#Arianwen abernant

[deconstructthesoup]

Personal Ranking of the Fantasy High Moms, From Worst to Best:

Arianwen Abernant: -19999/10. She's not as bad as Angwyn, since she's convinced herself she's a good mother, but her "I just want the best for you" shtick isn't any better, and the fact that she's ignorant about how horrible she is doesn't make up for years of neglect. And she also attempted to rope her daughters into raising a being of pure nightmares because she lost her status, so.

Donna Applebees: 0/10. Conservative, racist, judgmental, only loves her kids conditionally... you get the gist. Also, she's absolutely a Karen.

Hallariel Seacaster: 3/10. Yes, I know, she's a MILF, she's got such an iconic vibe, she's a badass with a sword, but none of that excuses years of being emotionally absent from your son's life. She's not a bad person, but she unfortunately doesn't know how to be a mom. Sorry, Hallariel. I wish I could rank you higher.

The Last Phoenix: 5/10. Bird. She's a bird. We don't know enough about her except for the fact that she is the last phoenix, she started out as a "haha Arthur Aguefort is a crazy motherfucker" gag, and she gave us the incredible gift that is Ayda. I cannot rank her fairly, but given that she is Ayda's mom, she goes on the list.

Roz Last-Name-Unknown: 6/10. Same deal with Gorbag---we don't know enough about her for me to properly rank her, but we do know that she was a teen mom, and she's made the choice to reconnect with her son and be in his life. Props for that.

Sandralynn Faeth: 7.5/10. I am ranking her realistically, but let it be known that I love her so much. She is such a beautiful example of a flawed person who consistently tries to be better, and even though she does relapse into old behaviors, she's still growing---and outside of the serial cheating (that is a response to trauma, by the way) and occasional lapses in social skills, she's a pretty damn good mom, all things considered.

Cathilda Ceili: 8/10. She's the parent that Fabian needed, even if he didn't always realize it. She's sweet, she's caring, and if anybody hurts her boy, she will fucking rock your shit. (Also, the reveal of Cathilda being an incredibly fearsome and ruthless pirate outside of Solace was one of my favorites.)

Wilma Thistlespring: 9/10. She's a caring and supportive mom who writes songs, is sex-positive, and loves her son! Again, she does need to recognize when she's embarrassing Gorgug, and she needs to recognize that he's gotta learn how to be angry, but still! We all love her!

Lydia Barkrock: 9.6/10. While she doesn't quite get the full score due to the fact that her son was briefly an ass, it clearly was not her fault, and from what we've seen of her, she is a fantastic mom. She's a badass disabled powerhouse who cooks incredible spreads and cares about her son and his friends a lot. I love her a lot. She's amazing.

Sklonda Gukgak: 10/10. She took that spot in her very first scene, where she poured water in her cereal so Riz could have milk in his, and she's been holding it up ever since. Despite the fact that she's constantly swamped with work, Sklonda is literally one of the best moms you could ever ask for. She deserves the world and it's a constant injustice that she's not getting it.

Bonus: Garthy O'Brien, while having transcended gender and therefore not being able to fit into either of the "mom/dad" rankings, is an 11/10 parent---not just to Ayda, but to everyone younger than them who they've essentially adopted. Words cannot express my adoration for this person.

[peopleareaproblem]

"It's the only name I can say."

So last ep, Kalina dropped this line after saying "Ragh Barkrock" again. She's really trying to get the Bad Kids to deduce who she could be referring to via Ragh. We've found out about the Spy's Tongue Curse since she last dropped Ragh's name, so it's clear that she's implying that she cannot say the names she wants to say and is dropping Ragh's name as a clue. I've been seeing a lot of theories about this line that are convinced it's implying Lydia Barkrock. I disagree: I think she is referring to Arianwen, Jace and Porter. Here's why.

First of all, and most obviously: Kalina says Lydia's full name in Sophomore Year episode 6.

Kalina: But you do have some time to talk it over because I'm gonna head out and kill Lydia Barkrock. So take care.

I don't think Brennan or the D20 Lorekeeper would have missed this. Kalina doesn't have a Spy's Tongue Curse with Lydia.

Secondly, the gang already investigated Lydia and got relevant clues from her, and Brennan did not encourage suspicion towards Lydia in any way. This repeat of the clue really feels like a "you guys didn't get it yet" type thing. Last time they assumed Lydia and that wasn't it. Try again.

Thirdly, Ragh's only real interaction with Kalina is about a single time he saw something he shouldn't have: Jace, Porter and Arianwen talking to someone invisible (Kalina) on Prom Night. I believe that if the Bad Kids just asked Ragh what Kalina could possibly have meant by "Ragh Barkrock" and "It's the only name I can say," he would absolutely bring up this fact. But they haven't!

That's why I am convinced that Arianwen, and to a lesser extent Jace and Porter, are who Kalina was referring to.

Below the cut are some bits of the trancript from Episode 4 of Sophomore Year, where Ragh reveals this to the Bad Kids.

Ragh is describing the aftermath of the fight with Kalvaxus:

Ragh: I ran into the school. And I went and I saw there was this conversation, and I was going, 'cause a lot of the teachers had been trapped in the crystals and had come out again. And I saw Jace, the sorcery teacher-- Adaine: Mm-hmm. Ragh: Talking to this woman that I didn't recognize. She was an elven woman, she was wearing sort of like black, dark robes, it looked like, they were very light. She was blonde, she had glasses. Adaine: She look like this? [points at her face] Ragh: She look like you? Adaine: Mm-hmm. Ragh: I mean, yeah. Yeah, she looked like, yeah, she looked like you. But older. She didn't look like-- Adaine: Right. Ragh: Um, you know, I mean, elves never look that old, but she looked like, you know, not a high schooler. Um. Jace and them were talking, and they were talking to somebody else who I couldn't see. I just assumed somebody was like, invisible. Um. Later, um, Jace and Porter came and talked to me--

Ragh goes on to describe Porter healing him, despite Ragh not feeling "that injured, honestly", and after that he can see Kalina despite not being able to see her moments before:

Ragh: And after that, I was like walking home, and I saw this cat woman, this tabaxi. And she came up, and told me all this stuff about my mom, and she said if I ever talked to anyone about it, she would kill my mom.

This indicates that Porter infected Ragh with the curse, on purpose. Probably to allow Kalina to threaten and manipulate him so he wouldn't tell anyone what he saw. She really doesn't want him telling anyone that he saw Arianwen there.

Ragh: She told me if I ever mentioned to anyone what I had seen about that elven woman-- Adaine: Mm-hmm. Ragh: That she would kill my mom.

They have a short conversation about wether Jace is suspect, but dismiss it. Adaine shows Ragh a photo of her mother and he confirms that it is the woman he saw.

[bernummm]

"what value does a thing have if it is given freely?” (1/2)

[birdb1tch]

thinking about how in freshman year coach daybreak quite literally tried to kill kristen to bring the apocalypse (AMONG MANY OTHER THINGS) and upon being told this her own parents turned their back on kristen and said (paraphrasing), “thats not true and you cant prove that.”

thinking about junior year where kristen’s parents SAY shes always welcome to come back anytime and in an effort to keep the peace she says “thank you, thats very kind” HER OWN PARENTS!! ITS NOT KIND, ITS THE BARE MINIMUM! but mac and donna will never see it that way, because to them they didnt fail kristen, she failed them.

ALSO thinking about adaine’s parents who so obviously had no real love for adaine until she had use as elven oracle. and even then it wasnt love, it was a power grab. parents who start a war and leave without you. parents who only cared about power to the extent that they would be angered by adaine revoking aelwyns diplomatic immunity.

arianwen who truly could not understand that adaine was talking about when she called her mother cruel, and angwyn who thought he could “fix” adaine BY CASTING LIGHTNING AT HER

anyway, big long post about the parallels between these specific Bad Parents (and literal bad parents)

[nenekkasa]

my brain has been trying to brew a medieval high fantasy abernant au so why not have royalty portraits (got lazy, only drew the women #feminism)

[starful-emporium]

I understand that arianwen being alive is not great for adaine, but I do think that being chased by a van with hands instead of wheels is worse than just being killed.

[androgynouscatwasteland]

Adaine’s mom is so involved in this plot too I just realized rewatching the last episode who else would’ve known what she said about the last oracle dying! no wonder Jace and porter met up with her before! oh dude she was gonna bring back the nightmare king too! this is crazy how did I just remember this!!

[sugaldean]

Fucking love how Brennan is like:

here are the parents figures, some of them are straight evil, some of them are bad, some of them are good but none of them is fucking perfect

[janchovies]

(10/11)

[feelingtheaster99]

When your parents pick up up after the first day of your freshman year of high school during which you got attacked by corn monsters, witnessed five people die, two of whom were kids your age (which despite them eventually being resurrected is still incredibly traumatic), one of whom you accidentally killed in self defense (and as they died they have a speech about how it was YOUR FAULT, sending you into a panic attack), and two of whom died in a murder-suicide to resurrect your newfound friends… but your parents are mad at you because:

You are SLEEVELESS

You defended yourself using your martial prowess (instead of magic)

You got detention

[verosvault]

🚨 SPOILERS FOR EPISODE 18 OF "FANTASY HIGH SOPHOMORE YEAR"!!!🚨

‼️ Trigger Warnings for RUDE PARENTS TO THEIR YOUNG CHILD! 😃😃😭😭 *CRYING SCREAMING WEEPING*‼️

Dimension20 "Fantasy High: Sophomore Year"

Episode 18 "Fearful Symmetry"

Timestamp: 2:23:29

Video Length: 3min. & 40sec.

THIS SCENE MAKES ME WANNA CRY SO BAD! THIS SCENE LIVES IN MY HEAD RENT FREE! THIS SCENE MAKES ME SO MENTALLY ILL! I'M SO MENTALLY ILL FOR ADAINE! I'M SO MENTALLY ILL FOR FANTASY HIGH! HELP!!! 😭😭✋✋

Quotes from this scene that I think about everyday that make me CRY!:

• "my friends were warmer to me on the first day that I met them than you ever have been my whole life" ~Adaine Abernant

•"I, I don't know how to...I don't know how to tell you that, I'm so much better than you think I am" ~Adaine Abernant

•"Adaine, what is love without expectation? What is that?" ~Arianwen Abernant

"What is expectation without love? That's what you've given me." ~Adaine Abernant

•"Your expectations are idiotic" ~Adaine Abernant

•"Look at who I am" ~Adaine Abernant

I will LITERALLY BE AT WORK and SCENES LIKE THIS will PLAY in my mind AT RANDOM and then I'll just randomly get EMOTIONAL and my coworkers are just like 0👄0 and I'm like "You wouldn't understand! 😭✋"

[bloodyshadow1]

there are a lot of scenarios where Oisin could have heard about Adaine's line about her predecessor, most of them fantastical and crack theories. One of my headcanons, Kalina told Porter and Jace about it while they were in cahoots.

Think about it. Kalina was working with Arianwen Abernant for a while, it's part of the reason Aelwyn went to 'work' for Kalvaxus. She was probably infected with Kalina for a while, maybe since before Freshman Year since we know Kalina was active for years before Pok died. randomly, because she has to be in someone to be on Spire, she choose the Abernant breakfast table. She hears Adaine drop the ice cold line about the oracle dying and it sticks with her.

Kalina mentions this to Jace and Porter some time when they're having a bad guy meeting, maybe when the two of them are meeting with Arianwen at the end of Freshman year. Maybe the 3 mortals are surprised the bad kids managed to kill Kalvaxus. Kaline remembers little scared level 1 Adaine dropping the bomb about her predesseor not being a good oracle. Arianwen doesn't think much of it since she heard it and Adaine is the unfavorite despite her power. But Jace and Porter remember it and bring it up when talking to the Rat grinders and there it gets planted in Oisin's head that he's going to use it as an ironic callback when they finally go after the Bad Kids for real

Convoluted, yes I'm not denying. but this is dumb fun and it makes it possible given how Kalina has to be somewhere, in someone, why not in Arianwen and at the Abernant home?

[several-ravens]

CONSPIRACY THEORY (again?)

we know kalina said that "ragh" was the only name she could say was because the spy's tongue curse prevented her from saying her co-conspirator's names

but the question is why ragh? ragh makes you automatically think about lydia, but lydia wouldn't have struck a deal with kalina and she had basically nothing to do with the nightmare king thing

so my friend has this theory that she can only say ragh not because he has a connection to her co-conspirators but because he was an eye witness to something, that something being her conversation with jace and arianwen (while she was still invisible to ragh) after prompocalypse at the beginning of season 2

and then jace asked porter to do the "barbarian healing" (probably lay on hands) on ragh, then he can see kalina and she threatens him

but we had no reason to suspect that jace was involed in anything so we put it to the side to maybe come back to it later with more information, but with the recent episodes it is becoming more and more probable

so here you go

[remidyal]

Au where the Abernants are all a different class besides wizards?

Oooh, okay! I've had a few thoughts along these lines, but let's go for something a little bit weirder:

The Abernant adults are, to all outside appearances, a boring diplomatic family of non-adventuring civilians from Fallinel who have enrolled their elder daughter at Mumple. However, their younger daughter, while attending the middle school near their house, breaks a bully's nose with one punch to the face.

This is because, of course, all of the Abernants are actually Monks, and Adaine and Aelwyn have been raised with strict and most importantly secret martial training. Specifically, Angwyn, Arianwen, and Aelwyn are all Shadow monks, and the parents have been carrying out assassination plots on behalf of some faction within the Fallinel government for the entire time they've been in Solace. They're getting Aelwyn into the family business, too, but Adaine's been slow in her training and they don't trust her to know anything important beyond her own training yet.

They are EXTREMELY displeased by Adaine blowing her cover because she couldn't keep her temper and be a good and meek girl in public the way Aelwyn has, but with that cover blown they're forced to allow her to attend Aguefort - after all, she showed such potential, and completely untrained! She would be wasted on a civilian path at Mumple!

The elder Abernants refuse to share their deeper secrets with Adaine until she can prove her trustworthiness, and she starts to pick up another subclass from Aguefort - the Way of Mercy. This makes them distrust her MORE because the philosophy is anathema to their own beliefs, and Adaine finds herself more and more frozen out by her family; meanwhile, more pressure gets put on Aelwyn to make up for her disappointing sister.

Adaine and Aelwyn have a dramatic fistfight eventually when Adaine interrupts her first solo assassination mission; the target (an agent of the council of chosen who was on to the older Abernants) ends up arresting both of them after the fight, not realizing that Adaine actually saved her life. Aelwyn gets broken out by their parents but disavowed by Fallinel's government; Adaine gets eventually released under a severe set of unfair parole conditions.

[moonpleaser]

after the afterlife // revelations & revivifications // spring break! i believe in you! (part 2)

[d20unfuckability]

Arianwen Abernant vs Prince Andhera

"she’s not a milf. she’s a miwlf (mom i wouldn’t like to fuck)"

""i've written checks my body can't cash" MYYYYY ASEXUAL KING !!!!!!!"