#The Psychic Saddle Club Au

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Everytime I think of the Psychic Saddle Club au, this image appears in my mind. Like wow. Horse.

It is however an image I could see Sam having on hand. She printed it out. It's hanging up in her little dorm room area.

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Hrhrhfndf. Honse Riding AU

The Psychonauts are a simple psychic friendly organization that happens to be heavily horse focused. They call themselves The Psychic Saddle Club, a place where psychics can feel at home, learn to ride…they also happen to take in children who aren’t in good home situations. It’s why they advertise so frequently.

Truman’s the leader, the main man, but he’s always more friendly than people expect. Kids who call the number on those pamphlets always expect someone else, maybe Hollis, to answer the phone. And usually she does, but once she has their names, she immediately hands the phone over to Truman. He has a way with kids, considering he has a daughter of his own, and he’s been looking over the children who came to the club before Lili was born.

They take in kids of all ages, have separate dorms on each side of the land for the specific age groups. It’s a safe place for kids on the run, a home to psychics of any age who need a safe place to live, the horses are just a bonus. Everyone earns their keep, the littler children of course aren’t required to, but the slightly older kids and up all have specific jobs to do. Keeps the place running.

Their pride and joys are their competitive riders. Both young and old. It’s how they get most of their funding, by winning competitions. Their young riders are the “junior agents”, though they’re called junior riders here. Specifically, Lizzie, Norma, Adam, and Gisu are their competing team, and often the twin Natividad sisters will tackle most of the solo competitions, two by two. Sasha and Milla are their main riders on the older side, Milla is especially skilled, however she takes a lot of her time to train the kids, as well as look after them, and Sasha shares this job, more the training than the caretaking. The “campers” are too young to participate in the big competitions, but they have their own little events, and they do indeed do a lot of actual camping, riding out into the more people-less areas of the land is a favorite activity of the kids. 

Frazie read those newspapers and magazines ever since she was a little girl, and one evening, her baby brother came to her because he couldn’t sleep. She decided to share her secret, her obsession with him, and he was just as amazed as she was. All these old stories about people like Compton Boole forming an intense psychic bond with horses of all things, or of Otto’s attempts to use psitanium to amplify the zoolepathy of the other psychics so they could achieve that bond, and the more recent tales of young Milla Vodello dominating the riding ring as if she’d been riding a horse since she was born. They snuggled up together every night from then on, reading those stories against the better judgement of their parents.

Then they found a pamphlet for the club one night, easy for them to snatch up and bring to their hiding place, they read all through it, it was practically an invitation for anyone anywhere to come to the saddle club, to live there. And there was a phone number on the back of it. The duo spent the next day dwelling over the most difficult choice of their lives, keeping it as well hidden as they could, until late into the night, they decided...and they packed their bags.  “There’s a phone booth out in the town nearby.” Frazie tells him as she grabs his hand, “Me and Dion saw it when we were food shopping earlier. We’ll use that to call them.” And she walked him out into the town, ready to burn somebody alive with her pyrokinesis if they dared to try anything, even if she didn’t have good control of her powers. They made it, and she dialed the phone, talking nervously as she held Razputin’s hand, soothed by Truman’s gentle reassurance that everything would be okay.  “Where are you right now?” He asked, “I’ll send Ms. Vodello to get you, stay put.” “Do you think it’d be alright if my pony Sugarcube came along? She’s very tiny, almost the size of a puppy.” Sugarcube fit snug inside Frazie’s bag, and she was welcomed with open arms to the stable.

Frazie and Razputin had never been in a car before, but Milla made the experience less terrifying, her voice was sweet and gentle and she seemed to know just the right questions to ask. Her heart was warmed seeing Frazie so excited to go, to see Raz so excited to meet other kids his age. They would have to adjust to being apart more than they ever have been, but there will be time for them to be together.

#psychonauts #psychonauts 2 #psychonauts au #my au #The Psychic Saddle Club Au #I have a lot of brain ideas #there is plenty of angsty stuff but also just lots of good vibes #Im still trying to figure out where the thorny towers crew and loboto would go #idk maybe they're just vibing in the town #I feel like we're gonna tone down Nona's situation bc it's not as entirely serious? #like its still pretty fucking bad but not flooding an entire country levels of bad #the campers are just a bunch of little guys and Raz gets to share a room with Lili #Bobby Zilch being a little asshole and Raz just: #'I will go find my older sister.' #mean older sister who's dating the prodigy girl privileges #I forgot the name of the cowboy kid #J.T. I think #he'd have a fucking blast here #Dogen is too nervous to ride a horse so he helps Morris out on the sidelines #Chole finds a weird little horse and declares it her alien horse #important to note that pretty much all of the junior agent kids came to the club when they were little #practically raised by the staff #same applies for a couple of the campers

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WAIT OMG HOLD ON HB IS BACK- *aggressively shakes the Psychic Saddle Club au like a bag of cat treats*

#psychonauts #psychonauts 2 #psychonauts au #my au #The Psychic Saddle Club Au #I've thought abt it a little I wanna talk abt it again

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Chops refers to Elka as “that prissy little show pony” so it stands to reason: Elka ride pretty honse

SHE SURE FUCKIN DO Something tells me she's the kind of girl to pick the most elegant, straight out of a fairytale horse and then name it something like Missile Launcher or Nightmare.

#psychonauts #psychonauts au #my au #The Psychic Saddle Club Au #y'know what actually that fits Elka a little too well #I still need to continue 1 bc I've been vry NOT fixated on finishing it #when I have the chance to sit still I should #However I did talk to Elka once I think and yeah that's her vibe

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Dion voice: “Raz is Psychic, Dad’s Psychic, Frazie’s psychic, QUEEPIE’s psychic! Are there any other psychics I should know about?”Sugarcube: *psychic horse noises*

IJODFJFIODFJO OMFG-

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Crystal and Clem attend every race. For cheering purposes but also just because they like to. Do not remind them that horse races don’t usually have cheerleaders. They know and already feel kinda silly about it as a result. Might cry.

They have a lot of fun doing it and honestly, that's all that matters. The adults love bringing Crystal and Clem along on practically any competition trip that allows two young cheering kids to be on the sidelines, they even go out of their way to make phone calls in advance. Their positivity does indeed rub off sometimes, and it's just general good vibes to see these kids so excited about their friends/family doing these competitions.

#psychonauts #psychonauts 2 #psychonauts au #my au #The Psychic Saddle Club Au #the junior riders hyping up their mini cheer squad bc Crystal and Clem wanted to go see Lizzie barrel race and like hell she's leaving #without those two #yes I do think Lizzie would do barrel racing #Norma would either do jumping or dressage #she feels like a dressage kinda gal but tbh she'd look cool doing jumping too

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Thank you please for the mental image of Raz and Frazie sneaking away from home with Sugarcube poking her head out of a bag like a toy chihuahua.

Sugarcube is making indignant squeaking noises as Frazie is on the phone with Truman. She's curled up on Frazie's lap during the car rider and probably sleeps in an itty bitty stable outside of Frazie's dorm. Sugarcube is a farm dog trapped in a pony's body let's be real.

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Legit for real thinking abt the saddleclub au rn.

There’s so much of it that could just be. Chill mundane stuff. Frazie and Lizzie sweeping the barn together. Movie night where Sam pulls out her collection of horse girl movies and the junior riders spend the night critiquing the movies.  Raz accompanying Sasha and Milla for their weekly grocery runs and picking out snacks for him and his new friends.  The little camping trips...hehehhsfdhfs

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Are any of the horses psychic? Like psychic animals are very much a thing in-universe so.

There are probably a couple here and there, with the amount of psychic animals out there and the significant reach of the saddle club, it's not completely out of the question to say a couple of their resident horses have some kind of psychic effects going on. Any horses with psychic abilities are probably owned by/ridden by the adults, because if you think a regular riding horse is dangerous (which they very much can be if something goes wrong) than a psychic horse would be far worse because them mfs got POWERS. No way they’re putting a kid in charge of horse that could set everything on fire if it gets spooked by it’s own shadow.

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