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Welcome to the idyllic town of Addersfield, located on History Island in Auradon, home of Illedale University.

Students here are children of some rather famous faces. And some have made fame in their own right, like King Ben or the Lady Mal. We’re proud to boast a diverse student culture and a rich history–

[–and that’s enough of THAT broadcast! Is this thing on? Hello? Can you hear me?

Good. I’ll warn ya right now, everybody– if you thought Auradon Prep was wild, you ain’t seen nothing yet! Illedale is bigger, meaner, and with the past not so distant to us, tensions can run pretty high around here.

‘Course, you probably know the story by now. When preparing for his coronation, King Ben declared his first royal proclamation to allow over 4 VKs from the Isle of the Lost to come to the city. After a whole showdown about good and evil, the four integrated into Auradon society pretty well, and then after drama at Cotillion, Mowgli rallied the Auradon people to fight for the disbandment of the Isle, sending the villains to rehab and their kids to Auradon Prep.

Catching you up since graduation, pretty much all of us ended up moving to Addersfield for higher education in Auradon’s system– cuz man, I gotta tell ya, it’s a lot better in Auradon than it is anywhere else. Well, ‘cept for all the evil takeovers, I guess.

But not everyone’s cut out for college itself. The nice thing about Addersfield is that it’s all a pretty tight-knit community based around the school itself. More of a college township, as it were. So some of AP’s graduates moved to town to work with a crowd they know well.

I can’t stay much longer, but don’t let the stuffy advertising fool ya about this place, folks! We’re a lot more than what the surface wants to pretend. I’d drop your application while you can if I were in your shoes! This is P. Warner, sending you right back to your regularly scheduled programming!]

–and enroll in your future today at Illedale University, where the story starts anew.

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Open Starter: Water

“Oh, so because one of my oldest friends who my dad happens to work for the father of turns out to be weird, I’m weird too?”

Elaine opens her water bottle and downs a swig. Though she has a sneaking suspicion that this is less about needing water and more about a proximity thing, same reason she’d started carrying a water bottle in the first place.

“...a little messed up that everyone has this sort of mentality, all or nothing thing going for it.”

#not very prim and proper: elaine #when ashes fall the legends rise: open starter

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Kenna glanced at Elaine in the mirror, blinking. She turned around, adjusting her gloves. This was getting weird. They were probably just all stressed, and it was bringing out weird things about them.

Yep. That was what she’d go with.

“Sword,” she sighed. “I don’t know that the satchel will have a sword, but it doesn’t hurt to try.” She went over to the closet, dragging a brown leather bag from a shelf. “Let’s see what you’ve got for me.” She reached into the bag. She slowly pulled her hand out, squinting at what the bag had provided. She held it up, sighing. “Apparently, my satchel is a smartass, because it thinks all we need it a hilt and not a blade.”

“What? Let me see,” Elaine walks over and takes the hilt from her sister, looking at it.

Yeah, physically, all there is is a hilt, but her intuition says she can do something about that. And... she feels a pull...

Elaine looks back at them. “Come with me.”

She follows the source of whatever it is that seems to be pulling her in. It’s not the easiest trek, but she pauses at the top of the hill overlooking the Enchanted Lake.

This. She hears Melinda panting beside her. “Elaine, what the hell are we doing out here?”

“Hang on,” she answers absentmindedly before climbing down and moving to the edge of the lake.

Taking a breath, she nods and steps into it. Melinda grabs her arm. “Elaine!”

“Just-- just trust me, okay?” She meets the girls’ eyes. Melinda sighs and lets her go.

Stepping into the lake, Elaine walks out till she’s about waist-deep and lowers the hilt into the water slowly, eyeballing it in the water and imagining the blade.

Blinking, she pauses and slowly lifts it from the water again, the blade formed abruptly while submerged. “...oh, my god.”

She looks back at the other two to confirm this was happening.

🤒 -for Kenna, from Melinda @xts-just-melxnda

🤒 - my muse is sick

"No, no, absolutely not," Kenna whined between sneezes. "I can't be sick! Not right now!" She pulled her hair out of her face, sniffling. "Melinda can you-" She sneezed hard. "Can you do your thing? Your glowstick thing? Or go get that pretty angel girl from the infirmary?"

@xts-just-melxnda

#not very prim and proper: elaine #everyday i'll fight to be legendary: melinda #why is it when something happens it's always us: kenna #event: mordred #keep my eyes wide open: convos

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Kenna visibly flinched repeatedly as Elaine spoke. She cleared her throat, reaching up to pretend she was adjusting her pigtails. “Um… A-A few days… Maybe a week…” She avoided eye contact with her sister.

“I don’t know,” she said. “I really, really don’t. I don’t know how much he really knows, I don’t know how much he knows about any of us, I don’t know. I’m sorry.”

Elaine pauses and takes deep breaths. “Okay. Okay. It’s fine. This is fine. We can plan around this. We’ll make this work, we’ve worked with far less to go from than this. Is-- are-- Melinda’s friends. The monster hunter and the detective, are they here too? I need every hand I can get in this situation.”

😬 - Kenna!

“IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII’M totally fine,” Elaine says through gritted teeth. “So was anyone gonna actually tell me about this any sooner than this, or was I supposed to find out after my arrival in casual conversation, Kenna?”

She runs a hand through her hair. “No. Okay. How long has he been here? What precautions have you taken? DOES. HE. KNOW? Does he even know about any of us being here, does he know you and Melinda have magic, does he-- fucking shit, how long has this been a thing?!”

#not very prim and proper: elaine #keep my eyes wide open: convos #event: mordred #why is it when something happens it's always us: kenna

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😬 - Kenna!

“IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII’M totally fine,” Elaine says through gritted teeth. “So was anyone gonna actually tell me about this any sooner than this, or was I supposed to find out after my arrival in casual conversation, Kenna?”

She runs a hand through her hair. “No. Okay. How long has he been here? What precautions have you taken? DOES. HE. KNOW? Does he even know about any of us being here, does he know you and Melinda have magic, does he-- fucking shit, how long has this been a thing?!”

#not very prim and proper: elaine #keep my eyes wide open: convos #why is it when something happens it's always us: kenna #event: mordred

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Tag Dump

#not very prim and proper: elaine #history's about to get overthrown: aesthetic #keep my eyes wide open: convos #when ashes fall the legends rise: open starter #i'm only human after all: closed starter #fulfill the prophecy: allie #there's still a reason to fight: will #it's the sound of the warrior: dad #i know you've got this: miles #one knight who'll fight: lance #got nothing to lose: jen #my monsters are real: mordred #face