#the applebees

[bounded-accuracy]

The funniest thing about the Buddy scene is knowing that him talking to the Applebees would have actually made things worse.

His art reads as Mormon, the Applebees read as mainline evangelical. Evangelicals view Mormons as a non-Christian cult. So while Buddy is technically in the same broad Helioic religion, the Applebees would think he’s also going to hell.

[briarlovesclara]

(Fantasy High s1e01 // Fantasy High s3e08)

surely the canonically racist applebees aren't racist border patrol cops... /s

[vampirehayfever]

kipperlilly and the applebee parents both turn kristen into another person FOR REAL

[bounded-accuracy]

One of the most fascinating corners of Fantasy High lore is the existence of hardcore Helio worshippers. Because, in Solace,

hell provably exists

you can find out exactly who went there and why

In our universe, the uncertainty about hell is a massive factor in why evangelicals behave the way they do. Like, people love to argue with biblical literalists about how a loving God wouldn’t be so judgmental. But it doesn’t matter. God might turn out to be chill… but they can’t be 100% sure. And hell is potentially REALLY bad. So they’ll act on the assumption that God is the most ridiculous tightass imaginable, and maybe get pleasantly surprised later.

But for Helio worshippers, they can find out exactly what criteria matters (or not) for hell. They don’t have to be hyper strict just to be on the safe side. Hell isn’t this nebulous threat of infinite proportions, it’s very concrete. It’s also not eternal/inescapable. People can straight-up leave, given the right magic.

I wonder if churches of Helio explicitly forbid contact with other planes? I guess it could be similar to Christian prohibitions on mediums and contacting spirits (except that in Solace you can actually talk to spirits lol). Maybe they say it’s all a trick, that no one is actually seeing the “real” version of hell? But resurrection exists, and people do see the afterlife there — maybe they treat those like real-world near-death experiences, and say they’re just random neuron activations (which would be a very funny solution, because in our universe Christians loooooove citing NDEs as evidence of life after death).

Anyway, I think it’s an interesting area to speculate on.

[elsewhereuniversity]

There is an Applebee’s that reappears on campus every 13 days, never in the same spot twice. The food is delicious, and only costs an acorn, but every time I go for lunch I feel as if my eyes grow dull. There are also protruding sounds on my back that have been growing ever since I had the mac and cheese. I want to eat somewhere else, but the manager is so sweet and her hands are so soft.