This is all based on my own experience at an arts school! It was...an interesting experience to say the least.
(If people like this, I’ll continue with it. Maybe make it into a story!)
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-his teacher is Mr. Vick and he’s great
-always serious when need be
-only sings and listens to show tunes
-always auditions for the school musical and always gets in (only twenty+ kids audition every year so everyone who auditions gets a role)
-wears makeup to school and is really good at it
-has mediocre grades, he isn’t failing but he’s barely passing
-pretty buddy buddy with a lot of the teachers
-somehow knows everyone in the school
-everyone in the school knows him too
-played the cowardly lion in his theatre groups very bad production of the Wizard of Oz
-Logan, Patton, and Virgil snuck up to the balcony to watch him from the back row
-Mr. Vick caught them but he didn’t really care
-he just told them not to be too noisy
-Roman couldn’t see them while he was on stage but he could hear them laughing and cheering throughout which was comforting
-his teacher is Mrs. Arnolds
-is loved by the foreign language teacher, Mr. Rodriguez (takes French)
-takes every high school credit class provided by the school (geometry, English honours, French, and Orchestra 1)
-one of the shortest kids in strings, but plays one of the biggest instruments
-works light board for musical theatre and for most of Mr. Vick, and Mrs. Baldwin’s plays.
-that’s where he met Roman
-he met Virgil on the first day of grade 6 when he was late to class. There was nowhere else to sit, so the two of them were forced to sit together
-they partnered on every project from that moment on
-works yearbook committee with Mr. Thompson
-he pops into the classrooms to take pictures of the students working
-school tour guide for sixth graders
-that’s where he met Patton
-they were filming for the next days morning announcements while one of the teachers, Mr. Walsh, was goofing off in the background
-the software only lets you record once so the next day you could see Patton and Logan laughing as Mr. Walsh was messing around in a rolling chair behind them
Patton: (I’m projecting, this is based on my own choir)
-his teacher was Mr. Richardson for sixth and seventh grade and then switched to Mrs. Morton for his last year at SSA
-tenor who has the range of a soprano
-has gotten a female solo before and it was glorious
-has a very diverse singing tone
-loves the old Latin songs that they sing (Gloria, Et en Terra Pax, Alleluia, Agnus Dei, etc.)
-always dancing during rehearsals
-class sunshine! (Remembers birthdays and wishes them happy birthday, brings in treats for the class, cheers people up through nostalgic songs)
-always suggests singing bitter sweet songs on the last day of school
-everyone cries during Bridge Over Troubled Water and Danny Boy
-there are only four boys in their year and he has to sing harmony alone a lot of the time, but he can still be heard and he can blend with everyone beautifully
-an icon with dynamics and sight reading
-Roman, Logan, and Virgil go to all of his performances and bring him flowers
-they then go out for ice cream, from the tradition of the director telling them to do so after each concert
-cries a lot during powerful and emotional songs
-this makes the other three boys cry
-there was a boy in their school who passed away so to commemorate him, they sang homeward bound and there wasn’t a dry eye in the chapel
-is on the welcoming committee and also preforms for the pep rally’s
-does fun challenges and helps to plan how things will go
-can’t put on his bow tie correctly but helps everyone with their cummerbunds
-his teacher is Mr. Morrissey
-hates still life’s but is really good at them
-really likes the pop art unit that they do in eighth grade
-put his sculpture in the kiln and it exploded
-he had to fix it the day before the art gallery
-did a live painting for the BHM assembly and showed the style of Harlem artists in the 20s
-it was pretty shaky and no one knew what was going on, but the painting wound up looking good regardless
-he loves going to the art galleries and art walks because no one else goes to them
-loves all of the ghost stories about the school that Mr Mo tells
-help with props for all of the plays and helped design pamphlets for the winter concert
-Mr Rodriguez once asked him to draw him and then poked fun at the art style he drew him in
-he was pretty traumatised after that
-keeps a quote book for weird and funny things people have said
-he doesn’t give them context, he just writes them down
-some of his favourites are “yummy yummy grandma flesh” “my mom was the hottie with a body” “this is like bible paper” and “I have a cracker!”
-Patton had never made it into the quote book, so the very last quote in it was, “Sis! Put me in the book!”
-once cried over losing the straw to his juice box
-he also laughed uncontrollably that one time Logan dropped a grape and had a very confused look on his face as it fell
-tries deep throating bananas every time he gets them
-once he put six grapes in his mouth and almost chocked, but he was happy that he could fit six in his mouth
-Roman once asked for some skittles so he shoved all of them in his mouth at once
-they met near an old palm tree everyday and would stand around making fun of each other
-they would regularly hold depression sessions
-in other words, they would stand in a circle and take turns talking about why they were sad. They’d then try to work through it together
-they’re the group who isn’t popular, but everyone knows who they are
-lost of underclass friends (mostly Patton but the others are friends with underclassman as well)
