idk who said it, but someone was like "what happened if the main peculiar children just lost their peculiar abilities" and i- i desperately need go make a one shot for this so here y'all go :)
*this takes place around a map of days bc that's the book I've gotten up to at this point*
*third person*
Jacob woke up feeling quite odd, though he hadn't the faintest idea why.
He went out into the living room where all of his friends we're already up. They had all became quite time blind in the mornings due to the loop switchings, so they often woke up fairly early.
Olive and Claire were watching cartoons,and had made Bronwyn watch with them.
Millard was on a different couch reading a book with Hugh stumped against him attempting to read the novel as well.
Jacob smiled at his friends before walking into the kitchen where there was a wonderful aroma of pancakes and syrup.
It seemed that Miss Peregrine had forced Enoch, Emma, and Horace to help her cook breakfast. Though Jacob was fairly certain that Horace was willing to make it and had forced Enoch to help.
"Morning all," Jacob said as he started getting plates out of the cabinets to set the table with.
Emma brighten and quickly hugged him. "Morning!"
"Miss. Bloom," Miss Peregrine called out from the stove. "Can you keep these pancakes warm while I finished making the rest?"
"Course!"
"Mr. O'Connor, can you please finish the fruit salad instead of mopping around?" Miss P sighed.
Enoch muttered something under his breath but started cutting up fruit nonetheless.
Horace was humming a tune as he cooked the sausage.
"What on earth?" Emma's sudden outburst brought Jacob's attention to her.
"What's wrong?" He asked.
Emma rubbed her hands together and then held them our through the already baked pancakes and frowned. "My fire isn't working!"
Miss. Peregrine's brow furrowed. "Perhaps you used too much fire yesterday?" She suggested.
"Maybe..." Emma said but she's didn't sound sure.
"MISS. P!!!" Hugh came running into the room dragging Millard behind him.
At first Jacob didn't know what was wrong with Millard. The boy was just staring at his hands. Then Jacob remembered that Millard was supposed to be invisible, and you shouldn't be able to see his hands.
The other's in the kitchen seemed to realize it at the same time he did and they all gasped.
"You're hands are visible!" Horace exclaimed, stating the obvious.
"No shit," Enoch muttered and Horace elbowed him in the rib.
Millard ignored Enoch and nodded. "And my feet!" He sounded more amazed than concerned.
"Oh dear," Miss peregrine mumbled. "What day is it?"
"Um," Jacob checked his phone before saying, "October 13th, why?"
"Oh this is bad. I completely forgot." Miss peregrine stressed.
"Forgot what?" Emma asked, now concerned.
"Gather all of the others, I'll tell you all over breakfast."
...
By the time everyone got into the kitchen, they all has seemed for realize that something was off.
Hugh hadn't seen his bees all morning, Olive wasn't floating, Claire's back mouth was completely gone, and Bronwyn was having trouble lifting the things she would normally be able to lift.
"What's going on? !" Asked Olive as she took off her metal shoes and didn't start floating.
"Children calm down please," Miss Peregrine set the food on the table and then sat in her seat. "I will explain what's happening but I need you all to stay calm."
There was a chorus of "Yes Miss. Peregrine"s as everyone helped themselves to the food.
Miss. P started explaining. "Every five years on October 13, peculiars lose their peculiar abilities for 24 hours."
"Why?" Asked Millard. "And why hasn't it happened before?"
"It happens so that peculiars don't overwork their abilities. It's never happened before because it only happens after you've been in a loop for a long period of time, but it was always September 3rd in our loop so it never happened before today."
Everyone was quiet until Olive jumped out of her seat, excitedly. "I wanna go to the beach! I don't have for wear my metal shoes so I can go swimming!"
Claire perked up at that. "Can we?"
Soon most of the children were coming up with things to do.
Miss P hushed everyone and then faked a exasperated sigh. "I suppose you can do something fun today and skip the lesson, but finish your breakfast first!"
Everyone continued eating, but now there was much more chatter.
Olive and Claire were trying to convinced Bronwyn to taks them to the beach. Millard, who was rapidly becoming visible, had decided that he wanted to go to a book store, and had begged Hugh to go with him (he said yes of course). Emma and Jacob planned a day of just hanging out together and doing normal teenager stuff. Enoch complained to no one in particular that he had nothing to do so Olive (being the sweetheart she is) invited him to go to the beach, to which he reluctantly agreed.
At some point Miss P turned to Horace and asked what he was going to do because he hasn't said anything.
"I," he replied, motioning to himself grandly, "am going to take a nap, because I haven't had more then 4 hours of sleep all week due to these stupid nightmares."
Olive giggled at his over dramatics (though all of what he said was true).
By the time everyone finished breakfast Millard was completely visible.
Hugh, who was sitting right next to him, grabbed a handful of millards hair and examined it. "I never realized how long your hair is!"
Millard just shrugged. "It's not like there's a barber shop that cuts the hair of invisible people!" He joked.
Emma who was sitting on the other side of Hugh, scrunched up her nose. "It's a dreadful mess, that's what it is!" She exclaimed.
"Oh please, " Millard said, pushing a lock of hair behind his ear, "it's no worse than your hair on a day to day basis, and you can see what you look like!"
Emma gasped. "You take that back!"
"I won't," Millard huffed.
"Children, children! No fighting!" Miss peregrine clapped her hands to get everyone quiet. "Now, considering that it seems all of you already have your day planned out, you can go get ready and then do what you have planned, but no fighting please!"
By the end of the day Millard had gotten his hair brushed and bought six new books, Hugh had got a few new plants for a round the house, Olive and Claire had a wonderful day at the beach and had even gotten Enoch to crack a small grin at one of their jokes while Bronwyn made sure none of them hurt themselves. Emma and Jacob watched some of Jacob's favorite Disney movies and just had a calm afternoon. And Horace got to sleep for the whole day which he was happy about. All in all, everyone was happy that day even though it felt weird to not have their abilities for a while.
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Can I just say Wicked is THEE tragic lesbian romance of all time. Like, Glinda literally sings Elphaba's big solo with her??
Also I didn't realize how important Fiyero was going to be, so...they can have a throuple. If they like. (I fully believed he was going to either die, lose his memories/sense of self, or become completely irrelevant by the end of the story 😅) He was actually so dedicated to Elphaba, I did not see that coming! Also it's super interesting to me that it's implied he was undercover and lying the whole time he was with Dorothy? I'm honestly intrigued by how that played out. It's implied that he is primarily a man of action and doesn't really think things through, but there's also the possibility that he was somewhat deliberate in leading Glinda on to get the Captain position so that he could be at the forefront of the search for Elphaba.
(also. Very funny how The Captain = the only dude with a gun. Including the wizard. They would've all been fucked if anyone else could've shot him. Or at the very least he would've had to start murdering.)
But also personally I don't think he was Not Into Glinda. He just happened to become obsessed with someone else! If not for the Circumstances, they totally could've all three talked it out and made it work!
idk obviously the music is great, but I do feel like the plot and character development took a backseat, leaving the show with a rushed feeling. But also I am always hungry for plot and character development, so that could just be me.
But like idk I think there was some very real fear and maybe even hurt at the root of Glinda's need to be The Most Liked? Like, if you look at her behavior, she doesn't really seem to want anything with all that power, she's more scared of being without it. She doesn't feel like she'll be safe if everybody doesn't love her, which...doesn't happen for no reason, imo.
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