk to them. And every evening when she comes home to that her larger than life personality is suddenly so quiet.
Riz should be sitting at the train station with one earbud in (never both. He has to be vigilant) listening to music or a podcast while he waits for the late (late) train home and stare at the train tracks. And he should have bloody intrusive thoughts about people (or himself) being on those tracks while the next train comes in, like in all the cases everyone has heard a hundred times. And he should have to blink them away every time knowing that they'll come back. But NO THATS NOT THE SETTING WERE IN IS IT. ARGDJN
